How do you use the Sermon Notebook feature in a Sermon Document?

Tim Murray
Tim Murray Member Posts: 92 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.  Share how you use it.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,043 ✭✭✭✭✭

    bumping for appropriate response

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • MWW
    MWW Member Posts: 427 ✭✭

    I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.  Share how you use it.

    I don’t use it, though I have toyed around with it a few times. To me it seems to be 1/2 done and quirky. Others might have a better experience with it. 

  • DAL
    DAL Member Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭

    I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.  Share how you use it.

    You mean the sermon editor? I just do my sermon outline in Word then I copy and paste it into the sermon editor so all the verses become hyperlinks.  That way I can present from my screen with the outline on the left and my preferred Bible on the right.  I preach or teach and people can read the verses when I click on them.

    DAL

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,043 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.

    Have you tried these?

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Tim Murray
    Tim Murray Member Posts: 92 ✭✭
  • Tim Murray
    Tim Murray Member Posts: 92 ✭✭

    I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.

    Have you tried these?

    Sounds like the same thing MJ.  I don't see this "Homily" in Logos though.

    I think I understand its purpose, I'm just trying to find out if anybody is using it and how.  I haven't found any use for it so maybe I'm missing something.

  • David Thomas
    David Thomas Member Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭

    I create a notebook in Notes for each sermon. all of my clippings, notes, highlights, & Workflow comments are gathered in one place for each sermon.

    In my Textual (Expository) Sermons

    I connect my Workflow to a Notebook that is identified in my Sermon Doc, then I post bookmarks in my Favorites folder so I can quickly find process notes, clippings, and final product for any text preached.

    In my Topical Sermons My Topical Sermon Preparation Workflow supplies comments that go into a specific Notebook, connecting that notebook to the information pane in my Sermon doc provides one place (redundant since it is already in one notebook?). In my Favorites folder I place bookmarks to my clippings, notebook and sermon under the appropriate topic AND also under key texts.

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  • Tim Murray
    Tim Murray Member Posts: 92 ✭✭

    I create a notebook in Notes for each sermon. all of my clippings, notes, highlights, & Workflow comments are gathered in one place for each sermon.

    Thanks David.  I'll have to study this.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,043 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't see this "Homily" in Logos though.

    Logos uses the term "sermon" while Verbum uses the term "homily". For your purposes, the tools are identical.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • ds. P.J. Kotze
    ds. P.J. Kotze Member Posts: 84 ✭✭

    Share how you use it.

    1) I sometimes use Sermon Notebooks as a temporary scratchpad for thoughts that popup while writing a sermon. It’s just like a customizable history of thoughts.

    2) I sometimes think of a Sermon Notebook as one huge Thematic index where one notebook serves all Sermons. Each note contain only a thematic heading or sub heading and relevant bible references. This allow for easy outlining.

    3) I sometimes collect notes from everywhere to quickly build a message. Then move them back where they belong Or just open different notebooks in the sidebar as I write the message.

    4) I sometimes copy my daily journalling of short devotionals from a Sermon document to a notebook. Over time it gets easier to compile larger messages from several short one page messages.

    5) I sometimes extract paragraps in a long message to make smaller reusable elements.

    6) I sometimes delete all my notebooks to restart my brain and

    7) I sometimes just don’t use Notebooks at all.

    There are so many creative options available when you start thinking of the Notestool as a Resource for creating messages.