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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 Commissioning Before the Storm

When Sarah Chen graduated from seminary in May 2019, her parents drove twelve hours from Sacramento to watch her walk across the stage. Her father,...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

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The Beekeeper's Lesson

Marcus Chen was seven the summer his grandfather kept bees in the backyard of their home in Asheville, North Carolina. One August afternoon, a honeybee...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

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The Cartographer Who Burned His Maps

In 1947, a retired cartographer named Edwin Hargreaves sat in his cluttered study in Bath, England, surrounded by forty years of hand-drawn maps. He had...

Ecclesiastes 12:13Universal

232 words

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The Prodigy Who Knew Where She Belonged

In 2019, nine-year-old Alma Deutscher performed her own full-length opera, *Cinderella*, at the Vienna Casino before a packed house. Her parents, both amateur musicians in...

Luke 2:41-51aUniversal

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The Soup That Outlasted the Sermon

When Dorothy Henderson died at ninety-three in Macon, Georgia, nearly four hundred people filled the sanctuary at First Baptist. The pastor admitted he was stunned....

1 Corinthians 13:1-13Universal

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The Symphony That Almost Wasn't

In 2012, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra nearly cut its percussion section during budget negotiations. The logic seemed sound — why pay four musicians who sometimes...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31aUniversal

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The First Satisfying Bite

On a crisp September morning in Yakima Valley, Washington, orchard foreman Miguel Ruiz walks between rows of Honeycrisp apple trees and plucks a single fruit...

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

243 words

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A Father's Hand on Her Face

Every night in the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Holland, the same ritual unfolded. After prayers were said and the blankets pulled tight, old Casper...

Zephaniah 3:17Universal

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The Sunday School Teacher Who Walked Into a Shoe Store

On a spring afternoon in 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. He...

John 1:29-42Universal

234 words

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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 Song She Heard Before She Was Born

In 2013, researchers at the University of Helsinki asked expectant mothers to play the same melody repeatedly during the final trimester of pregnancy. After the...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

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Easter Eve at the Baptistery

On the night before Easter, 387 AD, a thirty-two-year-old rhetoric professor stepped into the octagonal baptistery beside Milan Cathedral. His name was Augustine, and he...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

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The Love That Puzzled an Emperor

In 362 AD, Emperor Julian — whom history remembers as "Julian the Apostate" — sat in his palace writing a frustrated letter to a pagan...

John 13:31-35Universal

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Called Out from the Gulag

In 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was dragged from the front lines of World War II and sentenced to eight years in Soviet labor camps for privately...

John 11:1-45Universal

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The Signal the New Ham Couldn't Decode

In ham radio, a mentor is called an Elmer. That's who fourteen-year-old Marcus found when he joined the amateur radio club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa....

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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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

229 words

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The Canopy Effect

In the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, something remarkable happens during a storm. While winds tear across open meadows at sixty miles per hour,...

Psalm 91:1-2Universal

232 words

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The Crossing Guard on Maple Street

For eleven years, Dorothy Chen stood at the corner of Maple and Third in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guiding children safely across the street. She knew...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

238 words

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The Heart Murmur No One Else Could Hear

Dr. Rachel Nguyen still remembers her third week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins. Her attending physician, Dr. Owens, pressed a stethoscope to a patient's...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

249 words

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Written in Starlight

Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "We are made of star stuff" — and he was not being poetic. He was being precise. Every carbon...

Universalsacrifice

230 words

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The Student Who Kept Waking Up

Marcus Thompson was a sophomore at the University of Georgia when he started waking at three in the morning, three nights running. Each time, the...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

255 words

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The Laundromat on Cypress Avenue

For eleven years, Maria Gutierrez ran a laundromat in East Oakland that should have gone under twice. The margins were razor-thin. A bigger chain opened...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

233 words

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The Archaeologist Who Changed His Mind

In 1881, Sir William Ramsay left Aberdeen for Asia Minor with a single purpose: to prove the New Testament was unreliable. Trained in the finest...

2 Peter 1:16-19Universal

229 words

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The General Who Walked

In September 1945, when Douglas MacArthur arrived in Tokyo to accept Japan's formal surrender, his aides prepared a convoy of armored vehicles, flags snapping from...

Zechariah 9:9Universal

234 words