Church of Christ Library for Logos Bible Software

We are looking for faithful gospel preachers, teachers, and members of the Lord's church who would be interested in joining a good cause to help establish an electronic brotherhood base package for Logos Bible Software. A group has already been formed on Facebook, as well as a shared notebook to begin putting together a prospective list of publications to be converted for use on Logos. If you are interested in joining this good work or would like to know more, please respond to the post and I'd be happy to give you more information.

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Lynden O. Williams

Not very familiar with the Church of Christ, but I encourage you in your endeaver. Have you looked to see if Logos already has any of the resources that you desire?

You may want to edit your post and remove your email address. Replace it with something like

john at outlook dot com

Daniel Lange

Thanks for the word of encouragement Lynden, and I'll heed your advice. I have looked, and Logos has very little publication from the churches of Christ. But again, I do appreciate your help.

Concerning the churches of Christ, if you are unfamiliar I would strongly encourage you to engage with her members and learn more about her. We also have many helpful resources such as www.thebible.net, or www.searchingfortruth.org, and www.apologeticspress.org, just to name a few. I'd also be happy to help you know more about the church of Christ if you're ever curious.

Thanks again for the help!

James C.

I'd be interested. What is the Facebook page?

Daniel Lange

Hi James,

Right now we only have a Facebook group. You can view the group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1485846511646120/

If you're interested, send me a message and let me know what you're thinking.

DAL

A facebook link would be helpful.

Also, Lynden here are a few resources that can help:

1. The church of Christ a Biblical Ecclesiology for Today by Everett Ferguson I don't quite agree with some things, as I think (if I recall correctly) he believes the church was a "Plan B."

2. What the Bible Says About series (All are great; Jack Cottrell highly recommended)

3. College Press NIV Commentary Series

4. Standard Reference Library

5. Standard Lesson Commentary

6. Solid Foundation Sermon Starters

7. Standard Sermon Outline Collection (14 vols.) available in most base packages

8. Bible Study Text Book Series I'm sure Logos can push this out as part of a base package instead of trying to push it out of prepub into production.

And there are other resources, but not that many.

DAL

Daniel Lange

Sorry DAL, but I do not believe churches of Christ identify with Jack Cottrell or Everett Ferguson. There was a movement that spawned out of some churches of Christ called the Christian churches and Disciples of Christ, and to my understanding. I believe these men would lean toward a Christian church or Disciple of Christ view and identify themselves more in line with these groups, while maybe still holding to some views of the church of Christ. Jack Cottrell certainly does, and I would like to know more about Ferguson before I endorsed him.

Thanks for the help as well. Here is our facebook group... https://www.facebook.com/groups/1485846511646120/

Matthew C Jones

here are a few resources that can help

Good list, DAL.

I would love to see a package for;

Christian Churches/Churches of Christ
Disciples of Christ

Daniel Lange

FYI to viewers interested in this post. Churches of Christ do not identify with the Christian church or Disciples of Christ or Churches of Christ that identify their origin in the "Restoration Movement." This forum post is for persons interested in contributing to a work for churches of Christ, EST. 33 AD (Cf. Acts 2). Thank You.

MJ. Smith

There was a movement that spawned out of some churches of Christ called the Christian churches and Disciples of Christ, and to my understanding. I believe these men would lean toward a Christian church or Disciple of Christ view and identify themselves more in line with these groups,

Hmmmm in the 1910's my grandfather attended a "Disciples of Christ" seminary to become a "Church of Christ" minister. "Clearly, finding a Biblical, non-sectarian name was important. Stone wanted to continue to use the name "Christians." Alexander Campbell insisted upon "Disciples of Christ". Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell sided with Stone, but the younger Campbell had strong reasons and would not yield. As a result, both names were used. The confusion over names has been present ever since." (Wikipedia)u

If you put the following search into Google (without quotes) "Restoration Movement site:community.logos.com" you will find a number of forum members from the tradition requesting books from the tradition and offering PB's from the tradition.

Matthew C Jones

We also have many helpful resources such as www.thebible.net, or www.searchingfortruth.org, and www.apologeticspress.org, just to name a few

I took a look t these websites. I like what I see. If you can convince the copyright holders to publish in Logos, I'd buy the package.

Gary Butner, Th.D.

<<Sorry DAL, but I do not believe churches of Christ identify with Jack Cottrell or Everett Ferguson.>>

i have been been a member of the Church of Christ for over 40 years, and am shocked to hear Churches of Christ do not identify with Ferguson. I suppose we are going to vote McGarvey out too.

Lynden O. Williams

Daniel, the best way to get Logos interested, is to start a new thread, and list resources that you would like to see enter Logos. Then get fellow Church Of Christ members to chime in on the thread giving their support.

List the top ten books you want in Logos and start talking to the publishers to get a contract going with Logos. If there is sufficient interest in the resources, and Logos and the publishers can agree on the details, Logos WILL publish.

Make sure to put it in the suggestion forum, as Logos staff, do not monitor this forum as closely as the Suggestion Forum.

Lynden O. Williams

If a title catches my interest and I have the money, I WILL buy.

Daniel Lange

Thank you Lynden. That is very insightful. It is evident that this post has gone "south" so to speak. The purpose of this thread was to announce the work and continue building up a list of members in churches of Christ who use Logos and would offer to contribute to the work. It has created a large degree of confusion as you can see, since there are several movements that have sprung out of churches of Christ (some liberal, and some anti), yet continue to identify themselves with churches of Christ. A reverse method may be more successful as you suggest here. Thanks again.

DMB

If I understand Daniel correctly, he's attempting to create a library, to which a series of members can purchase and have a reasonable assurance what they're reading is consistent with their faith (or as Daniel says, the New Testament church).

Personally, I think that's great. I'd recommend that for many smaller groups, especially if they can fund a significant portion of the cost that Logos must pay. And I wouldn't be surprised if indeed Logos invited Daniel to do just that. It'd especially be great for groups that having preaching schools, etc. and even better with missionaries being trained individually overseas.

That said, I'd think to be successful, there'd need to be a clue in the name more than 'not liberals or antis'. Or 'not liberals or legalists'.

But ignoring the naming, Daniel's invitation I would hope to be great example for other groups as well.

Matthew C Jones

The purpose of this thread was to announce the work and continue building up a list of members in churches of Christ who use Logos and would offer to contribute to the work.

Please clarify. Are you a new product manager that works for Logos?

I am still doubtful excluding those groups closest to your own is productive.

Who decides what is acceptable for this package?

MJ. Smith

The purpose of this thread was to announce the work and continue building up a list of members in churches of Christ who use Logos and would offer to contribute to the work.

It sounds as if the best route for you to take is the PB route I've mentioned before. That is the only way to maintain as narrow a perspective as you appear to want as Logos for business reasons needs to address broader markets. Put another way, Logos' apparent thrust currently is (1) to expand the languages that it serves and (2) to address the major theological streams e.g. it is an Orthodox product manager not a Russian Orthodox Church in Exile product manager.

It is evident that this post has gone "south" so to speak.

Actually, I've been pleased at the degree to which the forums users have not spoken judgmentally/insultingly regarding the various subgroups - I unfortunately have a reputation of "police" because I don't allow slander or libel in my living room.

MJ. Smith

If I understand Daniel correctly, he's attempting to create a library, to which a series of members can purchase and have a reasonable assurance what they're reading is consistent with their faith (or as Daniel says, the New Testament church).

Personally, I think that's great. I'd recommend that for many smaller groups, especially if they can fund a significant portion of the cost that Logos must pay.

I may be wrong but I believe that this is what the long promised, still coming PB store was envisioned to provide. Because of Logos' generous policy of perpetually updating the tagging on resources, they have an overhead level that would be hard to negotiate if they took over such resources. I would love to see Logos become the hub for all church publications.

Daniel Lange

Hi Super (...)? I honestly don't feel comfortable quoting your user name. Nevertheless, you have asked this question several times, thus I would like to respond to you just quickly. 1st, judgment would be guided by a publications adherence to God's word. 2nd, judgment concerning the package resources will preferably be discerned collectively by the church of Christ Library for Logos Bible Software group.

A church of Christ Library for Logos Bible software should not be treated as if we are canonizing Scripture. This is a man made pool of resources that will in some degree be judged by the group's interest and likes. Some publications may not even wholly comply with New Testament doctrine, but given a high degree of leaning toward New Testament doctrine, it may qualify. I disagreed with some responses above such as Everett Ferguson, but some of his works are very helpful to the cause of New Testament teaching, and would likely be included as I have some of his works in my own library. Hope this helps, but if you are sincerely interested, please check back soon as I hope in the near future a collection of publications will be put together for the project and presented publicly.

Daniel Lange

Thanks for the insight MJ. I am not familiar with "PB." Would you mind explaining that further?

Matthew

Daniel,

I would be interested in seeing such a package be developed and would be very interested in purchasing it depending on the number and quality of the resources that would be included. Here is a starter list of resources I would like to have access to in Logos. It is by no means complete, but I wanted to at least put it out there to see if others have interest as well.

Apologetics Press Articles

Many of these articles are probably already available in the various publications put out by Apologetics Press that are also on this list.

http://apologeticspress.org/APTopicsList.aspx?pub=1

http://apologeticspress.org/ContactUs.aspx

Apologetics Press Books

While they do not do this for their entire catalog, many of their books are offered for free in PDF form.

http://apologeticspress.org/PDF-books.aspx

http://apologeticspress.org/ContactUs.aspx

Bellview Church of Christ Lectureship Books

These are available on CD in PDF form. I believe the electronic copies go back to 1975.

http://www.bellviewcoc.com/lectures.php

http://www.bellviewcoc.com/

Bob Winton Outlined Commentaries

Commentary set covering the Old and New Testaments. Unfortunately, I could not find direct contact information for Bob Winton, whom I **believe** self-publishes. The best I could do was find a link to a vendor. However, I **believe** the vendor's list of available volumes may not reflect all of Bob Winton's writings.

http://www.tuckersbooks.com/cobw.php

Christian Courier Articles

These are mostly (if not exclusively) written by Wayne Jackson and are available for free.

https://www.christiancourier.com/articles

https://www.christiancourier.com/contact

Complete Library of Foy E. Wallace

This is actually the tile of a CD that includes the following works by Foy E. Wallace:

A Review of the New Versions

The Book of Revelation

Bulwarks of the Faith

The Christian and the Civil Government

Commentary on Romans, Galatians & Ephesians

Current Issues

Evaluation of the New International Version

God's Prophetic Word

The Gospel For Today

The Instrumental Music Question

Mission and Medium of the Holy Spirit

The Neal-Wallace Discussion

Number One Gospel Sermons

The Plain Truth About the Revised Version

The Story of the Fort Worth Norris-Wallace Debate

Sermon on the Mount and the Civil State

The Present Truth

King James Version of the Bible

A Large Photographic Section

Articles Appearing in Gospel Magazines: Gospel Advocate Editorials (1930-1934); Gospel Guardian (1935-1936); Bible Banner (1938-1949); Torch (1950-1951)

The copyright says Foy E. Wallace, Jr. Publications, but I have not found a specific website for the publisher (and am not even sure if they are still in business). The link provided below is simply for an online vendor.

http://www.ceibooks.com/reference-materials/church-history/biographies/complete-library-of-foy-e-wallace-cd-rom/

Discovery Magazine

A monthly Christian evidences magazine by Apologetics Press for kids. Issues are already available online for free in PDF format.

http://apologeticspress.org/DiscoveryArchiveIndex.aspx

http://apologeticspress.org/ContactUs.aspx

Florida School of Preaching Lectureship Books (South Florida Avenue Church of Christ)

These are available on CD in PDF form. I believe the electronic copies go back to 1994.

http://www.fsop.net/Lectureships/booksandmedia.html

http://www.fsop.net/contact.html

Fortify Your Faith

Publisher affiliated with Christian Courier (see above). Books for sale on Christian Courier link here. The website appears to be undergoing maintenance right now, but I **believe** this is the publisher Logos would need to contact regarding obtaining the rights of any of the many books published by Wayne Jackson.

http://www.fortifyyourfaithbookstore.org/

Freed-Hardeman University Lectureship Books

These are available on CD in PDF form. I believe the electronic copies go back to 1953.

http://www.fhu.edu/lectureship/index.aspx

http://www.fhu.edu/lectureship/contactus.aspx

Focus Press Articles

I would suspect that many of these articles would be included in Think Magazine (see below) .

http://www.focuspress.org/Articles.html

Gospel Advocate

Publishes a wide range of material affiliated with the churches of Christ, including a complete New Testament commentary set. Some of their material appears to be available in digital format already.

http://stores.gospeladvocate.com/

James Burton Coffman Commentaries

Commentary set on covering both the Old and New Testaments. As far as I know, these are currently available electronically in two formats. They can be viewed online for free one chapter at a time or they can be purchased for use with Theophilos. Looks like Abilene Christian University Press is the publisher.

http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/

http://www.theophilos.com/products.htm

http://www.acu.edu/campusoffices/acupress/

Memphis School of Preaching Lectureship Books (Forest Hill Church of Christ)

These are available on CD in PDF form. I believe the electronic copies go back to 1982.

http://www.msop.org/lectures.php

http://www.msop.org/foresthill.php

National Christian Press

Publisher with the rights to various books by Thomas B. Warren.

http://www.nationalchristianpress.net/NCPcatalog.pdf

http://www.nationalchristianpress.net/about.html

Power Lectureship Books (Southaven Church of Christ)

These are available on CD in PDF form. I believe the electronic copies go back to 1989.

http://southavencoc.org/?page_id=173

Reason & Revelation

A monthly journal by Apologetics Press on Christian evidences for adults. Issues are already available online for free in PDF format.

http://apologeticspress.org/APArchiveIndex.aspx?pub=1

http://apologeticspress.org/ContactUs.aspx

Sain Publications

Publisher affiliated with the churches of Christ. I do not readily see any resources already available in PDF format on their website, so I have simply provided the link to their catalog.

Http://sainpublications.com/catalog/

Schertz Church of Christ Lectureship Books

The Schertz lectureship was previously known as the Denton Lectureship. This is important to know because the Schertz/Denton lectureship books work together to form a set. Each year the lectureship has focused on one or more specific books of the Bible. When the books are taken together, they essentially form a commentary set. I know that there is a CD available with these books in electronic form, but I do not know how far back they go.

http://www.schertzcofc.org/lectureship/2013/lectureship2013.htm

http://www.schertzcofc.org/

Science Vs. Evolution (Vance Ferrell)

This is not affiliated with the churches of Christ as far as I know. It is just a resource that I have found to be helpful and that I included here because it is available online for free. It is actually an expanded version of another book by Vance Ferrell called The Evolution Cruncher (which is available for free in PDF from the same website).

http://evolutionfacts.com/sci-ev-PDF/sci_vs_ev_PDF.htm

Shenandoah Church of Christ Lectureship Books

These are available on CD in PDF form. I believe the electronic copies go back to 1987.

http://www.shenandoahcofc.org/lectureship.html

http://www.shenandoahcofc.org/index.html

Spiritual Sword Lectureship Books (Getwell Church of Christ)

From what I can tell, these books are not available to the public in PDF form. I would **assume** they still exist in digital form somewhere, but I cannot confirm this, as I have not spoken to anyone at the Getwell Church of Christ about it. This is the same congregation that puts out the Spiritual Sword quarterlies (see below), and those are available on CD as PDFs. If the Spiritual Sword lectureship books are also in a digital format somewhere, they could potentially go back to 1976.

http://www.getwellchurchofchrist.org/the-spiritual-sword-lectureship

http://www.getwellchurchofchrist.org/locations/church-building

Spiritual Sword Quarterlies

A 48-page quarterly that addresses a wide range of topics. While not free to download, the website indicates issues are available digitally on a CD.

http://www.getwellchurchofchrist.org/the-spiritual-sword/the-spiritual-sword-quarterlies-topics

http://www.getwellchurchofchrist.org/locations/church-building

Think Magazine

Christian magazine the covers a wide range of topics. Issues are available to download, but they are not free.

http://www.focuspress.org/

TLC Publishing

Publisher dedicated to “Preserving Restoration Movement Materials.” In looking over the website, I found “125+ Debates in PDF.” I do not see any information about who owns the rights to this work, but that sounds like something that would be a welcome addition to Logos.

http://tomchilders.net/store/debates-in-pdf/?menuid=9

http://tomchilders.net/

Truth for Today Commentary Series

Commentary set covering both the Old and New Testaments. Published by Resource Publications.

http://www.resourcepublications.net/index.php?page=series

Truth in Love Lectureship Books (East Hill Church of Christ)

Unlike most of the lectureship books on this list, these are available for free in PDF. The books go back to 1992.

http://www.easthillchurch.org/TIL_Books.html

Valor & Virtue

A Christian evidences magazine by Apologetics Press for teens. There only appear to be two issues so far, but both are available online for free.

http://apologeticspress.org/v2.aspx

http://apologeticspress.org/ContactUs.aspx

Felmar Roel Rap. Singco

I am willing to join, thanks.

xnman

We are looking for faithful gospel preachers, teachers, and members of the Lord's church who would be interested in joining a good cause to help establish an electronic brotherhood base package for Logos Bible Software. A group has already been formed on Facebook, as well as a shared notebook to begin putting together a prospective list of publications to be converted for use on Logos. If you are interested in joining this good work or would like to know more, please respond to the post and I'd be happy to give you more information.

Am interested .... let me know. By the way Daniel.... ever get back to Marshfield, WI.... ??? [8-|]

DAL

We are looking for faithful gospel preachers, teachers, and members of the Lord's church who would be interested in joining a good cause to help establish an electronic brotherhood base package for Logos Bible Software. A group has already been formed on Facebook, as well as a shared notebook to begin putting together a prospective list of publications to be converted for use on Logos. If you are interested in joining this good work or would like to know more, please respond to the post and I'd be happy to give you more information.

Am interested .... let me know. By the way Daniel.... ever get back to Marshfield, WI.... ???

Daniel is no longer part of the discussion.

DAL

xnman

Daniel is no longer part of the discussion.

DAL

Thanks..... as usual.... $5 dollars short and 2 late.... [8-|]

DAL

Daniel is no longer part of the discussion.

DAL

Thanks..... as usual.... $5 dollars short and 2 late....

He may have suffered a “Failure to launch” 🚀 even in his own “Facebook group.” Unfortunately, he wanted things done his way. He sabotaged his own cause.