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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?”

23,296 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The Grocery Store at Mile Twenty

In 2018, ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter was thirty hours into the Moab 240 — a grueling 240-mile race across the Utah desert. Her body screamed...

Luke 4:1-13Universal

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The Huddle That Survives the Storm

In the Antarctic winter, when temperatures plunge to negative sixty degrees and winds scream at a hundred miles per hour, emperor penguins do something remarkable....

John 13:34-35Universal

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The Missionary Who Would Not Turn Back

In 1925, Eric Liddell was the most famous athlete in Britain. His gold medal at the Paris Olympics had made him a national hero, and...

Luke 9:51-62Universal

238 words

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The Wretch Who Wrote Amazing Grace

John Newton knew exactly what kind of man he was. For years, he captained slave ships across the Atlantic, trafficking human beings in chains —...

Universalforgiveness

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Moelfre

On the night of October 27, 1859, a hurricane-force storm slammed into the Welsh coast at Moelfre. The Royal Charter, a clipper ship carrying 450...

Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9Universal

217 words

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The Bucket With No Bottom

In 2014, a financial planner named David Chen sat across from a couple in Portland, Oregon, who earned a combined $190,000 a year. They had...

Haggai 1:5-6Universal

242 words

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The Impartial Judge: Romans 2:1-16

Theological meditation on Romans 2:1-16 - impartial judgment

Universal

951 words

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When the Mountain Reminded Us Who Reigns

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs. The blast leveled 230 square miles of forest in...

Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9Universal

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The Stump at Ground Zero

In October 2001, workers clearing the wreckage at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree buried beneath the rubble. It was barely alive — an...

Isaiah 11:1-10Universal

226 words

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The Water Beneath the Drought

In the 1880s, Australian settlers in the parched Queensland outback faced a brutal irony. Their cattle were dying. Their wells had gone dry. The red...

Matthew 7:7-8Universal

218 words

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The Rock Beneath the Foundation

In 2010, engineers in Santiago, Chile, drilled a narrow borehole 2,300 feet into the earth to reach thirty-three miners trapped in the San José copper...

Matthew 16:13-19Universal

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The Village That Never Raised Its Voice

Andre Trocme was a pastor in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small Protestant village in the mountains of southern France. When the Nazis occupied France in 1940,...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

219 words

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The Race He Didn't Run

Eric Liddell was the fastest man in Britain. Heading into the 1924 Paris Olympics, he was the heavy favorite to win the 100 meters —...

Universalobedience

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Peggy's Cove

In 1998, when Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic just off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, it was the local fishermen who responded first. They...

Luke 21:25-36Universal

231 words

Vivid Retelling

You Will Not See My Face Again: Acts 20:17-38

Cinematic retelling of Paul's farewell to Ephesian elders

Universal

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All Thirty-Three

On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners beneath two thousand feet of rock. For seventeen...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

240 words

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The Criminal from the Karen Hills Nobody Expected God to Use

In 1828, missionary Adoniram Judson purchased the freedom of a Burmese slave named Ko Tha Byu. The man was a former bandit from the Karen...

John 1:43-51Universal

256 words

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More Than a Collection of Stars

In the months leading up to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, coach Herb Brooks made a decision that stunned the hockey...

Universalcommunity

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Eric Liddell's Final Race

In 1924, Eric Liddell stunned the world by refusing to run his best event at the Paris Olympics because the heats fell on a Sunday....

Philippians 3:17-4:1Universal

256 words

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The Bristlecone Pine of White Mountain

High in California's White Mountains, at nearly 12,000 feet, stands a bristlecone pine named Methuselah. It has endured for over 4,800 years in conditions that...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

218 words

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The Orchard Keeper Who Never Stopped Singing

Every morning at 5:45, before the Texas sun crests the pecan groves outside Fredericksburg, 87-year-old Margaret Townsend steps onto her back porch with a cup...

Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15Universal

236 words

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The Farmer's Daughter from Owasso

In 2019, a young woman named Sarah from Owasso, Oklahoma — population 36,000 — married into one of Denmark's oldest noble families. She had grown...

Psalm 45:10-12, 16Universal

272 words

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The Bridge They Would Not Abandon

On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. State troopers...

Galatians 6:9Universalperseverancenonviolence

232 words

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More Than What You Can Finish

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal as one of the favorites. He had trained his entire...

Universalidentity

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