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Healthy Dealing
Nobody is perfect.
I have recounted for you, over the years, a number of my bone-headed decisions that have led to me having to apologize and make things right.
Sometimes it ended in stitches, sometimes it ended in tears, sometimes both.
I’m an idiot.
Not a day goes by when I don’t thank God that you hired me anyway.
I got this quote from a friend of mine, “I am the world’s foremost expert on my own opinion.”
Just ask me.
I’ll explain everything.
Not only that, I am intimately aware of my own imperfections.
More so than anybody else.
Specifically, the times I’ve mess up, bad.
A million little things.
A few big ones.
And, it’s the big ones that haunt me.
When I take the time for honest self-reflection, I can face the realities of all my shortcomings.
You really don’t need to point any of them out.
I know it’s tempting.
Okay, and maybe one of my shortcomings is a blind spot toward some of my shortcomings.
So, I feel guilty about the things I know I’ve done and the things I know I don’t know that I’ve done.
If I focus on my past blunders, it can shut me down.
It doesn’t matter how long ago they occured.
You know that little voice inside your head that whispers reminders about how messed up you really are.
If everyone knew the truth they’d have nothing to do w/you.
Your wife would leave you.
Your kids would hate you.
Your church would fire you.
We have to be able to deal, in healthy ways, with the guilty feelings we all inevitably feel and not let that little voice wreck us.
Nobody is perfect.
Our imperfections produce guilty feelings.
And those feelings, tied to those memories, prompted by that little voice, can mess us up.
So how do we deal w/ it?
My grandfather was a good man.
A godly man and a moral man, mostly.
He was a car salesman.
Sold Chevys.
He won all the sales contests.
Beat all the other salesmen combined.
Frigidaire appliances all over the house.
Silver serves, tea sets, chaffing dishes.
He is a believer.
When I became a Christian as a teenager, I had that conversations w/ him.
I am confident he is in heaven right now and I am looking forward to the reunion.
He was on the board of his church.
I don’t think he was deeply spiritual.
But a saved man.
I remember my grandparents putting together bushel baskets during the holidays w/ hams or turkeys, fruit, canned vegetables, pie filling for families who couldn’t afford it.
He was always helping his friends w/ projects, donating time and energy to help.
As the all-star chevy salesman he could borrow a used pick up when a friend needed to haul a cord of wood.
He was a good man.
But he was a good man who had one very serious character flaw.
He was also deeply racist.
I can remember him saying this:
It’s a known fact blacks brains are not as big as whites.
They are uneducated and uncivilized.
The drink too much, fight all the time.
Their music comes from Satanic tribes in Africa and their women walk around half-naked.
I’m embarrassed and it offends me today to repeat his words.
I absolutely do not agree.
So what do I do w/ that?
He was a role model for me.
Do I throw out all the good he did?
He stepped into my life when my dad stepped out.
He was good man.
How do I deal w/ the feelings I have about his flaws?
We have to deal w/ our feelings about our own guilt.
And, we have to deal w/ out feelings about the guilt of those who’ve gone before us.
I’m not responsible for his sins.
I can’t repent to God nor apologize to anyone he offended.
I doesn’t work that way.
Our culture is struggling right now w/ this very issue on a grand scale.
I understand it.
Statues of good ppl are being torn down.
Ppl who had serious flaws, who accomplished good things, while at the same time doing bad things.
Founding fathers who fought for our independence, established our form of govt that has done more good for the entire world, including us, including the church.
owned slaves.
Some are dealing w/ this by re-writing, or erasing history.
We are losing the good w/ the bad.
All in an effort to try to deal w/ how we feel about everything they did.
The bible is full of good people who had glaring flaws for all to see.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the fathers of Israel all lied, cheated, and deceived at different times in their life.
In fact, the name Jacob, means deceiver.
Peter denied knowing Jesus at a very vulnerable time for him.
Paul, before he was the apostle Paul, still Saul, was a deeply racist man.
He would not even enter the home of a non-Jew.
Certainly wouldn’t eat at their table.
He called them, dogs.
Uncivilized, uneducated, unrefined, brawlers.
Dogs in heat, and all that that implies.
He was commissioned by the Jewish leadership to exterminate every person; man, woman and child who wasn’t Jewish b/c they believed Jesus is the Messiah.
Almost, Hitlerlike.
Paul, when he wrote to Timothy, he called himself the worst of all sinners.
He wrote much of your NT and we study it all the time.
Should we throw out Paul’s letters like others are throwing out statues in our parks?
How do we deal w/ what we feel in a healthy way?
Jesus has given us a way to deal with how we feel in a healthy way so that we can celebrate the good we do, forgive the bad, and move on.
Today, we have a much clearer picture of how to let these things go than those who lived before Jesus.
It was there, it was just harder to see.
B/C the law pointed more directly to the problem, not the solution.
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