Matthew BoffeyIdeal for pre-service slides, youth group games, or displaying on monitors throughout your church building, Proclaim’s Bible Trivia is easy to use and fun to play. It will engage your congregation and may even inspire them to dig into their...
You chose, now we’re reporting. Here are the top 10 songs sung in churches using Faithlife Proclaim in November. 1.What a Beautiful Name 2. This Is Amazing Grace 3. Great Are You, Lord 4. Doxology 5. Reckless Love Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending...
Did you know you can share your worship setlist from Proclaim? You can use this feature to let your worship team and congregation know what they’ll be singing during the worship service. How to generate a setlist After your presentation has at...
Logos can perform many technical Bible study tasks, like morphology queries and syntax searches. That’s why a lot of pastors and scholars use it. But if you don’t know what morphology is, is Logos beyond you? Not at all. There are dozens of reasons...
I went to a fundraising event recently where I heard the best request for financial support I can remember. It wasn’t the rhetoric or the moving stories that did it, although both were strong. It was how confidently the nonprofit founder asked. He...
Make your church announcements more strategic and eye-catching with Digital Signage. Digital Signage is a feature in Proclaim that lets you display announcement slides, Bible verse art, and more on monitors all throughout your church building...
If you’ve invested in previous versions of Logos, you may look at Logos 8 and think, “Why would I pay for something I already have?” The short answer is, you wouldn’t. And you won’t. This post is about Dynamic Pricing, and why it means: You never...
If you’re writing expository sermons, it means you’ve developed skills for serious Bible study. And not only that, you’ve developed skills for sharing the wealth you discover with others. As you know, that process takes a lot of time, demands many...
Thanksgiving weekend is approaching quickly, and you may be looking for some Thanksgiving-themed worship songs to lead. We compiled this list by identifying the most-used songs in Proclaim over last Thanksgiving weekend, plus a few more that...
One of the biggest changes in Logos is the facelift given to Docs. As you know, in Logos you can build complex search queries, visual filters, passage lists, sermons, and more. And you can save them as documents. Now, with Docs, everything...
Notes is where you store your insights. It’s how you capture that important observation, powerful quote, or memorable illustration in Logos so you can return to it later.Logos 8 brings new and powerful changes to Notes, making it easier than ever to...
I remember the days of midweek church. We’d gather Wednesday nights for a scaled-down version of Sunday morning: a little singing, some prayer, and meatier teaching. The kids would be dismissed for age-appropriate classes, while the adults stayed in...
Fresh with the arrival of Logos 8 is Workflows, an exciting new Logos feature that takes you step by step through common Bible study processes. We were really excited about this one as a company, and we’re thrilled to see that our customers love it...
Pastor and author Eugene Peterson entered paradise this morning. Peterson was a Presbyterian pastor for most of his adult life, though he’s best known for his writings—particularly The Message, a contemporary rendering of the entire Bible.I was late...
In the developed world, having a church website is a given. Most of us instinctively know this. But why? Why are church websites important, and how does the answer inform how you construct your site? These principles spell the difference between...
When we decided to curate a list of resources for every book of the Bible, one of our priorities was to choose resources that would help people comprehend the most difficult books of the Bible. All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for...
Live surveys are a fun way to engage your congregation while getting important information at the same time. You can use them as sermon illustrations, during announcements to get a pulse for people’s schedules, or in any number of ways. And...
If you think angels look like diapered babies with a bow and arrow, think again. Michael S. Heiser’s new book, Angels, seeks to provide biblical answers for common questions about God’s heavenly host. He addresses topics including what angels look...
Lewis is far and away the most searched author on Logos.com, and his collected works are now available in Logos. Having these books in Logos is like studying the Bible (or Church history, theology, etc.) with a Lewis scholar sitting nearby to say...
It’s one thing to build a great church website. It’s another thing to keep it up to date. There are many benefits to keeping your church website up to date, chief among them being that your website stays useful for people. On top of that, you make...
One of the best ways to inspire generosity in your church is to keep your congregation informed. When people know where their contributions are going, see the progress they are making together, and learn how God is using their financial gifts to...
With how much of our interactions happen online now, more and more churches are going online to encourage spiritual growth and fellowship throughout the week. And when your church can’t meet in-person, technology becomes even more helpful...
Visuals communicate as much as words, if not more, that’s why your church website design should demand serious attention. Whether you’re designing your own website from scratch (and if so, impressive), using a website builder, or hiring a...
Though the primary audience for your church website may be visitors, you can’t ignore your current members. They’ll turn to your site again and again for up-to-date information. Here are the three big needs each audience has for your website, and...
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” is a classic hymn believers have been singing for almost 100 years. But that doesn’t mean it can’t get a new chorus. The band One Sonic Society, comprised of producers and songwriters Paul Mabury and Jason Ingram, have...
With his breakout song “This Is Amazing Grace,” Phil Wickham emerged as not just a great worship music artist, but also a writer for congregational singing. “Living Hope,” released this March, is another song well-suited for church services. Written...
The Bible is the basis for our faith. It reveals our Savior (2 Tim 3:16), is how we know and believe (Rom 10:17), keeps us from sin (Psalm 119:11), works powerfully (Hebrews 4:12), and gives life (Matthew 4:4). As such, it holds a central place in...
This is a special post about a new resource for churches: Faithlife Sites—church websites that run themselves. When you entered the ministry, you probably didn’t dream of sitting at your computer tinkering with your church website. And now you don’t...
Why another song about God’s faithfulness? Don’t we have enough? No, because God’s faithfulness goes on forever. The psalmist David says it stretches to the skies (Ps. 108:4). It is inexhaustible. And good thing it is, because we need...
It’s a question many worship leaders grapple with. You want to lead new worship songs, but you don’t want to be singing them by yourself. How often do you teach your church new worship songs, and how do you do it? Here are a few questions to...