022 - Is Fear Your Master? | Money, Control, and Trusting God
Is Fear Your Master? | Money, Control, and Trusting God
What if the decisions you make every day are driven by fear without you even realizing it?
In this of Some Assembly Required, Bryan, Braxton, and Carmel explore Acts chapters 3–5 and uncover a powerful connection between money, control, identity, and our willingness to trust God.
From Peter healing a man outside the temple to the shocking story of Ananias and Sapphira, these chapters challenge how we think about generosity, success, and what it actually means to surrender control.
The conversation also gets personal as Braxton shares how failing in 12 businesses changed his relationship with fear, Carmel challenges traditional ideas about giving everything away, and Bryan explores how our desire for control often reveals something much deeper.
In this episode, we explore:
Why fear influences more of our decisions than we realize.
What the early church teaches us about money and generosity.
The difference between giving freely and giving for recognition.
Why failure can actually create freedom.
How our need for control shapes our identity.
What it means to trust God with an uncertain future.
Why hope matters in a world increasingly consumed by fear, including fears surrounding AI.
The question we're leaving you with:
Are you living your life according to what you believe, or according to what you're afraid of?
Join Bryan, Braxton, and Carmel for a conversation about confronting fear, letting go of control, and discovering the freedom that comes from trusting God.
19 Oct 2026
021 - The Book of Acts | Is god in the moments in between?
What if the moments you're trying to rush through are the moments God is using to change you?
In Episode 21 of Some Assembly Required, Bryan and Braxton explore the first two chapters of Acts and what the birth of the early church teaches us about patience, faith, unity, and finding God in everyday life.
From Braxton's decision to leave a comfortable paycheck and pursue his business full-time to the surprising connections between the Tower of Babel, artificial intelligence, and our increasingly disconnected world, this conversation challenges how we think about spiritual growth.
Is technology bringing us closer together or pulling us further apart? Why does God ask us to wait? And what would happen if we stopped filling every quiet moment with noise?
Join Bryan and Braxton for a conversation about trusting God through uncertainty, rediscovering authentic community, and learning to recognize the sacred in ordinary life.
Scripture: Acts 1–2, Genesis 11, James 1
12 Oct 2026
020 - The Table w/ Special Guest Kylah
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What if following Jesus looked less like having all the right answers and more like pulling up a chair?
In this episode of Some Assembly Required, Braxton and Bryan sit down with special guest Kylah for a conversation about what they call “the table.”
They explore why Jesus spent so much of His time eating, drinking, asking questions, and building relationships with people instead of simply giving them answers. Kylah shares how experiencing this kind of community at Assembly completely changed the way she thought about faith, relationships, and what it actually means to follow Jesus.
The conversation gets into hospitality, evangelism, certainty, suffering, friendship, marriage, and why some of the most meaningful moments in life happen when we stop trying to solve each other’s problems.
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can tell someone is not, “I know the answer.”
It’s, “I don’t know, but I’ll walk through it with you.”
The table is a place for questions.
A place for relationships.
A place for people who believe.
A place for people who aren’t sure what they believe yet.
And there should always be another chair.
In this episode:
• Why Assembly started around a dinner table
• Why relationships should come before answers
• The problem with transactional evangelism
• How Jesus used questions instead of giving easy answers
• Why uncertainty can actually be part of faith
• What it means to “set the table” for someone else
• How community changed Braxton’s life and family
• Why people are not problems that need to be solved
• The difference between solving someone’s suffering and walking through it with them
• Why there should always be an empty chair at the table
Pull up a chair.
Welcome to The Table.
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