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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?”

23,405 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The Shepherd on the Beartooth Pass

In the summer of 1987, twelve-year-old Marcus Elling wandered off the trail during a family hike along Montana's Beartooth Pass. The afternoon clouds rolled in...

Psalm 121Universal

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The Parchment Sewn Into the Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — the brilliant French mathematician who had calculated the weight of air and invented the mechanical...

Luke 9:28-36Universal

249 words

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Fortified by the Fracture

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff documented something remarkable about human bone: it doesn't just endure stress — it grows stronger because of it. When...

Universalperseverance

244 words

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The Flavor That Changed a Neighborhood

In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Henderson started leaving homemade soup on the porches of her neighbors in a struggling block of East Nashville....

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

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Caesar's Heir and Ours

In 44 BC, a teenage boy named Gaius Octavius received staggering news. Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the known world, had named him...

Romans 8:14-17Universal

230 words

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The Glue That Holds Everything Together

In 2012, physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson — the subatomic particle that had eluded...

Colossians 1:15-17Universal

233 words

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The Envelope on the Kitchen Counter

In 2019, a schoolteacher in Baton Rouge named Clara Dupuis opened a letter from her landlord and felt her stomach drop. Rent was increasing by...

Hebrews 13:5-6Universal

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From Rubble to Harvest

In 2014, volunteers with the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative gathered on a stretch of abandoned lots in Detroit's North End. The properties were littered with...

Ezekiel 37:1-14Universal

231 words

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The Marine Biologist Who Couldn't Stop Counting

In 2016, marine biologist Diva Amon descended nearly four miles to the floor of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the central Pacific Ocean. She expected barren...

Psalm 104:24-34, 35bUniversal

242 words

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The Doctor Who Defeated Death's Oldest Weapon

In 1796, a country physician named Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England, did something no one had ever done — he deliberately challenged humanity's most relentless...

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

224 words

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The Fortress That Fell From Behind

In February 1942, British commanders in Singapore believed their position was unassailable. They called it "the Gibraltar of the East." Over 80,000 troops were garrisoned...

1 Corinthians 10:1-13Universal

231 words

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The Bridge That Almost Wasn't Built

In 2015, the city council of Greenville, South Carolina faced a problem. The Swamp Rabbit Trail — a beloved walking and biking path — needed...

1 Corinthians 1:10-18Universal

242 words

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Wired for the Journey

Every autumn, monarch butterflies undertake one of the most remarkable navigational feats in all of nature. From milkweed fields as far north as Canada, they...

Universaltrust

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The Sinking Skyscraper

In 2016, residents of San Francisco's Millennium Tower noticed something unsettling — their doors wouldn't close properly. Engineers discovered the 58-story luxury high-rise had sunk...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

237 words

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The Threshold of Everything

In the 1950s, British scientists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley inserted tiny electrodes into squid nerve fibers to study how electrical signals travel through the...

Universalcourage

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The Worship That Refused to Stop

On August 13, 1727, a fractured community of Moravian refugees gathered for communion in the small village of Herrnhut, Germany. They had been quarreling for...

Revelation 5:11-14Universal

223 words

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The Frequency Only Stillness Can Find

In 1995, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton traveled to Olympic National Park in Washington State to document something increasingly rare: one square inch of pure silence....

1 Samuel 3:10Universal

248 words

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The Plumb Line of Finkenwalde

In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened an underground seminary at Finkenwalde, a small town on the Baltic coast of Germany. The Reich Church had made its...

Amos 7:7-17Universal

217 words

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The Farmer Who Planted in Ash

In 1983, a wheat farmer named Harold Volkmer stood at the edge of his scorched fields outside Ash Flat, Arkansas, after a wildfire had swept...

Lamentations 3:25-26Universal

251 words

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When Handel Heard Heaven

In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself in his London apartment on Brook Street for twenty-four days. He barely ate. His...

Revelation 5:11-14Universal

263 words

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The Prisoner Who Carried No Bible

When Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was dragged into a Communist prison cell in 1948, his captors stripped him of everything — his coat, his shoes,...

Jeremiah 31:27-34Universal

230 words

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A Voice from the Margins That Shook the Room

In 1851, Sojourner Truth rose to speak at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. She was a formerly enslaved woman with no formal education,...

Luke 1:39-56Universal

223 words

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When the Heavens Split Over Wales

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts could barely sleep. For thirteen years he had prayed the same desperate...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

238 words

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Written Over the Wreckage

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on a ship crossing the Atlantic, knowing that somewhere beneath those cold waters, his four daughters had drowned weeks...

Universalperseverance

226 words