about 20 years ago a pastor was telling me about some bible software that he was using at that
point not many people were into Bible software and I wasn't he told me about it and I thought I don't
want to do my Bible study at a computer I'd rather just have the books in my hands if I'm reading a
commentary how the commentary in my hand next to the Bible and I can sit in a chair and relax
and do my Bible study that way and and in 2002 a friend of mine who worked at Logos Bible Software
offered me a free base package of the software and I thought well it's free you know it would
be several hundred dollars uh sure I'll take it I'll try it and it was like wow I've really been
missing a lot what I learned is that searches that would normally take me hours maybe eight hours to
do I could conduct that search for different Greek words instead of looking at a Greek concordance I
could find it in a matter of seconds every single verse so that had a particular Greek word or a
grammatical construction of that Greek word so it's like wow I could have been just saving hours
and hours of time and it didn't take me long and I just got hooked on Bible Software it's
hard to believe now that I've been using Lagos Bible Software for eighteen years and I can say
I just love the software it's fantastic I'll tell you why I like it it's great for research so I've
got all the finest commentary series written by scholars today I've got them on my laptop
every one of the finest commentary series I've got either the whole set or most of those that
I want on my laptop today in fact most of the the resources that I use for study are not on
the shelves in my office they're all my laptop I have not only all these different commentary sets
I have multiple Greek and Hebrew lexicons that I can see how words are used in the sense and
various definitions I've got all the writings of the early church father I have most of the Greek
and Latin classical writers in their original languages and in the English translations and
all of these are tagged and fully searchable so I can find if I'm looking for doing a word
search I can look to see throughout the Greek New Testament or the Septuagint or Philo Josephus the
early church fathers if they wrote in Greek all the Greek classics like Plutarch and others I
can search through those to see how the word is used it's just amazing the sort of capabilities
that I have to do research here and it's all on my laptop and this is convenient for me because
I travel quite a lot and so when I'm on a plane I can be I don't have to be just sitting there
and totally my fingers or watching a movie or figuring out what to do with my time I can be
doing research they're all my laptop with most of my library they're on my laptop and it's really
cool let's let's just say that I'm doing a study on Jesus Sermon on the Mount and I come to Matthew
5:48 that says therefore you are to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect and I want
to know what that verse means so let's suppose I look it up in the ICC commentary by Davies and
Alison and I see what they have to say about it I say okay let's see what RT France had to say
about it in his commentary Oh Matthew in the New International Greek text commentary and and so I
open up that commentary and bam it comes right up to Matthew 5:48 because it knows that's what I'm
looking for and then I want to see what it says in the word biblical commentary series and so I open
that up and bam comes right to Matthew 5:48 and so I can open up all these different commentaries and
it come takes me right to the verse think of the kind of time that saves and I can copy and paste
into a word doc to see what all these commentators all these scholars are saying and it gives me all
the bibliographic information automatically in a footnote or in whatever I choose it's pretty
remarkable so I've got all these things they're tagged for recent agged so that I can do searches
in them and I can do it again through all these different resources now I'm a professor and so
these are the kinds of things that I use on logging this Bible Software it's a tremendous
resource for me but not everybody is going to want to get into things at that depth because
maybe they don't know the original languages so the person who is not necessarily an academic but
perhaps a professional like a pastor or a Bible teacher in a church or Christian school or let's
just say you're serious Bible study you're in college in grad school maybe a doctoral student
maybe just a serious Bible student you're an accountant an attorney a dentist whatever and
you want to study the Bible seriously Lagos Bible Software is a fantastic resource it's
easy to use you can do searches throughout the entire Bible any Bible translation you want in
English many other languages it is fantastic for Bible study whether you're a pastor preparing
sermons or a Bible teacher preparing lessons or a serious student of the Bible you have accesses to
resources from the beginning student of the Bible you can access even the same resources that I use
because just about all most of those that I use most of the resources that I use are not on my
shelves in my office most of the resources that I use are unlock us I mean they're just great stuff
now here's another thing I really like about Lagos if my house burns down I lose all the books in my
library okay and I probably will not remember most of the books that are in my library they're just
gone okay but because most of my library is on my laptop if my laptop gets stolen if the hard drive
on it crashes no problem I get another computer I contact Lagos they know what I purchased and I can
easily and quickly download them to my new laptop and in the last 20 years now we go from desktops
to laptops and so now I can have my laptop on my lap as I sit there quietly in my chair doing
Bible study I don't have to keep getting up to get another book putting another one back piles
of books on the table next to me it is just so convenient I just think Bible Software is the
way to go these days I'm glad I made the switch I wish I'd made it sooner so why am I making this
video not only do I love Logos Bible Software but my friend Greg Monette he works for logged us and
he contacted me the other day and he said hey Mike I just want you to know if you're friends
I want to do a favor for them and he says I will give to your friends a 30% discount whether they
already have log us and they want to upgrade or they don't have log us and they want to get a
software package whether it's a base one all the way up to whatever he will give a 30% discount and
if you want they even have payment plans so this is great look I just want to make this information
known to you and so in the text that's either I'm gonna put this on my youtube channel I'm gonna
post it on Facebook I will give some information on how to contact Greg so I hope this is helpful
to you and I hope this can enrich your Bible study tremendously as I know that it has enriched mine