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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?”

23,224 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The Night Watch

Margaret remembered the worst week of her life — the week her daughter Elise was four years old and burning with fever that wouldn't break....

Psalm 121Universal

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Historical

Walking by Rule: The Christian's Path to Peace

This rule is no external constraint imposed upon the believer; rather, it emerges from the new creature itself, the regenerate inner man transformed by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Galatians 6:16UniversalChristian conductspiritual transformation

Joseph S. Exell

215 words

Historical

Red Tails Over Europe

In the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe, the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group — known as the Red Tails for the distinctive crimson paint on...

Colossians 3:23Universalexcellencecourage

226 words

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The Empty Chair at Table Six

Maria Gutierrez counted heads on the bus three times before it pulled away from Riverside Park. Nineteen. She counted again. Nineteen. Her stomach dropped. There...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

262 words

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The Brain That Found Another Way

In 1959, Pedro Bach-y-Rita suffered a devastating stroke that left him paralyzed and unable to speak. Doctors told his family there was nothing more to...

Universalhope

241 words

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Chronology of Israel's Judges: Synchronous Servitudes and Divine Pattern

When we deduct thirty years for Joshua's leadership, thirty for Samuel's judgeship, and forty for Saul's reign (Acts 13:21), we arrive at 140 to 160 years for the events of the Book of Judges.

Joshua 24:37Universaldivine chronology and providencecycles of apostasy and restoration

Joseph S. Exell

210 words

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When Every Bottle Counted

In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militia swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina faced an impossible situation with nothing but a hotel at his disposal....

Matthew 25:35Universalcouragecompassion

239 words

Contemporary

Let's Roll" — The Last Words of Flight 93

At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...

John 15:13Universalcouragesacrifice

265 words

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Cost of Living the Word

In 1933, as Adolf Hitler rose to power, most German churches chose silence. They listened to sermons about justice and love, nodded in agreement, and...

James 1:22Universal

221 words

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When Winter Finally Breaks

For a hundred years in C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, the land of Narnia endured an enchanted winter — always cold,...

Universalhope

240 words

Contemporary

Twelve Hundred Names on a Guest Register

In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines —...

Esther 4:14Universalcouragecompassion

280 words

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The Body Cannot Prosper When Members Neglect the Whole

The godly person cannot ethically pursue only individual welfare while the church of God languishes.

Psalms 128:5Universalcorporate responsibilitybody of Christ

Charles H. Spurgeon

206 words

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The Archbishop Who Called the Powerful to Account

On March 23, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero stood in the Cathedral of San Salvador and did something that would cost him his life. He spoke...

Psalm 82Universal

237 words

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Painted for an Audience of One

On October 31, 1512, Pope Julius II unveiled the completed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City — over twelve thousand square feet of...

Colossians 3:23Universalcallingperseverance

232 words

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A Sixteen-Hundred-Year-Old Prescription

In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers along the Vietnam border, and modern medicine had no answer. The Chinese government tapped a thirty-nine-year-old researcher...

Jeremiah 33:6Universalwisdomancient knowledge

243 words

Contemporary

A Letter Smuggled from a Cell

On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — Birmingham police arrested Martin Luther King Jr. for defying a court injunction against public demonstrations. They led...

Acts 5:29Universaljusticeprophetic voice

242 words

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Four Types of Seekers: Who Truly Knows?

First came the gossip-loving neighbours, motivated solely by curiosity—desiring to see or hear novelty rather than truth.

John 9:19Universalself-knowledge and spiritual blindnessauthentic testimony versus intellectual pride

Joseph S. Exell

211 words

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The Words He Wrote Over the Water

In November of 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at the cold, gray ocean. Somewhere...

Universalhope

245 words

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The Music That Needed No Audience

In the late 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach labored in his Leipzig study, his eyesight steadily failing, assembling the final sections of what would become the...

Colossians 3:16Universalworshipdevotion

224 words

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The Fast That Walked Outside

Every January, First Community Church in Decatur, Georgia, held a three-day prayer and fasting retreat. Members gathered in the fellowship hall, sang worship songs, journaled,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

229 words

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The List That Was Never Handed Over

In the winter of 1942, Vichy police arrived in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of southern France, and demanded that Pastor André...

Proverbs 31:8-9Universalcommunitycourage

245 words

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Seven Blocks and a Nation's Conscience

In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...

Micah 6:8Universaljusticewisdom

254 words

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A Diplomat Who Climbed the Death Trains

In November 1944, Adolf Eichmann ordered thousands of Budapest's Jews marched to the Austrian border in freezing columns. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg drove along the...

Isaiah 1:17Universalcouragecompassion

252 words

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George Washington Carver and the Peanut's Confession

George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864. Kidnapped as an infant along with his mother, he was ransomed back for...

Deuteronomy 26:1-11Universal

260 words