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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

Sermon Illustration

The Freedom to Walk Away — and Come Back

In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood on the world's biggest stage at the Tokyo Olympics and did something no one expected. The most...

Universalfreedom

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Sermon Illustration

The Refiner's Reflection

For thousands of years, silversmiths have refined their metal the same way. They place rough ore into a crucible and hold it over coals until...

Isaiah 6:1-8Universal

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Sermon Illustration

Fifty-Three Months Without a Meal

In 2007, marine biologists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered something extraordinary on the floor of Monterey Canyon, nearly a mile beneath the...

Universalsacrifice

217 words

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The Code That Mends Itself

In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled him for decades. He found that human...

Universalredemption

232 words

Historical

The Silver Candlesticks That Changed Everything

In April 1862, Victor Hugo published *Les Misérables* from his exile on the island of Guernsey, where political banishment from France had given him years...

Ephesians 2:8-9Universalgraceredemption

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The Bag by the Door

In 2011, when wildfires swept through Bastrop County, Texas, residents had minutes to evacuate. Margaret Hensley, a retired schoolteacher, grabbed one bag she kept packed...

Luke 12:32-40Universal

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Movie Analogy

Everything Everywhere All at Once: Love Across the Multiverse (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

In the film *Everything Everywhere All at Once*, we follow Evelyn Wang, a weary laundromat owner, who is suddenly thrust into a chaotic multiverse filled with infinite versions of herself. Each universe reveals the countless choices she made—or didn’t make—as...

1 Corinthians 13:4-8Universallovefamily

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Movie Analogy

Jojo Rabbit: Love Is Stronger Than Hate (1 John 4:18)

In the film *Jojo Rabbit*, we meet a ten-year-old boy named Jojo, a product of a world steeped in hate and fear, where he proudly wears the uniform of a young Nazi. His imaginary friend, an absurd caricature of Adolf...

1 John 4:18Universalhatredlove

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Sermon Illustration

The Vault She Didn't Take

In the summer of 2021, the world watched Simone Biles — the most decorated gymnast in history — walk away from the Olympic team final...

Universalrestoration

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Sermon Illustration

The Firefighters of Granite Mountain

On June 30, 2013, nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed their fire shelters on a ridge near Yarnell, Arizona. They were some of...

James 4:7Universal

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Vivid Retelling

The Armor of God: Ephesians 6:10-20

Experiential vignette showing Ephesians 6:10-20 - armor of God

Universal

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Sermon Illustration

Written Over the Waters Where They Died

Horatio Spafford had already lost much. A young son taken by scarlet fever. A fortune swallowed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But in...

Universalhope

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Vivid Retelling

Through the Roof: Mark 2:1-12

Cinematic retelling of the paralytic lowered through the roof and healed

Universal

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Sermon Illustration

The Rented Violin

In 2019, a young cellist named Sheku Kanneh-Mason was loaned a 1700 Matteo Goffriller cello worth over two million dollars. The instrument wasn't his. It...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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Thirty-Six Holes on Broken Legs

On February 2, 1949, Ben Hogan's car collided head-on with a Greyhound bus on a foggy Texas highway. He fractured his pelvis in two places,...

Universalhealing

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Sermon Illustration

A New Heart, One Cell at a Time

For most of the twentieth century, doctors believed the human heart was incapable of healing itself. Heart muscle cells — cardiomyocytes — were thought to...

Universalhealing

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Sermon Illustration

The Table She Set Every Thursday

For seventeen years, Maria Gonzalez set an extra place at her Thursday dinner table in her small apartment in San Antonio. Every week, without fail,...

Mark 14:12-16, 22-26Universal

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Movie Analogy

Stolen Silver and Unexpected Grace

In the 2012 film *Les Misérables*, there is a scene that has made grown men weep in theaters around the world. Jean Valjean, a convict...

Universalredemption

238 words

Sermon Illustration

Life Where None Should Exist

In 1977, a team of scientists aboard the deep-sea submersible Alvin descended nearly eight thousand feet to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. They expected...

Universalhope

232 words

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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

227 words

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The Letter That Arrived Before She Was Born

In 2019, a woman named Clara Mendes from Porto, Portugal, discovered a sealed envelope tucked inside her late grandmother's Bible. The letter, written in her...

Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12Universal

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The Cathedral No One Would Finish

In 1882, Antoni Gaudí took over the construction of a basilica in Barcelona that would become his life's obsession. La Sagrada Família was so ambitious...

Universalfaith

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The Long Wait for Justice - Progressive (Isaiah 40:31)

The Civil Rights Movement required decades of waiting—not passive waiting, but active, hopeful, persistent waiting. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of "the fierce urgency of now," but also of trusting God's timing. Rosa Parks waited years after her famous bus arrest before seeing full integration.

Isaiah 40:31Universal

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The Blacksmith of Rwandan Reconciliation

In 2005, a blacksmith named Celestin Musekura returned to Rwanda, eleven years after the genocide that killed over 800,000 of his countrymen — including members...

Isaiah 2:1-5Universal

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