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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

Sermon Illustration

The Spring in the Salt Flat

In Utah's west desert, miles from anything green, there is a place called Fish Springs. The land surrounding it is cracked alkali — white, barren,...

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Universal

243 words

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The Burial and Resurrection of Bach's Music

When Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750, the world barely noticed. The city council's official response was to complain about the...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

244 words

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The Artist Who Was Enriched Beyond the Canvas

In 1888, Lilias Trotter stood at a crossroads in London. John Ruskin, the most influential art critic in England, had told her she could become...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

224 words

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The Stadium That Sang in Every Language

On a sweltering July evening in 2019, sixty thousand people packed Busan Asiad Main Stadium in South Korea for the closing worship of the World...

Revelation 7:9-17Universal

250 words

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The Watchmaker's Daughter Who Found Hope in Ravensbrück

In 1944, Corrie ten Boom stood shivering in the delousing shower at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped of everything — her home in Haarlem, her watchmaking...

Romans 5:1-5Universal

228 words

Vivid Retelling

Known Completely: Psalm 139

Cinematic retelling of Psalm 139 on God's complete knowledge

Universal

754 words

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The Voice That Cut Through Static in Guayama

When Hurricane Maria obliterated Puerto Rico's power grid in September 2017, the island went silent. No cell towers, no internet, no landlines. Three and a...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

248 words

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The One-Eyed Preacher of Azusa Street

In April 1906, William J. Seymour — a one-eyed son of formerly enslaved parents from Centerville, Louisiana — stood in a converted stable on Azusa...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

227 words

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The Silver He Didn't Deserve

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a newly released convict named Jean Valjean stumbles through a world that wants nothing to do with him. Every inn...

Universalforgiveness

245 words

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The Open Window on Maple Street

Margaret Chen had kept the windows of her small bakery shut tight for three winters. Business was slow, flour prices climbed, and she calculated every...

Malachi 3:10Universal

260 words

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The Cobbler Who Became a Light to the Nations

In 1786, a young cobbler named William Carey stood before a gathering of Baptist ministers in Northampton, England, and suggested that Christians had an obligation...

Isaiah 49:1-7Universal

248 words

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Caesar's Heir and Ours

In 44 BC, a teenage boy named Gaius Octavius received staggering news. Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the known world, had named him...

Romans 8:14-17Universal

230 words

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Gladys Aylward's One-Way Ticket to Nowhere She Knew

In 1932, a London parlormaid named Gladys Aylward stood on the platform at Liverpool Street Station clutching a one-way ticket to China. She had no...

Genesis 12:1-4aUniversal

253 words

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The Birdsong That Was Always There

In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Chen joined a birding group in Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. On her first morning walk, she heard...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

238 words

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The Pilot Above the Clouds

In 1929, Jimmy Doolittle climbed into a biplane at Mitchell Field, New York, pulled a canvas hood over his cockpit, and flew entirely by instruments....

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

229 words

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The Runner Who Became a Lamp in Weihsien

Eric Liddell could have stayed famous. After winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics — a story later immortalized in *Chariots...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

225 words

Historical

The Doctor Who Traded a Concert Hall for a Chicken Coop

On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer stepped off a river steamer onto the banks of the Ogooué River in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa. He was...

Matthew 25:40Universalsacrificecompassion

250 words

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The Hymn Written at Midnight After Everyone Said Yes

In February 1874, English hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal arrived at a friend's home where ten people were gathered for a visit. Some were believers...

Universalobedience

248 words

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The Marble Everyone Else Abandoned

For nearly forty years, a massive block of Carrara marble sat neglected in a cathedral workshop yard in Florence. Two sculptors had already tried and...

Universalidentity

229 words

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The Vineyard on Rattlesnake Hill

In 2017, wildfires swept through Sonoma County, California, and scorched thousands of acres of premium vineyard land. Among them was a small family operation on...

Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19Universal

239 words

Vivid Retelling

One Like a Son of Man: Revelation 1:9-20

Cinematic retelling of John's vision of the glorified Christ

Universal

711 words

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The Light That Found Him in the Dark

In 1600, Caravaggio unveiled *The Calling of Saint Matthew* in a small Roman chapel, and viewers gasped. The painting depicts a dim, ordinary room where...

Universalfaith

231 words

Contemporary

A Name Scrawled on a Napkin

On June 30, 1966, Pauli Murray sat in a Washington, D.C. hotel conference room, watching government officials dismiss yet another resolution calling for the Equal...

Micah 6:8Universaljusticeequality

245 words

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Fifty Years of Silence

In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton visited Prague and encountered something that would alter the course of his life — hundreds...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

237 words