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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 Nurse Who Wouldn't Stay Quiet

In 2013, a nurse named Erin Marie Olszewski walked into a hospital administrator's office in New York and refused to falsify patient records. Her supervisors...

Acts 5:27-32Universal

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Seven Blocks and a Nation's Conscience

In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...

Micah 6:8Universaljusticewisdom

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The Calling That Would Not Let Him Rest

By the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the London music world had written off. His Italian operas no longer drew audiences....

Ephesians 5:19Universalinspirationdevotion

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Father Damien and the Colony at Molokai

In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii. He had volunteered for...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Soul's Repeated Warfare Against Despondency

Notice that David does not merely pose the question once; he takes up his soul "very short," demanding accountability: "Why art thou so cast down, O my soul?

Psalms 43:5Universalperseverance in strugglespiritual warfare

Charles H. Spurgeon

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A Widow's Thirty-Year Vigil

Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into the driveway of his home on Guynes Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The NAACP field...

Revelation 6:10Universalsacrificejustice

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Stronger at the Broken Place

Orthopedic surgeons have long observed a remarkable phenomenon in fracture healing. When a bone breaks — say, the femur of a child who fell from...

Universalrestoration

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The Doctor Who Mopped the Floors

In 2014, Dr. Paul Farmer — Harvard professor, MacArthur genius grant recipient, and world-renowned infectious disease specialist — was spotted mopping the floor of a...

Philippians 2:6-11Universal

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The Uprooted Tree: God's Justice Against Transgressors

When a wild, offensive tree grows in a garden and the gardener cuts its top, if it sends forth sprouts as bad as before, he digs up the root itself.

Proverbs 2:22Universaldivine judgmentgenerational consequences

Joseph S. Exell

209 words

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The Adhesive Nobody Wanted

In 1968, a chemist named Spencer Silver was working in a 3M laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota, trying to develop a super-strong adhesive. Instead, he...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

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Wages Crying Out from the Vineyards

On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape workers walked off the vineyards of Delano, California. Led by Larry Itliong, they refused to keep harvesting table grapes...

James 5:4Universaljusticesacrifice

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When a Closed Door Became an Open Sky

In January 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Marian Anderson permission to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., solely because she was...

Romans 8:31Universaldignitygrace under pressure

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Six Sentences and a Legacy

In July 2016, Tim Duncan retired from the NBA after nineteen seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. There was no press conference. No farewell tour....

Universalhumility

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Labour's Rights and the Duty to Withhold Not Good

Exell's Victorian commentary examines this through the lens of labour justice, tracing how Elohim transformed Adam's punishment into humanity's greatest dignity.

Proverbs 3:27Universallabour dignitymoral obligation

Joseph S. Exell

209 words

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Hands That Could Have Rested

By the autumn of 1914, Marie Curie had already won two Nobel Prizes. She could have remained safely in her Paris laboratory, celebrated and comfortable....

Philippians 2:3-4Universalsacrificecourage

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The Invisible Enemy Unmasked

For decades, yellow fever ravaged Havana, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians. Physicians fumigated buildings, burned the bedding of the dead, and scrubbed wards with...

Psalm 147:3Universalsacrificetruth

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The Empty Chair at Table Six

Maria Gutierrez counted heads on the bus three times before it pulled away from Riverside Park. Nineteen. She counted again. Nineteen. Her stomach dropped. There...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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The Long Defeat of William Wilberforce

In 1787, a twenty-seven-year-old member of Parliament sat at his desk in Old Palace Yard, London, and scratched two sentences into his journal: "God Almighty...

Isaiah 49:1-7Universal

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The Wages That Cried Out from the Vineyards

In September 1962, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez gathered farmworkers into a small hall in Fresno, California, to found the National Farm Workers Association —...

James 5:4Universaljusticesolidarity

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Twelve Years Before the First Note

Pablo Casals was thirteen years old when he discovered a tattered copy of Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello in a secondhand music shop in...

Universalpatience

239 words

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Worn Soles and Rested Souls

On January 30, 1956, a stick of dynamite exploded on the front porch of Martin Luther King Jr.'s parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama. His wife Coretta...

Hebrews 10:36Universalperseveranceunity

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The Invisible Made Visible

On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday bent over a simple iron ring in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He had wound...

Romans 1:20Universalwonderhidden power

232 words

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A quick factual note: Christiane Reimann did not found the ICN in 1899. She was a Danish nurse who later served as its executive secretary (1922–1934). The actual founder was Ethel Gordon Fenwick (Mrs. Bedford Fenwick), a British nurse who established the ICN on July 1, 1899, at the International Congress of Women in London. I've written the illustration with the correct history.

--- The Nurses Who Refused to Stand Alone On the first of July, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick rose to address a gathering of nurses from...

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10Universalserviceunity

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The Archbishop Who Called the Powerful to Account

On March 23, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero stood in the Cathedral of San Salvador and did something that would cost him his life. He spoke...

Psalm 82Universal

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