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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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Wilberforce's Forty-Year Wait

In 1789, William Wilberforce stood before the British Parliament and delivered a three-and-a-half-hour speech calling for the abolition of the slave trade. The vote failed....

James 5:7-10Universal

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A Word Across the Void

In 1825, Samuel Morse was in Washington painting a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette when a horse messenger delivered a letter from his father:...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

236 words

Movie Analogy

The Dark Knight: The Hero Gotham Needs (Isaiah 53:3)

In the shadowy streets of Gotham, a city marred by crime and despair, there exists a figure cloaked not just in darkness, but in sacrifice. Picture Bruce Wayne—an enigmatic man with a dual identity. He dons the mantle of Batman...

Isaiah 53:3Universalsacrificesubstitution

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The Ripple in Space That No One Believed

At 5:51 a.m. on September 14, 2015, a faint chirp appeared on the detectors at LIGO — the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory — in Livingston,...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

227 words

Movie Analogy

The Weight Cut Loose

In the 1986 film *The Mission*, Robert De Niro plays Rodrigo Mendoza, a mercenary and slave trader in 18th-century South America. After killing his own...

Universalgrace

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Vivid Retelling

Stand Firm and Hold Fast: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

Theological meditation on standing firm in election and calling

Universal

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Vivid Retelling

Faith, Love, and Hope: Colossians 1:1-14

Apostolic dictation of Paul's thanksgiving and prayer for Colossae

Universal

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The Sailor's Cure Hiding in Plain Sight

For nearly three hundred years, scurvy was the most feared killer on the open sea. Between 1500 and 1800, it claimed more sailors' lives than...

John 8:32Universal

241 words

Movie Analogy

Ordinary People: The Son Who Lived (2 Samuel 12:13-23)

In the heart-wrenching film *Ordinary People*, we meet Conrad Jarrett, a young man grappling with the unbearable weight of grief and survivor's guilt. After a tragic boating accident claims the life of his older brother Buck, Conrad finds himself adrift...

2 Samuel 12:13-23Universalgriefguilt

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The Runners of the Western Front

On November 11, 1918, at 5:10 in the morning, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne. But the cease-fire...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

250 words

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Every Flag, One Song

On June 21, 2015, worshippers packed the TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina — just four days after a gunman murdered nine people during a...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

252 words

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A Bible Hidden Under a Dress

In September 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. They had been arrested for hiding Jewish families...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

234 words

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Wilberforce and the Long Wait for Justice

In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, weeping over Thomas Clarkson's evidence of the slave trade — iron shackles...

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Universal

226 words

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The Man Who Kept His Oath When It Cost Him Everything

In 1534, Sir Thomas More stood in the Tower of London, stripped of his title as Lord Chancellor of England — once the most powerful...

Psalm 15Universal

230 words

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Adoniram Judson and the Seeds That No One Could See

In 1813, Adoniram Judson stepped off a ship in Rangoon, Burma, with nothing but a calling and a conviction that God had promised a harvest...

Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22Universal

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The Storm That Washed a Slaver Clean

On March 21, 1748, a violent storm nearly swallowed the merchant ship Greyhound in the North Atlantic. John Newton, a twenty-three-year-old slave trader hardened by...

1 Peter 3:18-22Universal

246 words

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The Day a Father Ran Onto the Track

Derek Redmond had trained for years for this moment. As the gun fired at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the British sprinter shot out of the...

Universalfaith

257 words

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The Stump in Mrs. Nakamura's Yard

In 2011, the tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Japan, stripped the coastal town of Rikuzentakata down to mud and silence. Among the 70,000 pine trees that...

Isaiah 11:1-10Universal

237 words

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The Village That Became a Fortress

In the winter of 1942, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of the presbytery in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of...

Nahum 1:7Universal

230 words

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Life Beneath the Ice

In 2012, a team of Russian scientists led by Svetlana Yashina made a discovery that stunned the botanical world. Buried in the Siberian permafrost —...

Universalhope

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A Father Runs Onto the Track

The 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Derek Redmond of Great Britain had trained his entire life for one moment — the 400-meter semifinal. Years of surgeries and...

Universalrestoration

240 words

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Corrie ten Boom's Father and the Prodigal Nation

In the winter of 1944, Casper ten Boom was eighty-four years old when the Gestapo arrested him for hiding Jewish families in his Haarlem watchshop....

Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9Universal

252 words

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Escape Velocity

In 1977, NASA launched the *Voyager 1* spacecraft on a journey that would make history. To break free of Earth's gravitational pull, the probe had...

Universalfreedom

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The Coal That Changed Blaise Pascal's Life

On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal had an encounter so overwhelming that he could barely find words for...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

246 words