Quote of the week
“Unable to discover and rest in God’s love, people are haunted by anxiety: am I any good? Does anybody care? People need affirmation, and there is very little unconditional love available outside the love of God. . . . Dependence [on God] is a door to gratitude.”
— Robert Imperato, Christian Footings, 37–38
Stephen Finlan’s Sermons and Book excerpts
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus, in Spirit and in Truth
Sermons
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2013:
4-21: Still Waters or Choppy Seas
2014:
4-27, Holocaust Sun.: Kept in Heaven
2016:
7-31: Why Come to Jesus?
9-18: Is God Too High Above Us?
2017:
1-22: The Kingdom Has Come
1-29: The Pure in Heart
10-22: Forgive, Hand It On
2018:
1-21: Pour Out Your Heart
1-28: No Deceit
2-11: Healing the Broken Hearted
AT MY NEW CHURCH--
The First Church, West Bridgewater, MA:
7-8: Who Does He Think He Is?
8-5: Bread from Heaven
8-12: Be Imitators of God
8-19: That I Should Lose Nothing
8-26: What Gives Life
9-2: Be Doers
9-9: Children or Dogs?
9-16: Divine Things
9-23: First Pure
9-30: Whoever Is Not against Us
10-7: Created the Worlds
10-14: For God, All Things Are Possible
10-21: Lord It Over
10-28: May the Lord Deal Kindly with You
11-4: Love 'm Both?
11-18: Shine Like the Stars
11-18 (evening): Bearing the Seed
11-25: The Letter and the Spirit
12-2: With the Clouds
12-9: All Flesh: on Peace
12-16: With All Joy
12-23: To Love Kindness
12-24: What Child Is This?
12-30: Debating with Scholars
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus
Email the pastor: sfinlan@bu.edu
Link to PastorSteve's books on Amazon
Excerpt from Sacrifice and Atonement: Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns
A different excerpt on the Amazon site.
Links to excerpts of my Wipf & Stock books:
- The Family Metaphor in Jesus' Teaching
- Theosis, volume 2 including my entire article "Deification in Jesus' Teaching"
from Problems with Atonement, Amazon site
Options on Atonement in Christian Thought
from The Background and Content of Paul's Atonement Metaphors (my dissertation)
Link to Blackwell Companion to Jesus.
Link to my writings on ResearchGate.
LINKS TO RESEARCH SITES:
Ethereal Library (books and commentaries)
Early Christian Writings (40 to 380 AD)
Fathers of the Church (New Advent site)
Bible Researcher(Info, translations, links)
Partial Index, continued:
Luke
1:7-20, 63 > 12-23-18 1:38-45 > 12-23-18
2:42-52 > 12-30-18 3:1-6 > 12-9-18
3:15-17 > 12-16-18 3:21-23 > 1-13-19
4:16-21 > 8-19 & 12-30-18, 2-3 & 4-14-19
4:24-30 > 9-9-18, 2-3-19 6:17-21 > 2-17-19
6:27-36 > 9-9-18, 2-17-19
7:50 > 10-7 & 12-23-18 8:15 > 10-7-18
8:17 > 2--17-19 8:27-39 > 12-23-18
9:52-55 > 1-28-18 10:5-11 > 7-7-19
10:18-20 > 8-26-18, 7-7-19
10:25-37 > 9-9-18, 7-14-19 10:42 > 4-7-19
11:50-51 > 3-17-19 12:13-15 > 7-31-16
13:1-5 > 3-17-19 13:31-35 > 3-17-19
15:11-32 > 3-31-19 17:21 > 8-12-18, 7-14-19
18:1-8 > 12-2-18 18:42 > 10-7-18
19:29-40 > 4-14-19 21:27 > 12-2-18
22:37-39 > 6-19-16 22:61 > 1-28-18
24:32 > 2-4-18 24:49-52 > 6-16-19
Romans
6:4 > 11-25-18 6:5 > 4-28-19
6:23 > 11-18-18 8:2 > 11-25-18
8:11 > 1-27-19 8:15 > 1-27-19
8:24 > 1-27-19 8:39 > 10-22-17
10:8-13 > 3-10-19 12:10 > 10-21-18
15:13-14 > 12-16-18 16:7 > 6-23-19
Hebrews
1:1-4 > 10-7-18 1:14 > 1-28-18, 3-3-19
2:9-11 > 10-7-18 2:15 > 4-28-19
2:17-18 > 9-16-18 4:14-15 > 9-16 & 10-14-18
11:5 > 6-16-19
James
1:17-22 > 9-2 & 9-30-18, 7-14-19
2:12-18 > 9-9 & 9-30-18
3:1-6 > 9-16-18 3:16-17 > 9-23-18
4:1-8 > 9-23-18 5:13-20 > 9-30-18
1 Peter
1:3-9 > 4-27-14, 2-24-19 3:22 > 1-28-18
2 Peter
1:4 > 8-12-18
2019 sermons:
1-6: The Word Dwells in You Richly
1-13: I Will Be with You
1-27: Drink of One Spirit
2-3: To Proclaim Release
2-17: Be . . . As Your Father
2-24: A Spiritual Body
3-3 From One Degree of Glory to Another
3-6 (Ash Wed.): Too Great a Burden
3-10: Hearts and Mouths
3-17: Under His Wing
3-24: Spiritual Drink
3-31: We Had to Celebrate
4-7: Con-Formed
4-14: A New Thing
4-19 (Good Friday): Who He Is
4-21 (Easter): My Father and Your Father
4-28: Swallow Up Death
5-5: Feed My Sheep
5-12: I Will Comfort You--Hear My Voice
5-19: Alpha and Omega
6-2: The Secret of Unity
6-9 (Pentecost): The Spirit of Truth
6-16: Was Carried Up
6-23: Jew or Greek
6-30: For Freedom
7-7: The Dust of Your Town
7-14: The Word Is Very Near
7-21: Hospitality (not yet)
Partial Index
Isaiah
2:4 > 12-23-18 5:8 > 6-16-19
9:5-7 > 1-22-17, 8-19 & 12-23-18, 4-14-19
11:3-9 > 8-19-18 25:6-8 > 4-28-19
26:3 > 4-21-13 32:15 > 1-27-19
35:5 > 8-19-18 43:1-7 > 1-13-19
43:19, 25 > 1-13 & 4-14-19
44:3 > 1-27-19 54:13 > 8-12-18
55:1-9 > 3-24-19 56:7 > 4-19-19
57:15 > 10-7-18 61:1-2 > 8-19 & 12-30-18
63:10-11 > 6-9-19 65:1-5 > 6-23-19
65:17-18, 25 > 6-23-19 66:12-13 > 5-12-19
Jeremiah
3:15 > 4-21-13 7:22 > 1-29-17
8:22 > 9-18-16 15:19-21 > 9-3-17
19:4-7 > 9-30-18 23:4 > 4-21-13
31:33-34 > 9-18-16 50:6 > 4-21-13
Lamentations
3:25-33 > 7-8-18
Micah
3:3 > 6-16-19 4:3 > 12-23-18
5:2-5 > 12-23-18
6:6-8 > 1-29-17, 2-11 & 12-23-18
Matthew
1:1-16 > 10-28-18 2:1-12 > 1-6-19
3:15-17 > 1-13-19 5:3-12 > 1-29-17
5:8 > 10-7-18 5:9 > 12-9-18
5:24 > 7-14-19 5:44-48 > 11-4 & 11-18-18
6:1-15 > 3-6-19 6:10 > 9-23 & 12-24-18
6:20 > 2-24-19 6:21 > 9-23-18
6:25-33 > 11-18-18 eve
7:7-11 > 9-2 & 11-25-18, 2-3 & 3-17-19
8:10 > 9-9-18
9:2 > 12-23-18, 3-3-19 9:22 > 10-7 & 12-23-18
10:16 > 12-9-18 11:15 > 4-7-19
11:25-30 > 1-29-17 12:33 > 11-25-18
13:33 > 10-21-18 13:57 > 10-14-18
17:5 > 1-13-19 18:1-6 > 2-3-19
18:21-35 > 10-22-17 22:30-31 > 1-22-17
22:37-39 > 5-19-19
25:21 > 10-14-18 26:7-15 > 1-28-18
27:46 > 4-19-19 28:1-10 > 4-28-19
continued: > > >