Logos Bible Software

For the first half of April 2026, you can add Julius Bewer’s ICC  Commentary on Obadiah and Joel to your Logos Library for free.  The commentary was published in 1911, and early ICC commentaries tend to be focused on the Hebrew text. Nevertheless, it is a very good commentary on two less-studied minor prophets. And it’s free.

Logos has an eclectic mix of other deals this April:

• Tim Shenton, Opening Up 1 Thessalonians, $2.99
• Greg Gifford, Heart & Habits: How We Change for Good, $3.99
• Richard Mouw, Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars, $4.99
• John Rogerson, The Pentateuch (Sheffield Reader), $5.99
• Ann Loades, David Brown, Jeff Astley, Eds. Problems in Theology 2: Evil, $7.99
• Chris Shirley, Family Ministry and the Church: A Leader’s Guide for Ministry Through Families, $8.60
• Paul Avis, Revelation and the Word of God (Theological Foundations of the Christian Church, vol. 2), $9.99
• J. N. D. Kelly, The Pastoral Epistles (Black’s New Testament Commentary), $10.99
• Jeremy R. Treat. The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical and Systematic Theology, $11.56
• Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias, Eds., ‘What Does the Scripture Say?’ Studies in the Function of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity (2 vols.), $14.99

The highlight is the Evans and Zacharias two-volume set in the Library of New Testament Studies. From the blurb: “These essays shed light on how the founders of Christianity understood the older sacred tradition and sought new and creative ways to let it speak to their own times.” I have used a few of these essays in various papers in the past, and the two-volume set is well worth $15. As always, subscribers save another 5%.

There is a link on the Free Book page to an additional free book for Logos subscribers. Right now, you can add Mark Allan Powell, God with Us: A Pastoral Theology of Matthew’s Gospel (Fortress Press, 1995). There is also a link to Verbum free/cheap books (Verbum is the Catholic-oriented Logos). Verbum sales are often good for church history books.

There is always something on sale with Logos. Here is a link to their monthly sale so you can go spend that tax return on books. April’s publisher spotlight is on Crossway and Christian Focus. Lot sof good deals from those publishers until the end of the month.

What’s new with Logos? Starting with Logos 46, there is an AI assistant called Study Assistant. Before you think this is a Satanically inspired plot to ruin sermon preparation, read my review. It is really pretty good, and will refuse to write your sermon for you. It has been significantly updated since I wrote that review.

This Logos Free Book of the Month promotion runs through April 15. A new free book will be available on April 15 at 9:00 a.m. PST. As always, you can use the (free) basic edition or the inexpensive Fundamentals collection to use 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.

Every few years, Logos Bible Software re-shuffles its library options. These are curated libraries that customize your library for your personal needs. Some are “standard” (gold, platinum, diamond). Others are theological traditions (Baptist, Reformed, Charismatic, Messianic Jew, SDA, and many more). This time around, Logos has added four new categories: learner, leader, preacher, and researcher. These new libraries can be purchased at various levels (bronze, gold, etc.) to better fit your budget. Based on what you have purchased in the past, you might find the cost to upgrade is not as high as you thought. With the discounts, you might be able to add books for just a few dollars each, compared to buying them individually at full price. Why buy a 2026 Library if you have a 2020 library? I find this is a great time to expand my library and take full advantage of discounts and previous purchases. Logos is constantly adding new material from a wide range of publishers. This is a chance to catch up on the latest and take advantage of some good discounts.

You do not need to subscribe to the new version of Logos (although they really want you to). If you purchased Logos 8, 9, or 10 in the past, all these books are still available to you and are “yours forever.” Some Logos users are deadset against paying for a subscription, and that is OK. It seems like all software has turned to the subscription model, and it is annoying. I have been subscribing since they began to offer the model, and I do see the advantages for the Faithlife company. They get a steady income stream rather than a bunch of upgrades every two years. But there are tangible benefits for the end user in subscribing. Rather than waiting two years for a batch of cool new features, there are smaller upgrades and new features added every six weeks. These are not bug fixes or patches (you still get those, too), but real feature upgrades that (in the past) waited until Logos rolled out a new version. If you do the math, it does not cost any more than upgrading every few years. There are a slew of other benefits for subscribers, including additional free books and discounts.

Logos offers three subscription levels based on your needs, and you do not need to upgrade to a subscription package or upgrade your library if you do not want to. Resist consumerism!  Or indulge your book-buying demons. Whichever works out best for you.

For some users, the “new features” might not be very attractive. One of the latest add-ins is an AI Study Assistant. This is an upgrade to the already AI-enabled smart search. I have been using it for a little while now, and I am glad it is minimally invasive and can be easily turned off. It is not as though Logos requires you to embrace the AI overlords. If you think of Study Assistant as an interactive search engine for just the books you own in Logos, it works well. I have used it to discover resources I own. Here is my review of Logos 46. Since I wrote that, Logos has been updated several times (I now use Logos 48), and the Study Assistant has steadily improved, and new features have been added. One of the AI features I use the most is the translate tool, both on my laptop and my iPad. When a commentary slips in a German or French commentary, I can highlight the text and get a quick translation within the Logos reading environment. I have used the Study Assistant to create bibliographies from essay collections.

Here are some tips for navigating the library page. First, when browsing the bundles, be sure to click the “hide books I own” option, so you see only the new-to-you books in the library. There is a menu across the top for the Standard, Traditions, Learner, Leader, Pastor, and Researcher. Once there, you can choose between small, medium, and large collections. If you already own the book, you will not be charged again. Logos calls this “dynamic pricing,” and the result is a lower cost for a bundle.  If you bought a Gold library ten years ago, you still own those books, and they are removed from the cost of a new bundle in whatever flavor you choose.

There is always something on sale at Logos. For the first half of February 2026, you can add Justo L. González, Knowing Our Faith: A Guide for Believers, Seekers, and Christian Communities (Eerdmans 2019) to your Logos Library for free. There are some great deals on the free book of the month from Eerdmans, so go load up before you spend too much money on a new Logos Library. This link will get you some great deals on books published by Bloomsbury and IVP USA

If the big bundles are too overwhelming, try a mini bundle. These are curated commentary sets that might just scratch the itch.

All the links are Logos Affiliate links. If you are indulging your book-buying demons, use this link to support Reading Acts. In fact, try the code SAVEMORE at checkout and save more.

For the second half of January 2026, you can add Simon Austen, Introducing Ephesians: A Book for Today, to your Logos Library for free.  Austen published this book with Christian Focus in 2012.

Logos has an eclectic mix of other deals for the second half of December:

• Anxiety: Calming the Fearful Heart (Keys for Living Library), $3.99
• Rupert Shortt, Does Religion do More Harm than Good?, $4.99
• Christopher Ash, Teaching Ruth and Esther: From Text to Message (Teaching the Bible Series), $5.99
• Derek Wilson, The Philosopher and the Gospels: Jesus Through the Lens of Philosophy, $6.99
• James D. G. Dunn, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence, $7.99
• Paul J. Loth, Teaching Adults with Confidence: A Four-Session Program Seminar for Training Teachers, $8.99
• 9Marks Journal, Spring–Fall, Special Edition 2018, $9.99
• Caleb S. Lewis, Through the Waters: A Biblical Theology of the Book of Genesis, $10.99
• Conrad Cherry, God’s New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny, $11.99
• Peter S. Williams, A Faithful Guide to Philosophy: A Christian Introduction to the Love of Wisdom, $12.99

This is an interesting mix of practical theology and biblical theology. The highlight to my eye is James D. G. Dunn, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence (WJKP, 2010). Conrad Cherry, God’s New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny  (University of North Carolina, 1998) is a new edition of a book originally written in 1971. The updated edition adds some essays on more relevant historical figures (relevant in 1998 at least). The book collects the words of such prominent and diverse Americans related to religion. Fromthe blurb: “Neither a history of American religious denominations nor a history of American theology, this book is instead an illuminating look at how religion has helped shape Americans’ understanding of themselves as a people.”

There is a link on the Free Book page to an additional free book for Logos subscribers, currently N. T. Wright, Interpreting Paul: Essays on the Apostle and His Letters (Zondervan, 2020), and a link to the Verbum Free Book (Catholic resources).

The Logos New Year’s Sale runs until February 1. Good deals on Bible Translations and other important resources. Check it out, buy yourself something nice to make up for the lousy start to 2026.

What’s new with Logos? Starting with Logos 46, there is an AI assistant called Study Assistant. Before you think this is a Satanically inspired plot to ruin sermon preparation, read my review. It is really pretty good, and will refuse to write your sermon for you.

This Logos Free Book of the Month promotion runs through January 31. A new free book will be available on February 1 at 9:00 a.m. PST. As always, you can use the (free) basic edition or the inexpensive Fundamentals collection to use 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.

For the second half of December 2025, you can add Bearing God’s Name by  Carmen Joy Imes to your Logos Library for free.  Published by IVP Academic (2019), Imes takes readers back to Sinai, the ancient mountain where Israel met their God, and explains the meaning of events there. She argues that we’ve misunderstood the command about “taking the Lord’s name in vain.” Instead, Imes says that this command is about “bearing God’s name,” a theme that continues throughout the rest of Scripture. Readers will revisit the story of Israel as they trudge through the wilderness from a grueling past to a promising future. The story of Israel turns out to be our story too, and you’ll discover why Sinai still matters as you follow Jesus today.

You can also add her book, The Image of God, for $6.99

Logos has an eclectic mix of other deals for the second half of December:

• Michael Bentley and Simon Robinson, Face2Face with David, vol. 1: Encountering the Man after God’s Heart, $3.99
• The Book of Common Prayer, 1662: Psalter, $4.99
• Joanna Kimbrel and Courtney Doctor, Behold and Believe: A Bible Study on the I Am Statements of Jesus (TGCW Bible Study), $5.99
• Carmen Joy Imes, Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters, $6.99
• James Burton Coffman, Coffman Commentary: Matthew (1894), $7.99
• Thomas O. Summers, Commentaries on Matthew, Mark, and Luke (3 vols., 1869-72), $8.99
• Bryan D. Estelle, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing a Biblical Motif, $11.99
• J. P. Moreland; William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, 2nd ed., $12.99
• R. E. Neighbour, Wells of Living Water (14 vols., 1940), $13.99
• Kirsopp Lake; F. J. Foakes-Jackson; Henry J. Cadbury; J. H. Ropes, The Beginnings of Christianity: The Acts of the Apostles (5 vols.), $15.99

Notice the Imes, Being God’s Image, and Bryan Estelle’s Echoes of Exodus; both are excellent. Although it is older, The Beginnings of Christianity: The Acts of the Apostles is still oft-cited and worth owning (especially at $16)

Kirsopp Lake was a monumental scholar in both New Testament and church history. He brought his expertise in both of these areas together in a 20 year long collaborative effort with F.J. Foakes-Jackson, Henry J. Cadbury, and many others to examine Acts and its relation to the earliest history of the church. The result was the present five volume work: The Beginnings of Christianity: The Acts of the Apostles. William Baird called it “the most extensive investigation of a NT book by English-speaking scholarship.” Included are two volumes of background study ranging from the background of Jewish history to the rise of Gentile Christianity. Volume three provides an extensive survey of the textual evidence for Acts by James Hardy Ropes. The last two volumes give in-depth commentary on the text of Acts.

Here is a list of the “best books” in 2025, as in, best-selling for Logos. But as implied by that graphic, you can get BDAG on sale (which is rare). HALOT is also there. If you are looking for a professional lexicon for Greek and Hebrew, now is the time. There is quite a bit of variety on this sale, so check it out.

Logos is running a Christmas sale. Some good books to stuff in your own stocking. Because if you don’t, who will? If you run up a serious tab, try the code CHRISTMASJOY at check out for $25 Off $200+

What’s new with Logos? Starting with Logos 46, there is an AI assistant called Study Assistant. Before you think this is a Satanically inspired plot to ruin sermon preparation, read my review. It is really pretty good, and will refuse to write your sermon for you.

This Logos Free Book of the Month promotion runs through December 31. A new free book will be available on January 1 at 9:00 a.m. PST. As always, you can use the (free) basic edition or the inexpensive Fundamentals collection to use 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.

For the first half of December 2025, you can add Moshe Greenberg, Ezekiel 1–20 in the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary to your Logos Library for free. 

This commentary was published in 1983. Greenberg’s second volume on Ezekiel 21-37 was published in 1995, and Stephen Cook finished the commentary in 2018.

Second, there are some other deals December 1-15:

• David Jackman, Get Preaching: Why Expository Preaching, $3.99
• Collin Hansen, Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church, $5.99
• Helen-Ann Hartley, Making Sense of the Bible, $6.99
• Megan Hill, Sighing on Sunday: 40 Meditations for When Church Hurts, $7.99
• Lawrence O. Richards, New Testament Life and Times, $18.32 (maybe that price is wrong?)
• Judith M. Lieu, Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing Early Christianity, 11.44
• Carol A. Newsom, The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library), $13.99
• Pietro Bovati, Re-establishing Justice’s Legal Terms, Concepts and Procedures in the Hebrew Bible, $14.99
• Luke Timothy Johnson, The First and Second Letters to Timothy (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentary), $15.99
• Raymond Brown, Epistles of John (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentary), $17.99

This is an interesting mix between academic resources and pastoral resources.

Judith Lieu’s book is a “ground-breaking study in the formation of early Christian identity, by one of the world’s leading scholars. She explores the formation and shaping of early Christian identity within Judaism and within the wider Graeco-Roman world in the period before 200 C.E”

As always, Logos subscribers save an additional 5%. If you lean more towards Catholic theology, check out this list of additional books for free or at a deep discount.

Last Chance for 2025 Standard Libraries.

No subscription required. Or get a double discount with a 1- or 2-year subscription bundle. Logos shuffles its bundles every year, so your “gold” package last year is a little different this year. But you do not need to repurchase the whole package. Dynamic pricing means you never pay twice for a book, and on top of that, you get a discount. Click through and check out your pricing…it might be time to pull the trigger on a Platinum Logos library. This is a Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, or “take my money” Tuesday. Whatever it’s called these days. If you want something else, try this code:  M7S0Q6E1. That should save you an extra 5%

What’s new with Logos? Starting with Logos 46, there is an AI assistant called Study Assistant. Before you think this is a Satanically inspired plot to ruin sermon preparation, read my review. It is really pretty good, and will refuse to write your sermon for you.

This Logos Free Book of the Month promotion runs through December 15. A new free book will be available on December 15 at 9:00 a.m. PST. As always, you can use the (free) basic edition or the inexpensive Fundamentals collection to use 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.