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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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A Life Shaped in the Quiet

In 2019, a young cellist named Sheku Kanneh-Mason performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle before two billion viewers worldwide. But the...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

233 words

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The Flood That Saved a City

During the Siege of Leiden in 1574, the people of Holland faced a crisis eerily similar to Israel at Rephidim. Spanish forces had surrounded the...

Exodus 17:1-7Universal

239 words

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The Letter That Called a Wandering Botanist Home

In 1896, George Washington Carver was a quiet graduate student at Iowa State, content to tend his greenhouse experiments in obscurity. He had wandered for...

John 1:43-51Universal

233 words

Movie Analogy

Jesus Revolution: All the Gifts for Today - Charismatic (Acts 2)

In the heart of the 1970s, amidst the vibrant chaos of a changing America, a group of young people gathered in a dusty, sunlit auditorium in California. They called it the *Jesus Revolution*. It wasn’t just a movement; it was...

Acts 2:1-21Universal

348 words

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Clarence Jordan's Cotton Patch Kingdom

In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a man with a doctorate in Greek from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — did something his colleagues found baffling. Instead...

Matthew 5:1-12aUniversal

252 words

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The Song Beneath the Live Oaks

On New Year's Day, 1863, thousands of formerly enslaved men, women, and children gathered at Camp Saxton near Beaufort, South Carolina. Ancient live oaks trailed...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

242 words

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The Parlor Maid Who Crossed the Mountains

In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — short, uneducated, and utterly unremarkable by the world's standards. When she applied to the...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

229 words

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When the River Jumped Its Banks

In the summer of 1993, the small farming community of Hardin, Montana, watched the Bighorn River swell past its banks after weeks of relentless rain....

Joel 2:28-29Universal

227 words

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The Heir Caesar Chose in Advance

In 45 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius was studying rhetoric in Apollonia, a small coastal town in modern-day Albania. He had no army,...

Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12Universal

266 words

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Bonhoeffer's Prayers from a Distance

When the Gestapo shuttered his underground seminary at Finkenwalde in 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer did not stop being a pastor to his students. Scattered across Germany,...

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13Universal

244 words

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One Loaf, One Family

Every Sunday morning at Grace Community Church in Tupelo, Mississippi, eighty-three-year-old Martha Jenkins arrives early to bake communion bread. She has done this for thirty-seven...

1 Corinthians 10:16-17Universal

238 words

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The Night the Codes Fell Silent

For four years, the French Resistance survived on fragments. Coded messages crackled through BBC radio broadcasts — instructions hidden inside poetry readings, weather reports laced...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

224 words

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Written in the Whorls

In 1892, Francis Galton published his landmark study *Finger Prints*, mathematically demonstrating that no two people on earth share the same fingerprint pattern. The odds...

Universalidentity

239 words

Movie Analogy

The Prince of Egypt: Holy Ground and Sacred Space - Catholic (Exodus 3)

Imagine with me a dusty evening in the deserts of Midian, where the sun hangs low, casting long shadows over the rugged terrain. A lone figure, Moses, wanders aimlessly, his heart heavy with memories of a life spent in power...

Exodus 3:1-15Universal

314 words

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The Signal Across 140 Million Miles

When NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February 2021, it faced a challenge that every believer understands: acting without immediate confirmation. Radio signals between...

Universalfaith

228 words

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The Politician Who Stayed

In October 1785, William Wilberforce sat in a carriage crossing the French countryside, reading Philip Doddridge's *The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul*....

Mark 1:9-15Universal

259 words

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The Seeker From Punjab Who Burned the Book

Sundar Singh was fifteen years old in 1904 when he tore a Bible apart and burned it page by page in his village courtyard in...

Matthew 2:1-12Universal

232 words

Vivid Retelling

Under His Wings: Psalm 91

Cinematic retelling of Psalm 91 on divine protection

Universal

555 words

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The One-Eyed Preacher Who Saw the Future

In April 1906, a one-eyed son of former slaves named William Seymour stood in a crumbling former stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and...

Revelation 7:9-17Universal

232 words

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The Bishop Who Barred an Emperor

In December of 390 AD, Emperor Theodosius rode toward the cathedral in Milan, expecting to enter as he always had — unchallenged, unchecked, draped in...

John 2:13-22Universal

225 words

Vivid Retelling

Clothed with Christ: Colossians 3:1-17

Experiential vignette showing Colossians 3:1-17 - put off/put on ethics

Universal

1096 words

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The Librarian Who Already Had the Book Waiting

In 2019, a young woman named Cara walked into the public library in Asheville, North Carolina, not sure what she was looking for. She had...

John 1:43-51Universal

238 words

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The Shepherd Who Came Back for Them

In 2018, when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California, school bus driver Kevin McKay refused to abandon his route. With flames closing in on...

Jeremiah 23:1-6Universal

233 words

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When the Clouds Break on Denali

In June 2019, a group of climbers spent eleven days on Denali, the highest peak in North America, waiting out storms at base camp. Fog...

Matthew 17:1-9Universal

246 words