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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 Hammer That Never Stopped Swinging

In June 2023, Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at ninety-eight years old. The former president had spent nearly four decades after leaving the White House...

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

237 words

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The Last Man on the Mound

In September 2013, Mariano Rivera walked to the pitcher's mound at Yankee Stadium for the final time. Nineteen seasons. Six hundred fifty-two saves — more...

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

230 words

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The Artesian Wells of the Great Basin

In 1882, settlers in South Dakota's James River Valley were desperate for water. The surface creeks ran dry each summer, and shallow wells produced only...

Matthew 7:7-8Universal

252 words

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What Astronauts See

When astronauts aboard the International Space Station orbit Earth, they witness something that reshapes how they understand light and darkness. From the ground, we watch...

James 1:17Universal

228 words

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Twenty-Six Days in New York

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, leaving behind a Germany descending into madness. Friends had arranged everything —...

Luke 4:1-13Universal

245 words

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The Coronation No Empire Could Match

On June 2, 1953, over twenty million people across Britain huddled around small television sets to watch something most had never seen — a coronation....

Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14Universal

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The Boy Preacher of Southwark

In the winter of 1854, a nineteen-year-old walked into New Park Street Chapel in Southwark, London, and stepped behind a pulpit that had intimidated seasoned...

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

242 words

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The Casserole Brigade of Elm Street

When Dave Hernandez collapsed in the produce aisle of the Kroger on Fifth and Elm, he had no church, no family in town, and a...

John 13:34-35Universal

236 words

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Eric Liddell's Contentment at Weihsien

In February 1945, Eric Liddell was dying of a brain tumor inside a Japanese internment camp in Weihsien, China. The Olympic gold medalist who had...

Psalm 16Universal

225 words

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The Cellist of Sarajevo

During the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, mortar shells had reduced the city's beloved National Library to a smoldering skeleton. Bread lines became killing fields....

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

248 words

Movie Analogy

One More

*Hacksaw Ridge* tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist medic who refused to carry a weapon into combat during World War II....

Universalcourage

256 words

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The Olympic Champion in the Prison Camp

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in Paris in 1924, his story later immortalized in *Chariots of Fire*. But his greatest race was run behind barbed...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

228 words

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The Love That Would Not Let Him Go

In the summer of 1882, a Scottish minister named George Matheson sat alone in his family home while his sister's wedding celebration filled the rooms...

Universallove

240 words

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The Tide Pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve

On a fog-laced morning in Moss Beach, California, a kindergarten class crouches around a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Their teacher points to a...

Psalm 104:24-34, 35bUniversal

238 words

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The Tracker Who Read Footprints Like Sentences

In the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, a San tracker named !Nate can identify every member of his community by their footprints alone. Not just...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

243 words

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Bonhoeffer's Question From Behind Bars

In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in Tegel military prison outside Berlin, arrested for his role in the resistance against Hitler. This was a man who...

Matthew 11:2-11Universal

232 words

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What the MRI Reveals

Dr. Sarah Chen, a radiologist at Johns Hopkins, once described her work this way: "Patients walk into my office looking perfectly fine on the outside....

Hebrews 4:12Universal

256 words

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The Night the Sand Began to Whisper

In 2019, twenty-two-year-old Maria Chen joined a sea turtle conservation team on the beaches of Padre Island, Texas. Her job during the night shift was...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

244 words

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The Burned Pages That Built a Bible

In 1526, copies of William Tyndale's English New Testament began arriving in England, smuggled inside bales of cloth and barrels of flour. The Bishop of...

Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29Universal

229 words

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George Müller and the School of Grace

In 1825, a young German theology student named George Müller spent his evenings gambling, drinking, and stealing from friends. He once forged his father's signature...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

233 words

Vivid Retelling

Not to Abolish but to Fulfill: Matthew 5:17-20

Cinematic retelling of Jesus teaching about the Law and righteousness

Universal

325 words

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The Night the Beach Began to Move

In the summer of 2019, a twenty-year-old marine biology intern named Adriana arrived at Ostional Beach in Costa Rica to help monitor olive ridley sea...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

271 words

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The Uneducated Shoe Salesman Who Shook Two Continents

Dwight L. Moody never graduated from the fifth grade. When he first applied to join Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston in 1855, the deacons...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

229 words

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Galveston

When Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, the storm surge swallowed entire neighborhoods. Streets became rivers. Homes folded like cardboard. In the...

Nahum 1:7Universal

232 words