# FOLLOW | Confronting - Tim Brown

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Podcast: [Church of the City New York](https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880)
Published: 2026-08-24T21:26:00+00:00
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## Resource

This Sunday, Pastor Tim continued our FOLLOW series with Jesus' difficult words to the Pharisees in Matthew 23. Rather than using the passage to confront everyone else, he invited us to ask a more personal question: Where does Jesus want to confront me? Pastor Tim explored how hypocrisy can take root when our outward lives become disconnected from what is happening within us, and how easily we can notice the failures of others while overlooking our own. Jesus' confrontation is not meant to leave us in shame, rather it is an invitation into honesty, mercy, and freedom. Allowig God to form in us what we cannot produce on our own.

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