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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 Blood That Wasn't His Own

In hematology, one of the most remarkable phenomena occurs after a bone marrow transplant. Once the donor's marrow engrafts and begins producing new blood cells,...

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The Sound That Swallows the Storm

If you own a pair of noise-canceling headphones — Bose, Sony, Apple — you have witnessed a quiet parable of sacrifice every time you press...

Universalsacrifice

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The Unlikely Weaver

In E.B. White's *Charlotte's Web*, a young pig named Wilbur learns a terrifying truth: come winter, he will be slaughtered. He is helpless to save...

Universalcommunity

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The Maternity Ward in Kyiv

On February 24, 2022, when Russian missiles began striking Kyiv, doctors and nurses at the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital rushed newborns from the maternity ward into...

Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10abUniversal

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The Long Promise Kept

In 1999, a farmer named Chester Drummond in rural eastern Kentucky made a promise to his five-year-old granddaughter, Ellie. He told her that one day,...

Acts 13:22-26Universal

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The Woman Who Spoke for Those Who Could Not Speak

On March 20, 1852, a small Boston publishing house, John P. Jewett and Company, released a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet...

Proverbs 31:8-9Universaljusticecompassion

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Joy Written in Silence

By 1818, Ludwig van Beethoven could not hear a single note. The composer who had once filled Vienna's concert halls now lived in total silence,...

Psalm 40:3Universalperseverancebeauty

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The Last Prayer of William Tyndale

On the morning of October 6, 1536, guards led William Tyndale from the damp stone cells of Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a wooden stake...

Psalm 119:105Universalsacrificetruth

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The Watchmaker's Hands That Held the World at Bay

In her memoir *The Hiding Place*, Corrie ten Boom recalls a childhood ritual that shaped her understanding of God. Every night in their narrow Haarlem...

Zephaniah 3:17Universal

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Movie Analogy

The Notebook: Love That Endures All Things - Traditional (1 Corinthians 13)

In the poignant film *The Notebook*, we find Noah Calhoun, a man whose heart beats steadily for Allie Hamilton, even when her memory of him fades under the oppressive weight of dementia. Picture this: a sunlit room filled with the...

1 Corinthians 13Universal

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A Suitcase Full of Conviction

On the morning of February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans carried a suitcase through the corridors of the University of Munich. Inside...

Revelation 12:11Universalcouragetruth

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Trusting the Signal

When you type a destination into Google Maps and press navigate, something remarkable happens beneath the surface. Your phone connects to at least four GPS...

Universaltrust

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The Saint of the Gutters

On a September morning in 1948, a thirty-eight-year-old Albanian nun stepped through the gates of the Loreto convent in Calcutta and walked into the Motijhil...

Matthew 25:40Universalcompassioncalling

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The Bridge That Was Already Built

In 2010, a massive earthquake devastated Haiti, leaving tens of thousands trapped beneath collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince. Relief organizations from around the world mobilized immediately....

John 3:16-18Universal

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The Deepest Map Ever Made

In 2012, oceanographer Victor Vescovo set out to do what no human had done — visit the deepest point in all five of the world's...

Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19Universal

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The Priest Who Stepped Out of Line

In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As retribution, deputy commander Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten...

1 John 3:16Universalsacrificelove

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Faith Before the First Injection

On July 4, 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog near his village in Alsace, suffering fourteen bite wounds on his hands,...

James 5:14-15Universalcouragehealing

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Vivid Retelling

Why Have You Forsaken Me?: Mark 15:33-41

Cinematic retelling of Jesus' death on the cross

Universal

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The Garden Behind the Locked Door

In Frances Hodgson Burnett's *The Secret Garden*, ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor as a sour, neglected child — unloved and, by her own...

Universaltransformation

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Twenty-Six Days

On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton was lying on her surfboard off the north shore of Kauai when a fourteen-foot tiger...

Universalfaith

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The Diagnosis That Disappeared

In March 2019, Maria Gonzalez sat in the oncology waiting room at Houston Methodist, hands folded tight, bracing herself for the follow-up scans. Eight months...

Mark 16:1-8Universal

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The Olympic Champion Who Found Joy Behind Barbed Wire

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games. The world celebrated him as the Flying Scotsman. But twenty years...

Psalm 16Universal

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The Bone Marrow Drive on Maple Street

In 2019, a seven-year-old girl named Lily Chen was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Rochester, Minnesota. Her family had moved from Taiwan only two...

1 John 4:7-16Universal

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The Irrigation Ditch on Kemper Road

In 1983, a tobacco farmer named Earl Sutton outside Danville, Virginia, faced the driest August anyone could remember. His wells were low. His neighbors had...

Malachi 3:10Universal

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