Sermon Illustrations

Tag: love

  • Teaching how to love

    Recently, after hearing me speak on being created for love, a couple came forward for prayer with their two small sons. They both fell to their knees broken and weeping. With a heart filled with exasperation over never feeling loved, the mother cried out, “I don’t know how to love! I’ve never experienced the kind…

  • Showing love

    1) Affectionate touch. We were created for affection. Doctors have scientifically proven that without touch the body and the emotions become unhealthy. Touching someone says to them that they are important to you; they belong, and they have value. If we did not receive affectionate touch in the right way as a child, then in…

  • Stir up love

    Stir up love in your life – towards your spouse and towards your family, friends, neighbours and co-workers. Reach out to others who are hurting and in need. Pray for people and bless them. Grow to the point that one of your first thoughts each morning in your heart is about how you can bless…

  • Self control

    Self control removes the option of blaming others for our choices. Self control is what allows us to manage increasing levels of freedom in our life and relationships. Danny SilkClick to Tweet

  • Quality of love

    If you want to test the quality of love in a relationship, then you need to ask one another, “Do you feel safe? Do you feel cared for? Do you feel valued and significant? Do you feel protected? Do you feel pursued and known?” Danny SilkClick to Tweet

  • Relational Connections

    It’s amazing how much you can strengthen a relational connection and resolve relational problems by simply speaking in one another’s love languages. Each display of love, no matter how seemingly small, is a powerful act of spiritual warfare that removes anxiety from the environment, replaces it with freedom and safety, and invites each person to…

  • 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…

  • What then does it mean

    What then does it mean to believe in him? Here is what it does not mean. In english we might say “I believe in teh free enterprise system”, that is to say “I agree iwth it, I like it.” But try that out on John 3:16: For God so loved this evil world, that he…

  • Hell in the New Testament

    Hell in the New Testament is a constant reminder that there is a final accountabaility for our beliefs and behaviours in this life, whatever the particulars and temperature and durability of hell may be. It is a reminder that this life is basically a time of decision, and the decisions we make now can indeed…

  • A man was working a

    A man was working a crossword puzzle and asked, “What is a four letter word for a strong emotional reaction toward a difficult person?” Someone standing nearby said, “The answer is hate.” A lady interrupted and said, “No, the answer is love!” Everyone is working that same crossword puzzle, but the way you answer is…