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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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Stronger Where It Broke

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff described a principle that still guides orthopedic medicine: bone remodels itself in response to the forces placed upon it....

Universalrestoration

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When Aslan Calls Your Name

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, there is a moment that has quietly undone generations of readers. Eustace Scrubb — a selfish,...

Universalpurpose

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George Washington Carver's Conversation with the Creator

George Washington Carver, the brilliant agricultural chemist born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864, made a habit that puzzled his colleagues at Tuskegee Institute....

Psalm 104:24-34, 35bUniversal

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The Altar That Faced the Dying

In the early sixteenth century, the painter Matthias Grünewald completed a massive altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Isenheim, Alsace. The patients there suffered from...

Universalsacrifice

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The Diary She Kept in the Dark

In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son through iron bars. She was...

1 Peter 1:3-9Universal

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Harriet Tubman and the Midnight Refuge

On a freezing December night in 1851, Harriet Tubman crouched with eleven fugitives in a shallow creek bed outside Wilmington, Delaware, slave catchers' dogs baying...

Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16Universal

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The Deepest Patience

In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute,...

Universalpatience

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The Carpenter's Daughter at the Lecture Hall

In 2014, Yale University hosted a panel on suffering and meaning. Three philosophers debated theodicy with precision — quoting Leibniz, referencing modal logic, parsing the...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

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The Women Who Winterized Garfield Avenue

In January 2019, during the polar vortex that dropped temperatures to thirty below in Detroit, a group of women from New Bethel Church realized something...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Courage to Stand in the Gap

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*, there is a moment that still makes my throat tighten. The fortress of Helm's Deep is...

Universalcourage

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The Thread That Never Lies

In George MacDonald's beloved fantasy *The Princess and the Goblin*, a young princess named Irene receives an extraordinary gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother: a nearly...

Universalcourage

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Where the Mississippi Begins

At Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, you can do something that feels almost impossible — walk across the Mississippi River. At its headwaters, the mightiest...

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

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The Claws That Heal

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he has...

Universalhealing

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The Four-Day Wait in the ICU

When Marcus Rivera's wife collapsed at a grocery store in El Paso, the doctors told him the brain bleed was catastrophic. For four days, Marcus...

John 11:1-45Universal

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The Coach Who Never Stopped Calling

Every Thursday evening for eleven years, retired cross-country coach Dave Simmons of Flagstaff, Arizona, dialed the same six phone numbers. His former runners had scattered...

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13Universal

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The Hummingbird's Crossing

Every autumn, the ruby-throated hummingbird — a creature weighing barely three grams — launches itself from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and flies five hundred...

Matthew 6:25-34Universalanxiety

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The Cathedral You Cannot See Up Close

In the 1890s, Claude Monet set up his easel across from Rouen Cathedral in northern France and painted the same stone facade more than thirty...

Universalfaith

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The Wi-Fi Password on the Fridge

In 2019, a family in Portland, Oregon, began hosting Sunday dinners for Afghan refugees resettling in their neighborhood. The Ahmadi family — parents and three...

Psalm 147:12-15, 19-20Universal

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When Aslan Tore the Dragon Skin Away

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a selfish boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover...

Universalrestoration

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When the Caterpillar Becomes Soup

In 2008, researchers at Georgetown University made a remarkable discovery about butterfly metamorphosis. Scientists had long known that inside the chrysalis, a caterpillar essentially dissolves...

Universaltransformation

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New Blood: The Miracle of Bone Marrow Transplant

In the world of hematology, few procedures are as radical as a bone marrow transplant. When a patient suffers from a blood cancer like leukemia,...

Universalredemption

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The Courage of a Lost Cause

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, young Scout asks her father why he agreed to defend Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused in...

Universalcourage

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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Sermon He Could Not Preach

In 1514, a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas sat in his study on the island of Cuba, preparing a Pentecost sermon for his...

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

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The Dragon Who Forgot He Was a Boy

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's treasure hoard while nursing greedy, self-pitying thoughts....

Universalidentity

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