Sermons
2013:
4-21: Still Waters or Choppy Seas
2014:
4-27, Holocaust Sun.: Kept in Heaven
2016:
6-26: Revealed to Babes
7-31: Why Come to Jesus?
9-18: Is God Too High Above Us?
10-30: A Son of Abraham
11-6: Children of the Resurrection
12-18: The Incarnation of the Word
2017:
1-22: The Kingdom Has Come
1-29: The Pure in Heart
2-19: God Will Give the Growth
2-26: With Him on the Holy Mountain
3-5: A Broken Spirit
3-12: Be Perfect
3-19: In Spirit and in Truth
4-14 (Good Friday): My God, My God
4-16 (Easter): Do Not Be Afraid
4-23: For Whom Are You Looking?
5-14 (Mothers' Day): Show Us the Father
6-11: In Our Image
6-18: Make Disciples
7-2: A Cup of Water
8-27: Let Love Be Genuine
9-3: I Must Suffer
9-10: Owe Nothing
10-1: Doing Counts
10-22: Forgive, Hand It On
10-29: The Law of Love
11-26: When Did We See You?
12-3: Test Everything
12-24: The Obedience of Faith
1-21: Pour Out Your Heart
1-28: No Deceit
2-11-18: Healing the Broken Hearted
7-1: Jesus Notices
7-15: Righteousness and Peace Will Kiss
AT MY NEW CHURCH--
First Church, West Bridgewater, MA:
8-5: Bread from Heaven
8-12: Be Imitators of God
8-19: That I Should Lose Nothing [not yet
8-26:
Partial Index
Isaiah
9:6-7 > 1-22-17, 8-19-18 11:3-9 > 8-19-18
26:3 > 4-21-13 35:5 > 8-19-18
51:1-8 > 8-27-17 54:13 > 8-12-18
56:7 > 4-14-17 58:5-11 > 2-5-17
61:1-2 > 8-19-18 61:11 > 8-7-16
66:13 > 5-14-17
Jeremiah
3:15 > 4-21-13 7:22 > 1-29-17
8:22 > 9-18-16 15:19-21 > 9-3-17
23:4 > 4-21-13 50:6 > 4-21-13
Lamentations
3:25-33 > 7-8-18
Matthew
5:3-12 > 1-29-17 5:8 > 6-26-16
5:13-16 > 2-5-17 5:21-30 > 2-19-17
5:45-48 > 3-12 & 4-23-17
6:8 > 2-19-17 6:30-33 > 4-23-17
7:7-11 > 6-26 & 11-6-16, 4-23-17
7:21 > 12-24-17 8:10 > 4-24-16, 10-29-17
9:2 > 12-3-17 10:16 > 6-11-17
10:40-42 > 7-2-17 11:25-30 > 1-29-17
12:33 > 2-5-17 13:57 > 9-3-17
16:21-27 > 9-3-17 17:1-8 > 2-26-17
18:3-10 > 7-2-17 18:21-35 > 10-22-17
21:28-32 > 10-1-17 22:37-39 > 10-29-17
22:42-5 > 10-29-17 24:30-31 > 1-22-17
25:31-45 > 1-1 & 7-2 & 11-26-17
26:7-15 > 4-2-17, 1-28-18
26:75 > 10:6-13 27:46-49 > 4-14-17
28:1-10 > 4-16-17 28:16–10 > 6-18-17
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Stephen Finlan's Sermons and Book excerpts
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus, in Spirit and in Truth
Quote of the week
“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”
— Meister Eckhart, 14th cent.
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, in which I have an article
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 on Scripture Canon, translations, and links to other sites)
Partial Index, continued:
Luke
1:32-38 > 12-24-17 2:19 > 12-24-17
4:18-21 > 8-19-18 4:25-30 > 10-29-17
5:31 > 11-26-17 6:45 > 6-26-16
7:34 > 11-26-17 7:36-43 > 6-26-16
7:50 > 6-26 & 10-9-16 9:54 > 10-29-17, 1-28-18
10:21-24 > 6-26-16 10:25-37 > 10-29-17
12:13-15 > 7-31-16 13:1-5 > 8-7-16
15:11-32 > 10-9-16 17:11-21 > 10-9-16
17:21 > 8-12-18 19:1-10 > 10-30-16
20:27-38 > 11-6-16 22:37-39 > 6-19-16
22:61 > 1-28-18 24:10 > 4-23-17
24:32 > 2-4-18
Romans
8:11 > 4-16-17 8:29-30 > 3-12 & 4-16-17
8:39 > 10-22-17 10:9 > 4-16-17
12:2 > 8-27-17
13:8-10 > 9-10-17 16:25-27 > 12-24-17
Galatians
2:16 > 7-2-17 3:24-28 > 7-2-17
5:22-23 > 6-18-17
1 Peter
1:3-9 > 4-27-14, 49-19-15, 7-2-17
3:22 > 1-28-18
2 Peter
1:4 > 3-12-17, 8-12-18