Comments on: Reflections at 60 by Sinclair Ferguson http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/ for friends of University Bible Fellowship Wed, 21 Oct 2015 04:34:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2711 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:11:06 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2711 Thank you very much.
So it was good to hear your invitation and it was good to ask you for a favor. :-)

]]> By: David L http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2710 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:08:49 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2710 Hi Timothy, I think that I can arrange that! And also probably more…let me contact some people and I’ll get back to ya

]]> By: Brian Karcher http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2709 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:19:33 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2709 Ok cool. I’m looking forward to reading this.

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2708 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:23:20 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2708 After editing and formatting, the talk could be posted as a series of posts, if it fits. Or I will put it online somewhere (or just submit it TGC’s archive) and link it here.

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2707 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:22:17 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2707 I think I will start first, and if I need additional help, I will ask you to join. I’ve already been helped by Ben and Rhoel with the software.
P.S. This Sunday I will be preaching in our Moscow center, that’s why I cannot start now and tell.

]]> By: Brian Karcher http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2706 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:18:18 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2706 Timothy, I think this transcript will be quite long. Perhaps we could make it a follow-up post instead of adding it to the comments?  If you add it as a pending article, I’ll take care of publishing it.

Also, let me know where to start, and I’ll help edit it based on comparing the text to the mp3.

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2705 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:16:15 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2705 David, please keep several free copies for me, both books and MP3s :-) I can pay for the shipping to Russia by Amazon gift card or physical books in exchange.
Thanks.
My contact is timothyha at Google’s domain.

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2704 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:14:20 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2704 Ben and Rhoel sent me a transcript made by the software. It is quite good and next week I will be editing it, I think. Will post results here.

]]> By: Brian Karcher http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2703 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:11:44 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2703 That’s awesome David. If I wasn’t so far away, I would definitely stop by. 

]]> By: David L http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2702 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:00:57 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2702 Hey a quick note to my UBFriends. Next April 10-12 is the 2012 Together For The Gospel Conference in Louisville, KY. T4G is an awesome Gospel centered conference full of great preaching (by people like John Piper, Al Mohler, Mark Dever, C.J. Mahaney and others) and fellowship. I will actually be running a booth at the conference for the Martyn Lloyd-Jones Trust and we will be giving away thousands of free ML-J books and MP3 sermons. I would love to see you guys (and gals) there! Here is the website for the conference http://www.togetherforthegospel.org/ definitely stop by and say hi if you attend! God bless all of you!

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2701 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:05:59 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2701 Thank you, Ben and Rhoel!
Could you please send that file to me?

]]> By: sharon http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2700 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:31:58 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2700 Yes.  Someone else put it this way,  ‘After years of Bible study, I feel like I have so many bricks, but no blueprint to follow to build the building.”  Regarding the missionary methods of Apostle Paul, Roland Allen writes, ‘By teaching the simplest elements in the simplest form to the many, and by giving them the means by which they could for themselves gain further knowledge, by leaving them to meditate upon these few fundamental truths, and to teach one another what they could discover, St. Paul ensured that his converts should really master the most important things.”   By simple I don’t think he means easy.  I think he means the glorious basic truths of God’s grace through the gospel, the Trinity, etc.

]]> By: Ben Toh http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2699 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:28:44 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2699 Hi Timothy, Rhoel did transcibe it, but the whole lecture is without paragraphs, and with typos (probably because of Ferguson’s accent) in 11 pages of a Word document. It is quite hard to read, but perhaps could help as we read it, correct it, while listening to the audio at the same time. I’m not sure if that is useful, or to simply transcribe from scratch, which will surely also take a long time.

]]> By: Brian Karcher http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2698 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:59:30 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2698 Here is a video interview regarding his book “By Grace Alone”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq7FbqYXAoQ 

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2697 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:21:47 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2697 Hello, Sharon.  I am glad you found this talk useful.
I found many good advices from Ferguson from the many times I’ve listened to this talk.  Like a woman he mentioned that listened to the same sermon many times and found new things each time just because she didn’t have the framework to put all that in.
I have a lot to learn here because of the same reasons – lack of spiritual knowledge and experience.

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2696 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:18:18 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2696 Hello, Rhoel.
I think mp3 can be cut to small piece to train, unless the software requires definite phrases to be pronounced.
In this case we cannot have the correct samples.
I think software solution is more costly than transcribing this.  Whatever the results, just listen to the talk.

]]> By: Rhoel http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2695 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:12:59 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2695 Hi Darren / Timothy,
The software I use is Dragon Speaking Software. It was about 40.00 http://nuance.com/dragon/index.htm

At initial setup, there is a wizard that determines your speak pattern. You are asked to read a paragraph and saves your profile speech pattern. It is accurate when you speech into a mic slowly. However, transcribing audio mp3 is not very accurate since there are no save speech patterns for that speaker. For example, it is not very accurate with people who have accents. It has a hard time transcribing Tim Keller’s NY accent and rapid extemporaneous speech.
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]]> By: Darren Gruett http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2694 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:14:38 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2694 You have an audio transcriber program? How well does it work? That sounds pretty neat.

]]> By: sharon http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2693 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:26:12 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2693 Thank you, Timothy.  This is really good listening.  His conviction of our great need to “stretch” ourselves and our listeners to the majesty and glory and honor of Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity resonates deeply with me. He says, “Our Christ is not big enough”.  How true.  We need to ask the question, “Where is Jesus Christ in this story?” rather than “Where am I in this story?”.  He gives such practical and sound advice…who to read especially.  Thank you again!
 

]]> By: Timothy Ha http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2692 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:40:29 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2692 Hello, Ben.  Let’s see if it handles Scottish accent well :-)
Thank you!

]]> By: Ben Toh http://www.ubfriends.org/2011/10/20/reflections-at-60-by-sinclair-ferguson/#comment-2691 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:52:17 +0000 http://www.ubfriends.org/?p=3863#comment-2691 Hi Timothy, West Loop UBF bought an audio transcriber program, which converts audio into text. Let me ask Rhoel, who knows how to use this program, to see if he can do it. I bought and read Ferguson’s book, “By Grace Alone.” I hope to listen to the audio soon.

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