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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?”

24,021 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens

Poetry

Infant Sorrow

My mother groaned, my father wept: Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud. Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling-bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.

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William Blake

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Poetry

On the Bust of Helen by Canova

In this belovéd marble view Above the works and thoughts of Man, What Nature _could_ but _would not_ do, And Beauty and Canova _can!_ Beyond Imagination's power, Beyond the Bard's defeated art, With Immortality her dower, Behold the _Helen_ of the heart.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Dying at my music!

Dying at my music! Bubble! Bubble! Hold me till the Octave's run! Quick! Burst the Windows! Ritardando! Phials left, and the Sun!

I'll tell you how the Sun rose

I'll tell you how the Sun rose -- A Ribbon at a time -- The Steeples swam in Amethyst -- The news, like Squirrels, ran...

On My Wedding-Day

HERE'S a happy New Year! but with reason I beg you'll permit me to say-- Wish me _many_ returns of the _Season_, But as _few_ as you please of the _Day_.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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On This Day: The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established b

1/15 (1908): The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.

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Poetry

Church Music

Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure Did through my body wound my mind, You took me thence, and in your house of pleasure A dainty lodging me assigned.

Heaven--Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the...

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poetry

I send you a decrepit flower

I send you a decrepit flower That nature sent to me At parting -- she was going south And I designed to stay -- Her...

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Emily Dickinson

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Historical

On This Day: Angolan Civil War: The MPLA and UNITA agree to the Bicesse Accords, which are formally signed on May

5/1 (1991): Angolan Civil War: The MPLA and UNITA agree to the Bicesse Accords, which are formally signed on May 31 in Lisbon.

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Poetry

A Woman's Hair

little lock of golden hue In gently waving ringlet curl'd, By the dear head on which you grew, I would not lose you for _a world_. Not though a thousand more adorn The polished brow where once you shone, Like...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Time

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears!

'Mighty Eagle'

SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN. Mighty eagle! thou that soarest O'er the misty mountain forest, And amid the light of morning Like a cloud of glory hiest, And when night descends defiest The embattled tempests' warning!

From the Portuguese. "Tu MI Chamas". Another Version

You call me still your _Life_.--Oh! change the word-- Life is as transient as the inconstant sigh: Say rather I'm your Soul; more just that name, For, like the soul, my Love can never die.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

How Human Nature dotes

How Human Nature dotes On what it can't detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct -- Prospective is the friend Reserved...

To Mary Shelley

The world is dreary, And I am weary Of wandering on without thee, Mary; A joy was erewhile In thy voice and thy smile, And 'tis gone, when I should be gone too, Mary.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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On This Day: The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States,

12/25 (1815): The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.

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Poetry

I had no time to Hate

I had no time to Hate -- Because The Grave would hinder Me -- And Life was not so Ample I Could finish -- Enmity...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds

2/14 (1852): Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.

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On This Day: An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is sign

11/9 (1943): An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C.

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On This Day: Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take appr

The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.

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Poetry

Martial, Lib. I. Epig. I

"Hic est, quem legis, ille, quem requiris, Toto notus in orbe Martialis," etc. HE, unto whom thou art so partial, Oh, reader!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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On This Day: The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

10/12 (1999): The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

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On This Day: The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Ma

11/1 (1893): The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.

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