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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

Sermon Illustration

The Green Jacket Nobody Expected

On April 14, 2019, Tiger Woods stood on the eighteenth green at Augusta National and did something the world had stopped believing was possible. He...

Universalrestoration

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The Player Who Promised Not to Fight Back

In 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn office and asked him to do the hardest thing any athlete has ever...

Universalpatience

264 words

Contemporary

The Bridge They Crossed Twice

On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, heading east toward Montgomery to demand the right...

Hebrews 12:1-2Universalperseverancejustice

251 words

Historical

The Man Who Would Not Leave

On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the Jewish orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to deport its nearly two hundred children. Janusz...

Ruth 1:16Universalsacrificelove

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Vivid Retelling

Worthy of the Kingdom: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Apostolic dictation of thanksgiving and judgment day vision

Universal

840 words

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William Wilberforce and the Long Campaign

For twenty years, William Wilberforce stood before the British Parliament and lost. Year after year, from 1787 onward, he introduced bills to abolish the slave...

James 5:7-10Universal

230 words

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The Morehouse Moment

In May 2019, billionaire Robert F. Smith stood at the podium during Morehouse College's commencement and made an announcement nobody expected. After delivering a standard...

Luke 4:14-21Universal

223 words

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The Sailor's Cure Hiding in Plain Sight

For nearly three hundred years, scurvy was the most feared killer on the open sea. Between 1500 and 1800, it claimed more sailors' lives than...

John 8:32Universal

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Historical

Believing in Goodness When the World Says Otherwise

On July 15, 1944, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank sat in the cramped Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam and wrote what would become one of...

Psalm 27:13-14Universalhopefaith

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The Stone That Couldn't Stay Put

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Concrete buildings pancaked. Rubble buried entire neighborhoods. Rescue teams told families the math was brutal...

Matthew 28:1-10Universal

228 words

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Eric Liddell and the Joy of Willing Obedience

In 1924, Eric Liddell stunned the sporting world by withdrawing from the 100-meter dash at the Paris Olympics — his best event — because the...

Psalm 40:7-11Universal

230 words

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The Mother Who Knew Before the Phone Rang

In 2019, Maria Gonzalez was washing dishes in her kitchen in San Antonio when she stopped mid-scrub and told her husband, "Something's wrong with Daniel."...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

229 words

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Eric Liddell's Consecrated Stride

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stunned the world by withdrawing from his best event at the Paris Olympics — the 100 meters — because...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

300 words

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The Fire That Cleaned the Forest

In August 2020, firefighters in Northern California watched the SCU Lightning Complex burn across 400,000 acres of drought-parched land. Ranchers wept as flames consumed what...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

233 words

Vivid Retelling

The Shape of Community: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Experiential vignette of Thessalonian church hearing final instructions

Universal

720 words

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The Cross in the Ruins

On the morning of November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard walked through the smoldering shell of Coventry Cathedral. German incendiary bombs had gutted the medieval...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

229 words

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Blaise Pascal and the Scrap of Paper Sewn Into His Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was thirty-one years old,...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

250 words

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The Weight-Bearing Word

In 2010, thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San José copper mine near Copiapó. For seventeen days, the world heard nothing....

Psalm 33:4-6, 9, 18-20, 22Universal

233 words

Historical

Gold That No Ideology Could Tarnish

On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before 100,000 spectators in a stadium draped with swastika banners. Adolf...

1 Corinthians 9:24Universaldignitycourage

256 words

Historical

The One "No" in a Village of Yes

On April 10, 1938, the residents of St. Radegund, a small village in Upper Austria, cast their ballots in Hitler's plebiscite on the Anschluss —...

Romans 12:2Universalconsciencefaith

220 words

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The Simplest 911 Call Ever Made

On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River. But before that miraculous gliding descent, something remarkably...

Romans 10:8b-13Universal

241 words

Movie Analogy

The Armor He Could Not Carry

In the 1986 film *The Mission*, Rodrigo Mendoza is a mercenary and slave trader consumed by guilt after killing his own brother in a jealous...

Universalredemption

221 words

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The Silence Before the Shout

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3: all enslaved people were free. The war...

Mark 16:1-8Universal

229 words

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The Well That Never Ran Dry

In 2012, a brutal drought scorched 80 percent of America's farmland. Across southern Kansas, cattle ponds turned to cracked mud. Irrigation systems sputtered and failed....

Isaiah 12:2-6Universal

245 words