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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 Murmur in Room 4B

In her third week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Anand pressed her stethoscope to an elderly patient's chest and heard something...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Letter That Arrived Before They Ever Met

In 1896, George Washington Carver was finishing his master's degree at Iowa State Agricultural College — the first Black student to earn one there. He...

John 1:43-51Universal

243 words

Movie Analogy

The Sixth Sense: I See Dead People (2 Kings 6:16-17)

In the film *The Sixth Sense*, we meet a young boy named Cole Sear, who lives in a world that is both haunting and isolating. He possesses an extraordinary ability that causes him to see what most people cannot: the...

2 Kings 6:16-17Universalspiritual sightgifts

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The Bessemer Blast

In 1856, Henry Bessemer stood before the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Cheltenham, England, and announced something that sounded impossible. He could...

Malachi 3:1-4Universal

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Easter Eve at the Baptistery

On the night before Easter, 387 AD, a thirty-two-year-old rhetoric professor stepped into the octagonal baptistery beside Milan Cathedral. His name was Augustine, and he...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

226 words

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The General Who Walked

In September 1945, when Douglas MacArthur arrived in Tokyo to accept Japan's formal surrender, his aides prepared a convoy of armored vehicles, flags snapping from...

Zechariah 9:9Universal

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Monica's Thirty-Year Vigil

In the fourth century, a North African mother named Monica watched her brilliant son Augustine abandon everything she had taught him. He took a concubine...

Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9Universal

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The Woman Who Quit Before She Died

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, the children despise old Mrs. Dubose. She is bitter, sharp-tongued, and shouts insults from her porch every time...

Universalcourage

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The House on Pilings

When Hurricane Harvey slammed into Rockport, Texas, in August 2017, entire neighborhoods were flattened. Roofs peeled away like paper. Walls collapsed into heaps of soggy...

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

236 words

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The Refugees of Herrnhut

In 1722, a ragged band of Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They had nothing but the clothes...

1 Corinthians 12:1-11Universal

234 words

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When the Walls Became a Writing Desk

In 1660, a traveling tinker and lay preacher named John Bunyan was arrested near the village of Lower Samsell in Bedfordshire, England, for conducting a...

2 Corinthians 4:8-9Universalperseverancefaith

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The Bones That Were Never Broken

In 1968, construction workers in the Givat HaMivtar neighborhood of Jerusalem uncovered an ancient burial site. Among the limestone ossuaries, archaeologists found the remains of...

John 19:31-37Universal

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The Mold That Saved Two Hundred Million Lives

In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he'd accidentally left...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Geneticist Who Knew Every Stalk by Heart

In the 1940s, geneticist Barbara McClintock spent her days walking the cornfields at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. While other scientists studied populations...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

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The Signature on the Blueprint

In 1943, a small congregation in Birmingham, Alabama gathered in a borrowed basement to plan their first church building. They had no architect, no contractor,...

Nehemiah 2:20Universal

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Carved Into the Family Name

In 1865, Moses and Susan Carver sent a neighbor on horseback into the night to recover an infant stolen by raiders from their Missouri farm....

Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12Universal

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The Coach Who Never Stopped Calling

Every Thursday evening for eleven years, retired cross-country coach Dave Simmons of Flagstaff, Arizona, dialed the same six phone numbers. His former runners had scattered...

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13Universal

231 words

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Wired to Weep, Wired to Rejoice

In 1992, neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his team at the University of Parma made a startling discovery. While studying motor neurons in macaque monkeys, they...

Universallove

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The African Boy Who Taught the Professors to Pray

In 1891, a young Liberian man named Samuel Morris arrived at Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had no formal education. He owned no...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

236 words

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A Million Miles Beyond Repair

In June 2022, a micrometeorite struck one of the eighteen gold-plated mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope — a ten-billion-dollar instrument orbiting nearly...

Universalhealing

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The Cure Made from the Poison

At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, trained handlers pin down eastern brown snakes, taipans, and death adders to milk venom from their fangs....

Numbers 21:4b-9Universal

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The Doctor Who Listened for the First Breath

In 1952, Dr. Virginia Apgar sat in the delivery room at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York and did something no physician had systematically done before....

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

224 words

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What the Rancher Knew About Coyotes

Tom Hernandez ran cattle on four hundred acres outside Marfa, Texas. He told his new ranch hand something on the first day that the young...

James 4:7Universal

225 words

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The Witness Who Could Not Stay Silent

On a February morning in 1974, Soviet authorities dragged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from his Moscow apartment and deported him from Russia. His crime was simple: he...

Acts 2:14a, 22-32Universal

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