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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 Open Door We Refuse to Walk Through

In 1967, psychologist Martin Seligman conducted an experiment that revealed something heartbreaking about the nature of captivity. Dogs were placed in a chamber where they...

Universalfreedom

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The Telegram That Could Not Name Him

In 1873, Chicago lawyer Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He would follow in...

Universalidentity

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The Murderer Who Met Grace on Death Row

In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had killed multiple people without remorse, and guards called him the most...

Luke 22:14-23:56Universal

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Vivid Retelling

Shadow and Reality: Colossians 2:16-23

Historical reconstruction of the Colossian heresy situation

Universal

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Written in Her Very Cells

In 2012, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center made a remarkable discovery. Examining brain tissue from deceased women, they found male DNA —...

Universallove

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The Voice That Almost Stayed Silent

In 1968, a young woman named Roberta Flack was working as a music teacher in Washington, D.C. She played piano at a small club called...

Universalidentity

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The Cells That Chose to Become the Stalk

Princeton biologist John Tyler Bonner spent decades studying a tiny organism called Dictyostelium discoideum — a social amoeba that reveals something profound about sacrifice. When...

Universalsacrifice

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Sunlight Through a Dusty Room

You have seen it on a quiet morning — a single shaft of sunlight slicing through a window, and suddenly the air that looked perfectly...

Hebrews 4:12Universal

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The Promise Carved in Stone

In 1864, a freed slave named Washington Ruffner stood outside a salt furnace in Malden, West Virginia, clutching a scrap of paper — the Emancipation...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

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Movie Analogy

Breaking Free in the Rain

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, there is a moment that has become one of cinema's most iconic images of freedom. Andy Dufresne has spent nearly twenty...

Universalfreedom

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The Orchardist Who Wouldn't Dig Up His Trees

In 2012, Tom Krueger planted three hundred Honeycrisp apple trees on his small orchard outside Bayfield, Wisconsin. His neighbors were already harvesting established varieties and...

James 5:7-10Universal

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The Hymn Written Over the Waves

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those...

Universalhealing

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 17:1-13

Imagine the rocky path winding up the side of a towering mountain, the air crisp and filled with the scent of pine. Peter, James, and John trail closely behind Jesus, their hearts racing with anticipation and a hint of fear....

Universal

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The Right to Be Forgotten

In 2014, the European Court of Justice handed down a landmark ruling now known as "the right to be forgotten." A Spanish citizen named Mario...

Universalforgiveness

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 16:21-28

As the sun dipped low over the hills of Judea, casting a warm golden hue across the dusty streets of Capernaum, the air was thick with the scent of fresh bread and the sound of laughter. The disciples gathered around...

Universal

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Golden Scars

In Japan, there is a centuries-old art form called kintsugi — the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. When a...

Universalredemption

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The Stone That Unlocked Everything

For centuries, European scholars stared at Egyptian hieroglyphics in frustration. They could see the symbols carved into temple walls and obelisks — tantalizing fragments of...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

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The Search Party That Never Quit

On a frigid November night in 2013, four-year-old Jayden Morrison wandered away from his family's campsite near Lake Tahoe. His parents woke at dawn to...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

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Warsaw Rising from the Rubble

In January 1945, when Soviet forces entered Warsaw, they found a graveyard. The Nazis had systematically demolished the city block by block after the 1944...

Ezekiel 37:1-14Universal

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The Song He Couldn't Sing

In 1989, Johnny Cash was at his lowest. Dropped by his record label, dismissed by Nashville as a relic, he played small venues to half-empty...

Universalredemption

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 4:12-17

Imagine the sun setting over the Sea of Galilee, casting a golden glow on the gentle waves lapping against the shore. It was here, in this serene yet tumultuous region, that the air crackled with tension. Just days before, news...

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

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The Painter of Ten Million Dots

When Georges Seurat began his masterpiece *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte* in 1884, he chose a technique that defied every...

Universalpatience

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The Painter Who Faced the Wall

In 1508, Michelangelo Buonagiolo stood at the base of the Sistine Chapel and looked up at the vast, empty ceiling above him. He was terrified....

Universalcourage

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The King's Own Language

When William Tyndale smuggled the first printed English New Testament into England in 1526, he did so because he believed something radical — that ordinary...

Psalm 147:12-15, 19-20Universal

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