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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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George Müller and the Empty Breakfast Table

On a gray morning in 1838, three hundred orphans sat at long wooden tables in Bristol, England. The plates were empty. The cups were empty....

Psalm 146:5-10Universal

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The Surgeon in the Laundry Room

Maria Vargas works the overnight shift in the laundry facility at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She folds fitted sheets with mechanical precision, sorts surgical...

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

258 words

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After the Locusts Came Rain

In 2004, a swarm of desert locusts descended on West Africa — the worst infestation in fifteen years. Farmers in Mali watched helplessly as clouds...

Joel 2:23-32Universal

222 words

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The Passport That Changed Everything

In 2015, a young woman named Farah arrived at a refugee processing center in Berlin, clutching a worn Syrian passport. She had walked across four...

Philippians 3:17-4:1Universal

228 words

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The Unpayable Tab

In 2019, a diner in New Hampshire called Joey's Pancake House started something unexpected. A regular customer left forty dollars on the counter and told...

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17Universal

255 words

Vivid Retelling

The Sea Divided: Exodus 14:5-31

Cinematic retelling of the Red Sea crossing

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904 words

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O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

In June of 1882, a Scottish minister named George Matheson sat alone in his family home while the rest of the household celebrated his sister's...

Universallove

260 words

Movie Analogy

The Silver Candlesticks

In *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. When he is finally released, the world treats him...

Universalrestoration

235 words

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The Verdict That Changed Everything

In 2018, a Nashville courtroom fell silent as former police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murdering Botham Jean, a man she shot in his...

Acts 2:14a, 36-41Universal

240 words

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A Fingerprint on the Cosmos

In December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana on a million-mile journey into deep space. Months later, NASA released its first...

Psalm 8Universal

242 words

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The Telescope Everyone Called a Failure

When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, engineers expected triumph. Instead, the first images came back blurred and useless. A grinding error...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

238 words

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Written in the Wings

Every autumn, millions of Monarch butterflies rise from fields across North America and fly up to 3,000 miles south to a cluster of oyamel fir...

Universalpurpose

248 words

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The Hymn Singers on the Galley Ships

In 1686, after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of French Huguenots were arrested for refusing to abandon their Protestant faith. Hundreds were...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

235 words

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The Compass That Points to Itself

In 1707, four British warships struck the rocks off the Scilly Isles, drowning nearly two thousand sailors in a single night. The fleet's navigator, Sir...

Judges 21:25Universal

250 words

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The GPS That Required Trust

In 2019, journalist Sarah Marquis spent three months hiking alone across remote stretches of Tasmania's wilderness. She carried a GPS device but quickly discovered something...

Psalm 25:1-10Universal

242 words

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The Old Slave Trader Who Saw a Young Man's Destiny

In 1785, a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat in the parlor of John Newton, the aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in...

John 1:43-51Universal

249 words

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When the Spirit Fell on Azusa Street

In April 1906, William Joseph Seymour — the son of formerly enslaved parents, blind in one eye, once forced to listen to Bible school lectures...

Joel 2:23-32Universal

221 words

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The Farmer Who Waited for Rain

In 2012, Tom Neuhaus nearly lost everything. His family had farmed six hundred acres outside Salina, Kansas, for three generations, and that summer the worst...

James 5:7-10Universal

240 words

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The Seventh Dip

In 1928, Alexander Fleming left a petri dish uncovered before going on vacation. When he returned to his lab at St. Mary's Hospital in London,...

2 Kings 5:14Universal

246 words

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The Falconer's Quiet Hands

At the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, volunteers learn a counterintuitive rule on their first day: when a wounded hawk arrives — talons...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

231 words

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The Young Parliamentarian Who Changed a Nation

In 1780, William Wilberforce won his seat in the British Parliament at just twenty-one years old. By his own admission, he was a lightweight —...

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

247 words

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The Price of Thirty Pieces

In 2018, a photograph surfaced of a former bodyguard testifying against the very person he had sworn to protect. Reporters noted how he avoided eye...

Matthew 26:14-27:66Universal

240 words

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The Spring That Never Stopped

In 1888, a cholera outbreak swept through Hamburg, Germany, killing over eight thousand people in ten weeks. The city's water supply had been drawn from...

Zechariah 13:1Universal

246 words

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The Map They Were Born With

Every autumn, monarch butterflies launch a 3,000-mile migration from Canada to a remote mountain range in Michoacán, Mexico — a forest of Oyamel fir trees...

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237 words