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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 Creature Who Deserved Death

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the wretched creature Gollum has been skulking behind the Fellowship in the darkness of...

Universalforgiveness

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The Prescription on the Nightstand

Margaret Chen sat in her doctor's office in Portland last March, listening carefully as Dr. Patel explained her diagnosis. High blood pressure — manageable, but...

James 1:22Universal

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The Candlesticks That Renamed Him

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean is a man defined by a number. Nineteen years in prison for stealing bread have reduced him to...

Universalidentity

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The Sinking Tower on Mission Street

In 2016, residents of San Francisco's Millennium Tower discovered something terrifying. The fifty-eight-story luxury high-rise, home to multimillion-dollar condos with skyline views, had sunk seventeen...

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

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The Composer Who Found His Voice Again

In April 1737, George Frideric Handel collapsed in his London home. A stroke paralyzed his right side and, by some accounts, temporarily clouded his mind....

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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12 Years a Slave: The Suffering of the Oppressed - Progressive (Isaiah 53)

In the powerful film *12 Years a Slave*, we meet Solomon Northup, a free Black man living in New York, whose life is shattered when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Picture him, once a proud violinist, now forced...

Isaiah 53Universal

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The Dawn Chorus at Muir Woods

Every morning, about forty minutes before sunrise, something remarkable happens in the ancient redwood groves of Muir Woods, California. A single bird — usually a...

Psalm 100Universal

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The Outlaw in the Castle

In April 1521, Martin Luther stood before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms and refused to recant his writings. "My conscience is captive...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

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The Magnetic Memory of Home

A loggerhead sea turtle hatches on a dark beach, scrambles to the surf, and disappears into the Atlantic. She will spend the next twenty to...

Universaltrust

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The Hymn Writer Who Never Stopped Singing

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's error. She never regained it. Yet by the time she reached her...

Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15Universal

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The Janitor Who Solved the Equation

In 2016, a custodian named Srinivasa at a research facility in Bangalore, India, noticed a whiteboard equation that professors had struggled with for weeks. He...

1 Corinthians 1:18-31Universal

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The Two Words That Hold Everything

In Alexandre Dumas's *The Count of Monte Cristo*, Edmond Dantès is a young sailor with everything ahead of him — a promotion, a wedding, a...

Universalhope

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The Love That Puzzled an Emperor

In 362 AD, Emperor Julian — whom history remembers as "Julian the Apostate" — sat in his palace writing a frustrated letter to a pagan...

John 13:31-35Universal

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The Colors Hidden Beneath the Soot

For nearly five centuries, the world assumed Michelangelo painted in somber, muted tones. The Sistine Chapel ceiling — that breathtaking expanse of biblical narrative —...

Universalforgiveness

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The Stammering Sunday School Teacher Who Changed the World

In April of 1855, a Boston Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside a shoe store on Court Street, nearly losing his...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

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The Casserole That Never Left the Counter

Margaret Holloway made the best chicken casserole in all of Decatur, Georgia. Everyone at First Community Church said so. When the Nguyen family lost their...

James 2:17Universal

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The Surgeon Who Wept at What He Saw

In 1816, French physician Rene Laennec placed a rolled-up notebook against a patient's chest and heard, for the first time, the unmistakable rhythm of a...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

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When Every Knee Knew to Stand

On the first Monday of October, the marshal of the United States Supreme Court strikes the gavel and calls out, "Oyez, oyez, oyez." Every lawyer,...

Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14Universal

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The Gym Nobody Wanted

In 2016, the city council of Brownsville, Brooklyn voted to demolish the old Brownsville Recreation Center on Linden Boulevard. The building was crumbling, its windows...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

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The Hobbit Who Was Never Meant for Great Things

In *The Fellowship of the Ring*, there is a moment deep beneath the mountains where Frodo Baggins confesses to Gandalf what many of us have...

Universalpurpose

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The Christ-Follower in the Break Room

Marcus had worked at the distribution warehouse in Memphis for eleven years. He was known for his quiet reliability — first one clocked in, last...

Romans 1:16Universal

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A Thousand Tiny Dots of Light

If you visit the Art Institute of Chicago, you will find yourself standing before Georges Seurat's masterpiece, *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La...

Universalcommunity

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Vivid Retelling

Blood Crying from the Ground: Genesis 4:1-16

Cinematic retelling of Cain murdering Abel

Universal

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Stronger at the Break

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. Known as Wolff's Law, it describes how bone tissue remodels...

Universalhealing

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