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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 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

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The Muscle That Carries Tenderness

Dr. Paul Brand spent decades as a hand surgeon in Vellore, India, and what he discovered inside the human hand left him speechless with wonder....

Universalpurpose

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The Man in Black at Folsom

On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash walked into Folsom State Prison carrying nothing but a guitar and a voice roughened by years of addiction. He...

Universalfreedom

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The Retry Button

Every piece of software you use is built on a principle most people never think about: retry logic. When your browser loads a webpage, the...

Universalperseverance

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The Universe in a Grain of Sand

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that his colleagues thought was foolish. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of...

Universalhumility

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The Inverse Wave

In 1978, engineer Amar Bose boarded a transatlantic flight and slipped on the airline-issued headphones. The roar of the engines swallowed every note of music....

Universalgrace

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John Newton and the Mercy That Would Not Let Him Go

In March 1748, a young sailor named John Newton clung to the rigging of the HMS Greyhound as waves tore across the deck off the...

Psalm 78:1-2, 34-38Universal

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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

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The Enzymes That Never Stop Mending

In 2015, Swedish chemist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that reshaped how we understand survival at the molecular level....

Universalperseverance

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Through the Darkest Passage

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a scene that has haunted readers for more than a century and a half. Jean Valjean, the ex-convict...

Universalperseverance

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The Gift No One Had to Pay For

In 1993, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee faced a decision that would shape the modern world. He had invented the World Wide Web...

Universalfreedom

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The Letter That Took Twenty-Three Years to Open

In 2015, a Detroit man named Ronald Cotton finally opened a letter his estranged brother David had mailed him in 1992. For over two decades,...

Genesis 45:3-11, 15Universal

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Science Illustration: Engineering and Building for the Common Good

A few years ago, I had the privilege of visiting a city undergoing a remarkable transformation. Once a place marked by decay and neglect, it was being reborn through a community development project led by a group of engineers and...

Revelation 21:1-5Universal

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Three Letters at the Bottom of the Score

Johann Sebastian Bach composed over a thousand works — cantatas, fugues, concertos, and some of the most breathtaking music the Western world has ever heard....

Universalhumility

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Day Zero

In bone marrow transplant medicine, there is a moment doctors call "Day Zero" — the day donor stem cells are infused into a patient whose...

Universalhope

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Historical

The Epitaph He Wrote for Himself

John Newton drafted his own epitaph. The aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in London chose words of unflinching honesty: "John Newton, Clerk, once an...

1 Timothy 1:15Universalgraceredemption

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The Network That Carries Us

If you have ever set up a mesh WiFi system in your home — something like Google Nest WiFi or Amazon Eero — you know...

Universalcommunity

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The Remedy That Was Always Meant to Come

In January 1922, fourteen-year-old Leonard Thompson lay in Toronto General Hospital, weighing just sixty-five pounds. Type 1 diabetes was consuming him. In that era, the...

Universalfreedom

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Contemporary

The Power of a Soft Return

On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe walked onto Centre Court at the All England Club to face Jimmy Connors in the Wimbledon final. Connors was...

Romans 12:21Universaldignitybreaking barriers

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Movie Analogy

Who Am I?

In the film *Les Misérables*, there is a scene that cuts to the bone of what it means to know who you are. Jean Valjean...

Universalidentity

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The Surgeon's Secret About Broken Bones

When a bone fractures, something remarkable happens. Osteoblasts — the body's bone-building cells — flood the injury site and begin laying down new tissue called...

Universalforgiveness

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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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The Opponents Who Carried Her Home

In April 2008, Western Oregon senior Sara Tucholsky stepped to the plate in a conference softball game and did something she had never done in...

Universalgrace

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The Phone Call She Almost Didn't Answer

In 2019, a teenager named Maria in San Antonio stopped answering her mother's calls. She had dropped out of community college, fallen into debt she...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

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