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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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18 March 2024

What is worship? A talk on Revelation 19

I spoke on Revelation 19 on Sunday evening (17 March 2024) at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough. Above is the video of my talk, and here are the slides. The focus is on worship, as in the chapter of Revelation. As always, I’m grateful to those who have thought about it more than me, including George Caird, John Sweet, Sarah Dixon, and...

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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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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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15 October 2023

Jesus’ message to Thyatira: video and slides

I spoke about Jesus’ message to the church in Thyatira (Revelation 2:18-29) at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, on Sunday 15 October. The video is above, and here are the slides from the talk. Again, Colin Hemer, Stephen Travis and Ian Paul were all very helpful. Thoughts and comments welcome!

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11 October 2023

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

I spoke to our students at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough this week, introducing Luke’s Gospel to them: they’re studying it this academic year with our student worker, James. Here are the slides: thoughts and comments welcome!

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Tag: Scripture

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

What is worship? A talk on Revelation 19

Revelation 14—the Lamb vs the beasts: an outline

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

Jesus’ message to Thyatira: video and slides

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