Quote of the week

“Those of us who believe Jesus fully reveals God and God’s ways read the Bible through the lens of what Jesus taught and how he acted. . . . Read all Scripture through the interpretive lens of Jesus.”

— Sharon Baker, Executing God: Rethinking Everything You’ve Been Taught about Salvation and the Cross, p. 89

More sermons:

10-29-17: The Law of Love

11-5: All Siblings

11-26: When Did We See You?

12-3: Test Everything

12-24: The Obedience of Faith
12-31: Nations Shall Come to Your Light

2018:

1-14: His Star at its Rising

1-21: Pour Out Your Heart

1-28: No Deceit

2-4: As One Having Authority

2-11: Healing the Broken Hearted

Partial Index

Isaiah

1:11-18 > 8-14-16 9:6 > 1-22-17

26:3 > 4-21-13 30:15 > 8-28-16

42:6 > 12-31-17 51:1-8 > 8-27-17

56:7 > 4-14-17 58:5-11 > 2-5-17

60:1-3 > 12-31-17

61:11 > 8-7-16 62:1-3 > 12-31-17

63:9 > 1-1-17 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 31:33 > 10-16-16

32:40 > 10-16-16 50:6 > 4-21-13

Matthew

2:1-12 > 1-14-18

2:13-21 > 1-1-17 3:13-17 > 1-15-17

5:3-12 > 1-29-17 5:6 > 5-4-14, 12-31-17

5:8 > 6-26-16, 1-15-17 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 7:8 > 7-24-16

7:7-11 > 6-26 & 7-24 & 11-6-16, 4-23-17

7:21 > 6-7-15, 12-24-17 8:10 > 4-24-16, 10-29-17

9:2 > 12-3-17 9:12-13 > 8-14-16

9:22 > 10-9-16 10:16 > 6-11-17

10:40-42 > 7-2-17 11:16-30 > 7-9-17

11:25-30 > 8-28-16, 1-29-17 12:7 > 8-14-16

12:33 > 11-27-16, 2-5-17 13:24-30 > 7-23-17

13:31-33 > 7-30-17 13:44-46 > 7-30-17

13:57 > 9-3-17 15:27 > 7-23-17

16:21-27 > 9-3-17 17:1-8 > 2-26-17

18:3-10 > 8-28-16, 7-2-17 18:21-35 > 10-22-17

20:1-6 > 9-24-17 21:1-11 > 4-9-17

21:28-32 > 10-1-17 21:33-46 > 10-15-17

22:37-39 > 6-19-16,10-29-17 22:42-5 > 10-29-17

22:75 > 10-6-13 23:1-9 > 11-5-17

23:23 > 8-14-16 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

27:54 > 1-14-18

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

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, excerpts to my Wipf & Stock books:

- Bullying in the Churches

- The Family Metaphor in Jesus' Teaching

- Theosis, volume 1

- 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

2:35-40 > 12-31-17 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 9:48> 8-28-16

9:54 > 10-29-17, 1-28-18 10:21-24 > 6-26-16

10:25-37 > 10-29-17 11:5-13 > 7-24-16

12:13-15 > 7-31-16 12:32-34 > 7-24 & 8-14-16

13:1-5 > 8-7-16 14:7-14 > 8-28-16

15:11-32 > 10-9-16 17:11-21 > 10-9-16

17:21 > 8-28 & 10-9-16 19:1-10 > 10-30-16

20:27-38 > 11-6-16 22:25-26 > 8-28-16

22::37-39 > 6-19-16 22:61 > 1-28-18

22:63-70 > 4-9-17 23:7-12 > 4-9-17

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 10:4-14 > 11-27-16

10:9 > 4-16-17 12:2 > 4-9 & 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

1:21-22 > 5-4-14

2:5 > 5-4-14 3:22 > 1-28-18

2 Peter

1:4 > 3-12 & 7-9-17

Sermons

2013:

4-21: Still Waters or Choppy Seas

10-6: A Trinitarian Sermon

2014:

4-27, Holocaust Sun.: Kept in Heaven

5-4: This Corrupt Generation

2015:

4-19: To Conquer the World

6-7: Sending Word to God

2016:

6-26: Revealed to Babes

7-24: God Gives

7-31: Why Come to Jesus?

8-7: No Worse Than Any Others

8-14: Where Your Treasure Is

8-28: They Cannot Repay You

9-18: Is God Too High Above Us?

9-25: The Eyes of the Blind

10-16: Written on Their Hearts

10-30: A Son of Abraham

11-6: Children of the Resurrection

11-27: What Fulfills the Law?

12-18: The Incarnation of the Word

2017:

1-1: The Least of These

1-15: In Whom I Am Well-Pleased

1-22: The Kingdom Has Come

1-29: The Pure in Heart

2-5: The Light of the World

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

4-9: From Hosanna to Betrayal

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

7-9: Like Children in the Market Places

7-23: Know My Heart

7-30: Be a Collector

8-27: Let Love Be Genuine

9-3: I Must Suffer

9-10: Owe Nothing

9-24: Rethink

10-1: Doing Counts

10-15: To Collect His Produce

10-22: Forgive, Hand It On

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Preaching the Gospel of Jesus, in Spirit and in Truth

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