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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?”

23,933 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Judge's Declaration

In a Dallas County courtroom in 2019, three-year-old Marcus sat on his foster mother Angela's lap, wearing a tiny bow tie he'd picked out himself....

Mark 1:4-11Universal

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The Old Bishop Who Knew the Eyewitness

In 155 AD, the elderly bishop Polycarp of Smyrna stood before a Roman proconsul who demanded he renounce Christ. Polycarp replied, "Eighty-six years I have...

2 Peter 1:16-21Universal

234 words

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The Shepherd Who Came Back for Them

In 2018, when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California, school bus driver Kevin McKay refused to abandon his route. With flames closing in on...

Jeremiah 23:1-6Universal

233 words

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The Second Foreman

On March 17, 1977, George Foreman shuffled into his dressing room in Puerto Rico after losing a grueling twelve-round decision to Jimmy Young. Foreman was...

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The Cricketer Who Counted It All Loss

In 1884, C.T. Studd was the most celebrated cricketer in England. Captain of the Cambridge team, national sporting hero, heir to a vast fortune —...

Philippians 3:4b-14Universal

233 words

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The Engine That Never Turns Over

A mechanic in Tulsa named Ray Garfield kept a 1967 Mustang in his garage for twenty-three years. He polished the chrome every Saturday. He kept...

James 2:17Universal

230 words

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The Choir That Sang Over Bare Concrete

In 1958, the congregation of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem gathered not in their grand sanctuary but in the basement of a half-finished building on...

Ezra 3:11Universal

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The Prisoners Who Couldn't Stand Up

On January 30, 1945, 121 U.S. Army Rangers crawled through the grass toward the Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines. Inside the wire, over five...

Mark 16:1-8Universal

234 words

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Before the Downbeat

On a Sunday afternoon in November 1943, twenty-five-year-old Leonard Bernstein stepped onto the podium at Carnegie Hall. Bruno Walter had fallen ill. There was no...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

209 words

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Florence Nightingale and the Wards of Scutari

In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, and found a nightmare. Wounded soldiers lay on filthy floors, neglected by...

Ezekiel 34:11-16Universal

227 words

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The Moravians Who Would Not Wait

In October 1731, a young Moravian named Johann Leonard Dober attended a gathering in Herrnhut, Germany, where he heard Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf describe the...

Luke 2:15-21Universal

234 words

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A Miner's Thirst That Flooded a Nation

In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts trudged out of the Welsh coal mines each evening with lungs full of dust and a soul...

John 7:37-39Universal

221 words

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It Is Well

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at the water below him. Weeks earlier, he...

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The Nurse Who Kept the Night Watch

In 2014, when Ebola swept through Liberia and the world recoiled in fear, a Liberian nurse named Salome Karwah did something remarkably simple. She held...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

231 words

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When Freedom's News Finally Arrived

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 aloud...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

234 words

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The Last Shortwave Signal From Bucharest

On Christmas Day, 1989, Romanian radio crackled to life with words no one had dared speak in forty-four years: "The dictator has fallen. You are...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

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Little Girl, Get Up: Mark 5:35-43

Cinematic retelling of Jesus raising Jairus' daughter from the dead

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The Bible That Took a Hundred Hands

In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a desk in Cologne, Germany, translating the New Testament into English for the first time from the original Greek....

1 Corinthians 3:1-9Universal

222 words

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The Kidney Recipient's Promise

In 2019, a thirty-two-year-old man named Derek Mitchell from Memphis received a kidney from a twenty-four-year-old woman who had died in a car accident. Before...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

225 words

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The Lung Transplant on the Fourth Floor

In 2019, a thirty-one-year-old teacher named Marcus Reed received a double lung transplant at Duke University Hospital. The donor was a nineteen-year-old college sophomore who...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

235 words

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The Stream from Herrnhut

In 1722, a handful of persecuted Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They were exhausted, homeless, and few...

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

233 words

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The Cobbler's Trickle That Became a Flood

In 1793, a Northamptonshire cobbler named William Carey stepped off a ship in Calcutta with little more than a printing press and a stubborn conviction...

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

235 words

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Three Words That Changed Everything

In 1987, a cardiac surgeon in Portland named Dr. Raymond Kelley made an error during a routine bypass that left a forty-year-old mother partially paralyzed....

2 Samuel 12:13Universal

242 words

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The Couple Who Sold Everything for a Country They'd Never Seen

In 2019, David and Maria Fernandez were running a successful catering business in San Antonio, Texas. They had a paid-off house, a loyal clientele, and...

Genesis 12:1-4aUniversal

228 words