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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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Grace in the Ring

On June 28, 1997, the world watched in horror as Mike Tyson bit a chunk from Evander Holyfield's right ear during their heavyweight championship rematch...

Universalforgiveness

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Movie Analogy

Tunneling Through the Wall

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

Universalpatience

242 words

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A Pixel of Pale Blue

On February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft was hurtling past Neptune, nearly four billion miles from home. At the urging of astronomer Carl Sagan,...

Universalhumility

228 words

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The Update That Would Not Quit

Every iPhone user knows the experience. You dismiss that software update notification once, twice, a dozen times. You swipe it away at breakfast, ignore it...

Universalperseverance

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The Coach Who Vouched for the Fallen

In 2007, Michael Vick was one of the most electric athletes in professional football. Then came the dogfighting conviction. He lost his $130 million contract...

Universalgrace

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Movie Analogy

Through the Sewage Pipe to Freedom

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, there is a moment that still takes my breath away. Andy Dufresne has spent nineteen years chipping through a concrete wall...

Universalperseverance

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The Song He Wrote in the Dark

In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before an orchestra in Vienna for the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He could not hear a single note....

Universallove

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The Mesh Network Church

Most of us have experienced the frustration of a WiFi dead zone — that corner of the house where the signal just dies. The traditional...

Universalcommunity

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The Olympian Who Gave Everything Away

By 1944, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter who electrified the world by winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics —...

Matthew 5:40-42Universalgenerosityhumility

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The Sound That Cancels the Storm

In 1989, Bose released the first commercially available noise-canceling headphones — the Aviation Headset, designed for pilots overwhelmed by the roar of the cockpit. The...

Universalhealing

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The Git Revert That Grace Makes Possible

Every software developer knows the sinking feeling. You have been building something for hours, maybe days, and then one bad line of code breaks everything....

Universalredemption

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The Long Way Home to Home Plate

In 1999, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays made Josh Hamilton the first overall pick in the Major League Baseball Draft. He was eighteen years old...

Universalredemption

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The Letter on the Refrigerator

In a small kitchen in Louisville, Kentucky, a woman named Grace Kimura keeps a handwritten letter pinned to her refrigerator with a magnet shaped like...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

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The Comeback Nobody Deserved

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn wearing a Dodgers uniform, and the world changed. But here is what we...

Universalgrace

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Certified Refurbished

Every year, millions of iPhones and MacBooks are returned to Apple — cracked screens, water damage, batteries that won't hold a charge. By every consumer...

Universalredemption

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What Bones Know About Grace

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff documented something remarkable about the human skeleton. When a bone fractures and heals, the body does not simply patch...

Universalredemption

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Movie Analogy

When the Candlesticks Spoke Louder Than the Law

In the 2012 film *Les Misérables*, there is a moment that changes everything. Jean Valjean, freshly released from nineteen years in prison, is taken in...

Universalforgiveness

226 words

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Swallowed Into Mercy

In 1985, a commercial diver named Michael Packard was working off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, when a humpback whale accidentally scooped him into its...

Jonah 1:17Universal

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The Unflattering Portrait

In London's National Gallery hangs a small painting that has stopped visitors in their tracks for over three centuries. It is Rembrandt van Rijn's *Self-Portrait...

Universalhumility

238 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 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 Kitchen Table Catechism

Maria Gonzalez never planned to be a theologian. She worked the early shift at a bakery in San Antonio, and by the time her three...

Deuteronomy 6:6-7Universalparenting

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The Nine Walkers

In Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Elrond assembles nine companions for the most perilous journey in Middle-earth. What strikes me every time I read...

Universalcommunity

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Carrying the Wounded Through the Dark

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a scene that has haunted readers for over a century. Jean Valjean, the ex-convict transformed by grace, descends...

Universalperseverance

242 words