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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?”

23,440 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The Crooked House on Elm Street

In 2019, a couple in Waco, Texas bought a charming 1920s bungalow, eager to renovate. They poured forty thousand dollars into gorgeous hardwood floors, custom...

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

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When the Gift Shop Swallowed the Sanctuary

In 2019, visitors to a historic cathedral in Europe discovered that the gift shop had quietly expanded — again. What had once been a small...

John 2:13-22Universal

243 words

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The Carpenter's Daughter at the Lecture Hall

In 2014, Yale University hosted a panel on suffering and meaning. Three philosophers debated theodicy with precision — quoting Leibniz, referencing modal logic, parsing the...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

246 words

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The River That Brought the Dead Sea Back to Life

In 2011, researchers from Ben Gurion University discovered something remarkable along the shores of the Dead Sea. Fresh water springs were bubbling up from beneath...

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

232 words

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The Car Seat in the Hatchback

Keisha Williams was twenty-three, working double shifts at the hospital in Macon, Georgia, when the social worker called on a Tuesday evening. A newborn —...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

223 words

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The Table He Built With His Hands

For eleven months, Robert Callahan worked in his garage in Asheville, North Carolina, hand-planing black walnut boards for a dining table. He joined each piece...

John 2:13-22Universal

247 words

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The Seminarian Who Almost Skipped Harlem

In 1930, a young German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, largely unimpressed. He found the academic theology...

John 1:43-51Universal

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The Hidden Internet Beneath the Forest Floor

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard planted seedlings in a British Columbia forest and covered some with shade cloth. What she discovered stunned the scientific community....

Psalm 104:24-34, 35bUniversal

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The Mechanic Who Wouldn't Stop Talking About the Cure

Carlos Gutierrez runs a small auto repair shop on Riverside Drive in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He's known for two things: honest brake jobs and telling...

Romans 1:16Universal

251 words

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The Rescue Dog Who Couldn't Leave the Cage

When Sarah Mitchell adopted a greyhound named Duke from a racing rescue in Abilene, Texas, she expected him to bolt through her backyard the moment...

Galatians 5:1, 13-25Universal

245 words

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The Choir That Shouldn't Have Sung Together

In December 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled, conductor Daniel Barenboim gathered musicians from East and West Berlin to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. For twenty-eight...

Romans 15:4-13Universal

228 words

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The Night Shift at St. Luke's

Dr. Amara Osei had delivered over three thousand babies in her twenty-two years at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. She thought she understood birth....

John 3:1-17Universal

238 words

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Uncovering What Was Always There

In 1980, restorer Gianluigi Colalucci climbed the scaffolding inside the Sistine Chapel and pressed a small solvent-soaked sponge against Michelangelo's ceiling. Beneath five centuries of...

Malachi 3:1-4Universal

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The Name That Outweighed the Arsenal

In 1944, a young French nurse named Geneviève de Galard walked into a field hospital in Indochina carrying nothing but a medical bag and a...

1 Samuel 17:45Universal

235 words

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The Garden on Maple Street

For fifteen years, Ruth Halloran poured herself into the community garden on Maple Street in southeast Portland. She hauled in twelve tons of composted soil...

Isaiah 5:1-7Universal

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The Peanut Nobody Wanted

In 1894, George Washington Carver arrived at Iowa State College as the only Black student on campus. Born into slavery, stolen as an infant, and...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

228 words

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The Blacksmith's First Commission

The first time twelve-year-old Samuel Whitfield stepped into his grandfather's forge in rural Tennessee, the heat nearly drove him back through the door. The furnace...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

273 words

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The Songs That Crossed an Ocean

In 1871, nine young men and women from Fisk University in Nashville — most of them formerly enslaved — set out on a desperate concert...

Psalm 98Universal

227 words

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The Mold That Healed the World

In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his London laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital after a summer holiday and noticed something peculiar. A petri dish...

John 8:32Universal

228 words

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The Rector of Epworth Who Could Not Have Imagined

Samuel Wesley served as rector of a small parish in Epworth, England, for nearly forty years. He baptized babies, buried the dead, and preached faithfully...

2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16Universal

230 words

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The Voice That Was Heard Once in a Hundred Years

In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let a Black...

John 1:43-51Universal

230 words

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The Hallelujah He Could Not Hold Back

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. His health had failed him — a stroke years earlier had briefly paralyzed...

Universaltrust

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The Letter That Changed a Life

In 1725, a young German nobleman named Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf stood before a painting of the crucified Christ in an art gallery in Düsseldorf....

Romans 1:1-7Universal

243 words

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A Parent's Perfect Temperature

In neonatal intensive care units, doctors have long prescribed something remarkably low-tech for premature babies: kangaroo care — holding the infant skin-to-skin against a parent's...

James 1:17Universal

233 words