Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he

preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free

e-books and more. Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

We're in Nehemiah Chapter 5.

We're going to answer this question,

how do you manage your wealth, whether you are rich or poor.

I just want to start by thanking everybody join us online,

but especially those of you who made it.

If you are not in Arizona it is flooding.

People ask does it rain?

Yeah all at once that's how it rains in Arizona.

So we now found all the people that own jet skis.

Thanks for coming to church.

We're glad to have you.

And this is a super special weekend.

It's our commitment weekend.

It's where we make a pledge.

We've been praying and planning about what our part would be in rebuilding

this church home here at Trinity Church and that leads me to Nehemiah 5 but at the

end we'll collect those pledges and see what God has in store for us. And the story of Nehemiah is that God's

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