ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

26 February 2024

Revelation 14—the Lamb vs the beasts: an outline

I spoke on Revelation 14, which portrays the battle of the Lamb and his followers and the beasts of Revelation 13 and their followers, at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, and here’s the outline of my talk. No video this time—we were having our monthly café church in our halls, where there isn’t a streaming facility. Thoughts and comments welcome.

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13 February 2024

The two witnesses—a video and a handout on Revelation 11

I had the privilege of preaching on Revelation 11 for Emmanuel Church, Loughborough recently—a challenge, for this is one of the most puzzling passages in a puzzling book. Here’s a link to my outline (our projector was not working, so no slides) and the video is below (with apologies that some of the sound is a bit distorted). Thoughts and...

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9 January 2024

Introducing Mark: slides

I have led an evening for our preaching team at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, introducing Mark’s Gospel, since we’re doing a preaching series in Mark at our morning services over the coming months. Here are the slides from my input—thoughts and comments welcome!

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30 December 2023

Living from the future to the present: a talk on Isaiah 61:10–62:5

I had the privilege of speaking at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough on 31 December on Isaiah 61:10–62:5, and am glad to share my slides from that talk here. Thoughts and questions are very welcome!

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2 December 2023

An overview of the Bible—slides

On Sunday 3 December, I had the privilege of teaching those training to be lay ministers in the (Anglican) diocese of Leicester, giving them an overview of the Bible. I used Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen’s excellent ‘six act’ outline. Here are my slides—thoughts and comments most welcome!

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26 November 2023

The seven seals (Revelation 6 + 8:1): slides

Here are my slides from a talk I gave at our cafe church at Emmanuel Loughborough this evening. It was fun preparing this teaching, and I’m grateful (again) to Ian Paul, George Caird, John Sweet and Michael Wilcock for their help. No video this time, since we don’t stream our cafe church gatherings—but, as always, comments and questions are very...

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