For our fall series, we will focus on Jesus’ sermon on the mount—Matthew 5 thru 7. 
At the end of the sermon, Jesus makes the following promise:

"Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse, because it is built on rock. But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will fall with a mighty crash."  (Matthew 7:24-27)

Jesus is promising us a durable life if we will do what he teaches us to do.  In this series, we will be talking about the kinds of things we are supposed to do—covering all areas of life from money to marriage, from prayer to enemies, from ways we control others to what our purpose is in the world.  All of these teachings will be framed in the context of Jesus’ basic Kingdom message—Jesus invited people to reorient their lives around the reality of God’s Kingdom, present in Him and potentially with all who would follow Him.  With repentance towards Him and dependence upon Him at the center, we build a rock solid life on His teachings.