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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?”

23,656 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Coach Who Ran Out of Time

On March 4, 1993, college basketball coach Jim Valvano walked to the podium at the first-ever ESPY Awards. Cancer was consuming his body. He needed...

Universalhope

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George Müller's Empty Table

George Müller sat at the head of a long breakfast table in his Bristol orphanage in 1842, three hundred hungry children waiting in silence. The...

Matthew 7:7-8Universal

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New Blood

In 1956, Dr. E. Donnall Thomas performed the first successful bone marrow transplant, a procedure that would eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. Before his...

Universalhope

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The Gardener Who Came Back to Monticello

When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, his beloved gardens at Monticello fell into ruin. The terraced vegetable beds that once held 330 varieties of vegetables...

Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19Universal

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Science Illustration: Truth-Seeking and Integrity in Research

There’s a remarkable story about a young scientist named Maya, who dedicated her life to researching the effects of climate change on coral reefs. She would rise with the sun, her heart pounding with anticipation, as she dove into the...

Romans 1:20Universal

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The Letter That Took Twenty Years to Open

In 2019, a woman named Sara Northrup found a sealed envelope tucked inside her late mother's Bible. It was addressed to her uncle David, her...

Genesis 45:3-11, 15Universal

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The Night a Nation Held Its Breath and Then Roared

On October 13, 2010, a steel rescue capsule broke through two thousand feet of Chilean rock and delivered the first of thirty-three trapped miners back...

Psalm 98Universal

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The Storm Shelter on Maple Street

On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado carved a seventeen-mile path through Moore, Oklahoma, flattening entire neighborhoods in minutes. Wind speeds exceeded two hundred miles...

Proverbs 18:10Universal

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Movie Analogy

Into Great Silence: Liturgical Transformation - Orthodox (Romans 12:1-2)

In the breathtaking documentary *Into Great Silence*, we are invited into the austere world of the Carthusian monks, who live lives that exemplify the concept of a “living sacrifice” as described in Romans 12:1-2. Picture the rugged Alps, where silence...

Romans 12:1-2Universal

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Contemporary

The Order He Refused to Obey

On September 11, 2001, when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the Port Authority broadcast a message to everyone...

John 15:13Universalpreparationsacrifice

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The Discovery That Unlocked Life

In January 1922, fourteen-year-old Leonard Thompson lay dying in Toronto General Hospital. He weighed just sixty-five pounds. Type 1 diabetes was consuming him from the...

Universalfreedom

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The Speed That Breaks the Chain

Physicists call it escape velocity — the precise speed an object must reach to break free from a planet's gravitational pull. For Earth, that number...

Universalfreedom

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Movie Analogy

Harriet: Armored for Liberation Warfare - Black Church (Ephesians 6:10-18)

As we gather today, let us reflect on the life of Harriet Tubman, a woman who was not just a liberator but a warrior clad in the armor of God, navigating a treacherous landscape of oppression. Imagine the early morning...

Ephesians 6:10-18Universal

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The Gardener on Montague Street

In the spring of 1987, Ruth Caldwell knelt in the cracked soil behind her rowhouse in Baltimore and planted twelve tomato seedlings. She was sixty-three,...

Ephesians 3:20Universal

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Historical

A Voice Borrowed from the Voiceless

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before nearly six hundred people in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, invited by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery...

Proverbs 31:8-9Universaljusticetruth

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Historical

The Unarmed Man on the Ridge

On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...

John 15:13Universalcourageconviction

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Built to Retry

Every time you send an email, stream a sermon online, or submit a prayer request through your church's website, something remarkable is happening beneath the...

Universalperseverance

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The Letters: Presenting Bodies in Service to Christ - Catholic (Romans 12:1-2)

In the heart of Calcutta, where the air is thick with the scent of spices and the cries of the impoverished echo off the crumbling walls, we find a remarkable example of embodied faith in the life of Mother Teresa....

Romans 12:1-2Universal

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Contemporary

Such a Time as Hers

On October 9, 2012, a masked Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and shot fifteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head. The bullet...

Esther 4:14Universalcourageeducation

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Historical

A Handful of Salt and the Power of Peace

On the morning of March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti stepped out of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, carrying...

Matthew 5:9Universalnonviolencecourage

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A Voice That Would Not Be Denied

On May 29, 1851, a tall, weathered woman rose from the pews of the Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio. The Women's Rights Convention had...

Genesis 1:27Universaldignityequality

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Maximilian Kolbe and the Love That Steps Forward

In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards selected ten men to die by starvation as punishment. When Franciszek Gajowniczek...

Romans 5:5b-11Universal

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The Code That No One Person Could Write

In 1991, a twenty-one-year-old Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a modest message to an online forum. He had written a small computer operating system...

Universalcommunity

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The Grandmother Who Sang While She Worked

Every morning at 5:30, before the rest of the house stirred, Margaret Okonkwo stood at the kitchen sink in her small Lagos apartment and sang....

Psalm 100Universal

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