Drop The MIC
Drop the MIC: 2 Treasures, 2 Perspectives and 2 Masters
November 20, 2022 • Pastor Kevin Brown • Matthew 6:19–33
Dropping Materialism, Individualism and Consumerism is not a once and for all thing. It’s a decision we make daily. This world never stops telling us we aren’t worthy and God isn’t trustworthy. So we must choose God and His way over and over again, until our serial yes produces a different kind of person — a person with a heavenly perspective, peace and provision — a child of the living God.
Drop the Mic: Living the Goods Life
November 13, 2022 • Pastor Kevin Brown • Genesis, 1 Timothy
Mankind traded the good life — life as God intended — for the goods life — buying and selling the life we choose. No where is selling and purchasing the life we choose more celebrated than American Western culture. We pride ourselves on being what we want to be, doing what we want to do and accumulating what we want to have. But in the end, life part from God is a lie. The goods life ends in chaos and destruction or by God’s grace, it ends in being reconciled to God by Christ Jesus.
Drop the MIC: Blinded By Materialism
November 6, 2022 • Pastor Kevin Brown • Luke
We are blinded by materialism because unlike other sins it hides and holds us captive. It convinces us our lives consist of the things we have and apart from things we aren't inherently valuable. Materialism is a functional god that forces us to serve it and trust it, convincing us if we have nothing we are nothing. Jesus sets us free from materialism by giving us His peace, His joy and eternal worth -- things that materialism promises but can't deliver. Scripture(s): Luke 19:1-2 Luke 12:15 Luke 19:3-7 Luke 19:8-10
Drop the MIC:Glocal Trip Edition
October 30, 2022 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Materialism, Individualism and Consumerism undermine Jesus’ intent for our lives and the Church. The Church was never intended to exist simply to make our lives better. Jesus’ Church has been placed in the world to extend His Kingdom and to usher in eternal life.
Drop the Mic: When the Rain Doesn't Come
October 23, 2022 • Minister Angela Brown • 1 Kings 17:1–6, 1 Kings 18:1–8, 1 Kings 18:21–39
Individualism stems from a determination to get what we want rather than embrace God's will regardless of the outcome. But, it's in our valleys, times of despair when things don't go as we hoped, that we develop a deeper dependence upon God and experience God's power to shelter, protect, sustain and position us in His will now and for what is to come. It's in these moments that we must trust God is a Good Shepherd who according to Psalm 23 leads us, lays us down and restores us, especially When the Rain Doesn't Come.
Drop the MIC -- Famous Last Words
October 9, 2022 • Pastor Kevin Brown • John 17:20–26
Before Jesus dropped the mic ending His earthly ministry, His final priestly prayer for those that would bear His name was a prayer for unity. Of all the things He could have asked of the Father as He left this sin-stained, demon-infested world — His deepest desire was that we would be one. Unity is of far more value than we’ve realized. It’s tied to our destiny here and our destiny in the world to come.
Drop the Mic: Dropping Individualism
October 2, 2022 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Have it your way, do your thing, just do you, are a few of the catch phrases that’ve become the norm in daily thought and language. We live in a hyper-individualized, materialistic culture that’s all about getting what you want and doing things your way — because after all You Only Live Once. But for many of us the biggest obstacle to our peace, joy and flourishing is the very thing we’ve been encouraged to pursue. What if the three-headed monster of Materialism, Individualism and Consumerism was the silent killer, destroying our lives, our families and our societies? What if the way to fullness and fulfillment was not more of what we’ve been after — but in dropping the M(aterialism) I(ndividualism) and C(onsumerism)? Philippians 2:1-4