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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 Crack in the Foundation

In 2019, a home inspector in Raleigh, North Carolina named Dave Furlong discovered something that changed how he talked about his work. A young couple...

Matthew 5:21-37Universal

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Movie Analogy

The Invisible Bridge

In *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, Harrison Ford's character stands at the edge of an impossibly deep chasm. On the other side is the...

Universaltrust

245 words

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The Murderer Who Found Peace

In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had committed multiple murders, attacked guards, and earned a reputation as one...

Romans 5:1-11Universal

242 words

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The Girl from Guangzhou

In 2012, a couple from Portland, Oregon, traveled to Guangzhou, China, to finalize the adoption of a three-year-old girl named Mei. She had spent her...

1 John 3:1-3Universal

237 words

Movie Analogy

Interstellar: Love Transcends Time (Romans 8:38-39)

Imagine a vast, swirling black hole, its darkness pulling everything around it into an inescapable abyss—a cosmic whirlpool that embodies despair. In the heart of this darkness, Cooper, a pilot from the film *Interstellar*, finds himself suspended in a tesseract,...

Romans 8:38-39Universallovetime

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Nature Illustration: Ants and Small Wisdoms

On a warm afternoon, I found myself watching a colony of ants scurrying across my backyard. As I sat on the porch, I marveled at the intricate choreography of their lives. Each tiny creature carried burdens far heavier than themselves,...

Psalm 104:24-30Universal

245 words

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Five Hundred Yards to Freedom

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Every night, hidden behind a poster on his...

Universalperseverance

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Father Damien's Hands on Molokai

In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the rocky shore of Kalaupapa, a leper colony on...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

234 words

Vivid Retelling

The Cross: Matthew 27:32-44

Cinematic retelling of the crucifixion of Jesus

Universal

566 words

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The Name He Gave Her

On September 1, 2005, three days after Hurricane Katrina swallowed the Lower Ninth Ward, Marcus and Denise Williams stood in what had been their living...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

233 words

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The Blueprint That Never Gets Filed Away

Every human body contains roughly 37 trillion cells. Each one carries the complete instructions for making you — your eye color, the curve of your...

Psalm 139:14Universal

268 words

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The Woman Who Walked Thirty Miles for Water

In 2019, a severe drought gripped the Turkana region of northern Kenya. Wells dried up. Rivers turned to cracked mud. Journalist Abdi Latif Dahir documented...

Psalm 63:1-8Universal

253 words

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The Potter's Wheel on Mulberry Street

Margaret Chen had thrown clay for thirty-seven years in her small studio on Mulberry Street in Portland. Every morning before her hands touched the wheel,...

Proverbs 16:3Universal

244 words

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Lifted from the Miry Clay: The Rescue of William Cowper

In the winter of 1763, English poet William Cowper was carried unconscious to St Albans Collegium, a private asylum north of London. He had tried...

Psalm 40:1-11Universal

239 words

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The Marathon Runner Who Learned to Love the Hills

In 2018, Des Linden crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon in a freezing downpour, becoming the first American woman to win in thirty-three...

Romans 5:1-5Universal

233 words

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When the Rain Finally Came toEli Creek

In the summer of 2012, the farmers around Eli Creek, Missouri, watched their soybean fields crack and curl under the worst drought in fifty years....

Psalm 85Universal

245 words

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Science Illustration: Wonder at the Cosmos

On a clear night, away from the city’s glow, I once stood under a vast, star-studded sky. Each twinkling star seemed to tell a story, whispering tales of creation that stretched back billions of years. As I gazed upward, I...

Revelation 21:1-5Universal

249 words

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The Porch Light That Never Goes Out

In 2018, a story circulated about Willa Mae Johnson of Tupelo, Mississippi, who kept her porch light burning every single night for eleven years. Her...

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21Universal

252 words

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William Wilberforce and the Long Obedience

In 1785, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce sat in a carriage rolling through the French countryside, reading Philip Doddridge's *The Rise and Progress...

Proverbs 16:3Universal

230 words

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The Earthquake That Came at Breakfast

On February 6, 2023, at 4:17 in the morning, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria. In the city of Gaziantep, Mehmet Aydin...

Matthew 24:36-44Universal

240 words

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The Grandmother Who Never Stopped Singing

Maria Santos was seventy-three years old when the soldiers came to her village outside San Salvador in 1981. They told the people to stop gathering...

Romans 1:16Universal

236 words

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Frozen: Let It Go and True Love (1 John 4:18)

In the beloved film *Frozen*, we meet Elsa, a young woman burdened by a gift that feels more like a curse. Since childhood, she has hidden away her icy powers, fearing not just the world around her but the very...

1 John 4:18Universalfearlove

318 words

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The Promises After the Storm

In September 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped over fifty inches of rain on Houston. In the flooded neighborhoods of Meyerland and Kashmere Gardens, strangers in flat-bottom...

Psalm 78:1-2, 34-38Universal

224 words

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Children of Men: When There Is No Future (Romans 8:24-25)

In the film *Children of Men*, we are thrust into a world ravaged by despair, where the echoes of laughter from children have faded into a haunting silence for eighteen long years. Cities lie in ruin, overrun by the shadows...

Romans 8:24-25Universalhopeapocalypse

287 words