Did the Father Really Forsake the Son?
Whatever happens to either Christ’s human or divine natures happens to the person.

The Carson Center exists to foster spiritual renewal around the world by providing excellent theological resources for the whole church—for anyone called to teach, and anyone who wants to study the Bible.
Whatever happens to either Christ’s human or divine natures happens to the person.
The Hebrew text of Isaiah 53:11 refers to God’s crediting of righteousness to the ‘many’ on behalf of the servant’s work.
The work of Christ in Romans includes references to key points in Jesus’s life as they are presented in the Gospels.
Matt Harmon and Ben Gladd examine Mark 4:35–41 and show how the stilling of the storm reveals Jesus as the faithful prophet, the greater David, the true Joshua, and Yahweh in the flesh.
The Spirit-filled life is committed to believing the Scripture and to obeying it from the heart.
The Corinthians had rightly valued this meal as ‘imperial,’ but they forgot who the true ‘emperor’ was.
The time-tested categories of Jesus’s humiliation and exaltation, coupled with his threefold office, are biblical ways to think about the priesthood of Christ in Hebrews.
For over 50 years, Don Carson has faithfully served the church as one of the most prolific theologians of our day. His writings cover a wide range of biblical and theological matters. And his influence has shaped generations of pastors and teachers.
For the first time, explore a wealth of Don Carson’s resources in one free, easy-to-use library, including over 600 sermons, multiple ebooks, hundreds of articles and reviews, and several courses.
Around the world today, biblical illiteracy inhibits spiritual depth—not just in the shrinking church of the West, but even the growing churches of the South and East. But there is no spiritual renewal without returning to Scripture. And while the internet offers unprecedented access to the Bible, many of the most widely used resources for studying God’s Word are unhelpful at best or heretical at worst.
That’s why The Gospel Coalition has started The Carson Center for Theological Renewal, named in honor of TGC co-founder Don Carson. As we see in Scripture and church history, spiritual renewal follows theological renewal, when the ancient gospel of Jesus Christ recaptures our hearts and minds.