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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 Courage That Walks Toward What It Fears

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, young Scout asks her father why he agreed to defend Tom Robinson — a Black man falsely accused...

Universalcourage

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The Long Defeat in Middle-earth

In *The Lord of the Rings*, Tolkien gives us a striking phrase through the lips of Galadriel. She speaks of fighting what she calls "the...

Universalpatience

225 words

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The One-Dollar Cure

In 1922, Frederick Banting and Charles Best achieved one of medicine's greatest breakthroughs at the University of Toronto — the isolation of insulin. Before their...

Universalhumility

236 words

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The Note That Doesn't Count

In classical music, there is a small, almost hidden element called a grace note. If you have ever listened to one of Chopin's nocturnes, you...

Universalgrace

256 words

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The Body That Wouldn't Receive

In December 1954, Dr. Joseph Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. As transplant medicine advanced beyond identical...

Universalhumility

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The Scholarship That Kept Arriving

In 2019, a first-generation college student named Marcus Rivera enrolled at the University of Houston with a full scholarship from a local foundation. What Marcus...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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What the Chrysalis Remembers

There is a moment during metamorphosis that should unsettle anyone who thinks too hard about it. Inside the chrysalis, a caterpillar doesn't simply sprout wings....

Universalidentity

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Movie Analogy

The Bridge Between Darkness and Dawn

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*, the fellowship is fleeing through the Mines of Moria when a Balrog — an...

Universalsacrifice

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The Blood That Changed Its Name

In the world of bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens that most people never hear about. After a successful transplant, the recipient's blood type can...

Universalidentity

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The Equation That Deepened Wonder

In the summer of 1687, Isaac Newton, a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, published *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica* — a work that revealed a single...

Psalm 104:24Universalordercreation

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The Body That Knows How to Begin Again

In 2016, Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his decades of research on autophagy — a process whose Greek...

Universalredemption

249 words

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What Makes You Real

In Margery Williams' beloved children's book *The Velveteen Rabbit*, a stuffed rabbit asks the wisest toy in the nursery what it means to become Real....

Universalidentity

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Movie Analogy

Carrying What You Cannot Put Down

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, there is a moment that still catches in my throat every time I watch...

Universalcourage

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Churchill Beneath the Clouds of War

In the autumn of 1940, London burned. German bombers pounded the city night after night during the Blitz, and thick clouds of smoke hung over...

Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9Universal

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The Coach's Playbook

In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship, Texas Western's head coach Don Haskins made a decision that demanded extraordinary obedience from his players. Haskins started five...

Universalobedience

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The Word Carved in the Ashes

When the Great Fire of London consumed Old St. Paul's Cathedral in September 1666, Christopher Wren walked through the smoldering ruins surveying the devastation. Amid...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

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The Marsh-Wiggle Who Stamped Out the Lie

In C.S. Lewis's *The Silver Chair*, there is a scene that has stayed with preachers and readers for generations. Deep underground, the Green Witch has...

Universalfaith

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Point Reyes

For twenty-three years, the lighthouse at Point Reyes, California, cast its beam across the Pacific — until 1975, when the Coast Guard automated the light...

Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19Universal

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When the Computer Said Keep Going

On July 20, 1969, with the lunar module Eagle descending toward the moon's surface, the Apollo Guidance Computer began flashing alarms no one expected. Error...

Universalperseverance

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The Light Left On

When Hurricane Katrina swallowed the Lower Ninth Ward in 2005, Margaret Johnson spent three days on her rooftop with nothing but a wool blanket and...

Psalm 27Universal

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The Star Above Mordor

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment that pastors and theologians have treasured for decades. Sam Gamgee — exhausted, starving,...

Universalhope

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The Signature at the Bottom

Johann Sebastian Bach composed over a thousand works — fugues, cantatas, concertos, and oratorios so breathtaking that Beethoven once said of him, "Not Brook but...

Universalhumility

232 words

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Reprogrammed Across the Distance

In January 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars, built for a ninety-day mission. It lasted nearly fifteen years. The secret wasn't superior hardware —...

Universaltransformation

226 words

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The Man Who Walked Toward the Blade

In Charles Dickens' *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has squandered his life. Brilliant but dissolute, he drifts through his...

Universalcourage

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