Free up my bookshelf space, please!

If we get the Preachers Homiletic Commentary into production and published, I'll be able to give away my print set and free up 5 linear feet of bookshelf space! View it at http://www.logos.com/product/8523/preachers-homiletic-commentary

Please bid for this resource. At the price which is most popular just now - $40 - it is a steal! I'm in for twice that amount and even that would be money well spent.

If you need more convincing, see my screenshots in the following thread: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/29993.aspx

Place your bids for this, folks; you won't regret it! Big Smile

Every blessing

Alan

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Alex Scott

The problem Alan is that there are not enough serious bidders out there. Most of these are just people looking for a cheap deal, not the resources themselves. When you check the progress of CP resources, almost all the ones that have any hope of production are being bid at 10% or more, like your bid. The rest are languishing at 1-5% of their value and will never see the light of day, in our lifetime at least.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224819#Comment_224819

The problem Alan is that there are not enough serious bidders out there. Most of these are just people looking for a cheap deal, not the resources themselves. When you check the progress of CP resources, almost all the ones that have any hope of production are being bid at 10% or more, like your bid. The rest are languishing at 1-5% of their value and will never see the light of day, in our lifetime at least.

Alex:

I assume you think you will be dying sometime soon. Even if these things take three or four years, they will not have lost their value. Barnes Notes is the proof of this - it took forever, but it is coming. I have bid $80, I do not expect to pay that much - whether it be this year or in four year. I will be patient - until it is published, I am no worse than I currently am - I don't have the books.

Matthew C Jones

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224822#Comment_224822

I assume you think you will be dying sometime soon.

[:D] Some of us won't be here in 5 years. [:D]

The tricky part is, some that think they will be still "alive & kicking" then, won't be................[:O]

I'm in for this title at $70 but expect it will go through around $25 if enough people get on board. It is a good resource for preachers.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224825#Comment_224825

The tricky part is, some that think they will be still "alive & kicking" then, won't be................

Then I might as well save my money - if I die before it comes out in LOGOS, I can get better answers in heaven than form any book written here on earth.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224846#Comment_224846

I've been in for $40 from the beginning but just upped my bid to $80. It won't make any difference in the height of the peak, but perhaps by making the slope from the peak to higher prices more gradual it will show prospective potential bidders that more people value this work highly and maybe that will get them to see that $40 or even $50 would be a pretty good deal. And then we might all get it for $25 after all.

Matthew C Jones

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224846#Comment_224846

The tricky part is, some that think they will be still "alive & kicking" then, won't be................

Then I might as well save my money - if I die before it comes out in LOGOS, I can get better answers in heaven than form any book written here on earth.

I was hoping my statement would motivate people to bid higher to get in into publication and make good use of it sooner.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224825#Comment_224825

Some of us won't be here in 5 years.

Speak for yourself. I intend to live to be 1,000 so I can outdo Methusaleh. Since I'll be 39 on my next birthday, that means I still have 961 yrs to go (or thereabout). [;)]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224891#Comment_224891

I intend to live to be 1,000 so I can outdo Methusaleh. Since I'll be 39 on my next birthday, that means I still have 961 yrs to go (or thereabout).

But you'll never make it to 1000, because you keep turning 39 on every birthday... [:)]

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224908#Comment_224908

I intend to live to be 1,000 so I can outdo Methusaleh. Since I'll be 39 on my next birthday, that means I still have 961 yrs to go (or thereabout).

But you'll never make it to 1000, because you keep turning 39 on every birthday...

Brilliant point! You re right Rosie! [:D]

Bohuslav Wojnar

Alan, is this in your opinion a better and more usable series for today's preachers than The Pulpit Commentary series?

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224908#Comment_224908

I intend to live to be 1,000 so I can outdo Methusaleh. Since I'll be 39 on my next birthday, that means I still have 961 yrs to go (or thereabout).

But you'll never make it to 1000, because you keep turning 39 on every birthday...

But think how much better he will look at 39 that at 1000 - and George will finally learn patience.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224985#Comment_224985

Alan, is this in your opinion a better and more usable series for today's preachers than The Pulpit Commentary series?

Word Biblical Commentary, Hermeneia, Anchor Yale Bible Commentary. Of course, these are much more expensive since they are current scholarship as opposed to old, public domain works on Community Pricing.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224992#Comment_224992

I intend to live to be 1,000 so I can outdo Methusaleh. Since I'll be 39 on my next birthday, that means I still have 961 yrs to go (or thereabout).

But you'll never make it to 1000, because you keep turning 39 on every birthday...

But think how much better he will look at 39 that at 1000 - and George will finally learn patience.

My name isn't Job, but then, he really wasn't very patient, was he? [:O]

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/225012#Comment_225012

Alan, is this in your opinion a better and more usable series for today's preachers than The Pulpit Commentary series?

Word Biblical Commentary, Hermeneia, Anchor Yale Bible Commentary. Of course, these are much more expensive since they are current scholarship as opposed to old, public domain works on Community Pricing.

Thanks George, yes I use WBC almost every time I prepare a sermon (together with NICOT/NICNT, BECNT, Pillar's, UBS Handbook series etc.) For more homiletic purposes I use sometimes The Preacher's Commentary Series. I hardly ever use the Pulpit one. That's why I asked the question.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224908#Comment_224908

But you'll never make it to 1000, because you keep turning 39 on every birthday...

Not quite every birthday, it seems [:)]:

Personally, I'm with Paul (Phil 1:21-23). No 1000 years for me, if I have a choice in the matter.

Alex Scott

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224822#Comment_224822

Even if these things take three or four years, they will not have lost their value. Barnes Notes is the proof of this - it took forever, but it is coming. I have bid $80, I do not expect to pay that much - whether it be this year or in four year.

Sounds good in theory, but... don't forget - these things don't get published based on the number of bidders but on the total amount of money they are prepared to put up. You can get away with bidding ridiculously low bids on the lower priced products because there are probably sufficient bidders to make up the production cost, but bidding 2 and 3% of the retail value of these large collections is probably going to require a lot more Logos customers than there are or are even likely to be. And that is why some of these really great products are never going to get published under these conditions. Someone on one thread actually suggested lowering our bids to make the product more attractive (which kind of proves my point about cheap being more important than quality) but following that line of reasoning, why don't we all just bid $1, then the price would be really attractive.

Anyway, perhaps you'll be right in the long run - time will tell. Personally I'd rather have the resources rather than waiting 10 years to save $10.

Alan Macgregor

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224985#Comment_224985

Alan, is this in your opinion a better and more usable series for today's preachers than The Pulpit Commentary series?

Bohuslav

IMHO it is. I certainly use it more.

I often find the Illustrations suggestive. Even if I seldom use them as they are, they get my creative juices flowing.
The Main Homiletics section is helpful in providing sermon headings, even when I develop things a bit differently from the author's outline.

At the price that it's being offered at just over $1 per volume. It's well worth it – and a lot more.

Every blessing

Alan

Dr. Charles A. Wootten

oh well, Alan. I was going to sell you my print set cheap....heheheh.... I submitted an $80 bid sometime back in hopes of recouping my shelf space, too. I obtained my set from a retiring pastor years ago. There's a friend here who looks at that set the way I did all those years ago and he'll receive my set the day Logos puts this into production.

Sure, it is true that some of the comments and examples are a bit dated, and there are folks mentioned in the text only by their last names. The value, though, lies in how these people used their minds to understand the biblical text, i.e., their thought processes, etc. While I do use the "latest and greatest" I will read through the appropriate section in a particular volume to help formulate my own thoughts. I do have The Pulpit Commentary which is similar in style, but I would like to have this set electronically, too.

Like George, I am ancient and wobbly but I haven't lost hope that I'll see this happen before the light on Earth grows dim....[:P] nyuk nyuk...

{charley}

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/225096#Comment_225096

Bohuslav

IMHO it is. I certainly use it more.

I often find the Illustrations suggestive. Even if I seldom use them as they are, they get my creative juices flowing.

The Main Homiletics section is helpful in providing sermon headings, even when I develop things a bit differently from the author's outline.

At the price that it's being offered at just over $1 per volume. It's well worth it – and a lot more.

Every blessing

Alan

Thank you Alan. I appreciate that information.

God bless you.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/225226#Comment_225226

Like George, I am ancient and wobbly but I haven't lost hope that I'll see this happen before the light on Earth grows dim.... nyuk nyuk...

Some people seem to be ready to confine me to Oldtimers Bed and Breakfast. I'm not "ancient and wobbly." Shall we go for a hike in the mountains?