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

2 November 2025

Reading Lukewise: slides for an overview of Luke’s Gospel

I have the privilege of speaking today (2 November) at St Mark’s Church, Newnham, Cambridge to give an overview of Luke’s Gospel. Here are my slides. Thoughts and comments are most welcome!

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21 October 2025

Jesus heals: slides on Matthew 8:1-17

I had the privilege of teaching for the Holy Trinity Church Cambridge student night on 21 October, so here are the slides from the talk I gave on Jesus the healer, based on Matthew 8:1-17. Thoughts and comments are most welcome!

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16 October 2025

Who(se) Acts? Slides about God in Acts

I had the privilege and fun of teaching on Acts with Tom Wright for clergy and lay ministers from the diocese of Oxford today (16 October). My talk focused on the portrayal of God in the book of Acts, and here are the slides. Comments and questions are most welcome! And thanks to my friend Greg Downes for the photo...

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24 August 2025

Psalm 2: slides

I had the privilege of preaching on Psalm 2 at St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church in Cambridge (above) today (24 August), where my friend and former student Simon Cragg is pastor. Here are the slides from my talk, which began by reading the psalm in the context of ancient Israel, and then looked at how the psalm is fulfilled in...

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30 June 2025

Slides on ‘Acts and the Eyewitnesses’

I had the privilege of giving the 2025 Tyndale New Testament lecture on 30 June, on ‘Acts and the Eyewitnesses’—yes, the title is a deliberate imitation of Richard Bauckham’s justly well-known book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Here are the slides. The lecture examines the book of Acts for what it has to say about eyewitness testimony, both to Jesus and...

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5 June 2025

Leadership and power in Acts—slides

I have given a paper on ‘Leadership and power in the book of Acts’ at a very interesting symposium on leadership and power at the Catholic University of Leuven, organised by Armin Kummer and Veronika Burz-Tropper. They brought together a group of thinkers who work in methods, and Old and New Testament studies for three days to discuss this theme,...

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