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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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Charles Templeton and the Danger of Assumed Immunity

In the late 1940s, Charles Templeton was the most electrifying young evangelist in North America. He preached to stadiums of thousands, served as vice president...

1 Corinthians 10:1-13Universal

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The Night the Fireflies Sang in Unison

Every June in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, thousands of visitors gather in Elkmont to witness something science still struggles to fully explain. Photinus...

Psalm 98Universal

231 words

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After the Storm Broke Open the Kansas Sky

Margaret Haines had farmed winter wheat outside Dodge City, Kansas, for thirty-seven years, but the June supercell of 2019 was something else entirely. She stood...

Psalm 29Universal

254 words

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The Putt That Was Never Required

On September 20, 1969, the entire Ryder Cup came down to one moment. At Royal Birkdale in England, Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin walked up...

Universalgrace

249 words

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Sitting a Little Closer Each Day

In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's *The Little Prince*, a lonely fox teaches the young prince what it means to form a real bond — what the...

Universalpatience

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The Lunch Table No One Wanted

In 2019, a middle school in Jacksonville, Florida made national news — not for test scores or athletics, but for a cafeteria. A group of...

John 13:34-35Universal

250 words

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The Neighbors Who Refused to Leave Him Alone

In Fredrik Backman's novel *A Man Called Ove*, we meet a fifty-nine-year-old widower who has decided he is done with the world. After losing his...

Universalcommunity

234 words

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The Guardian That Never Sleeps

Right now, as you sit in this room, a quiet war is being waged inside every cell of your body. Scientists estimate that each of...

Universalperseverance

258 words

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The Estate That Became a Movement

In 1722, a twenty-two-year-old German nobleman named Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf offered a corner of his family estate in Saxony as refuge for a small...

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

218 words

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The Kidney That Crossed Enemy Lines

In 2018, a man named Ron Derry sat in a hospital waiting room in Cleveland, preparing to give away his kidney. The recipient was his...

Romans 5:5b-11Universal

217 words

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The Route That Looks Wrong

Every driver knows the moment. Google Maps tells you to exit the highway three miles early and turn down a road you have never seen....

Universaltrust

243 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 114

Imagine the scene: a vast, sun-baked landscape at the edge of Egypt, where cries of freedom echo against the mountains. Israel has just emerged from centuries of bondage, led by Moses, the reluctant prophet who dared to confront Pharaoh with...

Universal

322 words

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The Love That Recalculates

If you have ever missed a turn while using Google Maps, you know what happens next. There is no lecture. No guilt trip. No long...

Universallove

226 words

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The Morning After the Longest Night

In January 2010, Stephanie Decker of Henryville, Indiana, heard the freight-train roar every Midwesterner dreads. She threw herself over her two children in the basement...

Psalm 30Universal

258 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Genesis 10:1-32

As we stand at the threshold of Genesis 10, let us not merely skim over the names and genealogies. Instead, imagine the scene as three rugged men emerge from the ark, sunlight glistening on the damp wood, their faces etched...

Universal

295 words

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The Tents Outside Grace Community Church

For three years, Grace Community Church in northeast Portland held monthly all-night prayer vigils. They fasted. They wept over the state of their city. They...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

240 words

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The Bride Who Left Everything for a New Name

When Amara Okafor married into the British royal-adjacent Mountbatten family in 2019, tabloids fixated on what she was giving up — her thriving Lagos fashion...

Psalm 45:10-12, 16Universal

230 words

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The Stranger at the Rest Stop

In 2019, a young National Guard sergeant named Marcus Rivera drove through the night after spending three grueling days helping evacuate families during Hurricane Dorian...

Genesis 14:18-20Universal

240 words

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Sight She Never Wanted Back

Fanny Crosby was blind from the age of six weeks, the result of a country doctor's mistake when he treated an eye infection with the...

Universalpurpose

241 words

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When the Snow Finally Melts

In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, the land of Narnia suffers under a curse. The White Witch has made it "always...

Universalhope

247 words

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The One Thing That Mattered

When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Robinson refused to evacuate her home in the Lower Ninth Ward...

Psalm 27:1, 4-9Universal

236 words

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The Free Table on Lavaca Street

Every Saturday morning in Austin, Texas, a retired chef named Margaret Huang sets up a long folding table on Lavaca Street, covered with a white...

Isaiah 55:1-9Universal

238 words

Vivid Retelling

The Most Dangerous Letter: Paul's Appeal for Onesimus

An apostolic dictation showing Paul composing his letter to Philemon on behalf of the runaway slave Onesimus. Explores the masterful rhetoric Paul employs—setting aside authority for appeal, calling a slave his "son" and "heart," creating webs of obligation that make only one response possible. The letter works within Roman legal structures while planting revolutionary seeds.

Universal

1316 words

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The Greatest Player No One Talked About

For nineteen seasons, Tim Duncan played power forward for the San Antonio Spurs. In that time, he won five NBA championships, two league MVP awards,...

Universalhumility

249 words