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August 27, 2015 By Taylor Blomquist   |   1 Comment

3 Essential Tools That Deliver Nourishment to Your Bible Study

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Last chance Logos 6 sale

Aqueducts brought life-giving water to Rome from miles away. Without them, the cornerstone of the Roman empire would’ve collapsed from a lack of nourishment. Just as the stone aqueducts delivered nourishment to Roman citizens, Logos 6 supplies the tools you need to glean spiritual nourishment from your Bible study.  Save 15%, plus your additional ownership discount when you upgrade with the Logos 6 Feature Crossgrade. Hurry, these discounts disappear 11:59 pm (PT) August 31.

Supply your Bible study with rich tools and media

Building your relationship with Christ is an investment—done brick by brick over your entire life, through the study of Scripture. Logos is the brick and mortar—the structure of the aqueduct that drives Scripture’s nourishment to your relationship with Christ.

The Logos 6 Feature Crossgrade is a bridge—it takes you from any previous version of the software to Logos 6, complete with all of the tools and capabilities—without adding more books.

Here are three ways Logos 6 provides tools that deliver nourishment to your Bible study:

1. Connect with biblical culture

Anyone who has spent time reading the Bible has experienced concepts in scripture that are foreign to our own. Whether it be Old Testament sacrifices, worship style, marriage laws, or music, our ability to understand and comprehend their importance can shift the way we interpret and apply scripture to our own life. With the Cultural Concepts tool in Logos 6 you can link straight from Scripture to a Factbook entry on the underlying cultural concept.

2. Examine Scripture with the help of ancient texts

Related to understanding cultural concepts is understanding what the text meant to its original readers, which is important for us to understand how we should apply the text to our lives. The Ancient Literature tool in Logos 6 aggregates ancient texts related to the scripture passage into one place, allowing you to quickly understand how first century people would interpret the text.

3. Study textual differences between translations

Ever wonder why passages differ between Bible translations? With the Textual Variants tool you can analyze Scripture passages based on the ancient texts they were derived from. Get everything you need for textual-variant study, all in one place: see overviews of textual variants with textual commentaries, compare primary texts with modern Bible editions, study original manuscripts, and view scanned photos of original Bible texts.

Logos 6 is on sale

The Feature Crossgrade bridges the gap between the current version of your software, and the latest features and capabilities of a Logos 6 Gold base package.

We created Feature Crossgrade with you in mind. It’s got all of the features, datasets, media, interactives, guides, and capabilities of Logos 6 Gold, but we’ve removed the additional books. That means huge savings for you and access to all the tools to deliver nourishment to your spiritual life.

Plus, you can make getting into Logos 6 even easier with a payment plan. With payment plans, you can spread the cost of the Feature Crossgrade over 12 months. Depending on your custom sale price you could own all of Logos 6’s tools for less than $50 a month (or less than $1.10 a day). Start using your new software right away—without paying the full amount up front.

Get Feature Crossgrade now.

Get free training on Logos 6

If you have the right tool for the job, but you don’t know how to use it, it’s just as bad as not having it. So with your Logos 6 Feature Crossgrade you’ll get access to a free, live training webinar hosted by a Logos pro. Plus, if you attend you’ll also get a $25 coupon code to expand your library with any of our Feature Expansion Collections.

Crossover to the future of Bible study

Get early access to unreleased features, tools, and datasets  that ordinarily wouldn’t be available until the next software release, all for a low-cost monthly or annual subscription to Logos Now. 

With Logos Now you’ll get new features as we create them so you’ll always be on the forefront of Bible study. Plus, when you combine Logos Now with the Logos 6 Feature Crossgrade, you’ll save an additional 10% off an annual subscription to Logos Now. That means you’ll get your one-month free trial, and then get the equivalent of an additional month free with your subscription.

Bridge the gap to Logos 6 with the Feature Crossgrade, then cross over to the future of Bible study with Logos Now today!

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Interested building your library? You can always upgrade to a Logos 6 base package, or get additional base packages to bulk up your library. We’ve got a suite of theological libraries and when you upgrade before August 31, you’ll save 15%.

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July 10, 2015 By Taylor Blomquist   |   Leave a Comment

Cross Over to Logos 6 with Feature Crossgrade

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Logos 6 Feature CrossgradeBridges help humanity cross impassable valleys, unfordable rivers, and insurmountable mountains. They are landmarks of architecture, inspiration, ingenuity, and beauty. Humanity has been perfecting them for centuries and we continue to find new ways to innovate their function to enable faster, safer, and better transportation.

The history of the bridge began as early as 1500 BC with timber carved with ancient tools, placed across small rivers. They were capable of holding only a couple hundred pounds.

Knowledge changes everything

As we grew in our knowledge of architecture, so did our ability to build bridges. By the first century the Romans discovered the strength of building arches out of stone and fashioning aqueducts which allowed them to irrigate crops, increasing yield and profit; construct the first sewage system, clearing bacteria and disease away from town; and supply their ever-growing population with fresh water from miles away.

Over the next few centuries bridges became a staple for communication, health, prosperity, and power. They were essential to sustaining life in urban cities and the rural country side. Still today they remain an integral part of transportation.

Take your Bible study in a new direction

Innovation is one of the greatest gifts that God bestowed upon his creation. That innovation is alive and well at Faithlife. For 20 years we’ve been creating, designing, and engineering, the best Bible study tool the world’s ever seen. In October of last year, we launched the most advanced tool we’ve ever created.

Just as bridges have become essential to daily life and enhanced our ability to communicate, sustain health, and move from place to place quickly, Logos 6 is your bridge to delving deeper into God’s word, helping you to sustain your spiritual health, and saving you precious time.

Since Logos 6 launched in October, you may not have got the chance to explore all that it has to offer and seen how essential it is to serious Bible study. If you haven’t had the chance to check out Logos 6, now is the time. If you already own a Logos base package, you’ll get Dynamic Pricing, plus an additional 15% off when you upgrade to Logos 6.

Pay for new features, not new books

Want in on a little secret? A gold base package is not the only way to get all the features available. In fact, dare I say it? Logos 6 Gold may be the wrong fit for your Bible study needs. Maybe you’ve got a well-rounded library, and you don’t need more books (though we’d probably disagree). You just want the features. We understand. So we created a bridge.

Bridge the gap to Logos 6

Now you can get all of Logos 6’s features at a fraction of the price with the Feature Crossgrade. You won’t pay for more books, but you’ll get all the datasets, media, features, and Interactives that Logos 6 has to offer. Plus, since you already own a previous Logos base package, you’ll get 15% off and an additional discount for the tools you already own.

Keep your tools up-to-date

Looking to stay on top of the latest Bible study developments? Subscribe to Logos Now. It’s a low-cost monthly (or annual) subscription that gives you early access to new features, tools, and datasets that won’t be available to everyone else until the next software release.

Get new Logos features as we create them with Logos Now. Save 10% on an annual subscription to Logos Now when you combine it with the Feature Crossgrade.

Check out what Logos 6 can do and see your custom price today!

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December 26, 2014 By Taylor Blomquist   |   1 Comment

3 Things Playing Ping Pong Says about Faithlife

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ping pongWhen you need a break from work, there’s plenty to do around the Faithlife campus—foosball, spikeball, Super Smash Bros., and a whole lot more. For me, one particular activity rises above the rest—ping pong.

When I was hired as an intern a little over a year ago I spent many hours getting to know our flagship product, our company values, and the awesome people who make working at Faithlife so great.

It wasn’t until my internship was almost over that Art Pinney and Eric Vaniman invited me to play a game of ping pong.

One game quickly turned into two, and eventually ping pong became a daily occurrence. A fierce competition formed between us.

Over time our group of three was joined by several others and we started having regular tournaments.

We take ping pong seriously

Ping pong is not just popular among our group of six. It’s a big deal across campus—it’s not unusual to make the journey to building 3 only to find the table occupied.

Every department has a number of people who are skilled with the paddle, including development, design, marketing, customer service, sales, and others.

The sport is popular enough at Faithlife to justify reserving the table ahead of time, especially during the company wide tournament—the C.O.P.P.T.R (Corporate Ping Pong Tournament).

The C.O.P.P.T.R

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The C.O.P.P.T.R. is open to anyone at Faithlife—whether you’re a brand-new intern, or someone who’s been here over 20 years. Even Executive Vice President Dan Pritchett is on the ladder.

It’s no laughing matter. C.O.P.P.T.R. is governed by a lengthy set of rules similar to those listed on pongworld.com (with a couple of our “house rules”).

So many stellar players make the competition difficult. Pritchett himself is currently listed as the number two seat in the tournament.

From personal experience, I can tell you that Dan’s pong abilities rarely meet their match. In our first meeting, he kept me below 10 points in two out of three matches to 21.

We’ve played several times since then, and it wasn’t until the week before Faithlife launched Logos 6 that I finally beat him.

What ping pong says about Faithlife

Ping pong is just a game. It has nothing to do with our companies products. But there are three traits shown through this simple game that reveal who we are and showcase what makes working at Faithlife so great:

We’re competitive

Growth is one of our core values. We strive to do and be the best we can at everything we participate in. Naturally, this flows into a friendly game of ping-pong. It’s something we enjoy, so we practice and get better together. Just like the jobs we do every day.

We’re good sports

While we enjoy good competition, we still value and respect our coworkers. The games always remain friendly and they end with a handshake or high-five followed by “good game.” Our company values are summed up by the four words, “Honor God. Love others.” This overflows into everything we do—whether it’s building the world’s best Bible software, or playing some ping pong.

We love a good challenge

Challenges present the opportunity to persevere. Perseverance is the goal of competition. When we compete and lose, it fuels our fire to perform better in the future.

These qualities transfer to our work. We work hard, and when we make a mistake we admit it. These experiences fuel our passion for creating better products and providing better service. We search for our faults, correct them and aim to perform better in the future. It’s part of who we are.

Want to be around for the next C.O.P.P.T.R.? We’re hiring! Apply today at Faithlife.com/careers.

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August 6, 2014 By Taylor Blomquist   |   Leave a Comment

Learn on the Go: Get the Best Price on Over 95 Audiobooks

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Recently, Logos Bible Software stepped into a new realm of digital publishing: audiobooks. They’ve added over 95 audio resources from popular authors and pastors like John Piper, A.W. Tozer, Timothy Keller, Matt Chandler, and many more.

Check out all the audiobook resources Logos offers and pre-order your favorites today!

Listen on the go

Finding time to read can be difficult, but now reading is as easy as listening while you run, shop, work, or travel. Every audiobook is mobile-enhanced, so you can take your books with you anywhere your phone goes. What’s more, these resources are available on any app in the Logos ecosystem. This means you can download your audiobook from Logos.com/audiobooks and it will be available on the Logos Bible! app, the Faithlife Study Bible app, or the Vyrso app—for both Andriod and iOS devices.

Use the cross-format sync to listen across devices

Logos has engineered your audiobooks to pick up where you left off, so you won’t spend time searching for your stopping point—even across devices. Listen at home on your iPad or tablet while you drink your coffee, catch up on the morning news, and scroll through your social feeds. Then, leave for work, plug your headphones into a mobile device, and pick up right where you left off. The cross-format sync even works if you listen from a mobile device and then open the book in the desktop version of Logos 5.

Save your notes

Another notable edge to Logos audiobook bundles is the ability to pause and add a note to the text version of the book. You can share your inspirational note with your community on Faithlife, and when you’re done, simply press play and continue listening through your favorite books.

Listen at your own speed

Many audiobooks can feel like they’re read at the wrong speed. These audiobooks put you in control—customize your reading speed with four different options on your iOS device: 1x, 1.2x, 1.5x, and 2x. The Logos 5 desktop software also gives you the ability to customize your speed.

Save on titles from your favorite authors

  • Attributes of God, vol. 1: A Journey Into the Father’s Heart by A.W. Tozer—26% off
  • Desiring God:Meditations of a Christian Hedonist by John Piper—24% off
  • I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist By Norman. L Geisler—23% off
  • The Explicit Gospel, by Matt Chandler—20% off
  • Galatians for You: For Reading, for Feeding, for Leading by Timothy Keller—18% off

Don’t wait—pre-order now to secure the lowest price on your favorite audiobooks from Logos.

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December 30, 2013 By Taylor Blomquist   |   Leave a Comment

Get Christian Ebooks for 70% Off!

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Get 70% off with the 24 Days of Vyrso. Don’t miss out—these deals end January 6. Christmas is over, but Vyrso.com is continuing their sale on 24 hand-picked ebook collections. These deals were offered as one-day specials, but now you have another opportunity to save on all the collections featured during the 24-day promotion! We’ve selected a few that can aid your personal studies and help you learn to live a faith-filled life.

Three bundles for a faith-filled life

Inspirational Bible Study Bundle

This bundle is the second-largest collection offered during the 24 Days of Vyrso. Authored by Stonecroft Ministries, this set is designed to encourage people to know God and grow in his love through the exploration of his life-transforming Word. Designed for both seekers and new believers, this bundle includes easy-to-understand explanations and applications of Bible passages, study questions, and a journal. Get over $65 off the Inspirational Bible Study Bundle.

Spiritual Growth Bundle

Develop your ability to discern God’s voice from the distractions of life. Hearing God’s Voice provides eight insightful principles to test whether you’re hearing God or responding to your thoughts or situation. Also included in this bundle are two books by Stephen W. Smith—founder of Potter’s Inn, a ministry devoted to spiritual care. Revive your faith with the Spiritual Growth Bundle.

Powerful Prayer Bundle

Prayer is one of the most important tools ministry leaders use. This collection includes a book by Terry Glaspey highlighting 25 keys to a dynamic prayer life. Establish a better foundation for prayer—get $30 off the Powerful Prayer Bundle today.

These deals disappear on New Year’s Day. Act now to save on all the bundles featured in the 24 Days of Vyrso.

 

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