Sermon Tone Analysis
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What’s the one skill you need on a day to day basis?
The space for grace
The story to combat shame
The opportunities to express praise
Why praise and thanksgiving?
Not self-focused praise (therapeutic moralistic deism or triumph of the self)
“But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me.
I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor.
I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise.
... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game.
... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.”
- C.S. Lewis
Self-expression as ultimate connected to praise of God becomes either
a house of cards where everyone must accept me as I praise myself for being authentic because I am the center of my universe
a filter on the story of my life where I praise God for only things I view are good
Self-entertaining
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.”
- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . .
But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard?
Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements?
To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles?
What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?”
not satisfying
Story of Boat not working
How can I build praise in to my life?
A choosing (by faith) to see God’s greatness in the middle of my inadequacy
A love for God’s character in the midst of my being blown around
Walking the boat
Prayer
How can I build praise into my life with people?
Tad’s story
My father-in-law talking about the boat
Ps 73:1-3,16-17, 26
WIll you prioritize using and growing the skill of praise?
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