by David Allen | Apr 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Four cracks of the bat and history was made on June 15, 1947. It happened in the small mill town of Lindale, Georgia. Lindale was founded in the late 1800’s as a cotton mill town, and the Pepperell Dragons baseball team was the pride of the area. The sun beat down on...
by David Allen | Apr 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
From my new book, The Atonement: A Biblical, Theological, and Historical Study of the Cross of Christ (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2019): The atonement of Christ is inextricably linked with...
by David Allen | Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Atonement as Substitution — Excerpt from my The Atonement: A Biblical, Theological, and Historical Study of the Cross of Christ (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2019), 197–98 As Easter Sunday approaches, today we consider the nature of the atonement as a...
by David Allen | Apr 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Who is the most important member of your church? Who is the least important member? Hold that thought. Two words “united” and “untied” have exactly the same letters. Transpose the middle two letters and you can go from united to being untied. The key is the position...
by David Allen | Apr 8, 2019 | Bible, Culture, Devotional, Scripture References
Some years ago I read an author (I’ve forgotten whom, though I took some notes) who talked about doing the best of things in the worst of times from 1 Corinthians 16:8-9: “But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me,...
