by David Allen | Jul 17, 2019 | Bible, Preaching, Scripture References, Sermons
Most preachers I know are forever on the lookout for good sermon outlines. Of course, those who preach expositionally will (or should be!) taking their outlines from the text itself. That does not mean the outline will be in the exact form or wording of the text. It...
by David Allen | Jul 8, 2019 | Bible, Preaching, Sermons
This is an excerpt from my sermon on 1 John 3:11-18 in 1-3 John: Fellowship in God’s Family (Crossway: 2013), 151-60. If we are to love everybody, does that mean we have to like everybody? How do I go about loving people I don’t like, even in the church? I’m...
by David Allen | May 20, 2019 | Bible, Devotional
Luther’s ramshackle cart wobbled its way to Worms, Germany, in April of 1521. He had been summoned to appear before the Emperor and Catholic Prelates to give an account of this new “heresy” he was teaching called “justification by faith alone.” The learned Johann Eck...
by David Allen | May 6, 2019 | Bible, Preaching, Scripture References, Sermons
Some people seem to have the mindset that because they are eternally secure in their salvation, how they live does not matter so much. This is the kind of thinking that John strongly refutes in 1 John 2:4. Listen to F. W. Farrar practically apply verse 4 in his 1890...
by David Allen | May 3, 2019 | Bible, Scripture References, Theology
1 John 5:16–17 has engendered much discussion about what John means by the “sin that leads to death.” This is one of those passages for which we have lost the key. Apparently, John’s readers knew what he was talking about, but we are left somewhat in the dark about...
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,...
