Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Create Favorites folders and use them to organize what you find while doing a topic study

• Use the sophisticated search and filtering options in the Bible Browser to identify and focus your topics

• Distinguish the search types you can do with the Topic Guide from those you can do with the Sermon Starter Guide

• Use a Factbook report to find Bible dictionaries that speak to the topic you’re searching on

• Prioritize Bible dictionaries and other resources so they come to the top of any search

• Search your top Bibles and use the Grid view to identify synonyms and related terms to your key word

• Use the Bible Sense Lexicon to broaden and/or refine the terms for your topic

• Do word studies on your topic terms using the Lexham Theological Wordbook and the Bible Word Study guide

• Use Logos Bible Software tagging to do thematic searches and identify key passages related to your topic

• Build custom collections to focus your searches within particular kinds of resources in your own Logos library

• Use the Sermon Starter Guide to find and export thematic outlines to the Sermon Editor or to your word processor

Course Outline

Introduction

• Getting Started

Unit 1 Study a Topic

• Favorites Folder and Bible Browser

• Topic Guide and Sermon Starter Guide

• Introducing the Factbook

• The Factbook and Bible Dictionaries

• Introducing Cultural Concepts

• Cultural Concepts and the Bible Sense Lexicon

• Original Language Analysis

Unit 2 Search a Topic

• Introducing Topical Tagging

• Thematic Searches

• Searching Biblical Theologies

Unit 3 Outline a Topic

• Outlining a Topic

• Thematic Outlines

Conclusion

• Going Forward

• Video hours: 0.75