The Solid Content of Tabletalk: Now on Pre-Pub
Have you ever had a subscription to Tabletalk? Or read through a copy you borrowed from a friend or relative?
Tell us about it!
I love TableTalk and have been a subscriber for 12 years or so. The daily Bible studies are excellent but I value them even more for the monthly colums and editorials by outstanding Christian leaders on current topics or doctrines under attack in the world today.
I have also been nagging them for years to make past issues available online @ ligonier.com to those who subscribe to it as I have for so long. It just "gets my goat" that now they finally make them available in digital format but I have to buy them all over again. I really want this pre-pub becasue I have read so many of these devotionals and I often use their illustrations or editorials in my teaching of adult Sunday school classes and home Bible studies using the painful processes of either transcribing the material into my word processor or scanning and OCRing it for longer articles. But I'm not sure I will spring for another $200.00 to have access to what I already own in another form.
I have occasionally read Table Talk and have found the magazine to be one of the better periodicals. My fellow elder in the last church I pastored was a subscriber and shared copies with me. I got a free subscription for about a year and I profited from the material. Unfortunately my financial capacity only allowed for Logos programming and very little else. Wish I could afford to get this collection.
I have been a subscriber to Tabletalk since the last 1970's, and eagerly read every issue from cover to cover. For those who never went to Bible college and desire to learn the deeper things of God and sound doctrine there is no better resource.
Gretchen Horton
Newberry Springs, Ca.
www.biblestudy4u.com
I enjoy TableTalk and recieve it as a ministry partner of Ligonier. Its small size makes it great to read while I ride an exercise bike in the AM...not so much when I walk on the treadmill though. [;)]
The format of small daily studies interspersed with slightly longer sections is great--I hope that the Logos version might be formatted in a way that makes it easy to use it devotionally/to lead a small group Bible study.
I've encountered pushback from my local church because it comes from a Reformed source, but personally I've not encountered anything doctrinally untoward in the ones I've read--and I certainly can't say that about my local church's Sunday School literature [:|].
I've very happy that these will now be available digitally--once I can highlight on the iPad it will nicely replace my hard-to-manage impossible-to-reference paper booklets, and if I drop an iPad while exercising I won't have to sell the family farm to replace it.
Yes for many years! I have already ordered and paid for my Logos Pre-pub copy
I HAVE ONE REQUEST DEAR LOGOS BIBLE SOFTWARE PEOPLE!
Can you please make it possible to have a 'sort function' for all the daily devotions? For example, so I can read ALL the daily devotions that have been written for the last decade on John's Gospel or Romans. At the moment they run in short series by date only, and it would be good to be able to sort all devotions written on one book.
THANKS KINDLY!!
I have been a subscriber to Tabletalk for over 12 yrs now and would recommend purchasing this resource. I don't do it every year but I have purchased one year subscriptions for friends and family members who were looking for more substantive devotional materials. One of the features that I enjoy most is the emphasis on a new topic/issue each month. Some months it may be on a theological issue and other months it may focus on a person. I have issues where all the articles for that month foucused on Calvin, Luther, Athanasius, the Reformation, the mega-church, the Law (this month's focus), etc.
Another good aspect is that the devotionals cover various books of the Bible--so you get complete study of individual books. Currently the study is on Colossians. The January issue covered Colossians 1; February covered Colossians 2; and this month covers Colossians 3. The devotionals are laid out for the work week, M-F and there is a small article that you can read over the weekend. Along with each devotional there is application.
One of my main reasons for continuing to puchase Tabletalk is for the monthly articles on the various subjects that each month covers. Admittedly, I do not always agree with everything but I find what I read helpful and stimulating. The reason that I have signed up for the pre-pub is so that I could have Tabletalk in a searchable format. There is fantastic historical information, illustrations, theological insights, definitions, and quotes that will greatly enhance your knowledge and understanding of God's Word, and will also assit you in teaching others.
I am looking forward to having access to this material without the combersome way I have set up for searching my issues now.
A well-written devotional, Tabletalk is geared more towards those who hold to Reformed theology.
