A Library of Sermons by S. Lewis Johnson

I have discovered that I missed the expository section for 2 Corinthians (36 sermons) when I was retrieving the PDFs. I have added those to the zip file I originally posted on Dropbox (the link is repeated below) and there's a zip for just the 2 Corinthians files.

Original zip with 2Cor added:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7e6u3dqjtm2riz/Sermons_Johnson.zip?dl=0 

2 Corinthians:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7cnylvf315arol/SLJ_2Corinthians.zip?dl=0 

Hi Mark:

Sorry, I missed your post until now.

I had created the Index as a way to partially share my work on this until I ascertained the copyright holder's position on how the transcripts might be shared. When a fellow Logos user pointed to a published policy that indicated I could post the full-text sermons here, I posted them. My tacit assumption was that the full-text transcript PB would render the Index unnecessary. So, I don't think I'll be updating the Index. However, if you have a need that I'm not thinking of, let me know and I'll update the Index with the additional 2Cor sermons.

In any case, including resource links wouldn't help anyone but me, as (I think) the links to a PB are unique to the compiled PB on a particular account. Someone should correct me if I'm wrong.

Look at this resource link to one of the sermons:  logosres:pbb:6f0d5eb7464248f99023690436c33216;hw=Greatest or its URL equivalent: https://ref.ly/logosres/pbb:6f0d5eb7464248f99023690436c33216;hw=Greatest . This looks to me like it would be unique to me. Also, when you compile the full-text sermons, make sure you check out the "Index" section at the very bottom. Logos has provided us a great tool for compiling sermons.

Off-topic: Wouldn't it be great, though, if we had a Word macro that would take an Excel dump of one's library and scan a .docx for resource references and then tag them?

Two issues have come up with this:

1. I think I might have fat-fingered this into Dropbox outer darkness. 2. I discovered that Google has changed search syntax, so I had to edit the files.

The file linked below has been fixed.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5aadsdhptq2cvlw/Sermons_Johnson.zip?dl=0 

lots of sermon texts.  What do I do with them now?  Is there an index I am supposed to turn into a PB?

Hi Dan:

Sorry; things sometimes get assumed on the Files forum.

You appear to be familiar with PBs, but have you checked out this Wiki page?:  https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books 

In the meantime, here's what to do with these hundreds of docx files:

1. Tools-->Personal Books (after Tools, just type 'pers' and it the tool will be easy to find)
2. Add book
3. Enter title
4. Enter author
5. Enter such other metadata as you need
6. For this resource, use 'Monograph' for Type
7. If you want a picture of Dr. Johnson on the cover, click Change... under the cover placeholder. I included a nice picture in the zip file.
8. Click the Add file... button and navigate to the folder where you unzipped the zip file.
9. Sort by file name, if it isn't already.
10. Select the first file, scroll down and hold the Shift key and click the last file and click Open.
11. Click the Build Book button. When it's done it will open the new resource.

I named the files such that expository sermons are in canonical order in the resource, with topical sermons at the end.

The first thing you'll want to explore in the new resource are the Indexes. Open the Table Of Contents pane and scroll to the bottom. You'll see the sermons grouped by Passage, Topic, and Tags. The Date of the sermons weren't available to me. The Topics and Tags are a bit on the weak side; since it wouldn't be practical to tag them manually, I automated the Topics from words in the titles and the Tags are the 6-7 most used words in the sermon, with stop-words filtered.

You will also begin to notice Dr. Johnson's sermons appearing the the Sermons section of various guides (Passage, Topic, etc.).

When you navigate to a sermon, you can click the Web/Audio link. This will perform a Google search to get you within a click or two of finding the audio of the sermon. It's this part I had to re-do recently because Google has done some monkeying-around with search language.

Sad caveat:  Personal Books are not available on phones, tablets, or the Web App.