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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 Grip That Never Loosened

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton watched the Antarctic ice slowly crush his ship, the *Endurance*, like a walnut in a vise. Stranded on frozen pack ice...

John 10:22-30Universal

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The Barista Who Knew His Order Before He Walked In

When Marcus Chen transferred to a small branch office in Tupelo, Mississippi, he wanted nothing to do with the town. A software engineer from Seattle,...

John 1:43-51Universal

225 words

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Chosen Like Caesar's Son

In 45 BC, Julius Caesar did something that would reshape the Roman Empire forever. He adopted his eighteen-year-old grandnephew, Octavian — a sickly young man...

Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12Universal

242 words

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The Slow Fuse

In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a Tegel prison cell, waiting. He had watched the Nazi regime devour Europe for a decade. He had seen...

Nahum 1:3Universal

220 words

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The Monarch's Last Crawl

Every September, researchers at the University of Kansas tag thousands of monarch butterflies migrating through the Great Plains. Dr. Orley "Chip" Taylor has led this...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

241 words

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The Antivenom

Every year at the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford, New South Wales, handlers carefully grip the heads of eastern brown snakes and taipans — two...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

234 words

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The Farmer Who Planted What No One Expected

In 2014, Marcus Bridgewater left his corporate marketing job in Houston and did something his family couldn't understand. For three generations, the Bridgewaters had worked...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

239 words

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The Symphony That Almost Wasn't

In 2012, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra nearly cut its percussion section during budget negotiations. The logic seemed sound — why pay four musicians who sometimes...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31aUniversal

232 words

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George Washington Carver and the 4 A.M. Garden

Long before the laboratory lights flickered on at Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver was already awake. Every morning at four o'clock, the agricultural scientist walked...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

243 words

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The Master Potter of Staffordshire

In the 1760s, Josiah Wedgwood walked the factory floors of his Etruria Works in Staffordshire, England, with a wooden cane in one hand and an...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

230 words

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The Casserole Nobody Asked For

Margaret Ellison hadn't spoken to her neighbor Deb in three years — not since the property line dispute, the lawyers, the cold silence that settled...

John 13:34-35Universal

239 words

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The Redwood's Canopy

In Northern California's Humboldt County, coastal redwoods tower over three hundred feet into the fog. But something remarkable happens beneath them. Dr. Emily Burns, a...

Psalm 91:1-2Universal

248 words

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The Sunday School Teacher Who Walked Into a Shoe Store

On a spring afternoon in 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. He...

John 1:29-42Universal

234 words

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The Light Before Dawn

In April 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first-ever photograph of a black hole — a glowing ring of superheated gas...

2 Peter 1:16-19Universal

234 words

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The Women Who Winterized Garfield Avenue

In January 2019, during the polar vortex that dropped temperatures to thirty below in Detroit, a group of women from New Bethel Church realized something...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

246 words

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George Washington Carver's Conversation with the Creator

George Washington Carver, the brilliant agricultural chemist born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864, made a habit that puzzled his colleagues at Tuskegee Institute....

Psalm 104:24-34, 35bUniversal

232 words

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The Grandmother's Quilt

When Maria Gonzalez opened the cedar chest after her grandmother's funeral in San Antonio, she found a quilt she had never seen before. Folded beneath...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

256 words

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The Choir That Needed No Translator

In 2015, a video went viral from a packed church in Beirut, Lebanon. Syrian refugees, Iraqi Christians, Lebanese believers, and a handful of Filipino migrant...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

239 words

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The Night Shift Ends

Maria Delgado worked the overnight shift at Mercy General in San Antonio for eleven years. She clocked in at ten and clocked out at six...

Ephesians 5:8-14Universal

248 words

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The Carpenter's Hands

In 1987, a young furniture maker named Tomás Herrera walked into a workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, and apprenticed himself to master woodworker Don Refugio. For...

3 John 1:11Universal

226 words

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The Voice He Hadn't Heard in Years

David Chen hadn't spoken to his father in twelve years. Not since the argument that ended with a slammed door and silence that calcified into...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

246 words

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The Noblewoman and the Slave Who Walked Together

In the spring of 203 AD, two women sat in a Carthage prison cell waiting to die. Vibia Perpetua was twenty-two, educated, from a respected...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

241 words

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Written in the Womb, Never Repeated

In 2015, a forensic scientist named Simon Cole at the University of California, Irvine, confirmed what researchers had suspected for over a century: no two...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

246 words

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The Evergreen in the Churchyard

In the village of Luss, on the western shore of Loch Lomond in Scotland, there stands a yew tree in the churchyard that has been...

1 Chronicles 16:34Universal

231 words