Sermon Tone Analysis

Good evening, everyone.

Before we get started.

I want to give a big thank you to Joseph and his team there in the chaplaincy office.

Is that what you say?

The office of ministry and missions.

Okay.

So thank you to you and your team for inviting me to come.

It's a real honor to be here at Southern Adventist University and I'm looking forward to it to being with you this week when the limit before I get into the actual thing that rather be talking about.

I want to say that many of my favorite people in the world are graduates of Southern Adventist University and some of my favorite people in the world.

And looking at, you leave, iRunner are actually at Southern right now.

And so, my experience with Southern Adventist University essay, you, is that this is a really great place and tends to produce really great people.

And so, I'm honored to be here.

It's an, it's a real blessing.

I'm looking forward to spending time with you.

We're going to be talking about this idea of the Gap and I have to give Joseph credit for this.

It wasn't my and I didn't come up with the name.

But the idea we went back and forth and we discuss and we had some ideas and where we're going and what we're going to do and you'll get a feel for this a little bit tonight.

If we're going to take a look at this idea, this sort of notion of this idea of a gap and we're going to look at it from different angles, right?

So different facets, almost like a diamond.

We look at it over here and we see this and we look at it over here, a little different cut, a little different color spectrum and I think it's going to be great.

I'm actually really thrilled about it.

We're going to start off.

I had originally planned to sort of started off kind of autobiographically because I'm 49 years old right now, which doesn't feel really old, but I'm sure that sounds ancient to most of you and it used to be probably 10 or 15 years ago when I would go to Adventist University.

That people would come up and be like, oh man, Pastor asked her if I really appreciate you.

Love your ministry.

I listen to your preaching.

That doesn't happen as much anymore.

Now, people come up and say my dad listens to you all the time.

My mom really likes you.

I've heard your voice growing up.

And so I thought, we'll probably, this is a good opportunity to sort of speak, autobiographically about my own experience, with Jesus, and my own, what we call, you know, sort of been colloquial Christian terms.

My testimony, but I didn't want to lead with my testimony because I was like, I want to I got something I really want to say at the outset.

So we're going to start with that.

And then either tomorrow night or at some point.

I'm still a little fuzzy.

When I actually sat down that after Joseph and I spoke and I said, these are all the things I want to talk about.

I made a list of all of the ideas that I wanted to touch on and the sermons that I wanted to preach.

And I kept narrowing the list down and trimming it away, and carving it down and and just getting it down to the Bare Bones and I got it down to 11 sermons.

But I only have 5.

So that's the message that's going to be hard that's going to be tough.

So anyway, we'll get into the autobiography.

Some of you might know a little bit about me and my story probably many of you don't.

So I'm going to talk about that at some point, but when I want to lead with tonight, is this really, really cool idea.

And is that going to be up there to great?

It's just going to be titled tonight.

Who Am I who am I? And one of the things, one of the themes there will be a number of star-metal narratives or themes that will be highlighting throughout the week.

But one of the things will come back to you again and again, and again, is this idea of identity, identity, and that's where we're going to begin with tonight.

Who am I? So we're going to start with prayer, and they were going to get into this and it's going to be right.

By the way.

I want to give a big shout-out was beautiful.

You do that before.

Okay, good.

Yeah, yeah, that was great.

I really, really enjoyed that.

That was beautiful.

So, thank you musicians, wherever you are.

Let's start with rip.

Father in heaven, and we come to you tonight and it's a rainy night bit wet, but soggy, father, sometimes life can feel like that a little bit rainy.

A little bit wet, a little bit soggy.

When we were hoping for Sunshine and blue skies, father, the prayer of my heart over the course of this weekend, including tonight is that you will pierce through with your beams with your raise and that you will illumine some of those soggy places in our lives, some of those wet places.

Some of those places that are slippery a little uncertain, father.

I have two sons.

She were to wear teenage son or sort of college-age sons teenage son.

One of them.

If I knew this is a tricky time in the life of individuals and you're sort of finding your your grounding and who am I? And where am I going?

What am I doing?

Why am I here?

Who are my friends?

And father, I want to pray that through the course of this week of prayer, force of all that.

It would truly be a week of prayer.

But that also, you would again shine, those beams of light of your goodness of your kindness of your righteousness.

Into the lives of people are, especially those.

That might be struggling, that might be hurting.

That might be doubting father.

I'm hoping and praying that by your spirit, through the foolishness of preaching that you can do a really great thing this week in the lives of hundreds of young people.

Not only those that are here in attendance, but those that are tuning in as well.

Father, we turn to you.

We look to you and we're asking you to come down and do something, not just natural.

It's something Supernatural.

This is our prayer.

In Jesus name.

Let everyone say.

Amen, and amen.

Alright, let's start off a little bit.

Autobiographically.

How many of you have dreams?

That was unclear.

I don't mean dreams like sort of Ambitions for your future.

How many of you dream?

Like you go to sleep at night and you dream raise your hand.

If you're a dreamer right now, sleep specialists, tell us that everybody dreams.

That the difference is not between those who dream, and those who don't drink later.

And if you're not a dreamer.

Yeah, you are missing out.

I just want to say that you do.

I just want to say my heart bleeds for you.

I feel really bad for you.

Don't dream.

It's just those that dream and remember it and those that dream and then wake up and don't remember it.

For as long as I can remember, I have been a dreamer, right?