One of the largest free collections of sermon illustrations, organized by topic, scripture, and theological tradition.

Stay updated

New illustrations, features & occasional discounts

Browse

By Topic
By Scripture
By Tradition
By Emotion
By Source Type
Sermon Slides

Resources

Sample Illustrations
About
Premium
Contact Us
SermonWise AI
PewSearch
ChurchWiseAI

Support

Contact Us
+1 (888) 603-0316
support@churchwiseai.com
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Refund Policy

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

Sermon Illustration

Five Thousand Years in the Wind

In 1957, dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman discovered a bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains that had been alive for nearly five thousand years. He named it...

Universalperseverance

212 words

PreviousPage 673 of 988Next

Historical

Rabshakeh's Deception: Satan's False Promise of Liberty

When Rabshakeh addressed Hezekiah's officials in this diplomatic tongue, his words carried the smooth insinuation of a seasoned negotiator.

Isaiah 35:11Universaltemptation and deceptioncovenant faithfulness

Joseph S. Exell

195 words

Vivid Retelling

The Bow in the Clouds: Genesis 9:8-17

Cinematic retelling of God's rainbow covenant with Noah

Universal

428 words

Historical

The Promising Career Bonhoeffer Left Behind

In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was thirty-one years old and already one of Germany's most brilliant theologians. He held a doctorate and a habilitation from the...

Philippians 3:8Universaldiscipleshipsacrifice

254 words

Historical

The Eighth Commandment: God's Sanction of Property and Labor

Property exists for four essential purposes: to increase the earth's produce; to preserve that produce to maturity; to cultivate and develop human nature; and to advance intellectual development.

Exodus 20:15UniversalDivine authority over material possessionshuman responsibility in labor and commerce

Joseph S. Exell

201 words

Contemporary

The Woman Who Refused to Choose

In June 1966, Pauli Murray sat among delegates at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C., frustrated by...

Galatians 3:28Universaljusticeequality

271 words

Historical

Judgment and Equity: The Balanced Pursuit of Wisdom

Judgment operates on three levels: discerning right from wrong, understanding the law and its manner, and executing consequences with authority.

Proverbs 1:3Universaldiscernment and judgmentbalance between law and mercy

Joseph S. Exell

207 words

Sermon Illustration

The Bones That Refuse to Break

In 2004, researchers at Yale University discovered a family in Connecticut with an extraordinary genetic mutation. Their bones were virtually unbreakable — six times denser...

Universalperseverance

232 words

Historical

A Free Man's Unfinished Freedom

In 1799, an enslaved man named Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in a Charleston, South Carolina lottery and purchased his freedom for $600. He built a...

Galatians 5:1Universalfreedomfaith

250 words

Historical

The Book That Wrote Itself

In the early 1860s, Leo Tolstoy began writing a novel about the Decembrists — Russian nobles returning from Siberian exile after their failed revolt against...

Proverbs 19:21Universalmeaningprovidence

259 words

Historical

Jerusalem's Refusal: When a City Rejects Divine Correction

Under Kings Manasseh and Amon, Judah descended into flagrant idolatry.

Ezekiel 3:2Universaldivine judgmentrefusal of correction

Joseph S. Exell

181 words

Historical

The List That Chose Life

In the autumn of 1944, as the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp prepared to send its remaining prisoners to Auschwitz, a German industrialist sat at his desk...

Proverbs 24:11-12Universalcompassiontransformation

231 words

Contemporary

The Carpools of Montgomery

On December 5, 1955, over 40,000 Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride the city buses. What began as a one-day protest after Rosa...

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12Universalperseveranceunity

234 words

Historical

The Memory That Drove a Cure

As a boy in Arbois, France, Louis Pasteur watched a man bitten by a rabid wolf being dragged to the local blacksmith. The only known...

Psalm 30:2Universalcouragehealing

233 words

Sermon Illustration

The Cathedral That Took Six Hundred Years

In 1248, workers laid the foundation stone for the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. They would never see it finished. Neither would their children, nor their...

Universalpatience

241 words

Sermon Illustration

The Doctor They Refused to Hear

In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have saved thousands of lives. Working in a Vienna maternity ward where one in...

Psalm 81:1, 10-16Universal

229 words

Sermon Illustration

The Bend in the Sapling

In 1964, a Japanese horticulturist named Masahiko Kimura began training a juniper sapling using the ancient art of bonsai. He did not force the tree...

Proverbs 22:6Universalparenting

233 words

Sermon Illustration

The Translator They Burned Whose Words Became the Foundation

In 1525, William Tyndale smuggled the first printed English New Testament out of Cologne in bales of cloth. The Bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall, bought...

Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29Universal

231 words

Historical

The Cost of an Open Bible

In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a printing press in Cologne, Germany, racing to finish what no one in England would let him attempt —...

John 8:32Universalsacrificetruth

259 words

Sermon Illustration

The Contractor Who Read Isaiah on a Job Site

Marcus DeLeon had been a faithful church member for twenty years — never missed a Sunday, tithed to the dollar, fasted every Lent. Then one...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

221 words

Sermon Illustration

The Indian Scholar Who Sheltered Ten Thousand

In 1896, when famine swept across western India, Pandita Ramabai had already spent a decade rescuing child widows from the streets of Pune. Born into...

Psalm 112:1-10Universal

242 words

Contemporary

A Voice for Those Who Had None

On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and spoke on behalf of...

Proverbs 31:8-9Universaljusticewisdom

234 words

Sermon Illustration

The Cartographer Who Knew Every Stone

In 2019, National Geographic photographer Renan Ozturk spent fourteen months documenting a single glacier in Nepal's Himalayas. He mapped every crevasse, memorized the way light...

Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15Universal

237 words

Historical

The Consul Who Chose Disobedience

In the summer of 1940, Japanese Vice-Consul Chiune Sugihara looked out the window of his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, and saw hundreds of Jewish refugees...

Acts 5:29Universalcouragecompassion

244 words