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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

Sermon Illustration

The Heart That Never Hoards

Your heart pumps roughly 2,000 gallons of blood every single day — enough to fill a backyard swimming pool every week. And here is what...

Luke 6:38Universal

212 words

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Sermon Illustration

The Composer God Refused to Let Stay Silent

George Frideric Handel's father despised music. A respected barber-surgeon in Halle, Germany, he forbade instruments in the house and insisted his son would become a...

Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12Universal

239 words

Sermon Illustration

The Death That Gives You Life

Every day inside your body, somewhere between fifty and seventy billion cells quietly die. Not because something has gone wrong — but because everything is...

Universalsacrifice

239 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 4:14-30

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 4:14-30

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

233 words

Movie Analogy

Stepping Into Nothing

In *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, there is a moment that has stayed with audiences for decades. Indiana Jones stands at the edge of...

Universalfaith

236 words

Sermon Illustration

The Team Nobody Saw Coming

In June 2004, the Detroit Pistons did something the basketball world considered impossible. They faced the Los Angeles Lakers — a roster glittering with future...

Universalcommunity

231 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 7:18-35

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 7:18-35

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

204 words

Sermon Illustration

The Blueprint Hidden in the Dissolution

In the chrysalis, something astonishing happens that most of us never learned in school. The caterpillar does not simply sprout wings. It dissolves. Enzymes break...

Universaltransformation

251 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 6:41-59

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 6:41-59

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

205 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 6:27-36

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 6:27-36

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

194 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 78

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 78

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

295 words

Sermon Illustration

The Chemistry of Starting Over

In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled researchers for decades: how our DNA repairs...

Universalforgiveness

234 words

Movie Analogy

Courage That Charges Into the Dark

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, Aragorn leads a ragged army to the Black Gate of Mordor. The math is...

Universalcourage

236 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 26:57-68

Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 26:57-68

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

187 words

Sermon Illustration

The Doctor Who Swallowed the Evidence

In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall faced a medical establishment that refused to believe him. He and his colleague Dr. Robin Warren had discovered that stomach...

Universalcourage

217 words

Sermon Illustration

The Hands That Wouldn't Wash

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a disturbing discovery at Vienna General Hospital. Women in the maternity ward staffed by doctors...

Universalhumility

240 words

Sermon Illustration

The Geneticist Who Knew Every Kernel

In the 1930s, Barbara McClintock spent her days at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, bent over ears of corn. While other scientists dismissed...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

248 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 110

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 110

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

212 words

Sermon Illustration

The Blood That Tells You Who You Are

When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, something remarkable happens. The donor's marrow takes root and begins producing new blood cells — cells that...

Universalidentity

227 words

Sermon Illustration

The Moment Before the Downbeat

On a Thursday evening in 1951, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra sat tuning in Orchestra Hall. Oboes bleated against cellos. Timpani rumbled beneath shrieking violins. A...

Colossians 1:15-17Universal

227 words

Sermon Illustration

The Conductor's Downbeat

In 1951, Leonard Bernstein stood before the New York Philharmonic, baton raised, the concert hall suspended in absolute silence. Every musician sat poised — fingers...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

218 words

Show Don't Tell