Sermon Tone Analysis

If you want to read along, we’re going to be in Luke 17 tonight.

Luke is the third gospel that we have, so in the New Testament it goes Matthew, Mark, and then Luke and we’ll be in chapter 17.

So there are two types of people in this world.

People who are serious about not putting their Christmas tree up too early and people who don’t care what others think about them.

How many of you fall into the “It’s not going up until after Thanksgiving” group?

How many of you want to put the tree up as soon as you possibly can?

Yeah?

I usally wait until after Thanksgiving, but this year I was just in the Christmas spirit and now we’ve got stockings on our wall and we’ve got the tree up and it’s starting to look very festive in the Sosh household.

But Thanksgiving is right around the corner and before too long you’re going to be seeing Christmas trees popping up around the Church whether you like it or not, but next week is Thanksgiving which means we won’t be meeting here next Wednesday, but I was thinking about Thanksgiving and how much we have to be thankful for and I realized how little we actually thank God for what he’s done in our life.

So let’s just read through this story together and then start to break it down a little bit and then I think we can learn a few things about being thankful, not just once a year though, but with our entire life.

Luke 17:11-19

11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy[a] met him.

They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”

14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”