Worship Service for Ash Wednesday February 18th, 2026

Sermon: The Grace of Beginning Again

This Ash Wednesday, come hear a message that focuses on repentance as a hopeful turning – a sacred opportunity to begin again under God’s Grace as we are confronted with human limits yet reassures us of Divine love. Let us remember who we are, fragile yet cherished. Let us draw from Joel’s call to return to God and listen with honest reflection and wholehearted repentance as we learn that God desires transformation more than ritual. Let us remember that the ashes on our foreheads symbolizes both our frailty and God’s compassion. We will reflect on confession, humility, and the mercy that marks us as people continually being restored. We are dust, yet grace meets us there. Our repentance is not about shame, but about returning to a God who lovingly reshapes our dust into new life.