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Home›Traditions›Pentecostal

Pentecostal Illustrations

The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.

Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”

25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Boy Under the Resolute Desk

In 1963, photographer Stanley Tretick captured one of the most iconic images in American history: three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. crawling beneath the Resolute Desk...

Hebrews 4:16Universal

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The Way Trees Heal

When a tree is struck by lightning, carved by a blade, or broken in a storm, something remarkable happens beneath the bark. The tree does...

Universalforgiveness

260 words

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Finding the Swing

In the summer of 1936, nine working-class young men from the University of Washington climbed into a wooden racing shell at the Berlin Olympics. They...

Universalcommunity

219 words

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Wired to Feel

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

Universallove

247 words

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The Blood That Answers to Another Name

In a bone marrow transplant, physicians must first destroy the patient's own diseased marrow through intensive chemotherapy. It is a harrowing process — the old...

Universalredemption

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Movie Analogy

Just Mercy: God's Love for the Condemned - Progressive

In the gripping narrative of *Just Mercy*, we follow Bryan Stevenson, a dedicated lawyer who makes a radical choice to abandon a promising career in New York City to fight for those forgotten and forsaken on death row in Alabama....

John 3:16Universal

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When the Silver Wasn't Enough

In the 2012 film *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles to the door of the Bishop of Digne, a broken man. Nineteen years in prison have...

Universalrestoration

241 words

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The Hymn That Named a Wretch

In 1772, John Newton sat in his study in Olney, England, preparing a sermon on identity. He was a former slave trader — a man...

Universalidentity

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The Chance He Never Earned

Just a few years before the 1999 NFL season, Kurt Warner was stocking shelves at a Hy-Vee grocery store in Cedar Falls, Iowa, earning $5.50...

Universalgrace

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Movie Analogy

The Longest Tunnel in Maine

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne sits in his cell holding a rock hammer small enough to fit inside a Bible. The warden would later...

Universalperseverance

226 words

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The Man in Black's Second Chance

In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave outside Nashville, Tennessee, intending to die. Years of amphetamine addiction had cost him nearly everything — his...

Universalredemption

261 words

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The Light That Repairs What's Broken

In 1949, biologist Albert Kelner made a puzzling discovery. He had been studying bacteria whose DNA had been shattered by ultraviolet radiation — the genetic...

Universalredemption

225 words

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The Underground Gift

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking discovery in the journal *Nature*. Using radioactive carbon isotopes injected into birch and fir trees in a...

Universalgrace

239 words

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Strength for the Next Mile

On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her gray sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon...

Philippians 4:13Universalcourageperseverance

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The Signal Gets Stronger Together

In 2017, a company called Eero pioneered something called mesh Wi-Fi networking for ordinary households. The concept was simple but revolutionary. Instead of relying on...

Universalcommunity

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Movie Analogy

Rain and Redemption: The Night Andy Dufresne Crawled to Freedom

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, there is a scene that has stayed with millions of viewers since 1994. Andy Dufresne, wrongly imprisoned for nearly two decades,...

Universalhope

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The Web That Was Given Away

In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented something that would reshape human civilization: the World Wide Web. Working at the CERN research...

Universalfreedom

219 words

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The Brain That Learns to Say Yes

In 1949, Canadian neuroscientist Donald Hebb proposed a principle that reshaped our understanding of the human brain. Later summarized in a famous phrase — "neurons...

Universalobedience

234 words

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Nineteen Years With a Rock Hammer

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne receives a small rock hammer — a tool so tiny his friend Red jokes that it would take a...

Universalpatience

222 words

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The Injection That Broke the Sentence

Before 1922, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. Children wasted away on starvation diets — the only treatment doctors could offer....

Universalfreedom

242 words

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Standing in the Rain

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years inside the walls of Shawshank State Penitentiary for a crime he did not commit. Night after...

Universalfreedom

248 words

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The Love That Reads Through Damage

In 1994, Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara faced a problem. Barcodes on automotive parts kept getting smeared with grease and grime on the factory floor, rendering...

Universallove

234 words

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The Plaque Above the Mantle

In the home of John Newton — the former slave ship captain who penned the words to *Amazing Grace* — a hand-carved plaque hung above...

Universalgrace

244 words

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The Second Chance She Didn't Have to Give

In March 2015, a college baseball player named Joey Casselberry posted a vulgar, degrading tweet about Mo'ne Davis — the thirteen-year-old who had captivated the...

Universalgrace

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