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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 Seventh Dip

In 1928, Alexander Fleming left a petri dish uncovered before going on vacation. When he returned to his lab at St. Mary's Hospital in London,...

2 Kings 5:14Universal

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The Bishop Who Knew the Alpha and Omega

In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna — one of the very churches John addressed in Revelation — dragged an elderly bishop named Polycarp...

Revelation 1:4-8Universal

247 words

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Corrie ten Boom's Hidden Room and the God Who Hides Nothing

In 1944, Corrie ten Boom sat in a cell at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped of every comfort — her home, her watch shop, her beloved...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

230 words

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Every Tongue, Every Flag, One Song

On June 2, 2022, over a million people gathered along the Mall in London for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee concert. Camera crews captured something...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

241 words

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The GPS That Required Trust

In 2019, journalist Sarah Marquis spent three months hiking alone across remote stretches of Tasmania's wilderness. She carried a GPS device but quickly discovered something...

Psalm 25:1-10Universal

242 words

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The Lion's Jaws After the Laying of Hands

On a November evening in 1840, David Livingstone knelt in a small London chapel as elder missionaries laid hands on him. He was ordained, commissioned,...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

230 words

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The Verdict That Changed Everything

In 2018, a Nashville courtroom fell silent as former police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murdering Botham Jean, a man she shot in his...

Acts 2:14a, 36-41Universal

240 words

Vivid Retelling

Seven Letters, Seven Churches: Revelation 2-3

Cinematic retelling of the seven letters to the churches

Universal

531 words

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The Soup That Kept Showing Up

When Marcus Chen was diagnosed with ALS in 2019, his neighbors in a small subdivision outside Raleigh, North Carolina, didn't organize a single grand fundraiser...

John 13:34-35Universal

239 words

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The Fork on the Appalachian Trail

In 2019, a hiker named Martin Strel stood at a junction on the Appalachian Trail near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. One path led north along...

Deuteronomy 30:15-20Universal

256 words

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The Compass That Points Two Directions

In 1943, a Norwegian fisherman named Arne Kvalvik discovered that his boat compass had been sabotaged by the German occupation forces. They had placed a...

1 Kings 18:21Universal

228 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

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The Prism on Dr. Nakamura's Desk

In a physics lab at the University of Chicago, Dr. Keiko Nakamura would begin each semester the same way. She held a glass prism up...

James 1:17Universal

234 words

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The Old Slave Trader Who Saw a Young Man's Destiny

In 1785, a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat in the parlor of John Newton, the aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in...

John 1:43-51Universal

249 words

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When the Whole Stadium Forgot Themselves

On November 2, 2016, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years. Fans who had inherited their loyalty from...

Psalm 98:1-4Universal

232 words

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The Composer London Had Written Off

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crushing...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

250 words

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The Surgeon's Honest Prayer

In 2007, pediatric surgeon Dr. Catherine Musau stood in a poorly lit operating room in Kijabe, Kenya, staring at a newborn with a congenital defect...

2 Chronicles 20:12Universal

244 words

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The Roommate Who Came Back Different

In 1987, Marcus Chen dropped out of the University of Michigan halfway through his sophomore year. His roommate, David Okafor, woke up one Tuesday to...

Philemon 1:15-16Universal

236 words

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The Passport That Changed Everything

In 2015, a young woman named Farah arrived at a refugee processing center in Berlin, clutching a worn Syrian passport. She had walked across four...

Philippians 3:17-4:1Universal

228 words

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The Library That Locked Its Doors

In 1986, the coal town of Centralia, Pennsylvania had a problem far worse than its famous underground mine fire. As toxic gases seeped through basement...

Amos 8:11Universal

252 words

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