Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
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Disgust
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Fear
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Joy
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Sadness
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Language Tone
Analytical
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Confident
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Tentative
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Social Tone
Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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Emotional Range
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Tone of specific sentences
Tones
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Anger
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Why are you hear?
The psalmist understood that apart from understanding the meaning of the text, there could be no application to his life.
The psalmist was ready to act on the word of God
Are you?
Is that your aim in coming to the Word of God? Life-change?
Content
this is going to come from your observation.
What you looked for
terms
structure
literary form
and atmosphere
what we asked
Who
what
where
when
why
wherefore
Also looked for
Things that are emphasized
repeated
related
alike
unlike
true to life
That is going to give you the content.
Context
what is context?
This is referring to what is right before it and right after it.
there are also other kinds of context
Literary context
The text an paragraph that it is in
historical context
What was taking place in history at that time.
cultural context
What did cutler look like
geographic context
What was the landscape or area where the passage was taking place?
theological context
How does it fit with the rest of the Bible
Comparison
here we compare scripture with scripture.
Scripture cannot contradict itself
the need of a concordance.
It will explain more about a word that might seem isolated.
It will also show you where else that word is found.
Culture
When you study scripture you have to re create the culture and learn a lot about it to understand it better.
1 Corinthians 8 page 246
Consultation
This is when you start to use secondary resources.
We never want to become arrogant in the study process by thinking that we have all the answers.
concordance
Understand the word better
see how it is used in other passages
help you find a passage if you cant remember where they are found
Bible Dictionaries
Another way to look at different terms and words
Atlases
This will give you insight to the geography of the land
Bible Commentaries
Studying with and hearing from people who have spent their lives studying the bible and different passages.
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