Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall
What’s sad is that we can be just as proud and haughty in other arenas, can’t we?
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HT: Chris Anderson
D. A. Carson Publications
I recently compiled a comprehensive bibliography of D. A. Carson’s publications so that it could be hosted on Carson’s page at The Gospel Coalition’s site.
How the Bibliography Is Organized
The publications are listed chronologically under five categories by the date they were first published:
- Books (currently 50 listed)
- Articles (currently 237 listed)
- Reviews (currently 112 listed)
- Lyrics
- Edited Series
Some of the books and articles are linked to Amazon.com, and others are linked to PDFs available for free on TGC site. Further, most of the articles and reviews are also linked to PDFs.
Note: (1) The PDFs may not be uploaded to other sites without written permission from the copyright holders. (2) I plan to continue updating the bibliography, so please let me know if you spot any errors such as typos or omissions.
Benefits of the Carson PDFs hosted by TGC
- Number: The bibliography of Carson’s publications currently links to about 350 PDFs hosted on TGC site. The vast majority of them have not been available online previously. [Read more…] about D. A. Carson Publications
Carson on the Rich Man and Lazarus
I just uploaded a new MP3 to the D. A. Carson archive:
“The Rich Man and Lazarus” (Luke 16:19-31) | MP3 | preached on May 17, 2009 at College Church in Wheaton, IL
Chris Anderson on Mark Driscoll
Chris Anderson’s thoughtful evaluation is worth more than two cents.
Particularly convicting:
The struggle to make much of Christ rather than self is a struggle for every preacher; we’re all prone to say “Behold me telling you to behold the Lamb of God.”
Update: Cf. Dave Doran’s “A Few More Pennies on Mark Driscoll.”
A New Church-Planting Blog by Eric True
My brother-in-law, Eric True, just started a church-planting blog as he prepares to plant Grace Bible Church of Rancho. If you know of anyone who lives in or near Rancho Cucamonga, California, please spread the word about this church plant scheduled for fall 2010.
Cf. my post in September 2007: “A Future Church Plant Worth Supporting.”
A Shrewd Observation by Sherlock Holmes
Jenni and I are enjoying listening to The Complete Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes dramatized by BBC (64 CDs, 48 hours, and featuring a full cast), and we found the following statement particularly striking when we heard it last night:
It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all.
-Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an agnostic
How to “sustain meaningful discourse without resorting to name-calling or cowardly equivocation”
Kevin DeYoung‘s “Defining Discourse Down” in First Things is superb. I benefitted from it even more after re-reading it this evening.
This part hurts the most:
We are all proud. Because I’m proud I get hurt when people disagree with me strongly. Because I’m proud I feel the need to give thirteen qualifications before I make an argument, not usually because I’m a swell guy but because I love for people to love me and loathe for them to dislike or misunderstand me. Because I’m proud I hedge my criticisms so that I won’t have to publicly repent and recant when I go too far and get something wrong. Because we’re proud, protectors of self more than lovers of truth, we often don’t discuss things with candor or with verve.
Read the whole thing—esp. the last four paragraphs.