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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 Ring in the Garden

James Whitfield spent three days on his hands and knees in the backyard, sifting through mulch and overturning stepping stones. His wedding band had slipped...

Matthew 7:7-8Universal

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The Rejected Translation That Became the Cornerstone

In October 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake near Brussels, his final words a prayer: "Lord, open the King of England's...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

234 words

Movie Analogy

Remember Who You Are

In *The Lion King*, young Simba flees his home after his uncle Scar convinces him he caused his father Mufasa's death. For years, Simba lives...

Universalidentity

248 words

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His Voice Through the Smoke

When the fire alarm shrieked at 2:47 a.m., six-year-old Lily Chen couldn't see anything. Smoke filled the upstairs hallway of their Cedar Rapids bungalow, black...

Proverbs 18:10Universal

266 words

Vivid Retelling

The Dove Returns: Genesis 8:1-19

Cinematic retelling of the flood waters receding and Noah leaving the ark

Universal

625 words

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The Gym Nobody Wanted

In 2016, the city council of Brownsville, Brooklyn voted to demolish the old Brownsville Recreation Center on Linden Boulevard. The building was crumbling, its windows...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

235 words

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Eight Thousand Songs of Forgiveness

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a well-meaning country doctor made a devastating mistake. Treating her inflamed eyes with warm mustard poultices, he permanently...

Universalforgiveness

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The Ambassador Who Came in Person

For centuries, the British Crown communicated with distant colonies through letters, proclamations, and appointed governors. Messages crossed oceans slowly, often arriving months late, sometimes misunderstood,...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

230 words

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The Small Woman Who Carried No Credentials

In 1930, the China Inland Mission rejected Gladys Aylward. She was a parlor maid from Edmonton, north London — no university degree, no seminary training,...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

249 words

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The Stranger at Table Seven

Maria Gonzalez almost didn't go to work that Tuesday morning. Her mother had died three days earlier, and the world felt emptied out — familiar...

Luke 24:13-35Universal

252 words

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The Force That Holds Everything Together

In 1932, physicist James Chadwick discovered the neutron, and with it came a baffling question that kept nuclear scientists awake at night. Protons packed tightly...

Colossians 1:15-17Universal

234 words

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The Bakery That Started in a Blackout

When Hurricane Maria stripped Puerto Rico of power in September 2017, Raquel Soto lost everything in her small San Juan restaurant. No electricity, no refrigeration,...

Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16aUniversal

228 words

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The Hummingbird's Crossing

Every autumn, the ruby-throated hummingbird — a creature weighing barely three grams — launches itself from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and flies five hundred...

Matthew 6:25-34Universalanxiety

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The One Voice in Ten Thousand

In the Antarctic winter, an emperor penguin colony can number over ten thousand birds, all huddled together on the ice in a single dark mass...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

249 words

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The Fortune Poured Out in Cairo

In 1912, William Borden walked away from a fortune worth roughly sixteen million dollars. The twenty-five-year-old heir to the Borden dairy empire had graduated from...

John 12:1-8Universal

228 words

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The Field Preacher Who Found the Forgotten Flock

In 1739, the Anglican clergy of Bristol, England, had largely abandoned the coal miners of Kingswood. These workers — their faces blackened with soot, their...

Jeremiah 23:1-6Universal

252 words

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The Letter That Walked Through the Door

Margaret Chen had been writing letters to her grandson in Beijing for eleven years. Every month, she sat at her kitchen table in Portland, choosing...

John 1:1-14Universal

243 words

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The Moonlight Manuscripts

In the German town of Ohrdruf around 1696, eleven-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach lived with his older brother Johann Christoph, who kept a cabinet of advanced...

Luke 2:41-51aUniversal

236 words

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The Fisherman's Grandson at the Marine Biology Conference

In 2019, a marine biology symposium in Monterey, California invited local fishermen to join a panel on coastal ecosystems. Among them sat Carlos, a third-generation...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

230 words

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Dissolved to Be Remade

Inside a chrysalis, something almost unthinkable takes place. A caterpillar doesn't simply grow wings — it dissolves. The creature releases digestive enzymes that break down...

Universaltransformation

248 words

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The Letter That Arrived Before They Ever Met

In 1896, George Washington Carver was finishing his master's degree at Iowa State Agricultural College — the first Black student to earn one there. He...

John 1:43-51Universal

243 words

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When Courage Has a Name

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, there is a scene that stops the neighborhood cold. A rabid dog staggers down a quiet Alabama street,...

Universalcourage

249 words

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The Letter in Margaret Chen's Mailbox

Every Tuesday for eleven years, a letter arrived at Margaret Chen's apartment in Seattle — handwritten on cream stationery, postmarked from Topeka, Kansas. Her college...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

250 words

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The Commissioning Before the Storm

When Sarah Chen graduated from seminary in May 2019, her parents drove twelve hours from Sacramento to watch her walk across the stage. Her father,...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

233 words