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

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...

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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...

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9 July 2024

Slides and video on the Spirit in Romans

I had the privilege of giving a public lecture at Melbourne School of Theology (MST) on ‘The Spirit in Romans: Source of Power and Pain for Christians’ recently. The edited video, which includes the slides, is above, on YouTube, thanks to colleagues at MST. I’m also pleased to share the slides from the talk here. Thoughts and questions are most...

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17 May 2024

Church planting in Acts: slides

I have had the privilege of teaching on ‘Church planting in Acts’ to two groups of Anglican Network in Canada clergy, plus a few others, this week in Alberta. This has been great fun! Here’s a link to a pdf of the slides from the sessions. Thoughts and comments are most welcome!

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6 May 2024

A ‘narrative exegesis’ of John 7:37-39

This was fun to do! I spoke at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough on Sunday 5 May on Jesus’ words about thirsty people coming to him to drink to receive living water (John 3:37-39) in a series of talks on the Holy Spirit. I did it by assuming the persona of John the evangelist and talking about putting my biography of Jesus...

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7 April 2024

Introducing the Theology of Paul: Slides

I’ve just had the fun of teaching lay ministry trainees from Leicester (Anglican) diocese to introduce the theology of Paul to them. Here are my slides from the four hours we had together—thoughts and comments most welcome!

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