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Ashes to Crowns Ministries The leaders of Ashes to Crowns Ministries believe in One God with the Father, Son, and Spirit as persons of the Trinity. We believe that Jesus Christ is th

Ashes to Crowns Ministries exists to glorify God through the Lord Jesus Christ in the power of His Holy Spirit and to encourage people to find identity and freedom in Christ.

10/12/2026

10/12/26 Due to the context of Hebrews 11 leading into 12:1-3, we do not have a reason to pray to those saints or trust them to help us. We do have them as examples of faith, as the witnesses of how to live even when the world was harsh. It is by faith like theirs, even though they fell at times, that we also lay aside every impediment and the sin that so easily entangles us, and run the race set before us. But we must fix our eyes on Jesus who fulfilled the promises to which these exemplars clung. He is the author and perfecter of faith. He endured the cross, considered it of little value to be shamed as a sinner like that, and sat down at the right hand of God. So, let’s strongly consider Him who endured even more hostility by sinners, so we do not grow weary and lose heart.

10/11/2026

10/11/26 When we read Hebrews 11 after having read about these people in other biblical books, we might wonder how they made it into the Hall of Faith. The way that Heb 11:7 speaks about Noah gives some insight. “By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.” Many have doubted that the event was real but every culture has a “flood story.” Plus a recent article has shared that researchers believe they may have found the ark: https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/earth-science/researchers-drilled-60-feet-into-turkey-s-noah-s-ark-formation-and-say-they-hit-something-that-wasn-t-rock/ar-AA2dYlBd. Also, I hope I am quoting Tauren Wells correctly. Friday night as host of the Dove Awards, he said something like this: Faith stands in the space between what God has shown you and what is not yet. Do we in faith reverently trust God’s word and wait on Him to show us what is next?

10/10/2026

10/10/26 The Law could not do it. Neither could the sacrifices year after year. These were only shadows of the good things to come. They could not perfect consciences. Instead, they were reminders of sin (Heb 10:1-3). But, the Lord Jesus having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time has brought forgiveness. Now “we have confidence to enter the holy place by His blood.” Have we considered that because the veil separating the Holy of Holies split into from top to bottom exactly when Jesus died and thereby through the tearing of His flesh and His shed blood, finished the first way of sacrificing for sins and sacrifices that could not cleanse our consciences? We enter “by a new and living way that He inaugurated for us through His flesh.” Therefore, let us hold tightly to the assurance and confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful” (10:14, 19-23).

10/09/2026

10/9/26 Under the first covenant of man, the blood of goats and calves would not permanently clean from sin. But with the new covenant “how much more will the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? But through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having eternal redemption. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness” (Heb 9:14, 12b, 22d). So, “let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (4:16).

10/08/2026

10/8/26 When Moses was ready to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God to make all things according to the pattern God showed him. That pattern was similar to the “the heavenly, the true tabernacle” (Heb 8:5, 2). We, as the temple of the Holy Spirit, have the True Pattern for our lives in Jesus Christ (1 Cor 6:19; Col 2:17). We are to live according to the new covenant in His blood that His sacrifice bought for us (Jer 31:31-34; Lk 22:20). Do we desire to live as God designed, Jesus lived, and His Spirit desires to lead us?

10/07/2026

10/7/26 All of Hebrews 7 gives us hope for eternity and reasons for joy in this life. Much More: “Jesus, a priest after the order of Melchizedek (no mother, no father, no human appointment, no law), offered the sacrifice for sins once for all—rather than offering sacrifices daily for Himself and others—became a priest “according to the power of an indestructible life” (Heb 7:11, 16). He brought a “‘better hope’ by which we can draw near to God” (7:19). The greater and permanent high priest became the “better guarantee of a better covenant” (Heb 7:22; Luke 22:20). This One, “holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens . . . is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them” (7:24-26; Rm 8:26, 34).

10/06/2026

10/6/26 “God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose guaranteed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable matters, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us” (Heb 6:17-18).

The two unchangeable matters are 1) His oath in Himself and 2) His hope for us. What more do we need to stand firm in our faith?

10/6/22 The impact of verses 4-5 need to be seen through the verb tenses and voices, so they break down like this [and enhance Heb 3:1, 14]:

The ones who
have been made to understand
that they
have partaken of salvation
have been make a partaker of the Holy Spirit
have partaken of the good word of God .
have partaken of the powers of the age to come—“already but not yet” as in the promises

All of the verbs are from the same root word to partake so as to participate in all God has done and will do for them. Therefore, we are to understand the seriousness and wonder of what we have been given!

10/05/2026

10/5/26 Hebrews 5 compares the high priests of old with Jesus. “Every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God” (5:1). They were called by God to offer sacrifices for others, but had to offer sacrifices for themselves as well as themselves. Jesus, on the other hand, offered the ultimate sacrifice once for all so that we would not have to bring sacrifices of blood regularly. Because of Him, we are called to be priests, a royal priesthood. But we do not offer sacrifices because we can lead people to believe in the One who did (Heb 5:1-11). We are to proclaim the excellencies of Him—all about Him—who has called us out of darkness to marvelous light (1 Pt 2:9). We have Christ who is much more than any earthly priest and who “became a source of eternal salvation” (5:5). How are we as Kingdom priests doing in sharing this hope of mercy and salvation (1 Pt 2:10)?

10/04/2026

10/4/26 In a verse that we may quote often—Heb 4:16—we find three action verbs. We are to draw near—but the verb is passive or middle voice—which means that the action is either done to us as in our being brought near, or we engage in being drawn near—to the throne of grace. This action is so that we may receive, or grasp, mercy and find, or obtain, grace to help in our time of need. Do we really understand the reality of being drawn by the High Priest Jesus, Son of God, who understands our weakness and draws us near to the throne and helps us hold fast to our confession of faith (4:14-15)?

10/03/2026

10/3/26 Regardless of whether we are of the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Z, Alpha, or Beta, we must be careful that we do not try the Lord, have stiff necks, or hardened hearts when it comes to hearing the Lord. God’s people in the wilderness did harden their hearts, and tried and disobeyed God. Let us “encourage one another day after day, as long as it is called, ‘Today,’ so no one will be hardened by sin” (Heb 3:8, 13). Let us all remember that we have become partakers of Christ who is our Apostle and High Priest, Son of God, greater than the angels and Moses, and who sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for us (Heb 3:14, 1-6; 1:5, 13-14; Rom 8:34).

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