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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 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 Force at the Heart of Every Atom

In 1935, Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa proposed something astonishing: buried inside the nucleus of every atom is a force so powerful it defies everything we...

Colossians 1:15-17Universal

223 words

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The Professor Who Sailed Back Into the Dark

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a ship bound for New York, watching the German coastline disappear. Friends had arranged a...

Matthew 4:12-23Universal

245 words

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Written in the Womb, Never Repeated

In 2015, a forensic scientist named Simon Cole at the University of California, Irvine, confirmed what researchers had suspected for over a century: no two...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

246 words

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The Bones That Were Never Broken

In 1968, construction workers in the Givat HaMivtar neighborhood of Jerusalem uncovered an ancient burial site. Among the limestone ossuaries, archaeologists found the remains of...

John 19:31-37Universal

233 words

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The Water Pump at Ivy Green

For nearly seven years, Helen Keller lived in a world of fragments. After losing her sight and hearing at nineteen months old, she grasped at...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

246 words

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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 Watchmaker's Home That Was Ready Before the Storm

In the Dutch city of Haarlem, Casper ten Boom ran a small watch shop called the Beje. For decades before the Second World War, the...

Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12Universal

232 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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The Sanskrit Scholar Who Had Nothing

In 1882, Pandita Ramabai stood in a Pune courtyard with nothing but a white widow's sari and a reputation for brilliance. She was twenty-three. Her...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

244 words

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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

253 words

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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

219 words

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The Night Shift at St. Luke's

Dr. Amara Osei had delivered over three thousand babies in her twenty-two years at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. She thought she understood birth....

John 3:1-17Universal

238 words

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The Photographer Who Was Actually There

In 2023, Boris Eldagsen submitted an AI-generated image to the Sony World Photography Awards and won. When he revealed the truth, he declined the prize,...

2 Peter 1:16-21Universal

238 words

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The Car Seat in the Hatchback

Keisha Williams was twenty-three, working double shifts at the hospital in Macon, Georgia, when the social worker called on a Tuesday evening. A newborn —...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

223 words

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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

223 words

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The Time That Is Given Us

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, young Frodo Baggins sits in the shadows with Gandalf, overwhelmed by the weight of the Ring he's...

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257 words

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The Murmur Only Dr. Patel Could Hear

During her first clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anya Krishnan pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

238 words

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The Beekeeper of Appalachia

In the misty hollows of eastern Kentucky, a third-generation beekeeper named Earl Combs tends forty-seven hives scattered across his family's land. Ask him about any...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

238 words

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Body in the Prison Cell

In the winter of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. Guards expected the imprisoned pastor to wither...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

235 words

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The Gym Nobody Wanted

In 2016, the city council of Brownsville, Brooklyn voted to demolish the old Brownsville Recreation Center on Linden Boulevard. The building was crumbling, its windows...

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24Universal

235 words

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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

227 words

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The One Voice in Ten Thousand

In the Antarctic winter, an emperor penguin colony can number over ten thousand birds, all huddled together on the ice in a single dark mass...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

249 words

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The Old Professor's Final Lecture

In the spring of 1998, Dr. Margaret Ellington stood before her last class at the University of Edinburgh. For forty-one years she had taught philosophy...

Ecclesiastes 12:13Universal

242 words

Pentecostal Illustrations

The Student Who Kept Waking Up

The Force at the Heart of Every Atom

The Professor Who Sailed Back Into the Dark

Written in the Womb, Never Repeated

The Bones That Were Never Broken

The Water Pump at Ivy Green

The Hummingbird's Crossing

The Watchmaker's Home That Was Ready Before the Storm

The Heart Murmur No One Else Could Hear

The Sanskrit Scholar Who Had Nothing

The Question That Changed Everything

The Quakers Who Fed a Starving Nation

The Night Shift at St. Luke's

The Photographer Who Was Actually There

The Car Seat in the Hatchback

The Lighthouse Keeper Who Improved the Light

The Time That Is Given Us

The Murmur Only Dr. Patel Could Hear

The Beekeeper of Appalachia

**Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Body in the Prison Cell**

The Gym Nobody Wanted

The Slave Who Returned as a Shepherd

The One Voice in Ten Thousand

The Old Professor's Final Lecture

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Body in the Prison Cell