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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 Night Shift at Cape Canaveral

In March 2024, a small team of technicians at Cape Canaveral sat through the dead hours before a SpaceX launch. The countdown clock read T-minus...

Mark 13:24-37Universal

249 words

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The Phone Call After the Diagnosis

When Marcus Rivera got the call from his oncologist in March 2023, the first thing he did was phone his mother. Not because she could...

Psalm 78:1-2, 34-38Universal

247 words

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The Prophet Next Door

In 2015, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician in Flint, Michigan, stood before city officials and announced what nobody wanted to hear: the water was poisoning...

Luke 4:21-30Universal

224 words

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The Phone That Always Answers

Margaret Chen's son David stopped calling regularly after college. He moved to Portland, found new friends, built a life that didn't seem to include her....

Psalm 78:1-2, 34-38Universal

237 words

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The Lawyer Who Held Their Hands

Bryan Stevenson was a young Harvard law student the first time he visited death row in Alabama. The man he met there — condemned, forgotten,...

Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14Universal

238 words

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The Baker on Hennepin Avenue

Rosa Gutierrez didn't ask Marcus for his résumé when he walked into her bakery on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. He was twenty-three, fresh out of...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

230 words

Vivid Retelling

The Gospel Reaches Rome: Acts 28:16-31

Cinematic retelling of Paul's ministry in Rome

Universal

734 words

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Monica's Seventeen Years of Knocking

For seventeen years, Monica of Hippo refused to stop knocking. Her son Augustine was brilliant, restless, and utterly lost. He chased philosophy in Carthage, took...

Matthew 7:7-8Universal

232 words

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The Garden in the Parking Lot

A congregation in Memphis decided to observe a week-long fast during Lent. They posted about it on social media, shared recipes for bone broth, and...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

225 words

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Written Again in Whole

Every cell in your body is under constant attack. Ultraviolet light, oxidative stress, even the simple act of breathing — all of it damages your...

Universalforgiveness

233 words

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The Chemistry of Restoration

Every cell in your body is under constant attack. Ultraviolet light, free radicals, and the simple chemistry of living damage your DNA approximately 10,000 times...

Universalforgiveness

240 words

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The Desert That Remembered How to Bloom

In March of 2016, hikers arrived at Death Valley expecting the usual — cracked earth, pale rock, the silence of a landscape that seems to...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

258 words

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The Lighthouse That Wasn't Built for Itself

In 1822, workers finished constructing the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse off the southeast coast of Ireland. It sat on a jagged outcrop battered by Atlantic storms,...

Psalm 67Universal

237 words

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The Chef Who Wouldn't Let Him Settle

When Marcus Thompson walked into Magnolia Kitchen in Birmingham, Alabama, he wasn't looking for a career. He was looking for a meal. He'd been sleeping...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

241 words

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The Password Reset

Most of us have been there — staring at a Gmail login screen, cycling through every password combination we can think of, growing more frustrated...

Universalgrace

231 words

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The Bowl That Became a Vase

In 2019, Japanese ceramic artist Takahiro Kondo was demonstrating his craft at a workshop in Portland, Oregon. He had been shaping a wide, shallow bowl...

Jeremiah 18:1-11Universal

238 words

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The Seamstress of Calais

In 2015, when thousands of refugees huddled in the mud of the Calais "Jungle" camp in northern France, local churches organized prayer vigils. They sang...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

243 words

Movie Analogy

The Step You Cannot See

In *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, there is a moment that has stayed with audiences for decades. Indiana Jones stands at the edge of...

Universalfaith

244 words

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The Thinking Reed

On a November night in 1654, Blaise Pascal — already one of the finest mathematical minds in Europe — had an encounter with the living...

Psalm 8:4-9Universal

250 words

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The Bride Who Left Tokyo

In 2019, Yumi Tanaka boarded a one-way flight from Tokyo to a small fishing village in northern Scotland. She was marrying Callum, a boat builder...

Psalm 45:10-12, 16Universal

244 words

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The Sailor Who Kept Forgetting

On March 21, 1748, a violent storm nearly sank the merchant vessel Greyhound in the North Atlantic. John Newton, a twenty-two-year-old sailor who had mocked...

Psalm 78:1-2, 34-38Universal

232 words

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The Man They Stopped Recognizing

In 2014, a photograph circulated online of a homeless man named Patrick Hardison from Senatobia, Mississippi. Burns had destroyed his face years earlier while he...

Luke 8:26-39Universal

224 words

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John Muir at the Top of the Douglas Fir

In December 1874, a ferocious windstorm tore through the Sierra Nevada with such force that the ancient trees bent like grass. Most people ran for...

Psalm 29Universal

235 words

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The Clownfish and the Anemone

On the coral reefs off the coast of Queensland, Australia, a remarkable partnership unfolds every day. The magnificent sea anemone sways in the current, its...

Hebrews 4:16Universal

236 words