Catching Smoke – Week 1 | Searching for Meaning?

Everything that promises meaning can feel like smoke slipping through your fingers. Whether it’s work, fame, the next relationship, or the frantic hope that “this time” things will finally satisfy, life often loops back on itself—another task list, another hollow win, another disappointment. This sermon names that weary, repeating pattern and refuses the shallow comforts that only dull the ache for something real. The message walks the hard road of Ecclesiastes’ blunt honesty, following a thinker who tests pleasure, wealth, learning, and achievement and finds them all “hevel” — vapor. But it doesn’t stop at despair: the talk traces how that futility exposes our need to look beyond what we control and points to the way the Christian story breaks the cycle. If you’ve felt stuck chasing mirages, this is an honest look at what it takes to be freed and what might actually hold.