This document tells a story using pictures and text to teach children about building one's life on solid foundations like Jesus' teachings, rather than on shifting sands. It discusses a real example of a home destroyed by a sinkhole after being deemed safe. The story contrasts two houses, one built on rock that remains standing when floodwaters come, while the other on sand is washed away. It relates this to Jesus' teaching about the importance of not just hearing his words but doing them, so that one's life is firmly grounded like a house built upon the rock.

1. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
Where is your house built?

2. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• Good Morning Children!
• Five months before the earth
opened and swallowed his
home, Buddy Wicker
welcomed inspectors sent by
State Farm Insurance to his
house, who surveyed the
property and deemed it free
of any sinkhole risk.
• Last week, a 20-foot-wide
sinkhole yawned under
Wicker's Seffner, Fla., home,
taking one of its residents, and
sucking down a bedroom. The
entire home was later
demolished.

3. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• Do you see these two
houses?
• Which of these two
houses are built on a
rock?
• What happened to the
one built on the sand?

4. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• Uh oh! One of these
houses fell over and is
about to be washed
away.
• But the house on a rock
is still standing.
• Why didn’t if wash
away?

5. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• That’s right.
• The first house here
was build on top of
sand and sand washes
away.
• But the second house
here is sitting on a rock.
• Rock is very strong and
the water won’t wash it
away.

6. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• Jesus said that some
people listened to what
he taught but never
actually did it.
• They listened but didn’t
live the way Jesus
wanted them to life.

7. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• I Never Knew You
• Matthew 7:21
• 21 “Not everyone who
says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
shall enter the kingdom
of heaven, but he who
does the will of My
Father in heaven.

8. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• Build on the Rock
• Matthew 7:24-25
• 24 “Therefore whoever hears
these sayings of Mine, and
does them, I will liken him
to a wise man who built his
house on the rock:
• 25 and the rain descended,
the floods came, and the
winds blew and beat on
that house; and it did not
fall, for it was founded on
the rock.

9. Build your house on
a Rock – not sand
• Jesus said that people
who followed Jesus’
teaching would be like
this house built on the
rock.
• They would be strong
and stand.

10. Children’s Prayer:
• Dear God, with the power of the Holy Spirit
help us to learn about Jesus and also to do
what he taught us to do by reading the bible,
believing in the bible, and doing what the
bible tells us to do.
• That way we can be strong like this house built
on a rock. In Jesus’ namewe pray – Amen!