Sermon: November 1, 2020 – Matthew 23: 1-12
Sometimes, when I read a scripture lesson in which Jesus says something really, really pointed, I wonder if I am on the giving side or the receiving side of what is being said. Today’s scripture lesson, in which Jesus denounces hypocrisy with a version of the classic-and-catchy phrase, “practice what you preach,” leaves no such ambiguity. As someone who first stepped up to a pulpit in 1981 and has had the audacity to do in the years since then, “preach” …