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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?”

23,814 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Organ That Remembers Wholeness

In 1989, surgeons at the University of Chicago attempted something that had never been done before. Dr. Christoph Broelsch removed a portion of a mother's...

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The Dentist Who Opened on Saturdays for Free

Every Saturday morning for eleven years, Dr. Grace Okafor unlocked her dental clinic in East Cleveland at 6:00 a.m. — not for paying patients, but...

Psalm 112:1-10Universal

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The Man in Black Finds His Voice Again

By the early 1990s, Johnny Cash was a man the music industry had discarded. Nashville had moved on. His record label dropped him. Decades of...

Universalrestoration

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Vivid Retelling

This Is My Body: Mark 14:12-26

Cinematic retelling of the Last Supper

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The Cathedral Builder Who Got It Backwards

In 1882, Antoni Gaudí took over construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, convinced he was building something magnificent for God. He poured forty-three years...

2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16Universal

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Trusting Beyond Our Assumptions - Progressive (Proverbs 3:5-6)

A suburban church decided to partner with an inner-city congregation. The suburban members brought assumptions about what their partners "needed"—food drives, tutoring, career help.

Proverbs 3:5-6Universal

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The Race No One Finished Alone

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final with everything he had trained for on the line. Halfway...

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The Bridge That Never Closed

On October 24, 1964, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened between Brooklyn and Staten Island. Engineers designed it to last — not decades, but centuries. Sixty years...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

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Blaise Pascal's Night of Fire

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

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Night Blaise Pascal Saw Fire

On the evening of November 23, 1654, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. What happened next lasted roughly two...

Matthew 17:1-9Universal

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Historical

Standing at the Edge of the Grave

On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in the bitter cold of Semyonov Place in St. Petersburg, wearing a white execution shirt. He and...

Psalm 116:8-9Universalnew lifegrace

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Historical

When Scripture Took Hold of a Composer

In late August 1741, George Frideric Handel received a libretto from Charles Jennens — a carefully assembled text drawn entirely from the King James Bible...

Colossians 3:16Universalinspirationdevotion

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The Cathedral That Survived the Fire

On April 15, 2019, the world watched in horror as flames consumed the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris. Eight hundred years of history disappeared into...

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

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The Lighthouse That Never Went Dark

In 1989, when Hurricane Hugo slammed into Charleston, South Carolina, with 140-mile-per-hour winds, it flattened homes, snapped century-old oaks like matchsticks, and reshaped the coastline...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

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The Silver Candlesticks

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean — a hardened ex-convict — is taken in for the night by the Bishop of Digne, a man...

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Movie Analogy

The Martian: Sent to Cultivate New Worlds - Missional (Great Commission)

Imagine yourself on the stark, red landscape of Mars, where the air is thin and unforgiving. This is where astronaut Mark Watney finds himself—alone, presumed dead, and battling against the odds to survive. In the midst of desolation, Watney’s sheer...

Matthew 28:18-20Universal

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The Prayer That Outlived Them All

On August 27, 1727, twenty-four men and twenty-four women in the small village of Herrnhut, Saxony, made a quiet covenant. Under the pastoral care of...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

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Florence Nightingale and the Voice She Could Not Name

On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, recorded four words in her diary...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Girl Who Wrote It Down Before She Understood

On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's parlor in Hampshire, England, and heard what she could only describe as the voice...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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Contemporary

The Obligation of the Sent

On the evening of October 20, 1968, the Olympic marathon in Mexico City was long over. Mamo Wolde of Ethiopia had crossed the finish line...

Hebrews 12:1Universalperseveranceduty

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The Operating Room Light

Dr. Margaret Chen had performed over three thousand surgeries at Johns Hopkins. Her hands were steady, her reputation sterling. But in the spring of 2019,...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

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The Flame That Burns for "Never Again

On August 6, 1945, a single bomb reduced Hiroshima to ash and shadow. Over 140,000 people perished. The city lay in ruins so complete that...

Genesis 9:8-17Universal

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Fruit Takes Time to Grow - Traditional (Galatians 5:22-23)

A farmer doesn't plant an apple tree and expect fruit the next day. There's soil preparation, planting, watering, pruning, waiting—years of waiting. Fruit is organic result, not manufactured product.

Galatians 5:22-23Universal

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The Composer Who Had Nothing Left

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer was drowning in debt, his operas failing before half-empty London...

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