We are excited to announce the arrival of Scotty Smith to our blogging network. “Heavenward” is Pastor Scotty’s effort to help us set our minds on things above through daily, gospel-rich, Bible-saturated, Christ-centered prayers.

In addition to being an author, blogger, and pastor (see Scotty’s bio here), Scotty is a Council member with The Gospel Coalition.

Welcome Scotty Smith! We thank the Lord for your ministry and look forward to looking heavenward with you!

Thanks to our stellar intern Luke Stamps (@lukestamps), we have 4 new Council member publication pages to announce:

• Philip Ryken
• Alistair Begg
• John Piper
• Tim Keller

The goal with these bibliographies is to give you an exhaustive picture of our Council members’ published material. So, if you notice a title not there, please let us know here or in the comments. These guys are prolific, so keeping up with them takes vigilance — and many sets of eyes!

On behalf of The Gospel Coalition I want to welcome Thabiti Anyabwile and Pure Church to our blog network. Like his colleagues on the network Kevin DeYoung and Ray Ortlund, Thabiti is a pastor on the front-lines of local church ministry. He loves the church and longs for her purity. This is why Thabiti blogs. And this is why we are grateful to have him on our platform.

For those of you just getting to know Thabiti, here are some important points of interest:

• Thabiti is prolific. At his blog you will see some of his many writing accomplishments as well as one forthcoming title (Spring 2010).
• Thabiti also writes regularly for Church Matters, the blog of 9Marks Ministries.
• Thabiti is one of the keynote speakers for the Together for the Gospel 2010 National Conference in April.
• Thabiti is a self-professed Calvinist and Pharisee (you’ll have to read his posts here, here, and here).
• Thabiti is a Council member with The Gospel Coalition.

More could be said, but one of the best ways to get to know Thabiti and benefit from his ministry is to read his blog on a daily basis. And to make that easier you can subscribe to Pure Church here.

The Gospel Coalition longs for a more pure church. So does Thabiti Anyabwile. And that’s why we’re so glad he’s here. Welcome Thabiti!

We’ve added six new audio resources from D.A. Carson. (The first five sermons below were the basis for Carson’s book, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12-14.)

1. The Unity of the Body and the Diversity of Gifts (1 Cor. 12)
2. The Most Excellent Way: When Does Perfection Come? (1 Cor. 13)
3. Prophecy and Tongues: Pursuing What Is Best (1 Cor. 14:1-15)
4. Order and Authority: Restraining Spiritual Gifts (1 Cor. 14:26-40)
5. Unleashed Power and the Constraints of Discipline: Toward a Theology of Spiritual Gifts
6. Praying for Power (Eph. 3:14-21)

We are very pleased to welcome Ray Ortlund and his blog “Christ is Deeper Still” to The Gospel Coalition Blog Network. Dr. Ortlund is a pastor-theologian who represents well the vision for ministry The Gospel Coalition is trying to spread. We are deeply grateful to the Lord for Ray’s leadership on The Gospel Coalition Council and now on our blog network.

To give you a window into why we’re so excited about the addition of “Christ is Deeper Still,” here’s Ray’s inaugural post:

I thank my brothers on The Gospel Coalition for the trust of this blog. I consecrate it to this purpose: “. . . to sustain with a word him who is weary” (Isaiah 50:4).

Everyone needs sustaining, because everyone is weak. But there is a word that refreshes, sustains, revives. God spoke it to us in Jesus and personalizes it to us by his Spirit. It is my theme, for his glory.

Welcome, Ray! We thank the Lord for our partnership in the gospel.

The Gospel Coalition just released the latest issue of Themelios. It is available as a 178-page PDF and in HTML.

1. D.A. Carson | Editorial
2. Carl Trueman | Minority Report: Lest We Forget
3. Wayne Grudem | The Perspicuity of Scripture
4. Dane C. Ortlund | Christocentrism: An Asymmetrical Trinitarianism?
5. David VanDrunen | Bearing Sword in the State, Turning Cheek in the Church: A Reformed Two-Kingdoms Interpretation of Matthew 5:38–42
6. Mark Rogers | “Deliver Us from the Evil One”: Martin Luther on Prayer
7. Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. | Pastoral Pensées  Power in Preaching: Delight (2 Corinthians 12:1–10), Part 3 of 3
8. Book Reviews
   1. Old Testament | 6 reviews
   2. New Testament | 16 reviews
   3. history and historical theology | 11 reviews
   4. systematic theology and bioethics | 16 reviews
   5. ethics and pastoralia | 8 reviews

We’ve added three new Tim Keller sermons to our resource library. The following sermons are from the 2007 Evangelists Conference sponsored by “A Passion for Life.”

• Gospel Realization
• Gospel Communication
• Gospel Incarnation

The Gospel Coalition is pleased to welcome 10 Million Words — a new blog by Tim Challies.

Over the next year Challies will read and review all of The New York Times bestsellers (nearly 200!). The aim of this project is to learn about American culture through the pages of the country’s best-selling books. We at TGC trust this project will serve pastors by providing insight into what Americans are thinking and feeling through an analysis of the popular literature of the day.

True to form, Tim will offer helpful book reviews as a Christian public figure. And much like Alexis de Tocqueville did in the nineteenth century, during this one-year tour Challies will share what he’s learning about America from his perch in Canada.

We are excited to have Tim Challies as part of The Gospel Coalition Blog Network and look forward to learning with you!

One of the services we are providing to our visitors at TheGospelCoalition.org is a publication list for all our Council members. We do this because it’s content we want to see distributed as broadly as possible given the gospel-centered nature of their work (we recently posted Don Carson’s).

Today we are pleased to announce the addition of Mark Dever’s publication list. While we have tried to include everything we know Dr. Dever has published, it’s possible we’ve missed something. If so, please let us know. We want these lists to be as accurate as possible and we trust the many eyes of the community can help us achieve this.

Thanks for your help. We will announce others as they are completed. We hope you find these lists useful!

[Note: We plan to update Dever's list in the near future with links to the purchase of his books and, when possible, Websites where his articles/reviews can be read.]

TGC is excited to welcome Kevin DeYoung to our blogging platform! Be sure to check out Kevin’s new blog here.

Kevin DeYoung is one of the finest thinkers in the blogosphere. Bringing pastoral wisdom beyond his years, DeYoung offers insights on theology, the Bible, books and culture–and an occasional dose of humor. Along with Justin Taylor, Pastor DeYoung represents well the vision of The Gospel Coalition to promote gospel-centered ministry for the next generation.

Welcome, Kevin DeYoung. It’s an honor to have you on board!