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Dear Aldgate,
You guys are great.
We have never met, or spoken or communicated to one another before, but I hear great things about you and your faith.
I’d love to come and visit when I get the chance.
Here is a brief 10,000 word break down of the gospel, that has quite a punch to it.
But I have confidence in you, in your goodness, knowledge and ability to instruct each other.
Peace out.
Paul.
Did you think about the questions yourself?
Who where the men in your life that influenced your faith, and how did they do it?
Who actively pursued your spiritual wellbeing?
Did you think about the questions yourself?
Who where the men in your life that influenced your faith, and how did they do it?
Who actively pursued your spiritual wellbeing?
Born November 7, 1918.
Converted to Christ in 1934.
When I asked my-self this question.
who pursued and influenced my faith?
The answer surprised me.
Malcolm Wilson, Ray Bell, and Phil Brown.
Malcom was my pastor at Gumeracha, Ray my pastor at Coromandel Baptist, and currently my mentor, and Phil Brown, and elder and friend that attended here.
If my faith was a plant, these men were gardeners.
They brought water in the form of scripture, sunlight in the form of prayer, fertilizer in the form of the encouragement.
They even grave me a clip or too from time to time when I needed it.
Though I am less fond of those memories.
These men were in active pursuit of me.
To teach and instruct.
When I asked my-self this question.
who pursued and influenced my faith?
The answer surprised me.
Malcolm Wilson, Ray Bell, and Phil Brown.
Malcom was my pastor at Gumeracha, Ray my pastor at Coromandel Baptist, and currently my mentor, and Phil Brown, and elder and friend that attended here.
If my faith was a plant, these men were gardeners.
They brought water in the form of scripture, sunlight in the form of prayer, fertilizer in the form of the encouragement.
They even grave me a clip or too from time to time when I needed it.
Though I am less fond of those memories.
These men were in active pursuit of me.
To teach and instruct.
One night in March, 1938, Billy Graham returned from his walk and reached the 18th green immediately before the school’s front door.
“The trees were loaded with Spanish moss, and in the moonlight it was like a fairyland.”
He sat on the edge of the green, looking up at the moon and stars, aware of a warm breeze from the south.
The tension snapped.
“I remember getting on my knees and saying, ‘God, if you want me to preach, I will do it.’
Tears streamed down my cheeks as I made this great surrender to become an ambassador for Jesus Christ.”
Well, I’m confused!
This fella Paul, I have heard of him.
I’m surprised to get a letter from him, but happy to receive it.
What has me confused is the message.
He said he likes us, and that he is confident in our goodness and knowledge and ability to instruct, but then he wrote 10,000 words on what the gospel is.
Why did he do that, if he is confident in us?
Why did he send this letter at all?
This is what the Roman church has received isn’t it.
A letter from Paul saying that he had heard of their amazing faith, then unloads on them an very detailed account of the gospel.
One that pulls no punches.
Then get near the end in 15:14 and says that he already had confidence in their conduct, and knowledge.
Why has Paul written this letter?
This however was not the surprise.
While these men where a massive boon to my life, they were not the ones that watered the ground of my faith when there was not evidence of it at all.
Like a tree there is a stage in faith where it is just a seed beneath the ground.
Nothing can be seen.
No evidence that it even exists.
But… despite not being visible it still needs water, fertilizer.
Someone must poor time and energy into it, even though there is no guarantee that it will ever even break the ground.
And the one that did that for, was my Father.
This however was not the surprise.
While these men where a massive boon to my life, they were not the ones that watered the ground of my faith when there was not evidence of it at all.
Like a tree there is a stage in faith where it is just a seed beneath the ground.
Nothing can be seen.
No evidence that it even exists.
But… despite not being visible it still needs water, fertilizer.
Someone must poor time and energy into it, even though there is no guarantee that it will ever even break the ground.
And the one that did that for, was my Father.
In August, 1949, his faith in the Bible was put to the test.
Charles Templeton had asked questions about the Bible’s truthfulness that Billy could not answer.
Billy went out in the forest and wandered up the mountain, praying as he walked, “Lord, what shall I do?
What shall be the direction of my life?”
He taught me the bible quite literally from the day I was born.
He prayed for me before I even drew breath, he encouraged me in ways that have seeped so deeply into the core of who I am, that I cannot tell where his influence began and where it ends.
My Father pursued me like no one else.
He pursuit me when there was not guarantee that I would break ground.
He is apart of the background music of my life.
He taught me the bible quite literally from the day I was born.
He prayed for me before I even drew breath, he encouraged me in ways that have seeped so deeply into the core of who I am, that I cannot tell where his influence began and where it ends.
My Father pursued me like no one else.
He pursuit me when there was not guarantee that I would break ground.
He is apart of the background music of my life.
We can easily ask ourselves the same question about this preaching series.
Aldgate, Mark and I think your great, you are filled with goodness, and knowledge and are able to teach one another.
So why… did we spend 6 months of your Sundays going through Romans.
If we are so confident in you, why did we rehash what you already know?
How essential these people are in our lives.
People that pursue us.
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