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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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A One-Eyed Preacher and the Spirit That Knew No Boundaries

On April 9, 1906, at a small prayer meeting on Bonnie Brae Street in Los Angeles, something broke open that no one could contain. William...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

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The Fingerprints on the Fridge

When Marcus and Dena Thompson of Nashville finalized the adoption of seven-year-old Jaylen in 2019, the judge asked Jaylen if he understood what was happening....

1 John 3:1-3Universal

245 words

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The Burn Ward at Dawn

In 2004, Dr. Sylvia Martínez worked the overnight shift at the burn unit of Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Her patients — soldiers...

Malachi 4:2Universal

245 words

Historical

When Liberation Required Patience

On July 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln gathered his cabinet in the White House and read aloud a draft document that would reshape American history —...

Luke 4:18-19Universalfreedomjustice

240 words

Historical

From One Flame, a Thousand Lights

In the winter of 1454, inside a workshop on Mainz's Christophstraße, Johannes Gutenberg pressed inked metal type against a sheet of dampened vellum. Letter by...

Psalm 119:105Universaltransformationthe Word

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The Night Chicago Became the White City

On the evening of May 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland pressed a single golden button inside the Administration Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. In...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

229 words

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The Rider Into Galveston

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, carrying news that was already two and a half years old. The Emancipation...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

257 words

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We Lepers" — Father Damien's Chosen Kinship

In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Father Damien de Veuster stepped off a boat onto the rocky shore of Molokai, Hawaii. The island's Kalaupapa...

Hebrews 2:10-18Universal

238 words

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When Peace Like a River

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring into cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves, his...

Universaltrust

245 words

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The Night Shift Dispatcher Who Learned to Hear

Maria Chen was three weeks into her training at the Sacramento 911 dispatch center when she nearly missed the call that mattered most. A woman...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

245 words

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The Fingerprint That Changed Everything

Dr. Margaret Chen had studied fingerprints for twenty-three years at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia. She had examined over forty thousand prints across...

Psalm 139:14Universal

238 words

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The Washing Machines at Grace Point on Tuesday Nights

Every Sunday morning, the congregation at Grace Point Church in Long Beach, California, sang worship songs with hands raised and voices strong. But pastor Chris...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

242 words

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The Night Sewn Into His Coat

On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — encountered something his equations could...

Luke 9:28-36Universal

239 words

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The Father Who Caught Her Every Time

In 2011, a four-year-old named Ellie Farmer stood at the edge of the community pool in Bend, Oregon, trembling. Her father, waist-deep in the water,...

Jude 1:24-25Universal

251 words

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The Former Slave Who Salted Los Angeles

In 1856, Biddy Mason walked out of a Los Angeles courtroom a free woman. She had been enslaved for thirty-two years, carried across the country...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

242 words

Historical

The Soldier They Called a Coward

During basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the men of Company B, 77th Infantry Division, wanted Private Desmond Doss gone. They harassed him relentlessly...

2 Timothy 1:7Universalcourageconviction

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The Hymn No Crisis Inspired

When we think of great hymns, we often picture dramatic backstories — shipwrecks, deathbed conversions, narrow escapes. But one of the most beloved hymns in...

Universaltrust

235 words

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The Telescope That Stared at Nothing

In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues thought was foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the...

Universalpurpose

231 words

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The Song That Shouldn't Exist

In 2002, a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge killed two young women in a Florida car crash. One of them was twenty-year-old Meagan Napier. Her...

Universalforgiveness

232 words

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The Love Carved in Stone

In 1499, a twenty-four-year-old Michelangelo unveiled his *Pietà* in St. Peter's Basilica — a marble sculpture of Mary cradling the body of her Son after...

Universallove

237 words

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The Wound Above Antarctica

In 1985, three British scientists — Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin — published findings that stunned the world. A hole had opened in...

Universalrestoration

253 words

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The Man Who Handed the Ball to the Referee

In an era of choreographed celebrations and end zone spectacles, Barry Sanders spent ten seasons with the Detroit Lions doing something radical every time he...

Universalhumility

242 words

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The Chemistry of a Mother's Voice

In 2011, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made a remarkable discovery. Dr. Leslie Seltzer and her team found that when a stressed child hears...

Universallove

233 words

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The Cells That Knew When to Let Go

During human development, something remarkable happens inside the womb. Your fingers don't grow outward like branches — they're sculpted. The hand begins as a flat...

Universalobedience

257 words