“Where Ashes Meet the Cross”

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SUNDAY  9 AM CONTEMPORARY SERVICE  10:10 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL  11 AM TRADITIONAL SERVICE

by: Rev. Dennis Roebuck

02/20/2026

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Devotion February 20, 2026 

By: Pastor Dennis

 

1Peter 5:6 “Humble yourselves therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you in due time.”

 Job said in Job 42, “Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” Through his repentance God brought him up in victory. Christians have been observing services of repentance for over a thousand years with the cross of ashes on their foreheads as a uniting symbol. Ash Wednesday invites us to mourn and grieve loss and death.

 

What We Should Know

 The ashes are a reminder that there is something broken within us. The Gospel is bad news before it is good news. You can find these truths colliding on your forehead. The ashes are our sin; the cross is our salvation. 

 

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Devotion February 20, 2026 

By: Pastor Dennis

 

1Peter 5:6 “Humble yourselves therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you in due time.”

 Job said in Job 42, “Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” Through his repentance God brought him up in victory. Christians have been observing services of repentance for over a thousand years with the cross of ashes on their foreheads as a uniting symbol. Ash Wednesday invites us to mourn and grieve loss and death.

 

What We Should Know

 The ashes are a reminder that there is something broken within us. The Gospel is bad news before it is good news. You can find these truths colliding on your forehead. The ashes are our sin; the cross is our salvation. 

 

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This is such a meaningful and easy to understand explanation of why we observe Ash Wednesday! Thank you, Pastor Dennis!