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B:Proverbs 31:10-31
Housekeeping Stuff & Announcements:
Welcome, introduce yourself.
Invite guests to the Parlor following service.
Happy Mother’s Day, and on Mother’s Day every year, we take up a special one-day offering in support of the New Mexico Baptist Children’s Home in Portales, NM.
This is a great ministry that has a positive impact for Christ in the lives of so many children.
Our goal for this one-day offering is $3,600.
Pray and give what God would lead you to give when we take up the offering at the close of service today.
No evening service or other activities tonight.
Next Sunday, we are going to begin a church-wide focus on intentionally sharing our faith.
This focus is called “Who’s Your One?” I have a short video to share with you about “Who’s Your One?”
This afternoon from 3-5, there will be a come-and-go reception in Miller Hall for 7 of our graduates hosted by their parents.
Directions to Miller Hall.
JD GREEAR VIDEO
Next Sunday is Mother’s Day, and on Mother’s Day every year, we take up a special one-day offering in support of the New Mexico Baptist Children’s Home in Portales, NM.
This is a great ministry that has a positive impact for Christ in the lives of so many children.
Our goal for this one-day offering is $3,600.
Pray and be prepared to give what God would lead you to give next Sunday morning.
Be in prayer for who your “one” is, and how you might start to be intentional in looking for opportunities and openings to share the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them in the weeks to come.
I’ll be preaching a short “Who’s Your One” series of messages beginning next Sunday.
And now, I present to you the Eastern Hills Baptist Church Student Ministry Graduates for 2019.
Also next Sunday evening is our bi-monthly business meeting.
Please plan to be here at 5:30 in the Sanctuary next week.
Acknowledgment
In the last couple of years, I have opened my Mother’s Day message with an acknowledgment.
This year is not going to be any different.
Mother’s Day can be a very difficult day for many.
To you ladies who want children, but for some reason cannot have them, my heart goes out to you.
I know that this service can be especially hard, and it probably already has been, with the dedication of babies to the Lord.
Please know that you are loved, and we don’t take you for granted or downplay or ignore your very real pain.
This day can also be difficult for those who have lost their children tragically.
You are moms.
You’re moms who cannot mother your child right now.
I am so sorry for your loss.
You also are loved and cared for by this body, and we mourn with you this day.
Finally, this day can be frustrating for those who have no desire to have children.
This is a very real thing, and you may struggle just being here this morning with so much focus on children and motherhood, which is just not something you’re concerned with, at least at the moment.
I get that it may not feel particularly useful for you.
And for those who have lost their moms, especially in the past year: we mourn with you as well.
I can’t understand what these women are going through, and I want to be sensitive to and respectful of that struggle, and just not mentioning it isn’t right.
My prayer for all of us today is that
Opening
This morning, my hope is that this message for Mother’s Day has application for each of us, even if we aren’t mothers (like me, for example).
I pray that as we consider our passage in Proverbs today, we will all find something to learn and take away.
Just by way of warning up front: I am a complementarian, so I believe that men and women are equal in the eyes of God as it relates to grace, salvation, giftedness, and usefulness to God.
However, I also see that that doesn’t (and can’t) mean that they are the same.
No, men and women are different, and they are meant to be different.
Men are not women, and women are not men.
Each has been given roles by God in marriage and the home.
These roles do not make either more important than the other, but they are distinctive.
That’s not a bad thing.
This also does not mean that if you are unmarried that you are somehow a second-class citizen.
Paul is clea
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Just by way of warning up front: I am a complementarian, so I believe that men and women are equal in the eyes of God as it relates to grace, salvation, giftedness, and usefulness to God.
However, I also see that that doesn’t (and can’t) mean that they are the same.
No, men and women are different, and they are meant to be different.
Men are not women, and women are not men.
Each has been given roles by God in marriage and the home.
These roles do not make either more important than the other, but they are distinctive.
That’s not a bad thing.
Let me be frank: This is a difficult passage to preach in our modern culture.
For some of you, I may say some things today (in fact, I may have already) that you might think are
This also does not mean that if you are unmarried that you are somehow a second-class citizen.
Paul is clear in this regard that some are called to singleness and some are single for a time in .
If you marry, you haven’t sinned.
If you don’t get married, you haven’t sinned.
Singleness can be a blessing, and so can being married.
This passage in Proverbs is a familiar one for many of us.
And to be honest, it felt a little cliched for Mother’s Day when I first considered preaching from it.
However, perhaps the fact that a passage is familiar, and maybe even a little cliched in our perspective, means that we should even more soberly approach reading and studying it as the people of God.
Could there be some considerations that we are missing in this passage, due to our familiarity to it?
Now, this passage is obviously a type of proverb.
But what type of proverb is it?
What’s its form and function?
How should we interpret it?
How does it fit in with the rest of Proverbs and with the rest of Scripture?
Who is author?
This passage in Proverbs is actually a poem, and a really well thought-out and creative poem at that.
This poem is an acrostic, where the first letter of each verse is the next successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Danny Akin gave a helpful example of what this might look like in modern English in his commentary on Proverbs:
Who is the audience?
This poem is an acrostic, where the first letter of each verse is the next successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Danny Akin gave a helpful example of what this might look like in modern English in his commentary on Proverbs:
What is the genre of literature this
An awesome wife, who can find her?
A blessed lady, her husband trusts her.
A caring woman, she does him good all her life.
A diligent worker, she is skillful with her hands.
Since that’s the case, we are going to find some things that are common to poetry: things like figurative language (simile, metaphor) and hyperbole (mild exaggeration for effect).
I think that’s a really interesting feature that we miss in the English.
So it’s a poem.
Since that’s the case, we are going to find some things that are common to poetry: things like figurative language (simile, metaphor) and hyperbole (exaggeration language chosen for effect).
If we are going to apply this, we aren’t going to be able to do so exactly literally.
For those women in the room who read this passage and say, “I’m never going to live up to that,” to a certain extent, you’re right.
The godly woman here is idealized.
She is the model that godly women should strive to become.
She is the bar that godly young men should set for who they pursue and marry.
I hope that gives a moment of relief to those women in the room who read this passage and say, “I’m never going to live up to that.”
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