Sermons on Time

Sermons on Time

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…

ecclesiates 3:1-22

The Tyranny of Time and Eternity Two of the most incomprehensible terms in the English language are “time” and “eternity.”  Have you ever tried to define these words?  Years ago I conducted a rather thorough search for a workable definition of time.  About the best I could come up with was the following: “Time is the mere abstract possibility of events in durational sequence.”  Now if you take pains to examine that definition and to digest each part of it very carefully, you will probably be forced to admit you don’t understand what time is…