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Home›Traditions›Black Church Tradition

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

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On This Day: NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey o

7/14 (2015): NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.

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Poetry

Fragment: 'I Would Not Be a King'

I would not be a king--enough Of woe it is to love; The path to power is steep and rough, And tempests reign above. I would not climb the imperial throne; 'Tis built on ice which fortune's sun Thaws in the height of noon.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the _Medea_ of Euripides

OH how I wish that an embargo Had kept in port the good ship Argo! Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks, Had never passed the Azure rocks; But now I fear her trip will be a Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Spring comes on the World --

Spring comes on the World -- I sight the Aprils -- Hueless to me until thou come As, till the Bee Blossoms stand negative, Touched...

You see I cannot see -- your lifetime

You see I cannot see -- your lifetime -- I must guess -- How many times it ache for me -- today -- Confess --...

As Sleigh Bells seem in summer

As Sleigh Bells seem in summer Or Bees, at Christmas show -- So fairy -- so fictitious The individuals do Repealed from observation -- A...

H. Baptism II

Since, Lord, to thee A narrow way and little gate Is all the passage, on my infancy Thou didst lay hold, and antedate My faith in me.

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George Herbert

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On This Day: Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.

11/1 (1937): Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.

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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 --...

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 --...

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.

Fragment: A Roman's Chamber

In the cave which wild weeds cover Wait for thine aethereal lover; For the pallid moon is waning, O'er the spiral cypress hanging And the moon no cloud is staining.

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...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers a

9/2 (1945): World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, thus marking the official end to the war.

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On This Day: Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House

8/6 (1991): Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

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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...

My Garden -- like the Beach

My Garden -- like the Beach -- Denotes there be -- a Sea -- That's Summer -- Such as These -- the Pearls She fetches...

Nature assigns the Sun --

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

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is first explored by the Portuguese.

1/1 (1502): The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is first explored by the Portuguese.

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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...

Fragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'

What men gain fairly--that they should possess, And children may inherit idleness, From him who earns it--This is understood; Private injustice may be general good.

On the Eyes of Miss a----H---

Anne's Eye is liken'd to the _Sun_, From it such Beams of Beauty fall; And _this_ can be denied by none, For like the _Sun_, it shines on _All_.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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