This new book has fourteen pages of endorsements (counting the back cover):
Andreas J. Köstenberger and Richard D. Patterson. Invitation to Biblical Interpretation: Exploring the Hermeneutical Triad of History, Literature, and Theology. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2011. 891 pp. 
Fourteen pages of endorsements. You can view thirteen of those pages here in a 77-page sample PDF.
This thirteen-minute video is worth watching as a family this Christmas season.
Our church is planning to play it in our Sunday morning service on Christmas Day.
I thank God for this man.
As I say at the end of this essay,
I thank God for gracing me with gifts to the church like Carson. . . .
I am excited that Carson is only in his mid-sixties and that he is in good health. If Jesus does not return and Carson’s health continues, Carson will very likely equip the church with dozens of more books and articles. His magnum opus will be a two-volume ‘whole-Bible’ BT. He explained to me that he needs about twenty more years to do this well. He first desires to finish his commentaries on John’s letters, Galatians, Hebrews, Revelation, and Ezekiel. Carson is one of those exceptional figures who is equipped to contribute an outstanding integrative BT that would serve as a reliable foundation for ST that is more genre-sensitive and aware of the Bible’s storyline. (pp. 273–74)
I regularly pray that God would preserve his health and sustain and even increase his productivity.
Related:
DBTS’s faculty just started a blog.
Craig Blomberg reflects on how “different cultures use honorific titles differently.”
It reminds me of how John MacArthur fields the question, “Why do people call you John [and not Pastor MacArthur or Dr. MacArthur]?”
Well, they called Paul, “Paul.”
David Suchet (the voice of Aslan in the Narnia series by Focus on the Family Radio Theatre) reads “He’s Here” from The Jesus Storybook Bible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v__QaCsdvQk
Over twenty men recently honored Tom Nettles with a Festschrift:
Thomas K. Ascol and Nathan A. Finn, eds. Ministry by His Grace and for His Glory: Essays in Honor of Thomas J. Nettles. Cape Coral, FL: Founders, 2011.
They presented the book to Nettles on November 10, 2011 at Southern Seminary, and it releases today.
The book divides into three parts: historical, theological, and practical. You can view the contents and contributors here.
