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What’s New at Faithlife
In this newsletter, you’ll find information on some unique areas we are focusing our efforts to increase biblical literacy, as well as some new ways we are equipping the Church.
We want to do everything we can to support you, whether you are a seminary student, a homeschool parent, a pastor, or you just want to learn how to study the Bible better—because we believe the future of the Church depends on it.
Plus, we’ll let you in on some exciting things happening inside Faithlife.
Keep reading to learn more, and thanks for being with us!
– Bob Pritchett
For steady updates and special offers from Faithlife, follow us at Faithlife.com.
Helping You Read, Learn, and Grow
4 areas we’re helping to increase biblical literacy
Equipping seminary students and faculty
We’re helping seminaries prepare students for a lifetime of ministry by equipping them with Logos. With Faithlife’s Academic Discount, students (and faculty and staff) save on time-saving research tools, academic resources, and textbooks throughout their time in seminary. Students can get Logos Academic Basic for free to decide if it’s the right tool for them.
Learn more about how Logos partners with schools.
Providing biblical education
For people who love learning but can’t go to seminary, Logos Mobile Ed Certificate Programs are a great option—and we released nine new options this spring. Each includes a selection of Mobile Ed Courses focused on one biblical study topic or key area of ministry, all taught by some of the most esteemed scholars in Christian academia.
Serving the Messianic Jewish community
Messianic Judaism is rapidly growing in the United States and in other nations, like North and South America, Europe, and Israel. To better serve this community, we’ve created new Messianic Jewish packages.
Supporting homeschooling families
Faithife was at the recent Teach Them Diligently homeschool convention, and for a short time offered a free Logos Homeschool Bundle. Homeschoolers can still download Logos 8 Basic for free. Faithlife TV was also at the recent Washington State Homeschool conference.
Join the Homeschool Families group on Faithlife to learn and gain support from other homeschooling families.
Helping You Help the Church
Helping churches create beautiful presentations
Faithlife recently shipped The Proclaim Guide to Beautiful Church Presentations to 9,500 churches in the United States. Written for people with zero design experience, it teaches the basics of design for churches—everything from choosing colors to laying out slides to taking good photos. Stay tuned for how you can get a copy.
In Your Community
Creating partnerships with churches
We recently announced a partnership with the Church of God, Anderson, IN movement (ChOG) at the Church of God convention. The event was livestreamed, and over 400 people tuned in—including congregants as far away as Guam!
ChOG is sending 55 churches in 7 regions through a pilot program with Faithlife Equip. Anyone who is part of the Church of God can join the Church of God Global Movement group by going to FL.VU/CHOG. In addition to uniting with other ChoG pastors and congregants in the Global Movement group on Faithlife, churches can create a Faithlife group specifically for their individual church. The global group enables worldwide unity while the local group helps churches solve their unique technology problems. Learn about one church’s experience here.
The Faithlife team at The Church of God Convention in Orlando, Florida—where Bob publicly announced our partnership with the movement and the official release of our latest product, Faithlife Equip.
Read more about Faithlife’s partnership with the Church of God.
Assemblies of God General Council, July 31–August 1
Faithlife will also be at the Assemblies of God General Council announcing something exciting! If you’re attending, be on the lookout for the Faithlife team.
Free guides for churches
This Spring, we released a number of free guides to help churches with everything from websites to mobile giving to welcoming visitors to healthy church budgeting.
Inside Faithlife
Comparably Award for Q2 2019
Out of thousands of US companies, Faithlife won the Comparably Award for Q2 2019 for Best Leadership Teams!
New Lexham book
In Hearers & Doers, Kevin Vanhoozer makes the case that pastors, as pastor-theologians, ought to interpret Scripture theologically, then take responsibility to deliver it to their communities.
Learn more, and follow the Lexham Press group for future book updates.
Your Feedback Matters
Our goal is to build products that help you grow in the light of the Bible and give you back time to do what you do best: ministry. We’re hearing you like what you see—but we want to know how we can serve you better.
Follow Faithlife.com today, and let us know what kinds of products and tools will help you grow in the light of the Bible.
Editing tip of the week
Setup
Setup is a noun that defines the way something is arranged or planned:
- You have a great setup for hosting people in your home. (noun)
- The thief walked right into the setup. (noun)
- Follow the setup instructions. (noun)
Set up
Set up is a verb and refers to the action of putting things in order or arranging them:
- I finally set up my computer. (verb)
Set-up
Set-up is a noun (hyphenated compound) in British English.
Editing tip of the week
Write only the number for the date:
- This offer expires at 11:59 p.m. on November 30 (not November 30th).
- Register by midnight on January 30 (not January 30th)
Editing tip of the week
Log in is a verb and means the procedures to begin use of a computer, database, or system.
Login as a noun refers to the information used sign into an account.
Login as an adjective describes a noun.
- You log in (verb) to an account.
- The information you use to sign into your email is your login (noun).
- The page where you sign in is the login page (adjective).
What's New at Faithlife
Happy new year!
You've set those new year resolutions to study the Bible, and we're here to help you achieve them.
We recently released Logos 8, which makes in-depth Bible study easier than ever. And we're continually improving all our church and Bible study products.
We’re working on many new ways to serve you in 2019, and we pray it's a fruitful year for your study of God's Word.
Keep reading to learn more, and thanks for being with us.
– Bob Pritchett
For steady updates and special offers from Faithlife, follow us at Faithlife.com.
Helping You Help the Church
Our development teams worked hard in 2018 on several products to serve the Church. Here are three!
A church website builder that makes websites easy to maintain
Faithlife Sites integrates with your ministry and updates your website automatically with the information you share with your church via your Faithlife church group. Get.bible and Church Tech Today listed Faithlife Sites as one of the best church website builders available.
Learn how Faithlife Sites works.
A simplified giving solution
Faithlife Giving is our mobile-friendly online giving solution for churches. With built-in communication tools and reporting features, it helps you engage your church and steward God’s resources well.
In 2018, we focused on ensuring you can record your church’s tithes and gifts in Faithlife Giving—even gifts that come in the mail or through the offering plate. We also simplified the process for sending tax statements to members.
Want to learn more about our giving solution for churches? Watch this video and visit Giving.Faithlife.com.
A new, free digital signage feature
Digital Signage is a free feature that lets you display announcements, Bible art, and more on monitors throughout your church building. And people are loving it!
One customer wrote: “There are some great companies out there doing Digital Signage . . . but it would set a church back. Right now, we have six screens we are looking at deploying. That would be so costly. Proclaim seems like a godsend to churches in this area!”
Learn more! Check out this video, and get started!
Introducing the Faithlife Church Support Center
Last year, we opened the Faithlife Church Support Center to ensure your Sunday morning services go off without a hitch. Our customer support specialists are ready to provide technical support to churches using the Faithlife platform of products 365 days a year.
Contact us by phone at 888-634-2038 (US/Canada, toll-free) or +1 360-603-5576 (International), or by email at support@faithlife.com.
Helping You Read, Learn, and Grow
Easier and faster Bible study with Logos 8
“I’ve never had this breadth of tools at my fingertips before, and all easily referenced and linked. I’m super excited to dig . . . and dig some more.”
— Peter Opheim, Livestar cofounder/CTO
The reviews are in. Logos users are saying Logos 8 makes deep Bible study easier and faster—and they are loving it.
And we couldn’t be more thrilled.
Logos 8 is our most significant upgrade since Logos 4. We not only added powerful new features but also enhanced existing features and interfaces to make deep Bible study easier and faster for everyone.
See what’s new, or read about key changes with Logos 8.
A new Faithlife Webinars group!
Follow the Faithlife Webinar group to learn about upcoming Bible study and church product webinars.
In Your Community
BibleTech Conference, April 11–12, 2019 • Cedarbrook Lodge, Seattle, WA
The Faithlife team is busy planning the two-day BibleTech Conference designed for publishers, programmers, webmasters, educators, bloggers, and anyone interested in using technology to improve Bible study. And it’s a great way to network with other Church leaders.
Follow the group for BibleTech 2019 updates.
Faithlife is now on Instagram!
Follow @faithlifecorporation for regular Bible verse art, free downloads, announcements about sales and new products, behind-the-scenes footage, and more. [instagram.com/faithlifecorporation]
Inside Faithlife
Top Shelf Book Cover Award winner
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) recently awarded the Top Shelf Book Cover Award to Lexham Press’ book, Finding God in the Margins, designed by Faithlife’s Brittany Schrock.
Congratulations, Brittany!
Lexham Press receives a Christianity Today 2019 Book Award
Each year, Christianity Today honors outstanding books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture. Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Gospels, edited by Barry Beitzel, recently received this prestigious award for the category of Biblical Studies.
Read an excerpt, or get Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Gospels.
Your Feedback Matters
Our goal is to build products that help you grow in the light of the Bible and give you back time to do what you do best: ministry. We’re hearing you like what you see—but we want to know how we can serve you better.
Follow us on Faithlife.com today and let us know what kinds of products and tools will help you grow in the light of the Bible.
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What's New at Faithlife
Greetings,
Between a Faithlife original film, an integrated suite of ministry tools, and a free webinar, we have a lot to tell you about.
And it’s all about helping you and your church grow in the light of the Bible.
You can now watch Fragments of Truth anytime. It’s an original documentary from Faithlife that shows how recent archeological discoveries are reinforcing the reliability of New Testament manuscripts. Learn more here.
On top of that, we’re just weeks away from launching an integrated suite of ministry tools for churches: Faithlife Equip. Sign up to be notified when it releases.
There’s more to learn about below—including how to get free church communication training—so please keep reading. It’s an exciting season at Faithlife, and we want you to know ways you and your church can benefit from what we’re doing.
Thanks for being with us,
– Bob Pritchett
For steady updates and special offers from Faithlife, follow us at Faithlife.com.
Helping You Help the Church
Jump-start church engagement in Faithlife’s free webinar
October 24 at 11:00 a.m. PST
Join the Faithlife team for a free webinar and learn how to integrate Logos with Faithlife’s ministry tools to increase church engagement. Learn how to:
- Prepare your sermon notes in Logos and automatically sync them to slides in Faithlife Proclaim
- Record, edit, and publish your sermon online within minutes of finishing it—ready to go on your church website, social media channels, and podcast
- Keep your website up to date while editing it less and less over time
- And more
If you sign up, you’ll get two months of Proclaim for free, as well as a recording of the webinar you can watch again at your convenience.
Streamline sermon prep with Faithlife Sermons
Faithlife Sermons gives pastors back time by providing resources for the full lifecycle of their sermons.
- Prep. Jump-start your sermon prep with thematic outlines ready to preach—or to use as a starting point. Find the perfect sermon illustration or anecdote, then add beautiful sermon art to support your message.
- Preaching and posting. After you’ve preached, upload your sermon to easily share it via social media or your church website.
- Archiving. Faithlife Sermons is also a sermon database. Find all your sermons in one place and tag them to make it easy to go back and locate a particular sermon. On top of that, search thousands of other sermons and notes by other preachers for inspiration.
Are you using Faithlife Sermons? Join our online community!
Helping You Deepen Relationships in Your Church
Connect faster and easier in Faithlife Groups
The new Faithlife Mobile app features more native navigation elements, meaning the app is smoother and faster than ever before. We’ve improved messages, made easier and faster ways of finding groups, enhanced notifications, and fixed several bugs.
On the horizon: Faithlife Equip
Faithlife is about to release an integrated suite of all of our ministry tools: Faithlife Equip. It consolidates your church technology to make the work you do every week more streamlined and equips you with tools and resources to help your whole church go deeper in God’s Word.
Sign up to learn when Faithlife Equip releases to the public.
Helping You Read, Learn, & Grow
Now on Blu-Ray or digital: Fragments of Truth
Many of you have asked and we’re pleased to announce the Faithlife original film Fragments of Truth is now available on digital and Blu-Ray. Join Dr. Craig Evans as he highlights groundbreaking new evidence that demonstrates the case for the reliability of the New Testament manuscripts is stronger than ever.
Watch the trailer, and claim your copy today.
Deep, biblically centered learning—all in one place
Faithlife Connect gives you an all-in-one subscription of biblically centered resources designed to help you grow in your faith. With Connect, you’ll have access to a bundle of Faithlife products including Christian books, courses, Bible study tools, Christian movies, and more.
Check out this video to learn more.
What the Bible really says about angels
In Angels: What the Bible Really Says About God’s Heavenly Host, Dr. Mike Heiser reveals what the Bible says about God’s supernatural servants—and it’s much more than wings, harps, and halos.
Helping academia use technology to grow the church
The Faithlife team is continually exploring the future of digital tools for Bible study, churches, and education. Increasingly, educational institutions are realizing they need to care more about the digital future, too. One university appreciative of Faithlife tools is Biola University in La Mirada, California. Biola professors use Logos Bible Software, and board members use it personally and their ministry.
If you’re part of school that uses Faithlife tools for work or ministry, share your experience or ask questions in the group.
Congratulations to Faithlife’s Church Admin Sweepstakes winner
Beki Burns from Lansing, Michigan won the Faithlife Corporation Church Admin Sweepstakes! Burns will be going on an all-expenses-paid trip for two to Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.
2018 Comparably Award for Best Work-Life Balance
Faithlife was recently awarded the 2018 Comparably Best Work-Life Balance award, representing that Faithlife has employees most satisfied with their work-life balance. If you are interested in joining #TeamFaithlife, follow us on LinkedIn to learn more about current openings.
Faithlife is now on Instagram!
Follow @faithlifecorporation for regular Bible verse art, free downloads, announcements about sales and new products, behind-the-scenes footage, and more. [instagram.com/faithlifecorporation]
Your Feedback Matters
Our goal is to build products that help you grow in the light of the Bible and give you back time to do what you do best: ministry. We’re hearing you like what you see—but we want to know how we can serve you better.
Let us know what kinds of products and tools will help you grow in the light of the Bible by commenting in the group.
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