Woman to pastor: “You don’t know how much your sermons have meant to my husband since he lost his mind.”
--Tal Bonham quoted in Holy Humor:Inspirational Wit and Cartoons (p.6) by Cal and Rose Samra
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A collection of quotes, notes, illustrations, excerpts, ideas, sermon outlines, jokes, poems, and anything else that enhances my spiritual walk and my preparation to preach or to share my witness for Jesus.
About Me
- Keith Badowski
- Keith Badowski currently serves as pastor in a Methodist congregation and attends Asbury Theological Seminary. He dearly loves his wife, Christina, and thoroughly enjoys reading novels to her in the car while she drives.
Topics
- A.W. Tozer
- Abraham
- absolutes
- abuse
- acceptance
- accountibility
- accuracy
- active
- addiction
- adoption
- affliction
- Albert Outler
- always right
- America
- angels
- anger
- Annie Lamott
- anointed
- anonymity
- anxious
- approval
- argument
- arrogance
- artificial
- artist
- assent
- atonement
- attacks
- attention
- audience
- authentic
- Authentic Christianity
- authority
- available
- awe
- bad language
- bad news
- balance
- battle of Hastings
- belief
- benefits
- Benson Bobrick
- Bible
- Bishop Odo
- blood
- body
- book burning
- born again
- boundries
- brightness
- busyness
- bystander
- C.S. Lewis
- calling
- cancer
- capital punishment
- caring
- carry
- celebration
- challenging
- change
- chaos
- character
- character of God
- cheap grace
- child
- childhood
- childlike
- choice
- Christian perspective
- Christian publishing
- Christmas
- church
- church going
- cleansing
- closeness with God
- comfort
- comfort zone
- commandments
- commitment
- communication
- Communion
- community
- confession
- connection
- consciousness
- contagious Christians
- contempt
- control
- coping
- corruption
- cost
- countercultural
- courage
- creation
- credit
- critic
- criticism
- cross
- crucifixion
- cruel
- culture
- damned
- dead
- deadly
- death
- decision
- denial
- Dennis Kinlaw
- denomination
- devotion
- die
- discipleship
- disguise
- Disney
- disrespect
- doctors
- doctrine
- doubt
- Dr. Hugh Broughton
- dread
- drunk
- dwelling on the past
- dynamic
- effort
- emotions
- empathy
- emptying
- encouragement
- end times
- errors
- escalation
- eternal life
- ethics
- Eucharist
- evangelism
- evil
- example
- expectation
- eyewitness
- facade
- facsimiles
- failure
- faith
- faith in action
- faithful
- fake
- family
- father
- faults
- fear
- fellowship
- fire
- flesh
- focus on Christ
- food
- forgiveness
- foundation
- fracture
- free will
- freedom
- future
- generousity
- George Carlin
- George Orwell
- giving
- glutton
- God is love
- God with us
- God's love
- God's will
- good
- grace
- gratitude
- growth
- guilt
- Hannibal Lecter
- happiness
- hard sayings
- harmony
- hate
- healing
- health
- healthy practices
- heart
- heathen
- hell
- help
- hiding
- historic Jesus
- history
- holiness
- Holy Spirit
- home
- homecoming
- honesty
- hope
- hostility
- human judgement
- humanity
- humble
- humility
- humor
- hypocrite
- identity
- illness
- image
- imagination
- imaginative
- imitation
- impolite
- In Christ
- inaction
- incarnate
- inclusive
- indecency
- individualism
- indwelling
- infallibility of scripture
- infection
- inner life
- inspiration
- integrity
- interpretation
- intimacy
- Isaac
- isolationist
- J. Sidlow Baxter
- jam
- Jesus
- John Wesley
- joke
- journey
- joy
- judgement
- judgment
- King James Version
- Kinlaw
- know-it-all
- knowledge
- laziness
- Lee Atwater
- legend
- Leonard Sweet
- life
- life lesson
- light
- likeness
- listener
- living water
- llamas
- logic
- lonely
- Lord's Supper
- loss
- love
- love of God
- man-made
- manuscripts
- marriage
- Martin Luther
- masks
- materialism
- maturity
- McDowell
- McManus
- means of grace
- media
- medical
- meditate
- mental health
- mercy
- messenger of God
- Messiah
- metaphor
- Methodist
- mind
- mind of Christ
- miracle
- mission
- modernity
- Moody
- morals
- Mother Teresa
- Mt. Moriah
- mutual indwelling
- mystery
- mythology
- myths
- name
- nature
- nearness to God
- neighbor
- New World
- New Year's
- Niagara
- noise
- nudge
- obedience
- object lesson
- obscenity
- Old Testament
- omnipresent
- omniscient
- opener
- opportunity
- opposition
- order
- orphan
- outward
- overactive
- pandemic
- pardon
- parent
- participation
- passion
- passive
- past
- pattern
- Paul
- persecution
- perseverance
- persons
- perspective
- Pilgrims
- plane crash
- poem
- polarized
- policy
- politicians
- politics
- power
- practical
- practice
- prayer
- preaching
- preexistence
- preparation
- presence
- prestige
- price
- pride
- prison
- problems
- procrastination
- prodigal
- profitable
- prompting
- property
- protection
- proverb
- provide
- providence
- punishment
- purification
- quiet
- quotation
- rapture
- rational
- reading scripture
- real
- reborn
- reconciliation
- regeneration
- regret
- rejoice
- relationship
- relationships
- reliability
- religion
- repent
- repentance
- resources
- rest
- restoration
- restraint
- resurrection
- return of Jesus
- risk
- ritual
- role-model
- rudeness
- rules
- sacrifice
- safety
- salvation
- schedule
- science
- scripture
- scruples
- second coming
- secret
- self
- self examination
- self-deprecation
- self-giving
- selfish
- selfless
- seminary
- sermons
- service
- Seuss
- Shakespeare
- shame
- significance
- sin
- sleep
- small groups
- smile
- social discourse
- society
- solitude
- son
- sorrow
- soul
- South Korea
- speaker
- spirit
- spiritual dryness
- spiritual leadership
- Star Trek
- Stephen A. Seamands
- Stephen Wiggins
- substance
- substitute
- suffering
- summer
- sun
- superstition
- support
- surgeons
- surgery
- survival
- sympathy
- taboo
- temptation
- the lost
- Thessalonians
- thirst
- thoughts
- tightrope
- time
- time apart
- time management
- time wasting
- Timothy
- transference
- transfiguration
- transformation
- translation
- Trinity
- trouble
- trust
- truth
- two-faced
- unapologetic
- uncomfortable
- understanding
- undeserved
- unity
- vacation
- values
- virgin birth
- Washington D.C.
- wasp
- waste
- water
- waterfall
- wealth
- Wesleyan
- wholeness
- will
- wisdom
- witnessing
- woman at the well
- words
- works
- works theology
- worship
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