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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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Recompiled for a New Architecture

When Apple released its M1 chip in 2020, it marked a radical departure from two decades of Intel processors. Mac computers running on the new...

Universaltransformation

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The Deceit of Self-Esteem Without God's Perspective

Alexander observes, this sin must be abjured both for its destructive effects and as the worst form of pride.

Isaiah 5:21Universalpride as spiritual blindnessfalse versus divine wisdom

Joseph S. Exell

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The Return Voyage

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor with a lifeline in his hands. Friends at Union Theological Seminary had...

Acts 5:29Universalcouragefaith

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Shechem: Where God's Promise and the People's Vow Converge

The valley held layer upon layer of sacred memory—the very ground where Abraham had received the divine pledge, 'unto thy seed will I give this land,' and erected his first altar to Yahweh beneath the oak of Moreh.

Joshua 24:19-28Universalthe continuity of God's promises across generationshow sacred places anchor spiritual renewal

Alexander Maclaren

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When Death Revealed What Life Had Hidden

On May 1, 1994, Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna was killed in a crash at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy,...

Ecclesiastes 7:1Universallegacyimpact

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Chariots of Fire: Ordered Waiting, Renewed Strength - Anglican (Isaiah 40:31)

In the heart of Scotland, the air is crisp and filled with the earthy scent of damp grass. The year is 1924, and crowds gather at the Olympic Games in Paris, their hopes and dreams pinned on the athletes racing...

Isaiah 40:31Universal

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Laying Down the Jersey

On May 31, 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a three-year, $3.6 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals. Eight months after the September 11 attacks,...

Universalsacrifice

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The Farmer's Bushel at the Greenville Market

Every Saturday morning in 1947, Harold Tenney loaded his pickup with sweet corn and drove forty miles to the Greenville, South Carolina farmers' market. Most...

Luke 6:38Universal

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Present from the Beginning

In 1996, a team of astronomers and engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore began sketching the earliest concepts for what would become...

Proverbs 8:22-31Universal

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The Stenographer Who Never Stopped Writing

When Oswald Chambers died suddenly in Cairo in 1917 at the age of forty-three, his wife Biddy faced an unimaginable loss. She was a trained...

Ephesians 3:20Universal

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When Miracles Reveal the Human Hunger for God

Maclaren observes that this seemingly absurd response actually reveals something profound: the miracle, far from being motiveless decoration in Luke's narrative, became the essential fuse that explains everything that follows—the deification, the priests, the stones.

Acts 14:11-22Universalincarnationdivine revelation

Alexander Maclaren

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The Composer Who Stepped Off the Page

For years, the London Symphony Orchestra performed works by the reclusive composer Elena Mäkelä. Musicians studied her scores, debated her intentions, and interpreted her melodies...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

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The Ski Trip That Saved 669 Lives

In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton cancelled a skiing holiday in Switzerland. His friend Martin Blake had invited him to Prague instead, where...

Proverbs 24:11-12Universalcompassionaction

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The Coal Miner Who Set a Nation Ablaze

In the autumn of 1904, Evan Roberts was a twenty-six-year-old coal miner in Loughor, Wales, known mostly for his quiet temperament and calloused hands. He...

Acts 2:1-31Universal

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From Chains to the Highest Court in the Land

On March 9, 1841, the marble halls of the United States Supreme Court fell silent as Justice Joseph Story delivered a verdict that would echo...

Isaiah 61:1Universalfreedomjustice

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The Gift He Never Patented

In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in Geneva. He created the protocols that...

Universalhumility

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When the Pen Became a Voice for the Voiceless

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat in the President's Room of the U.S. Capitol, the same ornate chamber where Abraham Lincoln had...

Proverbs 31:8-9Universaljusticevoice

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When the Worst Chapters Become the Best Story

In 1969, Random House published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, Maya Angelou's unflinching memoir of growing up Black in the segregated South. The...

Romans 8:28Universalresiliencevoice

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The Embrace That Crossed Every Line

On August 4, 1936, inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium, 110,000 spectators watched Jesse Owens line up for the long jump final. The Nazi regime had designed...

Galatians 3:28Universaldignitycourage

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The Atheist Who Followed the Clues Home

In 1941, as German bombs fell on London, a former atheist sat before a BBC microphone at Broadcasting House and made a startling argument. C.S....

Romans 1:20Universalfaithreason

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The Declaration That Changed Everything

On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Before...

Isaiah 53:5Universalhopehealing

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The Righteous Man Rejects the Fruit of Oppression

The companion of Yahweh rejects the fruits of oppression.

Psalms 15:5Universalrighteous conduct in commercerejection of ill-gotten gain

Joseph S. Exell

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The Man Who Left Neutral Ground

In the summer of 1944, Raoul Wallenberg had every reason to stay home. At thirty-one, he was heir to one of Sweden's most prominent banking...

Esther 4:14Universalcouragecompassion

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When Obedience Has Only One Direction

In late July 1940, Chiune Sugihara, Japan's Vice-Consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, found hundreds of Jewish refugees outside his consulate. They had fled Nazi-occupied Poland and...

Micah 6:8Universalcouragecompassion

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