by David Allen | Mar 15, 2019 | Bible, Culture, Theology
Test your general knowledge in the areas of Bible, theology, history, and pop culture. See how well you do without googling the answers! Answers Saturday! What year did the popular TV show “Friends” begin? Where in the Old Testament is the famous passage on the...
by David Allen | Feb 11, 2019 | Bible, Theology, Uncategorized
Review of Eleonore Stump, Atonement, in Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology, eds. Michael C. Rae and Oliver D. Crisp (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 538 pgs. Part 1 David L. Allen When it comes to the atonement of Christ, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Enter...
by David Allen | Jan 18, 2019 | Bible, Theology
In March, my book The Atonement: A Biblical, Theological, and Historical Study of the Cross of Christ (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2019) is scheduled to be released (350 pages). Here is a portion of the preface: The doctrine of the atonement of Christ is the...
by David Allen | Jan 14, 2019 | Bible, Devotional, Gospel, Scripture References
Lost! A word with a sharp stab. Lost dog. Lost ship. Lost child. It’s the word Jesus chose to describe our spiritual condition because we are sinners: lost! Separation from God in the starless night of eternity. Lost beyond recovery. Lost—and found. Jesus came seeking...
by David Allen | Jan 11, 2019 | Bible, Devotional
Self-sufficiency is an American trademark. I suppose we come by it from the pioneer spirit of our early heroes: Daniel Boone, Lewis & Clarke, Davy Crockett. Our motto is often the line from William Henley’s poem “Invictus”: “I am the master of my fate; I am the...
by David Allen | Jan 2, 2019 | Bible, Preaching, Sermons
“Some people preach for an hour and it seems like twenty minutes, and some preach for twenty minutes and it seems like an hour. I wonder what the difference is? I think I’ve spent my life trying to answer that question.” So said the Dean of Evangelical...
