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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 Mother Who Knew Before He Told Her

In June 1849, seventeen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library in Barnsley, Yorkshire, looking for something to pass the time. He picked up a...

John 1:43-51Universal

230 words

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The Face That Preached Before He Spoke

In 1836, twenty-three-year-old Robert Murray M'Cheyne arrived at St. Peter's Church in Dundee, Scotland, as its new pastor. What happened over the next seven years...

Exodus 34:29-35Universal

235 words

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The Stream from Herrnhut

In 1722, a handful of persecuted Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They were exhausted, homeless, and few...

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Universal

233 words

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The Bible That Took a Hundred Hands

In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a desk in Cologne, Germany, translating the New Testament into English for the first time from the original Greek....

1 Corinthians 3:1-9Universal

222 words

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The Nurse Who Kept the Night Watch

In 2014, when Ebola swept through Liberia and the world recoiled in fear, a Liberian nurse named Salome Karwah did something remarkably simple. She held...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

231 words

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A Miner's Thirst That Flooded a Nation

In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts trudged out of the Welsh coal mines each evening with lungs full of dust and a soul...

John 7:37-39Universal

221 words

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The Moravians Who Would Not Wait

In October 1731, a young Moravian named Johann Leonard Dober attended a gathering in Herrnhut, Germany, where he heard Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf describe the...

Luke 2:15-21Universal

234 words

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Florence Nightingale and the Wards of Scutari

In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, and found a nightmare. Wounded soldiers lay on filthy floors, neglected by...

Ezekiel 34:11-16Universal

227 words

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The Surgeon Who Switched Sides

In 2003, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was one of Gaza's most promising physicians, trained in Israel at the Sheba Medical Center. For years, he crossed borders...

Acts 9:1-6Universal

241 words

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What the Deep Water Holds

In March 2012, filmmaker James Cameron descended nearly seven miles to the floor of the Challenger Deep, the lowest point on Earth. At that depth,...

Micah 7:18-19Universal

218 words

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The Prism on Dr. Nakamura's Desk

In a physics lab at the University of Chicago, Dr. Keiko Nakamura would begin each semester the same way. She held a glass prism up...

James 1:17Universal

234 words

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The Water They Chose in Flint

In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan made a decision that seemed pragmatic at the time. For decades, Flint had received clean, tested water from...

Jeremiah 2:4-13Universal

243 words

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The Voice in the Ravine

In March of 2019, search and rescue volunteer Dale Hitchens spent fourteen hours combing the hills outside Gatlinburg, Tennessee, looking for a seventy-three-year-old woman named...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

228 words

Vivid Retelling

Consider the Lilies: Matthew 6:25-34

Cinematic retelling of Jesus teaching about worry and trust

Universal

490 words

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The Flowers That Never Reached the Kitchen Table

In 1987, Margaret Ellison of Tupelo, Mississippi, kept a pristine house. Every Sunday she arranged fresh-cut hydrangeas on the foyer table, polished the silver until...

Hosea 6:6Universal

213 words

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The Sonar Operator on Her First Watch

In the summer of 2018, Petty Officer Third Class Maria Sandoval sat in the sonar room of the USS Bainbridge, two weeks into her first...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

270 words

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The Coronation No Camera Could Capture

On June 2, 1953, twenty-seven million people across Britain huddled around television sets to watch Queen Elizabeth II crowned in Westminster Abbey. The BBC positioned...

Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14Universal

225 words

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The Path Her Feet Already Knew

In 1987, Margaret Ellison lost her sight to macular degeneration at sixty-three. Her husband Harold worried she would never walk their half-mile gravel lane to...

2 John 1:6Universal

227 words

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The Bridge That Held for a Hundred Years

In 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge finally opened after fourteen years of construction, skeptics filled the newspapers with predictions of collapse. Engineer John Roebling had...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

253 words

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The Name on the Bracelet

When Maria Santos gave birth to her son at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, the nurses handed her a tiny plastic bracelet. On...

Luke 2:15-21Universal

256 words

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The Music the World Forgot

When Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig in 1750, the musical world shrugged. Critics dismissed his compositions as overly complex, hopelessly old-fashioned. His manuscripts were...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

228 words

Vivid Retelling

Two Books of Revelation: Psalm 19

Cinematic retelling of Psalm 19 on creation and Scripture

Universal

649 words

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The Mountain Lion on the Trail

In 2004, ranger Jim Hamm was hiking with his wife near Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Northern California when a mountain lion attacked. Every...

James 4:7Universal

246 words

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Written on the Inside

For twenty-two years, Marcus Chen played cello in the Houston Symphony — technically flawless, always reading from the score. Then one evening during a performance...

Psalm 40:7-11Universal

213 words