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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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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 Song That Grew from a Father's Healing

Bart Millard grew up afraid of his own father. Arthur Millard was violent and unpredictable, and Bart's childhood was shaped more by fear than by...

Universalhealing

231 words

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The Signature That Said Everything

Johann Sebastian Bach signed every manuscript the same way. At the bottom of each composition — whether a soaring cantata for Sunday worship or a...

Universalidentity

252 words

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The Weight That Heals

In 1978, doctors in Bogotá, Colombia faced a crisis. The neonatal unit at Instituto Materno Infantil was desperately short of incubators, and premature babies were...

Universallove

250 words

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The Law of Stronger Bones

In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone remodels itself in response to...

Universalperseverance

230 words

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The Turning That Makes Us Grow

Young sunflowers do something remarkable. From dawn to dusk, they track the sun across the sky, turning their faces from east to west in a...

Universalobedience

249 words

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Songs That Carried Them to Shore

When enslaved people in the American South sang *Wade in the Water*, overseers heard nothing but a hymn. But those who knew the code understood...

Universalfreedom

233 words

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The Woman Who Finished What She Started

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, young Jem Finch believes his father Atticus is the bravest man in Maycomb County after watching him drop...

Universalcourage

239 words

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The Dragon Who Could Not Undress Himself

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard while thinking greedy, dragonish thoughts —...

Universalidentity

255 words

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The Composer Who Signed Every Score for God

Johann Sebastian Bach composed over a thousand works in his lifetime — cantatas, fugues, concertos, and chorales that still move audiences three centuries later. But...

Universalobedience

217 words

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The Cells That Unravel Themselves

When infection invades your body, your immune system dispatches neutrophils — white blood cells that serve as the first line of defense. Most of us...

Universalsacrifice

246 words

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The Night a Mayor Destroyed Himself to Save a Stranger

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean faces a moment that tears the soul in two. He has built a new life. He is Mayor...

Universalsacrifice

247 words

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The Song She Wrote in the Dark

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. She would never see a sunset, never read a printed page,...

Universalidentity

231 words

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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

241 words

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The Music That Carried Them North

In the worship gatherings of the antebellum South, enslaved men and women sang spirituals that carried double meanings their enslavers never suspected. *Wade in the...

Universalfreedom

226 words

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The First Face I'll Ever See

When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a man posing as a doctor applied hot poultices to her infected eyes. The treatment destroyed her...

Universaltrust

256 words

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The Wounds They Recognized

In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grünewald completed what many consider the most unflinching depiction of the crucifixion ever created — the...

Universalsacrifice

241 words

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When Healing Requires Deeper Claws Than Our Own

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb is transformed into a dragon — an outward manifestation of the greed...

Universalhealing

224 words

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The Nurse Log

In the old-growth forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, hikers often notice something remarkable: perfectly straight rows of towering Western hemlocks and Sitka spruces growing in...

Mark 10:45Universal

242 words

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The Wound That Only Opens From the Inside

In 2001, psychophysiologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet conducted a landmark study at Hope College that revealed something pastors have long suspected. She asked participants to...

Universalforgiveness

234 words

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The Weight He Could Not Carry

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there comes a moment near the end of the long journey to Mount Doom when Frodo can...

Universalperseverance

237 words

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The Search Party on Ridgeline Trail

In March 2019, a three-year-old boy named Casey Hathaway wandered away from his grandmother's backyard in Craven County, North Carolina, and disappeared into dense woodland....

Luke 15:3-7Universal

232 words

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The Underground Network That Feeds Every Tree

In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the floor of a British Columbia forest. Hidden under the soil, a vast web of...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

229 words

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The Courage to Wash Your Hands

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have changed medicine overnight. Working in Vienna General Hospital's maternity...

Universalcourage

209 words