For the second half of September, get a free copy of Logos Free Book of the Month: Jeremy M. Kimble, How Can I Get More Out of My Bible Reading? for your Logos Library. Part of the 9Marks series, Kimble explains how the church acts as God’s school and offers biblical answers and practical applications that provide sound and accessible biblical teaching by answering common questions.
The other “almost free” books in this promotion are pastoral and practical books from Crossway.
- Collin Hansen, Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil? (TGC Hard Questions; Crossway, 2025), $2.99
- David Powlison, God’s Grace in Your Suffering (Crossway, 2018), $3.99
- Wayne Grudem, C. John Collins, and Thomas Schreiner, Understanding Scripture: An Overview of the Bible’s Origin, Reliability, and Meaning (Crossway, 2011), $4.99
- David R. Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today (9Marks Building Healthy Churches Series; Crossway, 2014), $5.99
- Andreas J. Köstenberger and Michael J. Kruger, The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity (Crossway, 2010), $6.99
- David L. Allen, 1–3 John—Fellowship in God’s Family (Preaching the Word; Crossway, 2013), $8.99
- Andrew David Naselli, Romans: A Concise Guide to the Greatest Letter Ever Written (Crossway, 2010), $9.99
- Richard B. Gaffin Jr., In the Fullness of Time: An Introduction to the Biblical Theology of Acts and Paul (Crossway, 2010), $11.99
- Bruce K. Waltke and Fred G. Zaspel, How to Read and Understand the Psalms (Crossway, 2010), $12.99
- Douglas Sean O’Donnell, Mark (Expository Reflections on the Gospels, vol. 3; Crossway, 2010), $11.99
Waltke and Fred G. Zaspel, How to Read and Understand the Psalms looks like my first pick, although I will probably get Naselli’s Romans Concise Guide to Romans as well. As always, subscribers save another 5%, so go ahead and buy them all. This Free Book goes away October 15…check back for a new deal then.
In October, Logos celebrates Pastor Appreciation Month. Save up to 50% off hundreds of resources for preaching, sermon prep, pastoral care, and leadership—then stack an extra 15% off orders of $50+ with code PASTORTHANKS through October 25. The 2026 Leader and Preacher Libraries are 25% off all month, and eight HCCP Preacher’s Commentary titles are 50% off October 5–18. You can also save 50% on the highly rated Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) series, but only until October 15. Pick individual volumes or grab all 18 volumes. To celebrate their recent merger, you can also save big on Baker and Lexham books in October.
What is new in Logos 53? If you don’t already know, Logos recently moved to a subscription model. Rather than a major upgrade every couple of years, they roll out upgrades about every six weeks. Logos has been integrating more AI into the software for years (smart searches, fuzzy searches, etc.), but over the last year this has evolved into Study Assistant. This is a basic chat-style AI that uses only the books in your library. In Logos 53, when you highlight a few verses, you now have “Explain” and “Ask” in the context menu. The Study Assistant will then explain the text using commentaries from your library. Users can then ask further questions in a typical AI dialogue. The “Ask” option does just that; you ask a question about whatever you highlighted. For example, I highlighted “adverbial acc” in the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. The Study Assistant gave me the definition from Dictionary of English Grammar for Students of Biblical Languages, plus additional information from Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical Hebrew. It also gave an example from Joshua 7:25 and some examples from the New Testament (citing A.T. Robertson). All of these references include page numbers and links to the book, so I can open directly to the page and read the context of the citation.
I know many people who are concerned about AI in sermon preparation, and rightly so. Study Assistant will not write your sermon for you. I asked it, “Please write a sermon outline for Acts 20:1–6.” The response was, “I appreciate the request, but I’m not able to write sermons, outlines, or other long-form creative content. This falls outside my role as a study assistant.” Study Assistant is an amped up search engine that can do some amazing things, but it will not replace the Holy Spirit for pastors trying to write a sermon.
Should you subscribe to Logos? Some people just hate subscriptions. That’s OK. But if you’re the type to upgrade Logos every two years, you’d pay the same amount as you would for the subscription. I personally like the idea of getting smaller upgrades every six weeks rather than a massive dump of features every few years. I think I can use the newer features better when I get one or two at a time. I also think this system lets Logos be more flexible about what they choose to upgrade.
This Logos Free Book of the Month promotion runs through October 15. A new free book will be available on October 15 at 9:00 a.m. PST. As always, you can use the (free) basic edition or the inexpensive Fundamentals collection to access these free and discounted books. All the links are Logos Affiliate links. If you plan to buy Logos books, use this link to support Reading Acts.