Video series on preparing a sermon complete!

I've now finished my video series on preparing a sermon. It's in four parts, and the first two I've posted before. Here's all the videos, in case you missed some. It's best to view them in full screen mode. Once you've clicked play, look for the little button with four arrows next to the Vimeo logo.

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Stein Dahl

I don't see a link to them. Clicked on the link below and it takes me to your web site where there are still ony 2 vidoes on preparing a sermon with Logos 4.

Mark Barnes

Yeah, sorry. The forum software is playing up. Until I work out what's wrong, try these links:

LaRosa Johnson

great job on #3 [:)] thx again

Bruce Junkermann

Thanks Mark for #3. Do you collect information as you did in #2 using notes and clippings during your exegesis for things like word studies, quotes from commentators, and the like?

I noticed the notes on context.

Rosie Perera

Fantastic, Mark. Thank you again! I've updated the wiki and will add part 4 as soon as it's available.

Mark Barnes

Thanks Rosie, it's ready now.

Did you see my question to you about video embedding on one of your old threads? http://community.logos.com/forums/p/7608/60979.aspx#60979

Rosie Perera

Thanks Rosie, it's ready now.

Thanks!

Did you see my question to you about video embedding on one of your old threads? http://community.logos.com/forums/p/7608/60979.aspx#60979

I'd missed it. Thanks! I'll go answer it there now.

Rosie Perera

Great, you've embedded them. Now could you edit your post one more time and insert the titles of each part above the corresponding videos? Thanks!

Also, I wanted to thank you for the tip on turning note markers different colors. I hadn't discovered that little feature yet -- it's a good one.

Finally, have you reported the bug(s) about cutting/pasting and dragging text in Notes messing up the entire formatting or just the font?

Ron Corbett

Mark,

On the Note Taking video I see great potential to work on sermons / teachings within LOGOS. I experimented yesterday with a topic and now have 8 "folders of Clippings - some of which have Notes added". I have to say that this approach has realy inspired me. What a great way to put LOGOS to work for us. I love it.

My vote is to develop this area even more so it can take us from the sermon-idea to the printed page. My question is how to transfer my work to a portable form of some kind. Could we have a way to "Export to ___ (Microsoft Word)" for instance or "Create a Powerpoint" from an item in Favorites. How do you do this now?

My other concern is that ... in time, will the Favorites / Clippings files become unmanagable due to the sheer numbers of files. Is there a way to organize files within this system?

[BTW - thanks for ALL these videos - very informative & practical. Our LOGOS experience has taken yet another huge leap forward.]

Mark Barnes

Ron,

In the final video I give a few more tips at making favourites better organised and more manageable. Without favourites, notes would be unmanageable, but I think using favourites it should be fine.

Getting data out of Logos isn't easy at the moment. Copy/Paste is really the only way. But you're right, some kind of export facility would be very useful.

Mark

LaRosa Johnson

hey Mark... i'd be interested in seeing the books you put in your 3 different commentary collections (Intermediate, Expository & Academic), if you don't mind sharing that with us [:)]

si_cochran

Mark,

Thank you very much for the videos, they are superb and extremely helpful. I noticed in the first video that you have a list of collections in the cited by tool when you clicked the down arrow. I can view my collections individually, but am unable to figure out how to make a list of collections appear in the cited by tool. Thank you!

LaRosa Johnson

@SiCochran - that feature is in Logos 4.0a (currently in RC2)

Terry Poperszky

Mark, thank you very much for the time and effort needed to create these and I want to especially thank you for emphasizing the need to let the biblical text speak to you before resorting to other tools. One of the most dreaded comments I hear in SS class, is that "My study bible says that the verse means this", when they haven't even begun to let the verse speak for itself. BTW, I loved your methodology for note taking.

Mark Barnes

hey Mark... i'd be interested in seeing the books you put in your 3 different commentary collections (Intermediate, Expository & Academic), if you don't mind sharing that with us

I've added them to the bottom of the wiki page, now. I decided to do it by series. It leaves about 20% unclassified. Obviously you can make this better by manually dragging those over, or adding author criteria in, but it was good enough for my purposes.

Single-volume commentaries

Library Size: 3,549
Collection Size: 13
Rule: type:commentary AND subject:”Bible—Commentaries” ANDNOT subject:”Bible—Commentaries—Collected works”
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: none

Academic commentaries

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Collection Size: 259
Rule:
type:bible-commentary series:(“New International Commentary on the Old
and New Testament”, “New International Greek Testament Commentary”,
Hermeneia, “Critical Commentary”, JPS, Pillar, “socio-rhetorical”,
“word biblical”, “ancient christian commentary”, “Baker Exegetical”)
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: none

Intermediate commentaries

Library Size: 3,549
Collection Size: 346
Rule:
type:bible-commentary AND series:(“baker new testament”, “bible speaks
today”, “black’s new testament”, “book of Isaiah (Young)”, “Calvin’s
Commentary”, Ellicott, “Charles Hodge”, “Hebrews (Owen)”, “Holman New
Testament”, “International Theological”, “IVP New Testament”, Lange,
Lenski, “New American”, Barnhouse, “United Bible Societies’ Handbooks”)
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: none

Expository commentaries

Library Size: 3,549
Collection Size: 275
Rule: type:bible-commentary AND series:(exposit, believer, “daily study”, horae, “MacArthur New Testament”, preach, pulpit, Wiersbe)
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: none

Unclassified commentaries

Library Size: 3,549
Collection Size: 227
Rule: type:bible-commentary
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: {Academic Commentaries}, {Intermediate Commentaries}, {Expository Commentaries}

si_cochran

@LaRosa Johnson

Thank you! That would explain everything.

Bruce Junkermann

I apologyze for asking again but I am curious, Mark, if and how you use clippings and notes for the exegesis of your passage. For example, do you use clippings/notes to save lexical information about a word? If a note, to what do you attach it. OR do you just do the exegetical work without saving or writing any notes on the information.

Thanks for any insight you can give,

Bruce

Mark Barnes

Bruce,

At the level of individual words I rarely take notes. I do so normally only in three circumstances:

When the meaning of a passage hangs on a particular translation. I did, for example, take some clippings on parthenos in this particular sermon.
When there's a word which doesn't translate easily into English, or when the English word is hard to understand. I'll want to define the word from the congregation, and I'll do so from a Greek lexicon, not an English dictionary. I'd probably add this information to a general note on the pericope.
When the word is translated poorly in English Bibles and that matters. In this case, I'll probably re-translate the whole verse and attach that has a note.

Generally my congregation don't care too much about Greek/Hebrew, and nor should they. Neither do I want to undermine their confidence in the Bible they carry in their hands. So I try to wear my new-found knowledge lightly, letting it inform my thinking, but not feeling the need to parade it before them. As a consequence I don't need to take that many notes, as I'm not going to quote them. More importantly, what I'm learning is shaping my understanding, and my understanding is more important than my knowledge in this situation. In other words, what I learn changes the way I view a passage, which changes the way I preach a passage, which affects my congregations understanding of that passage. Which means I can change their understanding without needing to share all my learning.

Bill Gordon

Mark, your series is excellent!

Luuk Dondorp

Mark,

Thank you for your videos, they were very helpful to me! I appreciate your efforts to share these with us.

Bill Gordon

I've now finished my video series on preparing a sermon. It's in four parts, and the first two I've posted before. Here's all the videos, in case you missed some. It's best to view them in full screen mode. Once you've clicked play, look for the little button with four arrows next to the Vimeo logo.

Getting Started

Mark,

I have just finished going through the first two videos. I took about five hours and created the layouts on my Logos 4.

This is the best training for Logos 4 that I have seen!

Thanks again for the great videos!

Bill Gordon

Shawn Nichols

Mark, Awesome. I wish I had found your vid's months ago. I'm always interested in how others study. Thanks for including us. By the way, I take it that you're not from Texas by your dialect? Cheers!

Norman Watson

I really enjoyed your video on the reverse interlinear but I have a question. Can it translate a Greek word into a Hebrew word? ty

Mark Barnes

Can it translate a Greek word into a Hebrew word?

Hi Norman,

If you run a Bible Word Study on a Greek word, then one of the sections will be called Septuagint Translation. This tells you all the Hebrew words that are translated by this Greek word, in the Greek version of the OT that were used by many NT writers.

Garfield Joseph

Hi Mark

Greetings. I really liked your training videos for Logs 4. Do you have similar training videos for Logos 6 that you are able to share?