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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 Night Margaret Didn't Come Home

In the small fishing village of Crail, on the eastern coast of Scotland, everyone knew Margaret Beattie. Eighty-three years old, sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and in...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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The Code Writer Who Found a Signature

In June 2000, Francis Collins stood in the East Room of the White House and announced that the Human Genome Project had completed its first...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

241 words

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Nature Illustration: Harvest and Gratitude

As autumn approaches, I find myself captivated by the golden fields stretching across the landscape, heavy with the weight of a bountiful harvest. Each ear of corn, each cluster of grapes, speaks not just of nature's rhythm but of a...

Revelation 21:1-5Universal

253 words

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The Reward of the Slain Lamb

On August 21, 1732, two young Moravian men named Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann boarded a ship in Copenhagen, bound for the Caribbean island of...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

232 words

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The Optometrist Who Couldn't Read the Sign

Dr. Margaret Chen spent thirty-two years fitting lenses and diagnosing cataracts at her clinic on Maple Avenue in Rochester, Minnesota. She could spot astigmatism in...

John 9:1-41Universal

238 words

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Monte Testaccio: A Mound of Irreparable Fragments

Paul's in Rome stands Monte Testaccio, an artificial mound nearly one-third of a mile in circumference and one hundred fifty feet high.

Isaiah 30:14Universaldivine judgment as irreversibleconsequences of human rebellion

Joseph S. Exell

208 words

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Evil Pursues the Wicked; Good Rewards the Righteous

First, as a universal community: only religion—a sense of justice and moral distinction—separates humans from beasts.

Proverbs 13:21Universalmoral law and consequencepursuit of virtue

Joseph S. Exell

206 words

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The Steadfast Heart of George Müller

In 1836, George Müller opened an orphanage in Bristol, England, with exactly two shillings in his pocket. Over the next sixty years, he would care...

Psalm 112:1-10Universal

239 words

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The Cost of an Open Bible

In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a printing press in Cologne, Germany, racing to finish what no one in England would let him attempt —...

John 8:32Universalsacrificetruth

259 words

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Wisdom's Speech and Folly's Destruction in Proverbs 9

An Intellectual Contrast: The intelligent man communicates wisdom; when he speaks, men are enlightened, their minds set to thinking, their spirits refreshed.

Proverbs 9:13Universalthe power of wordsmoral consequences

Joseph S. Exell

213 words

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The Slothful Hunter: Indolence and the Squandered Prize

While diligent hunters prepare their catch the same evening, this sluggard lacks the will to strip the hide or kindle the fire.

Proverbs 11:27Universalthe spiritual cost of idlenesscharacter formed through labor

Joseph S. Exell

207 words

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The Liberal Man Who Devises Liberal Things

There exists a natural liberality, constitutional to certain temperaments.

Isaiah 28:8Universalthe nature of true liberalitydivine agency in human virtue

Joseph S. Exell

223 words

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Fear, Pit, and Snare: Ancient Judgment in Isaiah 24:17

The three instruments of capture—fear, pit, and snare—represent distinct methods of trapping wild beasts that Isaiah applies to human judgment.

Isaiah 24:17Universaldivine judgment and consequenceinescapability of God's justice

Joseph S. Exell

194 words

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The Babies Who Needed More Than Medicine

In the 1940s, psychoanalyst Dr. René Spitz studied infants in two very different settings. One group lived in a well-funded orphanage with impeccable hygiene, proper...

Universallove

223 words

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Self-Conceit: The Blindness of Thinking Ourselves Wise

The wisest person must contemplate two humbling truths: his knowledge against what remains unknown, and his knowledge against what he ought to have learned.

Proverbs 3:7Universalself-deceptionspiritual growth

Joseph S. Exell

206 words

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Rapturous Enthusiasm: Why the Holy One Demands Our Loudest Cry

The reason is absolute: "For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee." Exell observes that men have rightly been infuriated by earthly deliverances.

Isaiah 12:6Universalrapturous gratitudeauthentic expression of faith

Joseph S. Exell

220 words

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Two Hundred Fifty-Six Marks of Wonder

In 1987, ophthalmologists Leonard Flom and Aran Safir published a discovery that would reshape security technology forever. They found that the human iris contains at...

Psalm 139:14Universal

248 words

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Nature Illustration: Light and Darkness

As a child, I would often visit my grandfather’s farm, where the mornings began with a breathtaking display of creation. I remember standing on the porch, a quilt of dew-kissed grass beneath my bare feet, as dawn tiptoed into the...

Genesis 1:1-5Universal

234 words

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Subtlety for the Simple: Wisdom Against Deception

The word carries an evil connotation—recalling the serpent's cunning in Genesis 3—yet here Solomon redeems it to mean discernment rather than deception.

Proverbs 1:4Universalspiritual discernmentprotection from deception

Joseph S. Exell

177 words

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George Washington Carver's Laboratory of Wonder

In 1921, George Washington Carver stood before the United States Congress holding a handful of peanuts. From that humble legume, he had derived over three...

Genesis 1:1-2:4aUniversal

229 words

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The Woman Who Saw Light Without Eyes

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's error. She lived ninety-four years in total darkness — and wrote over...

Psalm 36:5-10Universal

232 words

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Science Illustration: Biology and the Gift of Life

A few years ago, I stood in awe before a delicate butterfly emerging from its cocoon. I had never witnessed such a profound transformation. As the vibrant colors stretched across its wings, I couldn't help but think of Psalm 19:1-6,...

Psalm 19:1-6Universal

236 words

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The Village That Opened Every Door

In the winter of 1940, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of a stone presbytery in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small Huguenot village tucked into...

Hebrews 13:2Universalcommunitycourage

226 words

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Oppressing the Poor Reproaches the Maker

Every person becomes his brother's keeper within this divine arrangement.

Proverbs 13:31Universaldivine reproach through human crueltyobligation to the vulnerable

Joseph S. Exell

215 words