Sermon from start to finish on iPad.

Daniel Norwood
Daniel Norwood Member Posts: 80 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I really like the modular approach to the iPad: tablet mode, laptop mode (with Keyboard case), and desktop mode (attached to monitor with keyboard and mouse).  

With new iPads being released, I decided to close the MacBook Pro and do sermon prep from to start to finish on the iPad.

Step 1: Reading the Text in Multiple Translations using the wonderful highlight feature of Logos.

Step 2: Reading Commentaries 

On my Mac, I would normally run a passage guide on the text.  Read commentaries on one side of the layout and have a noted anchored to the passage on the other side of the layout.  I could have done the same layout with Logos on the Web from the iPad but wanted to used Logos Mobile instead.

I ran a passage guide from Logos Mobile and then opened an Apple Note in Split View with the iPad.  My iPad was attached to a Magic Keyboard.  Logos’s implementation of selecting text, copy, and paste is not my favorite when the iPad is attached to a Magic Keyboard, but selecting text, copying and pasting from Logos Mobile into an Apple Note was very efficient.  Occasionally, the pop up menu when selecting a word would get in the way of selecting text.  At times, the curser would not move when trying to select text.  But overall, I enjoyed the experience of reading commentaries on the iPad.   

Step 3: Word Study — I used the web version of Logos for Word Study.  

Once my research was complete, I coped my notes into Logos. 

Step 4: Sermon Writing

Once all my research was done for the sermon, I connected my iPad to a monitor.  I opened a web browser and loaded logos on the web.  I had one panel with a Bible and the other panel with my research notes on the external display, I used sermon editor on Logos Mobile to type my sermon.  

I will preach the sermon from Logos using preaching mode in Logos Mobile.   

Overall, I really enjoyed the experience and will be using Logos Mobile more in my sermon workflow.  I can’t wait to see how Logos continues to improve the mobile app.

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