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Your Proclaim Group Is Now on Faithlife

We have some terrific news for you and your worship team. Your Proclaim group will now live at Logos’ new online community, Faithlife. When you invite or accept Proclaim worship team members, you’ll do it through the Faithlife groups page.

This gives your team some awesome new benefits. You’ll message your entire presentation group, staying in touch no matter where you are. You’ll share documents with ease. And you’ll handle all your tasks—accepting group members, appointing administrators, planning presentations—through one simple hub. No need for a new account: your Proclaim and Logos logins already work on Faithlife.

 

What is Faithlife?

Faithlife is where Christian community happens online. It’s a place for private groups, intimate fellowship, and honest expression, all wrapped around the Word. Learn more at Faithlife.com’s homepage video.

Your church probably already has a Faithlife group. Log in to Faithlife and search for your church’s name. If you’re the group administrator, keep everyone on the same page – associate your presentation group with your church group under “Group Settings.”

 

To manage your Proclaim groups, follow these simple steps:

1. Go to https://faithlife.com/account/groups

2. Log in using your Proclaim account.

 

Proclaim, meet the world’s largest study Bible.

Faithlife’s sibling, the groundbreaking all-digital Faithlife Study Bible, is the world’s largest study Bible. And it’s free to the Logos community.

 

Unlock it free at FaithlifeBible.com/free with coupon code PROCLAIM.

Want to learn more? Check out FaithlifeBible.com’s homepage video.

 

Faithlife’s free app combines the study Bible and the online community, and it receives Proclaim Signals during your presentations. It’s a stellar resource to share with your congregation—with the FSB’s rich content and the app’s Signals compatibility, you and your church will go deeper into the Word.

 

Enjoy Faithlife! Get the free Faithlife Study Bible and app today—equip yourself, your presentation team, and your congregation for better Bible study and more meaningful fellowship.

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Faithlife Adds Important New Features

Your Christian community happens online at Faithlife.com.  And with visible reading plans, group associations, and the ability to share documents—connecting with your community online just got a little easier.

You could already:

  • Create and join groups of friends, family, coworkers, and classmates.
  • Share your Logos resource notes with groups.
  • Share announcements, news, and events with your church groups.
  • Create study groups for your seminary classes.
  • Share notes on Bible verses through the Faithlife Study Bible.

But Faithlife’s new features make connecting with your groups even easier!

Group Associations

If you’ve created a group for your worship team, small group, etc., you can go into your settings and connect it with other groups.

When people visit your page, they can see other entities and ministries your group is affiliated with.

As a church, you can add all the groups associated with you, too. As you can see, when you go to CrossPoint Church’s page, you can access the Worship Team page in the group tab.

Shared Documents

When your church is connected through Faithlife, all the groups you’re part of can communicate seamlessly. I can go to one location online and leave a message for the worship team, find out when I have nursery duty, encourage my men’s group, and find out about the next week’s upcoming BBQ.

Faithlife’s latest update makes sharing documents a snap.

I was able to upload the lead sheet to “A Mighty Fortress Is My God” for my worship team. Not only can we as a team stay up-to-date with practices and gatherings, they can upload songs, spread sheets, or anything we need to stay connected.

Faithlife is always improving with updates and new features. Do you know a way to make it better? Do you want to talk to other Faithlife users? Why not get involved on the Faithlife forum?

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Connect the Testaments: Writing a Devotional

“You eventually discover that it’s not about you reading the text, but the text reading you,” a professor once remarked. If we don’t allow the Spirit to make us more like Jesus through our reading of the Bible, then why read it at all?

Devotional content sweeps away the proverbial dust from our Bibles—making the text more personal. It also allows the Bible to “read itself”—to speak to us directly through its inner monologue and the dialogues between its inspired authors. These ideas combined to create Connect the Testaments: A Daily Devotional.

The devotional began as an idea for a reading plan offering biblical theology. The biblical authors had unique insights and interests: how God’s work began and begins, new beginnings, spiritual renewal, prophecy, God’s work in history and how he grew and grows his kingdom. The reading plan was developed with those interests and themes in mind, intentionally setting up exchanges between the biblical authors across the testaments. It was designed to cover every day of the year. Each reading includes passages from the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Wisdom literature like Proverbs, Psalms, and Job.

The devotional focuses on how the biblical text connects between the testaments. It demonstrates what those conversations teach us about living for Jesus. Some links are made through broader themes, and others are as simple as the biblical text quoting itself. The devotional is dedicated to making God’s message understandable and relevant for those seeking to live for Jesus.

The late scholar Brevard Childs once said, “Wherever the Spirit is not present, there is no great explanation possible.” Connect the Testaments is about empowering people to find explanations for problems in both the biblical text and in their lives. Right now, it’s free with Faithlife Study Bible.