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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?”

25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Mercy That Saved Middle-Earth

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the treacherous creature Gollum has been trailing the fellowship. He turns to Gandalf and...

Universalgrace

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Earn This

In the closing minutes of *Saving Private Ryan*, Captain John Miller lies mortally wounded on a shattered bridge. He and his men fought through impossible...

Universalsacrifice

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The Second Life of Henri Matisse

In 1941, Henri Matisse was diagnosed with duodenal cancer. The surgery saved his life but left him largely confined to a wheelchair, unable to stand...

Universalhealing

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The Blueprint You Were Born to Express

Every cell in your body carries the same complete set of DNA — all three billion base pairs of it. Your skin cells contain the...

Universalpurpose

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The Songwriter Who Gave It All Away

In the 1990s, Rich Mullins was one of the most successful musicians in Christian music. His song *Awesome God* became an anthem sung in churches...

Universalsacrifice

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The Man in Black Walks Back Into the Light

In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine addiction had cost him nearly everything...

Universalrestoration

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When a Young Man's Simple Words Became the Church's Song

In 1886, musician Daniel B. Towner was leading worship at a D.L. Moody evangelistic crusade when a young man rose during the testimony time. He...

Universalobedience

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The Hymn No One Expected

In 1923, a sickly former Methodist minister named Thomas Chisholm sat down and wrote a hymn. He had no dramatic testimony to tell. No shipwreck....

Universalfaith

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The Cell That Refused to Listen

In 2002, Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for a discovery about something we rarely celebrate: death....

Universalobedience

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Nine Days in the Dark

On July 2, 2018, British diver John Volanthen surfaced inside a flooded chamber deep within Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. For nine days, the...

Matthew 28:1-10Universal

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The Bone That Builds Itself

In 1892, a German surgeon named Julius Wolff published a discovery that reshaped our understanding of the human skeleton. Bone, he found, is not static....

Universalobedience

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Bodies on the Bus

On May 4, 1961, thirteen people — seven Black, six white — boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., and headed south. Organized by James...

Romans 12:1-2Universalcouragesacrifice

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The Thread into the Dark

In George MacDonald's 1872 fairy tale *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene discovers a mysterious great-great-grandmother living in a hidden room atop her...

Universaltrust

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The Frequency of Touch

In 2018, neuroscientist Pavel Goldstein at the University of Colorado Boulder made a remarkable discovery. When romantic partners held hands — especially while one was...

Universallove

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The Hymn That Was Born When a Pastor Couldn't Leave

In 1772, John Fawcett was a young Baptist pastor in Wainsgate, a small village in the hills of Yorkshire, England. His congregation was poor. They...

Universalcommunity

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The Faith to Stare at Nothing

In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that baffled his colleagues. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the Hubble...

Universalpatience

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The Donor's Blood Running Through Your Veins

In a bone marrow transplant, something medically astonishing happens. After the donor's marrow engrafts, the recipient's blood type can actually change to match the donor's....

Universalgrace

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When All You Have Is the Next Step

In 1886, musician Daniel B. Towner was leading worship at a D.L. Moody evangelistic meeting when something unexpected happened during the testimony time. A young...

Universalobedience

254 words

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Pointing the Telescope at Nothing

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the...

Universalfaith

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The Biology of Letting Go

In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a landmark study on what happens inside the human body when we refuse to...

Universalforgiveness

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When a Song Carries What Words Alone Cannot

In 2012, singer-songwriter Matthew West released a song called *Forgiveness* after hearing a story that stopped him cold. A young woman named Meagan Napier had...

Universalforgiveness

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The Garden in Milan Where a Restless Man Finally Listened

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Code That Was Never Junk

For decades, scientists believed that roughly 98% of human DNA was useless — leftover evolutionary noise they dismissed as "junk DNA." It seemed to serve...

Universalpurpose

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Reprogrammed

In 2006, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University made a discovery that stunned the scientific world. He found that ordinary adult skin cells — cells...

Universalredemption

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