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Last week, we began a brand new message series.
We are looking at the four phrases found in .
The first one is “warn the idle.”
As believers, we should be warning those who are unwilling to work and are sponging off the rest of the church.
Today, we are going to consider the second phrase.
Let’s read the verse together.
The idle are to be warned and the discouraged should be comforted.
So much about our lives and the world around us is just down-right discouraging.
Maybe you went to the doctor and you received a health report that you didn’t want.
Maybe your kids are struggling to succeed in life.
Maybe your job and finances aren’t what you would like them to be.
Maybe you tried really hard to do something, but you still failed at it.
Really, if we are honest about it; life is full of discouragement.
You have been trying and trying to get that job or that promotion just to get passed over again.
You have been really watching what you eat and you have been exercising, but the scale isn’t moving in the right direction.
You studied hard and you thought you knew the content, but then you took the test and you didn’t do so well on it.
Everyone, from time to time, will deal with events and situations that are discouraging.
Discouragement is part of life, which is why we need encouragement.
We comfort the discouraged.
The word “discouraged” in the original language means “fainthearted, worried, fearful, having feelings of being inadequate”.
Discouraged , ὀλιγοψύχους - fainthearted, worried, fearful, having feelings of being inadequate
Has that ever described you?
Does it describe you right now?
I know that I have been there before.
Perhaps you are fainthearted.
You just lack the energy to keep on going.
It feels like you have been in this place of difficulty for so long.
Is there any end in sight?
Perhaps you are worried about things.
If we really get down to it, there is plenty to worry about.
Sometimes the more we think about things, the more worried and discouraged we become in life.
Maybe you are fearful.
You heard your company is downsizing.
Your doctor found a spot on your lung.
Something is going on with your marriage.
You can feel that something isn’t right, but your spouse doesn’t want to talk about it or get help.
You are getting discouraged.
This last one is a big one for many people.
You are having feelings of being inadequate.
You work really hard, but you just can’t seem to make it to the top.
You study and study, but you just can’t seem to make the grade.
Everybody else has tons of likes and shares online.
It looks like their life is fun and all together, but yours isn’t.
You get discouraged.
I think that if we were really transparent with each other, we would be shocked to realize the struggles around us.
We would be shocked to know the real-life struggles that people are having around us.
Facebook and Instagram paint us a fake picture of the world around us, but we tend to think it is real.
We see the life others want us to see and we wonder why our lives are not like theirs and we get discouraged.
I think many people struggle with discouragement.
There is an old legend about Satan one day having a yard sale.
He thought he'd get rid of some of his old tools that were cluttering up the place.
So there was gossip, slander, adultery, lying, greed, power-hunger, and more laid out on the tables.
Interested buyers were crowding the tables, curious, handling the goods.
One customer, however, strolled way back in the garage and found on a shelf a well-oiled and cared-for tool.
He brought it out to Satan and inquired if it was for sale.
"Oh, no!" Satan answered.
"That's my tool.
Without it I couldn't wreck the church!
It's my secret weapon!" "But what is it?"
the customer inquired.
"It's the tool of discouragement," the devil said.
The power of encouragement should motivate us to be an encourager.
We don’t know the struggles that people are having and so we need to make it a habit to give encouragement all the time.
We cannot overstate the power of encouragement.
In , Paul gives us four traits of effective encouragement.
We want our encouragement to be effective.
We want to strengthen people and give them confidence to keep on going.
1 Thess 2:
4 Traits of Effective Encouragement
1. Encouragement should be personal.
Paul said, “like a father with his own children”.
If encouragement is going to be effective, you must know the individual and their needs.
You need to know what they respond to and what gives them encouragement.
This makes building relationships with people all the more important.
Each one of my children are different and they respond to different types of encouragement.
I need to know how to interact on a personal level with each of them if I am going to effectively encourage them.
What works for one, does not work for the others.
What works to encourage my children, does not work with my wife.
Encouragement needs to be specifically tailored to the individual needing the encouragement.
Encouragement should NEVER be used as a psychological crowbar to gain an advantage, mentally, emotionally, or physically.
We see this played out in Scripture.
Elijah needed the still, small voice of God.
Jesus spent personal time with Peter by the Sea of Galilee after Peter denied him.
Peter needed time with Jesus to be encouraged.
Thomas was different.
Thomas thought he needed to touch Jesus, but Jesus knew that he needed to see him.
Paul was encouraged by the letters he received from obedient churches and the people that came to visit him.
Effective encouragement will need to be personal.
Think about it.
Isn’t that why some encouragement falls flat?
Isn’t the lack of personal involvement and knowledge the reason some encouragement is ineffective?
It doesn’t mean anything because it isn’t personal.
Build relationships with people so that you will know how to effectively encourage them.
Encouragement does NOT give license to hand out compliments like candy.
Think about it.
Isn’t that why some encouragement falls flat?
Isn’t the lack of personal involvement and knowledge the reason some encouragement is ineffective?
It doesn’t mean anything because it isn’t personal.
Build relationships with people so that you will know how to effectively encourage them.
2. Encouragement should be empathetic.
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