Sermon Tone Analysis

Good morning

I want to start today’s message by having a bit of fun and playing a game.

Would anyone like to play a game this morning?

I need 3 volunteers to play to win three prizes.

I am going to present each of you with a series of riddles, and the one who solves the most correctly will win Prize #1.

The one in second place will win prize #2, and 3rd, prize #3.

Simple enough?

Let’s play

Round 1:

The person who makes it has no need for it.

The person who purchases it does not use it.

The person who does use it does not know he or she is.

What is it?

Answer: A coffin

Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes.

What does he weigh?

Answer: Meat

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Answer: Short

Round 2:

A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other.

The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat.

How did the dog do it?

Answer: The river was frozen.

Forrest left home running.

He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again.

When he got home, there were two masked men.

Who were they?

Answer: The catcher and the umpire

I left my campsite and hiked south for 3 miles.

Then I turned east and hiked for 3 miles.

I then turned north and hiked for 3 miles, at which time I came upon a bear inside my tent eating my food!

What color was the bear?

Answer: White.

The only place you can hike 3 miles south, then east for 3 miles, then north for 3 miles and end up back at your starting point is the North Pole.

Polar bears are the only bears that live at the North Pole, and they are white.

Round 3:

A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt.

Why?

Answer: He’s playing Monopoly.

Winner

Just like brain teasers and logic riddles, if we are going to love God with our everything, we’ve got to renew our minds to His truth and reality, and no longer accept the sin-soaked despair that permeates the present world, and that comes up from our hearts and damaged emotions.

Today, we continue in our study of the Greatest Commandment to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, as we focus on what it means to love God with all our mind.

You can turn in your Bibles to .

That’s where we will begin our time in God’s Word for today, and as you do, let’s set up our background for the morning.

Loving God with all our minds means that our minds are renewed by the truth of God, and that God’s truth is then applied through our lives.