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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 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 Doctor They Laughed At

In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis noticed something devastating in the Vienna General Hospital. Women in the maternity ward staffed by doctors were dying of...

2 Kings 5:1-14Universal

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The Witness Who Could Not Stay Silent

On a February morning in 1974, Soviet authorities dragged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from his Moscow apartment and deported him from Russia. His crime was simple: he...

Acts 2:14a, 22-32Universal

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The Cartographer Who Mapped Every Freckle

When Elena Vasquez gave birth fourteen weeks early at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, her daughter Lily weighed just one pound, eleven ounces. For...

Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15Universal

246 words

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The Redwood's Canopy

In Northern California's Humboldt County, coastal redwoods tower over three hundred feet into the fog. But something remarkable happens beneath them. Dr. Emily Burns, a...

Psalm 91:1-2Universal

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The Skin Eustace Could Not Shed

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a selfish boy named Eustace Scrubb wanders into a dragon's cave, falls asleep on the treasure...

Universalrestoration

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The Star Above the Shadow

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment that has sustained readers for generations. Sam Gamgee lies exhausted in the land...

Universalhope

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The Frog That Thaws Back to Life

Every autumn in the forests of northern Canada, the wood frog does something that should be impossible. As temperatures plunge, its body freezes solid. No...

Universalfreedom

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The Heir of Caesar

In 45 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius received staggering news: Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world, had named him son...

Romans 8:14-17Universal

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The Frescoes No One Was Meant to See

In the 1440s, a Dominican friar named Fra Angelico received an assignment from his prior: paint the walls of the monks' cells at the Convent...

Universalobedience

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The Glassblower of Murano

On the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, master glassblower Cesare Toffolo works with molten glass at nearly two thousand degrees. What astonishes visitors...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

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The Audacity to Ask for More

In 1948, a young Baptist preacher named Howard Thurman sat across from Mahatma Gandhi in his sparse ashram in Sevagram, India. Gandhi had spent decades...

2 Kings 2:9Universal

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The Question That Changed Everything

In 2018, a journalism student named Marcus Chen sat in a Chicago diner across from his grandfather, a man who had survived China's Cultural Revolution...

Matthew 16:13-19Universal

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The Quakers Who Fed a Starving Nation

In 1846, as the Irish Potato Famine tightened its grip, Parliament debated policy and churches held solemn days of prayer and fasting. Meanwhile, a tiny...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Words You Memorized Before the Storm

On a gray Tuesday in March, a woman named Rachel Chen sat in her car outside a liquor store in Portland, Oregon. She had been...

Luke 4:1-13Universal

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The Lighthouse Keeper Who Improved the Light

In 1916, a lighthouse keeper named Amos Holbrook at Point Reyes, California, grew dissatisfied with the old Fresnel lens that had guided ships safely through...

2 John 1:9Universal

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The Coral That Grew Faster Broken

In 2006, marine biologist Dr. David Vaughan was cleaning a tank at Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida when he accidentally snapped a piece of elkhorn...

Universalrestoration

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When Courage Has a Name

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, there is a scene that stops the neighborhood cold. A rabid dog staggers down a quiet Alabama street,...

Universalcourage

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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

246 words

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The Bishop Who Heard It From John

In the year 155 AD, an elderly bishop named Polycarp stood before a Roman proconsul who demanded he renounce Christ. "Eighty-six years I have served...

2 Peter 1:16-21Universal

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The Slave Who Returned as a Shepherd

In the early fifth century, Irish raiders tore sixteen-year-old Patricius from his family's estate in Roman Britain and dragged him across the sea. For six...

Genesis 45:3-11, 15Universal

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The Monarch's Last Crawl

Every September, researchers at the University of Kansas tag thousands of monarch butterflies migrating through the Great Plains. Dr. Orley "Chip" Taylor has led this...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

241 words

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The Translator's Unfinished Bible

In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake near Brussels, strangled, and burned for the crime of translating Scripture into English. His final...

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14Universal

242 words

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The Man Who Refused to Live by Lies

In February 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn sat in his Moscow apartment knowing Soviet agents were coming to arrest him. He had spent years documenting the horrors...

2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2Universal

220 words