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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 Doorframe in the Hallway

Marcus Thompson still lives in the same house on Elm Street in Decatur, Georgia, where he raised his three children. If you walk past the...

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13Universal

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The Moravian Watch That Lasted a Century

On August 27, 1727, twenty-four men and twenty-four women in the small German village of Herrnhut made a quiet commitment. They would pray in hourly...

Mark 13:24-37Universal

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The Garden in Milan

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old professor of rhetoric sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

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The Father Who Never Stopped Writing

During World War II, a British father named Ernest Gordon watched his teenage son walk away from everything the family stood for. The young man...

Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9Universal

252 words

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Corrie ten Boom and the Refuge That Held

When the Nazis occupied Holland in 1940, watchmaker Casper ten Boom and his daughter Corrie made a quiet, dangerous decision. They built a hidden room...

Nahum 1:7Universal

238 words

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Shackleton's Promise to Every Last Man

In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean tug *Yelcho*, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. Twenty-two of...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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The Earl Who Went Down Into the Mines

In 1838, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, descended into the coal mines of Yorkshire. What he found there broke him. Children as young...

Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14Universal

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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 Blueprint on the Kitchen Table

Elena Vasquez spread her business plan across the kitchen table at 5:00 a.m., the way she had every morning for three weeks. The numbers never...

Proverbs 16:3Universal

252 words

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Secure Erase

When the U.S. Department of Defense decommissions hard drives that held classified information, simply pressing delete is not an option. They follow a process known...

Universalforgiveness

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Science Illustration: Wise Use of Data and AI

As I was reflecting on the awe-inspiring passage from Job 38:1-7, where God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind, I couldn’t help but think about the incredible advancements in artificial intelligence and data science. Imagine a team of scientists,...

Job 38:1-7Universal

263 words

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The Mile They Said Could Never Be Run

For decades, the four-minute mile stood as an absolute wall in competitive running. Physicians and physiologists declared it a physical impossibility — the human body...

Universalfreedom

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The Painting Made of a Million Dots

In 1886, Georges Seurat unveiled *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte* in Paris. The massive canvas — nearly seven feet tall...

Universalcommunity

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The Blood Set Free

In 2019, Victoria Gray became the first person in the United States to receive CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease. For thirty-four years, her...

Universalfreedom

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The Price of a Renewed Mind

On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and did the most costly thing a...

Romans 12:2Universalconvictioncourage

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The Father Who Carried His Son

In 1977, Dick Hoyt pushed his son Rick — born with cerebral palsy, unable to walk or speak without assistance — across the finish line...

Universallove

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The Orphan Father of Bristol

In 1836, George Mueller opened a small rented house on Wilson Street in Bristol, England, to care for thirty orphans. He had almost no money....

Psalm 112:1-10Universal

249 words

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What the Tallest Trees Do Underground

In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking study in *Nature* revealing something remarkable beneath the forest floor. The oldest, tallest Douglas fir trees...

Universalhumility

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I Am Because We Are

In the summer of 2007, the Boston Celtics assembled three future Hall of Famers — Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett. On paper, they...

Universalcommunity

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Light That Travels Through Darkness

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched on Christmas Day 2021, captures infrared light that has been traveling through the darkness of space for over thirteen...

Universalhope

255 words

Movie Analogy

The Field in Buxton

In the final act of *The Shawshank Redemption*, Red is released from prison after forty years. He finds a letter from his friend Andy Dufresne,...

Universaltrust

263 words

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The Wisdom Hidden in Your Bones

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a law that still bears his name. Wolff's Law states that bone, when broken, does not simply return...

Universalhealing

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The Scholar Who Chose the Dirt Road

Clarence Jordan earned his PhD in Greek New Testament from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1939. He could have claimed a comfortable professorship, a respected...

Luke 6:17-26Universal

220 words

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Growing Toward Light You Cannot See

In botany, there is a phenomenon called negative gravitropism. When a seed germinates underground — buried in total darkness, pressed beneath the weight of soil...

Universalcourage

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