Morris Proctor's Tips & Tricks

A great book you probably own is Difficulties in the Bible by R.A. Torrey. In this book he examines many hard to understand passages in the Bible. The difficulty, however, is that the book is not versified. You can’t link it with your Bible or type a verse and jump to that location in the book. How then do we access Torrey’s comments on the passage we’re studying? The Reference Browser will help.

Open Difficulties in the Bible from My Library. Now open the Reference Browser from the Go menu. Set the In box to Difficulties in the Bible. Select Bible from the Type box. Enter your Bible reference, like 1 Peter 3, in the Find box. Select your desired Match preference. Click Search and all the places Torrey discusses this reference are listed. Just click one to open it.

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As you probably know you can open any daily devotional, like My Utmost for His Highest, from the Home Page. This method will take you to today’s reading. What if, however, you’re studying John 17 and you want to find all the places Oswald Chambers mentions the text in his devotional. The Reference Browser which works like the Scripture reference index in the back of a book is what you need.

Open My Utmost for His Highest. Now open the Reference Browser from the Go menu. Set the In box to My Utmost. Select Bible from the Type box. Enter your Bible reference, John 17, in the Find box. Select your desired Match preference. Click Search and all the places Oswald Chambers discusses this reference is listed. Just click one to open it.

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Sometimes you need a hymn to correspond to the lesson or sermon you’re developing. It’s very easy to do with the Reference Browser which works like the Scripture reference index in the back of a book.

Open the Logos Hymnal or Steve Green MIDI Hymnal if you own it. Now open the Reference Browser from the Go menu. Set the In box to the hymnal. Select Bible from the Type box. Enter a Bible reference (like Jn 15.5 or Rev 19) in the Find box. Select your desired Match preference. Click Search and all relevant hymn will be listed. Just click one to open it.

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When I begin my personal sermon preparation I always bookmark the passage I’m studying in my Preferred Bible. For example, if I’m preaching from Philippians 2.5-11 I will bookmark Philippians 2.5 in my ESV. I usually set the bookmark in position 1. To set the bookmark choose Favorites | Bookmarks | Set | 1-9.

Now during my research as I find myself all over the Bible all I have to do is press Ctrl +1 to return to Philippians 2.5.

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You may have an elaborate system of Favorites on one computer and wish to have it on another. You don’t, however, want to invest the time needed to recreate it. All you have to do is copy / paste the Favorites file from one computer to another. All of the Favorites, including folders and subfolders, are contained in one file located at My Documents | Libronix DLS | Favorites.

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Once you have created Favorites and Favorites Folders you can organize them in a variety of ways.

Choose Favorites | Organize Favorites. From here it is simply a matter of dragging and dropping folders and favorites to the desired locations. You can drag and drop a favorite on top of any folder thereby placing that favorite in the folder. You can also drag and drop folders on top of folders which creates folders within folders.

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A very handy feature in Libronix is a little known toolbar called the Quick Navigate Bar. It is identified as a Go box on the toolbar. If you don’t have this box it can be downloaded for free (from www.mpseminars.com) as a part of the Power Tools Addin.

With the Go box installed you can use it to quickly open your Preferred Bible to a specific location. All you do is type a Bible passage in the box (John 3:16, Jn3.16, or Jn 3) and press the Enter key.

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When I studied with print books, paper, and ink I created numerous study folders. For example, I would take a file folder and label it Forgiveness. Then as I read books, articles, etc about the subject I would place copies of the articles or notes to myself in the folder. In the future when I studied forgiveness I could return to the folder for all of my previous research.

In Libronix, you can create electronic study folders called Favorites Folders. Choose Favorites | Organize Favorites. Click New Folder. Name the Folder and click OK.

To place a Favorite (bookmark or link) in that folder, open the desired resource to a specific location. Choose Favorites | Add to Favorites. Click the specific folder to place it in. Click OK.

To open the Favorite, choose Favorites | the specific folder | the specific favorite.

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