Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction- Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work”

Pray God you can cope

I'll stand outside

This woman's worth

This woman's world

Oh it's hard on a man

Now his part is over

Now starts the craft of the father

I know you've got a little life in you left

I know you've got a lotta strength left

I know you've got a little life in you left

I know you've got a lotta strength left

I should be cryin' but I just can't let it show

I should be hopin' but I can't stop thinkin'

All the things we should've said that are never said

All the things we should've done that we never did

All the things we should've given, but I didn't

Oh darlin', make it go

Make it go away

Give me these moments

Give them back to me

Give me your little kiss

The lyric of "This Woman's Work" is about being forced to confront an unexpected and frightening crisis during the normal event of childbirth.

Written for the movie “She's Having a Baby” in 1988 (covered by Maxell in 2001), director John Hughes used the song during the film's dramatic climax, when Jake (Kevin Bacon) learns that the lives of his wife, Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern), and their unborn child are in danger.

As the song plays, a montage sequence of flashbacks is displayed, showing the couple in happier times, intercut with shots of him waiting for news of Kristy and their baby's condition.

Regarding the reality of having to face the death of a love one...

Transition To Body- Good Sound Funeral Theology

On days such as this is we need to know that there is a resurrection of the dead in Christ

Holding Fast To The Preached Gospel

By The Grace of God I am what I am

Preaching & Faith Is Not Vain Work

Body

Be Steadfast- the debate is settled

stand firm, sitting, seated, settled, or be solidly in place

Being firmly established in one’s position or opinions

Unwavering

Be Immovable- no body or strange teaching can move me off my faith

firm, unshaken, steady

Be Abounding (in the work of the LORD)

abounding= to be in abundance

being considerably more than what would be expected

Being very much occupied with the work of the LORD

Work= that which one normally does

Transition To Close- Jesus life and work was not in vain

Knowing=to possess information about, Be acquainted with

Labor= hard work with difficulties and trouble

to engage in hard work, implying difficulties and trouble—‘hard work, toil, to work hard, to toil, to labor.’

Vain= without purpose i.e. do not live without purpose

pertaining to being totally without purpose—‘in vain, for no purpose.’

Jesus Was About His Father’s Business

Jesus Accomplished The Father’s Work

Jesus Did God The Father’s Will

Jesus Glorified The Father Having Accomplished The Work

Close- Jesus is the resurrection and the life

Jesus Is The Resurrection And The Life

Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled

Jesus Is The Way, and the Truth, and The Life

The Christian’s Citizenship Is In Heaven

Because Jesus Christ was raised from the dead we have hope of resurrection for our dead lives too