Pastor Terry Laughlin’s Study Material

(Latest Update October 2007) 

From Pastor Terry’s Heart:  If the church of Jesus Christ is going to maintain an aggressive witness for the Lord to generations to come then she must have men and women whom have Christ apportioned gifts to oversee her.  (Ephesians 4:7-13)  The Holy Spirit illuminated child of God has a heart that is hungry to grow in his knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.  True church leadership sets the example in study of God’s Word so as to “do [their] best to present [themselves] to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the Word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)

  We live in a day where Biblically-anemic preaching and well-written books have replaced the meat of God’s word with marshmallow phrases that are pleasing to inching ears, thus leaving religious people being guided by their flesh, the world’s view and even the lies of the devil.  Just as in the days of Martin Luther we need a reformation in the church.  The Body of Christ needs Biblical shepherds called and anointed by the Holy Spirit (Acts 20:28) who can proclaim God’s truth’s leading disciples of Christ to the holiness of God and enabling them to live a life of true repentance.  There are plenty of gifted communicators in the modern church with short sermons that are shallow focusing on human relationships, successful living, emotional issues and other practical worldly themes.  Thus, church attendees find themselves under the exhortation found in Hebrews 5:12-14, “In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!   Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.  But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.”

   Christians hungry to be used of God dig down deep into the meat of God’s Word so they can become mature.  It is the responsibility of pastors to give an accountability of their study habits so as to set the Biblical example. (1 Timothy 4:12-14)

From Pastor Terry’s Heart:  It is my Biblical conviction that no one should spend time reading Christians' writings until they have first been taught the joy of Holy Spirit’s leading as they prayerfully read the Word of God. Ephesians 6:17 says the “sword of the Spirit, …is the Word of God.  Jesus promised, “…the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you.”  Our Lord said, “…Man does not live on bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4)

Pastor Terry’s Selective Bible Reading:  It is my Biblical conviction that I should spend time prayerfully reading at least five chapters a day, inviting the Holy Spirit to take the written Word of God and place it deep within my heart and mind.  Giving Him permission to bring it to my mind and awaken it into my heart as I live out my life with Christ and fulfill His mandates for me. Hebrews 4:12-13)  The Bible I read is the New International Bible and as I study the Word of God I look at three other Bibles, the Complete Word Study Bible, (King James), New American Standard Bible and the English Standard Version.  The guiding principle that has proved trustworthy for me is:  if whatever comes into my mind or is presented to me by anyone has not come from prayerful meditation upon the written Word, then it comes from our enemies, the flesh, the world, or the devil.  As much as possible I try to get the whole council of God’s Word before making key decisions, especially when preaching and teaching the Holy Scriptures.

Bible Study Aides: Over the years I have noticed that there are four cancers in the recognized man made church that hinders the work of the true church, those who have indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ.  These cancers now and will continue to plague the work of God until Christ returns.  They are; legalism, traditionalism, denominationalism and faddism.  To protect me from my own wicked heart and from these life destroying influences I have thrown off worldly pursuits and invested in Bible study material done by men whom have proven faithful in devoting themselves to the public reading, teaching and preaching of the Word of God.  Bible study teachers who have watched their life and doctrine closely as well as not neglecting their gift, proven diligent, faithful in hardships and severe trials.  These study aides are:

Logos Bible Software – Silver Scholar’s Library Edition

Electronic Books Included and Other Study Material

English Bibles

• New International Version**
• New Living Translation
• New American Standard Bible - 1995 Update
• English Standard Version
• The NET Bible w/ translators' notes
• Holman Christian Standard Bible
• The Message
• American Standard Version
• New Revised Standard Version
• Revised Standard Version
• Darby Bible 1890
• New Century Version
• International Standard Version - New Testament
• New King James Version
• King James Version
• King James Version Apocrypha
• King James Version: Cambridge Paragraph Bible
• Word Study Bible: KJV (Zodhiates)
• Young's Literal Translation
• Wuest's Expanded NT
• The Layman’s Parallel Bible

Interlinear Bibles

• The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition w/ McReynolds English Interlinear & Logos Morphology
• Nestle-Aland 27th Edition Greek NT w/ McReynolds English Interlinear & Logos Morphology
• Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament (Newberry)
• ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear of the NT
• ESV English-Hebrew Reverse Interlinear of the OT
• NRSV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear of the NT

Greek Texts & Morphologies

• The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament
• The OpenText.org Syntactically Analyzed Greek New Testament
• Byzantine/Majority Textform w/ Robinson Morphology
• Elzevir Textus Receptus (1624) w/ Robinson Morphology
• Scrivener's Textus Receptus (1894) w/ Robinson Morphology
• Stephen’s Textus Receptus (1550) w/ Robinson Morphology
• Westcott-Hort Greek NT (1881) w/ Robinson Morphology
• Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
• Septuagint (Rahlfs) w/CCAT Morphological Tagging
• Nestle-Aland 27th Edition Greek NT w/ GRAMCORD™ Greek New Testament Alpha Morphological Database
• Nestle-Aland 27th Edition Greek NT w/ Logos Morphology
• The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition w/ Logos Morphology
• The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition w/ Swanson Morphology
• The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts
• Analytical Greek New Testament w/ Friberg Morphology

Hebrew Texts & Morphologies

• The Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text of the Hebrew Bible
• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia w/ WIVU Hebrew Morphology

Aramaic Text & Morphology

• The Targums from the files of the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project

Syriac Texts & Morphologies

• Syriac Peshitta NT w/ Morphology
• Old Syrian Gospels : Codex Curetonianus
• Old Syrian Gospels : Codex Sinaiticus

Latin Texts

• Clementine Vulgate

Ancient Texts in Translation

• Amarna Letters
• Complete Works of Josephus
• Works of Philo
• Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume 1
• Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume 2
• Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume 3

Greek Lexicons

• Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament
• Dictionary of Biblical Languages (Greek NT)
• Enhanced Strong's Lexicon
• Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell & Scott)
• Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged ("Little Kittel")
• Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (10 Volumes)
• A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (Lust)
• Greek-English Lexicon Based on Semantic Domains (Louw-Nida)
• Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament
• NAS Greek Dictionary
• Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
• Vines Amplified Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
• Word Meanings in the New Testament (Earle)

Hebrew & Aramaic Lexicons

• NAS Hebrew Dictionary
• A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
• Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon of the OT
• Dictionary of Biblical Languages (Aramaic OT)
• Dictionary of Biblical Languages (Hebrew OT)
• Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
• Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the OT Scriptures (Gesenius)

Syriac Lexicon

• Analytical Lexicon of the Syriac NT

Latin Lexicon

• Dictionary of the Vulgate New Testament

Original Language Grammars

• Elements of NT Greek (Nunn)
• Key to the Elements of NT Greek (Nunn)
• Syntax of NT Greek (Nunn)
• Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in NT Greek
• Greek New Testament Insert (Chapman-Shogren)
• Hebrew Bible Insert
• Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar
• Hebrew Grammar (Gesenius)
• Hebrew Syntax, 3rd Edition (Davidson)

Latin Grammar

• An Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin

Original Language Tools

• Tense Voice Mood
• Glossary of Morpho-Syntactic Database Terminology
• Clausal Outlines of the Greek New Testament (Deppe)
• Diagrammatical Analysis
• The Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text of the Hebrew Bible: A Systematic Glossary
• The Andersen-Forbes Phrase Marker Analysis of the Hebrew Bible
• The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament Glossary
• The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament: Sentence Analysis
• The OpenText.org Syntactically Analyzed Greek New Testament Glossary
• The OpenText.org Syntactically Analyzed Greek New Testament: Clause Analysis
• Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary
• Building Your New Testament Greek Vocabulary

Bible Commentaries

• Teacher's Commentary
• New Bible Commentary
• Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary
• Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the OT (10 Volumes)
• Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Bible
• Life of Christ (3 Volumes)
• St. Paul the Traveller and Roman Citizen
• Saint Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon (Lightfoot)
• St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (Lightfoot)
• St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians (Lightfoot)
• Bible Exposition Commentary (23 Volumes)
• Be Available (Judges)
• Be Comforted (Isaiah)
• Be Committed (Ruth & Esther)
• Be Decisive (Jeremiah)
• Be Determined (Nehemiah)
• Be Holy (Leviticus)
• Be Obedient (Abraham)
• Be Patient (Job)
• Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes)
• Be Skillful (Proverbs)
• Be Strong (Joshua)
• The Pulpit Commentary (77 Volumes)
• New American Commentary (31 Volumes)
• Bible Knowledge Commentary
• Barnes Notes
• Thru The Bible
• The Treasury of David (Spurgeon)

Bible Introductions & Outlines

• Introducing the New Testament
• Introducing the Old Testament
• Survey of Old Testament Introduction
• Why Four Gospels?
• Wiersbe's Expository Outlines on the New Testament
• Wiersbe's Expository Outlines on the Old Testament
• Willmington's Bible Handbook
• General Introduction to the Bible
• New Testament Introduction
• Old Testament Survey Series: The Pentateuch
• Old Testament Survey Series: The Books of History
• Old Testament Survey Series: The Wisdom Literature and Psalms
• Old Testament Survey Series: The Major Prophets
• Old Testament Survey Series: The Minor Prophets
• Outline Bible (Tyndale)
• Bible Reader's Companion

Topical Bibles

• New Nave's Topical Bible
• New Topical Textbook

Bible Dictionaries

• Complete Word Study Dictionary NT
• Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Tyndale Bible Dictionary
• Exhaustive Dictionary of Bible Names
• Harper's Bible Dictionary
• New Bible Dictionary
• The New International Dictionary of the Bible
• Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements

Biblical Studies Tools

• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
• Willmington's Book of Bible Lists
• NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Studies

• Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volumes)
• Word Pictures in the New Testament
• Synonyms of the Old Testament (Girdlestone)
• New Testament Synonyms (Trench)
• Figures of Speech Used in the Bible (Bullinger)
• Wuest's Word Studies

Bible Maps & Photos

• Logos Deluxe Map Set
• Images of the Holy Lands

Biblical History & Culture

• Time Travel to the World of Jesus
• Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (Edersheim)
• Sketches of Jewish Social Life (Edersheim)
• The Temple (Edersheim)
• New Testament Milieu
• New Manners and Customs of the Bible
• Bible History: Old Testament (Edersheim)

Bible Archaeology

• Dead Sea Scrolls & Modern Translations of the OT
• Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land

History of the Church

• Early Church Fathers (37 Volumes)
• Studies in Early Church History
• History of the Christian Church
• The Story of the Christian Church (Jessie Hurlbut)
• Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

Theology

• Biblical Theology of the New Testament
• Biblical Theology of the Old Testament
• Concise Theology (Packer)
• Dogmatic Theology (Shedd)
• Systematic Theology (Hodge)
• Systematic Theology, 3 Volumes (Strong)
• Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Ryrie's Survey of Bible Doctrine
• Great Doctrines of the Bible
• Moody Handbook of Theology
• Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible (Myer Peralman)
• Christian Theology (Erickson)

Biblical Ethics

• Biblical Ethics
• Following Christ
• Ethics for a Brave New World
• Moral Foundations of Life

Apologetics

• Difficulties in the Bible: Alleged Errors and Contradictions

Pastoral Resources

• Star Book for Ministers

Fresh Ideas Series

• Fresh Ideas for Administration & Finance
• Fresh Ideas for Discipleship & Nurture
• Fresh Ideas for Families, Youth & Children
• Fresh Ideas for Preaching, Worship & Evangelism

Leadership Library Series

• Called into Crisis
• Clergy Couples in Crisis
• Leaders
• Learning to Lead
• Liberating the Leader's Prayer Life
• Making the Most of Mistakes
• Sins of the Body
• The Contemplative Pastor
• The Healthy Hectic Home
• The Magnetic Fellowship
• The Secrets of Staying Power
• The Unity Factor
• Weddings, Funerals & Special Events
• Well-Intentioned Dragons
• When It's Time to Move On
• When to Take a Risk
• Music, Youth & Education
• Preaching to Convince
• Helping Those Who Don't Want Help
• Being Holy, Being Human

Library of Leadership Development

• Leading Your Church Through Conflict & Resolution
• Renewing Your Church Through Vision & Planning
• Growing Your Church Through Training & Motivation
• Building Your Church Through Counsel & Care

Library of Christian Leadership

• Changing Lives Through Preaching and Worship
• Deepening Your Ministry Through Prayer & Personal Growth
• Empowering Your Church Through Creativity & Change
• Growing Your Church Through Evangelism & Outreach

Mastering Ministry Series

• Mastering Church Finances
• Mastering Church Management
• Mastering Conflict & Controversy
• Mastering Contemporary Preaching
• Mastering Outreach & Evangelism
• Mastering Pastoral Care
• Mastering Pastoral Counseling
• Mastering Pastoral Role
• Mastering Personal Growth
• Mastering Teaching
• Mastering Transitions
• Mastering Worship

Pastor's Soul Series

• Character Forged From Conflict
• Deepening Your Conversation With God
• Leading With Integrity
• Listening to the Voice of God
• Your Ministry's Next Chapter
• Pastoral Grit
• Power of Loving Your Church
• Preaching With Spiritual Passion

Pressure Points Series

• Pressure Points: Dangers, Toils & Snares
• Pressure Points: Measuring Up
• Pressure Points: Standing Fast
• Pressure Points: Time Crunch
• Pressure Points: Voice in the Wilderness
• Pressure Points: Who's In Charge?

Sermons

• Elements of Preaching
• Rediscovering Expository Preaching
• Selected Sermons of George Whitefield
• Sermons on Several Occasions
• Sermon Starters, Vols 1-4 (Zodhiates)
• How to Prepare Bible Messages (James Barga)

Illustrations

• Encyclopedia of 7,700 Illustrations
• 10,000 Sermon Illustrations
• AMG Bible Illustrations

Quotations

• All the Questions in the Bible
• Great Quotations
• The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations

Small Group Resources

• Big Book of Small Groups
• Seven Myths About Small Groups
• Small Group Idea Book
• Small Group Leaders' Handbook: The Next Generation
• Starting (and Ending) a Small Group
• Getting Together
• Good Things Come in Small Groups
• Biblical Foundations for Small Group Ministry

Bible Study Training

• How To Study the Bible
• Handbook to Bible Study
• Diving For Pearls in God's Treasure Chest
• Keys to the Bible's Treasures

Witnessing

• True Evangelism

Discipleship

• Training of the Twelve

Prayer

• Necessity of Prayer
• Power Through Prayer
• Prayer: Basic Training
• Handbook To Prayer

Family Dynamics

• Different By Design
• Fulfilled Family

Home School & Christian Education

• Keyword Learning System
• Soul of Science

English Language Reference

• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus

Christian Reference

• Who's Who in Christian History
• Who’s Who In the Bible

Christian Living

• Be What You Are
• Christian's Secret of a Holy Life
• Growing In Christ
• Fourfold Gospel
• Living a Full Life

Worship

• Logos Hymnal, 100 MIDI Hymns

Devotionals

• Alone with God
• Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories
• Drawing Close to God
• Imitation of Christ
• Morning and Evening
• My Utmost for His Highest
• Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

Fiction/Allegory

• Pilgrim's Progress
• In His Steps

Addins Included

• Bible Tools Addin
• LLS Addin
• Logos Bible Software Addin
• Personal Bible Study Tools Addin
• Lectionary Addin
• Bible Puzzles Addin
• Biblical People Addin
• Timelines Addin (8 Timelines)
• Sentence Diagramming Addin
• Graphical Query Editor Addin
• Syntax Tools Addin
• Compare Parallel Bible Versions Addin
• Biblical Languages Addin
• Original Languages Addin
• Bible Analysis Addin
• Greek Pronunciation Addin with Erasmian & Modern Data Sets
• Remote Library Search Addin

Parallel Passages Included

• Analytical Outline of the Books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles (Crockett)
• Synopsis of the Old Testament (Jackson)
• OT Quotations and Allusions in the NT (Jones)
• Old Testament Quotes in the New Testament (HCSB)
• A Harmony of the Gospels (Robertson)
• A Harmony of the Synoptic Gospels (Burton, Goodspeed)
• Synopsis of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
• Eusebian Canons (Eusebius)
• Synopsis of the Four Gospels (Aland)
• Records of the Life of Jesus (Sharman)
• Pastoral Epistles (Brannan)
• Jude - 2 Peter (Jackson)