QUESTION: Searching sermons documents

MJ. Smith

Hope this helps. Taken from Searchable Labels in Logos Help:

Sermon

Labels a single sermon in a collection of sermons. A search for this label populates the "Sermons" guide section.

• Creator ~ "..." — normalized name of the person who developed and delivered the sermon
• Title ~ "..." — name given to the sermon by its creator
• Subtitle ~ "..." — ancillary title information given by its creator
• Series ~ "..." — series in which the sermon was originally preached, if any
• References ~ <Bible ...> — Bible references for the sermon as a whole
• Date ~ <Date ...> — when the sermon was first delivered
• Liturgical Date ~ <LiturgicalDate ...> — typically the liturgical date when the sermon was first delivered

For example:

• {Label Sermon WHERE Author ~ "Charles H. Spurgeon" AND References ~ <Bible Romans 5-7>}
• {Label Sermon WHERE Title ~ "Signs of the King" AND Creator ~ "Timothy J. Keller" AND References ~ <Bible Acts 2:37-47> AND Date ~ <Date Aug 13, 1989> AND Series ~ "The King and the Kingdom"}

Logos Help. (2016). Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.

Currently the following Sermon Label attributes are supported for searching Sermon documents:

• Title
• Creator
• References

I've created a case to make the Series and Date attributes also searchable.

In addition to doing a label search (which will also return sermons that have been tagged in your library), you can also do a search that finds values in specific fields. The following fields are supported:

Hope this helps. Taken from Searchable Labels in Logos Help:

Sermon

Labels a single sermon in a collection of sermons. A search for this label populates the "Sermons" guide section.

• Creator ~ "..." — normalized name of the person who developed and delivered the sermon
• Title ~ "..." — name given to the sermon by its creator
• Subtitle ~ "..." — ancillary title information given by its creator
• Series ~ "..." — series in which the sermon was originally preached, if any
• References ~ <Bible ...> — Bible references for the sermon as a whole
• Date ~ <Date ...> — when the sermon was first delivered
• Liturgical Date ~ <LiturgicalDate ...> — typically the liturgical date when the sermon was first delivered

For example:

• {Label Sermon WHERE Author ~ "Charles H. Spurgeon" AND References ~ <Bible Romans 5-7>}
• {Label Sermon WHERE Title ~ "Signs of the King" AND Creator ~ "Timothy J. Keller" AND References ~ <Bible Acts 2:37-47> AND Date ~ <Date Aug 13, 1989> AND Series ~ "The King and the Kingdom"}

Logos Help. (2016). Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.

• title
• author
• church
• series
• date - I think this may be document creation date, not the occasion date
• tag topic
• tag passage
• audience
• description
• notes
• content

I'll create a case to add the occasion date and venue fields as well.

Some example searches would be:

• series:"In the Beginning"
• [field tag topic]love
• [field date]<Date second half of 2016>

Have speaker, service and Liturgy been added as searchable fields?

Dave Hooton

Have speaker, service and Liturgy been added as searchable fields?

Not sure about Speaker (use Creator?) or Service (?). Might be a case of what sermons have been tagged with the fields outside of Creator, Date, References and Title. And not all type:sermon resources are even tagged.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1170068#Comment_1170068

[:$] Oops, I didn't notice that the quotes didn't make it clear they are speaking of sermon documents not sermon resources. I clarified the title.