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.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.1UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.13UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.6LIKELY
Sadness
0.2UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.63LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.31UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.9LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.85LIKELY
Extraversion
0.26UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.52LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.7LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Father Of Lights
Lord God Father of lights let us shine like stars in the universe for all to see and
let us not hide away ..
Let our prescence and radiance be seen by all in a dark world that people would look
and be amazed as they gaze at the children of the light and day...
Lord let us not be swallowed up and be sucked in by the world but let us know your
power and strength within us ..as an never ending source burning inside and radiating
out.
Fill us to overflowing Lord that others might be attracted to our light and be pulled
in to circle round us as we serve a God that made and created all things in Jesus name
amen
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And so we continue tonight looking at Cross references and the " Stars " and we
continue our theme of worship .
Before we start I have to add that we do not worship created things but we worship
instead the creater of all things, but we merely look at the created that points to
the creator.
We do not worship or live our lifes based on the star signs neither do we base our
future on fortune telling, but we base our future in Christ Jesus, who has far more to
offer ...not that we would follow Him simply because He offers more !!
We ( of course ) neither run after those people seen as " more gifted " to get prophesies
or words of knowledge as if we would use others in our family like fortune tellers !!
No of course not we seek God alone and run after Him don't we ?
We would not follow great teachers or scholars or mere men with anointed ministeries ?
would we ?
no we follow them not because they have a gifting but we follow them because
we want to learn from them because they point us to the creator.
We follow a Rabbi because he points to the Great Rabbi and we would never follow them
simply because of their gifting !! would we ?
or seek for them to predict our future..
as if they would be fortune tellers on our behalf because we can seek God ouselves....
can't we ?
We follow these men and women because they are leaders of
a flock and because they point to God.....don't we !!
And so we look at the stars not as if it were astrology but because it is astronomy,
that points to the creator of all things.
The stars can no more predict the future than an atom can, which in itself is the
miniature universe.
Incidently, I wonder why people seem to put so much emphasis on how the moon and the sun
and the planets affect us ?
and they do whether we like it or not, the sun predicts
the day and night and has been placed there by God to give us life as also the Son.
The moon displays the seas and waves in splendour as they trot to and fro gallopping
accross the land.
The stars may also have an effect on us, but we do not look to these things even though
they do have an effect on us and why not ?
because when we use these things to predict
our future we are taking our eyes off God and making these things our God instead.
Its funny is'nt it ?
how we can place such a great emphasis on celestial bodies and yet
when it comes to the other celestial bodies that are spiritual bodies we seem to put these
in second place ?
We see more force behind the sun and moon than we do behind God and the enemy ummm
thats strange, so lets begin our journey into astronomy and learn a lesson from the
creator of astronomy.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lord God Father of light in Jesus name we come to you and we give you our very lifes
and in return you give us your life, we come to you now as children of the light and
we wonder at the magnificence and splendour and glory of all that speaks and proclaims
your name.
For the heavens speak of you and the universe cries out to you and longs and yearns
for the day when it shall be transformed into something new and the very stones cry
out to you and speak of the maker.
Since earliest times men and women have gazed at the stars and known of your existence
Lord therefore there is no excuse.
We worship You Lord for you alone are the maker of all things and all things cry out to
you and point to you and direct to you.
We thankyou now Lord as we come to your word that we will come eager in anticipation
wanting to hear from you Lord and the wonders of your creation but most of all Lord we
come to you because we want to know more of you In Jesus Name amen
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The universe and astronomy has always fascinated people since earliest times and I
have to say " It is one of my favourite subjects " although throughout the years I
have come to the conclusion that " The more we learn about the universe and the planets ,
solar system, black holes, space and the mind blowing expanses of outerspace and galaxies...
the more we need to find out.
Delving into astronomy reminds me of looking into Gods heart ...as the more you learn the
more there is too learn and we have to come to the conclusion that " we know very little "
I find myself having to throw out the " text book teaching " I learnt as a child about the
planets because as scientists learn more about the expanses of space ..they realise how
little they knew.
We now find pluto downgraded from a planet !! we find we have a second moon !! be it
very small and more like an orbiting piece of small rock a few miles wide ...but nonetheless...
a moon.
We find that our knowledge and our understanding of our own small solar system is very
limited and scientists are still to ascertain what " space " is, being a " dark matter "
Maybe if we were ever to find the answer to what lies beyond a " black hole " we might
find our questions growing ever more and again find another expanse of unanswerable
questions !!
It makes us seem so small ...does'nt it ?
And yet as we look at the immenseness of space we can look also to the tiny atom....
a universe within itself with the nucleus and nuetrons and protons and electrons
encircling like miniature planets .
How could a God that is so big and mighty know every tiny atom that we cannot even see ?
I wonder if He names them ?
I wonder if He has named every tiny atom ?
He being in every tiny atom knows about every
molecule and partical because if He did not He would not be God.
For there is nothing that God does not know about, for He is everywhere and in all things
at once.
And as we look at the atom and we wonder at the creation that proclaims God we also can
look at the stars in the sky and wonder in wonder.
And men and women can imagine about other civilisations and peoples and yet we know that
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9