Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary (38 vols.) - Let's try to get it out of community pricing

This seems like a really neat resource. I don't know why it's not getting more attention. Would someone mind informing this seminary student what I could hope for in this set?

Alan Macgregor

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/276005#Comment_276005

Jeff

Have a look at this earlier thread (http://community.logos.com/forums/t/29993.aspx) and scroll down to where I gave an illustrated description of the set which I have had in print for over 20 years now!

Every blessing

Alan

Bill Moore

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/255420#Comment_255420

To quote myself as well ...

[quote]In since November 2, 2011 - want it in my library.

Since I don't think you meant to be prophetic, Floyd, I take it you meant November 2, 2010, the same date I got in. [;)]

MJD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/276088#Comment_276088

I am in too....[Y]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/276098#Comment_276098

great material.

good price.

Andrew Hughes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/277043#Comment_277043

I'm in too. Looks like there is still a good number folks needed

Myezra710

How do we go about getting The Preacher's Homiletic Commentary for Logos 4? I hope it is ready for purchase soon!! I have the books and can't wait til we have full access on Logos!

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328293#Comment_328293

Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary (38 vols.) http://www.logos.com/product/8523/preachers-homiletic-commentary

We just need enough people to bid on this set to cover the cost of production. Click on the link to get an idea where things stand at currently.

As Larry the Cable guy would say, "Let's get her done!

[:D] [:D]

Ted Hans

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328302#Comment_328302

Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary (38 vols.) http://www.logos.com/product/8523/preachers-homiletic-commentary

We just need enough people to bid on this set to cover the cost of production. Click on the link to get an idea where things stand at currently.

As Larry the Cable guy would say, "Let's get her done!

[Y][:)][:D][A]

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328543#Comment_328543

I generally don't like this kind of resource, but for $40 I'll play along. I'm in.

Paul-C

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328582#Comment_328582

I generally don't like this kind of resource, but for $40 I'll play along. I'm in.

Me too. At a little over $1/volume, it seems like a good deal.

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328583#Comment_328583

[B][Y]

Ted Weis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328582#Comment_328582

In!

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328627#Comment_328627

All right!

[D]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328631#Comment_328631

[:D]

This is a great resource for anyone that preaches or teaches the Bible.

Wild Eagle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328582#Comment_328582

Publication Date 2008

I am in

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328726#Comment_328726

Publication Date 2008

Slava, whatever that date means it is not the date that these were written. The set was published before 1900. All the authors are long gone. This is not a modern commentary at all.

Just want you to be sure you understand what you might get some day.

Brother Mark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328757#Comment_328757

Slava, whatever that date means it is not the date that these were written. The set was published before 1900. All the authors are long gone. This is not a modern commentary at all.

Just want you to be sure you understand what you might get some day.

IMHO, the value here isn't in modern scholarship with regard to translation, ancient culture, or archaeological insights; but in the timeless applications for Christian living. Hence, it is relevant in the same way that Spurgeon's sermons continue to be relevant today. So, it depends entirely on what you're looking for in a commentary I suppose.

Ted Hans

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328819#Comment_328819

Any more takers please at $40, bid here http://www.logos.com/product/8523/preachers-homiletic-commentary

Lawrence Young

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328927#Comment_328927

I'm in!

Wild Eagle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328757#Comment_328757

Slava, whatever that date means it is not the date that these were written. The set was published before 1900. All the authors are long gone. This is not a modern commentary at all.

Just want you to be sure you understand what you might get some day.

Thank you Mark for letting me know.

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328938#Comment_328938

Here is a sample of some of the material from Genesis chapter one. I tried to clean it up the best that I could.

Genesis1:15

Verse 15. Light:—

1. Its speed.

2.Its profusion.

3. Its beauty.

4. Its joy.

The excellencies of creatures are
not

of themselves, but are the gift
of God :

1. Because all perfections are
originally

in God, and therefore must
come

by way of dispensation from Him.

2.That the honour of all might
return to

Him alone.

3. Let men acknowledgeall
their abilities as from God.

4.Seeking all
at His hand.

5. Enjoying them without pride.

6. Giving thanks to Him for them.

7. Using them to His glory.

What it was that carried the
light about the world before the sun
was

made is uncertain ; only this is
evident, that when God had created
the body of the sun, and made it fit
for that use, He planted the light therein
; and then that other means
ceased,whatsoever it was. So that where God
provides ordinary means, there He usually
takes

away those which are
extraordinary :

—

1. Because God makes nothing in vain,
and consequently removes that
for
which there is no further use.

2. Lest other
ordinary means should be dispised.
3. Let no man depend upon
extraordinary means.
Though the planets are so far
distant
from us, yet this does not
interrupt
their light and influence. So
distance
cannot hinder us from receiving
the
benefit of God's care.

1. Though God's influence be in heaven, yet His
eye beholds the children of men.

2. Let no man's heart fail him because
God seems so far off.
3. Let not distance, either in
place or condition
hinder our desires for the good
of

others.

Verses 16—19. God proportions
the
abilities of His creatures
according to
the uses in which He employs them
:

—

1. Thus is the natural outcome of
the
Divine wisdom and sufliciency.

2. Necessary to make the workman equal

to his task.

Men must make use of light to
guide
and direct them in all their
employments.
Though all the creatures are
not
furnished alike, yet none of them
lack
that which is necessary for their
use
and employment:—1. Let no man
repine
at his condition. 2. Let no
man
envy another. 3. All degrees of
men
are useful. 4. We cannot enjoy
true
happiness without attention to
the
meanest duties around us. 5.
We
know not to what the meanest may
be
advanced hereafter.
God provides for the
government
of the day as well as of the
night :—
1. He can do
it, as light and darkness are alike to him.
2. He must do it to keep
the world in order.
3. The night cannot hide our sins from
God.
These lights were good works
of
God. These glorious works must
lead
to Creator.

MAIN
HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH. Verses 20—23.
Fish and Fowl.
I. That life is the immediate creation of God. "
And God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath
life," &c. Here
we get sublime teaching in reference to the origin of life.
1. It was not an education. It was not evoked from anything that
had previously existed. It was not an emanation from some elementary principle
or form of matter. It was not an unconscious development. Life bounded into
existence at the call of God, and kindled its lights in the lower realms of
nature, that ultimately it might shine resplendent, and find its highest
perfection and beauty in the being and soul of man. Life as an education is the
foolish conceit of a sceptical philosophy.
2. It was not the result of combination. Prior to the existence of
fish and fowl; there had been created the land, the light, the water, and the
heavenly bodies had received their commission to illumine the universe. But life
was not awakened by the combined agency of any of these. They were without life.
The light might
fall upon the great world uninhabited, but its ray could not evoke
one note of
life, or give impulse to the smallest object on which it fell.
Matter is capable of
many pleasing and useful combinations, but has inherently no
life-producing property.
3. It was a miraculous gift. " And God said. Let the waters bring
forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life." There are two
words in this
sentence that should be remembered, and joined together most
closely, they are
" God " and " life." This should be so in the external universe,
for if God
were to withdraw from it, its whole frame would crumble into dust.
This
should be so in the soul of man, as God is the source of its true
and higher life.
If the church were to remember the connexion of these two great
words, she
would be much more powerful in her toil. Life was at first the
miraculous gift
of God. Its continuance is His gift. It is the product of His
voice. This is
true of all in whom the spark of life is kindled, whether seraph
or brute.
II. That life is varied in its manifestation and
capability.
1. Life is varied in its manifestations. There were created on
this day both fish and fowl. " God created great whales, and every living
creature that moveth, whicli the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind." Thus life is not a monotony. It
assumes different forms. It gives varied impulses. It grows in different
directions. It has several kingdoms. It has numerous conditions of growth.
2. Life is varied in its capahility. As life is
varied in its kind and growth, so is it in its capability. The
fish swim in the
water. The foavIs fly in the air ; the abilities and endowments of
each are distinct
and varied. They answer different purposes. Each takes a part in
the great
ministry of the universe. The whole in harmony is the joy of man.
Envy
is unknown in the lower region of life.
3. Life is abundant and rich in its source. The waters brought
forth abundantly. There was no lack of lifegiving energy on the part of God. Its
source was smitten, and life streamed forth in rich abundance. The world is
crowded with life. It will not soon become extinct. Its supplies will not soon
be exhausted. The universe will not soon become a grave, for even in death there
is life, hidden but effective to a new harvest.
4. Life is good in its design. God saw that it was good. All life
is
good in its original intention. It was good as the gift of God,
and as the glory
of its possessor.
III. That the lower spheres of life are richly endowed
with
the Divine Blessing.
The blessing is from God. The truest source of benediction. The
highest hope of man. The richest heritage of nature. It had its earnest in the
life then commenced. The fish and fowl then created were prophetic of future
blessing.
1. It was the blessing of increasing numbers.
2. It was the blessing of an extended occupation of the land and
sea.
3. Let us always remember that the blessing of God rests upon the
lower spheres of life.

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328582#Comment_328582

Alright, I decided to jump on this one and other resources. Hopefully we'll get them out of CP soon. :-)

Blessings!

DAL

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328969#Comment_328969

Thanks DAL !

[Y]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/329080#Comment_329080

PSALM XXXIX.

Introduction.

Superscription.—"To the chief musician, to Jeduthuu, a psalm of David." Jeduthun was

one of the leaders of the sacred music in the time of David (1 Chrou. xvi. 41, 42 ; xxv. 6 ; 2

Chron. xxxv. 15). Jeduthun is also the title of one of the twenty-four musical choirs left

by David. As the psalm is addressed to the chief musician, it was obviously intended for use

in the public worship of the tabernacle. David is said to be the author of the psalm. The

particular occasion to which it refers is unknown. But from the psalm itself, it is clear that

it was written in a time of doubt and trouble, when the psalmist's thoughts were of such

a character that he could not express them without injury to others and to the cause of God.

We have no means of determining what the particular trouble was from which David was

suffering. Matthew Henry suggests that " perhaps it was the death of some dear friend or

relation that was the trial of his patience, and that suggested to him these meditations of mortality

; and at the same time, it should seem too, he himself was weak and ill, and under seme

prevailing distemper." Hengstenberg thinks that the psalm was written " when in hot persecucution

and violent conflict." It is clear that the Psalmist was in affliction and trouble, and

his mind seems to have been sorely exercised as to the Divine dealings. He could not see the

wisdom, the benevolence, or the justice of some of the Divine arrangements, lie had dark

and painful thoughts on the matter, which he dare not utter. And at length he is compelled

to seek relief in prayer. Homiletically we divide the psalm thus,—Silence in Trouble (vers.

1-3 ; Speech in Trouble (vers. 4-6) ; Supplication in Trouble (vers. 7-13).

II. Silence increasing trouble. We adopt Hengstenberg's rendering of the second verse. " I grew dumb and was still ; I was silent, not for good, and my pain was stirred." He explains it thus,

" The Psalmist says he had indeed executed his purpose, declared in tlie preceding verse, but that ill had thereby accrued. The obstinate and constrained silence, so far from producing good, had

rather made his pain rise to a frightful magnitude." All great emotions require

expression. They must have utterance,

or the over-taxed brain will reel into

madness, and ,the over-charged heart

will burst. Sometimes great emotions

find utterance in poetry. We have

many instances of this in these Psalms.

Prose is all too hard and cold for the

expression of intense emotions. The

grief-stricken spirit pours out its sorrows

in plaintive minor strains, and the jubilant

soul hymns its gladness in some

triumphant " Gloria in excelsis," or Jubilate.

Yet words the most intensely

poetical in significance and arrangement

not unfrequently fail to express the

soul's emotion. Very often great emotions

find utterance in tears. When

words fail to express our deep grief or

thrilling joy, tears often come to our

relief. "They are the safety-valves of

the heart, when too much pressure is

laid on." " They speak more eloquently

than ten thousand tongues. They are

the messengers of overwhelming grief,

of deep contrition, and of unspeakable

love."

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/329193#Comment_329193

[Y]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/329467#Comment_329467

Come on guys. We can get this one done and if enough people bid on it we can probably get it below the current 40 dollar price.

[Y]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/330196#Comment_330196

This is similiar to The Great Text of the Bible by Hastings. If you like that work you should like this one also.

nicky crane

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/331860#Comment_331860

I've upped my bid to $40

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/331871#Comment_331871

[Y]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/331939#Comment_331939

Volume 38: Topical Index

Authors: Rev. George Barlow and Rev. Robert Tuck
Publisher: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 648

Sample pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Product Details

Title: Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary
Publisher: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Volumes: 38
Pages: 18,934

Overview

For more than a century, the Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary has shaped the trajectory of expository preaching and defined the role Bible commentaries play in sermon preparation. As a commentary written by preachers for preachers, the Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary is uniquely designed to foster the kind of biblical study that produces engaging and clear sermons. For every chapter of the Bible, the commentary contains a section on preaching themes, which are organized topically, conceptually, and chronologically. Significant theological themes are also outlined for each section of the Bible, and homiletic notes are provided. The authors have also solicited and summarized commentary from a wide range of contributors to Biblical, historical, and theological scholarship, drawing from the collective wisdom of those who understand that good preaching has its origin in Biblical study. This work ranks among the few Bible commentaries that remain practical and accessible without compromising scholarship, making it an integral part of sermon planning and preparation.

Key Features

Subject index and sermon illustration index included with each individual volume.
Comprehensive topical index provided for the entire set.

Praise for the Print Edition

Full of interest, and carefully thought out.

—Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/331946#Comment_331946

[Y]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/348486#Comment_348486

[Y]

Ted Hans

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/348540#Comment_348540

[Y][:D]

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/348611#Comment_348611

Link => http://www.logos.com/product/8523/preachers-homiletic-commentary

Projected price of $ 40 reflects 94 % discount compared to hardcopy purchase.

Community bidding progress appears to be 53 % so need more bidders at $ 40 (or more) to cover estimated production cost of 18,934 pages in 38 volumes by 30 authors.

Keep Smiling [:)]

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/348625#Comment_348625

[Y]

David Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/348625#Comment_348625

Seems like a good time to move this one forward..... [:)]

Bethany Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/350037#Comment_350037

[Y] Definitely. How long do they give products before they give up and take them off CP?

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/354502#Comment_354502

How long do they give products before they give up and take them off CP?

Noticed => Dictionary of the Bible has been on community pricing over a year (progress approaching 100 %).

Barnes' Notes on the Old and New Testaments (26 vols.) was in community pricing for years.

Keep Smiling [:)]

Alan Macgregor

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/354502#Comment_354502

Definitely. How long do they give products before they give up and take them off CP?

Given how long Barnes Notes took to get into publication, I'd say a v-e-r-y l-o-n-g time.

I just wish more folks would realise how useful this resource is and how cheap it is going to be at CP … and put in their bids.

Ted Hans

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/355745#Comment_355745

Community pricing has been throwing up a lot of surprises. Why some resources like the Preacher's Homiletic lag for a long time without much interest beats me. For the price this is going for, it should have gone over the top by now. Please place a bid & help push this resource into production.