Most weeks I use this space to share conversations—interviews with people who love Scripture and are using Logos in creative, faithful ways.

Today, I want to pull back the curtain on something closer to home: the new Logos Community site at community.logos.com and the work it took to prepare, migrate, and launch it for you (the “you” here being those who use Logos).

Behind the scenes, this wasn’t just a technical upgrade. It was a massive, staff-led effort to honor your history while building a better home for the future.

Who I am in this story for context

By day, I serve as Senior Community Manager at Logos, which means I oversee our organic social channels (like YouTube, Facebook, and more), guide the strategy for our brand-community site, and help shape the very features we will talk about in this article. I spend my working hours listening to users, watching how they interact with Logos, and working with our teams to make sure the places you ask questions, share feedback, and learn together are actually serving you.

By night, I put on my “Logos Coach” cape and fight a different kind of chaos—the quiet disorder that comes when people feel overwhelmed by the software—and I help them ease into Logos with simple, human, ministry‑shaped workflows rather than tech jargon.

Why we needed a new home

For years, our brand community lived on an older platform that many of you described the same way: powerful, but hard to navigate, hard to search, and not always intuitive for everyday ministry life.

If you ever felt like you needed a “commentary on the forums” just to find the right place to ask a question, you weren’t alone.

As we listened, a few themes kept surfacing:

• You wanted a single, welcoming front door—one place to ask questions, give feedback, and discover what’s possible in Logos.

• You wanted clearer categories and tags so you could actually find that one thread you know you read three months ago.

• You wanted community to feel like a help, not another technical hurdle competing with sermon prep and real-life ministry.

Those desires became the blueprint for the new community space—and the reason we undertook one of the largest community migrations Logos has ever done.

The scale of what we moved

This wasn’t a light refresh. It was a full-scale relocation of the Logos community’s digital life.

• Over 1 million posts were carefully migrated to the new site, including decades of questions, answers, workflows, bug reports, and shared insights about how to study and teach with Logos.

• Nearly 400,000 community member profiles came along for the ride—each with their own activity history, threads, and contributions.

• Multiple knowledge bases (think Wikipedia-style hubs) full of release notes, user tips, and tricks were also moved into the new space, so your trusted reference material didn’t disappear.

• All staff community management and data management was coordinated across teams to ensure that posts, threads, and profiles remained intact, searchable, and usable after the migration.

In other words, we didn’t just “copy and paste.” We moved an entire ecosystem where pastors, scholars, Bible students, and ministry leaders have spent years building community—with your history as the priority.

One account, everything connected

Another big piece of the work was connecting your identity across Logos.

• Logos account login for the community. You now log in to the community with your existing Logos account. No separate username or password to remember.

• Everything tied together. Your community activity, your Logos library, your account preferences (outside of community-specific notification preferences), and your purchases are all connected under one identity, so your experience feels unified across the ecosystem.

This simplicity is intentional: you should be able to focus on Scripture, study, and ministry—not on managing multiple accounts and login credentials.

What the new Logos Community makes possible

On the new Logos Community homepage you’re greeted with a simple invitation to connect, learn, and contribute—with clear paths to ask questions, start discussions, report bugs, suggest features, request books, and attend events.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Ask a Question (for any Logos app or product). Instead of hunting through subforums, you can start with a prominent “Ask a Question” path designed specifically for getting clear, reliable help with Logos features, workflows, and resources.

• Start a Discussion. When you’re not stuck, but just curious—about commentaries, workflows, original languages, preaching, or study habits—you can “Start a Discussion” and tap into the collective wisdom of pastors, students, and Bible readers around the world.

• Report a Bug. If something looks off in Logos, there’s a direct path to “Report a Bug” so our teams can see consistent, structured reports instead of scattered threads.

• Share a Suggestion. Feature requests now live in a dedicated suggestion area, making it easier for you to shape the future of Logos by sharing ideas and upvoting what matters most to you.

• Request a Book. You can formally “Request a Book” you’d love to see in Logos, turning your wish list into actionable data for our publishing and product teams.

• Attend an Event. A full community events calendar lets you browse upcoming webinars and trainings, RSVP with a click, and stay up to date on learning opportunities like “Explore Scripture with the Passage Guide,” live Q&A sessions, and more.

Behind the scenes, we’ve also:

• Reworked navigation so key areas like All Recent Posts, Open Questions, Community Updates, and Advanced Search are just one click away from the homepage.

• Centralized multiple forums, suggestion spaces, and knowledge bases into a single, coherent experience so you don’t have to remember which legacy site handled which type of question.

Built for every device (and as an app)

Ministry doesn’t just happen at a desk, and neither does your study. That’s why the new community was built to feel at home on whatever device you’re using.

• Mobile-first design. The community is now far easier to use on phones and tablets, with layouts that resize cleanly and controls that are comfortable to tap and scroll on smaller screens.

• Installable as a PWA. You can add the community to your home screen and launch it like an app, so asking a question or checking replies (from devices notifications) feels as simple as opening your Bible app.

• Dark mode with one click. With a quick toggle in the footer, you can switch between light and dark themes, which is especially helpful for late-night reading or accessibility needs.

The goal is that whether you’re in a church office, riding a bus, or sitting in a seminary library, the community is right there with you—without feeling like a clunky desktop forum squeezed onto a phone.

A calmer inbox: dark mode, “mark all read,” and smarter browsing

One of the most common frustrations with forum-style communities is noise: endless bolded threads, too many categories, and the feeling you need to “catch up” on everything.

The new Logos Community tackles that head‑on:

• Dark mode at the flip of a switch. The theme toggle (conveniently placed in the footer) lets you switch instantly between light and dark, reducing eye strain and matching whatever environment you’re in.

• “Mark all read” when you’re overwhelmed. When the unread pile gets large, you can mark everything as read in one go, clearing the visual clutter so you can focus on just the new or truly important conversations next time you log in.

• A completely revamped Topics view. Instead of dropping you into a long, flat list, the new browsing experience lets you select the categories you want to see, then automatically refreshes the feed with the latest topics from just those areas.

• Tap to filter, tap to clear. Deselecting a category removes it from the feed, so you can fine‑tune what you see in seconds—no complex subscription management or deep settings pages required.

In other words, you’re in control of your attention. The community bends around your calling and interests, rather than demanding that you keep up with everything.

Massive search improvements (without needing a syntax degree)

Search is often where people either fall in love with a community or give up on it. So we invested heavily here as well.

• Cleaner, more guided search input. Instead of wrestling with a single tiny box, you now have clearer fields and helpers that make it easier to describe what you’re looking for without memorizing advanced syntax.

• Better filtering and refinement. Once you’ve searched, you can narrow results by forum, tag, recency, and more, helping you get to relevant posts faster—especially when you’re troubleshooting something time‑sensitive.

• Smarter results for how people actually search. The search experience is tuned around the way real users phrase questions about Logos, not just idealized keywords, which means more “Oh, there it is” and less “Why can’t I find that thread?”

The goal is simple: if someone has wrestled with your question before, search should help you benefit from their struggle in just a few keystrokes.

Writing and quoting that just works

If you’ve used the old forums, you’ll notice immediately that the writing experience feels different—more modern, more predictable, and more respectful of your time.

• A completely overhauled text editor. Composing posts, replies, and long‑form answers now feels smooth and stable, with clearer formatting controls and fewer “what just happened to my text?” moments.

• Seamless quoting. Quoting other users is now far more intuitive: select, quote, and respond without wrestling the editor or breaking the layout of the conversation.

• Cleaner, more readable posts. The editor’s upgrades translate into better‑formatted threads, which means when you come back later—or someone discovers the thread months from now—the answer is easy to skim and understand.

When the editor behaves, you get to focus on the substance of your answer, not the mechanics of composing it.

Clubs, Q&A, and a smarter way to find help

One of the biggest shifts in this new space is how we’re organizing community life.

• Q&A with marked solutions. Questions don’t just get answers—they can be marked as solutions so that future users can see, at a glance, what actually resolved the issue. That means less “scrolling the whole thread” and more “here’s what worked.”

• A robust tagging system. Tags let us connect threads across forums—by device, feature, tradition, or topic—so you can finally follow the subjects that truly matter to your study.

• New “Clubs” for niche interests. Clubs replace our old groups with flexible, focused spaces—ideal for niche conversations, local meetups, and special-interest cohorts without burying those discussions in the main forums.

• Better mobile access. The new community is far more usable on phones and tablets, so you can ask a question from the church office, on the couch, or between sessions at a conference—without waiting to get back to a desktop.

All of this is designed around one idea: getting you from question to clarity as quickly and kindly as possible.

Learning together: events, guides, and what’s coming next

If you’ve visited recently, you’ve already seen the Events Calendar, which now lives right inside the community.

There you’ll find:

• Live training on tools like Passage Guide, Search, and Notebooks.

• Webinars on sermon prep, Bible study leadership, and academic writing.

• Topic‑specific Q&A sessions, including sessions geared toward Logos Mobile users.

Beyond live events, you’ll also see:

• Community Updates posts that share news, guidelines, and occasional community‑only opportunities.

• Welcome and Quickstart guides that help new users learn how to post well, find answers, and make the most of what’s here.

And we’re not finished. Looking ahead, we’re working toward:

• Quests: guided, step‑by‑step learning paths that walk you through core Logos skills in small, doable tasks.

• Courses and learning journeys: structured experiences you can take right from the community, not just as standalone content.

• Badges and discounts for completion: small but meaningful rewards that recognize the effort you put into growing as a student of Scripture and a Logos user.

Think of it as discipleship in digital form: helping you grow in how you study, teach, and shepherd others—with a community walking alongside you.

Your role: you’re the hero here

You are the hero; Logos (and this community) is just a guide.

My job—as Senior Community Manager—is not to put the spotlight on the platform, but to build a space that shines a light on the calling God has put on your life.

So here’s how you can step into that story this week:

• Ask one question. Big or small. Something that’s been nagging you about Logos, or a workflow you’ve never quite set up the way you want.

• Join one Club. Find a niche that fits you—your tradition, your ministry role, your language work—and say hello.

• RSVP for one event. Pick a webinar that matches where you are right now in your study or ministry calendar and show up ready to learn.

• Share one suggestion. Tell us what would make Logos or this community more helpful for you and those you serve.

If you do just those four things, you won’t just be “using a forum.” You’ll be shaping a global hub where pastors, scholars, and everyday Bible readers help each other go deeper in God’s Word.

And if you get stuck, confused, or uncertain about where to post? That’s exactly why I’m here. Reach out in the community, and we’ll walk through it together.

Today I want to introduce you to someone who has quietly spent three decades helping pastors, students, and Bible teachers move from overwhelmed to clear: Dr. John Fallahee, founder of LearnLogos.com and one of the earliest pioneers of Logos training.

Along the way, we’re giving away three things:

• A copy of Reflect the Glory of God in Prayer

• A copy of Digital Sword

• A $50 coupon for the LearnLogos store

And before we’re done, I’ll invite you to take one simple, doable step that could change how you approach Logos this week.

Meet Dr. John Fallahee

John’s story doesn’t begin with a PhD, a training site, or a fancy studio. It begins with a new believer, saved out of drugs and alcohol, who knew almost nothing about the Bible and just wanted to understand Scripture.

He also happened to be a bit of a computer geek. His first Bible software was PC Study Bible, but things changed when his future in-laws handed him the MacArthur Study Bible inside Logos 3.1.

• The software was such a “game changer” that John did something almost nobody does: he read the entire manual.

• That decision launched a thirty-year journey of building a Logos library, using the tool in seminary, teaching others, and eventually shaping how thousands of people study the Bible today.

By the time he arrived at The Master’s Seminary in 2000, he was one of the only students walking into class with both a laptop and serious Logos skills. Professors allowed Logos for study and papers—but not on test day—so John began informally training classmates on how to let Bible software serve their exegesis, not shortcut it.

That instinct—to teach, not just to “use”—eventually turned into a ministry.

From Logos Employee to LearnLogos Guide

In 2005, John joined Logos (now Logos Bible Study Platform) and helped create some of the early training videos that many of us learned from back in the Logos 3 era.

• He worked on tools like sentence diagramming, helping refine features that are still in Logos today.

• After leaving Logos in 2008, he launched LearnLogos.com in 2009 with a simple goal: help people use Logos to actually study the Bible—topics, passages, sermons, and all.

Since then:

• He’s created over 10,000 training videos, many of which have been updated as Logos has grown.

• He’s built a full training library, twice-a-month webinars, and a VIP program that sends bite-sized Logos training to your inbox every Monday.

If you’ve ever wished you had “a Logos coach in your corner,” that’s essentially what LearnLogos is: someone who has spent decades in the software, then turned that experience into a pastoral training ministry.

Why Logos Still Feels Hard (And Why It’s Not Your Fault)

John has a compassionate but honest diagnosis for why Logos still overwhelms so many users, even those who’ve had it for years.

He says there are at least four reasons:

• Features first: We often start by learning features—guides, searches, filters—without knowing what real Bible study task we’re trying to accomplish.

• Tasks unclear: Even if you know some features, it’s easy to be fuzzy on the study tasks—observation, outlining, word studies, background work, application.

• No clear process: Without a repeatable process, you just bounce between tools and commentaries, hoping something “sticks.”

• Library confusion: Even if you have the right features and a basic process, if you don’t know where the right books live in your library, you’re still stuck.

That combination is why so many pastors end up saying, “I think Logos makes things harder, not easier.”

John’s life work has been to answer that frustration with a better way.

Reflect: Learning to Pray with Logos (Giveaway #1)

Before John ever wrote a dissertation on Logos, he wrote a book on prayer that grew out of a semester-long course with Dr. Roscup, who literally wrote a multi-volume commentary on every prayer in the Bible.

That book is Reflect the Glory of God in Prayer—a practical devotional resource now available in Logos, used in John’s church as a gift for every first-time visitor.

Reflect uses the word REFLECT as an acronym to shape how you approach God in prayer, including:

• Remembering the glories of God

• Examining your motives and manner

• Facing life with Scripture

• Loving God and loving people

• Expecting suffering and persecution

• Caring about the kingdom and taking every opportunity

Each chapter includes Scripture, reflective questions, and prompts that work beautifully in a small group or one-on-one discipleship setting.

Giveaway #1 – Reflect
To enter for a chance to win a print copy of Reflect the Glory of God in Prayer (shipped by John):

Drop a comment sharing your favorite Logos resource right now.

It could be a commentary, a devotional, a dictionary—whatever is feeding you in this season.

Plus a bonus mention of Rosscup’s resources on prayer, like this one here.

Digital Sword and the CLEAR Method (Giveaway #2)

If Reflect is John’s invitation to pray, Digital Sword is his invitation to study and preach with a clear, repeatable process.

You can think of Digital Sword as the “light” version of his doctoral dissertation, which is also available in Logos under the title An Exemplary and Reproducible Sermon Preparation Method Utilizing Logos Bible Software.

At the heart of both is a simple acronym: CLEAR.

• C – Confess: Begin in prayer, acknowledging your dependence on the Lord.

• L – List: Outline the passage in a way that lets you see the structure instead of guessing at it after the fact.

• E – Exegete: Observe, study words, and dig into grammar and context.

• A – Analyze: Engage commentaries, weigh differing views, and test your conclusions.

• R – Relate: Move into illustrations, applications, and sermon structure.

In his dissertation, John demonstrates that Logos isn’t just a “nice-to-have” for scholars—it’s an essential tool for deep, reproducible study, and he wrote the vast majority of his research using Logos resources alone.

Digital Sword takes that same process and makes it accessible for:

• Pastors preaching weekly

• Bible teachers leading classes

• Serious Bible students wanting a path from observation to application

Every chapter walks through a step in the process, shows it on a real Old Testament and New Testament passage, and then links to training videos so you can see the workflow inside Logos.

Giveaway #2 – Digital Sword
To enter for a chance to win a print copy of Digital Sword (signed, if you’d like), do this:

Comment with the most frustrating Logos feature you’ve bumped into lately.

Syntax? Visual filters? Search? Let’s name the pain so we can serve you better.

A Simple Anecdote: When Cross References Overwhelmed a Church

One of my favorite moments in this conversation with John wasn’t a big doctrinal insight; it was a small pastoral one.

John shared that he tends to quote a lot of cross references when he preaches. Over time, members of his congregation started telling him, “John, I just can’t keep up with all the verses you’re mentioning.”

Instead of dialing back the Scripture, he used Logos to serve his people better:

• After finishing his sermon manuscript in Word, he imports it into Logos’s Sermon Manager.

• He then copies the entire sermon into a Passage List, letting Logos automatically extract all the Scripture references in one step.

• From there, he prints a minimized list and drops the relevant passages under each point in a simple handout.

Now his congregation doesn’t have to scramble to write down references; they can simply listen, then go home and revisit every passage in context.

It’s a small example, but it captures John’s heart: use technology to clear the way for people to encounter Christ in his Word, not to clutter it.

LearnLogos: Training That Walks With You

So what does LearnLogos actually offer if you want structured help, not just random YouTube searches?

From our conversation and John’s site, here’s a quick sketch:

• Twice-a-month webinars: Free live sessions (typically on Thursday evenings) that range from “First steps in Logos” to “Advanced Greek and Hebrew studies with AI” to practical topics like “The Ultimate Logos Shortcut List” and “How to study Paul’s letters with Logos.”

• Topical training library: Dozens of videos focused not just on features, but real topics—hell, heaven, hermeneutics, mobile workflows, and more—so you can ask, “How do I study this?” and find targeted help.

• VIP program: An affordable membership where you get a new 5–15 minute Logos training video every Monday, access to webinar recordings, monthly coupons for the training store, and an “Ask Me Anything” channel where John personally answers Logos, Bible study, and sermon prep questions.

• Public Logos documents: In the Logos Documents → Public tab, you can search John’s last name (Fallahee) and find layouts, guide templates, collections, and even an expository sermon template you can use for your own preaching.

All of this sits under a simple conviction: Logos should be a tool that serves your study, not a weight that slows it down.

AI, Bible Study, and Spiritual Guardrails

John isn’t naïve about AI—but he’s also not afraid of it. He’s actively building AI-assisted tools for Bible study and sermon prep at LearnLogos, but he does it with clear theological guardrails.

He makes a crucial distinction:

• Special revelation: The truth God has given through Scripture and the work of the Spirit. This is where we seek the Lord, wrestle with the text, and refuse to outsource conviction, interpretation, or application.

• General revelation / mechanical tasks: Grammar, definitions, summarization, organization—things that are helpful but not inherently “holy.” This is where AI can accelerate research and surface options, as long as we stay discerning.

Practically, that means:

• He’ll use AI to help with things like language questions, idea generation, or pro/con tables of different interpretations.

• He refuses to let any tool make the final call on what a passage means or how it should be preached—that belongs to the pastor, under Scripture and the Spirit.

On LearnLogos, he’s building six AI tools, including:

• Bible Study Chat: A conversational assistant built around Digital Sword, the CLEAR method, and a 10-step process for observation, word studies, background, and application.

• Sermon Preparation: A structured exegetical workflow that helps you move through your passage with focus instead of distraction.

• Teaching Tools, Sermon Manuscript Evaluation, Sermon Audio Analyzer, and AI Search of all his training videos, so you can mine his entire library of teaching quickly.

These tools are coming online over time, but the heart behind them is clear: AI should be an assistant for study, not a replacement for prayer, exegesis, or pastoral responsibility.

Giveaway #3 – $50 LearnLogos.com Store Coupon

For our third giveaway, John is offering a $50 coupon for the LearnLogos store, which you can use on individual training videos or bundles.

To enter:

Comment with one way you’d like Logos to serve your ministry better in the next three months or simply like and share this article or YouTube video with a friend.

Maybe it’s sermon prep, counseling, small group leadership, Bible intake, or original languages. Naming that desire can clarify your next step.

A Simple Next Step This Week

If all of this still feels like a lot, let’s bring it down to one clear, pastoral next step.

This week, choose one passage you’re already preaching or teaching and do just two CLEAR steps:

1. Confess (C):
   Before you ever open a commentary, take 3–5 minutes to pray through the passage. Acknowledge your dependence, ask for insight, and bring your heart before the Lord.

2. List (L):
   In Logos, or even on paper, outline the passage. Pay attention to repeated phrases, connecting words, and shifts in thought. If syntax and structure scare you, remember: John built his method precisely to help with that.

Don’t worry about doing everything at once. Just take those two steps, and see how much clearer the passage feels when you move on to exegesis and commentaries.

If you want help building that kind of process into your weekly rhythm, you know where to find John: LearnLogos.com, his Logos resources in the Logos store, and his live webinars.

Behind the Scenes: How We Record These Conversations

One quick note for the fellow content creators and pastors who like to record interviews, testimonies, or training: I record my conversations—like this one with Dr. John—using Riverside.fm, which gives me clean audio and video recordings I can repurpose to YouTube and Substack.

If you’d like to try it for your own ministry or podcast, you can get started here (this is my referral link):

https://riverside.sjv.io/RiversidePodcasting

Use whatever tools you need, but remember: like Logos, Riverside, and AI, they’re all just means. The goal is still the same—know Christ, love his people, and handle the Word with clarity and joy.

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