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Black Church Tradition Illustrations

Liberation, exodus, and prophetic justice rooted in the African American church tradition.

Key question: “How does this text speak to the experiences of suffering, hope, and liberation within the Black community?”

25,923 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens

Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 06

All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand Unbarred the gates of light.

Universal

John Milton

5950 words

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Poetry

Prayer of Columbus.

A BATTER’D, wreck’d old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months, Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken’d, and nigh to death, I take my way along...

Universal

Walt Whitman

520 words

Poetry

Tom May's Death

As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on the Elysian side, And with an Eye uncertain, gazing wide, Could not determine in what place he was, For whence...

First Anniversary

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close.

Patriotism 02 Nelson, Pitt, Fox

TO mute and to material things New life revolving summer brings; The genial call dead Nature hears, And in her glory reappears. But oh, my Country's wintry state What second spring shall renovate?

Universal

Sir Walter Scott

761 words

Fable

The Fox and the Crow

Do not trust flatterers

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Aesop

Short9 words

Poetry

I Sing the Body Electric.

1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.

Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope So oft, and the persuasive rhetoric That sleeked his tongue, and won so much on Eve, So little here, nay lost.

Count Gismond

Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his post, Chose time and place and company To suit it; when he struck at length My honour, 'twas with all his strength.

Al Aaraaf

nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where the day Springs from the gems of Circassy-- O!

From "January"

Supper removed, the mother sits, And tells her tales by starts and fits.

Indications, The.

THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts; What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words; The words...

Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice; an Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts

"_Dux_ inquieti turbidus Adria." Horace, "The young man's wrath is like straw on fire, _But like red hot steel is the old man's ire._" "Young men soon give and soon forget affronts, Old age is slow at both." Scene Venice--in the year 1355.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

33529 words

Poetry

Julian and Maddalo. a Conversation

The meadows with fresh streams, the bees with thyme, The goats with the green leaves of budding Spring, Are saturated not--nor Love with tears.--VIRGIL'S "Gallus".

Song of the Exposition.

1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free; To fill the gross, the torpid bulk with vital religious fire;...

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored Its...

Universal

Robert Browning

1673 words

Fable

The Woodman and the Serpent

No gratitude from the wicked

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Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 09

No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast; permitting him the while Venial discourse unblam'd.

Universal

John Milton

7891 words

Fable

The Eagle and the Arrow

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

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Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

Childish Recollections

"I cannot but remember such things were, And were most dear to me." 'Macbeth' When slow Disease, with all her host of Pains, Chills the warm tide, which flows along the veins; When Health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

2776 words

Fable

The Man and the Serpent

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten

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Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

Scenes From the Faust of Goethe

SCENE 1.--PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. THE LORD AND THE HOST OF HEAVEN. ENTER THREE ARCHANGELS.

Tamerlane

Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- I will not madly deem that power Of Earth may shrive me of the sin Unearthly pride hath revelled in-- I have no time to dote or...

Fragment

In a huge cloud of mountain hue The sun sets dark nor shudders through One single beam to shine again Tis night already in the lane The settled clouds in ridges lie And some swell mountains calm and high Clouds...

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John Clare

628 words