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 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 "O that God would grant that . . . every Christian took the Bible in his own hands, and read God’s Word for himself. . . . . So dig deeper, ever deeper, my brethren. Let my explanations and those of others serve merely as scaffolding to the real building, in order that we may grasp the pure and sweet Word of God, and feed on it, and stand by it: for God alone dwells in Zion." - Martin Luther Recent Book Review Resources on Nehemiah by MORE BOOK REVIEWS Recent Happenings 2009 Bible Conference to Feature D. A. Carson Ellsworth Makes Book Donation to Ryan Center Ryan Center Currently Closed for Rebuilding MORE HAPPENINGS NEWSLETTERS: FALL 2007 | SUMMER 2006 | SUMMER 2005 FALL 2004 | FALL 2003 (Adobe Acrobat format)