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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?”

25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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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

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Thirty Percent Broken and Still Readable

Next time you scan a QR code at a restaurant or on a concert ticket, try something first. Cover a corner of it with your...

Universallove

237 words

Historical

The Stars as Teachers of Divine Obedience

Consider the stars—our starry monitors—fixed in their courses by divine decree.

Psalms 119:91Universaldivine orderfaithful service

Charles H. Spurgeon

193 words

Historical

The Dying Man Who Moved the Earth

For nearly thirty years, Nicolaus Copernicus kept his revolutionary idea largely to himself. The Polish canon at the cathedral in Frombork had calculated what few...

Psalm 19:1Universaltruthcourage

244 words

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The Enzyme That Knows Exactly Where to Cut

In 2012, biochemist Jennifer Doudna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier described something remarkable hiding inside bacteria — a molecular system called CRISPR-Cas9. It works like a...

Universalpurpose

263 words

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The Wound That Wouldn't Heal

In wound care medicine, surgeons sometimes face a troubling situation: a wound that refuses to close. The edges look clean, the bandages are changed faithfully,...

Universalforgiveness

257 words

Historical

Graven Images Cannot Save Themselves

Isaiah condemns the absurdity of idolatry through the image of a *pesel* (graven image) crafted to not topple over. A wooden idol, planed smooth beneath and weighted above to prevent tipping at the slightest push, was deemed worthy of worship—yet...

Isaiah 39:20Universalidolatry versus true faiththe powerlessness of false gods

Joseph S. Exell

204 words

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From RAW to Radiant

Every professional photographer knows the secret hidden inside their camera. When they shoot in what's called RAW format, the image that first appears on screen...

Universaltransformation

224 words

Historical

Knowledge Without Experience: The Folly of Distant Faith

They studied the law with meticulous precision, yet remained practical strangers to its transformative power.

Matthew 1:4Universalknowledge versus experiencespiritual blindness

Joseph S. Exell

207 words

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The Sound That Listens

In 1978, Dr. Amar Bose sat on a transatlantic flight and couldn't hear his music over the roar of the engines. Rather than accept the...

Universallove

224 words

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The Tree That Outlasted Everything

In 1957, dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman hiked into California's White Mountains and discovered something extraordinary — a gnarled, wind-battered bristlecone pine he would name Methuselah. Core...

Universalpatience

225 words

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What Grudges Do to the Body

In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a study that made the invisible visible. She asked volunteers to recall someone who...

Universalforgiveness

246 words

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The Concrete Crews of Lawndale

In 1978, Coach Wayne Gordon moved into North Lawndale on Chicago's West Side — not to commute in for weekend charity, but to stay. The...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

236 words

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The Sound Heard Round the World

On August 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a force that stunned the entire planet. The explosion was heard nearly three thousand miles...

Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9Universal

239 words

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The Moravian Harvest

On August 13, 1727, a small community of refugees gathered for communion in the village of Herrnhut, Germany. They were Moravian believers, exiles who had...

Psalm 67Universal

240 words

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The Widow's Spare Room

In 1987, Margaret Hollis of Birmingham, England, cleared out her back bedroom and placed a single twin mattress on the floor. She told her pastor...

Ephesians 3:20Universal

233 words

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The Forest That Shares Its Bread

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking discovery in the journal *Nature*. Using radioactive carbon tracers, she proved that trees in a forest are...

Universallove

237 words

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The Trees That Outlast Empires

In 1957, scientist Edmund Schulman made a remarkable discovery in the White Mountains of California. There, clinging to rocky limestone slopes at nearly ten thousand...

Universalperseverance

242 words

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The Connector That Chose to Serve

Before USB was invented in the mid-1990s, connecting a device to your computer was an exercise in frustration. Every printer demanded its own parallel port...

Universalhumility

260 words

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The Signal That Bridges Every Distance

In 1994, engineers at Ericsson faced a stubborn problem. Devices from different manufacturers, running different software, speaking different digital languages, could not talk to each...

Universallove

250 words

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The Potter's Hands at the Wheel

In his stunning 1886 painting *The Potter*, William De Morgan captured something that every ceramicist knows instinctively — clay that resists the potter's hands will...

Universalobedience

229 words

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The Factory Reset

When Apple designed the iPhone, they built in a feature called "Erase All Content and Settings." With a few taps, the device is wiped completely...

Universalforgiveness

238 words

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Your Unique Frequency

Every song ever recorded carries what engineers call an audio fingerprint — a constellation of sound frequencies as unique as a human thumbprint. When scientist...

Universalpurpose

248 words

Historical

How Affliction Awakens the Soul to True Life

King Hezekiah's near-death experience reveals what many never discover: the difference between mere existence and genuine life.

Isaiah 35:16Universalspiritual awakening through trialthe paradox of affliction producing life

Joseph S. Exell

214 words