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
0.11UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.07UNLIKELY
Joy
0.68LIKELY
Sadness
0.52LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.52LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.34UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.65LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.95LIKELY
Extraversion
0.38UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.91LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.75LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Connection Cards -
Good morning!
Welcome to NCF!
If this is your first time visiting us we would love to connect with you.
The best way for us to do that is if you will fill out the connect card on the back page of the bulletin.
Fill that out at some point during the message and after the service take that card back to our connection table.
Now if you do turn in your card we will give you a really cool coffee mug.
Like I said, we just want to make a connection with you, and this is the best way for us to get back a hold of you to connect.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, it is the thankful month!
How many of you have something you are thankful for?
Maybe you are thankful for your family and friends
Maybe you are thankful for your job
Maybe you are thankful for your health
Or maybe you are thankful for the drizzly rain we have had.
Let me share with you our key Scripture this month.
Turn with me to -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I want to spend this month talking about 3 things I am very thankful for.
In 2 weeks we will talk about being thankful for the Church.
Next week we will talk about being thankful that God does not leave us in the messes we have created for ourselves.
And today....
I am going to talk to you about what I am really thankful for.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I AM THANKFUL FOR THE GOSPEL TO OUTCASTS AND REJECTS.
What is an outcast or reject?
Simply put it is a person who has been excluded and made to feel as though they do not belong or fit in.
Have you ever felt like an outcast or reject?
I know I have and it was not a good feeling.
I recall when my parents divorced and my mother could no longer afford the money to send me to our church private school, Blackwell Christian Academy.
I had to go into third grade at our local public school while spend pre-K- 2nd grade at BCA.
I knew no one and they made sure I knew I was not part of the cool kids.
I was in a fight every day of school for that first year.
Kid after kid pushed, and poked and laughed at me.
I felt miserable.
And I felt like a reject, an outcast.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
But not all feelings of rejection are due to others.
Sometimes, we through our own actions remove ourselves from others.
We may blame them for our feeling of rejection but the truth is we, did it to ourselves.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I lived that experience as well.
I felt like my mother and dad had rejected me.
But in honestly they never rejected me, I had pushed them away through my disobedience , rebellious attitude and drug use.
I created the gulf between us and then blamed them for my feelings of rejection.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If we are honest we have all at some point have been treated like a reject.
And if we are honest at some point we pushed people away and blamed them for how we felt.
So, what is the cure for the outcast and reject?
True acceptance and love.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, I AM THANKFUL GOD LOVES THE OUTCASTS AND REJECTS.
Turn with me to
What do all these people who Jesus says are blessed have in common?
What do all these people who Jesus says are blessed have in common?
They are all outcasts.
Poor in spirit –
Mournful –
Meek –
Those who desire righteousness and justice –
Merciful –
Pure in heart -
Peace makers -
Persecuted –
Everyone one of these people are rejected by the normal society and yet Jesus calls them blessed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jesus gives us a beautiful picture of the Gospel to the outcast.
The Good News To Rejects Everywhere.
Luke 15:
The worst kind of reject is the reject of their own making.
Luke 15:
The Father never rejected the boy, rather he gave his son what he asked for.
Rather the boy rejected the Father
This is the human life story.
God never rejects us but, rather we reject him.
We then blame him for all our problems even though they are the problems we create.
What we call God’s wrath is simply the Father giving to us what we ask for.
Romans
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All rejects have a delusional heart.
Once the young man has run out of money and has fallen on very hard times he decides it is time to return home.
Do you see his delusion?
The boy rejected his father and it has turned out bad for him.
But now he believes his father has rejected him.
How often we feel this way?
We step away from God, fall on hard times from our own lifestyle and actions and then believe God has rejected us.
“I will go home but I will no longer be a son (daughter) now I will go home and be a servant.
“
We think God is fickle like us.
If I rejected him, surly he has rejected me.
If I ran from Him, surly he has turned his back on me.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Gospel to us rejects is better than we could ever imagine.
Notice the Father was looking for his son.
I imagine every day that father went to the road and stood in hope that he would see his son walking down that dusty road.
The father had never turned his back.
No instead he was in hope looking down the road of life for the return of his child.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maybe you feel as though God has turn his back on you.
Who could blame him.
You have rejected yourself, he must have rejected you.
But no.
Our father is looking down that dirty path of life with love and hope.
His greatest desire is to see you returning home.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Filled with compassion and love the father runs towards his lost son.
With an embrace and kiss, the father is already declaring who this boy is.
You are no servant, you are my son.
This is how God desires to receive us all.
Yes, we mess up.
Yes, we have hurt ourselves and others.
But God desperately desires to run to us, and with the pig slop of our sins still on our clothes he embraces and kisses our muddy face.
The father does not tell the boy to change his clothes first, or to wash his face.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9