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?

​​2017:

​1-22: The Kingdom Has Come

1-29: The Pure in Heart

​​​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

​​​10-22: Forgive, Hand It On

​​12-24: The Obedience of Faith

2018:

1-21: Pour Out Your Heart

1-28: No Deceit

2-4: As One Having Authority

2-11: ​Healing the Broken Hearted

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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

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​​10-21-18: 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: The Theme of Peace 

12-16: With All Joy

12-23: To Love Kindness

12-24: What Child Is This?

12-30: Debating with Scholars

2019:

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 (not yet)

​​​Partial Index

Isaiah

2:4 > 12-23-18

9:6-7 > 1-22-17, 8-19 & 12-23-18

11:3-9 > 8-19-18             26:3 > 4-21-13

32:15 > 1-27-19              35:5 > 8-19-18

43:1-7 > 1-13-19             43:19 > 1-13-19

44:3 > 1-27-19                54:13 > 8-12-18

56:7 > 4-14-17

57:15 > 10-7-18              61:1-2 > 8-19 & 12-30-18

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

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

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 > 6-26-16, 10-7-18          5:9 > 12-9-18

5:44-48 > 3-12-17, 11-4 & 11-18-18

6:10 > 6-23 & 12-24-18         6:21 > 6-23-18

6:25-33 > 11-18-18 eve

7:7-11 > 6-26-16, 9-2 & 11-25-18, 2-3-19        

7:21 > 12-24-17                    8:10 > 9-9-18

9:2 > 12-23-18                 9:22 > 10-7 & 12-23-18

10:16 > 12-9-18

11:25-30 > 1-29-17               12:33 > 11-25-18

12:50 > 6-26-16                    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

25:21 > 10-14-18                   26:7-15 > 1-28-18

27:46-49 > 4-14-17                ​28:1-10 > 4-16-17                   

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​​Stephen Finlan's Sermons and Book excerpts

Preaching ​the Gospel of Jesus, in Sp​irit and in Truth

​​​Quote of the week     

             “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”​ 

          ​      — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 92

Preaching the Gospel of Jesus

Email the pastor: sfinlan@bu.edu
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​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:

- 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

1:7-20, 63 > 12-23-18

1:32-38 > 12-24-17             1:38-45 > 12-23-18

2:19 > 12-24-17                  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, 2-3-19

4:24-30 > 9-9-18, 2-3-19        6:17-21 > 2-17-19

6:27-36 > 9-9-18, 2-17-19      6:45 > 6-26-16

​7:36-43 > 6-26-16

7:50 > 6-26-16, 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                10:18 > 8-26-18

10:21-24 > 6-26-16

10:25-37 > 9-9-18                12:13-15 > 7-31-16

17:21 > 8-12-18                    18:1-8 > 12-2-18

18:42 > 10-17-18                  21:27 > 12-2-18

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

​24:32 > 2-4-18

Romans

6:4 > 11-25-18                     6:23 > 11-18-18

8:2 > 11-25-18                     8:11 > 4-16-17, 1-27-19

8:15 > 1-27-19                     8:24 > 1-27-19

​8:29-30 > 3-12 & 4-16-17       8:39 > 10-22-17

10:9 > 4-16-17                       12:10 > 10-21-18          15:13-14 > 12-16-18              16:25-27 > 12-24-17

Hebrews

​1:1-4 > 10-7-18                   1:14 > 1-28-18

2:9-11 > 10-7-18                 2:14-15 > 4-16-17

​2:17-18 > 9-16-18             4:14-15 > 9-16 & 10-14-18

James 

1:17-22 > 9-2 & 9-30-18       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                     ​3:22 > 1-28-18 

2 Peter

1:4 > 3-12-17, 8-12-18

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