Asking Interpretive Questions in Logos: Step 3 in Creative Digital Sermon Prep
While not the first step in preparing a sermon, asking interpretive questions helps take you from wondering to understanding what a passage has to say to the audience in modern day. A preacher begins the sermon prep process by choosing a sermon text to preach or teach and then begins the study of that text…
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Making Observations of the Text: Step 2 in Creative Digital Sermon Prep
In step two of our Creative Digital Sermon Prep we focus on making observation of our Biblical text using things like notes in Logos Bible Software, a word processor, a tablet with inking capabilities or some other tool.
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Choosing Your Sermon Text: Step 1 – Creative Digital Sermon Prep
What text should yo preach? Our first step in creative digital sermon prep selects a passage to preach. How do you do that digitally?
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10 Steps of Creative Sermon Prep in Digital World
What are the 10 steps of creative sermon prep in a digital world. How does digital sermon prep affect the sermon writing process and how can we use creativity to make our sermons more impactful.
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7 Great Sources for Sermon Illustrations
Do you need to find the perfect sermon illustrations to bring life and grab attention for the message for modern-day listeners with limited attention spans? I do and so I seek them from many sources, but a few websites help me find them. In the old days preachers would sometimes find sermon illustrations by consulting…
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Logos Sermon Prep Part Five: Taking Notes for Observations and Questions
Logos Bible Software helps preachers and teachers prepare their messages thanks to some useful Logos sermon prep tools, but the Notes feature gets more use than any other feature besides offering a library of Bibles, books and reference books. I use Notes extensively for the following: Recording my thoughts about a text. Keeping rack of…
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Logos Sermon Prep Part Four: Text Comparison Tool in Inductive Bible Study
The next step on Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep helps us actually learn what the passage we’ve selected means by reading it repeatedly using the Text Comparison Tool. We’re talking about Inductive Bible Study. What is Inductive Bible Study? The phrase Inductive Bible Study refers to studying the Bible hoping to discover the meaning of…
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Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep Part Three: Concordance Tool
We’ve already looked twice at the topic of choosing a text, but let me take a third swing at a tool that you should consider using for Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep. We’ll take a look at the Concordance Tool in this third part of the series. I began looking at picking topics and picking passages…
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Using Scrivener to Write Sermons
Preachers use different tools to write their sermons, from Microsoft Word, a simple text editor, word processors built into Bible software or something like Scrivener. Wes Allen, one of the Theotek Podcast contributors and American Baptist Church pastor, uses Scrivener to prepare his sermons. We talked about his workflow and why he uses the program…
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Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep Part Two: Choosing a Text to Preach
Many preachers prefer to preach a topic found in multiple texts that the preacher expounds during a single sermon. I prefer to look for a single Bible text and that one text will dominate the sermon. In this second part of our series on Logos Bible Software Sermon Prep, we’ll look at how the program…
