This is Laity Sunday. Tom Lee is delivering the sermon, and Anna Bigelow does the Children’s Moment. We continue our journey through Mark’s gospel as James and John ask a favor of Jesus, which is to be given places of status in the coming kingdom. In a sense, they’re cutting in line ahead of everyone else. Jesus explains to them the harsh realities of the Kingdom to come – that to be part of it they must be servants and slaves to all. These are hard words for us, too.