Preaching Coach Podcast with Dr. David Allen

In today’s episode from the archives, Dr. David Allen interviews Dr. Robby Gallaty, senior pastor of Long Hollow Church in Hendersonville, Tenn. Recorded during the 2025 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, the discussion ranges from Pastor Gallaty’s salvation and journey to overcoming a drug addiction to the deepening of his relationship with God through prayer and a passion for revival.

In this episode, Dr. David Allen discusses how to develop a correct understanding of the theology of preaching and how to implement that into crafting sermons that are exegetical and text-driven.

In this episode, Dr. David Allen discusses how to preach Genesis 22, the story of Abraham and Isaac, and how to preach Christ from the passage. After reading the text, he surveys traditional interpretations, including rabbinic views, the early church fathers’ typology of the cross, Martin Luther’s speculative approach, and a redemptive-historical perspective. Don’t miss this substantive theological examination of an intriguing text as well as Dr. Allen’s insights on how to build a sermon around it.

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.

In this episode, Dr. David Allen discusses the “second inning” or the second chapter his newly published book, “From the Mound to the Pulpit,” taking a deeper look at the role of the batter in baseball and the role of the preacher in sermon delivery. “From the Mound to the Pulpit” is available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover options.