Friday, 21 October 2011

Philippians Wordle

I've just started studying Philippians with a friend, and I thought it would be interesting to identify the most commonly used words in the book.

Wordle: Top 40 words in Paul's Letter to the PhilippiansUnsuprisingly the words Christ, God, Jesus and Lord are the top four! But, other things that stood out to me were:

  • Themes [not necessarily in this order]: gospel, rejoice (and joy), glory, life, death, flesh, body, gain, righteousness, prayer, need, love, imprisonment, work
  • How we engage: mind, know, faith, think 
  • The breadth of what Paul is saying: whatever, always, anything, every 
  • ...whilst also being specific: now, one

We've studied the first part of chapter 1 so far, but I'm looking forward to the rest of the book!

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