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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 Year Susan Changed Her Fast

For six years, Susan Albright fasted every Wednesday during Lent. She skipped lunch, drank only water, and spent her break reading devotionals in her car...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Historical

The Ship of Anger: Mastering the Passion of Wrath

This passage reveals both the excellency of meekness and the mischief of passionateness.

Proverbs 13:29Universalemotional masterydivine regulation of natural passions

Joseph S. Exell

238 words

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The Cell That Eats Itself Free

In 2016, Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for discovering the mechanisms of autophagy — a process whose name literally means "self-eating." When...

Universalfreedom

227 words

Contemporary

The Train to Darjeeling

On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling. Sister Teresa had taught at St. Mary's High School...

1 Corinthians 13:4-7Universalcompassioncalling

240 words

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Margaret's Head Count

Margaret Dawson drove Bus 14 for the Calhoun County school district for thirty-one years. Every afternoon, she counted heads before pulling away from Ridgeview Elementary....

Luke 15:3-7Universal

246 words

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Ten Thousand Repairs a Day

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells suffers more than 10,000 molecular injuries. Ultraviolet light, oxidative stress, even the simple act of...

Universalhealing

248 words

Historical

The Radiance That Cost Everything

In the autumn of 1914, as German shells tore through northern France, wounded soldiers filled field hospitals where surgeons operated blind — unable to locate...

John 15:13Universalsacrificecourage

255 words

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The Hand That Reached Across the Line

Berlin, August 4, 1936. Jesse Owens stood at the edge of the long jump runway, shaken. The twenty-two-year-old son of Alabama sharecroppers had fouled on...

Proverbs 17:17Universalfriendshipbridge-building

240 words

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The Righteous Hope for Gladness Amid Life's Vicissitudes

Exell (1887) offers this Victorian meditation: We are not to expect permanence in our acquisitions.

Proverbs 9:28Universalacceptance of life's uncertaintiesgratitude in present circumstances

Joseph S. Exell

242 words

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The Artist Who Walked Away from Fame

In 1888, Lilias Trotter stood at a crossroads that would define her legacy. John Ruskin, the most influential art critic in Victorian England, had declared...

Psalm 45:10-12, 16Universal

236 words

Contemporary

The Day the Church Bells Rang for Healing

On April 12, 1955, hundreds of scientists and reporters packed the Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr....

Psalm 30:2Universalhopehealing

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The Brain That Found Another Way

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 to...

Universalhope

241 words

Historical

Locusts Camping in Hedges: Patience and Divine Timing

Observers at Abeih noted that as evening air cooled, locusts literally "camped in the hedges and loose stone walls, covering them over like a swarm of bees settled on a bush." They remained stationary until the sun warmed the next...

Ezekiel 2:17Universaldivine sovereigntyGod's control over nature

Joseph S. Exell

207 words

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The Broken Composer Who Heard Heaven

In the spring of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. London's musical establishment had turned against him. Creditors circled. His operas played to...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

253 words

Contemporary

Known Before the First Base Pair

On April 14, 2003, scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project — a thirteen-year international effort to map the entire human genetic code....

Jeremiah 1:5Universalwondercreation

219 words

Historical

Affliction as the Classroom of Obedience

First, David knew what was genuinely good for him—not the surface comforts that the flesh craves, but the deep sanctification that Adonai designs for His people.

Psalms 119:71Universalspiritual growth through adversitysurrender and submission

Charles H. Spurgeon

209 words

Historical

The Harvest He Never Lived to See

For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, Gregor Mendel knelt in the garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia, cross-pollinating nearly twenty-eight thousand pea...

Mark 4:26-28Universalfaithfulnesspatience

253 words

Contemporary

The Helicopter Pilot Who Chose a Higher Authority

On the morning of March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the village of My Lai in...

Acts 5:29Universalcourageconscience

252 words

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Where Hast Thou Gleaned To-Day? Daily Accounting of Life's Opportunities

Naomi's question to Ruth—"Where hast thou gleaned to-day?"—invites us into three vital truths about our stewardship before Yahweh. First, the *sphere* of life's opportunities. Labour is the law of life itself. The Lord has "set before thee an open door"...

Joshua 1:19Universalstewardship of time and talentdaily accountability before God

Joseph S. Exell

210 words

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The Fishing Boats of Denmark

In October 1943, the Nazi regime prepared to round up every Jewish citizen in Denmark — over seven thousand men, women, and children marked for...

Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10abUniversal

234 words

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Integrity's Worth Surpasses Wealth and Perversion

The rich man perverse in his ways lacks this wisdom entirely.

Proverbs 28:6Universalmoral character over material wealthreligious principle as practical guidance

Joseph S. Exell

212 words

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Counting Backward into Darkness

In 1846, a printer named Edward Abbott lay on an operating table at Massachusetts General Hospital, breathing in ether fumes administered by dentist William T.G....

Universaltrust

242 words

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The Bishop Who Gave Away His Palace

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, we meet Bishop Myriel of Digne — a man who holds one of the most prestigious positions in his region...

Universalhumility

232 words

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The Hidden Network Beneath the Forest

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking study in the journal *Nature* revealing something extraordinary happening beneath the forest floor. Trees, she discovered, are...

Universalcommunity

237 words