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LeAnn Rimes “How do I Live”
How do I get through one night without you
If I had to live without you
What kinda life would that be
Oh I need you in my arms, need you to hold
You are my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Baby you would take away
Everything good in my life
And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive
How do I, how do I, oh how do I live
Without you
There would be no sun in my sky
There would be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
Many of you have sang that LeAnn Rimes song at the top of your lungs and never realized it was truly and ode to idolatry.
We could replace the “baby” with lots of things and point to the idols of our own life.
Paul gets to the heart of idolatry in
Rm 1:
Understand the Idolatry of our Hearts
1) The ROOT of idolatry is UNBELIEF ()
Idolatry is rooted in our attitude toward God.
He is lacking, doesn’t fulfill me, isn’t comfortable, doesn’t provide me with the security/pleasure/affection I desire.
Because God is not sufficient for us we look elsewhere for other things.
The things created by God begin to look more appealing to us than God Himself, so we begin to give ourselves to those things in worship.
Tim Chester’s 4 G’s - When we don’t believe:
God is GOOD
When we don’t believe God is GOOD we will look for things that bring us pleasure, that fulfill our appetites, and make us happy.
God is GREAT
When we don’t believe God is GREAT we will look for something that makes us feel secure and safe.
God is GLORIOUS
When we don’t believe God is GLORIOUS then we will look to others to accept us, make us feel wanted, and affirm us.
God is GRACIOUS
When we don’t believe God is GRACIOUS then we will look for ways we can prove ourselves, justify ourselves, and/or save ourselves.
2) Idolatry is WORSHIP ()
Humans, ALL HUMAN, worship.
Worship is WORTH SHIP - displaying the worth of something.
When we WORSHIP God we show His worth through singing, through our posture, through our life style.
I worked in a thrift store for 2 years where people would donate their junk for us to sell.
You begin to learn the value some items possess for certain people.
A piece of glassware with a certain logo could be worth $100 to certain people, where I wouldn’t pay $5 for it.
We express the worth we see in something by how much we are willing to give for that something.
CASE STUDY 2: No Big Deal She’s a young woman who grew up in our church.
Her family wants me to meet and talk with her.
They’re concerned because she’s about to move in with her boyfriend, who isn’t a Christian.
This ought to be a fun one.
I call her twice and leave messages, but she doesn’t return my call.
The third time she picks up.
She knows why I’m calling and tries to laugh it off.
“I can’t believe my parents are making such a big deal out of this,” she says with a nervous laugh.
I can picture her rolling her eyes.
In her mind this whole thing is a mild cough and nothing to worry about.
“Well, I appreciate your talking to me for a few minutes.
But I have to ask, do you think it’s possible that you’ve got this backward?”
“What do you mean?”
“That instead of making a big deal out of nothing, it could be that you’re making nothing out of a big deal?”
More nervous laughter.
“It’s not a big deal,” she says again.
“Do you mind my telling you why I think it is?”
She sighs deeply and proceeds to give me her prediction of all the reasons she thinks I’ll produce.
I interrupt her with a question.
“Have you thought about how much moving in together is going to cost you?”
“You mean the cost of the apartment?”
“No, I’m not necessarily talking about money.
I mean the way your family feels about it, and the pressure you’re getting from them.
That’s a kind of price, right?”
“Yeah, I guess it is, but that’s their problem.”
“And what is this going to cost your future marriage?”
“I don’t even know if we’re going to get married,” she responds.
“I’m not necessarily talking about your getting married to him, because statistically speaking, you most likely won’t.”
She understands what I’m getting at, but I push it a bit farther.
“How much is this going to cost your future husband?
What price will he have to pay for this decision?”
She has to stop and consider that one.
I continue to count the ways that this decision is a big deal, because it’s costing her more than she knows.
“So here’s what I suggest.
If you’re willing to pay a price, then this must be pretty important to you.
It must be a fairly big deal if you’re willing to go through all of this.”
I take her silence for reflection, and I finally get to my point.
“When I see the sacrifices you are willing to make, and the fact that you are willing to ignore what God has to say about all this, it seems to me that you’ve turned this relationship into a god.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“A god is what we sacrifice for and what we pursue.
From where I sit, you have the Lord God on one side saying one thing, and your boyfriend on the other side saying something else.
And you’re choosing your boyfriend over God.
The Bible calls that idolatry, and it’s actually a pretty big deal.”
No nervous laughter this time.
She confesses, “I’ve never thought about it like that.”
Idolatry is when we “exchange the glory of God for images” and “exchange the truth of about God for a lie”
It is when we “worship and serve the creature rather than the creator”
Identifying Idols
1) What are you most afraid of?
2) What do you long for most passionately?
3) Where do you run for comfort?
4) What do you complain about most?
2) How we spend our money.
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