How to Preach 1 John 4:7-11

About this episode

Dr. David Allen explains how to prepare and preach a text-driven sermon from 1 John 4:7-11.

In this episode, Dr. David Allen walks listeners through how he prepared and preached a text-driven sermon from 1 John 4:7-11, explaining how to identify paragraph units, determine genre, and build a sermon outline from the text’s structure.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. David Allen

Topics covered

• preaching
• text-driven sermon
• 1 John
• sermon preparation
• bible study

Keywords

• preaching
• sermon outline
• bible text
• genre identification
• paragraph units

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 1 John 4:7-11

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