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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

Sermon Illustration

Eight Thousand Songs in the Dark

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a doctor's careless treatment left her permanently blind. She would never see a sunrise, never read a page...

Universalperseverance

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Movie Analogy

The Light That Refuses to Go Out

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*, there is a moment when Frodo Baggins has lost all will to continue. The Ring grows...

Universalhope

226 words

Sermon Illustration

The Bishop's Wager on a Thief

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean arrives at Bishop Myriel's door as a man without purpose. Nineteen years in prison for stealing bread have...

Universalpurpose

261 words

Sermon Illustration

The Hymn Writer Who Never Saw a Sunset

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old when a man posing as a doctor applied hot poultices to her infected eyes. She would...

Universalperseverance

245 words

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The Bone That Grows Stronger Under Stress

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that reshaped orthopedic medicine. He demonstrated that bone tissue remodels itself in response to the mechanical...

Universalobedience

251 words

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The Dragon Skin He Couldn't Remove

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

Universalrestoration

226 words

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The Network That Fills Every Room

If you have ever struggled with a dead zone in your house — that one corner where the signal drops and your phone just spins...

Universalcommunity

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Contented I Will Be

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a man claiming to be a doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her infected eyes. The treatment...

Universalidentity

234 words

Sermon Illustration

The Manual on the Shelf

Margaret Chen kept her Red Cross first aid manual on the kitchen shelf between a cookbook and a potted basil plant. She had taken the...

James 1:22Universal

227 words

Sermon Illustration

The Candlesticks That Bought a Soul

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean stumbles to the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. The Bishop feeds...

Universalpurpose

238 words

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The Master Potter of Staffordshire

In the 1760s, Josiah Wedgwood walked the factory floors of his Etruria Works in Staffordshire, England, with a wooden cane in one hand and an...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

230 words

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The Molecular Machinery of Mending

In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that reshaped our understanding of life at its smallest scale....

Universalforgiveness

261 words

Movie Analogy

The Sixth Sense: I See Dead People (2 Kings 6:16-17)

In the film *The Sixth Sense*, we meet a young boy named Cole Sear, who lives in a world that is both haunting and isolating. He possesses an extraordinary ability that causes him to see what most people cannot: the...

2 Kings 6:16-17Universalspiritual sightgifts

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The Masterpiece Born from Ruin

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once filled London's finest concert halls was drowning in...

Universalfaith

238 words

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The Painter Who Kept Painting in the Dark

By the time Claude Monet began his most ambitious work, he was going blind. Cataracts clouded his vision so severely that the world dissolved into...

Universalhope

243 words

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The God Who Holds What We Cannot See

In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of sky near the Big Dipper — a spot that appeared completely empty...

Universalfaith

242 words

Sermon Illustration

The Trickle That Transformed Wales

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts knelt in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales, and prayed a simple...

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

227 words

Movie Analogy

The Bridge of Faith in the Holy Grail

In *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, there is a moment that has stayed with audiences for decades. Indiana Jones stands at the edge of...

Universalfaith

225 words

Vivid Retelling

Work Out What God Works In: Philippians 2:12-18

Experiential vignette showing Philippians 2:12-18 - working out salvation

Universal

603 words

Historical

Beyond What the Mind Can Hold

In the spring of 1905, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk sat at his desk in the Swiss Federal Patent Office in Bern, reviewing applications for electromagnetic...

Isaiah 55:8-9Universalwondermystery

248 words

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Counting Backward From Ten

Every day, in operating rooms around the world, patients do something remarkable. They lie down on a narrow table beneath blinding lights, surrounded by strangers...

Universaltrust

240 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

Movie Analogy

The Last Step Up the Mountain

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, there comes a moment when Frodo Baggins collapses on the ashen slopes of Mount...

Universalperseverance

231 words

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The Wave That Dies So You Can Hear

If you have ever put on a pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones, you know the almost eerie moment when the outside world goes quiet. The...

Universalsacrifice

248 words