"My Sermon Planner" instead of a lectionary

I can imagine how having the lectionary on your home page would be handy for those that use it.

I think it would be good if Logos developed a resource that would suggest pericopes, shorter texts and topics for my next Sunday morning and evening sermons. If it was integrated with the Sermon File Addin it could suggest texts or topics I had not preached on yet. Or it could give the date of when I last preached on a particular text or topic.

I think this would be a real plus to get the creative juices flowing.

Brad

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MJ. Smith

Sounds to me like asking Logos to develop its own lectionary [;)] I'm sure they would do better than some of the "new agey religious communities".

Ryan Miller

This sounds like a great idea. This would be a great help in trying to preach the whole counsel of God and would open up verses that I had not thought about using before.

J.R. Miller

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39657#Comment_39657

Now THAT is an excellent idea?tool!!!!

Mark Stevens

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39657#Comment_39657

I would ove the abilty to import my own preaching plan to view alongside the lectionary viewer in the toolbar! Hint, hint! [;)]

Bob Pritchett

You can create a custom reading plan and just assign readings to upcoming Sundays.

In the future you'll be able to build a verse list.

Or do you want something that suggests passage? Or a "sermon idea generator"?

J.R. Miller

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39675#Comment_39675

I can't play with it in the Alpha, but for me the ability to assign verses to specific Sundays would be the starting point.

The ability to save it as a file so I could look back on past plans would be important.

The ability to attach a link to a note file would be good so once I put together content or write a sermon, I could easily find sermons based on date.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39675#Comment_39675

You can create a custom reading plan and just assign readings to upcoming Sundays.

The problem with this Bob is that the reading plan doesn't exactly break on the same spots 's that I might hope.

Or do you want something that suggests passage? Or a "sermon idea generator"?

I'm still waiting for that addin that writes my sermon for me while I'm doing hospital visitation.

Kevin A. Purcell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39771#Comment_39771

I'm still waiting for that addin that writes my sermon for me while I'm doing hospital visitation.

Surely someone as knowledgeable as the man who made the Logos Home Page would know about SermonCentral.com in the passage guide. All your longings met. Complete with Powerpoint for the visual communicators.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39771#Comment_39771

]I'm still waiting for that addin that writes my sermon for me while I'm doing hospital visitation.

That is a very individual addin which you first need to train to recognize your style -- like the Dragon Naturally Speaking.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39786#Comment_39786

Surely someone as knowledgeable as the man who made the Logos Home Page would know about SermonCentral.com in the passage guide. All your longings met. Complete with Powerpoint for the visual communicators.

Ah, yes - I removed both of them from my custom passage guide.

I guess I'm stuck writing my own. Two more sermons and two more lessons this week to go.

J.R. Miller

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39675#Comment_39675

You can create a custom reading plan and just assign readings to upcoming Sundays.

In the future you'll be able to build a verse list.

Or do you want something that suggests passage? Or a "sermon idea generator"?

Another feature Bob, one other consideration. I am teaching through Romans. Last week another person spoke. So in cases like this, I would like the ability to simply insert a change of topic and push forward the plan for the remaining sermons without having to re-edit the entire list.

Also, the ability to print and share the plan is also good so I can plan with other pastors/leaders.

I do this in Excel/Numbers right now, but it would be a lot more powerful in Logos.

Mark Stevens

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/39675#Comment_39675

Or do you want something that suggests passage? Or a "sermon idea generator"?

Good questions. I will need to have a play around with the reading plan more to know what it can do. I preach through books or sections so as long as I could set up or import my passages I'd be happy. I could then simply click on that verse as it appears in the title bar and it would do the passage and exegetical guides for me. (I'm getting excited at the idea)

Bob, can I ask, is it possible to get spell check for notes? It is just a simple question that I'd like a response to. Even if it is no, or I don't know!

Thanks!

Ian Stanley

I would certainly like to see an addin that would help me plan out a series and keep a record of what I plan to preach.

Having a specific place to locate (without having to wonder where I left my notebook), plan a series of sermons

I would see each sermon entry having at least the following:

sermon title (optional, defaults to pericope chosen, can be overwritten during sermon prep)
planned pericope, obviously
speaker (setting the default to myself or unplanned in the options )
location (defaulting to my home church)
idea notes (small area for any general ideas that occur with respect to the passage as i'm planning the series e.g notes on general themes "picking up last sermon/weeks theme on .... ")
sermon status (unstarted, drafted, finalised) which could be later filtered upon to show outstanding

Features:

calendar and list views
filter on speaker options
sermon prep outstanding view
I would like to see a view of all sermons outstanding in draft or unstarted and when they are required by whether they are my regular sermons, bible studies, other speaking arrangements etc.
ability to search on these entries
sermon entries also appear in "my content"

thanks in advance