Another Lent begins. As we journey together through the next six weeks to
the cross and empty tomb, we look at everything that took place from the
vantage point of Jesus as King. Walk with us along the way, comparing and
contrasting other kings with the King. We pray that you will find a renewed
sense of awareness and appreciation for how the Lord is our faithful King,
who for us and for our sake endured the cross, bore our shame, and suffered
in our place. Tonight we remember how our King Jesus first marked us with
the sign of the cross in our Baptism and how we wear ashes in the sign of a
cross as the mark of His work in us, bringing us to repentance and
restoring us by the power of forgiveness.