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Pride is Ugly
When I was in Jr. Hi, I had a thing for a girl named, Diane.
She kind of like me too.
It was mutual.
Whatever 9th graders did, we did that.
I don’t know what you call it.
We weren’t dating.
We’d meet before school and talk, at lunch, talk on the phone occasionally in the evening.
That was it.
She was cheerleader, I was on the basketball team.
A match made in heaven.
We were perfect for each other.
For a second, anyway.
It was a long-term relationship, whatever relationship it was.
I think it lasted a couple of months.
Basketball season, the beginning of track season.
By the end of track season it was over.
She was starting to flirt w/ a sprinter on the track team.
That didn’t work for me.
Still, at that age, that was a long time to be committed to one person.
Anyway, one day her family invited me to go water skiing with them.
They were avid water skiers.
I’d never been water skiing in my life.
Her dad asked me if I knew what I was doing.
Did I know how to get ready in the water, get up on the skis, balance, how to hold the rope, what to do w/ my rear end.
I didn’t have a clue.
But, I wasn’t about to admit to him in front of her.
Sure I can do this.
I was an athlete.
How hard could it be?
I wasn’t about to admit the truth.
In my mind, I was an old pro and I was about to impress the socks off them.
No, I wasn’t going to tell them I didn’t know what I was doing.
I just proceeded to show them.
Tried and failed several times.
Didn’t get up once.
I drank a lot of lake water.
I was the only one who didn’t see what I was doing wrong.
And there was a whole lot to see that I was doing wrong.
In fact, I don’t think I was doing anything right.
It’s funny looking back at a prideful 9th-grader.
Too proud to admit I’m doing it wrong even thought I kept doing it wrong.
All I had to do was ask.
Then, b/c I was an athlete, I probably could have been successful.
It’s funny when a 15-year old acts like a 15-year old.
It’s not so funny when an adult acts like a 15-year old.
The stakes are a lot higher than just a jr.
hi crush.
Why do we keep doing the self-destructive things we do and wonder why our lives, relationships, health is in such bad shape?
Dr., Dr., it hurts when I do this!
Well,...
Why can’t we see past our tough situations, get thru them, and learn from them?
Learn to do things differently.
See the value in what it produces in us?
Why can’t we see what others have done that worked for them that will work for us if we’d only ask for help and try another way?
Pride.
We’ve all got it.
Until we rein it in, we will continue to suffer from it.
Faith and pride are like oil and water.
They don’t mix.
Pride believes I have all the answers.
Or, at least, I can figure it out on my own and don’t need any help.
Faith, by definition, believes I can’t see everything, don’t know everything, so I need help w/ it.
I have to know that I don’t know and be okay w/ it.
Faith is not something we turn on and off as we think we need it.
Faith is something we live by.
Genuine faith, real faith that saves, is always there.
Since our faith is always there, so is our understanding that we done’t know everything and are not perfect.
Living by faith is having confidence to know I need help.
By faith, I need to know what I can do, I need to know what I need help with, and when I get the help, I need to know what to do w/ it.
Ch.11 is a list of ppl who did this.
They lived their lives by faith in very hard times.
They set examples for us to follow.
We’re in ch.12 today.
This passage says we can do everything the people in ch.11 did, even if we don’t think we can, and here’s the way to do it.
We can live by faith, successfully in the toughest situations.
We don’t have to have all the answers.
We only need to know One who does.
He’s been there, done that, and He will show us how we can do it, too.
Being able to do this requires 2 types of discipline.
The first kind of discipline required is self-discipline.
What I Can do
It starts out, “Therefore” What does that mean?
The previous passage is connected to this one.
In this case, ch.11 was the list of ppl who successfully lived by faith in hard situations.
Ch.12, Therefore, we can, too.
And, here’s how.
I can do the things he talks about her b/c God has given me help to do it.
The Holy Spirit has given me the self-discipline I need to do this.
I just have to use what I’ve been given.
We have to have the self-discipline to watch those who successfully went before us and set good examples.
You see the sports metaphor he uses here.
A race.
And he described the cloud of witnesses in the previous chapter.
You might think they are spectators, watching us race.
But, that’s not what he means.
They aren’t around us to look at us.
They are around us for us to look to them and the examples they set.
Have the humility and self-discipline to look around and realize there are others who are better at what you’re trying to do than you are.
Learn from them.
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