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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

Movie Analogy

The Words That Broke the Wall

In the film *Good Will Hunting*, there is a scene that still stops me cold every time I watch it. Will Hunting, played by Matt...

Universalhealing

230 words

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When the Music Plays Beyond What Eyes Can See

In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on stage at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna for the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He was profoundly...

Universalfaith

244 words

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The Wound That Became a Hymn

Joseph Scriven wrote "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" in 1855, but the story behind it will break your heart open. The night before...

Universalhealing

225 words

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The Seed That Refused to Forget

In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon planted a seed that had no business growing. Recovered from the ruins of Masada during excavations in the 1960s, the...

Universalhope

224 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

242 words

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The Stars That Were Always There

In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of sky near the constellation Ursa Major — a patch so small you...

Universalhope

241 words

Sermon Illustration

Love Written in Every Cell

In 2012, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published a striking discovery. While examining brain tissue from deceased women, they found cells carrying...

Universallove

236 words

Vivid Retelling

Your Body Is a Temple: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Theological meditation on the body as temple of the Spirit

Universal

709 words

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The Menders Within

Every single day, inside every cell of your body, your DNA sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage — from sunlight,...

Universalrestoration

244 words

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William Colgate's First Dime

When sixteen-year-old William Colgate left his family's farm in Maryland and set out for New York City in 1801, he had almost nothing. Along the...

Malachi 3:10Universal

250 words

Contemporary

The Cost They Carried Home

On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium at the Mexico City Olympics — Smith with gold, Carlos with...

Amos 5:24Universalcouragejustice

253 words

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The Week He Almost Didn't Return

After his wife died, Marcus Williams stopped attending Grace Community Church in Decatur, Georgia. He sat in his living room for six Sundays, curtains drawn,...

John 20:19-31Universal

222 words

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The Two Trees on Maple Street

In 2019, the city of Detroit planted two identical red maple saplings on either side of Woodward Avenue as part of an urban regreening project....

Jeremiah 17:5-10Universal

246 words

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The Hymn That Started with a Father's Challenge

In 1690s England, a teenage Isaac Watts sat fidgeting in the pews of Above Bar Congregational Church in Southampton, miserable over the flat, joyless psalm-singing...

Universalobedience

225 words

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The Masterpiece Composed from the Ruins

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe was now sixty-six,...

Universalfaith

242 words

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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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The Volunteer Who Spoke for Child Number 4617

In the family courthouse of Jefferson County, Alabama, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Vance sits on a wooden bench every Tuesday morning. She is a...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

253 words

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The First Victory That Promised the Last

In May 1796, Edward Jenner made a daring wager against humanity's deadliest scourge. In a cottage garden in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, he took fluid from a...

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

231 words

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Churchill's Voice in the Darkness

In May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was trapped at Dunkirk, France was falling, and Hitler's armies seemed unstoppable. Parliament debated whether to negotiate peace...

Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40Universal

248 words

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The Heartbeat That Listens

In 2017, researchers at the University of California, Davis, discovered something remarkable about humaneli hearts. When people sing together in a choir, their heartbeats gradually...

Universalcommunity

236 words

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The Patience of Number 42

In the spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field as the first Black player in Major League Baseball. But before Branch Rickey signed...

Universalpatience

242 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 130

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 130

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

168 words

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 3:31-36

Imagine a small, bustling café in the heart of a vibrant city, where the aroma of freshly brewed coffee mingles with the chatter of patrons sharing their lives. Among them sits a wise old man named Thomas, his weathered hands...

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

290 words

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The Father on the Bridge

In 1937, a drawbridge operator named J.P. worked along a rail line in New Jersey, bringing his young son to work on quiet summer days....

John 3:13-17Universal

233 words