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Home›Traditions›Pentecostal

Pentecostal Illustrations

The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.

Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”

25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Poetry

There was a Child went Forth.

THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

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Walt Whitman

547 words

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Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 04

O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, put to second rout, Came furious down to be revenged on men, Woe to the inhabitants on earth!

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John Milton

6844 words

Poetry

Endymion: Book IV

Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains!

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

CANTO THE FIRST.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

39250 words

Poetry

Comus

A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT SPIRIT, afterwards in the habit of THYRSIS. COMUS, with his Crew. FIRST BROTHER. SECOND BROTHER. SABRINA, the Nymph. The Chief...

Song of the Open Road.

1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

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Walt Whitman

2601 words

Fable

The Peacock and Juno

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

Remembrances

Summer's pleasures they are gone like to visions every one, And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh on. I tried to call them back, but unbidden they are gone Far away from heart and eye and forever far away.

Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)

"Tie stille, barn min! Imorgen kommer Fin, Fa'er din, Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine og hjerte at lege med!" Zealand Rhyme.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

599 words

Fable

The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts

It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again

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Aesop

Short19 words

Poetry

The Bride of Abydos. a Turkish Tale

"Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met--or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted."-- Burns . CANTO THE FIRST. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

7622 words

Poetry

Troilus and Criseyde: Book V

Aprochen gan the fatal destinee That Ioves hath in disposicioun, And to yow, angry Parcas, sustren three, Committeth, to don execucioun; For which Criseyde moste out of the toun, And Troilus shal dwelle forth in pyne Til Lachesis his threed no lenger twyne.

Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan

When the last sunshine of expiring Day In Summer's twilight weeps itself away, Who hath not felt the softness of the hour Sink on the heart, as dew along the flower?

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

767 words

Poetry

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10265 words

Poetry

Letter to Maria Gisborne

The spider spreads her webs, whether she be In poet's tower, cellar, or barn, or tree; The silk-worm in the dark green mulberry leaves His winding sheet and cradle ever weaves; So I, a thing whom moralists call worm, Sit...

Marianne's Dream

A pale Dream came to a Lady fair, And said, A boon, a boon, I pray! I know the secrets of the air, And things are lost in the glare of day, Which I can make the sleeping see, If...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

846 words

Fable

The Tree and the Reed

Obscurity often brings safety

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Aesop

Short9 words

Poetry

Inspiration

Whate'er we leave to God, God does, And blesses us; The work we choose should be our own, God leaves alone. If with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of...

Snowbound, a Winter Idyl

To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits, which be Angels of Light, are augmented not only by the Divine...

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John Greenleaf Whittier

4004 words

Poetry

75. Halloween

UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the rout is ta’en, Beneath the moon’s pale beams; There, up the Cove, 3 to...

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping--rapping at my chamber door.

The Devil's Drive

THE Devil returned to Hell by two, And he stayed at home till five; When he dined on some homicides done in _ragoût_, And a rebel or so in an _Irish_ stew, And sausages made of a self-slain Jew, And...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1893 words

Poetry

The Song of Hiawatha: X

Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other!" Thus the youthful Hiawatha Said within...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1313 words

Poetry

An Essay on Man

OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE. AWAKE, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings.

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Alexander Pope

8932 words