Read the Lectionary Texts   When his sermon was over, the people of his hometown church wanted to throw Jesus off a cliff! Not good! Those of us in the preaching business know all about the criticism you sometimes get when you deliver a bomb of a sermon – a bad or controversial sermon. Sometimes even a good sermon that the people don't like. There are the anonymous notes, the long emails in which people who have never preached tell you how to preach, the backhanded compliment like my colleague Carl Burke's  famous, “That was a fine sermon with [READ MORE]