This Sunday, we begin our new sermon series, Ecclesiastes | A Life That Lasts, with Pastor John Murphy opening the series from Ecclesiastes 1:1–11. The passage reminds us that life under the sun is like a vapor: real and meaningful, but fleeting and beyond our control. We spend much of our lives trying to find lasting gain, security, significance, and something we can hold onto, yet everything eventually changes, passes away, or is forgotten. But this ache points us toward the reality that we were made for something lasting. Through Romans 8, we see that creation is groaning and waiting for redemption, and that Jesus entered into our fleeting, broken world, died, and rose again to secure the future we cannot secure for ourselves. Because Jesus has secured the life that lasts, we don't have to spend our lives trying to make this life last. Instead, we can receive the life God has given us with joy, trusting that this vapor is not all there is.