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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 Surgeon Who Stepped Off the Balcony

For years, Dr. Paul Farmer watched from hospital balconies in Boston as medical students discussed tropical diseases in the abstract — malaria, tuberculosis, cholera —...

Hebrews 10:4-10Universal

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The Open Source Life

In 1983, a programmer named Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project with a radical idea: software should be free — not free as in no...

Universalfreedom

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What Fills the Emptiness

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

Universalfaith

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The Voice That Cut Through Static in Guayama

When Hurricane Maria obliterated Puerto Rico's power grid in September 2017, the island went silent. No cell towers, no internet, no landlines. Three and a...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

248 words

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The Brain That Rebuilt Itself

In 2000, neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire at University College London made a remarkable discovery. She scanned the brains of London taxi drivers who had spent years...

Universaltransformation

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The Face That Death Could Not Touch

In December 1944, Betsie ten Boom died on the cold floor of Ravensbrück concentration camp. She and her sister Corrie had been arrested for hiding...

Wisdom 3:1-9Universal

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Light Carriers in the Deep

In 2017, researchers Séverine Martini and Steve Haddock at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute published a remarkable finding: in the deepest zones of the...

Universalhope

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The Debt That Receipts Could Never Clear

For eleven years, Maria Gonzalez made minimum payments on her student loans — $287 each month, mailed like clockwork from her apartment in Des Moines....

Hebrews 10:4-10Universal

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The Morning the Floodwaters Surrounded the Farm

In March of 2019, the Missouri River swallowed David Hagen's soybean fields outside Hamburg, Iowa. He stood on the second-floor landing of his farmhouse at...

Exodus 14:13-14Universal

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The Restoration of Notre-Dame

When fire consumed Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019, the world watched in horror as the iconic spire collapsed into the burning nave. But...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Mending Code

In 2015, Turkish-American chemist Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping one of the most extraordinary processes in the human body —...

Universalredemption

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Running to Feel His Pleasure

In the 1981 film *Chariots of Fire*, there is a moment that has quietly shaped how an entire generation thinks about calling. Eric Liddell, the...

Universalpurpose

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The Grain of Sand That Humbled Astronomy

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was a waste of precious telescope time. He pointed the Hubble...

Universalhumility

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The Update That Changed Everything

In 2019, Tesla pushed an over-the-air software update to thousands of Model 3 vehicles overnight. Owners went to bed with one car and woke up...

Universaltransformation

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The Mutiny on the Bounty

In April 1789, HMS Bounty sailed through the South Pacific under Captain William Bligh. The crew had spent five months in Tahiti, living in paradise...

Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7Universal

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Written In Every Cell

In 2003, geneticist Francis Collins stood before the world and announced the completion of the Human Genome Project — the full mapping of human DNA....

Universalidentity

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The God Who Mends What Breaks

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains tens of thousands of injuries. Ultraviolet light, metabolic byproducts, simple copying errors — the...

Universalperseverance

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The Dome No One Believed Could Stand

For more than a century, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence sat unfinished. A vast octagonal opening gaped at its center, waiting...

Universaltrust

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What the Judge Declared

Every November, courtrooms across America host National Adoption Day. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, families line up in their Sunday best while children clutch stuffed animals...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

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The Apprentice Who Learned to Hear the Beats

In 1987, a sixteen-year-old named Marcus Chen began apprenticing under piano tuner Walter Kraus in Portland, Oregon. Walter would strike two notes simultaneously and ask,...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

243 words

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The Cells That Say "Stand Down

In 1995, immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi identified a class of immune cells that changed how we understand the body's defense system. He called them regulatory T...

Universalhumility

195 words

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The Hymn That Was Born When No One Could Say Goodbye

In 1772, a Baptist minister named John Fawcett faced a decision that would change the course of hymnody. He had spent years serving a tiny...

Universalcommunity

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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

235 words

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When Grace Outweighs the Evidence

In *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean is caught red-handed. After nineteen years in prison, the desperate ex-convict steals silver from the one man who showed him...

Universalrestoration

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