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Charismatic Illustrations

The present-day operation of all spiritual gifts and the experiential dimension of the Holy Spirit.

Key question: “How is the Holy Spirit actively manifesting His power and gifts in the church today?”

23,591 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

Poetry

The Vision of Judgment. by Quevedo Redivivus

SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF "WAT TYLER." "A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word." [_Merchant of Venice_, act iv. 1, lines 218, 336.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

The Prisoner of Chillon

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

2305 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Clerk's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. "SIR Clerk of Oxenford," our Hoste said, "Ye ride as still and coy, as doth a maid That were new spoused, sitting at the board: This day I heard not of your tongue a word.

Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering.

1 MANHATTAN’S streets I saunter’d, pondering, On time, space, reality—on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After all, the last explanation remains to be made about prudence; Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.

The Canterbury Tales. The Reeve's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they said, But for the more part they laugh'd and play'd; And at this tale I saw no man him grieve,...

Burning Drift-Wood

Before my drift-wood fire I sit, And see, with every waif I burn, Old dreams and fancies coloring it, And folly's unlaid ghosts return.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

480 words

Poetry

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 --...

Had I presumed to hope --

Had I presumed to hope -- The loss had been to Me A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake -- As Giants -- gone away...

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Emily Dickinson

Short79 words

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On This Day: The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is off

3/17 (1862): The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened.

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Poetry

The way Hope builds his House

The way Hope builds his House It is not with a sill -- Nor Rafter -- has that Edifice But only Pinnacle -- Abode in...

Absent Place -- an April Day --

Absent Place -- an April Day -- Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow -- Drift may block within it Deeper than without...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim

7/14 (1958): In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.

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Poetry

Fragment: 'Methought I Was a Billow in the Crowd'

Methought I was a billow in the crowd Of common men, that stream without a shore, That ocean which at once is deaf and loud; That I, a man, stood amid many more By a wayside..., which the aspect bore...

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.

It would have starved a Gnat --

It would have starved a Gnat -- To live so small as I -- And yet I was a living Child -- With Food's necessity...

Epigram. From the French of RulhièRes

IF for silver, or for gold, You could melt ten thousand pimples Into half a dozen dimples, Then your face we might behold, Looking, doubtless, much more snugly, Yet even _then_ 'twould be damned ugly.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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On This Day: World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing m

Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.

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Poetry

When The Sun Come After Rain

WHEN the sun comes after rain And the bird is in the blue, The girls go down the lane Two by two. When the sun comes after shadow And the singing of the showers, The girls go up the meadow, Fair as flowers.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Poetry

Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection: For, bless...

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...

Is it Well with the Child?

Safe where I cannot die yet, Safe where I hope to lie too, Safe from the fume and the fret; You, and you, Whom I never forget.

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Christina Rossetti

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On This Day: Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal co

7/20 (1807): Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.

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To Mary --

O Mary dear, that you were here With your brown eyes bright and clear. And your sweet voice, like a bird Singing love to its lone mate In the ivy bower disconsolate; Voice the sweetest ever heard! And your brow more...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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On This Day: Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".

7/14 (1902): Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".

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