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 A look at the damage done to the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies with Dr. Ray Van Neste. Nepalese pastors benefit from Van Neste’s teaching A 10-day trip to Nepal was cut a little short for Union University Christian studies professor Ray Van Neste, as a student protest over gas prices shut down the city of Kathmandu, including the airport. Van Neste was originally supposed to leave the country at noon on Jan. 23. But his host feared that the student riot might disrupt Van Neste’s original travel plans, so they left for the airport before dawn instead. read more 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 Resources on Nehemiah by MORE BOOK REVIEWS Recent Happenings Ellsworth Makes Book Donation to Ryan Center Ryan Center Currently Closed for Rebuilding Union Library Provides Critically Needed Space for Ryan Center Holdings MORE HAPPENINGS NEWSLETTERS: FALL 2007 | SUMMER 2006 | SUMMER 2005 FALL 2004 | FALL 2003 (Adobe Acrobat format)