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Preach Like D.A.
Carson.
Clear the misreading, set the context, walk the text’s own shape to Christ, then pray.
- ✓6 of his sermons, studied start to finish
- ✓Ten steps to preach the way he did
- ✓A fill-in outline in his shape, 9 pages
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— Why he’s one of the greats
Clear the misreading, set the context, walk the text’s own shape to Christ, then pray.
The scholar-preacher of the evangelical renewal. Don Carson was born in Montreal, grew up in French Canada, pastored a church in Vancouver, and earned a Cambridge PhD in New Testament before joining Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1978. For decades he taught at Trinity during the week and preached at conferences, churches and campuses around the world. His secret: he preaches the passage the way a careful reader would teach it, and he never stops talking to the room. He first clears away the misreading people bring with them, then backs up into the book and the Old Testament until the passage stands in its real setting. Then he walks it clause by clause, with a small word (“but,” “and,” “broad”) turning the whole reading. Every few minutes he asks what you expected the text to say and shows you what it actually says. The scholarship is everywhere, but it is spoken plainly, with dry humor, and it always arrives at Christ and a call to believe.
- 1978Joined Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
- 2005Co-founded The Gospel Coalition with Keller
- 60+Books written or edited
What makes his style unique
“Don undergoes no metamorphosis moving from the lectern to the prayer meeting.”
— Who wrote this
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Preach Like D.A. Carson — Clear the misreading, set the context, walk the text’s own shape to Christ, then pray..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does6 of his sermons, studied start to finish, and the shape they share.
- 03How he does itTen steps to preach the way he did.
- 04His outlineWhere the time goes, movement by movement.
- 05Write one like D.A. CarsonA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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