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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

Sermon Illustration

Count Backward from Ten

Every day, roughly sixty thousand patients across the United States lie down on an operating table and do something remarkable. A person they may have...

Universaltrust

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Movie Analogy

What to Do with the Time Given Us

Deep in the Mines of Moria, surrounded by darkness and danger, Frodo Baggins turns to Gandalf and whispers what so many of us have felt:...

Universalpurpose

256 words

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The Elder Who Bowed to the Ground

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's *The Brothers Karamazov*, there is a scene that has stunned readers for over a century. Father Zosima, the beloved elder monk —...

Universalhumility

225 words

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The Greatest Woman No One Knew

In C.S. Lewis's *The Great Divorce*, the narrator watches a magnificent procession approaching through the meadows of heaven. Musicians play, angels scatter flowers, and at...

Universalhumility

225 words

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The Courage to Stand in the Light

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean has finally built a good life. After years as a hunted ex-convict, he has become a respected mayor...

Universalcourage

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Movie Analogy

Hacksaw Ridge: Faith That Acts Differently - Anabaptist (Hebrews 11:1-6)

In the heart of the Pacific theater during World War II, Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector and devout Seventh-day Adventist, found himself facing the most harrowing of challenges on the cliffs of Hacksaw Ridge. Picture that rugged terrain, a scarred...

Hebrews 11:1-6Universal

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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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No One Is a Failure Who Has Friends

Near the end of Frank Capra's *It's a Wonderful Life*, George Bailey stands on a bridge in the falling snow, convinced the world would be...

Universalcommunity

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The Protection You Were Born With

In 1901, Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in Medicine for demonstrating that protective antibodies could be transferred from one body to another...

Universalgrace

228 words

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Harriet: Bodies Offered for Freedom - Black Church (Romans 12:1-2)

Imagine the chill of a moonlit night in the depths of the Maryland woods, where shadows dance under the pale light and the air is thick with the tension of freedom sought and freedom denied. Harriet Tubman, a woman of...

Romans 12:1-2Universal

328 words

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Arms Wide Open on a Darkened Porch

In the final scene of Clint Eastwood's *Gran Torino*, Walt Kowalski — a bitter, aging Korean War veteran — walks alone onto the darkened lawn...

Universalsacrifice

221 words

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The Hands That Would Not Wash

In 1847, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed something troubling at Vienna General Hospital. Women delivered by doctors were dying of childbed fever at...

Universalhumility

251 words

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The Pathways We Choose

In 1949, Canadian neuroscientist Donald Hebb proposed a principle that revolutionized our understanding of the brain: neurons that fire together wire together. Every time we...

Universalobedience

277 words

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The Richest Man in Town

In Frank Capra's classic *It's a Wonderful Life*, George Bailey stands on a bridge on Christmas Eve, convinced his life has been worthless. A failed...

Universalcommunity

257 words

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The Church That Became Home After the Storm

When Hurricane Helene tore through Asheville, North Carolina in September 2024, Marcus Jennings lost nearly everything — his car submerged, his apartment gutted by floodwater....

Psalm 122Universal

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The Man Who Jumped Backwards

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, a lanky engineering student from Portland, Oregon did something no one had ever seen. While every other...

Universalfaith

248 words

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The Father Who Followed the Muddy Footprints

In 2019, seven-year-old Marcus Thompson of Decatur, Georgia, shattered his grandmother's antique vase while throwing a football in the living room. His father, DeShawn, came...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

248 words

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Footing in Deep Water

In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, after every battle and valley and temptation, Christian arrives at the final obstacle before the Celestial City — a...

Universalfaith

221 words

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The Crack That Woke the Cure

Microbiologist Henk Jonkers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands developed something remarkable: self-healing concrete. He embedded tiny capsules of Bacillus bacteria into the...

Universalhealing

215 words

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The Pillar on the Graben

In 1679, the Great Plague swept through Vienna, killing an estimated 76,000 people in a matter of months. Emperor Leopold I, who had fled the...

Genesis 9:8-17Universal

232 words

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Waiting for the World to Catch Up

Anyone who has ever launched a website knows the peculiar frustration of DNS propagation. You register your new domain name, configure everything correctly, and click...

Universalpatience

234 words

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The Weight We Were Made to Share

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, Frodo Baggins collapses on the ashen slopes of Mount Doom. The Ring has become...

Universalcommunity

240 words

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Rembrandt's Final Confession

In 1668, in a cramped Amsterdam apartment, a bankrupt old painter picked up his brush one last time. Rembrandt van Rijn had once been the...

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32Universal

255 words

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The Jailbroken Phone

In the world of smartphones, "jailbreaking" is the process of removing a manufacturer's built-in restrictions. When someone jailbreaks an iPhone, they bypass Apple's security architecture...

Universalfreedom

227 words