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
0.13UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.08UNLIKELY
Fear
0.12UNLIKELY
Joy
0.6LIKELY
Sadness
0.55LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.38UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.48UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.44UNLIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.65LIKELY
Extraversion
0.02UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.33UNLIKELY
Emotional Range
0.48UNLIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
I’m Broken
I have a confession for you today: I am broken.
I do not mean that I am in pieces, of that I’m in a state of great emotional distress, but instead that I do not function how God desires for me to function.
I like to blame my circumstances, but ultimately I know that it is because I am not as close to God as I once was.
I like to blame my seminary education, because of the impossible schedule it gave me, because of the corruption seen at the highest levels, because of the academicization of my first love.
But I know its just brokenness.
Genesis 1:
People were not broken at the creation.
People were made in the image of God! God is perfect, holy, and pure.
And this perfect, holy and pure God looked at people upon creation and said “it was very good.”
So what has caused us to broken?
why do we not function as God intended?
It is nothing other than sin. it was sin that corrupted the creation and as God is perfect, holy and pure, he had to punish that which was imperfect, unholy, and not pure.
genesis 1
This brokenness runs ramant in our societiy.
God didn't make us to be broken, but
Ringing in my ears for the past several weeks has been ; ““Be still, and know that I am God.”
I have been going, going, going for so long i have forgotten how to just be still and know.
For the past three years I have been out of control.
Busyness which could not be fathomed.
Full time student pursing a masters degree - Twelve hours sitting in a classroom, several more in homework.
Part time mechanic -Twenty-five to thirty hours up to my elbows in grease and gasoline.
Associate Pastor - twenty to forty hours caring for members and for the facilities.
60 to 90 hours working each week for three years.
Ends up that this brokenness is nothing new.
psalm 46:10 Esv
When I left for seminary not all of my family was supportive of me going.
though she wouldn’t tell me, I know my catholic grandmother was bothered that I would leave a comfortable career in engineering to pursue seminary.
A few years back, she sent me some mail out of the blue.
It was a standard envelope; all that was inside was a photocopy of an article.
I read the single page copy about how the devil was behind busyness and how important it is to rest.
The article opened my eyes, but did not cause change.
I would go months without having a single day off.
When we could get a day off, it was always consumed by trying to catch up on chores, or traveling for a family reunion or wedding.
it was no stop.
Then I graduated with my masters and the all too small voice begun to whisper, “Be still and know that I am God.”
Still months of busyness consumed my schedule - Work, Church, home improvement, always something.
The whispering continued, “Be still and know that I am God.”
Finally, labor day weekend hit and I knew I had to try and be still.
It began to bother me, my mind would run like a rabbit.
darting from once place to the next - unable to focus on stillness and knowing God.
I couldn't sit still even for one day.
I felt compelled to change the oil in the car and to paint a closet.
I am broken, I cant even sit still.
God models this stillness
God Commands this stillness and knowing
Why do we forsake the sabbath?
and why do we make the sabbath something it is not?
Before getting to those, lets start with, “What is the sabbath?”
Sabbath literally means to cease, to desist, to stop, to be absent, to come to an end.
“Remember the day of stopping, to keep it holy.
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a day of stopping to the Lord your God.
On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Exodus 20:8-11
“Remember the day of being absent, to keep it holy.
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a day of absence to be dedicated to the Lord your God.
On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
The sabbath day was traditionally celebrated once per week on the Hebrew 7th day - Beginning Friday night at sunset and lasting till Saturday at sunset.
Some argue today for celebrating the sabbath on the same day, but I think looking at it from the interpretation of sabbath meaning “to come to an end” is fine as well.
many pastors take the a Sabbath on Monday instead of Saturday because as of Monday their week of work has come to an end.
Really, though, i don’t think the point of the command is in the timing.
So what does the sabbath look like.
From , we can gather that it is free from work, and we are to keep it holy.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9