Link Sermon Texts to Passage in Bibles

Michael Kinch

Link sermon texts in sermon archives and other sermon related resources to passages in Bibles similar to the way verse of the day is done. Link this to "Passages" in the Sermon Manager and other guides. So that the Passage, in SM, would act like an anchor and we could have icons (i.e. "S") to determine it from Notes...??? Then maybe click on the "S" when it appears by a verse in my Bible.... and go to Sermon Manager...?? Then we could sort by Passages... and see all the sermons we have on that Passage....

Adam Borries (Logos)

Linking passages to and from sermons already exists (try putting a Bible passage in Sermon Starter Guide). You can already sort and facet your sermons on passages in Sermon Manager.

I think the new suggestion here is to show your sermons as icons in the Bible text, like notes do. Can you help us understand how this would help you? Try finishing this sentence: "I want to see indicators for my sermons as I read the Bible , so that I can..."

Bill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1334075#Comment_1334075

@Adam Borries  I'm just guessing, but If I were reading through some portion of Scripture and come across the 
icon "s" it would remind me I had a sermon or a teaching doc on this text and I could either hover on the icon for a preview or click it to take me  to that sermon , just as it would with a note. This ties everything back to the main source of our reading , which is  Scripture and we don't have to try to remember whether we had a note or  
sermon on that topic or section of text and go through a search of all doc types to find it. The  Bible is always the starting point and everything we have done to  research , preach , or create a note , clipping , etc , and should be  
discoverable in the Bible , not just the other way  around. In this way I would agree with Michael. Like notes this would be helpful especially when hundreds have been created. it is simply a reminder and quick access to any  
prior research  done on a particular subject or text in Scripture that can help us not repeat efforts or remind us of research  we had forgotten. Hope this is helpful

DS

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1334075#Comment_1334075

@Adam Borries (Faithlife)  I want to see indicators for my sermons as I read the Bible, so that I can easily find the planned passages when doing an initial read.

I find it odd that I can't use the linked passages in a Sermon-document. They're only there for filtering, it seems, but I'd like the linked passages to give some interactivity. Like: open a Sermon Starter Guide for the linked passages, or build a Factbook-report.

I now plan my sermons in advance (from a lectionary), which gives me this nice list of sermons. If I start a new week, and want to do an initial orientation on the service for coming Sunday, I have to re-enter all the linked passages in all the available tools manually. That's tedious.

Daniel Ostendorff

@Adam Borries (Logos)

I want to see indicators for my sermons as I read the Bible , so that I can (a) help my people see connections between our earlier sermons and series to whatever I’m currently studying, (2) to remind me - in the midst of all the preaching and teaching - that we’ve been in this passage before, and (3) a way to step back into that earlier sermon to be reminded of what God showed me and to review/recap for a present sermon.

As a Lead Pastor who was a professor for 10 years, this would be a great benefit to identify the passages already preached on, to make me aware that something has been preached on, help me show my congregation how the themes of a passage previously preached on link to the present sermon, and to help me as a pastor approach a text maybe I preached on 5 years ago in a new or fresh way by being aware of what I’ve done before. In addition, this icon - like the note icon - in the Biblical text allows quick, directly applicable access to prior research and writing and a way to answer the question as I’m reading through a book or passage: “Have I ever preached on this before? It feels familiar by I don’t remember.”

Many of these things might be doable through other avenues, but I’ve found sermon builder and others don’t reliably grab all the relevant data/documents/resources, so by having sermons directly connected to the passage they were preached on there is a clear, actionable link.