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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 Monument That Had to Start Over Underground

In 1848, workers broke ground on the Washington Monument in the nation's capital. The marble obelisk rose steadily to 156 feet before political turmoil and...

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

235 words

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Following the Thread

In George MacDonald's 1872 fantasy *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives an extraordinary gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother: a thin, silken thread...

Universalobedience

243 words

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The Table She Set Every Sunday

For thirty-one years, Maria Gonzalez set an extra place at her kitchen table in San Antonio. Every Sunday after church, she cooked enough rice, beans,...

Mark 14:12-16, 22-26Universal

243 words

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The Free Table Nobody Trusted

Every Saturday morning, Maria Gonzalez sets up a folding table outside her bakery on Magnolia Street in downtown San Antonio. She covers it with a...

Isaiah 55:1-9Universal

221 words

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The Yes That Changed Everything

In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Sarah from small-town Missouri received a phone call that made no sense. A nonprofit director asked if she...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

241 words

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The Orchard That Had to Be Cut Back

In 2019, apple grower Maria Gonzalez stood in her family's orchard outside Yakima, Washington, and made a decision that horrified her neighbors. She ordered every...

Matthew 3:1-12Universal

235 words

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The Emergency Room at 3 A.M.

Sarah Chen had never run so fast in her life. Her four-year-old son, Marcus, was burning with fever, limp in her arms, and she burst...

Hebrews 4:16Universal

252 words

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The Graduation Speech Nobody Expected

In 2019, a high school in Birmingham, Alabama invited two commencement speakers. The first was a hedge fund manager who flew in on a private...

Matthew 5:1-12aUniversal

227 words

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The Furniture Store on the Floodwaters

When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, dumping more than fifty inches of rain in four days, the city became an inland sea....

Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9Universal

225 words

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When Thousands of Rams Were Not Enough

In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in the garden of his estate at Holwood House in Kent, wrestling with a question that would define his life....

Micah 6:1-8Universal

235 words

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Bonhoeffer's Last Crossing

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a safe apartment in New York City, surrounded by colleagues who had arranged his escape from Nazi Germany....

Luke 13:31-35Universal

251 words

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The Gold Medalist Who Chose the Wilderness

In July 1924, Eric Liddell stood on the Olympic podium in Paris, a gold medal around his neck for the 400 meters. All of Scotland...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

235 words

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The Cellar on Remembered Street

In September 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped incendiary bombs across London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Braithwaite, a schoolteacher on Albion Road in Lewisham, described...

Nahum 1:7Universal

235 words

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The CEO Who Stood in the Unemployment Line

In 2009, during the worst of the Great Recession, Howard Schultz made a decision that baffled his executive team. The Starbucks CEO walked into a...

Matthew 3:13-17Universal

246 words

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The Man Who Said Yes in the Dark

In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton arrived in Prague and found something that shattered his plans. Hundreds of Jewish families, desperate and hunted, were begging...

Matthew 1:18-25Universal

235 words

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Perpetua's Journal from the Arena Floor

In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son and writing in her journal....

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

225 words

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The Medical Student and the Heart Murmur She Couldn't Hear

Dr. Maria Chen still remembers her first week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins in 2019. Her attending physician, Dr. Hadley, placed a stethoscope against...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

256 words

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The Restaurant That Lost Its Salt

In 2019, a beloved barbecue joint in Memphis called Central BBQ faced an unexpected crisis. A new kitchen manager, trying to cut costs, quietly reduced...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

238 words

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The Father Who Caught Every Fall

In 1952, a young aerialist named Elena Montoya joined the Flying Wallendas for their European tour. She was talented but terrified — not of the...

Jude 1:24-25Universal

237 words

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The Cobbler God Kept in His Quiver

William Carey mended shoes in the English village of Moulton, a self-taught cobbler with a homemade leather globe stitched together on his workbench. He had...

Isaiah 49:1-6Universal

230 words

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The Architect Who Spoke Light Into Being

In 2019, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama unveiled her *Infinity Mirror Rooms* installation in London — a pitch-black chamber that, when visitors stepped inside, suddenly erupted...

Genesis 1:1-2:4aUniversal

223 words

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The Refugees Who Became a Fire

In 1722, a ragged band of Protestant refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony, Germany. They were Moravians, Lutherans, Calvinists,...

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13Universal

226 words

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The Final Lap of Eric Liddell

In 1924, Eric Liddell electrified the world by winning Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the Paris Games — a race he almost never...

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18Universal

231 words

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The Baby in the Basket: Exodus 2:1-10

Cinematic retelling of Moses birth and rescue

Universal

603 words