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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

The Food Pantry That Tore Down Its Wall

For eleven years, First Baptist of Decatur, Georgia, ran its food pantry from a side entrance. Families lined up in the alley behind the church,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

240 words

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Sermon Illustration

The Jersey He Should Have Burned

On June 24, 1995, Nelson Mandela walked onto the pitch at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg wearing a green-and-gold Springbok rugby jersey, number 6, the...

Universalforgiveness

234 words

Contemporary

When Mourning Became Color

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Japanese-American artist Makoto Fujimura was in his studio in lower Manhattan when the Twin Towers fell. Ash and...

Psalm 30:11Universalbeautysuffering

264 words

Vivid Retelling

Demons and Discipline: The Spirit's Warning

A vivid retelling of 1 Timothy 4:1-16, showing the Spirit's explicit warning about demonic doctrines of asceticism contrasted with Paul's charge to Timothy for disciplined godliness. The young pastor must train like an athlete, refuse demonic myths, and watch both life and doctrine for the sake of his own salvation and his hearers'.

Universal

1097 words

Movie Analogy

When Andy Dufresne Crawled Through the Dark

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, there is a moment that still takes my breath away. Andy Dufresne has spent nineteen years chipping through a concrete wall...

Universalfaith

235 words

Sermon Illustration

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

245 words

Sermon Illustration

The Word That Unlocked the Chain

In his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass recalls the moment his enslaver, Hugh Auld, discovered that Auld's wife had been teaching the...

Universalfreedom

222 words

Sermon Illustration

The Jersey That Rewrote a Nation

On June 24, 1995, Nelson Mandela walked onto the pitch at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg wearing a green Springbok jersey — number six, the...

Universalforgiveness

230 words

Sermon Illustration

The Brain That Learns to Hope Again

In 1959, Pedro Bach-y-Rita suffered a devastating stroke that left him paralyzed and unable to speak. Doctors told his family there was nothing more medicine...

Universalhope

246 words

Sermon Illustration

The Slow Speech of the Ents

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Two Towers*, the hobbits Merry and Pippin meet Treebeard, the ancient guardian of Fangorn Forest. The Ents — towering, tree-like shepherds...

Universalpatience

225 words

Sermon Illustration

The Prisoner Who Chose Moss Over Silence

In 1661, John Bunyan sat in a damp Bedford jail cell, arrested for the crime of preaching without a license from the Church of England....

Acts 5:27-32Universal

231 words

Sermon Illustration

The Song Born in a Coal Mining Town

Bill Withers grew up in Slab Fork, West Virginia, a small coal mining community where families had almost nothing. His father died when Bill was...

Universallove

251 words

Sermon Illustration

The Bend in the Branch

In the orchards outside Yakima, Washington, growers practice something called "training" young apple trees. During the first two years, while the wood is still green...

Proverbs 22:6Universalparenting

235 words

Movie Analogy

The Town That Carried Him Home

Near the end of Frank Capra's *It's a Wonderful Life*, George Bailey stands on a bridge in the falling snow, convinced that everyone he loves...

Universalcommunity

234 words

Vivid Retelling

The Apostle's Scars: 2 Corinthians 11:23-33

Vivid retelling of Paul's catalog of sufferings

Universal

693 words

Sermon Illustration

The Purpose Written Into You

Apple's AirTag is one of the simplest pieces of technology ever made. No screen, no buttons, no apps. It does exactly one thing: it helps...

Universalpurpose

250 words

Sermon Illustration

The Key He Carried All Along

In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, Christian and his companion Hopeful wander off the path and are captured by Giant Despair, who locks them in...

Universalhope

244 words

Sermon Illustration

Seeing in the Dark

When you walk from bright sunlight into a dark room, you are momentarily blind. Everything disappears. But ophthalmologists will tell you something remarkable happens next....

Universalfaith

244 words

Sermon Illustration

The Lion's Sacrifice at the Stone Table

In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, there is a moment that has brought readers to tears for over seventy years. Aslan,...

Universallove

245 words

Sermon Illustration

Light-Makers in the Midnight Zone

Below one thousand meters beneath the ocean's surface lies what marine biologists call the "midnight zone" — a realm of perpetual darkness where sunlight never...

Universalcourage

229 words

Movie Analogy

When Silver Speaks Louder Than Justice

In the film *Les Misérables*, there is a scene that stops the heart. Jean Valjean, a convict hardened by nineteen years in prison, is caught...

Universallove

215 words

Movie Analogy

The Gift the Thief Didn't Deserve

In the film *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles out of nineteen years in prison — bitter, starving, turned away by every inn in town. Only...

Universallove

227 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Genesis 50:15-21

The air in the dimly lit chamber was thick with an anxious silence, the kind that presses heavily on the chest. The brothers of Joseph stood huddled together, their hearts racing and eyes darting nervously. With Jacob now resting in...

Universal

297 words

Vivid Retelling

Lord, Save Me: Matthew 14:22-33

Cinematic retelling of Jesus walking on water and Peter's attempt

Universal

581 words