Sermon starts at 7:26.

Are you building your life on rock or on sand? Jesus ended His longest recorded sermon with that exact question, and the answer has everything to do with where you are looking for meaning, happiness, and fulfillment.

In this message, we walk through five common foundations that our culture offers as substitutes for genuine obedience to Jesus. These are what we call sandcastles, and they include mood management, living on autopilot, finding identity through blame, substituting being right for being righteous, and the popular but misleading pursuit of self-improvement.

Each of these sandcastles looks reasonable on the surface. But none of them can hold up when the storms of life arrive. Jesus did not come to be your therapist, your life coach, or your self-improvement program. He came to save people w ...