17 August 2023 Is the Roman Empire a friend or a foe in Acts? I’m giving a paper to the Hindustan Bible Institute, Chennai, India’s online research seminar today (17 August), and so here are the slides and the handout for this talk. Thoughts and comments welcome! Categories Articles and papers/Research/Speaking Comments: 4
9 August 2023 Slides and a video on the parable of the wheat and the weeds (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43) My apologies for the sound between about 7 mins 20 secs and 8 mins 45 secs: there was some distortion on the original recording which I haven’t been able to fix. Please persist: the voice is audible (to my ear, at least) in the fuzzy bit, and it then becomes clear. Categories Speaking/Study Comments: 0
29 May 2023 Slides on Exodus 14:5-22: the sea crossing Crossing the Red Sea, Rothschild Haggadah, ca. 1450 We’re having a sermon series from the book of Exodus in evening services at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, and I had the privilege of preaching on the crossing of the sea (Exodus 14:5-22) on Sunday 28 May. Here are my slides—alas, no video recording this time because of technical problems. Thoughts and comments... Categories Research/Speaking Comments: 0
21 May 2023 Jesus’ Ascension: slides and a sermon I had the delight of speaking about Jesus’s ascension at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough this morning, based on Acts 1:1-14. Here are my slides and the video of the sermon. Thoughts most welcome! In case it’s of interest, I was drawing on some articles which I’ve written on this area: Walton, Steve. “‘The Heavens Opened’: Cosmological and Theological Transformation in Luke... Categories Research/Speaking Comments: 0
17 April 2023 Slides and video of my talk on Acts 2:22-36 I had the privilege on Sunday morning of preaching on Acts 2:22-36 for Emmanuel Church, Loughborough. The video is above. Here are the slides in pdf format. Thoughts and comments welcome! Categories Research/Speaking Comments: 2
27 March 2023 Slides from a sermon on John 12:20-36 I preached yesterday evening at our evening service at Emmanuel, Loughborough, and had the privilege of exploring this very rich section of John, with its many images of the death of Jesus. Here are my slides—thoughts and comments welcome. Categories Speaking Comments: 0