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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?”

23,900 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Sermon Illustration

The Blood That Changes Your Name

In the world of hematology, one of the most astonishing facts about bone marrow transplantation is what happens after engraftment. When a patient receives a...

Universalgrace

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The Composer Who Wrote His Way Back to Life

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. Four years earlier, a stroke had paralyzed his right hand — devastating for a composer and...

Universalhealing

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Vivid Retelling

A Mighty Fortress: Psalm 46

Cinematic retelling of Psalm 46 on God as refuge

Universal

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When the Wagons Were Unpacked

In 1772, a young Baptist minister named John Fawcett faced the decision of a lifetime. He had been called to succeed the legendary Dr. John...

Universalcommunity

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The Last Flight from San Juan

On September 30, 1972, Roberto Clemente lined a double off the wall at Three Rivers Stadium — his three-thousandth career hit. He was thirty-eight years...

Universalsacrifice

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 13:44

Imagine for a moment a sun-drenched afternoon in a bustling village, where the rhythmic sound of a plow cuts through the air, accompanied by the distant laughter of children playing. Meet Samuel, a humble farmer, known for his unwavering work...

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

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The Love No Ocean Could Contain

In 1917, a pastor named Frederick Lehman sat down to write a hymn about the love of God. He composed two verses that morning, but...

Universallove

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Sermon Illustration

Music from a Paralyzed Hand

In 1737, George Frideric Handel suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. Doctors doubted he would ever play again, let...

Universalhealing

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The Hymn Written Over the Waves That Took Everything

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves,...

Universalhealing

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Movie Analogy

Chariots of Fire: Sensing God's Pleasure in Calling - Anglican (Exodus 3)

Picture a chilly Scottish morning, the sun just beginning to cast its golden rays over the misty hills. Eric Liddell, a young man with a heart full of passion, stands at the starting line, the air thick with anticipation. He...

Exodus 3:1-15Universal

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The Voice That Refused to Be Silenced

In 1939, Marian Anderson was already one of the greatest contraltos the world had ever heard. Toscanini himself said a voice like hers came along...

Universalcourage

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The Boy Preacher of London

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was nineteen years old when the deacons of New Park Street Chapel in London invited him to become their pastor in 1854....

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

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When the Broken Song Becomes the Hymn

In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Days earlier, he had received a telegram from his wife containing...

Universalhealing

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The Divine Right to Be Forgotten

In 2014, the European Court of Justice handed down a landmark ruling that changed the internet forever. A Spanish man named Mario Costeja González had...

Universalforgiveness

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The Bones That Mend Stronger

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a law that still guides orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone adapts to the stress placed...

Universalhealing

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The Patience of an Open Shutter

In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that his colleagues thought was foolish. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch...

Universalpatience

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The Faithful Witness of Smyrna

On a cold February day in 155 AD, the Roman proconsul gave the elderly bishop Polycarp one final chance. "Swear by the genius of Caesar,"...

Revelation 1:4-8Universal

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Churchill's Voice in the Darkness

In May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was trapped at Dunkirk, France was falling, and Hitler's armies seemed unstoppable. Parliament debated whether to negotiate peace...

Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40Universal

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The Hymn That Started with a Father's Challenge

In 1690s England, a teenage Isaac Watts sat fidgeting in the pews of Above Bar Congregational Church in Southampton, miserable over the flat, joyless psalm-singing...

Universalobedience

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Contemporary

The Cost They Carried Home

On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium at the Mexico City Olympics — Smith with gold, Carlos with...

Amos 5:24Universalcouragejustice

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Vivid Retelling

Your Body Is a Temple: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Theological meditation on the body as temple of the Spirit

Universal

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The Seed That Refused to Forget

In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon planted a seed that had no business growing. Recovered from the ruins of Masada during excavations in the 1960s, the...

Universalhope

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Mark 10:28-31

As the sun dipped low on the horizon, casting a golden glow over the dusty paths of Galilee, Peter's voice pierced through the ordinary chatter of the day. He stood there, a rough-hewn fisherman, his hands calloused from years of...

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

324 words

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When Nothing Looks Like Something

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues called reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...

Universaltrust

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