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By Pastor Glenn Pease
Waren Webster, missionary to Pakistan, tells of his first attempt to be friendly to the children who came to watch him as he tore a crate apart to rebuild it as a desk.
He said, "Hello," and they frowned and ran.
He felt disappointed, but later they came back and he said it again, and again they took off like a shot.
He was puzzled, and later he asked and English speaking Palestinian what was happening.
He explained to him that in their language the sound of hello meant scram, get out of here.
In our culture it is a friendly sound, but in that culture it is the sound of hostility and rejection.
Communication of love is often very complex in the world of cross-cultural ministry.
When Webster preached his first sermon to the people they began to laugh and giggle, and he was preaching a serious message on the feeding of the 5000.
He had to ask again what was going on, and he got another lesson on the fine points of the language.
There are two words very much alike.
The word for fish is kurady, and the word for lizard is kirady.
When he told of the lad who gave his lunch he said that he had 5 loaves and 2 lizards.
They were laughing first at what kind of a mother would pack such a lunch.
He said it was a sacrifice, but anybody would be glad to give it away, and it was no wonder that there were 12 baskets left over, for no one could imagine who would eat the stuff.
That slight difference in the sound of one word turned his serious sermon into a stand-up comedy routine.
It is a very humbling experience to try and communicate across cultural barriers.
You wonder why anybody ever tries, but the reason is simple.
They do so because Jesus said go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
If Christians are to honor their Lord's final command, they have no choice but to tackle the tough job of cross-cultural communication.
We also help pay for the very expensive job of teaching missionaries the language of the people where they are going to serve.
It is all costly and time consuming, but it is done because of respect for the command of Jesus.
To forsake the task of fulfilling the Great Commission would be to dishonor our Lord and lose respect for His will.
The theme of honor revolves around Jesus in the New Testament.
Paul, Peter, and John used the word honor frequently as they exalt Jesus as the one who was worthy of honor, glory, and power forever and ever.
It is the theme song of heaven that Jesus is worthy of honor.
The Greek word to describe the honor of Christ is time.
It is the same spelling as our word for time.
This word translated honor 32 times in the New Testament means the worth one ascribes to a person.
In I Tim.
2:7 where Peter, referring to Christ, says, "Now to you who believe, this stone is precious."
The Greek word for precious is time.
This word for honor can mean precious, for that is the value you can place on a person.
They can be precious to you, and if you honor Christ He will be precious to you.
This is a word you use to describe someone you treasure.
They are worthy of honor, praise, and your highest respect, because you value them and esteem them highly, and you long to dignify them with your devotion.
It is no wonder that such a powerful word is used most often for the honor we are to give to Christ.
But it is a wonder when the same word is used to describe how we are to relate to one another within the family.
When Peter says in I Peter 3:7 that husbands are to treat their wives with respect, that is the word time.
It is the same word used of the honor and respect we are to show Christ.
The very dignity you ascribe to your Lord you are to give to your mate.
This does not mean we worship our wives, but it means we are to treasure them as one of our most precious gifts.
We are to treat them like we do a new car that we do not want to get scratched or dented.
They are of great value and we do not want to see them damaged.
We have paid a great price to possess the car, and so why should we not long to preserve its value and beauty.
Many a wife would love to be treated with the respect her husband gives to his new car.
But instead, she often feels like a junker, for he does not seem to care about keeping her feeling good about herself by building her self-image, which he could do by ascribing to her the worth she is to him.
We honor dignitaries and people of power, wealth, and popularity, but the greatest responsibility we have is to honor the people God has given to us to be our family.
The family is a mini kingdom with rulers and followers, and with power, rank, and responsibility.
In this kingdom all are to be honored and respected for their role in the kingdom.
If we can succeed in respecting each member of this kingdom of the home, we will have succeeded as kings and queens of an empire that may not be important to man, but one of great importance to God.
In Ex. 20:12 God's command to children is that they honor their father and mother.
The honor and respect due to kings, and to God himself, is also due to parents.
Within the family of God each member is to treat the other members with respect.
Paul used this same word time in Rom.
12:10: "Honor one another above yourselves."
We have not exhausted the study of this word, but one thing is evident, and that is where Christ is present a high sense of honor and respect will characterize all who are aware of his presence.
In other words, if we open our home to Christ and become aware of His presence, we will be a people who develop a greater respect for one another.
We would not throw rocks through a stained glass window, nor wipe our shoes on a communion table.
We respect these material things because they are connected with Christ.
How much more should be respect and treasure persons in whom Christ dwells?
The ideal home is one where every member of the family is treated like royalty with each esteeming the other higher than themselves.
This is an ideal, of course, and we are consistent of falling short of it, but that is the way it will be in eternity where we will be like Christ, and be able to truly show honor to whom honor is due.
The reason it is so hard to respect people we live with is because we know them too well.
We can easily show respect and give honor to some foreign dignitary we don't know from Adam because we don't know him from Adam.
We don't know that he snores at night; leaves his socks on the floor, and forgets to put the cat out.
Our ignorance is bliss, and so we honor the man even if his wife is a nervous wreck because of his bad manners.
Closeness and familiarity do breed contempt because we know too much to honor those whose flaws are so obvious to us.
The problem with this is that it can lead us to the power of negative thinking where we miss out on God's best because of our misconceptions.
Jesus said that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
He could not do much in His home- town of Nazareth because He was known.
They refused to give a hometown boy the honor He deserved, and the result was, they lost out on the wonder of His miracles.
We think the same about our family so often.
We know our mates and children too well, and so we deny them the honor and respect they need.
By so doing we lose the potential of what they might be had they gotten the respect they needed in order to be their best.
Instead of saying, "What good can come out of Nazareth," our goal should be to be to reverse this natural pessimism and begin to look at the members of our family like Jesus does.
He sees each one of us, not just for what we are, but for what we can be.
Jesus does not necessarily respect the actual, but He does respect the potential.
This is why He became our Savior.
He did not die for us because we were so good.
It is yet while we were yet sinners that He died for us.
Jesus does not save anyone because of what they are, but because of what they can be.
He showed great respect for the harlot, the Publican, and other sinners.
He did them the honor of talking with them, eating with them, and entering their homes.
It was not because He loved what they were, but because He loved what they could become.
Every sinner is a potential saint, and so He saved the sinner for the sake of the saint.
In the presence of Christ this is how we will treat people if we are aware of His presence.
If we open our home to Christ, it means we will treat each other in the home with honor and respect.
This does not mean we have to praise their flaws, and pretend they are pleasant when they are rotten.
Since all people tend to be selfish, this is a major problem with all family members.
Mother scolded, "How many times have I told you to share your toys with your brother?"
The older brother replied, "I am doing it mom.
I'm using the sled going down hill, and he's using it going up." It's hard to respect this kind of 50-50 sharing.
There are a lot of things hard to respect about children.
One baby sitter said to the late arriving parents, "Don't apologize.
I wouldn't be in any hurry to come home either."
Bad behavior is not what Jesus respected in anyone.
Jesus never honored anyone for their sin or folly.
He did not respect any kind of behavior but righteous behavior, but He did respect people who fell short of righteousness.
If you don't do this, there is no one left to respect.
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