Sermon Tone Analysis

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b And I will show you a still more excellent way.

b And I will show you a still more excellent way.

b And I will show you a still more excellent way.

The Way of Love

The Way of Love

The Way of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude.

It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends.

As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.

Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude.

It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends.

As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.

Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude.

It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends.

As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.

Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Goal: For the Hearer to understand the importance of Love in our Lives and in our outreach to others.

Goal: For the Hearer to understand the importance of Love in our Lives and in our outreach to others.

Goal: For the Hearer to understand the importance of Love in our Lives and in our outreach to others.

Good Morning Sons & Daughters of St. Paul’s … May the Grace and Peace of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you all … Let us Pray

Good Morning Sons & Daughters of St. Paul’s … May the Grace and Peace of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you all … Let us Pray

Well, Last week was pretty Fantastic.

I want to start off by thanking you for the unconditional support that you have given me during my time here.

I am beyond excited to now begin serving as your Pastor.

The Ordination was absolutely overwhelming and amazing.

I would like to thank all of those wonderful people who helped make it such an awesome day.

The love you showed me last week is the reason that I selected this passage for the basis of my sermon.

You acted this scripture passage out this past Sunday in spades.

God Is Good!

Well, Last week was pretty Fantastic.

I want to start off by thanking you for the unconditional support that you have given me during my time here.

I am beyond excited to now begin serving as your Pastor.

The Ordination was absolutely overwhelming and amazing.

I would like to thank all of those wonderful people who helped make it such an awesome day.

The love you showed me last week is the reason that i selected this passage for the basis of my sermon.

You acted this out this past Sunday in spades.God Is Good!

I chose our Epistle reading for today because it is the perfect follow-up to us being the body of Christ.

Now last week we talked about how all of us as individual members of Christ’s body need to work together for the advancement of the Gospel.

This week I want to dig in to this reading so we can truly understand the love that we need to exhibit to the outside world now that we understand the part we have to play.

Knowing Your role is very important … loving others while in that role is paramount.

In the first 8 verses, Paul uses “all or nothing” rhetoric.

“He does not say that we have access to God by our love without Christ as the Atoning Sacrifice, that we receive the promised forgiveness of sins by our love.

Paul says nothing about this.

He does not, therefore, think that love justifies, because we are justified only when we receive Christ as the Atoning Sacrifice and believe that for Christ’s sake God is reconciled to us” It is about receiving Christ that makes this love that Paul is talking about a reality in our lives.

I chose our Epistle reading for today because it is the perfect follow-up to being the body of Christ.

Now last week we talked about how all of us as individual members of Christ’s body need to work together for the advancement of the Gospel.

This week I want to dig in to this reading so we can truly understand the love that we need to exhibit to the outside world now that we understand the part we have to play.

This love envelops a genuine and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

Paul identifies it as the greatest of the three Christian virtues.

Love is referenced numerous times throughout scripture.

I chose our Epistle reading for today because it is the perfect follow-up to being the body of Christ.

Now last week we talked about how all of us individual members of Christ’s body need to work together for the advancement of the Gospel.

Knowing Your role is very important … loving others while in that role is paramount.

In the first 8 verses, Paul uses “all or nothing” rhetoric.

“He does not say that we have access to God by our love without Christ as the Atoning Sacrifice, that we receive the promised forgiveness of sins by our love.

Paul says nothing about this.

He does not, therefore, think that love justifies, because we are justified only when we receive Christ as the Atoning Sacrifice and believe that for Christ’s sake God is reconciled to us” It is about receiving Christ that makes this love that Paul is talking about a reality in our lives.

This love envelops a genuine and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

Paul identifies it as the greatest of the three Christian virtues.

Love is referenced numerous times throughout scripture.

A genuine and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

Paul identifies it as the greatest of the three Christian virtues (v.

13).

Paul chastised the wealthy believers because they did not demonstrate love to the less wealthy believers

That word ‘love’ has been an inspiration for many songs, poems and even life-changing events.

People sometimes get married in the name and for the sake of love.

At times the world has taken away that precious meaning of what love really is.

They’ve relegated it to beer commercials, to all sorts of things and the true meaning of love is some-times lost.

Its purpose is lost.

This morning Paul reminds the believers in Corinth and he reminds us that God’s greatest gift to us is love.

The only way you and I can understand and know what love is, is to