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At what age is it okay to start dating?
It might be one age for you as a teenager and another when you have children, especially daughters.
At what age is it okay to start dating?
It might be one age for you as a teenager and another when you have children, especially daughters.
We live in a sexualized world that often leaves many confused about what is right and what does God really say about marriage.
I want to be an advocate for marriage today.
The divine image is expressed as both male and female, and so the man and woman are equally human despite their physical, anatomical and procreative differences.
As they are joined together as husband and wife their unity and diversity is expressed.
"So a man will leave his father and his mother and be united with his wife, and they will become one flesh" ().
Here we have a blueprint for human sexual love – through the sexual act the man and woman have a new, incredible kind of intimacy.
This is called being "one flesh" – designed to be exclusive and faithful.
Both Jesus and Paul pick up on this in the New Testament – emphasising the beauty of monogamous marriage.
In this way, the question of how sex outside marriage could be wrong can be approached by looking at the beauty, intimacy and preciousness of sex.
God designed that this happen in a safe and committed context of love and devotion.
According to the maker, this is where sex is at its best.
How can sex be wrong?
It may come as a surprise that the biblical view of sex is extremely positive.
God thought of sex – he gave us this wonderful expression of love for another.
There is a whole book of the Old Testament devoted to extolling the beauty of sex and showing God's delight in what he has made pleasurable and good.
The very beginning of the Bible lays a foundation for a Judaeo-Christian approach to sex.
The early chapters of Genesis tell us that God created the first man and woman and, seeing what He had made, declared that it was "very good".
Genesis provides the original context for sexual intercourse and shows that God has designed this wonderful thing to be expressed within a lifelong marital relationship between one man and one woman.
Jesus grounds his teaching on sexuality on those words.
Sex, of course, is a topic overflowing with religious, religious, cultural, political, and personal baggage.
Much of our popular culture is built around sexual titillation.
As a people, we’re alternately conflicted, fascinated, and appalled by sex in all its forms.
Lawmakers crusade against pornography while their constituents consume it in record amounts.
We, as a culture, are obsessed with sex.
It is a billion dollar industry.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Locations 289-290).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Location 289).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
Sex is pleasurable.
Sex between two people who love each other body and soul is transcendent.
But more often than not, that’s not the kind of sex most people are having.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Locations 291-293).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
We’ve seen a lot of people whose higher aspirations for love, family, and success have landed on the rocks because they put the pursuit of sex before anything else.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Locations 302-303).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Location 303).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
The Bible teaches that to be the people we truly wanted to be, we need to take sex out of the equation.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Locations 306-307).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
First, God ought to come first in our lives.
As we live and begin to serve God, we should put our focus and determination on serving God, learning about him, and finding our true calling and identity in Christ.
As we grow and develop in Him, he is preparing us for the life he has planned and chosen for us.
At the same time, our mate is also being prepared for the same.
It’s God’s plan on how to prepare us for what is ahead.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Location 311).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Locations 311-313).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
We focus on the now.
What we want now, what we see and desire now.
We give no thought to the future or the will and plan of God for our lives.
The problem in this world is that even while we are children, we are feed with images and wordly views of sex and it develops lustful desires and ungodly views of the opposite sex and how we view them.
Look at how just recently in our media all those who are being found and exposed in sexual misconduct and immorality.
The devil has lied to us and bewitched our society in believing that it’s okay to have sex before marriage and with multiple partners.
Celibacy is about the mind as much as it is about the body.
When we think about celibacy, we focus on the physical need to have sex.
But being celibate isn’t just about pushing down that hormonal need to engage in intercourse.
It’s about owning how you feel, even when those feelings are coming on.
It’s choosing to discipline the mind and think of the benefit you seek, something that is greater than the desire to give in.
If you look at the reasons sex is important to you, you’ll probably find that they are less important than having what you want in life and getting closer to God.
That will change how you think about sex and make it easier to resist your physical urges.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Locations 388-391).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
Too often we rush to sex and never develop clarity and communication and closeness in our relationships.
By waiting until marriage, we can find our identity as a couple.
We can discuss our dreams, goals, desires, and future.
We can learn to serve God together and have our spiritual ears tuned into God’s plan for our lives.
Franklin, DeVon.
The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love (Kindle Locations 394-396).
Howard Books.
Kindle Edition.
Once you reframe sex as a choice, you can reframe celibacy as a commitment in your relationship.
Listen up men, if you can be disciplined in your sexual life, there’s nothing you can’t do.
The discipline that you create in that area of your life will be the same for the rest of your life.
You are telling that young lady you’re dating that “she’s worth the wait.”
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