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 > 9-9-18
5:31 > 11-26-17 6:36 > 9-9-18
6:45 > 6-26-16 7:34 > 11-26-17
7:36-43 > 6-26-16
7:50 > 6-26 & 10-9-16 9:52-55 > 1-28-18
10:21-24 > 6-26-16 10:25-37 > 9-9-18
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
22:37-39 > 6-19-16 22:61 > 1-28-18
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
James
1:17-18, 27 > 9-2-18 2:12-18 > 9-9-18
3:1-6 > 9-16-18 3:16-17 > 7-15 & 9-23-18
4:1-8 > 7-15 & 9-23-18 5:13-20 > 9-30-18
1 Peter
1:3-9 > 4-27-14 3:22 > 1-28-18
2 Peter
1:4 > 3-12-17, 8-12-18
Quote of the week
“Is anyone’s eternal torment good news? Eternal suffering for temporal sin seems, at best, unjust. . . . Maybe the theories of justified violence implicit in the myth [of hell] need to be rejected.”
— Sharon Baker, Razing Hell, 66–67
Stephen Finlan's Sermons and Book excerpts
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus, in Spirit and in Truth
8-12-18: 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 [not yet]
10-7
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 > 3-12-17 6:8 > 2-19-17
6:10 > 6-23-18 6:21 > 6-23-18
7:7-11 > 6-26-16, 9-2-18
7:21 > 12-24-17 8:10 > 9-9-18
11:25-30 > 1-29-17 12:33 > 2-5-17
13:57 > 9-3-17 16:21-27 > 9-3-17
18:21-35 > 10-22-17 21:28-32 > 10-1-17
22:30-31 > 1-22-17 25:31-45 > 1-1 & 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
continued: > > >
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
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
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
5-14 (Mothers' Day): Show Us the Father
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
11-26: When Did We See You?
12-24: The Obedience of Faith
1-21: Pour Out Your Heart
1-28: No Deceit
2-11: Healing the Broken Hearted
7-1:Jesus Notices
7-15: Righteousness and Peace Will Kiss
AT MY NEW CHURCH--
The First Church, West Bridgewater, MA:
7-8: Who Does He Think He Is?
8-5: Bread from Heaven