Plucking Parables

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.

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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.
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  • the lost
  • Thessalonians
  • thirst
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  • Timothy
  • transference
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  • Trinity
  • trouble
  • trust
  • truth
  • two-faced
  • unapologetic
  • uncomfortable
  • understanding
  • undeserved
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  • vacation
  • values
  • virgin birth
  • Washington D.C.
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  • waterfall
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  • Wesleyan
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  • will
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  • woman at the well
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Monday, May 9, 2022

Polarized Squabbling

 








https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1960/10/29
Posted by Keith Badowski at 4:04 AM
Labels: argument, bystander, denomination, escalation, fracture, hostility, polarized, social discourse, unity

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