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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 Quakers Who Fed a Starving Nation

In 1846, as the Irish Potato Famine tightened its grip, Parliament debated policy and churches held solemn days of prayer and fasting. Meanwhile, a tiny...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Grandmother's Quilt

When Maria Gonzalez opened the cedar chest after her grandmother's funeral in San Antonio, she found a quilt she had never seen before. Folded beneath...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

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The Monarch's Last Crawl

Every September, researchers at the University of Kansas tag thousands of monarch butterflies migrating through the Great Plains. Dr. Orley "Chip" Taylor has led this...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

241 words

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The Smallest Dot on the Map

In 1809, the world's attention was fixed on Napoleon. He was redrawing the borders of Europe, marching armies across Austria, and crowning himself master of...

Micah 5:2Universal

224 words

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The Water Pump at Ivy Green

For nearly seven years, Helen Keller lived in a world of fragments. After losing her sight and hearing at nineteen months old, she grasped at...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

246 words

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The Force at the Heart of Every Atom

In 1935, Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa proposed something astonishing: buried inside the nucleus of every atom is a force so powerful it defies everything we...

Colossians 1:15-17Universal

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The Field Preacher Who Found the Forgotten Flock

In 1739, the Anglican clergy of Bristol, England, had largely abandoned the coal miners of Kingswood. These workers — their faces blackened with soot, their...

Jeremiah 23:1-6Universal

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The Lady with the Lamp at Scutari

When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, in November 1854, she stepped into a darkness that had nothing to do...

Ephesians 5:8-14Universal

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The Remedy They Refused to See

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis stood in the maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital, haunted by a devastating pattern. Mothers were...

Numbers 21:4b-9Universal

229 words

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The Coach Who Wouldn't Back Down

Marcus Thompson had coached football at Eastside High for eleven years, and every Friday night brought the same unwelcome visitors. By the fourth quarter, a...

James 4:7Universal

244 words

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The Burden That Finally Fell

In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, one of the most striking moments comes early in Christian's journey. He has been walking with an enormous burden...

Universalfreedom

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The Sadhu Who Silenced the Theologians

When Sundar Singh arrived at Cambridge University in 1920, the faculty expected little. Here was an Indian sadhu in a saffron robe and bare feet...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

227 words

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Thirty-Seven Trillion to One

Your body contains roughly thirty-seven trillion cells. When just one sends a distress signal — a single cell damaged by infection or injury — your...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

221 words

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The Bee That Lost Its Sting

Margaret Chen had been terrified of bees since she was seven years old — the summer a yellow jacket crawled into her Kool-Aid and introduced...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

266 words

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The Priest Who Tipped His Hat

When Desmond Tutu was nine years old, he was walking with his mother down a street in Johannesburg. Under apartheid, Black South Africans were routinely...

1 John 3:1-3Universal

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The Watchman of Bletchley Park

In 1939, a retired classics scholar named Alfred Dillwyn Knox had spent decades studying ancient papyri, patiently deciphering fragments that most academics dismissed as unreadable....

Luke 2:22-40Universal

225 words

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The Moonlight Manuscripts

In the German town of Ohrdruf around 1696, eleven-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach lived with his older brother Johann Christoph, who kept a cabinet of advanced...

Luke 2:41-51aUniversal

236 words

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The Cartographer Who Burned His Maps

In 1947, a retired cartographer named Edwin Hargreaves sat in his cluttered study in Bath, England, surrounded by forty years of hand-drawn maps. He had...

Ecclesiastes 12:13Universal

232 words

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The Retuned Instrument

When a tuning fork is struck against a hard surface, it vibrates at exactly 440 hertz — the note A. Place it near a piano...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

212 words

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The Old Professor's Final Lecture

In the spring of 1998, Dr. Margaret Ellington stood before her last class at the University of Edinburgh. For forty-one years she had taught philosophy...

Ecclesiastes 12:13Universal

242 words

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The Slow Fuse

In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a Tegel prison cell, waiting. He had watched the Nazi regime devour Europe for a decade. He had seen...

Nahum 1:3Universal

220 words

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The Table That Forgot What It Was For

Margaret Chen's farmhouse kitchen table had been in her family for four generations. Her grandmother had kneaded bread on it. Her mother had taught six...

John 2:13-22Universal

252 words

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The Bones of Caiaphas

In November 1990, construction workers in Jerusalem's Peace Forest accidentally broke through the roof of an ancient burial cave. Israeli archaeologists were called in and...

Acts 2:14a, 22-32Universal

221 words

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The Telescope at Griffith Observatory

On a Friday evening in Los Angeles, a line of visitors snakes up the steps of Griffith Observatory to peer through the Zeiss telescope. A...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

253 words