Archive - May, 2010

Logos 4: Display Bible Text in List Form

  |  Mon, May 31, 2010   |  Training   5
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Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos training seminars.

You’ve probably noticed that most Bibles are printed in paragraph form. This is great for reading, but when you’re studying the Bible verse-by-verse, those little verse numbers are sometimes hard to find. No worries. Logos allows us to display a Bible in list form with each verse starting on a separate line.

  • Open a Bible to a desired location
  • Click the Visual Filters icon (three circles) on the Bible’s toolbar
  • Select Bible Text Only

Instantly the Bible transitions to list form! This makes verse by verse study much easier.

Please take note, though, that in Bible Text Only mode, the cross references also disappear. In Bible Text Only mode, the emphasis is on verses only!

Free Update to The John Piper Sermon Manuscript Library

  |  Fri, May 28, 2010   |  Misc   8

John Piper

Today we’re announcing the release of an update to The John Piper Sermon Manuscript Library. This update contains 41 sermons preached between May 25, 2008 and June 28, 2009—all of which nicely complement more than 1,125 sermons already in The John Piper Sermon Manuscript Library.

Best of all, this update is free. If you already own The John Piper Sermon Manuscript Library, you don’t need to pay a dime to get the 41 additional sermons. This ensures that Piper’s new sermons will reach the widest audience possible.

If you’re a Logos 4 user, you don’t need to do anything to get the additional sermons. Your resources will update automatically next time you start the software. (If you can’t wait, simply type Update Now in the Command Bar.) After the update is downloaded, you’ll be asked to restart Logos 4. When you do, you’ll be able to access all the new content.

Libronix users will need to run a Libronix update to get the new resources. Go to Tools | Libronix Update to get the free update. You can also run the resource update script.

If you haven’t yet purchased The John Piper Sermon Manuscript Library, now is the perfect time to add it to your library. With all the new content, you get a total of 1,166 sermons that you can search and study. This massive collection of sermons essentially functions as a comprehensive commentary on the Bible—straight from the pen of John Piper himself.

While you’re at it, be sure to check out the dozens of books by John Piper available from Logos!

Last Chance to Pre-Order the Mark Driscoll Sermon Archive

  |  Thu, May 27, 2010   |  Misc   0

Mark Driscoll is one of the most popular and provocative preachers in the church today. The Mark Driscoll Sermon Archive contains nearly ten years of his preaching and teaching. In this massive archive, the transcriptions of his audio sermons preached at Mars Hill Church—which work through fifteen books of the Bible and cover scores of topical issues—are made available for reading, searching, and study.

Logos users have been asking for his sermons for years. Last year we put them on Pre-Pub, and the response was phenomenal. Now, we’re pleased to announce that we’re only a few days away from shipping. After it ships, the price will jump to $129.95. For a few more days, you can still get the entire archive for only $99.95. Don’t pass up this deal!

Mark Driscoll Sermon Archive

Each week, more than 8,000 people gather at Mars Hill Church in Seattle to hear Mark Driscoll’s preaching. Driscoll is unafraid to talk about sin or confront the most difficult cultural issues. Drawing from the rich insights of Augustine, Calvin, Luther, Spurgeon, and others, he never hesitates to explain the raw and confrontational truth of the Gospel. Driscoll’s goal, in his own words, is to “study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then . . . speak from my heart.”

Driscoll’s passion for the Gospel and his deep honesty in explaining its truths has placed him at the center of a resurging interest in Reformed theology. It has also helped foster Mars Hill’s explosive growth in recent years, and drawn the attention of supporters and skeptics alike. With the Mark Driscoll Sermon Archive, you can go deep into his sermons, or simply read the text. Either way, you get access to an amazing wealth of preaching material.

Remember, the Pre-Pub price expires in just a few days. Don’t miss out!

What About the Early Church?

  |  Wed, May 26, 2010   |  Products   1

Church Origins Collection (10 Vols.)
One of the areas of study that I’m most interested in, personally, is how the early church developed. That is, from the time of the apostles through around 300 AD, what happened? Who did what? And how did it affect the growth and development of the church? How did the Gospel disseminate?
There are a lot of books that fit into this space—it’s a popular place to be. But a useful collection you might not be aware of is the Church Origins Collection (10 Vols.) This is a set of 10 books that fit into the area of “Church Origins”. These books include:

  • Alexander J.M. Wedderburn, A History of the First Christians
  • Alan Kreider, ed., The Origins of Christendom in the West
  • Judith Lieu, Neither Jew Nor Greek? Constructing Early Christianity
  • Judith Lieu, Image and Reality: The Jews in the World of the Christians in the Second Century
  • Gerd Lüdemann, Primitive Christianity: A Survey of Recent Studies and Some New Proposals
  • Robert Murray, Symbols of Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition
  • Michael Brown, The Lord’s Prayer through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity
  • Alastair Campbell, The Elders: Seniority within Earliest Christianity
  • Todd Penner, In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography
  • Thomas G. Weinandy and Daniel A. Keating, eds., The Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation

I am deeply familiar with one of the books in this collection, Alastair Campbell’s The Elders: Seniority within Earliest Christianity. I picked this one up at the national SBL meeting one year and devoured it quickly. It is an excellent study of the concept of “Elder” as a title of honor, which morphed into an office in the early church. It surveys the Hebrew Bible, the LXX, the New Testament, and the letters of Ignatius to trace history and development of “Elders”. You might not agree with Campbell (I certainly don’t in all places) but it is an excellent look at this topic, across history. While you can purchase this book individually, it is spendy at $90, which is fully half of the collection price.
The other books I’ve not read in depth, but I am familiar with many of the authors. For example, Judith Lieu is responsible for two of the books in the Church Origins Collection: Neither Jew nor Greek?: Constructing Early Christianity and Image and Reality: The Jews in the World of the Christians in the Second Century. Lieu is well-known and well-regarded in the realm of study of earliest Christianity, particularly the not-so-clear area between Christianity and Judaism. Her work in this area is, from all I’ve understood, top-notch.
There are other familiar names, some you may know (Todd Penner, Alexander Wedderburn, Alan Kreider), some you may not (Michael Brown, Robert Murray) and some you may be predipsosed against (e.g. Gerd Lüdemann). Whatever your predisposition (now you know mine), each of these books provides a stimulating examination of their topic, and one’s understanding of the origin and development of the early church will likely be sharper for having read them.
If any of these sound interesting, chances are you’ll like most of the books in the collection. Check it out!

The Gnomon of the New Testament on Pre-Pub . . . Again!?

  |  Tue, May 25, 2010   |  Products   4

John Albrecht Bengel’s Gnomon of the New Testament is a great example of a Pre-Pub featured on Logos.com that has already had a pre-pub run in its lifetime!

While we were preparing Bengel’s Gnomon of the New Testament, we discovered documents that laid out a pre-publication proposal for the Gnomon from 1855.(screenshot a,screenshot b).

The five-volume, 1855 translation of Bengel’s work—originally published in 1742—could not begin production until 1500 subscribers had pledged 28 shillings a piece, making up about half the total production costs. For the publication costs to be fully covered, it would require twice that amount! This is pretty incredible when one considers that one shilling in 1850 had the purchasing power of over £3 ($4 USD) today.

One interesting portion of the proposal suggested that “wealthy laity” might consider pre-purchasing numerous copies to give out to friends in ministry or to students of theology.

Once again, Logos is proud to offer this important collection on Pre-Pub. The Gnomon is a result of twenty years’ work and it was Bengel’s desire that the content of his books would reawaken a desire to study the Word of God. Messrs Clark’s publication proposal called the Gnomon invaluable to all students of the New Testament, and that is just as true in the 21st century as it was in the 17th century.

“It is a work which manifests the most intimate and profoundest knowledge of Scripture, and which, if we examine it with care, will often be found to condense more matter into a line than can be extracted from many pages of other writers.” —Archdeacon Hare

Don’t miss out on getting the Gnomon of the New Testament at its low Pre-Pub price!

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