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Larry Burkett 1939~2003, Biographical Information
Widely Known For His Economic Warnings
In The Coming Economic Earthquake (Moody Press, Chicago, I11. * 1991), Burkett delineated growing federal deficits and the ever increasing use of debt by business and households out of control. Burkett points out those severe economic times will appear sometime shortly after the millennium unless current polices are changed. Burkett believed that Keynesian economic policies, with ideals for continuing federal deficits and the implicit preference for higher levels of credit and consumption, reduced saving, and a larger role for government in the economy are a means to disaster. As Burkett states in the book that as interest on the debt consumes a larger and larger portion of the yearly federal budget, and more money is borrowed each year to pay the interest on what was borrowed in previous years, there will be a temptation to "monetize" the debt at an increasing rate leading to a calamity not seen since the Great Depression. Burkett questioned whether or not elected leaders would take action in time to prevent fiscal chaos, and believed they would not. Larry gave no time-line for this prediction, other than a forewarning, foreshadowing current events of the time, with a little common sense added for good measure.
Early Years
Larry Burkett (March 3rd, 1939~July 4th, 2003) was an American author and leading Christian radio personality whose work focused on financial counseling from a Christian point of view. Larry was born in Winter Park, Florida on March 3, 1939, the fifth of eight children. After completing high school in Winter Garden, Florida, he entered the U.S. Air Force where he served with the Strategic Air Command. Upon completion of his military duties, he and his wife Judy returned to central Florida, where he worked in the space program at Cape Canaveral, Florida. He spent the next several years at the space center (NASA) in charge of an experiments test facility that served the Mercury-, Gemini-, and Apollo-manned space programs. While working at the space center, Larry earned degrees in marketing and finance at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. Larry left the space center in 1970 to become Vice President of an electronics manufacturing firm.
A Turning Point
In 1972 Larry put his trust and faith in Jesus Christ to guide his life, through the influence of his wife Judy and persistence of Dr. Peter Lord, Titusville, Florida--an event that had a profound effect. In 1973 he left the electronics company to join the staff of a nonprofit ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ at the request of Dr. Bill Bright, as a financial counselor. It was during this time that he began an intense study of what the Bible says about handling money, and he started teaching small groups around the country.
Ministry Is Formed
In 1976 Larry Burkett left the campus ministry to form Christian Financial Concepts, a 501C(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching the biblical principles of handling money. CFC was used as a vehicle to produce audio, video and written Work's for helping individuals, the local Church and main-line Denominations World-wide disseminate God's word with regard to Stewardship principles. In May of 1996, Southwest Baptist University conferred on Larry an Honorary Doctorate in Economics.
Radio Broadcasting
In 1979 Larry became a frequent radio guest of Dr. Jim Dobson founder of Focus On the Family with a widely listened to syndicated radio program. This exposure lead Moody Bible Institute Broadcasting division, Chicago, Illinois to help host, than start Larry's own radio ministry. Larry was a long time host of the four radio programs, "Money Matters," "How to Manage Your Money," "MoneyWatch," and "A Money Minute," which were carried on more than 1,100 radio outlets worldwide.
Larry's Publications
Larry published more than 70 books, sales of which now exceed 12 million copies and include several national best-sellers. Publications by Larry include What Ever Happened to the American Dream, The Coming Economic Earthquake, Your Finances in Changing Times, Business by the Book, The Financial Planning Workbook, Women Leaving the Workplace, Investing for the Future, Debt-Free Living, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Hope When It Hurts, Nothing to Fear, in which he gave an update on his experiences with cancer and cancer treatments. Larry also wrote four novels: The Illuminati, The THOR Conspiracy, Solar Flare, and Kingdom Come (with T. Davis Bunn). Larry's final book before his death was The Burkett & Blue Definitive Guide to Securing Wealth to Last, and was written with Ron Blue and Jeremy L. White.
Larry also encouraged his eldest son, (Larry "Allen" Burkett, Jr.) as an author to write and produce thirty-two stewardship books and material "penned" under Larry's name. These Work's were for children, teen and parents under the banner: "Larry Burkett's "Money Matters for Kids", "Money Matters for Teens", "Larry Burkett's Stewardship for the Family ~ Time, Talents & Treasures". Some publications by Allen under Larry's name are Financial Parenting, What If I Owned Everything?, Money Planner for Kids, 50 Money Making Ideas for Kids, Teaching Your Child About Money Matters, Me Wonderfully Made, All About Money, Talent and Time Series, How Things Work Series, Pocket Change Series, Great Smoky Mountains Storybook Series, World's Easiest Pocket Guide Series,
His Legacy
Larry's memory is held dear by all those whose lives he touched: his family, his friends, and his ministry partners. He lived a life of Christian kindness and genuine humility. He was always extraordinarily generous. One of the central principles Larry taught is that we don't really own things; we are simply stewards and managers of what God has entrusted to us. In Larry's case, that included the ministry he founded.
Larry Burkett dedicated his life to teaching people biblical financial principles. He poured his life into serving the Lord through this ministry. He loved the ministry, he loved his staff which he believed was an extenuation of his own family... Caring for family first was foremost to laying a rock-solid foundation to ensuing a genuine love for the people who looked to the ministry for help in their time of need. Larry's compassion was so evident. His Radio Listeners could not see him, but could feel, his concern and even his tears for them.
Prior to his death, Larry founded the Larry Burkett Foundation®. The Larry Burkett Foundation® accepts donations to help needy individuals through and promoting organizations such as The National Christian Foundation®, Atlanta, Georgia and Helping Hands Ministries, Inc, Tallulah Falls, Georgia,. Please send your tax-exempt donation to:
Larry Burkett Foundation® 1330 Old Woodbine Rd NE Atlanta, GA 30319-1040
Widely Known For His Economic Warnings
In The Coming Economic Earthquake (Moody Press, Chicago, I11. * 1991), Burkett delineated growing federal deficits and the ever increasing use of debt by business and households out of control. Burkett points out those severe economic times will appear sometime shortly after the millennium unless current polices are changed. Burkett believed that Keynesian economic policies, with ideals for continuing federal deficits and the implicit preference for higher levels of credit and consumption, reduced saving, and a larger role for government in the economy are a means to disaster. As Burkett states in the book that as interest on the debt consumes a larger and larger portion of the yearly federal budget, and more money is borrowed each year to pay the interest on what was borrowed in previous years, there will be a temptation to "monetize" the debt at an increasing rate leading to a calamity not seen since the Great Depression. Burkett questioned whether or not elected leaders would take action in time to prevent fiscal chaos, and believed they would not. Larry gave no time-line for this prediction, other than a forewarning, foreshadowing current events of the time, with a little common sense added for good measure.
Early Years
Larry Burkett (March 3rd, 1939~July 4th, 2003) was an American author and leading Christian radio personality whose work focused on financial counseling from a Christian point of view. Larry was born in Winter Park, Florida on March 3, 1939, the fifth of eight children. After completing high school in Winter Garden, Florida, he entered the U.S. Air Force where he served with the Strategic Air Command. Upon completion of his military duties, he and his wife Judy returned to central Florida, where he worked in the space program at Cape Canaveral, Florida. He spent the next several years at the space center (NASA) in charge of an experiments test facility that served the Mercury-, Gemini-, and Apollo-manned space programs. While working at the space center, Larry earned degrees in marketing and finance at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. Larry left the space center in 1970 to become Vice President of an electronics manufacturing firm.
A Turning Point
In 1972 Larry put his trust and faith in Jesus Christ to guide his life, through the influence of his wife Judy and persistence of Dr. Peter Lord, Titusville, Florida--an event that had a profound effect. In 1973 he left the electronics company to join the staff of a nonprofit ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ at the request of Dr. Bill Bright, as a financial counselor. It was during this time that he began an intense study of what the Bible says about handling money, and he started teaching small groups around the country.
Ministry Is Formed
In 1976 Larry Burkett left the campus ministry to form Christian Financial Concepts, a 501C(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching the biblical principles of handling money. CFC was used as a vehicle to produce audio, video and written Work's for helping individuals, the local Church and main-line Denominations World-wide disseminate God's word with regard to Stewardship principles. In May of 1996, Southwest Baptist University conferred on Larry an Honorary Doctorate in Economics.
Radio Broadcasting
In 1979 Larry became a frequent radio guest of Dr. Jim Dobson founder of Focus On the Family with a widely listened to syndicated radio program. This exposure lead Moody Bible Institute Broadcasting division, Chicago, Illinois to help host, than start Larry's own radio ministry. Larry was a long time host of the four radio programs, "Money Matters," "How to Manage Your Money," "MoneyWatch," and "A Money Minute," which were carried on more than 1,100 radio outlets worldwide.
Larry's Publications
Larry published more than 70 books, sales of which now exceed 12 million copies and include several national best-sellers. Publications by Larry include What Ever Happened to the American Dream, The Coming Economic Earthquake, Your Finances in Changing Times, Business by the Book, The Financial Planning Workbook, Women Leaving the Workplace, Investing for the Future, Debt-Free Living, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Hope When It Hurts, Nothing to Fear, in which he gave an update on his experiences with cancer and cancer treatments. Larry also wrote four novels: The Illuminati, The THOR Conspiracy, Solar Flare, and Kingdom Come (with T. Davis Bunn). Larry's final book before his death was The Burkett & Blue Definitive Guide to Securing Wealth to Last, and was written with Ron Blue and Jeremy L. White.
Larry also encouraged his eldest son, (Larry "Allen" Burkett, Jr.) as an author to write and produce thirty-two stewardship books and material "penned" under Larry's name. These Work's were for children, teen and parents under the banner: "Larry Burkett's "Money Matters for Kids", "Money Matters for Teens", "Larry Burkett's Stewardship for the Family ~ Time, Talents & Treasures". Some publications by Allen under Larry's name are Financial Parenting, What If I Owned Everything?, Money Planner for Kids, 50 Money Making Ideas for Kids, Teaching Your Child About Money Matters, Me Wonderfully Made, All About Money, Talent and Time Series, How Things Work Series, Pocket Change Series, Great Smoky Mountains Storybook Series, World's Easiest Pocket Guide Series,
His Legacy
Larry's memory is held dear by all those whose lives he touched: his family, his friends, and his ministry partners. He lived a life of Christian kindness and genuine humility. He was always extraordinarily generous. One of the central principles Larry taught is that we don't really own things; we are simply stewards and managers of what God has entrusted to us. In Larry's case, that included the ministry he founded.
Larry Burkett dedicated his life to teaching people biblical financial principles. He poured his life into serving the Lord through this ministry. He loved the ministry, he loved his staff which he believed was an extenuation of his own family... Caring for family first was foremost to laying a rock-solid foundation to ensuing a genuine love for the people who looked to the ministry for help in their time of need. Larry's compassion was so evident. His Radio Listeners could not see him, but could feel, his concern and even his tears for them.
Prior to his death, Larry founded the Larry Burkett Foundation®. The Larry Burkett Foundation® accepts donations to help needy individuals through and promoting organizations such as The National Christian Foundation®, Atlanta, Georgia and Helping Hands Ministries, Inc, Tallulah Falls, Georgia,. Please send your tax-exempt donation to:
Larry Burkett Foundation® 1330 Old Woodbine Rd NE Atlanta, GA 30319-1040
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Solar Flare (Hardcover)
Having listened to Larry Burkett talk about the pleasures of being debt free, and last month having achieved that goal, I have a soft spot in my heart for him. I teach a class in a state university on "Apocalyptic Fiction," and I thought "Solar Flare" might be a good choice, so I bought it and read it. I was really astonished. The premise is a good one, and it's an exciting book. I had a hard time putting it down. The chances of a solar flare that destroys civilization are about as likely as the chances of an asteroid doing the same, but it could happen, and it's fascinating to speculate about the results. What astonished me, though, was the terrible editor. Some editors edit, but these days many just arrange publication. Burkett got one of the latter sort this time. The problem is not spelling and punctuation, but deeper. Burkett should have caught these mistakes, so we should blame him, too, but barring that his editor should have caught them. Examples? In chapter one, the hero, Jason Hobart, is an assistant professor. Then in chapter two he is an associate professor, then back to assistant, then back to associate. There are paragraphs of dialogue or explanation used almost verbatim in two or more chapters, as if Burkett wrote the chapters a week or two apart and never went back to tie things together and forgot what he had already written. A gang from Indianapolis decides to raid a refugee camp in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 500 miles away, and makes the trip in twelve hours--by horse and buggy. A truck caravan is planned to take Prof. Hobart and staff from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to New Holland, Pennsylvania, in Amish country, two hours away, traveling by freeway because it's safer. They plan to take I-95 to I-83 to I-78. Fortunately instead they turn onto highway 30 to Lancaster, because you can't get there from here. And it takes them eight hours, much to long. Most of the people in the cities are exacuated to the country, supposedly, and placed in relocation camps of about 25,000 people. But there are only three camps within a 500 mile radius of Washington, even though this includes massive areas of great farm land in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, etc. Burkett says that the little towns of Pennsylvania are mostly deserted. This seems unlikely, as they would provide plenty of shelter and tools and food (ever heard of grain elevators and corn cribs and feed stores?) and most houses are usually within a couple blocks of good garden plots. Is this a Christian novel? It's not about the return of Christ, and Christianity isn't mentioned until about 3/4th of the way through. When it is, suddenly most of the refugee camp "accepts Christ as their personal savior," then everything is fine. As someone with an undergraduate degree in Journalism, I realize that a lot of news people will lie and cheat and manipulate in any way necessary for a story, and many are terribly biased and have their own agenda. However, the picture of the news media portrayed by Burkett is unrealistically dark. Even if they didn't like the president, surely if there were the chance of a massive solar flare destroying all electrical motors and downing all planes in the air, all the news media would cover this in detail, rather than insisting that it won't happen, simply because they crave bad news, and this is terrible news. Look at what they've done with Y2K! So, read this novel only if you can put up with this sort of problem. If you like world catastrophe novels, this is nowhere near as well-written as Stephen King's "The Stand," but it's pretty cool.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Exciting, well written, and highly moral story.,
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This review is from: Solar Flare (Hardcover)
It is so nice to read a novel full of excitement and global crisis without bad language, unnecessarily graphic violence, and gratuitous sex. This is the third novel by Christian author Larry Burkett. It was not as good as his first two, The Illuminati and The Thor Consiracy (basically a two book set), but very well worth the read. Mr. Burkett sets up the situations to allow either the best or the worst to surface in his characters. His subject matter is well researched and believable. Even the worst character, although well described, is not given to filthy language. I don't need to read or hear that language to know that is how the character would talk. Mr. Burkett writes his heroes to always take the high moral ground -- which is as it should be -- and leaves the low ground to the bad guys. Ordinary people are portrayed as thoughtful individuals who, given the choice, will choose the high road. The author betrays his love of God's people with his gentle depic! tion of our struggles to do "the right thing" and the difficulty in knowing which leader to follow when the choices are not always clear. Solar Flare leaves you feeling good, uplifted, and hopeful. I'm eagerly looking forward to Mr. Burkett's next novel.
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This review is from: Solar Flare (Hardcover)
If you take the time to read all of the reviews on this book as I have, you will come away with a certain degree of confusion. You have 8th graders telling you that they are bored (...a rather standard attitude stance of their age group) and college instructors analyzing the book to death. Perhaps I can help you better in your choice. First, something about me. I do not have TV. I made a personal choice to get rid of it years ago, and because of that I have already gone through the withdrawal of needing to have immediate minute-by-minute sense gratification. So, if you are a TV-holic, probably like the bored 8th graders, do not buy this book. You will require an imagination and clear inner eye which, if you are a TV-holic, will be greatly dimmed. If you are a person who has problems with conservative Christian principals, do not read this book. Those of us who do have conservative Christian principals will not dislike you because you do not share the same principals, though many of us would greatly appreciate you reducing your whining. Larry Burkett is quite a well-known Christian author, and so I am confused by some people who would buy a book by a known Christian author and then complain about the Christian principals within it. If you don't like Christian oriented books, just don't buy them. I read all kinds of books by both well-known and lesser-known authors. When I pick a book to read, I do not spend my time comparing one author to another or one book to another. Why would I compare Tony Hillerman to John Grisham or Larry Burkett to Frank Peretti. I have read all of these authors many times over, but I have never wasted my time comparing one to the other. I simply read the book. So, if you are a bored 8th grader...don't read this book. If you are someone who wants to analyze a book to death...don't read this book. However, if you want to read a book that requires YOU to become involved instead of just being brain-slammed as those who are TV-holics, then you will find this book to be a fun book to read. And for those of you out there who just MUST compare authors, this book will not take you away to the dessert's of Tony Hillerman's Navajo people, it will not tell you how to "skip Christmas" as Mr. Grisham's novels would, and it will not scare you senseless like Frank's writings will....however, it will make you think about what actually CAN happen in the event of a major solar flare (which, by the way, is fully understood by former NASA employee, Larry Burkett) and how people would survive it by pulling together and maintaining standards of personal conduct.
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