Logos Bible Software Webinar with Jon Haley

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Of course, this is a webinar about Lagos, the Bible software, and it's immensely, immensely powerful.

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And I know most of the people who follow me or follow my YouTube channel, follow my ministry. First of all, thank you.

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Thank you for that. It means more to me than I can express, but I know also my followers are typically your more serious

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Bible students, and they take theology and doctrine seriously, and that's why we are here.

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So thank you so much for joining us. John Haley is a Lagos presenter, a national

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Lagos presenter. So John, you're going to be telling us about Lagos, how to use it, what it can do.

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And one of the things I suppose I most appreciate about John is that he is an associate pastor in Pennsylvania.

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So that shows that he has a love and commitment to the local church, and without that, nothing else matters much anyway.

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So John, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you. It's such an exciting thing to do, and I'm really pumped.

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I love showing Lagos, because it's, I mean, there's nothing more important than going deeper into God's Word.

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So I love to be able to show people how to use this resource. Go PA. Thank you,

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Chad. All right.

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Don, just quickly, how did you start this? How did you become a national presenter for Lagos?

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Oh, man. So my background is music, as you can tell from my background.

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I went to school for music. My wife actually made that guitar right there in Fiji. She handmade that for me in Fiji before we were married.

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So I'm just glad we got married. So I came out of college, and I ended up selling church database software for a company called

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Servant Keeper. And then when Lagos bought Servant Keeper, I moved over a couple years ago to the national presenter team.

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And I love it. Having been involved in church my whole life, I felt like, I mean, what better way to, your whole job is about the

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Bible and technology to help you go deeper into God's Word. So yeah, it's been a wild ride, but I love it.

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Amen. Amen. All right. Well, John, tell us about Lagos.

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Show us what it can do. Well, thanks all so much for coming. I think, as Justin mentioned,

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I'm an associate pastor, which I kind of joke, I'm like the assistant to the pastor, where I'm more of a,

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I would say like an administrative pastor. But I do preach, I teach, I lead worship. It's a very small church.

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And so my heart really goes out to those that want to study God's Word and go deeper.

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So that's why I'm here. And I will say, try and put your questions in the chat if you want.

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But I will say, we've got, we had several hundred people sign up for this, so I probably won't be able to answer all of them.

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So don't, I'll give you my email at the end. So if you have a pressing question, you can reach out to me that way.

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But I'm really, really excited. So I'm going to share my screen here and start talking about this amazing tool that Lagos Bible Software is.

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Can you see my screen okay? Yes. All right. You can see Lagos there.

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Awesome. Now, when we talk about Bible study, you know, I like to show this

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Bible here to this. This old Bible I have was my very first Bible that my dad got me.

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We were walking through a Christian bookstore. Some of you might remember, you know, what that was back in the day when we bought books.

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And I saw this Bible and I bought it and, or he bought it for me. And it meant so much to me because at that time, my dad was a pastor and made like $25 a week.

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And so I knew that even at the age of nine, I knew that it was a hard hit for him financially.

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But as I read it, you know, we start to go deeper. We realize there's all of these layers to the

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Bible to understand it. You know, all this context that we need to know. We have who's speaking, where they're speaking, the

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Greek, the Hebrew, you know, we can't just look at the English words. We've got to have all of these different layers. And so when

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I started a library, I've been collecting books for the years. But then when I got to Lagos, I saw

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Lagos is a platform to help us study the Bible and go deeper into God's word.

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And it goes across all of your devices. So what we're going to look at tonight is the actual

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Lagos desktop app, but we have mobile apps as well. And so I'm really, really excited to show this to you.

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Now one of the other things I like to open up a webinar with, and I just wanted to mention this, this is a survey, you know, it was fascinating.

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This survey was done several years ago, and they surveyed over 400 ,000 people. And they noticed something when they did this survey, they called the power of four effect.

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And I've noticed this in my own life. You know, I'm ashamed to admit there are times when

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I might not be in God's word as much as I should be. And my wife and I always know, you know, if you ever notice that,

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Justin, when you're married and you start getting at each other a little bit like, you know, have you guys been reading the

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Bible? You know, we know we haven't, you know. And so what we found, what this survey shows us, the power of four, if people were reading

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God's word one, two, three times a week, it had almost no effect on their life.

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It was like it didn't really do much, you know, but when they hit four or more times a week, so the more you read it, of course, the better.

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But what happened was they noticed that their lifestyle changed dramatically for the better.

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And so people that engage in the Bible four more times a week, they're 228 percent more likely to share their faith.

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They're 407 percent more likely to memorize scripture, 59 percent less likely to view pornography, 30 percent less likely to struggle with loneliness.

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And there's a whole list of stuff that goes on and on. And I love this because, you know, imagine we should be reading the

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Bible way more than just four times a week, obviously, you know, every day going deeper. But I love that even a survey is pointing to the fact that God's word is living and breathing.

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You know, it is so powerful and it works in our life. So that's why I'm excited, because what

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Logos is to me, it helped me personally study the Bible. And I know, Justin, for you over the years, you know,

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I think you've had Logos for a while using it for your library. And so I'm going to go a little deeper here and kind of walk you through why it's such an incredible tool.

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And I will tell you, I've got a real secret at the end of the night. I'll let you know we have an amazing, amazing discount.

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I texted Justin. You guys are going to be blown away at the end of the webinar. So nobody knows about this yet.

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So keep it a secret for now. So this is the Logos home screen. This is your dashboard right here.

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So your dashboard section is comprised of cards that you might be working on, whether you want to launch into a layout.

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We'll talk about that. But if you wanted to customize this dashboard and create shortcuts to things, you'd click this little plus icon right here.

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So you might want a daily devotional. So if you click on daily devotional, Logos goes and figures out all the devotionals that are in your library.

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So if we wanted this one here with Joel Beeky, awesome guy, by the way, I met him a few months ago.

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Click here, click add. And then right there, as soon as I click on it, I'm going to be in my devotional for the day.

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So this dashboard, you can start adding different shortcuts to the studies that you're doing, books that you're reading in layout.

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So and then down here at the Explore section, think of this like a digital theological newspaper where you might have excerpts from your books and your libraries or something from the

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Logos. We have a great blog. So sometimes you'll see posts from our blog there.

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So you can customize this to make it whatever you want. But the big, big thing about Logos that I want to hammer home today are going to be two things, really, is your library and that the biggest feature, the best, best feature by far is saving time.

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You know, I love to sit and read my Bible. But when it comes to research, you're going to see all the tools that we have, all the things that we need to to grab off the shelf to go deeper can take time.

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So you're going to see that. But one of my favorite things, Justin, is this library here goes with me wherever I go.

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So I'm going to open this up here. I'm just going to drag this over. Now, how many years,

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Justin, have you had in Logos that you were I know you've had it for a while, but your library is pretty big.

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Yes, I've had it probably probably 11, 12 years. I would think.

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That's awesome. Much longer than me. Is that right? So your library here, as you can see,

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I have in my library right now, I've got over 5000 books in my library. So I take that with me.

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I'm on the plane a lot. I've got my phone. I got my iPad. I can read as many of these books as I want.

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And you can search your library. So if you're looking for books on Puritans, you could just type in the word

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Puritan and then it'll filter down to books having to do with Puritans. You can search author, title, of course, all of that.

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But then you've got all your filters over here as well. So if you wanted to look at just your journals, you just click journals right there.

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And then there is all your journals. I just had an emergency alert go off on my phone. So if you heard that,

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I don't know. I apologize. It was very loud for me. All right.

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So that's your library. So I want you to keep this in the back of your mind as we look at Logos, because the point of your library, you know, you're not going to read all of these books.

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Right. And we don't have time to read thousands and thousands of books. But what you're going to find is as we go deeper into God's word and we start using some of these tools,

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Logos is going to start pulling these books automatically. Now, there's one feature that came out in Logos 10

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I want to talk about, and this is called the print library feature. So, Justin, have you heard of this, the print library feature?

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I have heard of it, but I don't know anything about it. So I'm on pins and needles here. I'm excited about this feature.

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OK, so what I want you to see here, these are five thousand books I have in Logos. I own in Logos.

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OK, I, though, have a physical book, Dr. Martin Lloyd -Jones here, the

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Christ centered preaching of Dr. Martin Lloyd -Jones. OK, so this is a physical book that I do not own in Logos.

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OK, so I can take this off my shelf and you can take your phone and you can even do it with an app.

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But in the phone, on your mobile app, you've got a print ISBN scanner.

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So you can actually scan the back of the book and it tells me that it's in my print library.

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OK, so watch what happens here, because remember, I don't own this in Logos.

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So I'm going to close the library. I'm going to open up my search tool. OK, so my search tool, we won't go real in depth in here because you can go really, really in depth.

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OK, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to search right now. I'm going to search my books. OK, so right now

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I'm on my books and I'm going to search all of my books. OK, so let's say

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I want to search all of my books for the word adoption. OK, so I'm going to search the word adoption.

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Now, downloaded books, these are all of the books that I own in my library.

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So when you see anything blue in Logos, that means you can click on it. It's a link to something. So if I if I click on something, it'll open up into the book that I'm that I'm looking for.

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OK, but watch this. I'm going to come down here to my print library section and I want you to notice something right here.

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See that? Wow. Page fifty three. So now if I click here,

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OK, I click on that. I don't own this book. So I said I can go buy it if I want or I can go take it off the shelf, open it up to page fifty three and get right to where I was at, where I was looking for.

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Is that not amazing? So you have the ability in Logos, OK, that you can you can get on your shelf, scan all your books.

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Now, a couple of caveats or a couple of disclaimers. The book has to be on the

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Logos platform, OK, which we have now three hundred thousand books.

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They just had a major, major upgrade. So three hundred thousand books, OK, and then but you have to have the gold feature sets.

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We're to talk about that at the end, but that that feature, the print library, you scan all your books. I went up to my attic and I've scanned my books and now

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I can search them in Logos. Is that amazing? That's so incredible.

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OK, so now let's take this a step further, though. So let's say that we are we're doing some research here because we've got our library and I'm going to click right here on all books.

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OK, so I'm going to click here, all books. And as you scroll down, you're going to see that I have collections of books.

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I'm not going to get into this tonight, but you can actually create some collections of your library. And so here, if I want just the

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Puritan works, click here and it searches all of my Puritan books for where the word adoption is found.

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OK, so but then I could click here again and I could scroll down and I could go by book type and I could say, well,

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I just want to search my journals in my library. And now I have a search just for my journals.

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So searching becomes an incredible, incredible tool in Logos. And the other thing

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I would say, I want to talk about searching in your Bible for just a second. OK, I'm going to click on the

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Bible right here. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to search for the word Jesus. All right.

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So we remember Strong's Concordance, right? Or we look up the word, we can find all the places.

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Well, here's the problem with this. And this is what one of the big benefits of Logos here is that Logos tags all this data underneath these verses so that when we open up a search tool,

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I'm going to open this up over here. I'm going to type in the word Jesus again, but give Logos just one second.

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And you see all of this stuff here. These are all things, this is data that's been tagged under the scripture.

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So if I click Jesus, the person. Now it runs a search and watch this,

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I've got nine hundred and twenty five verses here. And I've got eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty six person here because it has searched for Jesus, the person.

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So it's it's an incredible thing because it's now searching for for the actual person of the

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Bible, not just the word. So it's pretty astounding. Oh, OK. So you can do that with anything.

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You can type in the word Bethlehem and search the Bible for all the places named Bethlehem. OK, so the big feature, though, that I wanted to hone in on tonight is called the fact book.

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Have you heard of the fact book at all? In Logos, Justin, I've I've heard of it, yes, but again,

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I don't know how to use it really. All right. So for everybody here, if you have if you have the fact book or if you have

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Logos, start with the fact book. OK, the fact book is becoming the go to spot for Logos because there's all kinds of tools and features as you're going to learn.

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Logos is an immense program, but the fact book makes it all simple for us and it kind of replaces

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Google, in my opinion. You know, when you when you do Google, I don't know if you've noticed, but Google's not a great theologian, right?

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So you type in marriage into Google or hope and you're not going to get a biblical definition. So the point of the fact book is this.

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I can type in this box. You can type in anything, person, place, thing, topic, theological concept,

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Bible verse, and you're going to get a fact book report. And I use this example, you know, right now

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I'm on the tabernacle. But if you Google tabernacle, I think the number one or two hit is like a nightclub in Atlanta.

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So that's a great example of it can be a little dangerous to use Google for your for your

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Bible research. But let's say we come up here and we want to learn about Paul. OK, so I'm going to type in Paul.

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And I'm just going to click on Paul and get a fact book report on Paul. Now, as I scroll down here,

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I want you to see something. You first off, you get a little definition up at the top. OK, then you get a key article on the

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Apostle Paul coming from one of your commentary. So this particular one's coming from the Lexham Bible Dictionary.

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Lexham is the publishing arm of Logos. If you want to read it, go ahead and just click right here.

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Read more. And then you're into the book. Now, here's just you and I are talking.

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I know you do a lot of writing, so I think you'll appreciate this feature. Anytime you're writing a sermon, a paper, you can highlight and copy your text and come over to your

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Word document and paste it. Yes. And Logos cites the reference for you at the bottom.

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Yeah, that's a fantastic feature. Huge time saver. When I was in college,

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I wish I had that. But watch this as I scroll down now, we're looking at the

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Apostle Paul, but I want you to see what the fact book does, because it's not just giving you a definition. But watch this as you scroll down, you might have some media.

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So if you want to use a picture or a painting or a map, it brings some media to the forefront coming from your library.

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It's got some key passages that are about Paul. And then here we have a whole referred to as section.

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And I love this right here, because what the fact book just did is it actually did a whole search through the

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Bible about the Apostle Paul. OK, so watch this as I scroll through here, translated as right here, we have all the different ways in the

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Greek so I can see all the different ways it's been translated at in the Greek. But as I come down here with more,

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I can see all the verses where the Apostle Paul is called a prisoner. Or all the places he's called a man.

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So it just did this massive search as well, all coming from the fact book.

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I see a ton of questions. So as you guys have questions, like I said,

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I probably won't get a chance to answer all them. So I will maybe if we have a few minutes at the end, we can we can do a

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Q &A or something. Awesome. So but events, dictionary articles having to do with the

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Apostle Paul. Let's say that you wanted to study the book of Ephesians here.

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I type in the book of Ephesians and you got a little red ribbon here. This is showing a Bible pericope.

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So if I if I open that up, this is a fact book report on the letter to the

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Ephesians. And as you scroll down, you'll get your key article. You'll get some media, key passages just like before.

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But Justin, watch this. You'll appreciate this. The Bible book guide section. You know, how many times do we study the

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Bible? We study a book of the Bible and we need to know the background, the history, the context of it.

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Right. The authorship, all of that stuff. Well, watch this. If I unfold one of these here, what's happening is

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Lagos is shortcutting to articles in my commentaries and dictionaries specifically about these things.

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Is that amazing? So if I wanted to learn about the historical context, I can just come in here and click on and then right there,

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I'm in the background, the historical context. If I want to come down here, look at the meeting, some of the major themes of the epistle, just click here, get back into one of these books here.

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So the fact book becomes this incredible tool that allows you to do these amazing searches just by typing in Ephesians and it's bringing all this information together for you.

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OK, it's incredible. Now, I'm going to open up a Bible here because I want you to see something else.

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One of my favorite things that Lagos has done is they put this fact book in the

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Bible. OK, so I want you to notice here this toolbar. We've got our toolbar up here.

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I'm not going to go through all this stuff, but one of the tools is the fact book right here.

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See that? OK, yeah. If I click on that, it's going to underline all of these words.

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Now, watch this. I'm going to click Ephesus. So as you're reading, boom, there's a whole fact book report on Ephesus.

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So I love to read my Bible with the fact book right there because I can get right to information about people, places, things right, right there, side by side.

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It's awesome. And you still, of course, you have all your Greek interlinear. You know, you can turn all that on and off with the toolbar as well.

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So that's all built in. Right now. Watch this. So this this blows my mind when

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I when I'm studying this and I'm using the fact book. If you type in your passage, so let's look at Ephesians one.

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Three to 14. I want you to look at this for just a second. Let's zoom in here.

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You see all this this drop down stuff here. These are suggestions. And what this is, these are all fact book reports having to do with Ephesians one, three through 14.

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So it's suggesting and showing you that we could explore predestination.

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So I could click that and now I've got a whole fact book report going to predestination.

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And watch what happens here. You get your key article coming from the Lexham Survey of Theology and key passages.

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But as you scroll down, Logos takes your your library that you have and opens up all of your systematic theologies.

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So and it links it right to the article. So you want to read Burkoff, click on that one and get right into Burkoff and read about predestination there.

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So it again, anything, anything that you're studying, it helps you go deeper and it takes this massive library that you have and puts it to work for you.

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Is that that's just amazing to me. I love it. That's incredible. Yeah, this is this is helpful for me, too, because I've not really used the fact before.

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I didn't know how to use it. I do now. Yeah. Well, and the other huge thing about the fact book that I love about it.

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You know, I saw a comment about this is a downloaded app, but there's a web based app and there's a mobile app.

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So the fact book is one of the few tools that in its entirety is on your mobile device. So you can open up the fabric on the

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Logos mobile app and have all of this, all this access to this information. It's incredible.

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OK, so I'm going to one more here. We're going to actually do our passage over here. Ephesians one, three to fourteen. So if I type this in.

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Ephesians one, three to fourteen. Now, if I come down here, you'll see

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I've got my different pericopes here, so I'm going to click on this one because that's the pericope Ephesians one, three to fourteen.

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And you get this fact book report again, the article coming from a commentary. But watch this.

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I'm going to scroll all the way down here. And what I love, too, you'll notice you have this section called sermons and it'll take all the sermons from your library and figure out, you know, sermons that they're preaching on this

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Ephesians. So I could go to Charles Spurgeon sermons and see all of these different sermons that he's preached on this passage.

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OK, but I want to draw your attention because all of the fact book reports have this section called the

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Dig Deeper section. OK, this is at the very bottom of a fact book report. Now, what this does, you know, what we've been doing is kind of like high level stuff.

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You know, we wanted to get kind of a quick article. We wanted to get links to the sermons.

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Well, here I've got access to layouts, guides and workflows.

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So what I love that the fact book is doing, we have all of these amazing tools to help us go deeper into God's word.

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And it brings all of this to the forefront. So I don't need to know where it's all at. You can come over here and you could guides click here and you could launch a passage guide or you can go to the fact book and say,

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I'm going to do a passage study layout and I'm going to click this and watch what happens. What Logos just did, if you're a pastor or you're a teacher, you're going deep.

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Logos just saved you about 40 to 50 hours worth of work just by clicking on that layout.

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Wow. So what it just did is it opened up my top three preferred Bibles right here.

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And I've got down here linked commentary. So what that means is if I'm in my

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Bible and I'm scrolling, you'll notice that your commentary follows along with you. So it follows along, which is really nice.

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My favorite books never did that. So that's it's always been helpful. But over here, if I want to click on a word like grace, if I just click on a word, in this sidebar over here,

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I get all my information about this word. I've got links to my definitions. So all coming from different dictionaries that I have, translation information, word information.

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So we can get into a Bible word study. So let's say, for instance, we want to go deeper into this word grace, click on it and it'll launch a

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Bible word study guide. This this tool right here, the Bible word study guides are incredible.

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I don't know. Have you ever used this, Justin? I have. OK, you probably have it all memorized, so maybe you don't.

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But people like me, I do see something here.

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You can't find the factbook on the app. If you can't find the factbook on the app, that probably means you're not on the right level, because it is a feature that comes,

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I think, with a starter or a bronze or something. So you might need to upgrade a little bit.

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So we'll talk about that at the end. But these Bible word study guides are incredible because I have the ability here.

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All of my my dictionaries and lexicons are right here. So I can go to BDAG or I can go to Lunida and I'm getting some real brief definitions here, but I can click on it and open up the book.

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But my favorite thing is this wheel right here. What this wheel does is it takes the

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Greek lemma that we're looking at for this word grace, and it's saying that the Legacy Standard Bible has translated this word these different ways.

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So if you want to look at a word that's translated as favor or thanks, just click on the color and it'll break out the scriptures for where it's at.

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So it's, again, giving you definitions, but it's helping you find and go beyond the English, the surface text and going deeper.

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If you want to see all of them, because sometimes you open up this wheel and there'll be like 600 different things, different colors.

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But if you click in the middle, it'll actually open up all of them for you and you can scroll down through and see how they're all translated differently.

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So the Bible word study guide is super, super helpful. And obviously, there's a lot of instances of the word grace.

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Thank the Lord. So we have all this information. It'll even pronounce the word for you.

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You know, if you click on this on the speaker icon, you can't hear it, but it just pronounced it for me.

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So I love that. But this passage guide over here, this is where you can it basically took all of your commentaries on your shelf, your digital shelf, your library, and open them all up to Ephesians 1, 3 to 14.

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So, again, you want to dive into one of these, click on it and it'll open up in another panel for you.

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But watch as I scroll. I'm just going to kind of overwhelm you for a second on purpose. Cross references.

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OK, so here's a section that it automatically figured out and did all the research that Ephesians 1, 3 through 14.

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These are verses that are cross reference. Scroll down here. Now, look at this systematic theologies.

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This just took all your systematic theologies, categorize them for you, and is going to show you where Ephesians 1, 3 through 14 is at.

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So if you're looking at Christology, click on that, unfold it. And then there's all the verses in some of your

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Christology theology books. Is that that's insane. Pneumatology, soteriology.

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And you can just go right down the list as you're studying. So, again, it's taking your library and doing all the work for you.

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You know, and as you scroll down, OK, you've got outlines, you've got important words to look at and why they're important.

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I love this one here. Important passages to look at. You know, some verses have shared figurative language.

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Some might have a common place. So it's it's super helpful as you scroll down through.

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And as you can see, I'm only halfway down. So the passage guide study layout.

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And all I did is went to the factbook and typed in my Bible verse. So is that not incredible?

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I love it. It helped me so much. Yes. Go ahead, Justin. Hey, John, just real quick.

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I saw I think I saw a question. Someone was asking, will there be a link where we can watch this later?

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And yes, there will be. Yes. Yeah. We're recording this and we're going to have this sent out to you.

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Justin is going to take care of that and we'll get the recording out there for you as well. So as I the other thing, though,

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I wanted to show one of some of my favorite things about about Logos is not just going deeper into God's word, but it helps us interact with the scripture visually.

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So I like to show a few tools here. One of my favorites is called the

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Psalms Explorer. And I know it looks kind of, you know, we call it like the eye candy because it's kind of fun.

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But there's really such a practical use of this that I really appreciate.

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So all of these bubbles here represent a psalm. And the larger the bubble, the longer the song.

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That's right. But now this is over here under tools. If some of you have this, it's under tools and you can type in psalms and it'll it'll pop up for you.

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OK, but I want you to notice up here we can sort it by several different things.

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This is by structure. Your brain on Logos, that was funny.

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By author, by the book. OK, and then as I come over here, though, what

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I love about this is over here on this side, we have all of this different information and tags that we can sort through.

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So if I want to look at psalms that David wrote, all you got to do, come over here, click

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David. OK, and it'll filter it out for you. And then maybe I wanted to go to God's faithfulness.

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I have different themes so I can click on God's faithfulness. So here's 31 psalms that have been tagged with that David wrote there on God's faithfulness.

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And maybe I want to look at chiastic psalms because they're cool. I can click on chiasm. And here we have eight psalms.

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I can put them right in order. And then you just click on them and you can start reading. And what's so cool, it's so amazing.

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I love looking at this. I'm kind of diving into psalms personally, kind of learning some of the structure of Hebrew psalms.

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And it's, you know, you've got your main point in the middle because it's showing you the structure of the psalms.

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You can turn that on and off. But it's showing you how these parallels meet as they go out.

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And if you wanted to see the parallelism in the phrases, you can turn that on and off as well.

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And then if you're a Hebrew scholar, you can even see the Hebrew right there. Wow. So I love the psalms because sometimes, you know,

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I think it's the psalms are so comforting. They're so powerful. And so sometimes I find myself going here and if I want a psalm on lament or praise or trust, you know,

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I can find the psalm just like that. It's really awesome. Aaron, I agree.

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Aaron said, what? That's awesome. That's amazing.

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I've not seen that before. That's new for me. It's amazing. Yeah. And, you know, I think we show it at conferences often because it's fun.

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You know, it looks cool, but I encourage you. I mean, they have all of this stuff over here. Messianic psalms.

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There's the 15 messianic psalms, you know, so all of this stuff has been tagged to help you research.

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So I encourage you to use the Psalms Explorer. Okay, that's one. I'm going to show another one and you're getting

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John's favorites here. So bear with me. The Bible Books Explorer. Have you ever seen this one?

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I have seen it. Yes. Okay. This is amazing. I love this tool because, you know, if you're studying, let's say you're studying the book of Ephesians or something like that.

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Here's what we have in this tool. Well, first off, let's, it's called the Bible Books Explorer. So up here in the upper right hand corner, you've got some different links that you can click on, different views.

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So if I click books, this shows you all the books of the Bible and it's got

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Robert Longacre's the genre, the color coded genres. So you can hover over a book and you can see how much is narrative.

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You just hover over the color and you can see, you know, what's expository, so on and so forth. If you left click on a book.

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Okay. So if I come down here, I'll just pick Daniel, maybe click here and you get an overview.

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Now everything is linking to the Fat Book. So I could click here and launch into a

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Fat Book report on these people. So it's showing you, you know, who wrote it, the language, the era that it was written, the key people that are in the book, composition dates, word count.

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So Justin, you can go to parties and you can tell people how many words are in the book of Daniel. He'll be the life of the party.

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I was homeschooled. So that's what we do. How do we get to this?

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I see questions on this. So this again, I'll close this here. The Bible Books Explorer. If you go to tools, click on tools and you can scroll down.

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If you scroll down, you'll see all of these interactive tools at the bottom and there's dozens of them. Okay. But if you type in at the box,

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Bible Books Explorer, it'll pop up for you. If you have it, if you don't have it, then you have a version of Logos that doesn't have it and you'll need to upgrade, which again, we'll talk about.

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But my favorite thing of this tool is this intertext feature. So if I click here on intertext, come over here, you'll see in the upper left -hand corner that we've got citation, quotation, allusion, echo, or everything.

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So as you're reading or studying a book of the Bible, it's fascinating to say, let's go to quotation and let's say,

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I want to look at Ephesians, hover over Ephesians, and I want to see all the places Ephesians is quoting the

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Old Testament. Well, now you can just click on it and it'll run a search for you without having to know all the fancy search query language.

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And there's the three verses where Ephesians is quoting. Now watch this. I'm going to come over here and let's say that we want to go to the

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Old Testament and look at Psalms. I love this one. Psalms. How many places in the

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New Testament quote Psalms? Click that and it runs a search the opposite direction.

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So here's all of the places that are being, that all the places Psalms are being quoted in the

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New Testament. I love this kind of stuff because I just, I think it is, you know, the more

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I read the Bible, it's just that interconnectedness between the Old and New Testament. You know, it's, it's so prevalent and I love this visual.

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Yeah, that's powerful. That's amazing. Now, another one, this is, this is kind of,

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I use this one on the kids, but I encourage you, if you guys, if you have this, okay, I'm going to go to tools and I'm going to go to weights and measures.

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Okay. So if I go to weights and measures, I'm going to open this up. How many of you, you know, you're reading the

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Bible and it's, you got Noah's ark, 300 cubits, you know, Goliath's coat of mail is 5 ,000 shekels.

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What's one talent worth? Well, anytime you read the Bible, if you gloss over the numbers and you don't really grasp,

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I think we often miss out on the glory of God. You know, I, I really believe that. I think there's so much here.

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So if I were to put in 300 cubits, just type in your measurement, 300 cubits.

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And you get a visual of just how big that is. So that's a football field and a half long, 475 feet, you know, and I fly a lot.

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So three Boeing 757 airliners, that's, that's, that's pretty big. Yeah. I did a 5 ,000 shekels, 127 pounds.

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Goliath's shirt weighed 127 pounds. It's a big boy.

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Yeah, it is very big. Oh man. So those are some of the tools

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I wanted to show you. Another tool that I find really helpful is called the Bible browser. Now this one,

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I think I like this one because it kind of shows how Logos has tagged all of this data.

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So as you're studying the scripture, you have all of this, this data underneath that we've talked about.

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Okay. So if I wanted to, let's say I wanted to, I'm curious, like, where's

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Paul talking about the heart? Okay. I can come up here. I can click in this box and I can click finds.

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I'm just going to type. Well, first off, you see all of this information in your Bible books, Longacre genre, sentence types, people, places, things, all of this is data.

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So if I click people, this filters down to all the verses that have been tagged with this.

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So, okay. So watch this. I'm going to say, find Paul, and it automatically adjusts everything.

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So I'm going to come down here. I'm going to scroll down. We've got people, events, things, places, participants, but speakers.

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So I'm going to go to Paul, the speaker, click on that. So here's some of the verses where Paul's speaking.

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And then I'm going to type in heart, things heart. There's the places where Paul is talking about the heart.

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So as you start learning this tool, it instantly becomes this filter that you can filter down to every verse on pretty much anything.

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Theological topics. I mean, you can go all the way down to systematic theology.

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If you wanted to look at the Bible's necessity, there's 198 verses on the Bible's necessity.

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Wow. It's really quite incredible. But when I go back, you know, go to the fact book, start with the fact book and everything, because the fact book is the place to go.

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It'll take you to wherever you need to go. And I'm not even, I haven't even talked about how you can take all your notes there.

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If you're in the silver and above package, you've got a sermon writing tool that helps you write your sermons.

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And so it is amazing, which I just, you preach all the time.

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I'm curious. Let me see in the chat. Do we have any pastors here? I'm just curious how many pastors we have.

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So if you have in the chat, say yes. Tons of pastors.

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Okay. So watch this pastor in training. All right. So what I'm going to do real quick,

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I'm going to go over here and I'm going to click on my tools and I'm going to open up the sermon builder.

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Okay. So, and you can think you could ignore the word sermon. If some of you are Sunday school teachers or small group leaders, you could write lessons in the sermon builder.

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Watch this. This, I just opened up a sermon builder document. Okay. So instead of using word or Google or anything like that, you can build all of your sermons right in here, but watch this.

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If you're a pastor of a small church like me, I'm going to go over here and I'm going to say, this is John's shortest sermon ever.

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Okay. I want you to notice what's happening over here on the left -hand side. It's building slides for me as I go.

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Okay. So some people, that's not a big thing, but for some people, this is a really big thing.

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Now, let's say that we wanted to put our scripture verse in here. Okay. So John 3, 16, hit return.

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It'll put your preferred Bible, build your slide and put your text in there for you.

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Okay. But now let's say that we wanted a quote or something. You're, you're writing on witnessing, highlight your word, and I'm going to come over here and find popular quotes.

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I'm going to click on that and Logos goes out and searches 1 .2

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million quotes that you can utilize. And I could just drag it over to my sermon document and I've got my slide and it syncs across the board.

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I could pull it up on my phone, my iPad, and you could start preaching. It's incredible. It makes an entire database of your sermons.

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You can import your word sermons. It's, it's incredible. I love the sermon builder tool.

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And one more thing I'll show, because I saw some people from all over the world. What were some of the places we saw,

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Justin? That's a Ghana, Scotland, Fiji, I believe.

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So Fiji. Now watch this. I'm going to come over here and I'm going to open up a book.

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Well, let's just, let's take Institutes here. This will be our last thing. And then we're going to talk about how this amazing discount you guys have.

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Watch this. I'm going to scroll down here and I'm just going to take some text here. Now this comes in the gold feature set in above.

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I'm going to highlight this. And you see this little icon right here. I'm going to click this.

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Logos can translate any highlighted text into over a hundred different languages. So for those of you who are missionaries, if you're going out, you go to Ghana, Georgian, German, just click on it and it'll translate it for you.

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And you can copy that entire highlighted text, go over your Word document, paste it. We've had people like missionaries come up and crying at conferences, because this is such an amazing thing that they can just throw this up on the screen and, you know, whatever country they're in and change it into a different language.

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It's, I mean, I'm sure it's not perfect because, you know, it's using Google Translate and DeepL for behind the scenes, but that's just so incredible.

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And it can be helpful too. Like if you have Latin phrases, you can highlight Latin phrases and translate it into English. So really, really quite amazing.

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Wow. So what do you think, Justin? Any questions? Amazing. No, I didn't know about this feature.

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That's amazing. It really is. So the big news,

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I told Justin, I texted that this morning

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I was given a text that I get to give an incredible discount for this group.

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And so it was going to be 15%, but for tonight and for the next week, it's 25 % off.

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Okay. So I want to talk about this. This is unheard of. This is like one of the biggest discounts

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I've ever seen Logos do. So we have monthly payment options. So what I want to do is

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I want to walk you through what some of this is. Okay. So explaining when you buy Logos, you get a base package.

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So your base package, we have names like silver, gold, platinum, diamond.

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These are referring to the number of books. So I'm going to talk through a couple of these. I'm going to show you where to go.

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If you want to take a picture of this, I'm going to leave this screen up and we'll have Justin will share this, but we have a website up.

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So Logos .com slash Justin Peters and the coupon code is Peters25.

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Okay. So the discount ends September 14th at midnight. But let me walk you through this.

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So we're highlighting the reformed package. We have a reformed library. We have Presbyterian libraries.

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We have all kinds of different libraries. So there's more to choose from. But tonight I'm highlighting the reformed silver package.

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So this, don't worry, that's not the price, Justin. What this number is, is if you were, if I handed you a credit card and you went into a bookstore and you were going to go buy all the books that are in this library, there's over 270 books in this library.

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That's what you would spend. The normal price is $999. The special event is one time $750 or you can do monthly.

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And so this, and I'm going to repeat this, not a subscription. Once you pay this off, you're done.

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You own it. Okay. So $53 a month for 16 months and it's yours.

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Now gold is our bestseller and it's almost $18 ,000 in value. There's 570 books.

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That's the regular price. It's the special event price. Again, you pay that and it's done.

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Or I'm going to, we're going to go a step further here because what I'm about to show you, you actually can't do online.

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You're going to have to email me because we can do a special 24 month option. I can. So write down my email there.

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So it's john .haleyatlogos .com. Make sure you put that in the subject line, you know, Peter's gold 24 months.

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I'm going to get lots of emails I know. And so you go ahead and put that in there, email me and I'll walk you through the next steps.

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Now jumping up to a big library like Diamond. Okay. So we have Reformed Diamond Library.

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I think Justin, you might have this one. I think I've been using the Reformed Diamond Library here. This is a print book value of over almost $42 ,000.

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There's over 2000 books in this library. That's the regular price. Special event is almost $900 off.

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It's 2 ,500 or you can do 114 a month for 24 months. Okay. So amazing opportunity to get an entire library.

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You can buy gold and build your library over time. So you can buy books if you want. But if you save a lot of money, the bigger library you get, trust me, you do save a lot.

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I know we have people from all over the world. So Logos is building US dollars. You can download

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Logos to all of your devices. So, you know, I'm using my laptop here, but I have it on my wife's laptop.

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I've got the Logos mobile app on my phone and my iPad and everything syncs across the board.

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I mean, you can take notes in it. You can highlight. So it's all searchable from anywhere. So I love that functionality.

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Now, if you're upgrading, I think I saw, yeah, there was a question. If you already have a package, but want to use the discount code, you can.

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If you're on the website, use the discount code, pick which package. Logos does this thing.

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It's called dynamic pricing, where it figures out all of the books that you own when you're logged into the site.

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So make sure you're logged into Logos .com. But if you already have Logos, use the code, you can upgrade and it'll figure out what your price is.

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It's different for every person. If you have any questions, though, email me. I'm happy to help.

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Okay. So here we go again. I'm going to go show the website here. So Justin Peters, so Logos .com

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slash Justin Peters. I'll bring the slide back up here, but this is what it's going to look like. So you're going to see, you're going to come to this landing page here and you can toggle through the different libraries that we're showcasing here.

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Okay. And if you want to learn more, just click learn more right here. And that'll open up your page here where it'll walk you through some of the features.

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So as you scroll down here, you're going to see like this one here has some resources highlighted.

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So the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, Contours of Christian Theology. So as you scroll down, it'll give you the whole list of books.

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If you want to read all of them, you can. So you might not, especially if you're looking at the Diamond Library. Okay. So tons and tons of money -saving opportunities there.

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So Logos .com slash Justin Peters ends September 14th. And I encourage you, email me.

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I'm happy to help. Justin, what do you think? Yes. Is that good?

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Is that helpful? Immensely, immensely helpful. I learned a lot and I've had Logos for a long time.

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So I've learned a lot. So thank you so very much. Y 'all, this is a tremendous resource.

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It really is. The more you use it, the more proficient you'll get at it. Logos 10 has a ton of new features.

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And yeah, I can't commend it enough to you. So thank you all for tuning in.

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May God bless you and your families. Thank you, John. It's my pleasure. You guys have a great evening.

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And again, email me. I know there's a lot of questions there. So please email me. I'd love to help. God bless.