We know how Judas's story ends before it even begins. The first time Matthew introduces Judas in his gospel, he does it by naming him this way: "Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him." But what if we slowed down long enough to see Judas as something more than his worst moment? In this first sermon of our Lenten series, Pastor Dennis Allan traces the arc of Judas's life alongside Jesus: chosen, trusted, empowered, and yet somehow unable to let the grace he witnessed up close actually reach him. Like so many of us, Judas's tragedy wasn't that grace was unavailable to him. Judas's tragedy was that he couldn't bring himself to believe it was for him. This Lent, we're invited to stop watching from a safe distance and step into the one thing Judas never could: the scandalous, excessive, awaiting grace of Jesus.