D. A. Carson, you've done it again

I recently told my New Testament professor that I have a theological crush on D. A. Carson. He replied with the story of his meeting with the good Dr., adding, "When you see his blue eyes you may really have a crush on him!"

Nevertheless, here is an excerpt from Carson's commentary on the gospel of John (p. 102) that made me chuckle. Regarding preaching through the book of John (as I plan to do soon), Carson says,

...select a fairly large unit of text as the basis for each sermon. If a preacher takes six weeks to expound the Prologue (1:1-18), and is actually saying anything that has much content, almost inevitably a great deal of later material in John has been dragged in. Far better to deliver one's soul on the Prologue in one sermon, complete ch. 1 the next week, and proceed at a good pace through the text so that while the slower preacher is polishing closing remarks on 1:51 you are already well into the farewell discourse.

Gotta love him. It is little comments like this (though his theological insights are just as profound) that make his writings so rich.