Is anyone using the sermon editor? If so, for what, and what do you think about it?
I'm using it for writing weekly sermons and find it very useful.
Was there anything specific you were interested in?
I also use it for writing weekly sermons, which I then preach from my iPad. I am finding it more useful with every update - it probably wasn't the finished article when firs delivered, but is getting better all the time. I appreciate the ease of inserting passages of Scripture, quotations, and prompts and so on. I don't use it much at the moment for producing my slides, although I do sometimes use an export from it as the start point for my slides. It saves me from having to produce Word documents which I then import into Logos as Personal Books, and the addition of dates and locations where a sermon has been used is helpful, as I regularly preach in a number of different places. I don't produce handouts, so can't really comment on that.
As Graham says, what are you thinking of doing with it?
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I'm using it pretty often. What is your question tho? What would you like to use it for?
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Johan Alstermark: I'm using it pretty often. What is your question tho? What would you like to use it for?
He said, "...for what? And what do you think about it?"
In my case I think is a great tool. The mobile app needs improvement as the scripture references are not hyperlinked, neither the quotations from other books. However, on my laptop everything is hyperlinked.
I use the sermon editor for Sunday classes. I project my laptop screen on the screen of the wall. Half of the screen shows the sermon/class outline and the other half my preferred Bible and whatever resource I click on to open. Very useful!
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Graham,
Would this be of any use at all if you don't use slides or a projector?
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John C Connell Jr.:Would this be of any use at all if you don't use slides or a projector?
Absolutely
I rarely use slides when preaching (I think I have produced a set of slides from the sermon editor once for that purpose) but still find its functionality very useful.
All of these are valuable to me irrespective of whether slides are used or not
Thanks for the replies. Some specific questions. Can you import OPML and place it as a collapsable outline? Does it have any mind mapping capabilities, either to create or to import an existing mind map? Does it have the ability to incorporate other progam files? Not sure how to word that last one. What I'm looking for is the ability to have another file type, like Keynote or Pages incorporated into the Sermon Editor where you can click on it and it will open up that document in its native program. Finally, would you say it is more or less versiatile and powerful than Pages or the Microsoft word processor.
thanks
Pastor James: Thanks for the replies. Some specific questions. Can you import OPML and place it as a collapsable outline? Does it have any mind mapping capabilities, either to create or to import an existing mind map? Does it have the ability to incorporate other progam files? Not sure how to word that last one. What I'm looking for is the ability to have another file type, like Keynote or Pages incorporated into the Sermon Editor where you can click on it and it will open up that document in its native program. Finally, would you say it is more or less versiatile and powerful than Pages or the Microsoft word processor. thanks
No, it doesn't do any of the things you ask for.
It is much less powerful than Pages or Word but more focussed
How do you mean, "more focussed?"
Pastor James: How do you mean, "more focussed?"
That it is specifically designed to support the requirements of sermon writing within a Logos environment.
It supports, fr example, automatic production of hamdouts from within the sermon document, easy access to multiple Bible translations, integration with Logos media
Thanks Graham