Letters Along the Way: From a Senior Saint to a Junior Saint (Gospel Coalition)

“My wife and I read this book together during my first year as D. A. Carson’s teaching assistant and PhD student. We loved it. Reading these fictional letters is almost as personal as if you wrote a challenging theological or practical question to Carson and Woodbridge themselves and then received a thoughtful reply. Now I use this book as a resource for mentoring seminary students.”

“When I was a relatively young believer beginning to explore a calling to pastoral ministry, my pastor encouraged me to read this book. It has become one of the most formative books for me. I’ve read it and reread it more times than I can count, and am beyond thrilled to see it being relaunched so that a new generation can enjoy its wisdom and insight. In a time sadly lacking in character and statesmanship in the church, I am confident this book will become a huge blessing to many.”

“As a college student, I found this book on the library shelves. It was neither assigned nor recommended, but reading it changed my life. I have found it to be consistently insightful and encouraging throughout the years. Perhaps because it’s presented as a story, with realistic characters experiencing the vicissitudes of life, inevitably the issues of cultural and theological debate have changed even as letter-writing seems like an antiquarian pastime. But the thoughtful vision it presents of the Christian life remains remarkably fresh. Whether you are exploring theology as a college student, new to pastoral ministry, or wrestling with the cultural issues of our day, this book may change your life too.”

“I have long considered D. A. Carson and John Woodbridge among the finest evangelical scholars of our generation. Their areas of specialty, of course, differ—Carson has excelled as an expert in New Testament scholarship while Woodbridge has made his life’s work the exposition of church history and Christian thought down through the centuries. This small volume, cast in the form of letters from an older Christian to a younger believer, distills the wisdom of both men in these two vital areas of Christian scholarship, but also captures the essence of sapience that can only be found in what has been described as a ‘long obedience in the same direction.’ I am thrilled that it is being republished afresh for the spiritual and theological undergirding of a new generation of Christians, for the wisdom here is much needed in these troubling times.”