by David Allen | Sep 4, 2019 | Bible, Preaching, Sermons
The New Testament documents indicate exegesis was the primary method of doing theology in the early church. This is no more clearly evidenced than with the author of Hebrews. For him, Psalm 110:1, 4 serve as the “text” which he will, with the help of other Old...
by David Allen | Aug 2, 2019 | Bible, Preaching, Scripture References, Sermons
“Outlining & Preaching 1 John 2:15-17 – Part 2”[1] Part 1 examined the structural outline of the passage, carefully looking at the sentence and clausal structure. Now we examine the semantic (meaning) relationships between the clauses and sentences themselves in...
by David Allen | Jul 31, 2019 | Bible, Culture, Preaching, Scripture References, Sermons
Expository preaching, especially of the letters of the New Testament, should, at a minimum, deal with a paragraph. Why? Linguists now point out that meaning is found beyond the sentence level. When the preacher restricts his focus to the sentence level and to clauses...
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 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...
