L/V 10 Tip of the Day #68 Resources to enhance theme guide section

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by a response in the forum post L/V 10 Tip of the Day #66 Resources used for cross-references lower section - Logos Forums

The Theme section of the Passage Guide is one I'll admit to rarely using as it is tied to Preaching Theme - a classification scheme designed for preaching rather than general Bible study. It is documented as: [quote]Theme Section

When run on a passage, this section lists preaching themes that have been tagged to that passage (at the pericope level). Click a theme to open the Sermon Starter Guide on that theme.

In the Sermon Starter Guide, the Theme section lists details about the guide key’s theme.


Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022).

However, in a more general sense, identifying the theme or understanding why someone else assigned a specific theme to a text is a useful exercise, especially in text that seems disjointed. The solution is simple:

  • create a collection with the rule type:"Bible concordance"
  • add a collection section to a guide and use settings to limit it to the collection just created -- you may add or subtract resources to meet your personal needs

Please vote for Enhance usefulness of Theme section guide (Biblical reference) | Faithlife

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