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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 Ring They Didn't Have to Give

On October 14, 2003, a twenty-six-year-old fan named Steve Bartman reached for a foul ball during Game 6 of the National League Championship Series at...

Universalforgiveness

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Eric Liddell's Final Race in Weifang

In the winter of 1944, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter who had stunned the world by refusing to run on Sunday at the 1924...

Psalm 25:1-10Universal

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The Night Frances Havergal Gave Everything Away

In February 1874, English hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal stayed at a friend's home where ten people were gathered, several of whom did not yet...

Universalsacrifice

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The First Time She Heard Niagara

Maria Esperanza had seen photographs her whole life. She had watched documentaries, read travel blogs, even purchased the tickets months in advance. But nothing —...

Psalm 29Universal

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The Love That Refused to Let Go

On the evening of June 6, 1882, Scottish minister George Matheson sat alone while his sister's wedding celebration carried on without him. Matheson had been...

Universallove

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When Forgiveness Becomes the Song

In 2002, a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge killed two young women — one of them was Meagan Napier. Her mother, Renée, was shattered. The...

Universalforgiveness

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Harriet: Joy That Sustained the Journey - Black Church (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

Imagine the dimly lit cabin deep in the woods, a sanctuary that echoed with the haunting melodies of freedom. This was where Harriet Tubman, with her unwavering spirit, would gather her fellow travelers on the Underground Railroad. As the night...

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18Universal

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Fanny Crosby's Eight Thousand Hymns

When Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's mistake, no one imagined she would become the most prolific hymn...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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Twenty-Three Watts Across the Void

Voyager 1, launched by NASA in 1977, is now more than fifteen billion miles from Earth — the most distant human-made object in existence. Its...

Universalfaith

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Arms Linked in Berlin

In the summer of 1936, Jesse Owens stood in Berlin's Olympic Stadium before eighty thousand spectators, many of them cheering for Adolf Hitler's vision of...

Universallove

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The Name on the Nursery Wall

When Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston in August 2017, Jessica Lozano was eight months pregnant and trapped on the second floor of her home in Dickinson,...

Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10Universal

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The Seat That Shook the World

On June 2, 1953, inside Westminster Abbey, Elizabeth II did something that changed the course of a nation. She sat down. After the anointing oil,...

Psalm 110:1-4Universal

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The Barrier That Was Never There

For decades, the four-minute mile stood as an unbreakable wall in track and field. Medical experts insisted the human body simply could not sustain that...

Universalfreedom

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Two Thousand Years in the Dark

In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon and botanist Dr. Elaine Solowey planted something remarkable at the Arava Institute in Israel — a date palm seed recovered...

Universalperseverance

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The Garden He Painted Blind

By 1912, Claude Monet could barely see the water lilies he had spent decades painting. Cataracts clouded both eyes, turning his beloved garden at Giverny...

Universalperseverance

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Painting Through the Fog

Claude Monet spent the last three decades of his life painting water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France. What many people don't realize is...

Universalhope

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Do Not Be Too Eager

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the wretched creature Gollum has been following him through the dark, and he says...

Universalgrace

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The Young Man Who Ducked Into the Chapel on Artillery Street

On January 6, 1850, a fifteen-year-old boy named Charles Spurgeon trudged through a blizzard in Colchester, England. He had been visiting churches for months, searching...

John 1:43-51Universal

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Stronger Than Before

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a principle that still bears his name. Wolff's Law states that bone adapts to the stress placed upon...

Universalhope

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The Last Step Into Mordor

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment near the end of the long journey to Mount Doom that has moved...

Universalperseverance

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Sixty-Nine Days Without the Sun

On August 5, 2010, seven hundred thousand tons of rock collapsed inside the San Jose copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, trapping thirty-three miners half...

Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19Universal

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The Fire That Sharpened Tolkien

For nearly two decades, a small group of friends met on Thursday evenings in C.S. Lewis's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford. They called themselves the...

Universalcommunity

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The Weight He Could Not Share

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment that has moved readers for generations. Frodo, the small hobbit tasked with carrying...

Universalcourage

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Every Fragment Returned

On a spring morning in 1972, a man climbed over the railing in St. Peter's Basilica and struck Michelangelo's Pietà fifteen times with a hammer....

Universalrestoration

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