Some HIGHLY recommended reading here:
Anyone in Gospel Studies will not want to miss names like Ulrich Luz, John Nolland, and Mark Goodacre, to name a few. All of these are included.
Monday, April 16, 2018
Saturday, April 21, 2012
There is a recent development in the Logos Community that deserves emphatic attention--
The inclusion of two of Dr. Twelftree's acclaimed resources,
Jesus the Miracle Worker: a Historical and Theological Study and
People of the Spirit: Exploring Luke's View of the Church!!!
These world-acclaimed resource comes in two different outstanding packages which I will name here:
Set #1--SPCK New Testament Studies collection (6 vols, 1,280 pages, $98.05 academic price)
http://www.logos.com/product/10049/spck-new-testament-studies-collection
Other great scholars in this set include:
Richard Bauckham--The Bible in Politics
Terence L. Donaldson--Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament
Bruce Chilton--Starting New Testament Study
Set #2--IVP Jesus Studies collection (15 vols, 5,147 pages, $199.05 academic price)
http://www.logos.com/product/17716/ivp-jesus-studies-collection
Authors in this set alongside Dr. Twelftree include:
Ben Witherington III--The Jesus Quest
Craig Evans--Fabricating Jesus
Craig Blomberg--Interpreting the Parables
You will not want to miss out on this chance to include these world-renowned resources in your library!
The sooner you put these on a reading plan, the better.
The inclusion of two of Dr. Twelftree's acclaimed resources,
Jesus the Miracle Worker: a Historical and Theological Study and
People of the Spirit: Exploring Luke's View of the Church!!!
These world-acclaimed resource comes in two different outstanding packages which I will name here:
Set #1--SPCK New Testament Studies collection (6 vols, 1,280 pages, $98.05 academic price)
http://www.logos.com/product/10049/spck-new-testament-studies-collection
Other great scholars in this set include:
Richard Bauckham--The Bible in Politics
Terence L. Donaldson--Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament
Bruce Chilton--Starting New Testament Study
Set #2--IVP Jesus Studies collection (15 vols, 5,147 pages, $199.05 academic price)
http://www.logos.com/product/17716/ivp-jesus-studies-collection
Authors in this set alongside Dr. Twelftree include:
Ben Witherington III--The Jesus Quest
Craig Evans--Fabricating Jesus
Craig Blomberg--Interpreting the Parables
You will not want to miss out on this chance to include these world-renowned resources in your library!
The sooner you put these on a reading plan, the better.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
I applied for the Logos Scholarship myself,
And They encourage anyone who does not have the software to apply!
Going to Seminary is expensive. On top of that, finding a scholarship can be really difficult. That's why I was so excited to find this http://www.seminaryscholarship.com website today. Not only are they giving away a $1,000.00 scholarship and a digital theological library, all I had to do to apply was watch a short video and answer a few questions! It took less than 15 minutes. What is best of all is that if you're in seminary and apply for the http://www.seminaryscholarship.com Seminary Scholarship, and put my name as the person who referred you, if you win the scholarship, so do I! We could both get a $1,000.00 scholarship and digital theological library. So, do us both a favor and go apply for the http://www.seminaryscholarship.com Seminary Scholarship today.
And They encourage anyone who does not have the software to apply!
Going to Seminary is expensive. On top of that, finding a scholarship can be really difficult. That's why I was so excited to find this http://www.seminaryscholarship.com website today. Not only are they giving away a $1,000.00 scholarship and a digital theological library, all I had to do to apply was watch a short video and answer a few questions! It took less than 15 minutes. What is best of all is that if you're in seminary and apply for the http://www.seminaryscholarship.com Seminary Scholarship, and put my name as the person who referred you, if you win the scholarship, so do I! We could both get a $1,000.00 scholarship and digital theological library. So, do us both a favor and go apply for the http://www.seminaryscholarship.com Seminary Scholarship today.
Friday, April 6, 2012
How To Customize Your Own Personally Created Study Bible . . .
What is your favorite Study Bible? ESV? NIV? NKJV?
Now, what are your favorite commentaries? Word? New American? New International Greek Testament? Some other? Like most of us, I'll bet all of your favorite comments are in different commentaries that make up some combination of each one, right?
What if you could take all the best notes from a combination of each commentary for a compact, personally created note on every Scripture? Logos empowers you to do this.
Having your own Digital Library not only opens the doors to reading your commentaries while you read your Bible (in any version too) but did you know you can actually create YOUR OWN commentary footnotes right in the Bible version? And with the click of a button, you also can control whether or not they appear or not appear. Sound too good? Let's go through it.
First, you just open your favorite Bible version (whether Greek, ESV, NIV, NRSV, or whatever you like). As you well know now, it will open in a window of its own, you'll see the version at the top, with the reference of where you are in it. Lets say we opened it to Phil 2:5--"have this mind in you that was also in Christ Jesus." (ASV).
How many different ways can we dig the treasures out of this passage? How many can you think of? We could start by naming off all the different types of commentaries, couldn't we? Socio-rhetorical, historical-critical, discourse analysis, socio-linguistic, we could consult grammars, lexicons on key words, syntactical analyses (with graph visualizations). There are just too many to count! Clearly we all have our favorites, and only certain types will help us on any given task, right? We certainly don't need all of them all at once.
HERE'S HOW-->
Now, open up a brand-new "Notes" document from the "File" menu above and here is where you begin to craft your own Study Bible right in you Logos System!! Click into the label and name this document "My Phillipians Study". Now Just right click the first word in the Scripture (Phil 2:5) and you'll see a menu pop up. It's this pop up menu that is the key to ALL your best work in Logos. All you have to do is select the top menu option called "reference" (note your choices: "headword, lemma, manuscript, selection, etc") and then choose the bottom action on that same menu called "add note to My Phillipians Study." What Logos does is attach whatever you put into the note file (whether copy-and-pasted from any resource, or hand typed) and allow you to see that note (for each Scripture) as you scroll through your Bible (and in any other resource that Scripture appears, e.g. lexicons, etc.) You could type anything, you could copy and paste a key commentary section on that passage or, if you want, you could have different notes from different commentaries attached to that same Scripture--each one color coded (just choose the color you want from the menu of options on the yellow square)! You even have the option to hide any one of them while you read through. (at the top of the resource in the tri-circle symbol, "visual filers" menu)
That's pretty powerful stuff. You like socio-rhetorical commentaries? attach those--color them blue. (or whatever color you want) Maybe you like ICC's commentary material--attach that and color them red. If you want, you could copy and paste out of various commentaries/grammars/resources and combine it into one solid commentary of your own!! Color that green, if you want. Maybe you have some material not in your Logos that would make a great addition (and you have sent it to Logos already using suggest@logos.com see post below) but since it's not in your library you want it included but don't have the resource--well, then you can add that in as well, hand type it, name that particular note with the bibliographic data and color that blue! All the notes files can be stored in your "Favorites" menu (we'll teach that later) for later changes if needed.
The possiblities are endless, and you have the control at your fingertips.
What is your favorite Study Bible? ESV? NIV? NKJV?
Now, what are your favorite commentaries? Word? New American? New International Greek Testament? Some other? Like most of us, I'll bet all of your favorite comments are in different commentaries that make up some combination of each one, right?
What if you could take all the best notes from a combination of each commentary for a compact, personally created note on every Scripture? Logos empowers you to do this.
Having your own Digital Library not only opens the doors to reading your commentaries while you read your Bible (in any version too) but did you know you can actually create YOUR OWN commentary footnotes right in the Bible version? And with the click of a button, you also can control whether or not they appear or not appear. Sound too good? Let's go through it.
First, you just open your favorite Bible version (whether Greek, ESV, NIV, NRSV, or whatever you like). As you well know now, it will open in a window of its own, you'll see the version at the top, with the reference of where you are in it. Lets say we opened it to Phil 2:5--"have this mind in you that was also in Christ Jesus." (ASV).
How many different ways can we dig the treasures out of this passage? How many can you think of? We could start by naming off all the different types of commentaries, couldn't we? Socio-rhetorical, historical-critical, discourse analysis, socio-linguistic, we could consult grammars, lexicons on key words, syntactical analyses (with graph visualizations). There are just too many to count! Clearly we all have our favorites, and only certain types will help us on any given task, right? We certainly don't need all of them all at once.
HERE'S HOW-->
Now, open up a brand-new "Notes" document from the "File" menu above and here is where you begin to craft your own Study Bible right in you Logos System!! Click into the label and name this document "My Phillipians Study". Now Just right click the first word in the Scripture (Phil 2:5) and you'll see a menu pop up. It's this pop up menu that is the key to ALL your best work in Logos. All you have to do is select the top menu option called "reference" (note your choices: "headword, lemma, manuscript, selection, etc") and then choose the bottom action on that same menu called "add note to My Phillipians Study." What Logos does is attach whatever you put into the note file (whether copy-and-pasted from any resource, or hand typed) and allow you to see that note (for each Scripture) as you scroll through your Bible (and in any other resource that Scripture appears, e.g. lexicons, etc.) You could type anything, you could copy and paste a key commentary section on that passage or, if you want, you could have different notes from different commentaries attached to that same Scripture--each one color coded (just choose the color you want from the menu of options on the yellow square)! You even have the option to hide any one of them while you read through. (at the top of the resource in the tri-circle symbol, "visual filers" menu)
That's pretty powerful stuff. You like socio-rhetorical commentaries? attach those--color them blue. (or whatever color you want) Maybe you like ICC's commentary material--attach that and color them red. If you want, you could copy and paste out of various commentaries/grammars/resources and combine it into one solid commentary of your own!! Color that green, if you want. Maybe you have some material not in your Logos that would make a great addition (and you have sent it to Logos already using suggest@logos.com see post below) but since it's not in your library you want it included but don't have the resource--well, then you can add that in as well, hand type it, name that particular note with the bibliographic data and color that blue! All the notes files can be stored in your "Favorites" menu (we'll teach that later) for later changes if needed.
The possiblities are endless, and you have the control at your fingertips.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Build Your Library Your Way with suggest@logos.com!!
So far, we've discussed all the various benefits that accrue to those who choose to own their personal Digital Library with Logos Digital Resources. We've discussed hyper-linked note taking abilities (leading to personal e-book creations), creating an unlimited inventory of Digital Resource reading plans, as well as the stress relief students gain with 24 hour, 7 day a week access to the same books in any seminary library on their own laptop, and many others.
But what if certain resources you enjoy are not available in Logos? Well I am here to tell you that they have created an answer to that as well! All you have to do is tell Logos about the resources you want them to offer by emailing their team at suggest@logos.com, and they go and get the publishers themselves to include those resources for you to add! Sound too good? Countless people are doing it. Here's my story...
First, when I came to own a Digital Library, I was already reading some of my all-time favorites in hardbound, binder-and-page, book format: St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, and Norman Geisler's 4 Volume Systematic Theology Series. I was so excited to download those resources and put them on a reading plan over the next year (at least that's what I wanted to do) I couldn't sit still. But I went to Logos' website and found they did not even offer these resources. I was shocked and distressed. For a couple of weeks I felt depressed because I could not add the most valuable resources in my life at the time to my Logos Digital Library, but then my professor at Assemblies of God Seminary gave me an answer: contact Logos via email at suggest@logos.com to get them included.
"You can do that?!" voice raised in disbelief, "Will it do any good?" He told me that many people contact Logos through emailing suggest@logos.com about including new resources and that I should give it a shot. From there, I went to their website and found the contact info for the department that makes these additions and I found something very encouraging. Logos really wants to hear from their people to enhance their own library with resources which their people express and interest in because that's what makes their business grow! They simply contact the publishers, appeal to include those resources in Logos' Digital Library and offer these resources to the Logos crowd! That business aspect is why it made sense to me. So I contacted them at suggest@logos.com gave them the bibliographic info on Summa and Systematic Theology and guess what? They both were on their prepublication specials not more than a few months later and now I have them in my library on reading plans!! The process could not have been easier.
Ever since then I have been emailing new resource suggestions to suggest@logos.com and I have been watching my own Digital Library Resources multiply according to what I want in my library ever since. It's pretty nice to be able to build a Digital Library with what you want, when you want, and access all of those resources any way you want to customize your education your way. Not to sound too much like Burger King, but that has been my life and the lives of many others for years now. Join the crowd.
So far, we've discussed all the various benefits that accrue to those who choose to own their personal Digital Library with Logos Digital Resources. We've discussed hyper-linked note taking abilities (leading to personal e-book creations), creating an unlimited inventory of Digital Resource reading plans, as well as the stress relief students gain with 24 hour, 7 day a week access to the same books in any seminary library on their own laptop, and many others.
But what if certain resources you enjoy are not available in Logos? Well I am here to tell you that they have created an answer to that as well! All you have to do is tell Logos about the resources you want them to offer by emailing their team at suggest@logos.com, and they go and get the publishers themselves to include those resources for you to add! Sound too good? Countless people are doing it. Here's my story...
First, when I came to own a Digital Library, I was already reading some of my all-time favorites in hardbound, binder-and-page, book format: St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, and Norman Geisler's 4 Volume Systematic Theology Series. I was so excited to download those resources and put them on a reading plan over the next year (at least that's what I wanted to do) I couldn't sit still. But I went to Logos' website and found they did not even offer these resources. I was shocked and distressed. For a couple of weeks I felt depressed because I could not add the most valuable resources in my life at the time to my Logos Digital Library, but then my professor at Assemblies of God Seminary gave me an answer: contact Logos via email at suggest@logos.com to get them included.
"You can do that?!" voice raised in disbelief, "Will it do any good?" He told me that many people contact Logos through emailing suggest@logos.com about including new resources and that I should give it a shot. From there, I went to their website and found the contact info for the department that makes these additions and I found something very encouraging. Logos really wants to hear from their people to enhance their own library with resources which their people express and interest in because that's what makes their business grow! They simply contact the publishers, appeal to include those resources in Logos' Digital Library and offer these resources to the Logos crowd! That business aspect is why it made sense to me. So I contacted them at suggest@logos.com gave them the bibliographic info on Summa and Systematic Theology and guess what? They both were on their prepublication specials not more than a few months later and now I have them in my library on reading plans!! The process could not have been easier.
Ever since then I have been emailing new resource suggestions to suggest@logos.com and I have been watching my own Digital Library Resources multiply according to what I want in my library ever since. It's pretty nice to be able to build a Digital Library with what you want, when you want, and access all of those resources any way you want to customize your education your way. Not to sound too much like Burger King, but that has been my life and the lives of many others for years now. Join the crowd.
Friday, March 9, 2012
THE GENEROSITY OF LOGOS
As a Logos user with your own digital library, you have a direct connection back to the company with notices of just what they are up to and updates that make you software easier and easier to use all the time.
But beyond this, as a Logos user you also get to take exclusive advantage of the generosity of Logos Bible Software's ability to offer books throughout every month for absolutely no cost to you! That's right--FOR FREE! Free books every month, you could build an entire library just on that alone!
Take a look at THIS MONTH'S (March) FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD--
As a Logos user with your own digital library, you have a direct connection back to the company with notices of just what they are up to and updates that make you software easier and easier to use all the time.
But beyond this, as a Logos user you also get to take exclusive advantage of the generosity of Logos Bible Software's ability to offer books throughout every month for absolutely no cost to you! That's right--FOR FREE! Free books every month, you could build an entire library just on that alone!
Take a look at THIS MONTH'S (March) FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD--
Authentic Christianity
by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
And for all you Logos users out there, here is the link for you to take advantage of it:
http://www.logos.com/free-book-of-the-month?utm_source=logos.com&utm_medium=homepageslide&utm_campaign=fbotmmarch
Keep in touch to keep filling up your library, your ministry, and your family with education, resources, and God's perfect will for your lives!!
Monday, February 27, 2012
Discover YOUR Research Interest and Make Your Impact. . . Keep Reading the Signs!
One aspect of Logos Bible Software that I love the most is that the "Piggy Bank of Reading Plans" (see the post) operates on the principle of "Compounding Interest"! How so? Glad you asked (and it has nothing to do with money!)
I love the fact that all of my books can be added directly to my laptop: where it takes no space in my house, it takes no effort to sift through them, and makes no problems to set reading plans for all of them where I can read any book in just a small portion every day, and finish entire volumes in weeks! What a difference this tiny application has made in my understanding, awareness, and depth of knowledge in such a short time! It's no wonder the Greeks were so smart--all they had was books with no television!!
Psychology has proven that increasing your knowledge does more than just add a piece of previously unknown material--it effects every other piece of knowledge you already have around it! and thereby changing the way you now see each of those pieces, starting a domino effect in your life. Here's a good example--a man named Timothy in the deep woods of North Carolina has never experienced conventional schooling--no reading or writing. Timothy loved hunting deer and boar with his bow and arrow, traveled back to town and, being drawn by the picture of money above the door, walked into the local pawn shop and sold the hides for a modest sum. All the while, wondering what the rest of the buildings were that he passes by everyday, but keeping his interest in the one that pays him. One day on his way through town, he meets a beautiful girl, they fall in love, and she finally teaches him how to read. He took it reluctantly, challenging the need for it, but kept on because of his love for her. Then, one day, as he walked through town with his usual hides, he got reading the signs and found some of these buildings he was passing every day was a slaughter shop, a hunting store (probably a Bass Pro, right?! lol), and taxidermist. So he went in to see what they would offer and suddenly he became a big hit! Now, instead of tiny prophets from the pawn shop, he got paid what he was really worth for everything he hunted--the carcasses, the meat, & the skins--for a much better price, was featured in the paper for the largest hunted animals, became a local town celebrity, and began his own hunting school. He took what he was already interested in, and through the understanding he gained in reading the signs, his personal interest compounded into success for everyone: both the taxidermist's and hunter's shops became national franchises through the success of Timothy's hunting school, the slaughter shop turned out the best deer meat for everyone around town and each of the owners, once struggling to keep their doors open, now could retire because of Timothy's success.
In reality, what really changed? His travel route? No. Did the buildings change? No. It was his understanding he gained through (however reluctantly at first, mind you!) reading the signs! This didn't create new doors, it just opened his eyes to the doors that were already there, directing him to take his interest that God had already given him and compound it alongside the right people (i.e., not the pawn shop) who had the same. That is the way that big things happen.
Now apply this same principle of how reading the signs opens our eyes to our study of God's Word--we may know how we already understand it, but how many different ways to see it are we missing by not reading the signs from countless scholars (i.e., books) who have already opened their shops of expertise to us? Just look at all the different signs which the Scriptures give us to read--rhetorical, sociological, textual, literary, historical, and many countless others! If we don't keep reading the signs, we can't benefit, or be benefited by, the service each of these contribute. How many times do we pass by these open doors sitting on a shelf because we feel we just don't have the time to devote to these large tomes. But just imagine if every church had one expert in reading the signs for every area of Scripture's journey? My, My, My. . .
As one philosopher said, "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Just imagine a tool that allows you to take these gargantuan volumes and easily and conveniently digest them little by little each and every day--that's the Logos Reading Plans. Each of us are scholars in the chrysalis, while no one scholar can be motivated by everything--the day YOU start reading the signs that click with YOUR interest, you are off to the races with a team of scholars! Imagine an entire country of people who simply took out 1 single hour every day of TV time (God forbid, right?) and devoted that time to an actual reading plan? How much difference would that make in their lives? In the lives of their family? Church? Community? Town? State? You get the picture. How many incredible scholars have we lost simply because we aren't intentional about reaching out to people? Maybe we would actually turn a depressed country into an interested one. Maybe we would turn ignorance, and apathy, into knowledge, and ambition.
God has success for all of us. We just need to keep reading the signs to compound our interest into a team working endeavor of knowledge and service--having your own Digital Library encourages this everyday.
One aspect of Logos Bible Software that I love the most is that the "Piggy Bank of Reading Plans" (see the post) operates on the principle of "Compounding Interest"! How so? Glad you asked (and it has nothing to do with money!)
I love the fact that all of my books can be added directly to my laptop: where it takes no space in my house, it takes no effort to sift through them, and makes no problems to set reading plans for all of them where I can read any book in just a small portion every day, and finish entire volumes in weeks! What a difference this tiny application has made in my understanding, awareness, and depth of knowledge in such a short time! It's no wonder the Greeks were so smart--all they had was books with no television!!
Psychology has proven that increasing your knowledge does more than just add a piece of previously unknown material--it effects every other piece of knowledge you already have around it! and thereby changing the way you now see each of those pieces, starting a domino effect in your life. Here's a good example--a man named Timothy in the deep woods of North Carolina has never experienced conventional schooling--no reading or writing. Timothy loved hunting deer and boar with his bow and arrow, traveled back to town and, being drawn by the picture of money above the door, walked into the local pawn shop and sold the hides for a modest sum. All the while, wondering what the rest of the buildings were that he passes by everyday, but keeping his interest in the one that pays him. One day on his way through town, he meets a beautiful girl, they fall in love, and she finally teaches him how to read. He took it reluctantly, challenging the need for it, but kept on because of his love for her. Then, one day, as he walked through town with his usual hides, he got reading the signs and found some of these buildings he was passing every day was a slaughter shop, a hunting store (probably a Bass Pro, right?! lol), and taxidermist. So he went in to see what they would offer and suddenly he became a big hit! Now, instead of tiny prophets from the pawn shop, he got paid what he was really worth for everything he hunted--the carcasses, the meat, & the skins--for a much better price, was featured in the paper for the largest hunted animals, became a local town celebrity, and began his own hunting school. He took what he was already interested in, and through the understanding he gained in reading the signs, his personal interest compounded into success for everyone: both the taxidermist's and hunter's shops became national franchises through the success of Timothy's hunting school, the slaughter shop turned out the best deer meat for everyone around town and each of the owners, once struggling to keep their doors open, now could retire because of Timothy's success.
In reality, what really changed? His travel route? No. Did the buildings change? No. It was his understanding he gained through (however reluctantly at first, mind you!) reading the signs! This didn't create new doors, it just opened his eyes to the doors that were already there, directing him to take his interest that God had already given him and compound it alongside the right people (i.e., not the pawn shop) who had the same. That is the way that big things happen.
Now apply this same principle of how reading the signs opens our eyes to our study of God's Word--we may know how we already understand it, but how many different ways to see it are we missing by not reading the signs from countless scholars (i.e., books) who have already opened their shops of expertise to us? Just look at all the different signs which the Scriptures give us to read--rhetorical, sociological, textual, literary, historical, and many countless others! If we don't keep reading the signs, we can't benefit, or be benefited by, the service each of these contribute. How many times do we pass by these open doors sitting on a shelf because we feel we just don't have the time to devote to these large tomes. But just imagine if every church had one expert in reading the signs for every area of Scripture's journey? My, My, My. . .
As one philosopher said, "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Just imagine a tool that allows you to take these gargantuan volumes and easily and conveniently digest them little by little each and every day--that's the Logos Reading Plans. Each of us are scholars in the chrysalis, while no one scholar can be motivated by everything--the day YOU start reading the signs that click with YOUR interest, you are off to the races with a team of scholars! Imagine an entire country of people who simply took out 1 single hour every day of TV time (God forbid, right?) and devoted that time to an actual reading plan? How much difference would that make in their lives? In the lives of their family? Church? Community? Town? State? You get the picture. How many incredible scholars have we lost simply because we aren't intentional about reaching out to people? Maybe we would actually turn a depressed country into an interested one. Maybe we would turn ignorance, and apathy, into knowledge, and ambition.
God has success for all of us. We just need to keep reading the signs to compound our interest into a team working endeavor of knowledge and service--having your own Digital Library encourages this everyday.
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