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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?”

23,513 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The First Face She Would Ever See

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a man posing as a doctor applied the wrong poultice to her infected eyes and left her permanently...

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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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Restored to Factory Settings

Every smartphone owner knows the moment of dread: a device gone wrong. Maybe it happened gradually — too many careless downloads, settings tweaked until nothing...

Universalredemption

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The Coral That Grew Faster Broken

In 2006, marine biologist Dr. David Vaughan was cleaning a tank at Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida when he accidentally snapped a piece of elkhorn...

Universalrestoration

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The Last Grove Standing in the Mountains of Lebanon

In the mountains above Bsharri, Lebanon, there stands a grove of cedars that the locals call the Cedars of God. Some of these trees are...

Psalm 29Universal

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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

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The Sommelier Who Could Not Read

In 2012, a documentary called *Somm* followed four candidates preparing for the Master Sommelier exam — one of the hardest tests in the world, with...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

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The Dragon's Skin

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a disagreeable boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's treasure hoard and wakes to...

Universaltransformation

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The Chapel That Became a Storage Room

When Chaplain David Rivera arrived at Memorial Hospital in San Antonio, he found the chapel wedged between a supply closet and the billing office. Someone...

John 2:13-22Universal

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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

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The Man Who Ran Out of Metaphors

In the Judean foothills southwest of Bethlehem, you can still find the caves where David hid from Saul — deep limestone shelves carved by centuries...

2 Samuel 22:2-3Universal

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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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The Boy Who Copied Music by Moonlight

Johann Sebastian Bach was ten years old and newly orphaned when his older brother Johann Christoph took him in at Ohrdruf in 1695. The brother...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Restoration of the Sistine Chapel

In 1980, a team of restorers began the painstaking work of cleaning Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican City. For nearly five centuries, candle soot,...

2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2Universal

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The Hymns That Couldn't Drown Out the Chains

In 1787, the churches of Bristol, England, were magnificent. Their choirs sang anthems that echoed off vaulted stone ceilings. Their congregations filled polished pews every...

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

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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 Master Vintner's Barrel

In Napa Valley, master winemaker André Tchelistcheff spent decades teaching a principle that transformed California wine. A barrel, he insisted, isn't just a container —...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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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 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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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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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 Dragon Skin He Couldn't Remove

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his...

Universalrestoration

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The Milkmaid's Hands and the End of Variolation

For centuries, smallpox terrorized the world. In eighteenth-century England, doctors practiced variolation — deliberately infecting patients with a mild strain of the disease, hoping to...

Hebrews 10:4-10Universal

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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

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