LIBRARY
In this Library we intend to place links to any books, articles, magazines, blogs, etc. that are useful and worthwhile to read in our pursuit of what God means the Church in our City to be.
If you have any suggestions of sites to include here, then please let us know. Please limit your suggestions to resources that are available online for no cost.
Please note that while it is easy by, using a search engine (such as Google - my favourite), to turn up a miriad of Christian books and articles available online , not everything is what it appears to be on the Internet. Most reputable Christian books, because they are published by commercial publishers, are not available for download because of copyright restrictions. What is often available are books by authors who are unable to get their books accepted by a publisher (sometimes for good reasons), books attacking various mainstream doctrines or movements, and books published online by non-Christian sects trying to push their peculiar ideas. There are good books and articles online, but please be discerning. If it looks good but you aren't sure, ask your pastor, or bring it up for discussion on one of our forums. You can go directly to the Discuss Articles and Books forum by clicking HERE.
Articles
Awakening West - 250 at Launch Spell Hope - the report of our Launch Dinner from the Australian Christian Channel, by Poul Bottern.
Magazines
Books and Culture: a Christian Review. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Christian Computing Magazine. Applying Tomorrow's Technology in Today's Ministry.
Christian History Magazine. The archives of Christian History Magazine contain many of their past issues.
Christian Parenting Today. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Christian Reader. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Christianity Today. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Cornerstone Magazine. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Faith Today. Informing, equiping and inspiring Christians across Canada.
Imaginarium Online. An often uniquely Christian view of the world of the imagination - articles, reviews, interviews, etc.
Leadership Magazine. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Marriage Partnership. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Men of Integrity. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Next-Wave Magazine To bring together Christians from all walks of life, including pastors, church planters and leaders across denominational and national borders, who want to reach out to people in postmodern culture, and who understand that, in order to do so, significant changes need to be made in the way we run and organize our churches. (This is great reading for the emerging church - webservant).
Seven Magazine. :: seven :: is a free internet publication that wants to know what the emerging culture thinks about faith, life, love, happiness or whatever your life is filled with. we are here to challenge what we see as an emerging orthodoxy. our pursuit of mystery and meaning is meant to challenge each of us as we attempt to live out the challenge God has placed before each of us.
Today's Christian Woman. You can read the current issue online, and some past articles.
Watchman is the Newletter produced by Intercessors for Melbourne and is published about 4 times a year.
Websites with Articles
Calvary Chapel Library. Lots of good articles by Chuck Smith and others in this pioneering church.
Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry. A site with many apologetics resources, from a Reformed perspective.
The Cumberland River Lamp Post. This website is an expression of my appreciation for what C.S. Lewis has meant to me, as a great author, a great literary critic, a great man, and as a great Christian - Richard James .
Lambert Dolphin's Library. Many articles on Knowing Jesus; Small Groups; Biblical Essays; God, Israel and the Church; Eschatology; Sexual Wholeness; Science and the Bible.
Welcome to the Postmodern Christian or, as some would prefer, the Christian of Postmodernity. No matter your syntactical preference, this site aspires to teach you, if only minutely, about the paradigm of postmodernism in relation to the Christian church and the Christian individual.
Bibles
At Bibles.net you can:
The Blue Letter Bible gives you direct online access to many translations of the Bible and search tools, concordances, commentaries and dictionaries to help you in your Bible study.
Bible Database gives you free a Multiple Bible interface, with complex search features such as combining case sensitivity and ignoring the order of search terms, view one or ALL installed Bibles simultaneously - by verse or by Chapter, Cut, Copy and Paste Text and Images from BibleDatabase to other Windows Applications, Maps and a Map [Image] Viewer, Look up a single verse in one Bible or show all Translations to compare texts, Full featured Word Processor and Rich Text Editor, and many other features.
At the Online Bible you can download free Bibles in many translations and many different languages, along with software to make online Bible study easy.
GospelCom.net provides the Bible Gateway, which gives you many online Bible translations in many languages plus effective search tools.
Then there is the World Wide Study Bible, the Study Bible developed and located around the world! It also includes the Apocrypha, plus sermons, study guides, articles and lectures.
Books
Allen, D. Matthew. Theology Adrift: The Early Church Fathers and Their Views of Eschatology.
Catholic Encyclopedia.. The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine.
Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry . Dictionary of Theology.. A useful dictionary of theological terms.
Encyclopedia Coptica.. An encyclopedia provided by the Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt.
The Fathers of the Church.. Alphabetically from Alexander of Alexandria to Vincent of Lérins.
Greenleaf, Simon, . Testimony of the Evangelists.. Greenleaf, one of the principle founders of the Harvard Law School, originally set out to disprove the biblical testimony concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was certain that a careful examination of the internal witness of the Gospels would dispel all the myths at the heart of Christianity. But this legal scholar came to the conclusion that the witnesses were reliable, and that the resurrection did in fact happen.
Schaff, Philip, Early Church Fathers. A 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church. This collection is divided into three series, Ante-Nicene (ANF), Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I (NPNF1), and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II (NPNF2).
Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church. An 8-volume series on church history. This material has been carefully compared, corrected¸ and emended (according to the 1910 edition of Charles Scribner's Sons) by The Electronic Bible Society, Dallas, TX, 1998.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica. The complete text of this 5-volume work by a doctor of the church.
Wallington, David, The Secret Room: the Story of Corrie ten Boom. A shortened version of The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom.
World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity, Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. The World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity is a single reference source with links to the contents of the Catholic Encyclopedia, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Torrey's Topical Textbook, and Elwell's Dictionary of Christian Theology.
Blogs (weblogs)
ginkworld welcome to ginkworld. to define who we are would limit us, so we don't define - we just are. our dna is to share with you God, through christ, in a real way - no crap, no lies - straight talk, from the heart and where we live - transparent - pure and simple. we are postmodern, and we see life with a postmodern heart.
Seven Magazine (see above) runs a good blog.
Online Libraries
Biblioteca Mundi Antiquitati!. An online library of texts of the ancient world, organized by author.
Christian Classics Etherial Library, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. This online library currently contains 218 classic Christian books by 106 famous authors.
The Ecole Initiative Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World-Wide Web. Founder: Anthony F. Beavers, University of Evansville, General Editors: Karen Rĉ Keck and Norman Hugh Redington, St. Pachomius Library.
ICLnet: Institute for Christian Leadership Pointing the Way: a Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet .
Library of Online Evangelical Christian Books - online texts of 35 contemporary Christian books by authors such as Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer, Anne Ortlund, and Marvin Olasky.
The Masterworks of Western Civilization. A hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others.
The On-line Books Page, Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania. This is a useful source of information about books available online.
PinkMonkey.com Digital Library. Pink Monkey is a vast library of downloadable books. Here you will find fiction and reference, Christian and secular, classic and modern, even children's books - all free.
Philologos Religious Online Books. Works by John Bunyan, E. W. Bullinger, Alfred Edersheim, Louis Ginsberg, Alexander Hislop, John Lightfoot, W. M. Ramsay, etc.
Project Gutenberg. A large online library of classic, public domain books.It has three categories of books:
Reformation Ink Reformation classics online.
Revival Library Histories of great revivals and their leaders including books, letters, sermons and other inspirational material.
The Spurgeon Archive. The largest collection of Spurgeon resources on the world-wide web.
St. Pachomius Library A First Draft for a Living Encyclopĉdia of Orthodox Christianity.
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