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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.
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