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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 Seawall at Fudai

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake shook the Pacific floor and sent a forty-foot tsunami racing toward Japan's northeastern coast. Entire towns vanished. Nearly...

Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9Universal

226 words

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More Than the Medal

In the summer of 1924, the fastest man in Britain faced an impossible choice. Eric Liddell, Scotland's star sprinter and heavy favorite for Olympic gold...

Universalidentity

242 words

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The Coach Who Wouldn't Let Her Quit

When Maria Gonzalez showed up at the Back on My Feet running program in Philadelphia, she hadn't run a mile in her life. She'd spent...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

223 words

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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

223 words

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The Farmer Who Planted After the Flood

In March 2019, floodwaters from the Missouri River swallowed Don Heger's farm near Craig, Missouri — 1,200 acres buried under silt and debris. Neighbors lost...

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Universal

219 words

Vivid Retelling

The Shape of Community: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Experiential vignette of Thessalonian church hearing final instructions

Universal

720 words

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Just a Hobby

On August 25, 1991, a twenty-one-year-old Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds posted a brief message to an online message board. "I'm doing a...

Universalcourage

233 words

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Blooming Where You Never Chose to Be

When Hurricane Katrina scattered 100,000 residents of New Orleans across the country in 2005, many landed in Houston with nothing but the clothes on their...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

233 words

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The Cathedral That Trusted Tomorrow

In 1883, a young architect named Antoni Gaudí took over an ambitious project in Barcelona — the Basilica de la Sagrada Família. He poured himself...

Universaltrust

259 words

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Running Toward Who You Were Made to Be

In the 1924 Paris Olympics, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell faced a crisis that would define him forever. Liddell was favored to win the 100 meters,...

Universalidentity

235 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

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The Repair Enzymes of Grace

Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand lesions — breaks, mismatches, and corruptions caused by...

Universalredemption

226 words

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Thirty-Three Men and a Hole Through the Rock

On August 5, 2010, seven hundred thousand tons of rock collapsed inside Chile's San Jose copper mine, sealing thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. They had...

Exodus 17:1-7Universal

234 words

Vivid Retelling

The Mind of Christ: Philippians 2:1-11

Theological meditation on the Christ Hymn of Philippians 2

Universal

730 words

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The Last Miles of Eliud Kipchoge

On October 12, 2019, in Vienna's Prater Park, Eliud Kipchoge became the first human being to run a marathon in under two hours. But what...

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18Universal

252 words

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The Symphony That Took Thirty Years

In 1793, a young Ludwig van Beethoven first encountered Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" and felt something stir in his chest. He knew this...

Universalpatience

224 words

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The Road Back from Merion

On February 2, 1949, golfer Ben Hogan and his wife Valerie were driving through thick fog near Van Horn, Texas, when a Greyhound bus appeared...

Universalhealing

233 words

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You Don't Have to Finish Alone

At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal as a medal favorite. He had trained for this moment...

Universalfreedom

260 words

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The Weeping Composer and the Open Heaven

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. Deeply in debt, partially paralyzed from a stroke, and abandoned by London's fickle...

Universalfaith

230 words

Vivid Retelling

I Am He: John 18:1-11

Cinematic retelling of Jesus arrest in Gethsemane

Universal

492 words

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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

235 words

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From a Leg Brace to the Fastest Woman Alive

In 1944, Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely in Clarksville, Tennessee — the twentieth of twenty-two children. At age four, she contracted polio. Her left leg...

Universaltransformation

256 words

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The Marathon Runner Who Crawled to the Water Station

In 2019, during the Badwater 135 ultramarathon across Death Valley, runner Shannon Farar-Griefer collapsed at mile 72. Temperatures had reached 130 degrees. Her crew had...

Psalm 63:1-8Universal

246 words

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Written for Any Part of You

For decades, geneticists dismissed roughly 98 percent of human DNA as "junk" — meaningless filler between the genes that actually mattered. It sat unnamed and...

Universalidentity

239 words