![]() ![]() If the main points of the sermon are logically connected and flow naturally from one to the next, the pastor should have little difficulty in preaching without having to constantly consult his notes. I’ve recently started reading (on my Kindle app) a book called “ Preaching without Notes.” The author not only argues that sermons are more personable when preached without the use of a manuscript, but he also explains that in order to do so the preacher has to do his outlining with that purpose in mind. With notes in hand I was ready to put some order to my random thoughts. (Instead, the notes were just stuffed into a manilla folder, slid into a filing cabinet, and probably will go unremembered next time I return to this text.) Step Two: Outlining. If I had been more industrious and less pressed for time, I might have scanned them and imported the notes into Evernote, which offers excellent handwriting recognition. I was forced to take most of my notes by hand - which is fine, except that I like to keep digital copies of my sermon studies for quick and easy reference in the future. The one thing about doing sermon research on an iPad is that there is no multitasking and the screen size is limited. As I said, I’ve built up my Logos library over the years, so I had lots of commentaries to read using their Bible+ app. So using up the last of my Christmas money, I hopped over to the Accordance store to take advantage of the sale they currently offer (until the end of Feb 2012) on their tagged resources.Īfter combing through the Greek text and mining whatever nuggets I could find myself, I turned to the wisdom of the ages. To my surprise, the Accordance iPad app handles those tasks surprisingly well. The problem is that Logos’ iPad app is limited when it comes to things like morphological searches and in-depth vocable and grammatical studies. Fellow Mac-toting pastors had told me that Accordance was superior to Logos in working with the original languages, but again, I was committed (financially) to Logos. I hadn’t looked at Accordance very closely before because over the years I had already invested heavily into the Libronix/Logos system and I didn’t want to duplicate my digital resources. Or so I thought until I finally tried Accordance Bible Software. But none of them allows me to do the kind of in-depth exegetical study that I was taught in the seminary. If you also want to read the Greek or Hebrew, the list is even smaller. If you want to add notes, the selection narrows a bit. There are a number of Bible apps for the iPad, and almost any of them will do the job if all you want to do is sit in a quiet place and read a section of Scripture. ![]()
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