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Someone’s got to do those dishes
Caney Spring United Methodist Church, July 20, 2025
(Based on a sermon preached July 21, 2019, at First UMC Shelbyville)
Luke 10:38–42 (CEB)
While Jesus and his disciples were traveling, Jesus entered a village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his message. By contrast, Martha was preoccupied with getting everything ready for their meal. So Martha came to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to prepare the table all by myself? Tell her to help me.”
The Lord answered, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things. One thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the better part. It won’t be taken away from her.”
There was a big new Superman movie that came out last weekend, and everything I’ve heard about it has been fantastic. But nine years ago, in 2016, the widely-anticipated movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” put DC Comics’ best-known heroes together into a big-budget, live-action movie together for the first time. The movie opened to huge box office, just from curiosity if nothing else, but unlike the new Superman movie, many people considered “Dawn of Justice” to be a disappointment.
