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Home›Traditions›Reformed/Presbyterian

Reformed/Presbyterian Illustrations

God's absolute sovereignty, covenant theology, and Westminster Confessional standards.

Key question: “How does this text display God's sovereign grace and purpose, and ultimately bring glory to His name?”

24,307 sermon illustrations through the Reformed/Presbyterian lens

Poetry

Burning Drift-Wood

Before my drift-wood fire I sit, And see, with every waif I burn, Old dreams and fancies coloring it, And folly's unlaid ghosts return.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

480 words

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Poetry

Prayer of Columbus.

A BATTER’D, wreck’d old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months, Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken’d, and nigh to death, I take my way along...

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Walt Whitman

520 words

Poetry

From "January"

Supper removed, the mother sits, And tells her tales by starts and fits.

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

THE PROLOGUE.

The Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

The Cloud

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores.

1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario’s shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return’d, and the dead that return no more, A Phantom, gigantic, superb, with stern visage, accosted me; Chant me the poem,...

The Canterbury Tales. The Squire's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. Godde's mercy!" said our Hoste tho, "Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro'.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

4718 words

Fable

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Appearances are deceptive

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

57. Holy Willie’s Prayer

O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell, Who, as it pleases best Thysel’, Sends ane to heaven an’ ten to hell, A’ for Thy glory, And no for ony gude or ill They’ve done afore Thee!

The Landlord's Tale; Paul Revere's Ride

Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

857 words

Fable

The Ant and the Grasshopper

It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

Count Gismond

Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his post, Chose time and place and company To suit it; when he struck at length My honour, 'twas with all his strength.

The Boat on the Serchio

Our boat is asleep on Serchio's stream, Its sails are folded like thoughts in a dream, The helm sways idly, hither and thither; Dominic, the boatman, has brought the mast, And the oars, and the sails; but 'tis sleeping fast,...

Hervé Riel

On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety two, Did the English fight the French,--woe to France! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter thro' the blue. Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came...

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale

By that he ended had his ghostly sermon, The fox was well induc'd to be a parson, And of the priest eftsoons gan to inquire, How to a benefice he might aspire.

The Canterbury Tales. The Knight's Tale.

WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, There was a duke that highte Theseus. Of Athens he was lord and governor, And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. Full many a riche country had he won.

To Miss -- -- [Harriet Grove] From Miss -- -- [Elizabeth Shelley]

For your letter, dear -- , accept my best thanks, Rendered long and amusing by virtue of franks, Though concise they would please, yet the longer the better, The more news that's crammed in, more amusing the letter, All excuses...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

558 words

Fable

The Woodman and the Serpent

No gratitude from the wicked

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Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

Fragments of an Unfinished Drama

SCENE.--BEFORE THE CAVERN OF THE INDIAN ENCHANTRESS. THE ENCHANTRESS COMES FORTH. ENCHANTRESS: He came like a dream in the dawn of life, He fled like a shadow before its noon; He is gone, and my peace is turned to strife,...

Endymion: Book I

A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON.

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John Keats

6408 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Kid

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

The Cottager

True as the church clock hand the hour pursues He plods about his toils and reads the news, And at the blacksmith's shop his hour will stand To talk of "Lunun" as a foreign land.

The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C.

Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining alwayes, disappears. In the Weak Circles of increasing Years; And his short Tumults of themselves Compose, While flowing Time above his Head does close.

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Andrew Marvell

2721 words