Morris Proctor's Tips & Tricks

If you have secured the Sermon File Addin (SFA) these upcoming blogs will help you get the most out of it. If you don't own the SFA please visit logos.com to purchase your copy.

To understand the SFA please remember you'll always work with three files, documents or sources of information:

1. The original source material. This could be a lesson manuscript or outline in Word or an article on a web page or just a quote floating around in your head.
   
2. The Sermon File document. This is the document you create inside Libronix from File | New that takes your original source material and "places" it your SFA books.
   
3. The Sermon File books. The SFA creates two and only two new Libronix resources or books entitled "Sermons of Your Name" and Illustrations of "Your Name".

In this blog I'll show you how to get your original source material into a Sermon File document. Let's say we're at a web site that has an interesting article that would make a great illustration for an upcoming lesson so we want to save it in our SFA illustration book.

• In Libronix choose File | New | Sermon File
• Name this document (I usually name the document the same as the material going in the book. For example, if our web page story is called Cat Gets Stuck in a Tree then name the Sermon File document the same thing)
• Click OK

When the sermon File document opens please notice several sections:

Author

This is the author of the SFA book not the content going in the book. Your name and e-mail should appear here.

Details

Two circles, Sermon and Illustration, are located at the top. These represent the two SFA books. Which book is this content to be placed? Click the correct circle. In our example, click Illustration.

Indicate the Language of the content. Most often it will be English.

If you want to upload a copy of this content to Logos for possible future use then check the box Publish to Logos database.

Title

Type a title for the content being placed in the book. In our example the title is Cat Gets Stuck in a Tree.

Topics

What subject matter is dealt with in the content? Is it an illustration or lesson about heaven, grace, hope, etc? Assign as many topics to the content as you like just separate each with a semi-colon.

Sermon / Illustration Text

In the lower left hand corner is the box labeled Sermon / Illustration Text. This is where you type or copy / paste text that is to be included in the book. In our example copy / paste the article from the web page right into this box.

Compile

Each time you click Compile Libronix reads all of your Sermon Files labeled Sermon and places the content in the book Sermons of "Your Name" and reads all of the Sermon Files labeled Illustration and places the content in the book Illustration of "Your Name". By clicking Compile you rebuild the two books.

In future blogs we'll cover more features located on this Sermon File Document window. For now please notice that for every different sermon, illustration, outline, quote, etc. that you want in the books you have to create a Sermon File document at File | New. Also, do NOT delete these Sermon File documents. If you do the content on each deleted file will be removed from the SFA books the next time you click Compile.

Open the Book

Once you have compiled the books you can go to My Library, type in your name and open your new SFA books to see the content you've placed in them!