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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 Burn Ward at Dawn

In 2004, Dr. Sylvia Martínez worked the overnight shift at the burn unit of Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Her patients — soldiers...

Malachi 4:2Universal

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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

Vivid Retelling

How We Know That We Know: Meditation on Obedience and Love

A theological meditation on 1 John 2:3-17, exploring John's tests for knowing God: keeping commands, loving siblings, walking as Jesus walked. Examines the "new command that is old" and the warning against loving the world-system with its three categories of desire. Simple tests, not easy ones.

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The Parlor Maid Who Crossed Mountains

In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London earning barely enough to survive. The China Inland Mission had rejected her — too old...

Ephesians 3:20Universal

238 words

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The Archbishop Who Would Not Be Silent

On February 16, 1977, Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum walked into Ugandan President Idi Amin's conference hall in Kampala, knowing he might not walk out. For...

Isaiah 50:4-9aUniversal

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We Lepers" — Father Damien's Chosen Kinship

In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Father Damien de Veuster stepped off a boat onto the rocky shore of Molokai, Hawaii. The island's Kalaupapa...

Hebrews 2:10-18Universal

238 words

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The Night Shift Dispatcher Who Learned to Hear

Maria Chen was three weeks into her training at the Sacramento 911 dispatch center when she nearly missed the call that mattered most. A woman...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

245 words

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The Washing Machines at Grace Point on Tuesday Nights

Every Sunday morning, the congregation at Grace Point Church in Long Beach, California, sang worship songs with hands raised and voices strong. But pastor Chris...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Louis Zamperini and the Body Set Free

In 1943, Olympic miler Louis Zamperini crashed into the Pacific Ocean aboard a failing bomber. He survived forty-seven days on a life raft, then endured...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

238 words

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The Monk Who Discovered God's Knitting Pattern

In 1856, an Augustinian friar named Gregor Mendel knelt in a monastery garden in Brno, crouching over rows of pea plants with a tiny paintbrush....

Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15Universal

244 words

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The Girl Who Couldn't Say Her R's

When Amanda Gorman was a child in Los Angeles, she could barely get through a sentence. A speech impediment made the letter R nearly impossible...

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

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The Alarm on the Night Shift

Dr. Maria Santos still remembers her first overnight shift at Johns Hopkins in July 2019 — hallways humming with fluorescent light, monitors beeping from every...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Shadow Side of Wadi Rum

In the Wadi Rum desert of southern Jordan, midday temperatures can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The sand radiates heat so intense it blurs the horizon...

Psalm 91:1-2Universal

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The Small Boat That Crossed the Deadliest Sea

In April 1916, Sir Ernest Shackleton stood on the frozen shore of Elephant Island, Antarctica, facing an impossible choice. Twenty-two of his men were stranded,...

1 Peter 3:18-22Universal

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The Spring at Herrnhut

In August 1727, a small community of religious refugees gathered in the German village of Herrnhut on Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf's estate. They were fractured,...

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Universal

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The Weaver of the Bayeux Tapestry

In 1066, somewhere in England or Normandy, a group of embroiderers began stitching what would become the Bayeux Tapestry — 230 feet of linen depicting...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

234 words

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The Hymn That Answered the Question She Couldn't

In 1822, Charlotte Elliott was thirty-two years old and chronically ill — bedridden for months at a time, questioning her worth, her faith, even her...

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245 words

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The Climb Above the Clouds

In 2019, mountaineer Sarah Marquis described something that every serious climber knows but few expect the first time. On the ascent of a major peak,...

Exodus 24:12-18Universal

252 words

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The First Morning of Spring on the Holbrook Farm

In March of 1987, dairy farmer Ellen Holbrook of Addison County, Vermont, opened the barn doors after five months of bitter winter. Her twelve Holstein...

Malachi 4:2Universal

257 words

Movie Analogy

Dune: The Chosen One and the Danger of Messianic Expectation (Matthew 16:13-20)

Imagine a vast, windswept desert, the kind where the sand shimmers like gold under a scorching sun, where survival depends on the delicate balance of hope and despair. In Denis Villeneuve’s epic film *Dune*, we meet Paul Atreides, a reluctant...

Matthew 16:13-20Universalmessiahprophecy

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The Teenager Who Spoke Before Congress

In 2019, seventeen-year-old Greta Thunberg sat in a chair far too large for her small frame, facing a room full of seasoned politicians in the...

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

253 words

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The Courage to Swallow the Truth

In 1984, an Australian physician named Barry Marshall did something his colleagues considered reckless, perhaps absurd. He believed stomach ulcers — long blamed on stress,...

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The Stain That Kept Bleeding Through

When Maria Gonzalez bought a 1920s bungalow in Savannah, Georgia, she noticed a brown stain spreading across the living room ceiling. She painted over it....

Hebrews 9:11-15Universal

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The Password She Already Had

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm in Austin, Texas reported that 81% of data breaches began the same way — not with sophisticated hacking, but with...

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

248 words