Plan for: Thanksgiving | Advent | Christmas
Plan for: Thanksgiving | Advent | Christmas
This sermon explores the concept of using money as a tool for good, rather than squandering it, and encourages Christians to live within their means and avoid debt.
“Squander” is not a word we see used in marketing. Come waste your money here. Great money-pit opportunity! Give us your money and we will give you something that will break, become obsolete, or require even more money to maintain! That kind of language would not sell a product, but, as with most things we buy, that is usually what will happen. So why do we squander money? As Isaiah 55:2 (ESV) asks, “Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?”
God has a different invitation for us when it comes to how we use money: Spend it wisely. Money itself is not evil. Besides earning, saving, and giving, money is also used for spending—it’s a tool. The key here is not overindulging or squandering, but to use it with discretion, a habit that goes against our consumer-driven culture.
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God has a different invitation for us when it comes to how we use money: Spend it wisely.
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