Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Example: NASCAR

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Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physics professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book about the physics of NASCAR racing, and for her research she was given the opportunity to drive a NASCAR racer on the 1.5 mile track of the Texas Motor Speedway.

With an instructor in the passenger seat, she drove the car at speeds up to 150 m.p.h.

It was while accelerating to get up to that speed that the author learned an interesting lesson about race cars.

She writes:

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physics professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book about the physics of NASCAR racing, and for her research she was given the opportunity to drive a NASCAR racer on the 1.5 mile track of the Texas Motor Speedway.

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physics professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book about the physics of NASCAR racing, and for her research she was given the opportunity to drive a NASCAR racer on the 1.5 mile track of the Texas Motor Speedway.

With an instructor in the passenger seat, she drove the car at speeds up to 150 m.p.h.

It was while accelerating to get up to that speed that the author learned an interesting lesson about race cars.

She writes:

With an instructor in the passenger seat, she drove the car at speeds up to 150 m.p.h.

It was while accelerating to get up to that speed that the author learned an interesting lesson about race cars.

She writes:

We trundled down pit road, and when Paul motioned, I pressed the clutch, shifted into third, then released the clutch and stepped on the gas….

A NASCAR engine is optimized for speed, so when you're puttering along at 100 m.p.h., it chugs uncomfortably.

The solution is to go faster.

We trundled down pit road, and when Paul motioned, I pressed the clutch, shifted into third, then released the clutch and stepped on the gas….

A NASCAR engine is optimized for speed, so when you're puttering along at 160 k.p.h., it chugs uncomfortably.

The solution is to go faster.

So, you get the picture.

The author is driving the car at 100 m.p.h., but the car is chugging roughly like a locomotive.

What's the matter with this car?

It doesn't feel like it's designed for speed because it can't go even 100 m.p.h.

without running roughly.

But that's just it.

The car is designed for higher speed!

The solution to a chugging race car is not to slow down—but to go faster!

This baby is designed to blister the asphalt.

So, you get the picture.

The author is driving the car at 100 m.p.h., but the car is chugging roughly like a locomotive.

What's the matter with this car?

It doesn't feel like it's designed for speed because it can't go even 100 m.p.h.

without running roughly.

But that's just it.

The car is designed for higher speed!

The solution to a chugging race car is not to slow down—but to go faster!

Things run best when used as they were designed.

You were designed to live fully for God.

If you live halfway for God, you will feel like you're driving a racecar with a chugging engine.

Your soul just won't feel right.

The answer is to "go faster."

You need to commit yourself and everything about you fully to the Lord.

Things run best when used as they were designed.

You were designed to live fully for God.

If you live halfway for God, you will feel like you're driving a racecar with a chugging engine.

Your soul just won't feel right.

The answer is to "go faster."

You need to commit yourself and everything about you fully to the Lord.

Observations:

The point is that the driver has to give it all he has to make it work the way it is supposed to work

If he is only driving 100 km, then he is not using it for that which it was made

He is not getting the benefit of the race car

If he is just driving to the super market, then okay...

But when you are a race-car…and you are on the racetrack, then you have to give it all you got

We have must do this with God also

All My Mind

Mark

Transition

If we are commanded to love God with our mind, then we cannot abandon our mind

We have to give it all with our thought life

Once you become a Christian, you cannot continue to think the same way

We cannot be the same as the unbeliever

Once you become a Christian, you cannot continue to think the same way

The mind of a Christian is a place of worship

The mind of the Christian is transformed through a relationship with God

Timeless Truth

The Mind is a Place of Worship

Our mind is a stronghold of truth and a place of worship

The world has been given over to a depraved mind

Renew Your Mind

Stronghold of Truth

Renew the Mind

Spiritual Battles in the Mind

Place of Worship

We Love Him with our thoughts

PH

We Honor Him with our thoughts