🎉 Welcome to the Community!

I’m personally really excited about this community. Logos is super powerful but what a sweet opportunity to get even more out of it by tapping into the community of the Church! I can’t think of many apps out there who have such a dedicated and helpful community of people supporting each other! Praise the Lord for the Church using technology to dive deeper in the Word.

Welcome to the Logos Community Michael!!!

@Stephen Hicks - Welcome to the Logos Community!!! We will definitely try to help you with whatever questions you may come across.

I am as new as they get 😅

I've been desiring to have access to this powerful program for years, and I'm excited to finally be a part of the community of users.

New Pastor - 1 year in by God's Grace.

I need a lot of help to grow comfortable with Logos.

Thanks in advance for your help and patience! 🙂

Welcome! I started using Logos in seminary. I bought Logos 4 at the time so I could have access to great commentaries. At the time, I thought it was just Kindle for Bible nerds so I was immediately hooked.

I loved using Logos throughout seminary so much that I sold plasma to purchase additional resources, like Word Biblical Commentary, which rarely goes on sale. Buying books in Logos was (and still is) an addiction 😂

After seminary, I started using Logos for ministry throughout the city and that's when I began to see it's real power. Logos has come a long way since 2011. I'm pumped to see what's to come.

I heard about Logos when they first moved to Bellingham in 2003, then in 2011 I had the opportunity to assist the marketing team with videos and photo shoots. Fast forward to 2021 and I began working here and discovered the software's tremendous power to study God's Word. I now use Logos for Bible study and as a healing and recovery minister for a local church. I am grateful to be a part of this community!

I am encouraged there is such a great diversity of people represented in just these first few replies. Everyone has a story … they are so good to hear. It is so good to get to know brothers and sisters in Christ.

I think you will find Jason Stone very accessible and cordial at the least. His only constraint is that he may spread himself a bit too thin trying to help everyone he can. He has a lot on his plate trying to revamp the once black and white forums into a community. Aside from glitches and nits I feel that he is progressing very well. I’m sure with the communities help there will be a better forum.

I was a Bibleworks user since the 90s. They went out of business in 2018 and can no longer be activated. So I've tried multiple Bible apps, but nothing was a good replacement.

A few months ago I decided to try logos again (I tried it a few years back). There was a bit of a learning curve for me. I took some training from MP Seminars to get a feel for it.

Now that I understand a lot of the features, I'm sold. My old software had a lot of resources, but the way Logos integrates everything brings everything together in my studies. Then I expanded my library and kept finding more and more valuable commentaries and features. I spent way too much money, but it has been worth it. Now I'm a Max subscriber, and the new generation of Logos has made my studies richer and deeper. I no longer miss my old software. I use Logos almost every day!

My journey began with B****S*ft on PC DOS 5.25 floppies, with only KJV & NIV. That was all - on a 286 monochrome no mouse. I was so amazed one day I bowed my head to thank our Father for this tool. I heard of Logos 1.6, but when I called ("landline") they said Logos is at 2.0 beta on CD (anyone know the year?), would I be willing to try that? I had to buy external CD no machine came with that. It seemed that Logos was going to be more powerful, and "international" (earth languages) so I took the plunge off the high dive into the deep end. Logos continues the "deep dive"(into 12K+). Now at 77, coming up on my 54th REbirthday, I praise "The Most High El Shadai Elohim" (aka The Lord God Almighty) - the AlefTav - Who Was, Is, Is Coming. Two highlights for me are the reverse interlinears and FactBook, then and all the "original language" resources. Translations are like 2nd hand - I prefer to get it from "The Source's Mouth" - Hebrew and Greek (ok, maybe Aramaic, etc). The sign over Messiah's cross was in three languages, so it is very important to "triangulate" ("EngGreBrew").

In answer to your drift, instead of clicking on folders, like we used to, one clicks on 'Filters' usually at the top of a post list. Then select one or more tags that people assigned. And then if you do that frequently, you can save your choices as a link in your browser.

But from a practical point of view, basically it's desktop, mobile, web app, and logos.com (and bugs). The other tags tend to be pretty sparse.

I went from just paper and a to do list app, to a somewhat brief experience with Sword Searcher. You can't even get page numbers on that software (no criticism, cause that's just one dev and it's still very good). Going from that to Logos; this software is so good it breaks my mind. Halfway through the quick start videos and I had to go lay down for a while. It knocked me out. It was just one "are you kidding me" after another.

This is the pinnacle of computing. Every little aspect of it is well thought out, well designed and top notch. It's beyond helpful. Some of the other secular technologies might be "further along" but we don't need those anyway. It's varying degrees of shiny objects. Here today and gone tomorrow. Logos uses modern tech to help us do what is important.

Although the US dollar to Canadian currency conversion totally wrecks me. A two year Max sub is going to cost me $570. I wonder if I should buy it before my trial runs out. Trump was talking about 25% tariffs on Canada starting Feb. 1st. I wonder if that applies to digital goods too. ?