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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

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,...

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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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.

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John Milton

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Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Prioress's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. "WELL said, by corpus Domini," quoth our Host; "Now longe may'st thou saile by the coast, Thou gentle Master, gentle Marinere. God give the monk a thousand last quad year! fellows, beware of such a jape.

The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, That he not said it was a noble story, And worthy to be drawen to memory; And namely the gentles every one.

The Canterbury Tales. The Second Nun's Tale

The minister and norice unto vices, Which that men call in English idleness, The porter at the gate is of delices; T'eschew, and by her contrar' her oppress, -- That is to say, by lawful business, -- Well oughte we...

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (Rome, 15--)

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews--sons mine ... ah God, I know not! Well, She, men would have to be your mother once, Old Gandolf envied me, so fair she was!

The Canterbury Tales. The Man of Law's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

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.

The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas.

THE PROLOGUE.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Fable

Avaricious and Envious

Vices are their own punishment

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Aesop

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Poetry

Ulalume

The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere-- The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake...

The Last Ride Together

I said--Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love avails, Since all, my life seemed meant for, fails, Since this was written and needs must be-- My whole heart rises...

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...

Brother of All, with Generous Hand.

1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o’er thy tomb, I and my Soul, A thought to launch in memory of thee, A burial verse for thee. What may we chant, O thou within this tomb?

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Walt Whitman

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Fable

The Fox and the Grapes

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

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Aesop

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Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Friar's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

Sister Rosa: A Ballad

The death-bell beats!-- The mountain repeats The echoing sound of the knell; And the dark Monk now Wraps the cowl round his brow, As he sits in his lonely cell.

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I heed not that my earthly lot Hath--little of Earth in it-- That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute:-- I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that _you_ sorrow...

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.

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Emily Dickinson

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Historical

On This Day: The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.

6/19 (1990): The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.

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Historical

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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On This Day: American Civil War: The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi River,

6/6 (1862): American Civil War: The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi River, results in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee by Union forces from the Confederates.

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On This Day: The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m.

11/9 (2011): The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m.

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On This Day: The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.

1/15 (1966): The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.

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