Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Who is the greatest?

  • GOATs, Cleaning Ladies, And Greatness – A Sermon On Mark 9:30-37

    GOATs, Cleaning Ladies, And Greatness – A Sermon On Mark 9:30-37

    Are you familiar with the acronym GOAT? G-O-A-T. It means Greatest of All Time.  Many trace its origin to the early 1960s and Muhammad Ali saying, “I am the greatest!” and his wife in 1992 creating a business called Greatest of All Time, Inc. (GOAT, Inc.) (source) In the early 2000s rapper LL Cool J Read more

  • Becoming Our Better Selves – A Sermon On Mark 9:30-37

    Becoming Our Better Selves – A Sermon On Mark 9:30-37

    “On the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest” (Mark 9:34). How do you imagine that argument went? Today’s gospel (Mark 9:30-37) doesn’t tell us what the disciples said but it’s not difficult to imagine. We need only recall the times we’ve argued about and striven to be the greatest.  Maybe Read more

  • Room Enough, A Place for Everyone

    The collect and readings for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Mark 9:30-37. “They had argued with one another who was the greatest.” We shouldn’t be too surprised. We’ve probably been a part of such arguments. From sibling rivalry to be mom and dad’s Read more