John Piper's Sermon Library

I have both the Driscoll and Piper sermon collections noted, and they are most certainly NOT commentaries. I did a passage list on the Piper resource, it is 10 years of sermons but only has 31 scripture references in it. That said, I have gotten some good preaching thoughts from both resources; I would say they are nice resources for answering the old question "So what?". Sometimes we exegete the passage well, but struggle with applying it to our lives.  But given the lack of scriptural references in the Piper resource, you will have better luck looking for keywords that you think a passage is speaking to you about, and see what Piper has to say about that topic (love, judgment, mourning, thirst, etc. etc.)

Like Richard, I've got Piper set up in a collection which I've added to a custom passage guide. (Unlike Richard, I find Piper quite helpful and will often check to see if he has a sermon on the text I plan to preach; I like to see how he handles the text). This doesn't make the collection a commentary, per se, so that description isn't quite accurate, but because of Logos' ability to take you to every place where an author mentions a particular passage, you can find what that author comments about a passage.

Chris Roberts said:

Methinks the passage list must not have been done right since the resource is loaded with Scripture refs. This is one thing that impresses me about Piper - everything he does is Bible saturated.

I did both a copy to clipboard and using selected text to create a passage list. Maybe the scripture isn't in a form Logos can recognize, but I thought that my approach was valid because if that is the case you won't easily find it in a search either, which reduces its usefulness. Like I said I enjoy them by topic, if there is a more comprehensive way to find all the scripture let me know.

I purchased this one well before L4 rolled out and I must say, it functioned better in the pseudo-commentary department under L3.

The "Home" page that would install under L3 for this resource made it much easier to go through the sermon manuscripts by Scripture or topic than a standard search in L4.

My current tactic in L4 for this resource and others similar to it is to setup a collection of sermon resources and us the Cited By function.

Josh said:

In the descriptions of this resource is states: "Functions as a roughly 5,000 page commentary"

What exactly does this mean? Will it come up under my commentaries in my PG? Is it arranged by Bible verse? I'm a bit confused...

http://www.logos.com/product/8601/the-john-piper-sermon-manuscript-library

 

Also, is Mark Driscolls's Sermon Library set-up the same way?

http://www.logos.com/product/4925/mark-driscoll-sermon-archive

I own both sets and have set up a collection which I run in My Passage Guide as per Richard's suggestion above. In my experience, this arrangement works pretty well and I usually have little problem in identifying sermons which comment on the passage I am studying. In this sense, the sermon sets perhaps work a little like a commentary, but they are obviously not commentaries (as has been noted above).

I would also make the observation that the quality of the Mark Driscoll Sermon Archive is poor, particularly in comparison with Piper. I am not referring to the content (I find the content of both collections helpful), but the formatting. The Piper collection is well laid out and a pleasure to read. The Driscoll collection is (in my opinion) the crudest of transcriptions. The transcriber has inserted 'stage directions' in the text ([laughter]) and any comment on the original languages appears to be marked as [inaudible] (whereas, in fact, Driscoll has just referenced a Hebrew or Greek word).

I did correspond with Logos on purchasing the collection (through pre pub) and have no confidence this will ever be fixed. Notwithstanding this, the content is helpful, particularly if you find Mark Driscoll interesting/helpful.

The quality of the Piper collection is, however, in my opinion, roundly excellent. I would particularly recommend the Piper collection.

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Jason Skipper said:

Does anyone have any suggestions for getting the results to be more narrowly associated with the text with which one is dealing?

I just bought this resource today. This search works pretty well and has only a few extra hits (the month of May gets confused with the word may. Search his collection for:

(January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December) NEAR <bible intersect Colossians)

[edit] Once you've create the search drag it to the shortcut bar or favorites. Then all you have to do is change the passage to run a new search.

In case new users come across this old thread, you may like to know that it's now possible to have John Piper's sermons appear in your passage guide, using this Personal Book.

Jason Grubbs said:

Thanks, this is something I have been looking for for a long time.  I know this may be a dumb question but how do I get the .doc file into my logos books?

1. Download the .docx file and the cover image.
2. Go to Tools > Personal Books
3. Click Add book
4. Enter Title
5. Enter Author (optional)
6. Choose the book Type (Bible Commentary).
7. Optionally add the cover image: click Change... under the blank book cover and choose the image you downloaded earlier.
8. Click Add file... and select the .docx file from your hard disk.
9. Click Build book

Thank you Mark!!!!

Superb!

Many thanks.