Note: Available in Logos Pro subscriptions and higher, as well as legacy packages Silver and above.
The Logos Sermon Builder not only helps you prepare your sermon but makes it easy to present it as well. Using Preaching Mode, you can quickly navigate from your sermon document to a presentation format. This allows you to use a mobile device or laptop to present your sermon.
Note: Preaching Mode requires an internet connection to initiate the presentation. Once your sermon loads, a connection is not necessary to navigate through your sermon.
To Get Started:
1. Launch Preaching Mode
Open your sermon document and click Preach from the upper right corner of the document. Logos sends your sermon to a new tab in your web browser in a presentation view.
2. Adjust Timer
The timer button is located in the upper right corner of the tab. Click the button to adjust the length and/or to start the timer. Logos remembers your adjustments and saves them for future presentations. Click Start timer when you are ready to begin. Clicking Stop timer resets the timer to the most recent setting.
Timer Length
Click inside the box to edit the length of the timer. Once you click Start timer Logos allows you to add additional time by clicking one of the time increment buttons (+1 min, +5 min, or +10 min). Clicking these buttons only affects the timer for the current sermon and is not saved for future sermons.
Notifications
Check the boxes to select notifications for 1 and 2 minutes remaining as well as when you are over time. When Flash 1 and 2 minute warnings is active, the timer button changes to orange and flashes three times when the timer reaches 2 minutes and again at 1 minute remaining. Once the timer reaches zero, the button changes from orange to red and begins to count up each minute. When Flash when over time is engaged, the button slowly pulses red and displays the amount of time you are over.
3. Adjust Presentation View
Click the font size icon to open options for your presentation. You can adjust Text Column, Font, Font Size, Line Spacing, and Margins. Changes are made in real-time. Logos remembers your adjustments and saves them for future sermons.
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Text Column - Select Paging to present your sermon page-by-page. Select Scrolling to present your sermon as a continuous document. (See more about navigating your sermon below.)
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Font - Choose between Serif, Sans (no serifs), or Mono (a monospaced font).
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Font Size - Five different font sizes are available. If you used different font sizes when you wrote your sermon, these sizes are enlarged/reduced proportionately. This maintains the relative differences in your original font sizes.
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Line Spacing - Adjust the overall line spacing in your sermon with five variations from Single to Double.
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Margins - Choose from Tight (narrow), Normal, or Loose (wide) margins.
- Control Proclaim presentation - Toggles Proclaim controls from Preaching Mode on (Yes) or off (No). Click here to learn more about using Preaching Mode to control your Proclaim presentation.
4. Navigate Your Sermon
When the Text Column is set to Paging, you can navigate your sermon by tapping the forward and back arrows at the bottom of the screen. When using a laptop, you can also advance your sermon using the down and right arrow keys. To go back, use the up and left arrow keys.
When the Text Column is set to Scrolling, you can navigate your sermon by dragging up and down on the screen. When using a laptop, use the up and down arrow keys.
Note: Any slides that are part of your presentation display in the upper left corner of the screen until the next slide advances. This allows you to always see what slide is displayed while you are speaking.
Additional Resources
- Open the Sermon Builder in Logos.
- Logos Sermon Builder Faithlife group
Build Your Sermon
Start a new sermon or access an existing sermon by tapping the More Items Menu icon , and then Sermons under the Documents section.
Click here to learn more about using the Mobile Sermon Builder.
Note: Publishing sermons to Proclaim is only supported on tablets, not on phones.
Make sure Proclaim is On Air
When Proclaim has finished syncing your sermon slides and your presentation is ready, click On Air in the upper right of your Proclaim window so Proclaim is ready for when you want to start preaching. This needs to be done on a desktop / laptop.
At present, the sermon integration between Logos and Proclaim is one way. Logos sends your sermon slides to Proclaim, but changes to your sermon slides in Proclaim will not be reflected in Logos.
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Open Preaching Mode in the Logos Mobile App.
After preparing your sermon and publishing it to Proclaim, you can view and advance your sermon slides live while preaching from the Logos mobile app. Tap the More Items Menu icon , select Preaching mode, and select your desired sermon from the list.
The sermon will automatically open in Preaching Mode.
If you don’t see the slides on the left, tap the slides icon to make them visible.
Tap the text settings icon in the upper right to make changes to how your personal notes display.
To optionally control your live Proclaim presentation, set “Control Proclaim presentation” to Yes.
Tap any slide to display it on the screen. An orange indicator to the left of the currently projected slide shows to confirm your selection. Only your slide displays—none of your personal notes show on screen.
Preaching Mode + Proclaim means you can both have your personal notes available and retain full control over each transition for your congregation.
Note: When your presentation is On Air, anytime you tap on a slide, it will override the presentation and immediately display that slide on the screen. The computer running Proclaim can, in turn, click any slide in the presentation to override your selection.