What base package would you recommend?

not sure what your budget is, but you might consider Stardard Silver (Tyndale Commentaries, preaching quotations/slides, and a plethora of reference works) or even upgrade to Gold--which adds the MobileEd course "Preaching through the Psalms" (in itself a 300 dollar value).  Anglican Gold also has that, as do a few other Golds.  

If you were not ready to spring for Gold now, you could buy a lower base package in that family and upgrade later on down road.  Likely not at the same discount, but they will have periodic discounts (at least, so far that has been their practice).  You do lose a little money purchasing a lower grade and then later upgrading, however, but not much.  I just got standard gold, and will pay ca. $10 extra if i upgrade to Platinum than I would have if I bought right away.  Not a big deal, but just so you know.

Happy purchasing and studying!

D said:

This is another thing I was wondering: If I spend $150 on a Bronze library and $300 on the feature set,

let me take this is a different direction . . . if you go with Logos Now, you get all of the features up to date, PLUS what will come out in the next year.  You will have to purchase for about 3 years before you spend what the feature set will cost you now.  You can always stop it, too, if you need, and save money.  But here are some other advantages to LN:

1. A discount on your base package over and above the current introductory discount
2. By paying less (now) for LN and getting all the features, plus new ones every 6 weeks or so, you could apply that money toward a library (bronze, gold, or whatever) that you really could use at the present time and for the rest of your ministry years.

(you can see all the other benefits of LN on the website)

D said:

Your post makes it sound like the Silver (from the same tradition) should drop in price by maybe a little less than $150.

Whatever the difference from what Silver costs for you "now" and current Bronze price, but not exactly--add a little more to that difference.  For instance, Platinum for me is no $405 dollars, but if I had gone STRAIGHT to Platinum, instead of sticking with Gold purchase, I would have only paid another $395 for Platinum than I paid for Gold.  How much exactly that difference is will depend on small variables, which I don't know...

And as others pointed out, the cost from Bronze to Silver (or whatever levels) from tradition to tradition (Anglican, Pentecostal, or whatever) will depend on how many and what type of resources you already own in that level.

One of the things I did when making my purchase this time around was to look at the various packages and see a) what major sets I wanted (commentaries, dictionaries, journals, author sets, etc) and b) other resources (Mobile Ed, monographs, etc) I REALLY wanted.  I made a table highlighting those resources and their cost.  For instance, in Standard Gold, I liked that I could finish my Pillar set, Goldingay, plus get some good Mobile Ed courses, etc.  I totaled up the cost of those resources I wanted if I bought them individually, and compared them to the upgrade for the package.  There were many resources I would not really care about in the package, so I only focused on what I thought I really wanted.  I also noted a few that might be 'nice" but not necessary (like New Daily Study Bible).  I did this for several packages.  In Pentecostal, I noticed I could complete my Cornerstone commentary set with Bronze, for instance.  I placed them side by side.  From there it was kind of an intuitive process--ie, I can't get ALL I want, I have to make a choice: do i REALLY want/need a particular set?  Or, if I could get that set in a couple different ways (by buying different traditions), which way gave me either the "best value" or perhaps set me up for a purchase to the next level later on.  By that, I mean, getting Gold Standard sets me up for Platinum, in which I will be glad to get Hermeneia, Moltmann, and a far expanded Classics of Western Spirituality.  Getting Silver in Pentecostal would set me up for getting some other sets: New Monastics library, Priscilla Papers (had to find out what those were, first!)  History of Interpretation 4-volume set, Donald Bloesch set (which I actually already got with Standard Gold), etc.

What I noticed is that I could get all hyped up on value (dollar wise) of sets, but then a little reflection might make me doubt how much I would really use a particular set at this time.  Hermeneia is kind of like that for me.  Its a phenomenal work, but I have not always found it helpful unless doing technical studies and wanting source material etc.  But knowing that it is a 'great set" and would "only" cost me 400 to get it plus a lot more makes it easy to start ramping up my wish list.  But . . . I might spend that $400 dollars better elsewhere.  Like food for the table or an anniversary gift...[:P]