by David Allen | Jul 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
The preacher of today must be apocalyptic: He ought to sound like the book of Revelation, for we are living in a grand and awful time. I heard a radio preacher some time ago take as his text, “When these things begin to come to pass, lift up your heads for your...
by David Allen | Jul 3, 2016 | Preaching
NOTE: This is Part 2 of an article by Vance Havner which appeared in 1978 and is well worth the read! Watch for Part 3! The preacher we need is authoritative: My Lord taught as one “having authority and not as the scribes,” and a lot I hear today sounds like...
by David Allen | Jun 27, 2016 | Preaching
NOTE: This is Part 1 of an article by Vance Havner which appeared in 1978 and is well worth the read! Watch for Parts 2 & 3! In these wild and weird and wicked times, the work of the preacher is being rethought and revamped and reexamined. He’s being pushed away...
by David Allen | Jun 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
My book, The Extent of the Atonement, is available online as an ebook. It can be purchased through LifeWay and B&H Academic Publishing for $29.99 at this link: http://goo.gl/TZo6pv Here are the endorsements for the book: “David Allen’s The Extent of the Atonement...
by David Allen | Jun 6, 2016 | Bible, Culture
IDOLATRY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. The people of Israel in the Old Testament constantly had their problems with idolatry. In Exodus, while Moses is on the mountain receiving God’s Ten Commandments, the people grow tired of waiting for Moses to return and they coerce Aaron...
by David Allen | May 30, 2016 | Bible, Culture
The television commercial interrupts your favorite show. The announcer has a deal for you that you can’t refuse! His product can slice, dice, and chop better than anything out there on the market. And not only that, “if you will act now, you will receive a second...
by David Allen | May 16, 2016 | Preaching, Sermons
What Shakespeare is to playwrights, the Mississippi to rivers, and Westminster to cathedrals, Hebrews 1:1-4 is to all the New Testament. Seventy-two words in the Greek text comprise a single sentence and each word is pregnant with meaning and pulsates with deity. From...
by David Allen | Apr 18, 2016 | Preaching
At age 17, he pastored his first church which grew in two years from 40 to 400. At age 19, he was preaching every Sunday to 5000+ people. By the age of 21, he had preached over 1000 times. When he became pastor of New Park Street Baptist Church in London at age 19,...
by David Allen | Mar 28, 2016 | Bible, Sermons
Every Christian should always live in three arenas, 1) what we are, 2) what we shall be, and 3) what we should be. What we are is God’s child (v. 1); what we shall be is conformed to the image of Christ when we get to heaven (v. 2); what we should be on the basis of...
by David Allen | Mar 21, 2016 | Bible, Preaching, Sermons
On March 6, 2016, at First Baptist Church, Irving, TX, I preached on 1 John 2:15-17. This is the famous passage where Christians are exhorted not to love the world. What on earth does John mean? The structure of this text is often missed by expositors. The text has...
