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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 Farmer's Daughter from Owasso

In 2019, a young woman named Sarah from Owasso, Oklahoma — population 36,000 — married into one of Denmark's oldest noble families. She had grown...

Psalm 45:10-12, 16Universal

272 words

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Vivid Retelling

Foolish Galatians: Galatians 3:1-14

Theological meditation on Galatians 3:1-14 - faith vs law

Universal

1017 words

Sermon Illustration

When the Lights Came Back On

On September 28, 2017, Maria Gonzalez sat on her porch in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, staring into a darkness so complete she could not see her...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

240 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

295 words

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The Siren No One Believed

On May 22, 2011, the tornado sirens in Joplin, Missouri, began wailing at 5:11 p.m. Most residents barely looked up. The sirens had sounded twice...

Zephaniah 1:14-15Universal

238 words

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Rescued by the Wreckage

In 1982, a commercial fisherman named Salvador Alvarenga set out from the coast of Mexico on what should have been a routine trip. When a...

Jonah 1:17Universal

233 words

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Death's Duel and the Dean of St. Paul's

In February 1631, John Donne stood in the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, visibly wasting from stomach cancer, and preached what his friends called...

1 Corinthians 15:19-26Universal

236 words

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The Tree That Thrives on Stone

High in the White Mountains of eastern California, where the soil is almost pure limestone and rainfall barely reaches ten inches a year, stands a...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

224 words

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The Library That Had No Walls

In 2018, architect Li Wei completed a stunning public library in Tianjin, China — the Binhai Library, with its soaring white shelves cascading from floor...

Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19Universal

242 words

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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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The Silence Before the Shout

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3: all enslaved people were free. The war...

Mark 16:1-8Universal

229 words

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The Diver Beneath Winchester Cathedral

In 1905, engineers discovered that Winchester Cathedral, one of England's longest medieval churches, was slowly sinking into marshy Hampshire soil. Its ancient foundations, laid nearly...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

251 words

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When the Signal Finally Reached Everyone

On January 13, 2018, a false missile alert went out across Hawaii. Every phone on every island buzzed simultaneously with the same terrifying message: "BALLISTIC...

Acts 2:1-31Universal

237 words

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The Unlocked Door

On December 14, 2010, miners trapped in the Copiapó mine in Chile spent sixty-nine days underground, surviving on two spoonfuls of tuna every forty-eight hours....

Mark 16:1-8Universal

233 words

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The Tree That Thrives on Nothing

High in California's White Mountains, at nearly 10,000 feet, the bristlecone pines cling to slopes of bare dolomite rock. The soil is almost powder. Rainfall...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

234 words

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The List That Saved 669 Children

In 1938, a young British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton visited Prague and saw Jewish families desperate to save their children from the Nazi threat closing...

John 6:37-40Universal

247 words

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The Well That Never Ran Dry

In 2012, a brutal drought scorched 80 percent of America's farmland. Across southern Kansas, cattle ponds turned to cracked mud. Irrigation systems sputtered and failed....

Isaiah 12:2-6Universal

245 words

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When the Clouds Parted Over Denali

In 2019, backpacker Sarah Chen spent eleven days hiking through Denali National Park without ever seeing the mountain. Clouds hung low and thick over the...

Mark 9:2-10Universal

233 words

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The Tree That Refused to Stay Buried

In October 2001, recovery workers sifting through the wreckage at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree beneath the rubble — snapped nearly in half,...

Acts 2:14a, 22-32Universal

237 words

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The Pace That Won the World

On October 12, 2019, Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in 1:59:40—the first human being in history to complete 26.2 miles in under two hours. The...

Universalpatience

224 words

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The Prisoner Who Took Another Man's Place

In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, the SS deputy commander Karl Fritzsch selected ten men from Block 14 to die by...

1 Peter 3:18-22Universal

232 words

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The Day the Sky Turned Black

On April 14, 1935, residents of Boise City, Oklahoma, looked up to see the horizon swallowed whole. A wall of dirt two thousand feet high...

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28Universal

246 words

Vivid Retelling

The Olive Tree: Romans 11:1-6, 11-24, 33-36

Theological meditation on Romans 11 - olive tree and doxology

Universal

1134 words

Sermon Illustration

Pulled Up into the Light

On October 13, 2010, Florencio Avalos stepped into a narrow steel capsule called the Phoenix, 2,300 feet below the Atacama Desert. For sixty-nine days, he...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

226 words