Last summer I reviewed Scholar’s Library: Gold by Logos Bible Software. The review is published in the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 11 (Fall 2006): 151-60, and it is now available as a PDF.
Related:
by Andy Naselli
Last summer I reviewed Scholar’s Library: Gold by Logos Bible Software. The review is published in the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 11 (Fall 2006): 151-60, and it is now available as a PDF.
Related:
by Andy Naselli
Biblical Training is now offering Bryan Chapell‘s “PR 600 Preaching” course for free (29 MP3s). (The link to the preaching course may not work for you since you need to create a user name and log in to view it.) These are lectures he gave at Covenant Theological Seminary, where he serves as president and which offers many other courses on MP3 for free. Chapell’s books include Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon.
by Andy Naselli
Update: The Gospel Coalition is now hosting a comprehensive collection of DAC MP3s. Consequently, I won’t be updating this list.
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I have profited immensely from MP3s by Dr. D. A. Carson. His manner of speaking is just as articulate, thoughtful, and engaging as his published books and articles. He exalts Christ by exegeting His words, tracing themes through the Bible’s salvation-historical story-line, systematically addressing hot topics, and engaging and confronting bad theology as well as the culture. What follows is a list of some of his MP3s arranged somewhat topically.
The Use of the OT in the NT
Postmodernism
Emergent Church
Evangelism
So-Called New Perspective on Paul Critiqued
Love of God
Vision of a Transcendent God
Jeremiah (Christmas at the Castle, Dec. 2007)
2 Thessalonians
preached at College Church in Wheaton on March 2, 9, and 16, 2008
The Book of Revelation
Jesus and the Cross
The Pastor as Father and Son
delivered at the 2008 Desiring God Conference for Pastors on Feb. 4-5, 2008
Other Sermons
Other Lectures
Note: Each MP3 costs $1.50. This site offers numerous individual sermons as well the following series. (The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of MP3s in the series.)
by Andy Naselli
As I mentioned previously, Jenni and I recently moved to Deerfield, IL and have been spending most of our Sundays at Lake Drive Baptist Church in Bay Side, WI, where I’ve been preaching/teaching three times each Sunday. A possible pastoral candidate is preaching there today, so this morning we decided to visit an (in)famous church: the main campus of Willow Creek Community Church located in South Barrington, IL, where Bill Hybels serves as the senior pastor. (For a very brief history of Willow Creek, click here.)
Rather than giving a blow-by-blow account with all of my impressions, I’ll keep my comments brief (drawing on some other exposure I’ve had as well, including attending services at two other Willow Creek campuses):
I could say so much more. Instead, I’ll reference three of the most helpful related sources I’ve read:
by Andy Naselli
Warning: Carson’s description of “the first approach” below may be convicting to some who read this.
The following is from D. A. Carson, “An Introduction to Introductions,” in Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctions (ed. D. A. Carson and Stanley E. Porter; Studies in New Testament Greek 5; Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 168; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), 14-17.
Carson recognizes that “the current state of biblical studies . . . has become fragmented,” extending “beyond presuppositions and conclusions to the methods themselves” and reducing BT to NTT to Synoptic Gospel theology to Matthean theology to Q theology to “Q’s couplets in the third Q source.” There are “four responses to this fragmentation.” I’ll not quote the full descriptions of the last three approaches because I’d like to highlight the first in contrast with the fourth. (Carson takes the fourth approach.)
by Andy Naselli
See D. A. Carson‘s penetrating review [as a PDF] of Frank Thielman, Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach, Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2006): 535-39.
by Andy Naselli
I’m currently working on a term paper on D. A Carson’s theological method, and I’ve really enjoyed reading many of Carson’s books and articles. One virtue (among many) that I highly esteem in Carson’s writings is his combination of humility and boldness. The following quotes are some of my favorite that illustrate courageous boldness:
by Andy Naselli
Interesting trivia: Kevin J. Vanhoozer (a.k.a. KJV) plays the piano beautifully!
Dr. Vanhoozer’s DST 980 class (Advanced Theological Prolegomena, a Ph.D. seminar required for all Ph.D. students in theological studies at TEDS) spent this evening at his home for dessert and our final theological discussion of the semester. Jenni and I really enjoyed it (Jenni audited the course). I had heard that Dr. Vanhoozer was a “concert pianist,” but he clarified that he’s an “amateur pianist”—but a good one, nevertheless. I asked him to play for us, and he was kind enough to play two nocturnes, one by Chopin and the other by Beethoven. And true to form, he bookended his playing with theological discussions about the hermeneutics of music!