The Center exists to promote thoughtful and disciplined reading, study, interpretation, and application of the Bible throughout the world. Welcome | About the Center | Directions | Center Personnel Center Happenings | Historical Perspective Book Reviews | Bible Study Helps Holdings: Current | Projected | Complete 2009 Bible Conference to Feature D. A. Carson Renowned New Testament scholar D. A. Carson will headline the Ryan Center’s upcoming 2009 Bible Conference. It is a great privilege and honor to be hosting Dr. Carson, a widely popular teacher, speaker, and writer. Carson has written or edited more than 45 books including The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (Zondervan 1996), which won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s Gold Medallion Book Award in the category "theology and doctrine." read more | conference website | conference audio View Tornado Damage Video Listen to Dr. Ray Van Neste explain the vision and purpose of the Center. Great Insights on Biblical Studies by John Piper Brothers, Let Us Query The Text Brothers, Bitzer Was A Banker in Adobe Acrobat format Past Conferences: 2005 | 2007 ""You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he saith as you can. God hath made you all reasonable creatures; therefore let not the noble faculty of reason or understanding lie neglected. Content not yourselves with having so much knowledge as is thrown in your way, and as you receive in some sense unavoidably by the frequent inculcation of divine truth in the preaching of the word, of which you are obliged to be hearers, or as you accidentally gain in conversation; but let it be very much your business to search for it, and that with the same diligence and labor with which men are wont to dig in mines of silver and gold."" - Cotton Mather Recent Book Review 2008 Bible and Bible Reference Survey by MORE BOOK REVIEWS Recent Happenings 400 year old Geneva Bible survived tornado, returns to Ryan Center 2009 Bible Conference to Feature D. A. Carson Ellsworth Makes Book Donation to Ryan Center MORE HAPPENINGS NEWSLETTERS: FALL 2007 | SUMMER 2006 | SUMMER 2005 FALL 2004 | FALL 2003 (Adobe Acrobat format)