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Home›Traditions›Charismatic

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?”

23,625 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

Poetry

Our little Kinsmen -- after Rain

Our little Kinsmen -- after Rain In plenty may be seen, A Pink and Pulpy multitude The tepid Ground upon. A needless life, it seemed...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when th

9/2 (1963): CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

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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...

Undue Significance a starving man attaches

Undue Significance a starving man attaches To Food -- Far off -- He sighs -- and therefore -- Hopeless -- And therefore -- Good --...

Away from Home are some and I --

Away from Home are some and I -- An Emigrant to be In a Metropolis of Homes Is easy, possibly -- The Habit of a...

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...

Bliss is the plaything of the child --

Bliss is the plaything of the child -- The secret of the man The sacred stealth of Boy and Girl Rebuke it if we can

To Frances S. Osgood

Thou wouldst be loved?--then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise.

383. Song—My Wife’s a winsome wee thing

Chorus.—She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a lo’esome wee thing, This dear wee wife o’ mine.

From all the Jails the Boys and Girls

From all the Jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap -- Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn't keep They storm the Earth and stun the...

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...

94. Here’s his Health in Water

ALTHO’ my back be at the wa’, And tho’ he be the fautor; Altho’ my back be at the wa’, Yet, here’s his health in water.

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.

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when Fre

2/14 (1778): The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

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Poetry

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.

Tho' I get home how late -- how late

Tho' I get home how late -- how late -- So I get home - 'twill compensate -- Better will be the Ecstasy That they...

Hope is a subtle Glutton --

Hope is a subtle Glutton -- He feeds upon the Fair -- And yet -- inspected closely What Abstinence is there -- His is the...

By a flower -- By a letter

By a flower -- By a letter -- By a nimble love -- If I weld the Rivet faster -- Final fast -- above --...

Fragment: 'Ye Gentle Visitations of Calm Thought'

Ye gentle visitations of calm thought-- Moods like the memories of happier earth, Which come arrayed in thoughts of little worth, Like stars in clouds by the weak winds enwrought,-- But that the clouds depart and stars remain, While they remain, and ye, alas, depart!

Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling

Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling -- Sometimes -- scalps a Tree -- Her Green People recollect it When they do not die -- Fainter...

Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is --

Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is -- Chase it, and it ceases -- Chase it not, and it abides -- Overtake the Creases...

Split the Lark -- and you'll find the Music --

Split the Lark -- and you'll find the Music -- Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled -- Scantilly dealt to the Summer Morning Saved for...

On a Royal Visit to the Vaults. or Caesar's Discovery of C.I. and H. 8. in Ye Same Vault

FAMED for their civil and domestic quarrels See heartless Henry lies by headless Charles; Between them stands another sceptred thing, It lives, it reigns--"aye, every inch a king." Charles to his people, Henry to his wife, In him the double...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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So give me back to Death --

So give me back to Death -- The Death I never feared Except that it deprived of thee -- And now, by Life deprived, In...

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Emily Dickinson

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