Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.1UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.18UNLIKELY
Fear
0.13UNLIKELY
Joy
0.54LIKELY
Sadness
0.54LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.27UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.15UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.89LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.43UNLIKELY
Extraversion
0.2UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.59LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.63LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
By Pastor Glenn Pease
John Mcgee Jr. wrote the poem High Flight.
It is so meaningful to some pilots, they repeat it as they sit in their planes soaring though the skies.
It goes like this-
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.-Hov'ring
there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Flight does link man with the angels but it does not get man any closer to God.
It is only poetic license to say you can fly so high as to touch the face of God.
Man could never reach that high but the message of Christmas is, God stooped low enough to literally allow men to touch His face.
On Christmas day God did embrace
The planet earth with loving grace,
Making Bethlehem the birth place
Of Jesus who revealed God's face.
When Mary pressed the soft warm cheeks of baby Jesus to her own, she was touching the face of God.
When the shepherds and the wise men came to see Jesus they were seeing the face of God.
Christmas is about the face of God.
Before Christmas God was veiled, and men were not allowed to come into His presence to see His face.
Whenever God did, on rare occasions, let men see His presence, they were terrified of His glory.
But on Christmas God entered human flesh where men could see Him face to face and not be afraid.
Nothing is less fearful than seeing a baby.
Jesus grew from His baby face childhood to mature manhood, and by degrees He exposed man to His Deity.
Three of the disciples saw the glory of His divine face on the Mt. of Transfiguration where we read in Matt.
17:2, "there He was transfigured before them.
His face shown like the sun..." This glory was shown only to a few, for that was not the face Jesus came to show the world.
One day all the redeemed will see their Savior face to face in all it's splendor.
But this is the face He will have in His second coming.
His first coming-His Christmas coming, revealed to us the face of God which is more practical for life in our fallen world.
It was a face of compassion and love; a face of mercy and understanding.
It was the face of a friend.
Christmas is unique in all of history for it was the day God let men see His face, and begin to know Him as He really is.
Jesus was the light of the world, the light that lit up the face of God for man to see their Creator.
This is what Paul was getting at in verse 6, "for God, who said, let light shine out of darkness, made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ."
How do we know who God is, and how He feels about us and His lost world?
Where do we go to get this kind of knowledge?
Do we go to the Information Super Highway?
No, we go to the face of Christ-the face first seen on the first Christmas morning.
Robert Coles wrote a fascinating book titled, The Spiritual Life of Children.
He is a Harvard Univ.
professor who has written about the inner life of children like no other author.
He has studied children around the world in all different cultures.
One of the things he does is to get children to draw the face of God.
Jewish and Muslim children will not do it, for they are taught not to make pictures of God.
But Christian children all over the world feel free to make pictures of God.
Why?
Because for Christians, God has shown His face to the world in Jesus Christ.
All the religions of the world have invisible gods, but Christianity has a visible God; a God who was seen and touched.
That is what the incarnation was all about.
God became visible in flesh so men could see Him face to face.
Professor Coles has 293 pictures of God, and all but 38 are of His face.
When Christian children visualize God they primarily see His face.
All around the world, artist in every land and culture paint the face of Jesus.
There are oriental faces, and Negroid faces, or Italian or German, and dozens of others.
All facial features are found in the face of Jesus.
He is the man of a thousand faces yet His is the face of one-the face of God. ,
A Sunday school teacher and her second grade class were looking at a painting of Jesus.
Little Billy exclaimed, "Isn't it wonderful!
It looks just like Him!" If it's a face that children fall in love with, that is truly a legitimate face of Jesus.
I have not seen it but I have read about an artist that painted a portrait of Jesus, which if you look at it close, is composed of 48 different faces.
There are all kinds of people of every race, color and age.
He was conveying a theological reality.
In Christ the entire human race with all of it's variety becomes one.
Jesus was the son of man, the perfection of all men.
Many feel the reason we have no description of the face of Jesus is so all can portray Him like themselves.
Artists all through history have conveyed many theological truths by means of the face of Jesus.
Thorwaldsen has his famous sculpture of Christ in the Cathedral of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The beautiful white marble statue of Jesus has His arms outstretched for all who enter.
It draws you down the isle like a magnet.
But when you come near you still can't see the face of Jesus.
You have to get down on your knees and then look up to see His face of love and compassion.
No one can see His face unless they first kneel.
Whoever humbles himself will be exalted, said Jesus.
He humbled himself to come and show us God's face, and we need to bow before Him in humility to see that face.
Leonardo da Vinci became very angry with another man when he was painting the famous Last Supper.
He was trying to finish the face of Jesus, but he just could not get it right.
Finally he humbled himself to go to the man and seek forgiveness.
The man accepted his apology and Leonardo was then able to complete the face of Jesus.
Jesus said get right with your brother before you come before God, for then you will see the face of God smiling with pleasure as you offer your gifts.
One of the major goals of Satan is to keep men from beholding the face of God.
In Rev. 12:1-9, we have one of most amazing accounts of the Christmas story.
It is Christmas from the perspective of spiritual warfare.
Satan desperately wanted to keep mankind from ever seeing the face of God in Jesus Christ.
The birth of baby Jesus, the Prince of Peace, led to the greatest warfare this universe has ever seen.
Satan, called in this text the dragon, had power to sweep a third of the stars out of the sky.
We are talking of power that makes all of man's atom bombs look like the power of a gnat.
He was determined that Christmas would never happen, and he risked everything to prevent God from showing His face.
Listen to this account of Christmas from a heavenly perspective.
"A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9