Sermon Illustrations

Category: Danny Silk

  • Hero sandwich

    How do you give correction or constructive criticism to a words of affirmation person? You use the “hero sandwich.” These sandwiches have twice as much I love you as they do criticism. The bread is the nice, positive, reinforcing words of affirmation that communicate the love and the meat is the constructive criticism. Danny SilkClick…

  • Control yourself!

    Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn’t work, and that it’s not their job. Their job is to control themselves Danny SilkClick to Tweet

  • Powerless people

    Powerless people often blame the messes they make on other people. The reason their life, marriage, child, finances, job or whatever is the way it is has nothing to do with their choices. Someone else – their parents, their spouse, their teachers, society – created the life they’re living. They don’t have the power to…

  • Powerful people

    Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they want to be with, what they are going to pursue in life and how they are going to go after it. Danny SilkClick to Tweet

  • Constant gas

    A man goes to the doctor to complain he is suffering from terrible constant gas. “but its the weirdest thing doctor”, he says. “I don’t make a sound and it doesn’t smell.” The doctor looks at him and says bluntly” Okay, well the first thing we are going to do is get you hearing aids…