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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?”

23,476 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The Compass They Never Learned to Read

Every autumn, monarch butterflies leave southern Canada and fly nearly three thousand miles to a small cluster of oyamel fir trees in the mountains of...

Universalobedience

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The Courage of One Sleepless Night

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a chapter sometimes called "A Tempest in a Skull" that remains one of literature's most powerful portraits of...

Universalcourage

247 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Mark 9:33-41

Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 9:33-41

Universal

196 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 54

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 54

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

166 words

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The Stars That Had to Die

In 1957, astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge and her colleagues published a groundbreaking paper that changed how we understand the universe. Their research demonstrated that nearly every...

Universaltransformation

243 words

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The Cure Made from the Venom

At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, handlers milk eastern brown snakes — the second most venomous land snake on earth — by pressing...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

207 words

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The Body That Refuses to Stay Broken

Every single day, the DNA inside your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Radiation, toxins, even the simple...

Universalforgiveness

226 words

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The Man Who Could Have Stayed Silent

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a moment that still haunts readers over a century later. Jean Valjean, the former convict, has rebuilt his...

Universalcourage

248 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 38

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 38

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

254 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 118

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 118

Universal

325 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 19:28-37

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 19:28-37

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

229 words

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New Roads in an Old Brain

For most of the twentieth century, neuroscience taught a discouraging idea: the adult brain was fixed. Whatever pathways you had laid down by early adulthood...

Universalfreedom

229 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 20:17-28

Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 20:17-28

Universal

190 words

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Cape Bonavista

For thirty-seven years, Gerald Howell climbed the spiral stairs of the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse in Newfoundland every evening at dusk. Even after the Canadian government...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

237 words

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The GPS That Only Works When You Follow It

Every smartphone comes with a GPS app that can guide you anywhere — across cities, through unfamiliar countryside, even around construction detours you never saw...

Universalobedience

260 words

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The Cells That Rush Toward Danger

In 2011, researchers at the University of California San Diego captured something remarkable on video for the first time. When a wound opens in living...

Universalcourage

244 words

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The Figures Still Emerging from the Stone

In the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, just down the hallway from the famous *David*, stand four unfinished sculptures by Michelangelo known as the *Prisoners*. They...

Universalfreedom

227 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 1:57-66

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 1:57-66

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

174 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 8:40-56

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 8:40-56

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

217 words

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The Key He Had All Along

In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, Christian and his companion Hopeful are captured by Giant Despair and thrown into the dungeon of Doubting Castle. For...

Universalfaith

228 words

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