Where is Your Treasure? | Timothy "TA" Ateek

The Porch

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Money is on our minds, but it shouldn't rule our hearts. This week, Timothy "TA" Ateek walks us through Ecclesiastes 5:10-6:6 to show us that money can bring joy and contentment or stress and anxiety; it all depends on whether you view money as a gift or a god.

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0:00.0	Well, what's up, Porch, how are we doing tonight?
0:27.6	Hey, it's so good to see you. If this is your first time ever at the porch, thank you for trusting
0:35.2	us with your Tuesday night. I'm so glad that you joined us. I do want to give a special shout-out to
0:40.0	all the Porch Live locations watching tonight. I want to say a special hello to Porch Live for
0:45.6	Worth and Porch Live Des Moines, Porch Live Boise. Thank you for tuning in with us. So here's a deal.
0:53.2	I've got three boys, and I've mentioned them here at the porch before, but they are 13, 11, and five.
1:02.1	Last September, my oldest son Noah turned 13, and this was a big deal because we had just moved
1:10.5	to Dallas not long before that, and so his 13th birthday was kind of a big opportunity to invite
1:18.2	some new friends over to our house and for Noah to kind of have a win with some new people.
1:23.9	Well, my wife and I, we totally failed our son because we were like, you know why don't you have
1:29.4	some kids over and like, we'll get some pizza and y'all can watch a movie. And so like, our house
1:36.4	was full. I mean, there was a bunch of like kids hitting puberty all gathered together, and we
1:46.0	thought it would be enough to just give them pizza and push play on Napoleon Dynamite.
1:53.3	Like 15 minutes into the movie, these kids start getting bored, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
1:59.2	it's social suicide. Like we have failed our son. Like all of these kids, they're standing up,
2:05.5	they're moving around, they're going outside. Like they, they've had enough of Napoleon Dynamite,
2:10.9	which was super offensive to me. But anyway, so in the moment literally, my wife, Kat and I,
2:18.1	we are in the kitchen like, what do we do? Like, do you know what to do? What do we do? Like we,
2:23.3	this is a big moment. Like we have failed our son. This is the end. Like he's never going to recover
2:29.7	from this. And then, and then everything changed because I had an idea. I'm going to start giving
2:40.1	out money to these kids. So that's what I did. I reached into my wallet. And I was like, all right,
2:48.6	who wants to play some games with a chance to earn some money? And like every kid was like, yeah,
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