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.
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*/Working with the text/*
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*Text*
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*Reading** the text:  thoughts and reflections*
 
 
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*/Scholarship helps/*
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* *Step 1:  Alignment*
* What is in the text?
* Authorial intent
* Grammar /(look for iva clauses in Gk)/, words, culture, context
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*Context & historical background*
 
 
*Language *
 
*Bathsheba* means seventh daughter or daughter of the oath.
*Dictionaries*
 
 
*Commentaries*
 
 
*11:3.
family of Bathsheba.*
The father of Bathsheba is Eliam, a member of David’s special cadre of “mighty men” (2 Sam 23:34) and therefore the head of an influential household.
This Eliam is the son of Ahithophel, one of David’s most respected advisors (2 Sam 15:12; 16:23).
This information, along with the fact that her husband, Uriah the Hittite, is also one of the “mighty men” (2 Sam 23:39), suggests that David knew exactly whose house he was looking at and was well acquainted with Bathsheba (an alternative translation suggests that it was David who said “Is this not Bathsheba?”).
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If David /thought/ about all this, he would see that the cost was so much greater than he wanted to consider at the time.
If David knew that this illicit pursuit of pleasure would directly or indirectly result in:
·        An unwanted pregnancy
·        The murder of a trusted friend
·        A dead baby
·        His daughter raped by his son
·        One son murdered by another son
·        A civil war led by one of his sons
·        A son who imitates David's lack of self-control and it leads him and much of Israel away from God
 
 
*Relevant Bible references *
 
/Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV/
/5 //Trust in the LORD with all your heart /
/and lean not on your own understanding; /
/6 //in all your ways acknowledge him, /
/and he will make your paths straight.
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/2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NIV/
/3 //For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.
On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ./
/James 1:13-15 NIV/
/13 //When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.”
For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.
15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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*/Sermon Development/*
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* *Step 2:  Clarity*
* What is the text saying?
* What is the main idea?
* Modifying thoughts and concepts
* Write it out in one sentence /(does your sentence = your exegesis?)/
*What is the text saying?*
 
 
*What is the central idea~/theme?*
* *Step 3:  Connection*
* What is the text saying to me?
* In your own words
* In  your own world
* In your own struggles
 
*Current~/local issues (from news and other sources)*
 
* *Step 4:  Relevance*
* What is the text saying to my listeners?
/(one idea that comes from Haddon Robinson:  think of an invisible audience of varied types of people in your congregation and “ask” them what their “responses” are)/
* In their words
* In their culture
 
 
* *Step 5:  Plan*
* Structure your message to move toward  life-changing experience
* One central principle
* Main points
* Introduction
* Conclusion /(repeat the central principle)/
* Use transformational terms /(not just information)/
o    Call to a challenge
 
 
* *Step 6:  Transformational tools*
* Transitions
* Illustrations
* Don’t use books
* Personal:  but make sure you qualify
* Family
* Movies
* Etc.
* Make sure it is properly weighted
* Be sensitive
* Word choice /(use memorable words)/
* Word pictures
* Action points
 
*Illustrations*
 
n a recent survey in Discipleship Journal Magazine, readers reported that their greatest spiritual challenges came from \\ 1. Materialism \\ 2. Pride \\ 3. Self-centeredness \\ 4. Laziness \\ 5. Anger~/Bitterness (Tie) \\ 6. Sexual Lust (Tie) \\ 7. Envy \\ 8. Gluttony \\ 9. Lying \\ Survey respondents noted that temptations seemed more potent when they neglected their time with God and when tired physically.
-Did you know that some of the best business minds in the country are working really hard to get you and your sons hooked on pornography.
Some have called it - The Mainstreaming of Pornography – 60 Minutes did a story on this last Sunday night.
\\ Consider these facts: \\ ~*Sales of sexual films in hotel rooms, homes, and online has become a $10 billion industry, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass.
\\ ~*General Motors, the world’s largest company, now sells more graphic sex films through its DirecTV subsidiary than does Hustler pornographer Larry Flynt, according to distributors of the films \\ ~*EchoStar Communications Corp., the No. 2 satellite provider, makes more money selling sex films than Playboy does with its magazines, cable, and Internet businesses, records from the companies show.
\\ The sex business in America is estimated to be a $13 billion-a-year industry.
It is estimated that 60% of all web sites are pornographic and that Americans spent $220 million in 2002 at fee-based adult web sites.
By the year 2005, the amount is expected to reach $320 million.
There are many free sites that are designed to get you hooked to become a paying customer.
\\ -I don’t know that it is “Every Young Man’s Battle” but 90% of born-again Christians have said that they have had problems in relating to God or to other people because of shame and guilt over pornography.
*Stories*
 
Story: The habits and customs of the Eskimos of North Alaska have been remained very much the same for 500 years, until very recently.
\\ \\ They had to depend on catching the polar bear \\ \\ for meat, \\ for clothing – the bear’s fur, \\ for fat for cooking, and \\ for tools, the bear’s bones and teeth \\ \\ However you don’t just go out and catch a polar bear.
The polar bear is too big for a man to take head on - so they developed an ingenious way of catching them.
\\ \\ First of al the Eskimos kill a small seal drag the carcass across the snow leaving a trail of blood.
They then take a double edged knife and freeze the long handle about two foot deep into the snow leaving the double edged blade protruding.
\\ \\ They then place the carcass over the blade.
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