Jason StoneWhat you’ll see in this Logos Live episode Dr. Mark Ward interviews Bible scholar, professor, and author Dr. Joel Beeke. Logos Live is a live, cross-denominational show aims to help you to go deeper in your understanding of and joy in the Word...
Ryan PembertonRyan J. Pemberton—author of Called: My Journey to C. S. Lewis’s House and Back Again and coauthor of Walking with C. S. Lewis—explores Advent ideas for your worship community. For Pemberton, Advent is a beautiful, counter-cultural...
Logos StaffHappy Thanksgiving from all of us at Faithlife! Enjoy this excerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary (included free in Logos) about the role of thanksgiving in the early church. *** Thanksgiving played an important role in the life of the early...
“In everything give thanks.” The importance of thankfulness is impossible to miss in that well-known verse. Other aspects of 1 Thessalonians 5:16 and the following two verses, however, are easier to overlook. Keep reading to find out how “in...
Mark WardWatch Mark Ward’s full interview with Jonathan Leeman on the theology of love. Love is the most important commandment in the Bible. And the second most important. On love for God and neighbor hang both testaments. And at the center of the Bible...
I sometimes hear Logos users say, with a resigned, apologetic tone, “I probably use only 5 percent of the capabilities of Logos.” People with lots of responsibility, lots of training, lots of gifting, and lots of experience in ministry or...
Mary JahnkeChristmas hymns spring to mind as freely as coffee flows on a Sunday morning, but Thanksgiving worship songs can be harder to come by . . . Here are 24 to consider as you invite your congregation to “sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises...
Kyle BeutlerWhen I asked a Logos expert what was so great about the Church History features in Logos, it didn’t go as expected: “Kyle, let me ask you a different question. How much do you know about church history?” “Let’s see. I know Factbook is a huge part...
Clark BatesBeginning at some time in the sixth century, a form of commentary manuscripts known as catenae were introduced into the exegetical world of the Byzantine Empire. A catena differs from the standard, single-author commentary by being comprised of...
The Bible identifies many groups of people close to God’s heart, but of tender importance to him are orphans: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself...
Kay ArthurFor decades, Kay Arthur has devoted herself to mining the riches of the Word and guiding countless others to do the same. She’s championed the truth that every Christian can study the Bible for themselves, regardless of their background. The...
Jennifer GrishamWhat’s the first part of your church’s worship services? Chances are, it’s a call to worship—even if your church doesn’t actually refer to it as a call to worship. What is a call to worship? Simply put, a call to worship is the beginning of a...
Thanksgiving Day gets overshadowed by other holidays in store aisles, porch decorations, and people’s priorities—but preaching about thankfulness will always hold a place in the pulpit. Here are 14 sermon illustrations on Thanksgiving to help you...
What you’ll see in this Logos Live episode If you have searched Google or YouTube for help with Logos, you’ve probably watched one of Pastor Tanner’s videos! We’re going to talk shop (Logos, of course) a little as we cover...
Rick BrannanWhy does the NKJV have Acts 8:37? And why doesn’t the ESV include the same content? This article offers an answer—and how to examine the evidence yourself and come to your own conclusion.
People love the features inside Logos 10. I love the ability to import decades’ worth of Microsoft Word sermon notes into Logos 10, making sermon series’ planning and searching past sermons a breeze.—Richard W. Add to Print Library may be the best...
Many of us read Luke 2 at Christmastime, but what Scriptures can we read at Thanksgiving? Here are 54 Bible verses about thanksgiving and gratitude to meditate on during the holiday season or take turns reading around the table on Thanksgiving Day...
Todd HainsOctober 31, 1517. It has become popular to see this date as the beginning of a decline: from Christendom to secularism, from community to individualism, from Catholicism to Protestantism, from one, holy, apostolic, catholic church to thousands of...
Bible Study MagazineReformation Day is October 31. In remembrance, keep reading to explore with David P. Barshinger how the Reformers offer us a model for Bible study. (Or dig deeper into Reformation exegesis with Reading Scripture with the Reformers or The Martin...
Nathaniel J. EricksonThis is the second article in a two-part series dealing with the common myth that Greek is the most precise language known to mankind. (Article one here.) I’d like to look at a few more examples of imprecision in the Greek of the New Testament...
Tavis BohlingerThe Reformers are for most people either the best thing to ever happen to Christianity or the worst. Vain is the attempt to find middle ground perspectives, where the men who died 500 years ago are considered with a mere shrug of the shoulders...
Beka JohnsonLogos users loved Sermon Manager back when we introduced it. And by combining all the power of the new Sermon Manager with the improvements we made to Sermon Builder, Logos quickly won the hearts of organizational nerds everywhere. Finally, a...
Drew LongacreIf you came to this site because you couldn’t resist seeing for yourself what Word by Word could possibly have to do with autopsies—gotcha! You will find no cadavers or gory CSI scenes here. All this goes to show that appearances can be deceiving...
J. David StarkSpending time in Scripture’s original languages is unquestionably important. But it’s rarely urgent unless you’re teaching or taking a class based on these languages. This means it’s all too easy to put it off to another day, to let things slip. And...
Michael S. HeiserWe are prone to make assumptions about God and his favor when life has us down due to sin, mistakes, or incomprehensible circumstances. Of all the Scripture passages we might turn to during these times, the bizarre vision that opens the book of...
James FryerCarl F. H. Henry (1913–2003) was born as a son to German immigrants in New York City. Henry was raised in a nominal Christian home, his mother a nominal Roman Catholic and his father a nominal Lutheran. He was converted to the knowledge of and faith...
Why doesn't John Piper need BDAG very much?
Kevin GrassoGalatians 2:16 reads, “But knowing that a human is not justified from works of the law but through pistis Iesou Christou, we also trusted in Jesus Christ in order that we might be justified from pistis Christou and not from works of the law because...
Logos’s mission to serve the church has led us to greater refinements and—the single feature our beta testers were most excited about—greater speed. Let’s talk through a simple example of work you might do in Logos. Logos is here to help you...
Matthew L. HalstedThe past couple of years have been eventful, to say the least. In 2020, we got a front-row seat to the COVID pandemic as it knifed its way through the world. The impact it left (and still leaves) on our collective psyche has been strenuous...