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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?”

23,329 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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Wilberforce and the Long Faithfulness

For twenty years, William Wilberforce watched slave traders grow rich. Ship owners in Liverpool built grand estates. Sugar merchants in Bristol threw lavish parties. Members...

Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40Universal

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The Retired Firefighter and the Sound of His Own Name

For thirty-one years, Captain Ray Muñoz slept with one ear open at Station 14 in San Antonio. He could distinguish the pitch of a smoke...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

264 words

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The Paper Sewn Into Pascal's Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant mathematicians in France — sat alone in his room in...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

236 words

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When the Singing Came Back to Joplin

On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. St. Mary's...

Psalm 126Universal

219 words

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The River and the Ridge

In 2018, ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter won the Moab 240 — a 238-mile race across the Utah desert. But what struck people wasn't the finish...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

233 words

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The Standing Ovation at Fenway

On October 25, 1986, Bill Buckner crouched at first base for the Boston Red Sox in Game Six of the World Series. A routine ground...

Universalforgiveness

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Historical

The Volunteer of Cell 18

In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch retaliated by selecting ten men from Block...

Romans 5:7-8Universalsacrificelove

236 words

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The Genome That Refused to Be Junk

For decades, scientists dismissed roughly 98 percent of human DNA as "junk." It didn't code for proteins, so they assumed it served no purpose —...

Universalpurpose

213 words

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When Conscience Runs Faster Than Gold

In the summer of 1924, the world watched as Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell made an astonishing choice. Favored to win gold in the 100-meter dash...

Universalfreedom

229 words

Historical

A Broken Man's Masterpiece

In the final years of his life, Rembrandt van Rijn had lost nearly everything. The Dutch master who once commanded the highest commissions in Amsterdam...

Ephesians 2:4-5Universalgraceforgiveness

253 words

Contemporary

From Laughingstock to World Champions

On April 11, 1962, the New York Mets lost their very first game. They would lose 119 more that season, finishing 40-120 — the worst...

Zechariah 4:10Universalhope against oddsperseverance

239 words

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The Death That Gave You Fingers

Look at your hands for a moment. Spread your fingers wide. In the earliest weeks of your development in the womb, those fingers didn't exist...

Universalpurpose

243 words

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Blooming Where You Never Chose to Be

When Hurricane Katrina scattered 100,000 residents of New Orleans across the country in 2005, many landed in Houston with nothing but the clothes on their...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

233 words

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The Signal Delay

When NASA's Perseverance rover descended toward Mars on February 18, 2021, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory faced a harrowing reality: an eleven-minute signal delay....

Universalfaith

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When the Mountain Came Down

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens exploded with the force of 500 atomic bombs. The blast flattened 230 square miles of old-growth forest in...

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

231 words

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The Farmer Who Never Locked His Barn

In the small town of Elburn, Illinois, Harold Metzger ran a 200-acre corn and soybean operation for forty-three years. What made Harold different from every...

Psalm 112:1-10Universal

233 words

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Maximilian Kolbe's Bunk Number 18

In the starvation bunker of Auschwitz, Block 11, a Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe spent his final days doing something the guards had never witnessed....

Matthew 5:1-12aUniversal

228 words

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The Inspector Who Wouldn't Look Away

In 2018, a building inspector named Ron Gastaldo in Surfside, Florida, filed a report on the Champlain Towers South condominium. His plumb line, both literal...

Amos 7:7-17Universal

226 words

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The Tree They Pulled From the Rubble

In October 2001, recovery workers at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree buried beneath smoldering debris. Eight feet of trunk remained — split, burned,...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

238 words

Contemporary

The Race She Refused to Abandon

Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle shot outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed to...

Hebrews 12:1-2Universalperseverancelegacy

257 words

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The Whale: Grace for the Broken Body (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

In the haunting film *The Whale*, we meet Charlie, a man whose body bears the weight of his grief—each breath a labor as he navigates the shadows of his past. His home, a cluttered space filled with remnants of a...

2 Corinthians 12:9-10Universalgraceweakness

345 words

Contemporary

She Didn't Stop at Perfect

On July 18, 1976, in the Montreal Forum, fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci of Romania mounted the uneven bars and did something the sport had never seen....

Philippians 3:14Universalexcellencededication

254 words

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The Seed Crystal

In undergraduate chemistry labs across the country, professors demonstrate something that never fails to draw gasps. They prepare a supersaturated solution of sodium acetate —...

Proverbs 16:3Universal

224 words

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Finished Together

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final. He had spent four years recovering from injuries, and this...

Universalidentity

252 words