Beauty for Ashes

Haddington Elim Church · May 27, 2025 · 22m

Society has told us that we need to look like this, dress like that, and that we need to fit in. As a culture, we are obsessed with youth and beauty. Don’t believe me? In 2022, 8.5 billion dollars was spent on plastic surgery procedures in the US alone! Many people don’t like their features and choose to change them.

For many of us, we may not have come to faith until much later in life. We have lived outside of God’s beautiful plan for our lives. We may be living with deep scars and hurts. We may feel like we can be buried beneath shame and many of us have the bumps and bruises to show…