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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 Lamp That Refused to Be Hidden

In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, wrestling with a decision that would define his life. Just two years...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

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No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets

In 1904, sixteen-year-old William Borden graduated from a prestigious Chicago prep school as heir to the Borden dairy fortune. His family sent him on a...

John 12:1-8Universal

246 words

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The Nets Left Behind on Lake Victoria

In 2014, a young fisherman named David Ochieng worked the pre-dawn waters of Lake Victoria near Kisumu, Kenya. Fishing was all he knew — his...

Matthew 4:12-23Universal

242 words

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The Boy Preacher of London

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was nineteen years old when the deacons of New Park Street Chapel in London invited him to become their pastor in 1854....

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

243 words

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The Empty Chair at Table Nine

Every year, the Rotary Club of Decatur, Georgia hosts its annual awards banquet at the old Courtyard ballroom on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The front...

Luke 14:1, 7-14Universal

258 words

Movie Analogy

There Will Be Blood: I Have Abandoned My Child (1 Timothy 6:10)

Picture a desolate stretch of the California landscape, sunbaked and cracked, where Daniel Plainview stands, drill bit whirring like a hungry beast devouring the earth. He’s not just extracting oil; he’s unearthing a fortune that glimmers with the promise of...

1 Timothy 6:10Universalgreedcorruption

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The Hands That Stayed on the Keys

Margaret Ellington taught piano in her living room in Savannah for forty-one years. She never once slapped a student's hand for hitting a wrong note....

Titus 2:11-12Universal

213 words

Vivid Retelling

Five Loaves, Two Fish: Matthew 14:13-21

Cinematic retelling of the feeding of the five thousand

Universal

491 words

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The Bare Tree That Spoke to a Soldier

In the winter of 1632, an eighteen-year-old French soldier named Nicholas Herman stood staring at a leafless tree in the frozen countryside of Lorraine. The...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

228 words

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The Genome That Knew Better

For decades, scientists dismissed roughly 98 percent of human DNA as "junk" — meaningless filler taking up space between the genes that actually mattered. It...

Universalpurpose

225 words

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When Nothing Looks Like Something

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

Universaltrust

248 words

Vivid Retelling

Under His Wings: Psalm 91

Cinematic retelling of Psalm 91 on divine protection

Universal

555 words

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The Song He Never Profited From

In the early 1990s, Rich Mullins wrote one of the most recognizable worship songs in modern Christianity — *Awesome God*. It was sung in megachurches...

Universalsacrifice

406 words

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Corrie ten Boom's Table Was Always Set for One More

In the years before the Nazi occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom's father Caspar kept an open home above their small watchmaking shop on Barteljorisstraat...

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16Universal

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The Father's Two Hands

In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1668, near the...

Universalforgiveness

244 words

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The Hymn Born in the Dark

In 1882, Civilla Martin asked her friend Mrs. Doolittle how she maintained such steadfast joy despite being bedridden for over twenty years. Mrs. Doolittle smiled...

Universalfaith

229 words

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The Surgeon in the Laundry Room

Maria Vargas works the overnight shift in the laundry facility at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She folds fitted sheets with mechanical precision, sorts surgical...

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

258 words

Movie Analogy

The Tunnel That Led to Freedom

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years wrongfully imprisoned, and for most of those years, he quietly chips away at the wall of...

Universalfreedom

242 words

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The Darkest Patch of Sky

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

Universaltrust

259 words

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The Orchestra That Almost Wasn't

In 2019, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra nearly canceled its entire spring season. A labor dispute had divided musicians from management, and for weeks, silence filled...

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13Universal

228 words

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The Sculptor Who Was Told to Paint

In 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti received a commission he did not want. Pope Julius II ordered him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel —...

Universalpurpose

232 words

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The Wisdom of Mending Bones

In the nineteenth century, German surgeon Julius Wolff discovered something remarkable about broken bones. He observed that a fracture does not simply snap back together....

Universalpatience

254 words

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Prone to Wander

In 1758, a twenty-two-year-old Englishman named Robert Robinson sat down and wrote one of the most beloved hymns in Christian history: *Come, Thou Fount of...

Universalforgiveness

237 words

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Hallelujah from the Ruins

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. Four years earlier, a stroke had left his right hand partially paralyzed. His London operas were...

Universalhope

254 words