Preaching Coach Podcast with Dr. David Allen

In this episode of the Preaching Coach Podcast, Dr. David Allen teaches from Jude 3–4, looking back to a 2015 theology journal article he wrote as a guide. He explains that “the faith” refers to the once-for-all delivered body of apostolic Christian doctrine that must not be altered, and that doctrine and practice belong together, since false teachers distort grace into immorality and deny Jesus Christ. He explains that all Christians—not only pastors—must contend for the faith because false teachers counterfeit truth, and contending must be done earnestly, with the intensity of a race or hand-to-hand combat.

In this episode, Dr. David Allen reads a book chapter which could have been a sermon – “Marks of Maturity in the Ministry,” by Warren Wiersbe. Listen to this chapter from “Listening to the Giants,” and ponder the wise words about preaching a sermon versus a message and being a man who acts rather than reacts.

In this episode, Dr. David Allen shares a recording of Dr. Roy Metts’ 2004 Founders Day sermon at Criswell College. This episode is the second installment in a series looking at significant sermons from the past. In his sermon, Dr. Metts delivers an expositional message from Colossians 1.

In this episode, Dr. David Allen interviews Olivier Melnick, the founder and executive director of Shalom in Messiah Ministries. The son of Holocaust survivors from France, Olivier is an international speaker, an authority on the topic of antisemitism, and the author of seven books. This discussion centers around the root of antisemitism, how it has expanded in recent years, and what Christians can do to help combat it.

In this episode—the first in a two-part series—on the Preaching Coach Podcast, Dr. David Allen interviews Dr. Jim Sibley on the topic of Israel. Dr. Sibley and his wife served as missionaries in Israel for 16 years, and he currently serves as a Research Professor at Israel College of the Bible.