Tag: mpc

Funniest home videos

I spent last Saturday morning going through some old family home videos ahead of dad’s 50th birthday (on April 12). I have to edit them down into a nice little family video production. Dad has set the video production bar pretty high – as you’ll see on his design4church blog. Here’s the MPC promo video for this year’s “Rechurch” theme…

Oh the shame. My parents recorded some very cruel things that will no doubt come back to haunt my two sisters who have not yet celebrated 21st birthdays. Tomorrow I will resume this task.

I wonder if there are ethical problems with posting videos of your younger siblings doing embarrassing things on YouTube without their consent and many years after the fact?

Would it balance it out if I posted skeletons from my own closet? Like the matinée performance of my starring role in our fifth grade (at school not a comment on quality) musical performance of Oliver.

April 3, 2009

Sermonising

I’m writing my sermon for Sunday in Google Docs. It’s on 1 John 1:1-4.

Here’s the Google Docs analysis of what I’ve written so far:

Counts	Selection	Document
Words:	–	3815
Characters (no spaces):	–	16912
Characters (with spaces):	–	20720
Paragraphs:	–	82
Sentences:	–	524
Pages (approximate):	–	5
Readability	Selection	Document
Average sentences per paragraph:	–	6.39
Average words per sentence:	–	7.28
Average characters per word:	–	4.43
Average words per page:	–	763.00
Flesch Reading Ease: [?]	–	84.78
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: [?]	–	3.00
Automated Readability Index: [?]	–	3.00

That’s the formula (from this test) that gives a readability level of 3. I guess that’s good. It’s probably not helped by the number of sentences. I write punchy sentences for sermons. I also speak naturally at about 160 words a minute (that’s the broadcast standard for journalism) – but should slow that down. At that pace this sermon should go for about 23 minutes.

Here are the stats on the passage itself:

Counts	Selection	Document
Words:	–	103
Characters (no spaces):	–	433
Characters (with spaces):	–	535
Paragraphs:	–	1
Sentences:	–	5
Pages (approximate):	–	2
Readability	Selection	Document
Average sentences per paragraph:	–	5.00
Average words per sentence:	–	20.60
Average characters per word:	–	4.20
Average words per page:	–	51.50
Flesch Reading Ease: [?]	–	78.33
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: [?]	–	7.00
Automated Readability Index: [?]	–	9.00

I think it’s a good thing that my sermon is more simple than the passage right? Shouldn’t an explanation be easier to understand than the thing you’re explaining? Otherwise it would be pointless.

Out of interest I pulled one of dad’s sermons off the MPC website and ran a comparison.

Counts	Selection	Document
Words:	–	3032
Characters (no spaces):	–	12835
Characters (with spaces):	–	15893
Paragraphs:	–	58
Sentences:	–	276
Pages (approximate):	–	4
Readability	Selection	Document
Average sentences per paragraph:	–	4.76
Average words per sentence:	–	10.99
Average characters per word:	–	4.23
Average words per page:	–	758.00
Flesch Reading Ease: [?]	–	82.04
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: [?]	–	5.00
Automated Readability Index: [?]	–	4.00

February 19, 2009