This sermon is about how people often build their identity on unstable things like achievements, relationships, feelings, or other people’s opinions, which can leave them lost or insecure. Using ideas from sociologists and philosophers like Charles Horton Cooley and Charles Taylor, the message explains modern “expressive individualism,” where people try to define themselves completely on their own. The sermon warns against four “identity traps”: defining yourself by what you do, who accepts you, what you feel, or what others say about you. Through Bible passages like Book of Isaiah