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Home›Traditions›Charismatic

Charismatic Illustrations

The present-day operation of all spiritual gifts and the experiential dimension of the Holy Spirit.

Key question: “How is the Holy Spirit actively manifesting His power and gifts in the church today?”

23,093 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The Tallest Trees Bow Lowest

In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia published a groundbreaking discovery. The largest, oldest trees in a forest — what...

Universalhumility

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The Composer Who Refused to Stay Silent

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. At fifty-six, the once-celebrated composer had suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right...

Universalperseverance

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 128

Imagine a warm autumn evening in a cozy home nestled in a quiet neighborhood. The aroma of roasted chicken wafts through the air, mingling with the earthy scent of freshly baked bread. At the heart of this home sits a...

Universal

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The Forest's Hidden Generosity

In the ancient forests of British Columbia, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the soil. Trees are not the solitary competitors scientists had long...

Universalsacrifice

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Wired Like No One Else

In 2015, neuroscientist Emily Finn and her team at Yale made a remarkable discovery. Using brain scans from the Human Connectome Project, they found that...

Universalidentity

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Movie Analogy

The Courage to Go Back

In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, there is a scene that still takes my breath away. Private Desmond Doss, a combat medic who refused to...

Universalcourage

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The Player Who Would Not Fight Back

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and broke baseball's color barrier. But the courage that moment required had nothing...

Universalcourage

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The Letter Before the First Day

When Marcus Chen graduated from medical school in 2019, his father handed him a sealed envelope. Inside was a letter dated twelve years earlier —...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

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Science Illustration: Earth Sciences and God’s Providence

There’s a story of a young scientist named Maya, who spent countless nights under the vast, star-studded sky, her heart racing at the wonders of the universe. One evening, as she peered through her telescope, she observed how the Earth’s...

Revelation 21:1-5Universal

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The Player Who Refused to Fight Back

In August 1945, Branch Rickey — a devout Methodist and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers — sat across from Jackie Robinson and made an...

Universalforgiveness

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The God Who Edits Our Broken Code

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technology that reads like science fiction. Here...

Universalhealing

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One More Step

On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug faced a moment that would define her life. In the women's gymnastics team final at the Atlanta Olympics,...

Universalcourage

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The Quiet Giant

In July 2016, Tim Duncan retired from the NBA after nineteen seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. Five championships. Two league MVP awards. Fifteen All-Star...

Universalhumility

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The Blood That Changes Your Identity

In the world of hematology, few procedures are as radical as a bone marrow transplant. When a patient with leukemia receives a donor's stem cells,...

Universaltransformation

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The Relentless Repair Within You

In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled researchers for decades. He found that human...

Universalperseverance

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When the Sea Took Everything

In November of 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath...

Universalperseverance

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The Gland That Teaches You Who You Are

Behind your breastbone sits a small organ called the thymus gland. It is where your T-cells — the soldiers of your immune system — go...

Universalidentity

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The Bones That Build Back Stronger

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still guides orthopedic medicine today. He observed that when a bone breaks, the body does...

Universalhealing

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Ten Thousand Galaxies in the Darkness

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was a waste of time. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope...

Universalhope

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The Forest That Is One

In the Fishlake National Forest of Utah, there stands a grove of quaking aspens that scientists have named Pando — Latin for "I spread." To...

Universalcommunity

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The Route You Wouldn't Have Chosen

Anyone who uses Waze knows the feeling. You type in your destination, and the app tells you to turn left when every instinct says go...

Universalobedience

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The God Who Unfolds in Time

When NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day 2021, the world held its breath. After twenty-five years of development, countless delays, and...

Universalpatience

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The Race He Could Not Finish Alone

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final with everything he had trained for within reach. Midway through...

Universaltrust

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The Wave That Was Made to Disappear

If you own a pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones, you have experienced something remarkable. You slip them on in a noisy airport terminal, tap the...

Universalsacrifice

253 words