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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

What shall I do when the Summer troubles --

What shall I do when the Summer troubles -- What, when the Rose is ripe -- What when the Eggs fly off in Music From...

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Emily Dickinson

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Poetry

I Dream’d in a Dream.

I DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dream’d that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust...

To F--

amid the earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path-- (Drear path, alas! where grows Not even one lonely rose)-- My soul at least a solace hath In dreams of thee, and therein knows An Eden of bland repose.

To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems

I can write no stately proem As a prelude to my lay; From a poet to a poem I would dare to say. For if of these fallen petals One to you seem fair, Love will waft it till it settles On your hair.

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...

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...

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Emily Dickinson

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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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Poetry

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: 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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Poetry

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: The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 3

1/15 (1967): The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.

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Poetry

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...

Summer is shorter than any one --

Summer is shorter than any one -- Life is shorter than Summer -- Seventy Years is spent as quick As an only Dollar -- Sorrow...

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...

Declaiming Waters none may dread --

Declaiming Waters none may dread -- But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature -- they are full --

There is a pain -- so utter --

There is a pain -- so utter -- It swallows substance up -- Then covers the Abyss with Trance -- So Memory can step Around...

Brother of Ingots -- Ah Peru --

Brother of Ingots -- Ah Peru -- Empty the Hearts that purchased you -- -- Sister of Ophir -- Ah, Peru -- Subtle the Sum...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.

1/20 (1576): The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.

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On This Day: King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New Fra

1/15 (1541): King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".

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Poetry

Autumn -- overlooked my Knitting --

Autumn -- overlooked my Knitting -- Dyes -- said He -- have I -- Could disparage a Flamingo -- Show Me them -- said I...

226. Song—I hae a Wife o’ my Ain

I HAE a wife of my ain, I’ll partake wi’ naebody; I’ll take Cuckold frae nane, I’ll gie Cuckold to naebody. I hae a penny to spend, There—thanks to naebody! I hae naething to lend, I’ll borrow frae naebody.

Epigram on the Braziers' Address to Be Presented in _Armour_ by the Company to Queen Caroline

IT seems that the Braziers propose soon to pass An Address and to bear it themselves all in brass; A superfluous pageant, for by the Lord Harry! They'll _find_, where they're going, much more than they carry.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Just so -- Jesus -- raps

Just so -- Jesus -- raps -- He -- doesn't weary -- Last -- at the Knocker -- And first -- at the Bell. Then...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lith

5/8 (1924): The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.

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