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Get Real Part 4
A Series in the Book of James
“I’m not Prejudiced”…Get Real!
James 1:26-2:13
What do you think of when you think about high school?
Do you freak out like I do?
High School … YUCK!
Those awkward years.
Do you remember your prom?
Your best friend?
How about your first boyfriend or girlfriend?
Your first crush?
Maybe you remember the feeling of being rejected.
Was it a friend?
A boy or a girl that you had that crush on, a monstrous crush that you didn’t think you could ever get over?
Maybe you even heard those hurtful words, “it isn’t you, it’s me.”
Some top break up lines according to Google:
1) I’m just not mature enough for you.
2) Maybe we have too much in common, We are too much alike.
3) I don’t want you to feel like I’m breaking up with you.
I just can’t be in a relationship with you anymore.
4) It’s pointless for us to be together because I am going away for college in 11 months.
5) I can’t see myself with you when I am eighty
6) I am happy with our relationship.
I feel that we have grown close enough that I can finally tell you.
I haven’t ever told anyone this before.
Only you.
I am Batman.
All of us at one point or another have been on the receiving end of rejection.
When I was 12, I was in love with Stephanie.
She was a dreamboat.
I was pretty sure she was the prettiest girl in the school.
And when it came to personality, she was the only girl that treated me like I existed.
I knew that she and I were destined to be together for ever.
At night, I would close my eyes and see her face.
I would wake up in the morning thinking about her.
It was a major Crush!
In the fall of that year the school hosted a dance.
I saw my opportunity to see if she felt the same way about me.
I could ask her to the dance.
I must have thought of a 1000 different ways to ask her.
Flowers, balloons, the one knee thing….
But I finally settled on asking her in the most romantic place I could think of.
The cafeteria tray return line!!
I strolled up there with my tray and got in line behind her.
I had hardly touched my lunch I was so nervous.
I looked her in the eye and said, Stephanie, I was wondering, would maybe like go with me to the dance this weekend?
She looked down at her chewed-up apple core, thought a minute, seemed like an hour, bit her lip then looked back at me.
She said, “Can I think about it and tell you tomorrow?”
AGONY!!!
I said sure and went back to my table.
I spent the rest of the day and night willing the time to pass and for her to think about it and realize that the stars were aligned we were meant to grow old together.
Tomorrow came and passed, and Stephanie stayed home from school.
The next day came and at lunch I saw her!
I got up my nerve and walked up to her and said, “Well did you think about it?”
She replied with guilt in her eyes, “Oh I forgot you asked me, I have some friends coming over to spend the night that night, I am not going to the dance.”
Oh, the agony!!!!
The pain, the suffering!!!
I am still scarred to this day!!!
All of us have scars from being rejected.
Some of them are just crazy like my experience.
Others are serious and real and deep.
You might be sitting here this morning thinking about that scar.
You can see the face of the person who gave it to you.
Or the person you scarred.
If I were to ask, I bet all of you could give me a story of a time when you were hurt.
How do we deal with those memories, those times in life when we are rejected or neglected?
Maybe you didn’t get a job you wanted; your spouse has rejected you in some way.
Maybe it is a family member or a close friend.
Maybe it is a church member.
Maybe even church leadership!
What do we do?
These things are real, and they are real pains and hurts.
What about the times when you have been on the giving end?
Maybe you have said something that really hurt someone you love.
For the last few weeks, we have been studying James in a series titled “Get Real.”
Let’s open out Bibles to chapter one of James.
Remember that James is written to Christians who are not acting like Christians.
He opens this letter telling them they are not handling trials and temptations correctly.
Then he tells them how to properly handle anger.
He shows them how to dig deep in the Word of God, how prepare their hearts to receive God’s Word.
These ideas continue as we move into chapter 2.
James 1:26–2:13 (ESV)
26If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
1My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
2For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,
3and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”
4have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
6But you have dishonored the poor man.
Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
7Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?
8If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
9But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
10For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
11For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.”
If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
13For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy.
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