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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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The Team That Had No Stars

In the fall of 1979, coach Herb Brooks sat in a Minneapolis hotel room cutting players from the United States Olympic hockey roster. He released...

Universalcommunity

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The Final Flight of Number Twenty-One

On New Year's Eve, 1972, Roberto Clemente boarded a cargo plane in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He wasn't heading to a celebration. He was heading...

Universalsacrifice

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Historical

The Missionary Who Refused to Look Away

In December 1937, Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, and unleashed weeks of mass violence against civilians. While many foreign nationals evacuated, American missionary Minnie Vautrin...

Proverbs 24:11-12Universalcourageprotection

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Historical

The Soul's Repeated Warfare Against Despondency

Notice that David does not merely pose the question once; he takes up his soul "very short," demanding accountability: "Why art thou so cast down, O my soul?

Psalms 43:5Universalperseverance in strugglespiritual warfare

Charles H. Spurgeon

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Historical

The Dam That Cannot Hold: Redirecting the Will

Yet inevitably the accumulating pressure breaches the barrier, and the stream resumes its accustomed course with redoubled force.

Proverbs 26:11Universaltransformation of willgrace versus effort

Joseph S. Exell

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Contemporary

Sixty Hours in the Dark

In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin positioned a fine fiber of hydrated DNA before an X-ray beam in her laboratory at King's College London. The exposure...

Matthew 6:3-4Universalhidden contributionstruth

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Historical

The Book of Acts: Christ's Continued Acts, Not the Apostles'

He wrote of what Jesus 'began' to do and teach; the natural inference is that Acts records what Jesus 'continued' to do and teach after His ascension.

Acts 1:1-2UniversalChrist's continuing work through believersthe supremacy of Jesus in history

Alexander Maclaren

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Stronger at the Broken Place

Orthopedic surgeons have long observed a remarkable phenomenon in fracture healing. When a bone breaks — say, the femur of a child who fell from...

Universalrestoration

239 words

Historical

Ten Thousand Strangers Invited In

In December 1937, when Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, American missionary Minnie Vautrin faced an impossible choice. As acting head of Ginling Women's Arts and...

Matthew 25:35-36Universalcourageprotection

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Fanny Crosby and the Light She Never Lost

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old, after a careless doctor applied a mustard poultice to her infected eyes. She would never see...

Psalm 36:5-10Universal

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The Bacteria That Learned to Glow

In 1970, microbiologist Kenneth Nealson discovered something remarkable about a species of ocean bacteria called *Vibrio fischeri*. A single bacterium, isolated in a flask, produced...

Universalcommunity

229 words

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The Contract That Changed Everything

In 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn office and laid out the hardest contract in sports history. Rickey wasn't just...

Universalpatience

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Written Into Every Cell

Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand molecular lesions — breaks, mismatches, and chemical damage...

Universalrestoration

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The Treasure-Seeker's Desperation and Wisdom's True Worth

Thomson, D.D., witnessed in nineteenth-century Sidon diggers consumed by frenzy at the discovery of a single coin.

Proverbs 2:4Universalseeking divine truthlife's ultimate purpose

Joseph S. Exell

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The Surgery Before the Healing

In wound care, surgeons practice a procedure called debridement — the careful removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue from a wound. It seems counterintuitive....

Universalforgiveness

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The Sponsor Who Never Brought It Up

When Marcus first walked into the church basement for his recovery meeting in downtown Chicago, he carried a list of failures longer than the twelve...

Psalm 25:1-10Universal

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The Poet Who Saw God in a Bluebell

In the spring of 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins walked the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, where he was completing his theological...

Romans 1:20Universalwondercreation

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Twenty-Five Years for First Light

When NASA began designing the James Webb Space Telescope in 1996, engineers estimated a 2007 launch. What followed was twenty-five years of setbacks, redesigns, and...

Universalpatience

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The Principle of Least Privilege

In cybersecurity, one rule stands above nearly all others. Engineers call it "the principle of least privilege," first formalized by Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder...

Universalhumility

252 words

Historical

The Axe Cannot Boast Against the Woodcutter

The prophet's rhetorical question—"Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?"—exposes the folly of the Assyrian king, who attributed his conquests entirely to his own skill and military might, ignorant that Yahweh wielded him as an instrument.

Isaiah 10:15Universaldivine supremacy and human subjectionthe folly of self-reliance

Joseph S. Exell

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The Word That Would Not Be Contained

In a cramped workshop on Mainz's Quintinsstraße, sometime around 1455, Johannes Gutenberg lifted a freshly printed sheet from his wooden press and held it to...

Isaiah 55:11Universaltransformationthe Word

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Three Billion Letters of Wonder

On April 14, 2003, scientists announced what thirteen years of painstaking work had finally achieved — the Human Genome Project was complete. Researchers from twenty...

Psalm 139:13-16Universalwondercreation

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The Broken Composer Who Gave the World Its Greatest Hallelujah

In April 1737, George Frideric Handel collapsed in his London home, struck by what doctors believed was a stroke. His right arm was paralyzed. His...

Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29Universal

230 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