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

Stay updated

New illustrations, features & occasional discounts

Website

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?”

25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Sermon Illustration

Ninety Days That Became Fifteen Years

In January 2004, NASA landed a small rover named Opportunity on the surface of Mars. Engineers designed it for a ninety-day mission — just three...

Universalperseverance

226 words

PreviousPage 674 of 1074Next

Sermon Illustration

The Protocol of Listening First

Every time you connect to Wi-Fi, something remarkable happens that you never see. Before your phone sends a single byte of data, it listens. The...

Universalhumility

256 words

Historical

The Twelve Gates of Pearl: From Exclusion to Universal Welcome

The seer of Patmos drew this imagery from his island circumstances, much as Peter's rooftop vision at Joppa arose from hunger and his lodging with a tanner.

Revelation 21:21Universaluniversal redemptiondivine inclusivity

Joseph S. Exell

228 words

Historical

When an Old Man Spoke for Those Who Had No Voice

On March 9, 1841, seventy-three-year-old John Quincy Adams rose before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The former president, long retired from the...

Psalm 146:7Universalfreedomjustice

240 words

Sermon Illustration

Counting Backward Into God's Hands

Every day, roughly sixty thousand patients across the United States lie down on an operating table and do something remarkable. They allow an anesthesiologist to...

Universaltrust

251 words

Movie Analogy

Jesus Revolution: Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire - Charismatic (Isaiah 40:31)

In the late 1960s, amidst the chaos of war and civil unrest, a group of weary souls gathered on the sun-drenched shores of California. They were the children of the counterculture, drawn together by a longing for something more than...

Isaiah 40:31Universal

380 words

Movie Analogy

The Martian: Discerning God's Will in New Contexts - Missional (Romans 12:1-2)

In the film *The Martian*, we meet Mark Watney, a brilliant astronaut who finds himself stranded on Mars, a desolate landscape filled with red dust and barren rocks, far from the comforting familiarity of Earth. Alone and seemingly abandoned, Watney...

Romans 12:1-2Universal

277 words

Sermon Illustration

Already Hidden Inside

When a caterpillar enters its chrysalis, something astonishing happens. Its body dissolves into what scientists describe as a kind of biological soup — nearly every...

Universalidentity

223 words

Sermon Illustration

The Architect Who Was There from the Beginning

In 2015, structural engineer Roma Agrawal stood on the observation deck of The Shard in London — the 95-story tower she had helped design from...

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31Universal

237 words

Sermon Illustration

The Weight That Makes Us Stronger

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes modern medicine. He found that human bone is not static. It actively remodels...

Universalcourage

227 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Mark 15:33-41

Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 15:33-41

Universal

211 words

Historical

A Moldy Cantaloupe and the Healing of Millions

In the summer of 1943, a lab assistant named Mary Hunt walked into a Peoria, Illinois, fruit market and picked up a bruised cantaloupe covered...

Psalm 103:2-3Universalhealingprovidence

275 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 8:23-27

Picture the scene: a small fishing boat, its wooden hull creaking gently under the weight of weariness and expectation. The sun is beginning to dip below the horizon, painting the sky in hues of orange and purple, and the air...

Universal

342 words

Vivid Retelling

Not Far from the Kingdom: Mark 12:28-34

Cinematic retelling of Jesus teaching the greatest commandment

Universal

283 words

Sermon Illustration

The Stockbroker Who Chose 669 Children

In the winter of 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday and traveled instead to Prague. What he found in...

Deuteronomy 7:6-11Universal

238 words

Sermon Illustration

The Choir That Learned to Share a Heartbeat

In 2013, researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden discovered something remarkable. When members of a choir sang together, their heartbeats began to synchronize....

Universalcommunity

225 words

Sermon Illustration

George Washington Carver and the Praise Hidden in a Peanut

George Washington Carver rose before dawn nearly every morning at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, slipping into the woods while the campus still slept. He called...

Psalm 148Universal

235 words

Historical

Angelic Mediation and Divine Speech in Hebrews

Paul (Galatians 3:19) and Stephen (Acts 7:53) explicitly affirm angelic agency in law-giving, yet the Pentateuch itself remains ambiguous.

Hebrews 1:2Universaldivine revelationangelic ministry

Joseph S. Exell

188 words

Sermon Illustration

The Music Born from Silence

In 1968, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt made a decision that baffled the classical music world. At the height of his career, he stopped composing. Completely....

Universalpatience

224 words

Sermon Illustration

The Seventeen-Year Wait Beneath the Soil

For seventeen years, they live in total darkness. Periodical cicadas — specifically Brood X, one of the largest emergences ever documented — spend nearly two...

Universalfreedom

240 words

Sermon Illustration

Marked in Every Cell

In 1958, French immunologist Jean Dausset made a discovery that would earn him the Nobel Prize. He identified what scientists now call the Human Leukocyte...

Universalidentity

236 words

Historical

The Invisible Enemies of the Vineyard

In 1863, Emperor Napoleon III summoned Louis Pasteur to address a crisis threatening the French economy: wine was souring in its barrels, and no one...

3 John 1:2Universalhealingknowledge

254 words

Sermon Illustration

What Google Knows About Proverbs 27:2

In the late 1990s, two Stanford graduate students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin had a radical insight that would become the foundation of Google....

Universalhumility

235 words

Sermon Illustration

The Last Pew at Bethel AME

Sunday mornings at Bethel AME in rural Georgia, eighty-three-year-old Edith Sims arrived thirty minutes early. Not to get a good seat — she always sat...

Psalm 100Universal

252 words