Thanks again to Felipe at Monergismo.com for his continual labor in translating some of my articles and large excerpts from my books, and of course, also other materials from many excellent Christian writers.

Translation can be hard and tedious work. I don’t know what you English speakers can do for him, but you can probably at least send him a word of thanks and encouragement for the work that he is doing for the Lord and His people. If there is anything else that you can do to help him, I am sure he wouldn’t mind hearing from you.

Anyway, Felipe recently asked me if I have some written and recorded materials that I have not yet made available to the public. In case some of you are wondering about the same thing, here I will share an expanded version of the answer that I gave Felipe:

…In fact, I have years of outlines, letters, notes, manuscripts, and recordings (sermons, lectures, radio programs) that are not yet released. But they are archived in formats that cannot be immediately distributed on the Internet (for example, many of my old sermon outlines are handwritten), and it will take a lot of time to revise and convert them all. And even if we have the resources to hire help to do the conversion, I would want to directly oversee the revisions anyway, so it will take a bit of time before they can be released, if at all.

Some of these old materials will never be released, even if they can be easily distributed, because I have become dissatified with them. This is especially true of the oldest materials — those outlines and recordings that I made during the weekly adult Bible classes I taught when I was in high school.

But then, some of the old materials might be salvageable. Just the other day, my wife asked me about my fairly long and meticulous lecture series on Galatians. This series includes some detailed outlines and audio recordings. And if I am too dissatified with parts of it, I guess I could transcribe the series, revise the whole thing, and publish it as a commentary, since much of the research should still be usable.

Then, there are the lectures series and outlines on Systematic Theology, Christian Apologetics, Logic and Argumentation, the Trinity, Jude, and many others. There should be some reusable materials in all of these.

But again, it will take much time and effort before these can be revised and published. And since I am constantly producing new materials, the old and inferior ones cannot take the priority.

Also see: My Old Books and Sermons

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