Justin Taylor has introduced us to a neat little web-gadget called "Wordle." Basically, you can paste any text into Wordle's engine, and get an artistic "word cloud" where the most frequently occurring words of the text occur in larger font, and the less frequent words appear smaller. So, I had this idea. A preacher can use this to determine if he is getting his point across in a sermon. Paste a sermon manuscript into the Wordle engine, and the main points of the sermon should be larger than the rest of the text. If not, you didn't get your point across. Then I had the idea, why not gauge the whole body of a preacher's work this way? So I took the last several (I didn't count them) sermons I have preached and pasted them all into Wordle and got the following image:
I am glad to know that I am saying Jesus and God and Christ in my preaching more than any other words. Give Wordle a try for yourself here.
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