Accumulation: How Much Is Enough? – Luke 12:13-34 (January 24)

Producer: Ryan Miller
Set-up:
Speaker: Colter Bloxom
Worship Leader:

Description:
Every commercial and ad that we see is designed to create dissatisfaction in our lives. The things that we own aren’t the newest or best and our culture tells us that if we could just purchase the bright, shiny My Life Is Perfect 3000 we would be content. That is, until the My Life Is Perfect 4000 comes out and the cycle starts all over again. How much stuff is enough? Can accumulating possessions provide satisfaction in life? We’ll explore what Jesus had to say about the difference between what we want and what we need and how to find contentment.

Music
Money That’s What I Want – Barrett Strong/Flaming Lizards
Money – Pink Floyd
Satisfied – Jeff Buckley
Too Much is Never Enough – Firewater
Satisfy – Vedera
Rockstar – Nickelback
Girls & Boys – Good Charlotte
Rich Young Ruler – Derek Webb
Too Much – Dave Matthews Band
Never is Enough – BNL
If I had a Million Dollars – BNL
Your Rock and Roll Lifestyle – Cake
You Part the Waters – Cake
ShopVac – Jonathan Colton
Gold, Guns, Girls – Metric
Material Girl - Madonna
Gold Digger – Kanye
When I Grow Up – Pussycat Dolls
All About the Benjamins – Puff Daddy
New Shoes – Paolo Nutini
Man Who Sold the World
Mo Money, Mo Problems – Biggie, Puffy & Mase
For the Love of Money – The Ojays
Money, Money, Money – Abba
Big Casino – Jimmy Eat World

Video
Fight Club
Mad Men
Wall-E
Idiocracy
What Would Jesus Buy
South Park Margarittaville
Team America: World Police
Envy
SNL – don’t Buy What You Can’t Afford
Citizen Kane
The Jerk
Wedding / Sweet 16 shows
A Christmas Story
Second-hand Lions
Hoarders – A&E
Funny People
Capitalism – A Love Story
Seinfeld – Elaine’s Business Charges
Kickball
Montage of useful to useless products through advertisers

Drama
Girls Shopping
College Kids as Elementary kids –> I’m faster than you because I have new shoes – you’re jealous, right?

Other concepts
On Earth as it is in advertising – Doug Van Pelt
Blue Like Jazz – Scene where he talks about wanting to buy an extension 
The Story of King Midas
Candide – Voltaire
This American Life – Lewis & Clark

Ownership: Who Really Owns My Stuff? (January 17)

Speaker: Josh Schaa
Producers: Ryan Miller
Set-up: TBA
Worship Leader: TBA

Description:
One of the first words that children learn is “mine”. They may not understand the concept of ownership yet but they certainly have a desire to own things. With kids it’s often everything. We like to think that we grow out of that mentality but if we’re honest we’re still not very good at sharing or giving – which are parents try to teach us as soon as we start saying “mine”. How can we overcome our obsession with ownership and begin to view our possessions as gifts from God who owns everything? Finding financial freedom is hopeless until we begin to change our minds about what is really ours.

Music
What You Own – RENT
Say – One Republic
Green Disease – Pearl Jam
If I Had it All – Dave Matthews Band
Vultures – Five Iron Frenzy
Beautiful America – Five Iron Frenzy

Worship
Enough
Everything

Video
Fight Club – Your stuff
Finding Nemo – Seagulls “Mine, mine, mine!”
Family Guy – any time that Lois has to be the adult to Peter acting like a kid
Fun with Dick and Jane
HIMYM – Lilly’s class learns a lesson that the gang learns it too
Wall Street – “Greed is good!”
Mr. Deeds
Scrooge McDuck
Envy
SpongeBob – Mr Crabbs always wanting to hold onto his money
Pirates of the Caribbean – Talking to Elizabeth on Black Pearl Barbosa says they were first compelled by their greed then consumed by it.
Don’t buy things You can’t afford – SNL skit

Oppressive Government theme:
City of Ember – The governor
Equilibrium – when they’re breaking all that art stuff?
V for Vendetta – News Director’s treasures

Drama
2 Adults – one gets something new and is showing it to the other and they get more and more infantile

Other concepts
Repo – the Genetic Opera
Stats about ownership versus possession (I posses this car, but the bank actually owns it)

Take home
Chocolate coins
Great Big Green Dollars that say “In God We Trust”
Tag Cars
Property of DR
Property of Jesus

Relational Gift (December 15)

Speaker: Ryan Miller

Producers: Ryan & Mitch

Worship Leaders: Aaron & Renay

Description:

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Video

Shawshank Redemption

LIFE

How I met your mother - Cupcake gift package

Jewelry Commercials

The Office – White Elephant

Family Guy – 3 Wise Men

It’s a Wonderful Life

TV Funhouse – Charlie Brown

Island of Misfit Toys

Bill Engvall Show

Modern Family – Bad gift

The Simpsons – Bowling Ball gift

Gladiator

Finding Nemo

House – Mos Def

Schiendler’s List

Worship

You Are Here – Need To Breathe

Song of Hope

Freedom 96 – Robbie Williams

One Small Child

O Holy Night

I Wonder as I Wander

Drama

Reenact Family Guy 3 Wise Men Skit

Boyfriend/Girlfriend

Other ideas

Gift of the Magi

Article – Comatose Man who was really paralyzed