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The Model Father
*Text: *Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children (Eph 5:1 NIV)
I.        Introduction:
·         song: I want to be just like You, cause he wants to be like me.
* The TV show "60 Minutes" ran a segment that tells us something important about fatherlessness.
The park rangers at a South African wildlife preserve were concerned about the slaughter of 39 rare white rhinos in their park.
It turned out that the rhinos were killed not by poachers but rather by juvenile delinquents—teen elephants.
The story began a decade ago when the park could no longer sustain the increasing population of elephants.
They decided to kill many of the adult elephants whose young were old enough to survive without them.
And so, the young elephants grew up fatherless.
As time went on, many of these young elephants roamed together in gangs and began to do things elephants normally don't do.
They threw sticks and water at rhinos and acted like neighborhood bullies.
Without dominant males, the young bulls became sexually active, producing excessive testosterone and exhibiting aggressive behavior.
A few young males grew especially violent, knocking down rhinos and stepping or kneeling on them, crushing the life out of them.
Mafuto the gang leader eventually had to be killed.
The park rangers theorized that these young teen-aged elephants were acting badly because they lacked role models.
The solution was to bring in a large male to lead them and to counteract their bully behaviors.
Soon the new male established dominance and put the young bulls in their places.
The killing stopped.
The young males were mentored—and saved.
/Citation:/ Ken Sowers, Mentor, Ohio; "60 Minutes" (1-20-99)
* Girls without a father in their life are two and a half times as likely to get pregnant and 53 percent more likely to commit suicide.
Boys without a father in their life are 63 percent more likely to run away and 37 percent more likely to abuse drugs.
Both girls and boys without a father are twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to end up in jail, and nearly four times as likely to need help for emotional or behavioral problems.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services press release, "HHS Launches 'Be Their Dad' Parental Responsibility Campaign" (March 26, 1999)
*Thematic Sentence:* Fathers need to model themselves after their heavenly Father in order to be the kind of Father their children need.
I.        The Model Father Understands His Children
·         As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
(Ps 103:13-14 NIV)
A.      An Understanding That is Accented with Compassion
B.      An Understanding That Makes Allowance For Limitations
In his book, Connecting, Larry Crabb writes:
A friend of mine was raised in an angry family.
Mealtimes were either silent or sarcastically noisy.
Down the street was an old-fashioned house with a big porch where a happy family lived.
My friend told me that when he was about ten, he began excusing himself from his dinner table as soon as he could without being yelled at, and walking to the old-fashioned house down the street.
If he arrived during dinnertime, he would crawl under the porch and just sit there, listening to the sounds of laughter.
When he told me this story, I asked him to imagine what it would have been like if the father in the house somehow knew he was huddled beneath the porch and sent his son to invite him in.
I asked him to envision what it would have meant to him to accept the invitation, to sit at the table, to accidentally spill his glass of water, and hear the father roar with delight, "Get him more water!
And a dry shirt!
I want him to enjoy the meal!"
Crabb goes on to say, "We need to hear the Father laugh.
Change depends on experiencing the character of God."
        Citation: David Slagle, Lawrenceville, Georgia; source: Larry Crabb, Connecting (Word,   1997)
II.
The Model Father Loves His Children
·         But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(Ro 5:8 NIV)
 
·         This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
(1 Jn 4:9-10 NIV)
 
In his book /The Wisdom of Tenderness,/ Brennan Manning tells the following story:
Several years ago, Edward Farrell of Detroit took his two-week vacation to Ireland to celebrate his favorite uncle's 80th birthday.
On the morning of the great day, Ed and his uncle got up before dawn, dressed in silence, and went for a walk along the shores of Lake Killarney.
Just as the sun rose, his uncle turned and stared straight at the rising orb.
Ed stood beside him for 20 minutes with not a single word exchanged.
Then the elderly uncle began to skip along the shoreline, a radiant smile on his face.
After catching up with him, Ed commented, "Uncle Seamus, you look very happy.
Do you want to tell my why?"
"Yes, lad," the old man said, tears washing down his face.
"You see, the Father is fond of me.
Ah, me Father is so very fond of me."    
        /Citation:/ Brennan Manning, /The Wisdom of Tenderness/ (Harper San    Francisco, 2002), pp.
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A.      Demonstrated Initially
B.      Demonstrated Actively
C.      Demonstrated Sacrificially
Forty-two-year-old David Saunders waited on the driveway of his Hanover, Michigan, home for his 4-year-old daughter, Danielle, to get off her school bus.
A pickup truck was stopped behind the bus.
Saunders crossed the street to meet Danielle at the bus and then the two crossed the street together and stood in the Saunders' driveway.
Suddenly he noticed that a car behind the bus was traveling too fast to stop safely before entering the crossing zone.
The car swerved to avoid the pickup and went into the Saunders' driveway.
Heading directly for them both, Saunders grabbed Danielle by the arm and flung her away from himself and into their front yard.
He was then struck by the car.
Saunders was pronounced dead at the scene.
Danielle was treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital and soon released.
The 16-year-old driver and a 15-year-old passenger were not injured.
Sheriff's Captain Tony Philipps said, "It was a heroic act by a father to save his child.
He did everything he could, and in the process, he lost his own life."
/        Citation:/ "A Father's Love," /Detroit Free Press/ (11-19-00); submitted by     Clark Cothern, Tecumseh, Michigan
III.
The Model Father Teaches His Children
·         Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children.
Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
(Dt 6:4-9 NIV)
 
·         And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:
“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.”
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons.
For what son is not disciplined by his father?
If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
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