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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?”

23,697 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Forest That Kneels Underground

In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking discovery in the journal Nature. She found that the tallest Douglas fir trees in British Columbia's...

Universalhumility

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The Comeback Nobody Drafted

In 1999, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays selected Josh Hamilton with the first overall pick in the MLB Draft. He was the golden boy —...

Universalredemption

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The Eleven Minutes You Cannot Control

When NASA's Perseverance rover entered the Martian atmosphere on February 18, 2021, mission control faced a reality they called "seven minutes of terror" — though...

Universalfaith

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The Brush That Refused to Break

In 1612, a nineteen-year-old painter named Artemisia Gentileschi stood before a Roman court and told the truth about the man who had assaulted her. To...

Universalcourage

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The Midwife's Bag by the Door

Maria Gonzalez has been a midwife in rural New Mexico for twenty-two years. Every night before bed, she sets her medical bag by the front...

Mark 13:24-37Universal

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Historical

What the Storm Already Knew

In June of 1752, Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm outside Philadelphia with a silk kite, a hemp string, an iron key, and a...

Romans 1:20Universalwondercourage

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The Tree That Thrives on Hardship

In 1957, scientist Edmund Schulman hiked into the White Mountains of eastern California and discovered something that defied every expectation. Growing at nearly 10,000 feet,...

Universalperseverance

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The Father: When Memory Fails (Psalm 71:9)

Imagine stepping into a world where the familiar becomes strange, where the comforting cadence of daily life is replaced by a disorienting dance of shifting rooms and fading faces. This is the poignant reality that envelops Anthony, the protagonist of...

Psalm 71:9Universaldementiamemory

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The Epicurean Gospel: Pleasure Without Purpose

The Preacher calls this the Epicurean gospel, named after the Greek philosopher Epicurus, though the impulse predates him as old as human nature itself.

Ecclesiastes 1:22Universalthe futility of worldly pleasurethe corruption of sensuality by refinement

Joseph S. Exell

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 103

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 103

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

296 words

Historical

Isaiah's Paradoxical Commission: The People's Self-Imposed Blindness

Such an errand would contradict God's character—He cannot morally compel His messenger toward wickedness.

Isaiah 6:10Universaldivine communication and human resistanceself-inflicted spiritual hardness

Joseph S. Exell

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The Blind Woman Who Saw the Light

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's error. She never saw a sunrise, never watched light break through storm...

Psalm 36:5-10Universal

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The Wrapping That Makes Us Faster

When neuroscientist George Bartzokis at UCLA studied how humans develop skill, he discovered something remarkable about repetition. Every time we repeat an action — a...

Universalobedience

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The Words That Held Him

When Marcus Davis was fourteen, after six years in the foster care system, a couple in Memphis named Robert and Elaine finally signed the adoption...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

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When the Alarms Won't Stop

On July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 lunar module descended toward the Sea of Tranquility, the onboard guidance computer began flashing 1202 program alarms...

Universalcourage

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The Weight She Carried Into the Arena

On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King walked onto the floor of the Houston Astrodome before 30,472 spectators and an estimated 90 million television viewers...

Philippians 4:13Universaldignitycourage

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The Christ-Shaped Repair Inside Every Cell

Every single day, each cell in your body sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage to its DNA. Radiation, toxins,...

Universalperseverance

256 words

Historical

The Farmer's Tears: Sowing Through Scarcity and Peril

During seasons of great scarcity, poor farmers parted with every precious measure of seed—like taking bread from their children's mouths.

Psalms 126:5Universaltrust through hardshipGod's faithfulness despite circumstances

Charles H. Spurgeon

210 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Genesis 47:27-31

The sun dipped low over the dusty streets of ancient Egypt, casting long shadows that danced in the fading light. Inside a modest chamber, the air was thick with the scent of myrrh and the weight of unspoken goodbyes. Jacob,...

Universal

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Historical

Using the World Without Abusing It: Christian Stewardship

A Christian's duty, while dwelling as a citizen of this world, is to engage its concerns actively.

1 Corinthians 5:31UniversalChristian engagement with secular culturestewardship and accountability

Joseph S. Exell

235 words

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What Google Knows About Proverbs 27:2

In the late 1990s, two Stanford graduate students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin had a radical insight that would become the foundation of Google....

Universalhumility

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The Colors Beneath the Soot

For nearly five centuries, visitors to the Sistine Chapel gazed upward at Michelangelo's famous ceiling and saw muted, somber tones — dark figures emerging from...

Universalidentity

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Historical

When Gentle Winds Betray: The Storm's Sudden Turn

Luke's nautical precision—unlike the landlubber's account in Jonah—captures a Mediterranean reality: the gentle southerly breeze that promised safe passage became a death trap. The ship lay in an inadequate harbor. A mild wind rose. The captain and centurion, with Paul's...

Acts 27:13-26Universaldivine sovereignty over circumstancetrust amid uncertainty

Alexander Maclaren

249 words

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The Bones That Learn to Bear the Weight

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff documented something remarkable about the human skeleton. He discovered that bone tissue strengthens itself in direct response to the...

Universalperseverance

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