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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?”

23,828 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Penthouse That Couldn't Save Him

In 2008, executives at Lehman Brothers worked from the thirty-first floor of their Midtown Manhattan headquarters, surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass that made the city look...

Obadiah 1:3-4Universal

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What the Judge Declared

Every November, courtrooms across America host National Adoption Day. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, families line up in their Sunday best while children clutch stuffed animals...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

218 words

Vivid Retelling

Shadow and Reality: Colossians 2:16-23

Historical reconstruction of the Colossian heresy situation

Universal

723 words

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The Dying Tree That Feeds the Forest

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia made a remarkable discovery. Beneath the forest floor, ancient trees are connected to younger...

Universalsacrifice

254 words

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When Peace Like a River

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring into cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves, his...

Universaltrust

245 words

Contemporary

Bodies on the Bus

On May 4, 1961, thirteen people — seven Black, six white — boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., and headed south. Organized by James...

Romans 12:1-2Universalcouragesacrifice

239 words

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The Orchard on Maple Ridge Road

Every September, Helen Matsuda drove her grandchildren out to the old orchard on Maple Ridge Road outside Wenatchee, Washington. The trees had been planted by...

James 1:17Universal

247 words

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The House That Built Itself Into Nowhere

In San Jose, California, the Winchester Mystery House sprawls across six acres — 161 rooms, 40 bedrooms, staircases that climb straight into the ceiling, and...

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

245 words

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The Pastor Who Would Not Be Silent

In 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer watched as the Deutsche Christen movement draped swastika banners beside the cross in German churches. They rewrote hymns to honor the...

John 2:13-22Universal

224 words

Contemporary

The Man Behind the March

In the sweltering summer of 1963, Bayard Rustin worked from a cramped office at 170 West 130th Street in Harlem, a telephone receiver pressed to...

Micah 6:8Universalservicehumility

246 words

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The Night Notre-Dame Refused to Fall

On April 15, 2019, the world watched Notre-Dame de Paris burn. Flames devoured the 850-year-old roof. The iconic spire collapsed in a shower of sparks....

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

201 words

Contemporary

Too Young to Matter, Old Enough to Change History

On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...

1 Timothy 4:12Universalcourageyouth

240 words

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The Composer Who Heard Heaven in His Darkest Season

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the world had written off. His health was failing — a stroke had partially paralyzed his right...

Universalhope

243 words

Contemporary

Seventy-Five Pens and One Promise

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat at a desk in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by senators, congressmen, and...

Galatians 3:28Universaljusticeequality

265 words

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The Song She Couldn't Simply Sing

In 1874, English hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal penned the words that would become one of Christianity's most beloved consecration hymns: *Take My Life and...

Universalsacrifice

250 words

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The Hand That Rewires the Brain

In 2006, neuroscientist Dr. James Coan at the University of Virginia conducted a remarkable experiment. He placed married women inside an fMRI machine and warned...

Universallove

263 words

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The Morning the Floodwaters Surrounded the Farm

In March of 2019, the Missouri River swallowed David Hagen's soybean fields outside Hamburg, Iowa. He stood on the second-floor landing of his farmhouse at...

Exodus 14:13-14Universal

235 words

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The Face That Death Could Not Touch

In December 1944, Betsie ten Boom died on the cold floor of Ravensbrück concentration camp. She and her sister Corrie had been arrested for hiding...

Wisdom 3:1-9Universal

237 words

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The Hymn Written at the Water's Edge

In 1882, Louisa Stead took her husband and young daughter Lily to the beach for a picnic. What began as a quiet afternoon shattered in...

Universaltrust

250 words

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The Two Movements That Restart a Life

In 1960, Dr. Peter Safar demonstrated at Baltimore City Hospital that effective CPR requires two distinct actions working together. Chest compressions alone are not enough....

Romans 10:9Universal

227 words

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The Heirloom That Couldn't Be Bought

In 2019, a house fire swept through the Martinez family home in Sacramento, California. Insurance covered the structure, the furniture, the electronics — everything with...

1 Peter 1:17-23Universal

230 words

Historical

The Morning Prayer at Flossenbürg

On the gray dawn of April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt on the wooden floor of Flossenbürg concentration camp and prayed. The thirty-nine-year-old German pastor...

Philippians 1:21Universalcouragefaith

235 words

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The Astronaut Who Saw What No One Else Had Seen

On December 24, 1968, astronaut William Anders pointed his camera through the window of Apollo 8 and captured a photograph that would change the world....

Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40Universal

255 words

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Connected at the Roots

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard made a discovery that stunned the scientific world. She found that trees in a forest are not competing individuals but...

Universalcommunity

239 words