Index of Bible Studies

Several weeks ago I started making an index of Bible studies in Logos: sermons, meditations, outlines, commentaries that are not marked as commentaries, etc. - anything that would not show up easily in the passage guide. The attached file can be compiled as a Personal Book in Logos. The aims are to help me when I prepare material on a given passage, but also to get to know some of the books in my library that I would otherwise not look it. The index is far from complete and is not perfect, but since others in the forum have mentioned they were thinking of doing something similar, I though I would share what I have done so far, so that we do not duplicate our efforts. Others can insert what I have done, just as I would be happy to included what others will do.

Naturally, an index like this depends upon your own library. I have listed books that I have (Platinum in Logos 4 and Logos 5, plus various extras from Logos and third parties), so you may find that some of the links lead to books you do not have.

As time permits, I will try to add more books to this index, and if so I will post updated copies later on.

0116.Index Bible Studies.docx

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Milford Charles Murray

Several weeks ago I started making an index of Bible studies in Logos: sermons, meditations, outlines, commentaries that are not marked as commentaries, etc. - anything that would not show up easily in the passage guide.

Peace to you, Richard! *smile*

What an incredible idea ....... what an incredible document ........... what an incredible amount of work!!!

Wow! Thank you for sharing! Not sure yet; however this may be so very helpful in my life..

Mark Smith

Very generous of you, Richard. I can see much work involved in this contribution.

NB.Mick

Wow, Richard, this is great!

Did you do them by hand, or could you somehow fetch a bible index from the database?

By chance I stumbled over perhaps the single typo in it: in the section on Mt 28:18-20, the link [[My Utmost for His
Highest >> logosres:utmost;ref=DayOfYear.Oct_14]] wrongly says it's Mt 18 ...

Thanks again for this great work, much appreciated!

Richard Wilson

Mostly by hand, but it isn't as hard as it seems. I show the table of contents on the left hand side of the pane, click each section in turn, copy as Wiki (CTRL+ALT+C), and then in Word type the reference (which is where errors can come in, thanks for the correction) and copy the link in Logos.

NB.Mick

Mostly by hand

This really is impressive. I found that you worked through 295 books and made 5869 references! For those who want to check whether they can help to make this comprehensive index even more complete, I added a list of those books you've already covered.

EDIT: deleted the *.docx here and posted an updated version below /EDIT

I corrected the second typo in this process as well, a missing arrow character in Jn 11:39 [[To the Work! To the Work! >> logosres:totheworkmoody;ref=Page.p_7]]

Thanks again for sharing this!

Milford Charles Murray

Peace to all! *smile* Earlier I said, "Incredible"! Now, I add "Awesome"! I have to make a decision quite soon as tok whether or not this is the "way I should go" in my studies and research at my age and in my situation.

Richard, the thoroughness of your brilliant conception really is incredible! *smile* Love the concept! However, if I use this concept, will I save time or would it cost me time. But, what a roller-coaster experience it would be!

Indeed!

Please let me share an important (to me!!!!) poem Hope it's helpful to you for meditation on this day!

Lord I Have Time

By Michel Quoist

I've been out, Lord,
Outside people were going out.
They were going,
They were coming,
They were walking,
They were rushing.

Motor bikes were rushing by,
Cars were rushing by,
Trucks were rushing by.
The street was rushing,
The city was rushing,
The whole world was rushing.

They were rushing so as not to lose time.
They were rushing after time to catch up with time,
to gain time.
Goodbye sir, excuse me, I haven't time.
I'll come back, I can't wait, I haven't time.

I'd like to help you, but I haven't time.
I can't accept, for lack of time.
I can't reflect, read, I'm snowed under, I haven't time.

The child - he's playing,
he hasn't time at the moment....later on...
The schoolboy - he's got his homework,
he hasn't time...later on...
The student - he's got his lectures, and such a lot of work,
he hasn't time...later on...
The young man - he's playing sport,
he hasn't time...later on...
The married man - he has his house to run,
he hasn't time...and later on...
The father - he has his children,
he hasn't time...and later on...
The grandparents - they have their grandchildren,
they haven't time...later on...
They're sick! They have their cares,
they haven't time...later...
They're dying, they have...
Too late! They haven't any more time!
That's how they're all rushing after time, Lord.

They pass by on earth, always rushing, hurrying,
jostling, weighed down, snowed under, nearly demented.
And they never get there, there's not enough time.
Despite all their efforts, there's never enough time.

Lord, you must have made a mistake somewhere.
There's been a tremendous oversight.
The hours are too short, the days are too short,
lives are too short.

You, who are outside of time,
You smile, Lord, to see us struggle with it.
And you know what You are doing.
You don't make mistakes when You allot time to men.
You give to each one the time to do what You want him to do.

But is it wrong to lose time, to waste time, to kill time,
For time is Your gift to us -
But a perishable gift, a gift that doesn't keep.
Lord, I have time
I have all my time,
All the time You gave me,
The years of my life,
The days of my years,
They are all mine. Mine to fill up calmly, peacefully,
But to fill up completely, right to the brim -
To offer to You, that of their stale water
You may make a generous wine, as once at Cana for a
human wedding feast.

I don't ask this evening Lord,
for time to do this or that.
I ask for the grace to do conscientiously,
in the time that You gave me,
the thing that You want me to do.

Richard Wilson

There are actually a lot less than 295 books done. Usually when I copy a Logos link, it is pasted in as Page..., a date, or something similar, so that I can do a quick search and replace in Word to put the book title. But in the book "Sermon Starters", the Logos link was pasted as the title of the sermon. So I left it, partly because it was a useful title (unlike the page number) and partly because it was not possible to easily change all the titles to the book name. Since there are 208 sermons in that book, I have in fact indexed only 88 books. Still got 1720 to go in my library, although most of those do not have anything to indexed. (I automatically excluded a lot of books from indexing, eg those with the commentary type, Perseus, Bibles, etc.)

toughski

thank you, Richard

David Goodman

How can I tag this tool so that it will come up when I search for commentaries on a specific passage. With book commentaries I insert something like [[@Bible:Ge]] at the beginning of the document and then the work is listed if I am looking for some passage in Genesis. I would be satisfied if it came up anytime I searched for any passage and then I would use the TOC to find my target. I do not have the ability to tag it for each individual passage. Any suggestions?

I am amazed at how many suggestions for additional study this brings to my attention. Quite valuable!

Richard Wilson

It used to do this, and show up in the passage guide, but at some point all the milestones like [[@Bible:Ge]] got lost. I don't know how, maybe when Word creashed once and I had to reconstruct the file, I forgot to put in those milestones. So you can put them in your copy in the meantime, and I will put them in my file as well, so that they will appear next them I publish an update to the file.

David Goodman

Well I am not complaining. I was amazed how many items it pointed out that I never would have thought to look at.

I am curious. Is there a utility you use to put those milestones in or do you just do it manually? I see these huge commentary series people tag and wonder "how in the world"?

Richard Wilson

It would no doubt be possible to write a Word macro to do, but I will just do it manually. Probably take less time for me rather than working out how to write the macro.

Dr. Charles A. Wootten

Wow!! Thanks, Richard. This is a work of art! I appreciate the extraordinary amount of time you took to compile the data.

My log file showed:

[Error] Font 'Cambria' is not a valid font for use in resources.
[Warning] Unknown data type in use: topic+topics

I'm not sure that this is a serious thing, but just wanted to let you know.

thanX!! again

{charley|

Richard Wilson

[Error] Font 'Cambria' is not a valid font for use in resources.
[Warning] Unknown data type in use: topic+topics

The first one started turning up in all Personal Books last December. Nobody knows why, but it is harmless. See

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/154964.aspx

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/155354.aspx

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/157141.aspx

The second, according to https://wiki.logos.com/PB_%E2%80%93_Warnings_$26_Errors#Unknown_Datatype , is because the Personal Book links to books that you do not have. If you want to avoid this error, you can create a personal Index of Bible Studies that contains only the books you own. The previous messages in this thread explain how to do that.

Dr. Charles A. Wootten

Thanks, Richard! Now that you mention it I remember the font issue. And no problem on the personal index.

{charley}

Liam

Thanks again Richard!

Logos should use your work and index all these resources!

Or maybe just hire you!

Larry Craig

I downloaded the file and installed it. I find that I have another file just like this one, that looks like something you put together, because I'm seeing a lot of the same books. Could that have been yours too?

The reason I am asking is that the book won't build

Richard Wilson

Bruce: 6663 is not the most recent. Try rather 48476.Index Bible Studies.docx that is in my message of January 2021.

Larry:
There are different versions of the Index of Bible Studies, as I have added more books to it.

For both of you, I'm not sure why it is not building. I will do some tests and see if I can work out the problem.

Bruce Dunning

Richard, thanks for pointing out that I had the wrong file. Not sure how that happened. I'll try the new one and hopefully it will build this time.

Bruce Dunning

Richard, I tried updating with 48476 and it is doing the same thing where it seems to be stuck at 20% in the "converting" stage.

James William Roberts, Jr.

Mark

can you direct me to instructions for using myindex plesde.

MJ. Smith

The last directions I have found

Here is an update to my Index of Bible Studies, with the addition of the contents of a couple of Logos 9 packages and a few other books I have added to my library. There are now 2134 Logos resources included and 67,620 links. I will repeat here the instructions to use it.

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This file contains links to sermons, meditations, outlines, journal articles, Bible study guides, and more that do not appear in the Passage Guide. (Exception: some sermons now appear in the Passage Guide, but did not when I started, and I thought I would not remove them.) It is useful especially when preparing Bible studies or sermons on a certain passage, to find more ideas on the passage from your library that you can use.

To install the Index, download the Index Bible Studies.docx file, then use the Personal Books tool of Logos to create a new personal book. You can use whatever title you like, but it is best to set the type to "Bible commentary". On page 3 of this thread you can find a book cover that you can optionally use. The message https://community.logos.com/forums/p/65323/1093313.aspx#1093313 2654.Index Bible Studies.docx gives graphical instructions for this installation.

The index contains the books in my Logos library – there is a list of the included books at the end of the Index Bible Studies.docx file. Naturally, I cannot include books that are in your library but not in mine. However, it is possible to exclude books that are in my library but not in yours, which makes the resulting personal book easier to use. To create this personal index (Windows only):
1. Download and unzip the MyIndex.zip file.
2. There should then be two files in a directory. Start the Index Bible Studies.exe program, which will open Logos (if it is not already open), read the names of all the books in your library, and then create a file My Index Bible Studies.rtf in your Documents directory.
3. Open the My Index Bible Studies.rtf file in Word or another word processor and save it as a docx file.
4. Create a personal book from that docx file, in the same way as described in the previous paragraph setting the type to "Bible commentary".

48476.Index Bible Studies.docx

7128.MyIndex.zip

Richard Wilson

can you direct me to instructions for using myindex plesde.

Are you on a Mac or Windows? Is Logos installed in the default directory? These are the most common problems.

James William Roberts, Jr.

I am getting this error when I run myindex.exe.

Error finding your books. Probably Logos was closed. Please restart the program and do not close Logos.

It seems to get to the end and then gives that message.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bro. Bill

Richard Wilson

I have started a new thread for the Index of Bible Studies, where the new version of the file can be downloaded. See

https://community.logos.com/discussion/245004/index-of-bible-studies