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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 Song Nobody Wanted

In 1984, Leonard Cohen finished a song that had consumed him for nearly five years. He had filled notebook after notebook with draft verses —...

Universalpatience

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The Silver the Bishop Wagered on a Thief

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean stumbles to the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. No inn will...

Universaltrust

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Movie Analogy

The Tunnel That Took Twenty Years

In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years chipping through a concrete wall with a tiny rock hammer no bigger than his palm. Night...

Universalpatience

232 words

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The Cells That Gave Everything

In 2004, a team of researchers led by Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute made a startling discovery about how our bodies fight infection....

Universalsacrifice

237 words

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Over-the-Air

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, and Tesla owners discovered something remarkable. Overnight, while their cars sat parked in garages, Tesla pushed an...

Universaltransformation

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The Voice That Refused a Lesser Name

In 1820, six-week-old Fanny Crosby was blinded when a man posing as a doctor applied a mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The world would...

Universalidentity

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The Code That Kept Descending

On July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 lunar module descended toward the Moon's surface, alarms started blaring. The onboard computer flashed 1202 and 1201...

Universalcourage

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The God Who Repairs What We Cannot

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand lesions. Radiation, toxins, even the ordinary...

Universalgrace

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Trusting the Dark Patch

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

Universalfaith

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A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced

In 1939, contralto Marian Anderson was denied the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., because of the color of her skin. The Daughters of...

Universalcourage

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The Song He Wrote on the Water

In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his four daughters on a steamship bound for England. He planned to follow soon after. Nine days later, he received...

Universaltrust

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The Hands That Knew Humility

In the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam hangs one of Rembrandt van Rijn's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1669, the last...

Universalhumility

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When the Silver Became a Blessing

In the film *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean staggers to the door of Bishop Myriel, a broken man. Nineteen years in prison have hollowed him out....

Universalrestoration

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What Looks Like Nothing

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

Universalpurpose

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The Biology of Hope

In 1957, Dr. Curt Richter, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, conducted a remarkable experiment on the physiology of hope. He placed wild rats in...

Universalhope

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The Forest Beneath Your Feet

In 1997, forest ecologist Dr. Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking discovery in the journal *Nature*. Trees in a forest are not competing alone. They are...

Universaltrust

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The Sparrow's Song

In 1905, hymn writer Civilla Martin visited a couple in Elmira, New York, whose circumstances could have defined them entirely by what they lacked. Mr....

Universalidentity

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When the Sea Gave Back a Song

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford received a telegram from his wife Anna that read simply: "Saved alone." Their four daughters — Annie, Maggie, Bessie, and...

Universalhealing

247 words

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What the Telescope Found in the Dark

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that his colleagues thought was foolish. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of...

Universalfaith

256 words

Movie Analogy

The Pin and the Car

In the final moments of Steven Spielberg's *Schindler's List*, Oskar Schindler stands before the eleven hundred Jewish workers he has saved from the death camps....

Universalsacrifice

227 words

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The Open Door We Refuse to Walk Through

In 1967, psychologist Martin Seligman conducted an experiment that revealed something heartbreaking about the nature of captivity. Dogs were placed in a chamber where they...

Universalfreedom

239 words

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The Data Beneath the Damage

In 2003, after the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry, debris scattered across East Texas. Among the wreckage, NASA recovered a hard drive from...

Universalredemption

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What the Ash Made Possible

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs, flattening 230 square miles of ancient forest. Old-growth trees...

Universalredemption

232 words

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The Painter of a Million Dots

When Georges Seurat unveiled *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte* in 1886, critics didn't know what to make of it. The...

Universalpatience

235 words