Today in Worship we continue in our sermon series Hope: Journey from Ashes to Life. The season of Lent gives us the opportunity for self-reflection as we journey with Jesus towards the cross and his resurrection. In this, we can see the places in our lives that have been laid waste by sin or where it seems there is no hope. Through the journey of Lent, we are offered the opportunity to find the hope that Christ offers in the transformative power of his life, death, and resurrection, and to dedicate our own lives to it. Today we will hear from both of our pastors about the journey of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. While the people shouted Hosanna in Mark 11, we know that they would soon betray Jesus and send him to the cross. While the woman in Mark 14 anointed Jesus’s head with expensive perfume, Judas was betraying him. The journey of Holy Week is one of beauty and betrayal, death and hope. We begin this journey in our worship today.