Sermon Tone Analysis

Good by Family

 

*What I Will Recall about Vaughn Hill*

 How 1) much you love God, 2) patient you are, 3) much you loved us, 4) you want to grow, 5) good you are as people, 6) many relationships, 7) much joy and tears, 8) many funny and sad times we had

 

/1//Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you.

I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.

2//I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles./* 2 Peter 3:1-2*

 

*What I Hope You Will Recall About My Time With You*

 

*I Taught You That Love Is Most Important!*

 

/32//“Well said, teacher,” the man replied.

“You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.

33//To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

34//When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”

And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions/.*

Mark 12:32-34*

 

*i taught you the Cross is what saves you!*

 

/18//For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

/*1 Corinthians 1:18*

 

/5//For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake../* 2 Corinthians 4:5*

 

*I taught you to be focused in grace to be holy!*

 

/11//For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.

12//It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13//while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14//who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good./*

Titus 2:11-14*

 

*i taught you the special relationship you have with each other!*

 

/19//Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, 20//built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

21//In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

22//And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit/.*

Ephesians 2:19-22*

 

*i taught you that the Bible is for knowing God!*

 

/15//Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

16//But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

17//Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

18//And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit./* 2 Corinthians 3:15-18*