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
0.12UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.16UNLIKELY
Fear
0.15UNLIKELY
Joy
0.5LIKELY
Sadness
0.58LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.46UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.65LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.58LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.88LIKELY
Extraversion
0.03UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.64LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.75LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
The Lazy Bird
For a while in my life, I was a licensed falconer.
That meant, I trained birds of prey, hawks, and falcons.
And you’d be surprised how easy it is to make bird lazy.
We would fly our birds free, this meant that they could fly away at anytime.
One of the ways that we train a bird to come back to us, is by putting a small amount of meat on our glove.
We’d hold up the glove to the bird, the bird would spot the meat, and fly to you knowing that there is a little snack on the end of the meat.
My goal when I was a falconer wasn’t to have birds just fly to my glove.
My goal was to go hunting with the bird.
It was a sport, and I wanted to challenge myself and the bird to catch big game.
Things that were a challenge for the bird.
Heres where the laziness could kick in.
For my bird to hunt, it takes effort.
She has to be alert.
She has to fly hard.
Sometimes she would slam into bushes and possibly break feathers.
Watching a bird on a jack rabbit is like watching a man on the back of a bull in a rodeo.
They get thrashed around.
But suppose my bird learned, that every time it sat in a tree and didn’t hunt, suppose it learned that whenever it did that, I would put a little meat on my glove and it would get fed.
It’s possible to accidentally train your bird to be lazy, by rewarding it for not hunting.
And now you have a bird that won’t exercise, and won’t hunt.
It’s lazy.
It want’s what’s easy, and in the process becomes lazy.
Like the poorly trained bird, we all have this potential within us.
We want what is easy, and in the process train ourselves to do nothing.
The danger is, that though I could correct my bird’s behavior, you aren’t so lucky.
says, “The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.”
We want that easy life.
We want someone to bring us our food, to relax and spend our days in luxury.
But the danger is that if we become lazy, the very thing we want will elude us.
Instead of life being rewarding, it becomes a hedge of thorns.
A grueling, monotonous labor.
Achieving the bare minimum and just scraping by.
When I had my birds, they were capable of exploiting me.
If there was a flaw in my training, they found out how maximize it.
The only way for me to fix the problem, was to go backwards, and do some remedial training with them.
Today, we are going to go backwards a bit, and look at the danger of laziness.
This will happen by us going through the book of Proverbs together.
Proverbs is a great book because it’s all about wisdom.
The very first chapter is a purpose statement.
King Solomon lays out that it’s given so that the reader would have insight, instruction, righteousness and knowledge.
I want you to enjoy life.
I want you to have fond memories of life.
I want you to be able to say that you lived life to the fullest.
Even God wants you to be happy.
We pray to God, knowing that He is the one who provides for us.
We worship God, because we enjoy Him.
We worship Christ, because He is our prize.
We look forward to eternity with Him.
One of the fruits of the Spirit is joy.
The Christian is supposed to be characterized by joy.
And this attitude of joy is supposed to be something that is demonstrated in all facets of life.
says, “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.”
A fiery trial strikes you, suffering engulfs your life, and we are what?
To rejoice.
This isn’t a sermon on joy, but what I want you to see is that there is supposed to be joy in life.
Unfortunately, sometimes that search for joy can get derailed.
Strangely, it gets derailed by our search for joy.
Laziness Brings Hardship
Unfortunately, sometimes that search for joy can get derailed.
And strangely, it gets derailed by our search for joy.
Laziness Strikes Like A Robber
We want to live an easy life.
We want happiness.
We want what’s easy.
And then suddenly, the very thing you wanted the most … it’s out of your hand.
Today we are going to peruse through the Book of Proverbs.
And we are going to look at the dangers of laziness.
Because the core of laziness isn’t unhappiness, it’s actually to live a joy filled life … only it’s misguided.
says, “The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.”
He wants the level highway, he wants the easy path.
But in the end, what he gets is the very opposite, he gets a hedge of thorns.
Basically, he gets the difficult road.
Understand that laziness is something that we are all capable of.
That meant, I trained birds of prey, hawks, and falcons.
And you’d be surprised how easy it is to make bird lazy.
We would fly our birds free, this meant that they could fly away at anytime.
One of the ways that we train a bird to come back to us, is by putting a small amount of meat on our glove.
We’d hold up the glove to the bird, the bird would spot the meat, and fly to you knowing that there is a little snack on the end of the meat.
My goal when I was a falconer wasn’t to have birds just fly to my glove.
My goal was to go hunting with the bird.
It was a sport, and I wanted to challenge myself and the bird to catch big game.
Things that were a challenge for the bird.
Heres where the laziness could kick in.
For my bird to hunt, it takes effort.
She has to be alert.
She has to fly hard.
Sometimes she would slam into bushes and possibly break feathers.
Watching a bird on a jack rabbit is like watching a man on the back of a bull in a rodeo.
They get thrashed around.
But suppose my bird learned, that every time it sat in a tree and didn’t hunt, suppose it learned that whenever it did that, I would put a little meat on my glove and it would get fed.
It’s possible to accidentally train your bird to be lazy, by rewarding it for not hunting.
And now you have a bird that won’t exercise, and won’t hunt.
It’s lazy.
Laziness Strikes Like A Thief
In , Solomon tells a cute little story.
“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9