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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 Olive Trees of Puglia

In southern Italy's Puglia region, olive trees stand that were planted before Columbus ever sailed. Some are over a thousand years old. Their trunks are...

Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15Universal

243 words

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His Voice Through the Smoke

When the fire alarm shrieked at 2:47 a.m., six-year-old Lily Chen couldn't see anything. Smoke filled the upstairs hallway of their Cedar Rapids bungalow, black...

Proverbs 18:10Universal

266 words

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The Weeping Man in the Baptistery

On the night before Easter, 387 AD, a thirty-two-year-old professor named Augustine stepped into the baptismal pool at the cathedral in Milan. Bishop Ambrose stood...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

228 words

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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Sermon He Could Not Preach

In 1514, a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas sat in his study on the island of Cuba, preparing a Pentecost sermon for his...

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

245 words

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The Man Who Refused to Live by Lies

In February 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn sat in his Moscow apartment knowing Soviet agents were coming to arrest him. He had spent years documenting the horrors...

2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2Universal

220 words

Vivid Retelling

The Dove Returns: Genesis 8:1-19

Cinematic retelling of the flood waters receding and Noah leaving the ark

Universal

625 words

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The Hands of the Healer

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, after the catastrophic Battle of the Pelennor Fields, three beloved characters lie dying in the Houses of...

Universalhealing

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The Architecture of Sacrifice

In 2002, scientists Sydney Brenner, John Sulston, and H. Robert Horvitz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering something remarkable inside every...

Universalsacrifice

276 words

Movie Analogy

Remember Who You Are

In *The Lion King*, young Simba flees his home after his uncle Scar convinces him he caused his father Mufasa's death. For years, Simba lives...

Universalidentity

248 words

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The Sanskrit Scholar Who Had Nothing

In 1882, Pandita Ramabai stood in a Pune courtyard with nothing but a white widow's sari and a reputation for brilliance. She was twenty-three. Her...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

244 words

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The Woman Who Thanks God for Tuesdays

Margaret Chen was fifty-three when the oncologist in Portland gave her eight months. That was six years ago. She'll tell you about the morning she...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

249 words

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The Cartographer Who Charted the Unseen

In 1826, a young British naval officer named Francis Beaufort spent weeks mapping the southern coast of Turkey, charting harbors and inlets that no European...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

236 words

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The Bishop Who Heard It From John

In the year 155 AD, an elderly bishop named Polycarp stood before a Roman proconsul who demanded he renounce Christ. "Eighty-six years I have served...

2 Peter 1:16-21Universal

230 words

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The Tracker Who Read the Forest Floor

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a search-and-rescue volunteer named Dale Hutchins can identify a lost hiker by nothing more than their footprints....

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

251 words

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The Name No One Knows Yet

Every year, the U.S. Marshals Service relocates hundreds of people through witness protection. Their old identities are erased — bank accounts closed, records sealed, obituaries...

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

221 words

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The Words You Memorized Before the Storm

On a gray Tuesday in March, a woman named Rachel Chen sat in her car outside a liquor store in Portland, Oregon. She had been...

Luke 4:1-13Universal

250 words

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The Last House on Recovery Street

In 2019, a nonprofit called SBP — founded after Hurricane Katrina — finished rebuilding its ten thousandth home for disaster survivors across the United States....

Revelation 21:1-6Universal

247 words

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The Surgery That Needed Every Hand

In 2017, a team at Johns Hopkins Hospital performed a groundbreaking face transplant on Katie Stubblefield, a young woman from Mississippi. The operation lasted thirty-one...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31aUniversal

228 words

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The Man Who Proved No Two Hands Are Alike

In 1858, British magistrate Sir William Herschel was working in Jungipoor, India, when he pressed a local contractor's hand into ink and onto the back...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

225 words

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The Scholar Who Found Living Water at Mukti

In 1878, Pandita Ramabai stood before the scholars of Calcutta — the first woman in India to earn the title "Pandita," a Sanskrit scholar of...

John 4:5-42Universal

217 words

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The Man Who Found the Invisible Force

In 1845, Michael Faraday stood before the Royal Institution in London and demonstrated something no one had ever seen — because it could not be...

Colossians 1:15-17Universal

245 words

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Ignaz Semmelweis and the Offense of Simple Obedience

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have revolutionized medicine overnight. At Vienna General Hospital, mothers were dying...

2 Kings 5:1-14Universal

248 words

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The Rhythm of Every Breath

A paramedic in Nashville named David Chen once explained to a group of students why CPR works. "People think breathing is one action," he said,...

Romans 10:9Universal

244 words

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Newton's Great Recoinage

In 1696, Isaac Newton — the man who had unlocked the laws of gravity — accepted an unexpected appointment as Warden of England's Royal Mint....

Malachi 3:1-4Universal

226 words