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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?”

24,080 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Fable

The Fox and the Mosquitoes

Better a known evil than an unknown

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Aesop

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Fable

The Nurse and the Wolf

Enemies' promises were made to be broken

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Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

The Dream

Our life is twofold: Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their developement have breath, And tears, and...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1423 words

Fable

The Ass and the Lapdog

Clumsy jesting is no joke

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Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

The Task: Book VI, The Winter Walk at Noon (excerpts)

Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has greatly purpos'd; who would else In his dishonour'd works himself endure Dishonour, and be wrong'd without redress. Haste then, and...

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH

1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky 1.3 Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in every clime, 1.4 And so has vow'd, whilst there is world or time.

Rural Morning

Soon as the twilight through the distant mist In silver hemmings skirts the purple east, Ere yet the sun unveils his smiles to view And dries the morning's chilly robes of dew, Young Hodge the horse-boy, with a soodly gait,...

Mesmerism

All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange as new: Dare I trust the same to you?

Adonais

AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION, ETC. Aster prin men elampes eni zooisin Eoos nun de thanon lampeis Esperos en phthimenois.--PLATO. I weep for Adonais--he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears...

Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. "O Cжsar, we who are about to die Salute you!" was the gladiators' cry In the arena, standing face to face With death and with the Roman populace.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1878 words

Poetry

The Maid Of Ocram or, Lord Gregory

Gay was the Maid of Ocram As lady eer might be Ere she did venture past a maid To love Lord Gregory. Fair was the Maid of Ocram And shining like the sun Ere her bower key was turned on...

Epistle From Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori

DEAR Doctor, I have read your play, Which is a good one in its way,-- Purges the eyes, and moves the bowels, And drenches handkerchiefs like towels With tears, that, in a flux of grief, Afford hysterical relief To shattered...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

495 words

Poetry

The Barefoot Boy

Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!

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John Greenleaf Whittier

475 words

Poetry

Strayed Reveller, The

The Youth Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, Let the wild, thronging train The bright procession Of eddying forms, Sweep through my soul! Thou standest, smiling Down on me!

Prayer of Restless Hearts

Western Church prayer by Augustine of Hippo

The Siege of Corinth

In the year since Jesus died for men, Eighteen hundred years and ten, We were a gallant company, Riding o'er land, and sailing o'er sea. but we went merrily!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

6205 words

Poetry

Epipsychidion

VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE NOBLE AND UNFORTUNATE LADY, EMILIA V--, NOW IMPRISONED IN THE CONVENT OF --. L'anima amante si slancia fuori del creato, e si crea nell' infinito un Mondo tutto per essa, diverso assai da questo oscuro e pauroso baratro.

Ghasta or, the Avenging Demon!!!

the owlet flaps her wing, In the pathless dell beneath, Hark! night ravens loudly sing, Tidings of despair and death.-- Horror covers all the sky, Clouds of darkness blot the moon, Prepare!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

1003 words

Fable

The Old Man and Death

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

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

To Think of Time.

1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess’d you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded these earth-beetles? Have you fear’d the future would be nothing to you?

83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night

MY lov’d, my honour’d, much respected friend!

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Robert Burns

1421 words

Fable

The Lion's Share

You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil

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Aesop

Short18 words

Poetry

Endymion: Book III

There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away The comfortable green and juicy hay From human pastures; or, O torturing fact!

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John Keats

7005 words