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Home›Traditions›Anabaptist

Anabaptist Illustrations

Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.

Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”

23,986 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens

Poetry

Circumstance

FROM THE GREEK. A man who was about to hang himself, Finding a purse, then threw away his rope; The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf, The halter found; and used it. So is Hope Changed for Despair--one laid upon...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry

I hide myself within my flower,

I hide myself within my flower, That fading from your Vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me -- Almost a loneliness.

Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned'

And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal Is that 'tis my distinction; if I fall, I shall not weep out of the vital day, To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay.

Our journey had advanced --

Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- by Term -- Our pace...

We talked as Girls do --

We talked as Girls do -- Fond, and late -- We speculated fair, on every subject, but the Grave -- Of ours, none affair --...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.

11/1 (1897): Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.

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Poetry

The Flower must not blame the Bee

The Flower must not blame the Bee -- That seeketh his felicity Too often at her door -- But teach the Footman from Vevay --...

I cannot meet the Spring unmoved --

I cannot meet the Spring unmoved -- I feel the old desire -- A Hurry with a lingering, mixed, A Warrant to be fair --...

Whatever it is -- she has tried it --

Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- Awful Father of Love -- Is not Ours the chastising -- Do not chastise the Dove...

Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril

Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril Tree and Traveller stood -- Filled was the Air with merry venture Hearty with Boys the Road...

Hope is a strange invention --

Hope is a strange invention -- A Patent of the Heart -- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out -- Of this electric Adjunct Not...

Teach Him -- When He makes the names

Teach Him -- When He makes the names -- Such an one -- to say -- On his babbling -- Berry -- lips -- As...

Peace is a fiction of our Faith --

Peace is a fiction of our Faith -- The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never did alight.

Fragment: 'The Viewless and Invisible Consequence'

The viewless and invisible Consequence Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in, And...hovers o'er thy guilty sleep, Unveiling every new-born deed, and thoughts More ghastly than those deeds--

To lose one's faith -- surpass

To lose one's faith -- surpass The loss of an Estate -- Because Estates can be Replenished -- faith cannot -- Inherited with Life --...

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Emily Dickinson

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Historical

On This Day: Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first p

12/25 (1941): Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.

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Poetry

Funny -- to be a Century

Funny -- to be a Century -- And see the People -- going by -- I -- should die of the Oddity -- But then...

Nature assigns the Sun --

Nature assigns the Sun -- That -- is Astronomy -- Nature cannot enact a Friend -- That -- is Astrology.

Fragment: 'Follow to the Deep Wood's Weeds'

Follow to the deep wood's weeds, Follow to the wild-briar dingle, Where we seek to intermingle, And the violet tells her tale To the odour-scented gale, For they two have enough to do Of such work as I and you.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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On This Day: Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa Améri

7/4 (2015): Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.

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Poetry

Where Thou art -- that -- is Home --

Where Thou art -- that -- is Home -- Cashmere -- or Calvary -- the same -- Degree -- or Shame -- I scarce esteem...

'Twould ease -- a Butterfly --

'Twould ease -- a Butterfly -- Elate -- a Bee -- Thou'rt neither -- Neither -- thy capacity -- But, Blossom, were I, I would...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other s

1/15 (2005): ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.

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Poetry

Though the great Waters sleep,

Though the great Waters sleep, That they are still the Deep, We cannot doubt -- No vacillating God Ignited this Abode To put it out...

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Emily Dickinson

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