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Introduction:
Many problems in life are related to a lack of self-control.
Self-control is only possible when we are under the Spirit’s control!
eph 5 18
Many people feel their lives are out of control.
They are overwhelmed by pressures and circumstances.
Statement: Christians would be wise to seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit in order to possess the strength needed to develop self-control.
Temperance Explained
Temperance has two facets:
Discretion
Statement: Discretion is knowing when to do the right thing at the right time.
This quality helps us to practice integrity at a crucial moment of choice.
(Discretion)
Discipline
ILLUSTRATION:
Successful athletes make choices to practice when no one else does.
(Nolan Arenado shows Alex Rodriguez why he’s a Gold Glove third baseman)
Nolan Arenado became the first rookie third baseman in National League history to win a Rawlings Gold Glove Award.
In 2018, he won his sixth consecutive Gold Glove award at third base.
He now has more Gold Glove awards than any other player in Rockies history.
Fans have awarded him the National League’s Platinum Glove award — an award given to the player fans consider the best defensive player in baseball — two years in a row.
When he wakes up, he often watches videos of opposing teams after breakfast
He gets to the park around noon, and takes his lunch there instead of at home.
He’ll watch more videos of the teams and pitchers he is playing that night
He practices routine plays over and over again, every single day, just to make sure he’s comfortable and confident in every situation
Nolan Arenado shows Alex Rodriguez why he’s a Gold Glove third baseman
ILLUSTRATION: It takes discipline to raise children consistently.
It takes discipline to raise children consistently.
Parents are reluctant to set limits for their children.
And this permissiveness is harming kids of all ages, psychologists and educators say.
Karen Stabiner writes in The New York Times, “It seems that the parents of today’s parents, those strict disciplinarians of the 1950s and early 1960s, may have been right all along: Father and Mother did know best.”
Nancy Samalin, a parent educator in New York City, explains one reason for the permissiveness: single- and two-parent families are simply overwhelmed.
“Parents want their children to love them, and it’s harder to say no than yes, especially if they’ve been working all day and are tired,” she says.
Telling a child no is essential to raising healthy kids, says Linda Rubinowitz, psychologist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago.
“It gives the child a sense that you really understand what’s going on.
And it gives the child a way to deal with a problem in a social context.
You can tell the child, ‘Say your mom and dad won’t let you do it, and grumble if you want.’
That’s face-saving for the child.”
Revetta Bowers, head of the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles, says schools are replacing parents as disciplinarians.
“Schools now make rules, which in many instances are the only rules that are not open to arbitration or negotiation,” she explains.
“What children really need is guidance and love and support.
We expect them to act more and more like adults, while we act more and more like children.
Then, when we’re ready to act like parents, they bristle at the retaking of authority.”
In other words, you can’t leave it to Beaver.
—Karen Stabiner, “The Problem with Kids Today?
Today’s Parents, Some Say,” The New York Times (June 25, 2000)
Parents are reluctant to set limits for their children.
And this permissiveness is harming kids of all ages, psychologists and educators say.
Parents are reluctant to set limits for their children.
And this permissiveness is harming kids of all ages, psychologists and educators say.
Karen Stabiner writes in The New York Times, “It seems that the parents of today’s parents, those strict disciplinarians of the 1950s and early 1960s, may have been right all along: Father and Mother did know best.”
Nancy Samalin, a parent educator in New York City, explains one reason for the permissiveness: single- and two-parent families are simply overwhelmed.
“Parents want their children to love them, and it’s harder to say no than yes, especially if they’ve been working all day and are tired,” she says.
Telling a child no is essential to raising healthy kids, says Linda Rubinowitz, psychologist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago.
“It gives the child a sense that you really understand what’s going on."
Revetta Bowers, head of the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles, says schools are replacing parents as disciplinarians.
“Schools now make rules, which in many instances are the only rules that are not open to arbitration or negotiation,” she explains.
“What children really need is guidance and love and support.
We expect them to act more and more like adults, while we act more and more like children.
Then, when we’re ready to act like parents, they bristle at the retaking of authority.”
In other words, you can’t leave it to Beaver.
—Karen Stabiner, “The Problem with Kids Today?
Today’s Parents, Some Say,” The New York Times (June 25, 2000
ILLUSTRATION:
A Cambridge professor named Coleridge was once talking with a man who told him that he did not believe in giving little children any religious instruction whatsoever.
His theory was that the child’s mind should not be prejudiced in any direction, but when he came to years of discretion he should be permitted to choose his religious opinions for himself.
Coleridge said nothing; but after a while he asked his visitor if he would like to see his garden.
The man said he would, and Coleridge took him out into the garden, where only weeds were growing.
The man looked at Coleridge in surprise and said, “Why, this is not a garden!
There is nothing but weeds here!”
“Well, you see,” answered Coleridge, “I did not wish to infringe upon the liberty of the garden in any way, I was just giving the garden a chance to express itself and to choose its own production.”
Statement: As the Apostle Paul charged Timothy, he explained that it takes temperance to keep a church going in the right direction.
(Temperance Explained)
Temperance Experienced
A Disciplined Physical Life
The flesh fights the Spirit.
The flesh is defeated through Calvary.
(A Disciplined Physical Life)
A Disciplined Thought Life
Statement: The word imagination means “thoughts or fantasies against the truth of Christ or the revealed will of God.”
(Temperance Explained)
(Temperance Experienced)
Temperance Exemplified
How can we develop temperance going forward?
Admit Your Weakness
(Admit Your Weakness)
Forget Your Past
ILLUSTRATION:
When children learn to walk, they fall many times.
No one ever says about a child learning to walk, “Well he’s just not meant to be a walker!”
(Admit Your Weakness)
(Forget Your Past)
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