Sermon Tone Analysis

Father God.

I'm simple.

But I want to be wise.

Will use your word in my life today and throughout whatever day is that you grant me breath.

Will you grant me?

The simple Faith to look at your word.

You trust your spirit to make me wise.

Got to pray that for our congregation, for our community and our country.

That you will make us wise, not according to our own eyes or own clever thoughts.

but according to the author of all things,

We Will Reveal Your Glory to us.

Through the preaching of your word is not about me is not about the things that I say, God is about what you have said, in your word.

May it come out?

May it come forth to be proclaimed by everything I say be correct.

God may be applied to our lives.

God for those, in our community that are hurting.

Poop Ray comfort.

Not a comfort that we can give and we try our best for the comfort.

That only you can give.

After those in our congregation and families that are sick.

We pray your healing.

Not a healing, the doctors can give, but the healing that only you can give Not just physical a complete healing.

Spiritually emotionally.

Cognitively physically in any other way that we do not yet, understand what you bring healing in the midst of our pain and yet in our pain in our trials, we pray that you will draw us and show us Christ in his name, we pray.

Amen.

I remember.

The events of 9/11 really well because I was alive.

I do not remember.

And this is not part of the sermon, listen to Perla, not so tragedy changes.

People changes communities, and there's nobody that has ever traveled through an airport since then, that hasn't been deeply affected by the change that was necessitated by September 11th, 2001.

And in some ways that's nice because it helps us to not forget.

It's a permanent reminder.

But sometimes when we go through tragedies as a community, we recently gone through tragedy.

And I don't want us to just forget and move on, like, nothing ever happened.

I doubt our policies are going to change reply, not going to put in like metal detectors, you know, what the doors or something like that, but I want to acknowledge it.

There's a candlelight vigil, I believe again, this evening for Parker, and I'm going to be there plan on being there and Lord willing.

And if you want to be there as well, I wouldn't discourage it to show support to the family to show our love or care for them.

Even though many of you.

Most of you, maybe all of you don't know them.

They're part of our community.

and, And they need us.

Like we need them.

And we all need Jesus.

Who's going to be at a private funeral for the family here this week?

Parker and so just pray for them.

Some of your providing food.

Thank you for that.

As we wrap, our Arms Of Love around this family.

A little bit of a different tone than one wants to set for a new sermon series in January, but it's though the reality that God has given us.

It is time for a new series, a new sermon series.

We're going to be going through the book of 1st Corinthians, Elias, and I think Titus maybe allies took some initiative.

Eliason Titus are going to be handing out some scripture journals and I think Isaac I might help to there two versions.

So what this is, is a translation in English translation in English Standard Version of the book of 1st Corinthians, and that's it.

If I have two pages are blank and their intended for you to take notes.

So you kind of have a record of the things that you've studied, we we had 14 ax last year.

I think we had some for Philippians before that even and my goal is to eventually either literally or metaphorically to be again to stack your shelf full of these journals that you have studied through as a part of church and and maybe to encourage you to Get journals to use in your own private study as well as in your public study, maybe get a journaling Bible.

So you can kind of help to set up those those Ebenezer Stone those stones.

Remembrance as you study the text.

I don't know about you, I am quick to learn but I'm faster to forget.

And so if you write things down they will help you.

And if you write them down in the help me, remember what I said, too because I'm quick to forget.

That's what the old joke, but maybe wasn't that funny.

Do I put your hands in the air?

And if nobody's coming to you, like, wave your hands in the air, like you just don't care.

There's an embellished version and then there's a plane version of the Geraldine ballast.

One is got some cool writings on it via.

The plain one is for those in our midst to her, you know, by the book and want it just, right.

8 1/2 point for you know, those are going around.

We're going to we're going to go.

So any Market set go.

I want you to imagine with me your favorite online influencer.

If you don't have one, just imagine you do your favorite online influencer.

If you have one.

You might like their sense of our their way with words or their their sense of style, maybe their vision for the future and you just can't wait for their new post to come out whether it's a video or whether it's a blog or something else.

You follow them and you hang on their every word.

I mean, I'm talking about.

That I want you to imagine, they suddenly post something that is completely out of character for them.

The influencer stumbles over their words is wearing clashing colors.

In suddenly adores is a politician that they have for a long time.

Openly disagreed with You respond, as you could imagine with a sense of disbelief.

And even indignation that this person that you follow.

Isn't being who, you know, them to be.

They are alienating their entire base.

They offend each follower.

They appear to be having some sort of an identity crisis and it causes you to say, I'm going to have nothing more to do with this person.

Or maybe you're hoping that it's April 1st, as you look at your calendar hoping it's some kind of a joke or a hoe.

You want them to recant because you know who this influencer is and it's not how they're acting.

Everybody in the room with adult children.

I want you to know.

Imagine that this influencer.

Is your child?

They've suddenly switched their character.

And now, instead of Simply being.

Disbelief disbelieving.

You are now struck to your core.

Because not only is it not who they are.

It's not who you taught them to be.

A good analogy for the book of 1st Corinthians.

1st Corinthians is probably Paul's third letter that he wrote that we still have the first two being first and second Thessalonians.

Probably his third letter that we have.