Money/Spending: How Spending Problems Are Often Spiritual Problems Pastor Jeff Struecker This is the third and final week of this really short sermon series, where we're just being really honest with each other about money. I'm going to set this up by telling you a true story about what the refrigerator looked like in my house when I was growing up. I grew up under really serious poverty. I lived in the ghetto. Actually I lived in trailer parks. But in trailer parks, you have the front of the trailer park close to the road where the “rich people” in live. And then you have the back side of the trailer park where the people in the front of the trailer park don't go because it's rough back there. I lived in the back of the trailer parks. We spent most of my childhood way below the poverty line, and most of my childhood, we grew up on government assistance for food. We grew up on food stamps. In my house, the food stamps came around once a month. Usually, we'd buy g...