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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?”

23,210 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

Sermon Illustration

The Music That Opened Prison Doors

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer was drowning in debt, his health failing, his reputation fading. Then a librettist...

Universalfreedom

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The Blueprint Was Always There

In 3D printing, nothing is built by accident. Before the printer ever heats its first filament, a detailed digital model — called a CAD file...

Universalpurpose

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The Food Pantry That Tore Down Its Wall

For eleven years, First Baptist of Decatur, Georgia, ran its food pantry from a side entrance. Families lined up in the alley behind the church,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

240 words

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The Masterpieces No One Was Meant to See

In the 1440s, a Dominican friar named Fra Angelico was commissioned to paint frescoes throughout the monastery of San Marco in Florence. He could have...

Universalhumility

232 words

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Science Illustration: Wise Use of Data and AI

As I sat in the quiet of my office, a colleague shared with me an astonishing story about a group of scientists who had gathered data from millions of sources to understand the complex web of life on our planet....

Psalm 104:24-30Universal

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Sermon Illustration

Written in the Image

Every iPhone ships with a unique identifier burned into its hardware at the factory — Apple calls it the UDID, the Unique Device Identifier. You...

Universalidentity

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 3:13-17

Picture the scene at the banks of the Jordan River. The sun beats down, casting a golden hue over the water, which ripples gently as it flows, reflecting the scattered clouds above. A crowd gathers, their murmurs rising and falling...

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

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The Vacant Lot on Brewster Avenue

For eleven years, the corner of Brewster and Fifth in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood was a scar — broken concrete, syringes, knee-high weeds choking out anything...

Isaiah 55:10-13Universal

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Vivid Retelling

The Prayer of Moses: Psalm 90

Cinematic retelling of Psalm 90 Moses' prayer on time and eternity

Universal

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Stronger at the Broken Places

When a bone fractures, something remarkable happens inside the body. Within hours, the skeletal system launches an intricate repair operation that nineteenth-century German surgeon Julius...

Universalredemption

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Lafayette, We Are Here

In the summer of 1777, a nineteen-year-old French nobleman named the Marquis de Lafayette sailed across the Atlantic at his own expense to fight for...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

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Movie Analogy

The King Who Knelt

In the final moments of *The Return of the King*, Aragorn stands at his coronation in Minas Tirith. He has just been crowned King of...

Universalhumility

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The Free Table on Lavaca Street

Every Saturday morning in Austin, Texas, a retired chef named Margaret Huang sets up a long folding table on Lavaca Street, covered with a white...

Isaiah 55:1-9Universal

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The Mending You Never See

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Radiation, toxins, even...

Universalrestoration

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Contemporary

What Lupus Could Not Silence

By 1955, Flannery O'Connor had already spent five years fighting the disease that killed her father. Diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in late 1950 at...

2 Corinthians 12:9Universalgracebrokenness

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Contemporary

Grace That Enters Through the Wound

In 1955, from a dairy farm called Andalusia outside Milledgeville, Georgia, a young Catholic woman named Flannery O'Connor published a short story collection that disturbed...

Romans 5:20Universalgracebrokenness

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Genesis 8:1-19

As the floodwaters lingered, time stretched for Noah and his family, each moment seemingly endless in their wooden refuge. Imagine the dark, swirling waters surrounding the ark, a vast, unbroken sea of grief and uncertainty. But then, in that stillness,...

Universal

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The Lion's Sacrifice at the Stone Table

In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, there is a moment that has brought readers to tears for over seventy years. Aslan,...

Universallove

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Recalculating Route

Every driver knows the moment. You miss your exit, take a wrong turn, or find the road ahead closed by construction. The GPS screen flashes...

Universalhope

238 words

Contemporary

The Gospel Hidden in Grotesque Company

In 1955, Flannery O'Connor published *A Good Man Is Hard to Find*, a short story collection that scandalized readers across the American South. Writing from...

Luke 15:1-2Universalgracebrokenness

236 words

Movie Analogy

When Andy Dufresne Crawled Through the Dark

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, there is a moment that still takes my breath away. Andy Dufresne has spent nineteen years chipping through a concrete wall...

Universalfaith

235 words

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The Golden Seams of Hope

In Japan, there is an ancient art form called *kintsugi* — the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. When a...

Universalhope

239 words

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The Fox Who Taught Us to Sit Closer

In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's *The Little Prince*, a lonely fox asks the prince to tame him — to make him more than just another fox...

Universalpatience

231 words

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Clear Browsing Data

In Google Chrome, there is a feature tucked under Settings called "Clear Browsing Data." With a single click, you can wipe everything — every site...

Universalforgiveness

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