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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

Sermon Illustration

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

218 words

Movie Analogy

Romero: Fear Not, God of the Poor Is With You - Liberation (Isaiah 41:10)

In the heart of El Salvador, during a time of deep unrest and oppression, Archbishop Oscar Romero stood firm in his faith, a solitary figure against the backdrop of a nation torn apart by violence. Each Sunday, as he entered...

Isaiah 41:10Universal

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Science Illustration: Learning from Failure

There’s a story about a scientist named Dr. Samuel who spent years studying the intricate patterns of butterfly wings. His passion for understanding the delicate beauty of these creatures drove him to build a sophisticated lab filled with the latest...

Colossians 1:15-20Universal

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The Long Wait of Tim Duncan

In 1997, the San Antonio Spurs finished with the worst record in franchise history — 20 wins and 62 losses. It was a brutal season....

Universalpatience

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The Signal That Refused to Quit

In 2004, NASA landed a small rover named Opportunity on the surface of Mars. Engineers designed it for a ninety-day mission. Ninety days to roll...

Universalperseverance

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The Patch from Fifteen Billion Miles Away

In late 2023, NASA's Voyager 1 — the farthest human-made object from Earth, hurtling through interstellar space more than fifteen billion miles away — went...

Universalhealing

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Historical

She Knew Every Name

In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...

Matthew 18:5Universalfaithcourage

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Historical

The Farmer Who Said No

On August 9, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter knelt in Brandenburg-Görden Prison outside Berlin and was executed by guillotine. His crime was simple: he refused to swear...

Acts 5:29Universalconsciencefaith

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The MVP Who Wouldn't Stay Home

On December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente had nothing left to prove. The Pittsburgh Pirates legend had just collected his 3,000th hit that September — a...

Universalsacrifice

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A Thousand Dots of Light

In 1886, Georges Seurat unveiled *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte*, a painting that changed how the world understood art. Standing...

Universalcommunity

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The Masterpiece No One Else Could See

In 1464, the cathedral workshop in Florence acquired an enormous block of Carrara marble. They called it "the Giant." The sculptor Agostino di Duccio was...

Universalfaith

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Historical

The Shepherd Who Would Not Run

On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the orphanage on Sienna Street in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to empty it. Inside were roughly...

John 10:11-13Universalsacrificelove

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The Warmth That Saved Them

In 1978, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis at the Instituto Materno Infantil in Bogota, Colombia. Premature babies were dying. Incubators were scarce, overcrowded,...

Universallove

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The Counter-Wave

When Apple released AirPods Pro with Active Noise Cancellation, they introduced millions of people to a remarkable piece of engineering. Tiny microphones on the outside...

Universalhealing

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The Woman Who Wouldn't Leave the Road

In April 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. No woman...

Universalfreedom

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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

216 words

Sermon Illustration

What the Empty Sky Was Hiding

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

Universalhope

241 words

Movie Analogy

Andrei Rublev: Iconography as Divine Work - Orthodox (Colossians 3:23-24)

Imagine stepping into a dimly lit workshop in 15th-century Russia, where the air is thick with the scent of linseed oil and the faint sound of a brush gliding softly over a wooden panel. Here in this sacred space, Andrei...

Colossians 3:23-24Universal

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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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Historical

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

225 words

Historical

Closer Than the Stars

On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed a telescope he had built himself toward Jupiter from Padua, Italy. What he saw puzzled...

Acts 17:27Universaltruthcourage

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The Glory That Was Always There

On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans stood along the path of totality as the moon slid across the face of the sun. In Carbondale,...

Luke 9:28b-36Universal

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A Million Miles from Home, Exactly Where It Belonged

For twenty-five years, engineers at NASA built the James Webb Space Telescope for a single purpose: to capture the oldest light in the universe. Each...

Universalpurpose

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