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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

Vivid Retelling

The New Self: Ephesians 4:17-32

Theological meditation on Ephesians 4:17-32 - old self and new

Universal

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The Morehouse Moment

In May 2019, billionaire Robert F. Smith stood at the podium during Morehouse College's commencement and made an announcement nobody expected. After delivering a standard...

Luke 4:14-21Universal

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The Priest Who Stepped Into the Colony

On May 10, 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien de Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the rocky shore of Kalaupapa, Molokai. The...

Matthew 3:13-17Universal

221 words

Vivid Retelling

The Road to Damascus: Acts 9:1-19

Cinematic retelling of Saul's conversion

Universal

872 words

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Wilberforce and the Long Faithfulness

For twenty years, William Wilberforce watched slave traders grow rich. Ship owners in Liverpool built grand estates. Sugar merchants in Bristol threw lavish parties. Members...

Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40Universal

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Contemporary

Crossing Over

On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and walked straight into a wall of state troopers....

Romans 12:21Universalperseverancenonviolence

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Historical

The Blind Woman Who Taught the World to Sing

In the parlor of a modest New York City apartment in 1875, Fanny Crosby sat at a small writing desk, her sightless eyes turned toward...

2 Corinthians 12:9Universalperseveranceworship

256 words

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When Conscience Runs Faster Than Gold

In the summer of 1924, the world watched as Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell made an astonishing choice. Favored to win gold in the 100-meter dash...

Universalfreedom

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The Race He Wouldn't Run

When Eric Liddell arrived in Paris for the 1924 Olympics, he carried a conviction that would cost him the race he'd trained his whole life...

Universalobedience

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The Field Where a Nation Knelt

On January 2, 2023, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin made a routine tackle during a Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Then he...

Universalhealing

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The Ring Steve Bartman Never Expected

On October 14, 2003, Steve Bartman became the most hated man in Chicago. In Game 6 of the NLCS, with the Cubs five outs from...

Universalforgiveness

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The Woman Who Walked Toward the Storm

In 1943, a young Polish nurse named Irena Sendler could have stayed safe. She had papers. She had connections. She could have kept her head...

Ruth 2:12Universal

228 words

Contemporary

The Quiet Courage of Not Leaving

On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat...

Galatians 6:9Universalcouragenonviolence

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The News Too Wonderful to Believe

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Orders No. 3. Two hundred and fifty thousand...

Matthew 28:1-10Universal

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Historical

A Quiet Word in a Roaring Stadium

On August 4, 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the edge of elimination in Berlin. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two qualifying attempts...

Galatians 3:28Universalsportsmanshipfriendship

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Victim Number One

On September 11, 2001, Father Mychal Judge ran toward the Twin Towers while thousands fled. The sixty-eight-year-old Franciscan friar served as chaplain to the New...

Wisdom 3:1-9Universal

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The Seeds Adoniram Judson Buried in Burma

When Adoniram Judson sailed for Burma in 1812, he carried little more than a grammar book and an unshakable conviction that the gospel would bear...

Colossians 1:1-14Universal

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The Eye of the Storm

Hurricane hunters with NOAA's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron fly directly into the most violent weather on earth. Their WP-3D Orion turboprops punch through walls of...

Nahum 1:7Universal

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Blaise Pascal and the Scrap of Paper Sewn Into His Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was thirty-one years old,...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

250 words

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The Morning Robert Gould Shaw Stepped Forward

On a January evening in 1863, Robert Gould Shaw sat at his family's dinner table in Boston when a letter arrived from Governor Andrew offering...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

239 words

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Three Hundred Joules

On September 14, 2019, paramedic Sarah Chen pressed the paddles against a construction worker's chest in a parking lot off Interstate 5 near Tacoma, Washington....

Romans 1:16Universal

229 words

Vivid Retelling

A Model Church: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Apostolic dictation of Paul's thanksgiving for Thessalonica

Universal

730 words

Historical

The Freedom That Was Already Theirs

Sengbe Pieh was born free. A rice farmer from Mende country in Sierra Leone, he was seized by slave traders in early 1839, shipped across...

Galatians 5:1Universalfreedomjustice

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Finished Together

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final. He had spent four years recovering from injuries, and this...

Universalidentity

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