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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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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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Guided by What They Cannot See

The European robin migrates thousands of miles each autumn, navigating with stunning precision across entire continents. For decades, scientists could not explain how. Then in...

Universalfaith

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No One Finishes Alone

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final with everything he had trained for on the line. Halfway...

Universalcommunity

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What a Grain of Sand Revealed

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

Universalhumility

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The Freedom to Walk Away and Come Back

In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood at the top of the gymnastics world. She was the most dominant athlete in her sport's history,...

Universalfreedom

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The Music He Would Never Hear

In October 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven sat in a small village outside Vienna and wrote what he believed would be his final letter. At thirty-one,...

Universalpurpose

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The Race He Was Never Supposed to Win

Eric Liddell arrived at the 1924 Paris Olympics as Scotland's fastest man in the 100 meters. Then he learned the heats were scheduled on a...

Universalpurpose

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The Hymn That Emptied a Jewelry Box

In February 1874, Frances Ridley Havergal penned the words that would become one of the church's most beloved hymns: *Take My Life and Let It...

Universalsacrifice

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What the Shark Couldn't Reach

On October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton was lying on her surfboard off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, when a fourteen-foot tiger shark seized her...

Universalidentity

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The Tallest Trees Bow Lowest

In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia published a groundbreaking discovery. The largest, oldest trees in a forest — what...

Universalhumility

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The Composer Who Refused to Stay Silent

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. At fifty-six, the once-celebrated composer had suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right...

Universalperseverance

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The Forest's Hidden Generosity

In the ancient forests of British Columbia, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the soil. Trees are not the solitary competitors scientists had long...

Universalsacrifice

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Wired Like No One Else

In 2015, neuroscientist Emily Finn and her team at Yale made a remarkable discovery. Using brain scans from the Human Connectome Project, they found that...

Universalidentity

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The Courage to Go Back

In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, there is a scene that still takes my breath away. Private Desmond Doss, a combat medic who refused to...

Universalcourage

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The Player Who Would Not Fight Back

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and broke baseball's color barrier. But the courage that moment required had nothing...

Universalcourage

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The Player Who Refused to Fight Back

In August 1945, Branch Rickey — a devout Methodist and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers — sat across from Jackie Robinson and made an...

Universalforgiveness

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The God Who Edits Our Broken Code

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technology that reads like science fiction. Here...

Universalhealing

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One More Step

On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug faced a moment that would define her life. In the women's gymnastics team final at the Atlanta Olympics,...

Universalcourage

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The Quiet Giant

In July 2016, Tim Duncan retired from the NBA after nineteen seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. Five championships. Two league MVP awards. Fifteen All-Star...

Universalhumility

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The Blood That Changes Your Identity

In the world of hematology, few procedures are as radical as a bone marrow transplant. When a patient with leukemia receives a donor's stem cells,...

Universaltransformation

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The Relentless Repair Within You

In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled researchers for decades. He found that human...

Universalperseverance

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When the Sea Took Everything

In November of 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath...

Universalperseverance

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The Gland That Teaches You Who You Are

Behind your breastbone sits a small organ called the thymus gland. It is where your T-cells — the soldiers of your immune system — go...

Universalidentity

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The Bones That Build Back Stronger

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still guides orthopedic medicine today. He observed that when a bone breaks, the body does...

Universalhealing

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