28 December 2024 Insights on the Shepherds’ Visit in Luke 2:15-21 I had the privilege of speaking on the visit of the shepherds (Luke 2:15-21) at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough on 30 December. Here are my slides—thoughts and comments welcome! Categories Speaking Comments: 0
20 November 2024 How do speakers in Acts preach from Scripture, and what can we learn from that? Here is the handout for the paper I’m giving at the Institute for Biblical Research and Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology meeting in San Diego on Friday. The seminar is in the stream ‘Scripture and Church’, and is focused on what we can learn for our preaching from the way that the scriptural authors ‘preach’ Scripture. My paper looks... Categories Articles and papers/Conferences/Research/Speaking Comment: 1
20 October 2024 Slides from a talk on Jude 17–25 I have never spoken on the letter of Jude before (the picture above is the text of the latter part of the letter in Codex Sinaiticus, one of our oldest full Greek manuscripts of the New Testament), so being asked to speak on the last section for Emmanuel Church, Loughborough was a new experience! Here are the slides from my... Categories Speaking Comments: 0
6 October 2024 Two lectures on Acts at EGST: slides and handouts I have the privilege in the next two days (7 and 8 October) of giving two lectures about Acts at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology in Addis Ababa. I’m very grateful for this opportunity. Below are links to the handouts and slides for both lectures. Monday: “‘The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’ (Acts 3:13): Is That All?’ (this... Categories Research/Speaking Comments: 0
12 September 2024 Handouts for my Gospels class in Morogoro, Tanzania This page is primarily for my students in Morogoro, Tanzania, where I’m teaching the Gospels for the next little while. I shall share the handouts in English and (computer) Swahili here for you to download. This list will grow as the class progresses, so please keep visiting to pick up the handouts. Ukurasa huu kimsingi ni wa wanafunzi wangu wa... Categories Speaking/Study Comments: 4
9 August 2024 Handout for my Graham Stanton Memorial Lecture, ‘“The God of Abraham, Isaac aand Jacob” (Acts 3:13)—Is That All? Learning about God from the Book of Acts’ I’m pleased to share the outline of my Graham Stanton Memorial Lecture, ‘“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Acts 3:13)—Is That All? Learning about God from the Book of Acts’. I’ll be giving this during the British New Testament Society meeting in Glasgow, 22-24 August, and I’m making it available here as a Word file and here as a... Categories Books and articles/Conferences/Research/Speaking/Writing Comments: 0