Sermons on Debt
Romans 13:8-14
The Unpayable Debt Introduction: Our national debt stands right at five trillion dollars—about $17,500 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. To grasp just how much money this is, if you spent $5,000 every minute, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, you would have had to start when Jesus Christ lived on earth to spend $5 trillion by the end of this millennium. (Note added in 2022: our debt just surpassed $30 trillion!) Some economists and some politicians are…
Luke 7:36-50
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Introduction: Missionary aviation is a field of service that for the past 75 years has enabled the gospel to penetrate the most remote areas of the third world. Twenty-five years ago a New Tribes missionary and I took off from the southernmost airport in Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, in an MAF four-seater plane. We flew over the rainforest for 3 hours with absolutely no place to land a plane until we came to a little jungle airstrip next to…
Luke 7:36-50
Have You Miscalculated Your Indebtedness? Every one of us likes stories, and Jesus was a storyteller par excellence. It just so happens that the first parable I am going to tackle is a parable about two debtors, but that is where the connection with last Sunday stops. Missionary aviation is a field of service that for the past fifty years has enabled the gospel to penetrate the most remote areas of the third world. About six years ago I left the southernmost…