Morris ProctorA common question I’m often asked related to journals goes something like this: What’s the difference between a Bible reference search executed with the Guide section as opposed to a Basic search? The short answer is this: The Guide section finds...
A fellow Logos user recently contacted me with a straightforward question: Is it possible to display journal article footnotes at the bottom of the page? The answer is yes! Although there is a small caveat I’ll mention below: Open any journal...
If you’re like I am, you use the Logos desktop app for primary study but use the mobile app for reading books (although the mobile app is much more than an ebook reader!). The mobile app has a Read Later list that contains books you anticipate...
A Logos user recently contacted me with this scenario: I like placing numerous tabs in a floating window that resides on a second monitor. Sometimes, however, I accidentally close the window, thereby closing all those tabs. Is there a way to reclaim...
Some individual Guide sections have the same name but different purposes. For example: Lemma in Passage can assist with passages or words Thematic Outlines can help with passages or preaching themes Atlas can aid with passages or topics If we open...
Imagine we’re embarking on a study of Matthew. In preparation, we want to examine both the Matthew commentaries we already own as well as the ones available at logos.com. We can now easily perform this task with the new store tab in the Logos...
I recently clarified for a fellow Logos user the various Bibles being used in the Bible Word Study Guide. Since there was a little confusion, I thought I’d use the answer as a basis for this hopefully helpful (but certainly not exciting!) blog. If...
Logos 9 provided us with a Factbook Visual Filter, which hyperlinks the people, places, and things in a biblical text to the Factbook. These blue underlines in the text identified the hyperlinks. Perhaps you like the hyperlinks, but not so much the...
Hopefully, you’ve already discovered the new Today in Christian History card in the Explore section on the Home Page. By default, to use this Logos 9.2 feature, just open the Home Page and you’ll see a Christian history event for today’s date. ...
As we read passages in the Bible, we’re accustomed to working with cross-references embedded in the text, usually through superscript letters. For example, in the ESV a superscript “n” appears next to the word power in Acts 1:8. Hovering over the...
With the recent release of Logos 9.2, we can now drag and drop images right into our Notes! Adding images has never been easier.
If you’re new to Logos Bible Software, you may be wondering where to start your Bible study. With all of the possibilities, should you start with the Home Page? A Guide? A Workflow? I suggest starting with the Factbook, which quickly...
As I was reading through 1 Corinthians, I came to 2:7, which states in the ESV: But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. With a little investigation, I discovered the word translated hidden is...
Our Logos libraries contain a lot of “normal” books (monographs) that we want to read chapter by chapter. In previous versions of Logos, creating reading plans that divided up the sessions into chapters was somewhat challenging. In Logos 9, however...
If you’re using the Sermon Builder to create your sermons/lessons (which I hope you are), then you’ll really appreciate this new Logos 9.1 feature: a Home Page Dashboard Sermon Card to quickly access your upcoming sermon(s). Let’s quickly check out...
With all of the big new features in Logos—like Sermon Manager and the expanded Factbook—it’s easy to overlook some small but important improvements. One such unheralded feature is the Before and After: Biblical Sites interactive which received...
Based on user feedback, one of the most helpful Logos 9 new features is the expanded Commentaries Guide Section, which appears by default in the Passage Guide or can be opened by itself from the Guides menu. In the recently released 9.1 update, this...
Logos 9 released 6 weeks ago bringing with it a new and expanded Factbook, allowing us to study more topics, themes, and texts. In the continued effort to improve this tool, Logos 9.1 contains even more Factbook...
For years we’ve been able to gather our Logos research into notes. That research, though, has always consisted of text—until now! With the recent release of Logos 9, we can now insert images into our notes! In this blog, I want briefly to show you a...
The recently released Logos 9 contains numerous new features, but none more practical than the redesigned Commentaries guide section. With this makeover, we can now display our commentaries in various ways, including the denominational bent of the...
Sometimes in Bible study, we want to investigate a passage in great detail and we have a lot of Logos tools to accomplish this task: Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide, Bible Word Study, and more! At other times, however, we want a birds-eye view of a...
Datasets exist all throughout Logos Bible Software. These sets of “labels,” such as Promises in the Bible, Questions in the Bible, Speech Acts, Preaching Themes, and a host of others, all help us conduct biblical research. However, what exactly are...
As you’ve probably heard by now, Logos 9 is here! This latest release is full of new features and enhancements, including the already popular Logos Shortcut folders. In this blog, I’ll introduce you to this space-saving feature. If you’re like most...
Here’s a question I’m often asked at Camp Logos: I highlight various verses in the Bible with boxes, underlines, or colors. Then in a few weeks, I forget what those specific highlighting styles represent. Is there a way to create a “legend” for...
A Logos user submitted this question to me: I was reading in a commentary in which the author stated there were over 600 commands in the Old Testament, some negative and some positive. Is there a way in Logos to locate those commands and if so can...
A subscriber to mpseminars.com submitted this question to our help desk: I’m reading Wayne Grudem’s systematic theology book. There are a lot of footnotes throughout the book which are indicated by superscript numbers. I would like to be...
During a recent Zoom meeting with Adam at Faithlife, I noticed an icon on his Shortcuts bar that reminded me of a power-user trick in which you may be interested: we can change the global text size of our resources, Guides, and Tools with the click...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve answered the same question several times, so I thought I’d make it the subject of this short blog. The question goes something like this: Within Logos, we have both Clippings and Notes. Should I use both? If so, when...
We often speak of studying passages in context. Likewise, we need to study events in context. For example, imagine we’re studying events surrounding Jesus’ arrest and trials. A lot was happening on the eve of his crucifixion, and keeping those...
A fellow Logos user contacted me with this question: I’m studying the word “note” in Romans 16:17 in my preferred Bible, which is the NKJV. How can I see how the underlying Greek word is translated in other Bibles? This is a great Bible study...
