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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 Garden Where Augustine Finally Listened

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

Psalm 95Universal

238 words

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The Echo That Fills the Universe

In 1964, two Bell Labs engineers in Holmdel, New Jersey — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson — couldn't figure out why their radio antenna kept...

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31Universal

235 words

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The Lawyer Who Held Their Hands

Bryan Stevenson was a young Harvard law student the first time he visited death row in Alabama. The man he met there — condemned, forgotten,...

Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14Universal

238 words

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The First Harvest at Tuskegee

When Booker T. Washington arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1881, he found a broken-down shanty and an abandoned church. That was his school. He had...

Deuteronomy 26:1-11Universal

245 words

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The Count Who Offered Land and Received a Legacy

In 1722, a twenty-one-year-old German nobleman named Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf made what seemed like a modest gesture. A band of persecuted Moravian Christians needed...

2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16Universal

231 words

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The Shortwave Radio in Grandpa's Garage

Fourteen-year-old Marcus thought his grandfather's ham radio setup was just a relic — dusty dials and tangled cables filling half the garage in Topeka, Kansas....

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

232 words

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Dorothy Day and the Downward Path to Blessing

In 1933, Dorothy Day stood in a breadline on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, ladling soup alongside the very people most of New York...

Luke 6:17-26Universal

240 words

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The Skin Graft

In 1970, a three-year-old boy named Glen Cork fell into a campfire at a family gathering in rural Kentucky. Third-degree burns covered forty percent of...

Isaiah 53:5Universal

229 words

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John Knox at the Window

In the autumn of 1555, John Knox knelt by a window in Edinburgh, his forehead pressed against cold stone, and prayed words that those outside...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

248 words

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The Forest That Fire Unlocked

After the Yellowstone fires of 1988, news cameras captured nothing but ash and standing deadwood stretching for miles in every direction. What had taken centuries...

Revelation 21:1-4Universal

250 words

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The Man Who Moved Into the Slums

In 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa packed a single bag and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums of...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

221 words

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Trusting the Developer

Every few weeks, a notification appears on your phone: "Software update available. Your device will restart." Most of us tap "Install Tonight" without reading the...

Universaltrust

228 words

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The Couple Who Sold Everything for a Address They'd Never Seen

In 2019, Marcus and Diana Chen were settled. He managed a thriving dental practice in suburban Atlanta. She ran the children's ministry at their church...

Genesis 12:1-4aUniversal

227 words

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The Choir That Shared One Heartbeat

In 2013, researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden made a remarkable discovery. Dr. Bjorn Vickhoff and his team attached heart monitors to members...

Psalm 100Universal

226 words

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The Queen's Unbroken Chain

In 1714, when Queen Anne of England died without a surviving heir, Parliament faced a crisis. Yet decades earlier, the Act of Settlement had established...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

237 words

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The Naturalist in the Treetops

In December 1874, a ferocious windstorm swept through the Sierra Nevada. While most sensible people took shelter, naturalist John Muir did the opposite. He climbed...

Psalm 29Universal

225 words

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The Painter Who Looked Higher

In 1888, the great art critic John Ruskin told Lilias Trotter she could become the finest painter in England. She had extraordinary talent — her...

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

211 words

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The Volunteer Who Never Clocked In

When Hurricane Helene tore through Asheville, North Carolina in September 2024, Marcus Jennings drove fourteen hours from Indianapolis with a truck full of chainsaws, tarps,...

Psalm 40:7-11Universal

230 words

Vivid Retelling

Come and See: John 1:35-51

Cinematic retelling of Jesus calling his first disciples

Universal

779 words

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The First Crack Only a Mentor Could Name

In a small roastery in Portland, Oregon, twenty-three-year-old Mateo Reyes stood over a drum roaster for the first time, overwhelmed by heat and noise. His...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

229 words

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The Teacher Who Refused to Give Up

In 2019, a high school English teacher in Nashville named Clara Johnson noticed a student named Marcus sitting in the back row, hood up, headphones...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

232 words

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The Music Hidden in the Attic

In 1685, a boy was born in Halle, Germany, to a barber-surgeon who had already planned his son's future. Georg Handel would study law. There...

Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15Universal

237 words

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The Orchestra That Plays Without a Conductor

In 1972, a group of musicians in New York City formed the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with a radical idea: no conductor. No single person waving...

John 17:20-26Universal

230 words

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The Baker on Hennepin Avenue

Rosa Gutierrez didn't ask Marcus for his résumé when he walked into her bakery on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. He was twenty-three, fresh out of...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

230 words