This week’s message will focus on the account of “Martha and Mary” from Luke 10:38-42. Αfter a series of spectacular miracles by Jesus and profound experiences and teachings for his disciples, Jesus stops at the home of Martha. Martha immediately goes to work preparing an elaborate meal while her sister Mary drops everything to sit at Jesus’ feet. Martha, “worried and upset,” becomes critical of Mary and even Jesus. Christians today still struggle with fear and spiritual unrest when it feels like their work is for nothing. Jesus offers a gentle but urgent call to choose the one thing needed: to place ourselves at his feet, because it’s only there that we can hear his word and be ready for service.

The goal of Dr. Luke’s Gospel is to present the universal reach of Jesus’ gift of salvation. As a man of science, Luke was not particularly interested in mere spiritual opinions, feelings, rumors, or legends. Educated and orderly, Luke sifted through the garbage of misinformation and bad ideas to bring substantiated eyewitness verification of the truth—a gracious reality of mercy and justice for all.

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