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Wilberforce's argument that the Christianity of respectable England had drifted from the faith of the New Testament. He calls that drift back to real Christianity.

55 sections · about 7.9 hours

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Ryle's short life of George Whitefield: his conversion, his open-air preaching, and his part in the evangelical revival in Britain and America.

6 sections · about 55 min

Edwards's study of what true religious affection looks like in the soul. He distinguishes gracious love to God from passing emotion and empty profession.

60 sections · about 10 hours

Luther's treatise of 1520 on what makes a work good. Good works, he says, grow out of faith, and faith is the first good work.

21 sections · about 3.1 hours

Murray's addresses on yielding every part of life to Christ. He writes for readers who want the whole heart, not a divided obedience.

17 sections · about 2.7 hours

Spurgeon's plain explanation of salvation as entirely God's gift. He writes for readers who wonder whether grace can reach them.

21 sections · about 2.6 hours

Carey's 1792 argument that Christians are obligated to use means for the conversion of the nations, and that leaving the work undone is disobedience.

12 sections · about 59 min

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Spurgeon's counsel for a person who has come near to Christ and has not yet entered. He writes to the reader still standing outside the gate.

17 sections · about 1.6 hours

Bede's history of the church in England, from Roman Britain through Augustine's mission and the saints of the early English kingdoms. He writes from the monastery at Jarrow.

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Luther's lectures on Galatians. He presses justification by faith, and answers the claim that the law can make a sinner right with God.

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Luther's short treatise of 1520 on Christian freedom. Faith makes a person free before God, and love makes that person a servant of others.

9 sections · about 1.4 hours

Augustine's account of his restless years and his conversion, followed by his reflections on memory, time, and the God who made him.

51 sections · about 8.5 hours

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Paley's case that the Gospels rest on the testimony of witnesses and that the miracles were not a later invention. He sets the historical argument out in order.

79 sections · about 9.8 hours

Accounts of Christians put to death for their faith, from the early church through the English Reformation. This reader uses a later abridgement of Foxe's Acts and Monuments.

123 sections · about 20 hours

Short passages gathered from Spurgeon's sermons, meant to be read a few at a time. They cover faith, grace, and the Christian life.

147 sections · about 2.7 hours

Bunyan's account of his conversion and of the doubts that followed it. He wrote it in prison for the people of his own church.

30 sections · about 4.4 hours

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Chesterton's essays on the leading ideas of his day. He wrote them as the argument that carried him on to Orthodoxy.

31 sections · about 4.9 hours

Ryle's chapters on practical holiness: its cost, its marks, and the ordinary means by which God forms a life that looks like Christ.

85 sections · about 13 hours

Murray's studies on the call to be holy as God is holy. He treats holiness as a share in Christ before he treats it as a task.

40 sections · about 6.3 hours

Murray's short book on humility as the beauty of holiness. He traces it in Christ, and in the low place a Christian is called to take.

13 sections · about 1.6 hours

William Booth's plan for the poor of industrial England. He sets out the Salvation Army's scheme of rescue, work, and a way out of destitution.

90 sections · about 9.4 hours

Calvin's full account of the Christian faith: the knowledge of God and of ourselves, Christ the mediator, the Spirit, the church, and the Christian life.

275 sections · about 48 hours

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Finney's lectures on how revivals come, how they should be promoted, and what errors attend them. The tone is urgent and aimed at ministers and churches.

98 sections · about 15 hours

Pastoral letters of Samuel Rutherford, many written from his exile in Aberdeen to his congregation at Anwoth. They are full of comfort and of Christ.

532 sections · about 25 hours

Murray's lessons on the Lord's Prayer. He teaches the prayer as a school in which a disciple learns how to ask.

4 sections · about 35 min

Livingstone's own narrative of his missionary journeys across southern Africa, the peoples he met, and the country he crossed.

143 sections · about 22 hours

Spurgeon's daily devotions for morning and evening. Each reading is short, Christ-centered, and meant to fix the heart on Scripture.

732 sections · about 20 hours

Owen's treatise on putting sin to death in the life of a believer. He shows why mortification is necessary and how it is worked by the Spirit.

22 sections · about 3.3 hours

Questions from Thomas Aquinas on religion, prayer, and the contemplative life, arranged as a book by Hugh Pope. Each article asks one question and answers it.

68 sections · about 5.5 hours

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Chesterton's account of how he came to believe the Apostles' Creed. He found historic Christian doctrine stranger, and more sane, than the ideas of his age.

32 sections · about 4.8 hours

Pascal's unfinished notes in defense of the Christian faith: the misery and greatness of man, the hidden God, and the wager.

55 sections · about 8.1 hours

Bounds argues that a minister's real power is prayer, and that study and busyness cannot stand in for it. A short book written for preachers.

22 sections · about 1.6 hours

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Ryle's plain chapters on a faith that can be seen: prayer, Bible reading, zeal, the home, and the habits of a living Christianity.

84 sections · about 13 hours

Bounds looks through Scripture at men and women who prayed, from Abraham and Moses to Christ and Paul, and at what their prayers show.

17 sections · about 2.6 hours

Moody on the prayer that prevails with God, and on the unbelief, sin, and half-surrender that stand in its way.

17 sections · about 2.7 hours

Bounds on praying with a definite aim and staying at it. He treats prayer as work a Christian sets out to do.

18 sections · about 2.7 hours

Moody on the Holy Spirit as the power for Christian life and Christian work, and on what it is to be filled with the Spirit.

17 sections · about 2.4 hours

A selection of Jonathan Edwards's sermons on the glory of God, true religion, and the state of the soul.

41 sections · about 5.4 hours

Sayings of Luther taken down at his table, on Scripture, faith, the church, and ordinary life. This reader uses a selection of them.

20 sections · about 2.5 hours

Sermons from volumes five and six of Whitefield's collected Works (1771–72). They address Christ, the new birth, and the ordinary means by which God saves sinners.

166 sections · about 26 hours

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Moody's sermons on grace as God's free gift in Christ. He presses sinners to receive mercy and believers to rest in what God has done.

37 sections · about 2.5 hours

Butler's argument that the difficulties in revelation are of a piece with the difficulties in the world God already governs. He answers the claim that those difficulties make Scripture incredible.

80 sections · about 11 hours

Andrew Bonar's life of Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's, Dundee, drawn from M'Cheyne's diary and letters.

35 sections · about 5.4 hours

Luther's reply to Erasmus on whether the human will can turn to God apart from grace. This reader uses the Henry Cole translation and omits Atherton's preface.

168 sections · about 8.5 hours

Augustine's long defense of the City of God, written after the sack of Rome. He follows the two cities from creation to the last judgment.

206 sections · about 35 hours

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Boethius, waiting in prison, talks with Philosophy about fortune, evil, and how God governs the world. This reader uses the English translation by H. R. James.

90 sections · about 3.1 hours

Bounds on what must be true of the person who prays: faith, desire, humility, and a life that agrees with the request.

16 sections · about 2.4 hours

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Chesterton's account of the human story with Christ at its center. He writes against histories that treat Jesus as one more religious teacher.

49 sections · about 8.1 hours

Bunyan's sermon on running the race set before us. He gives directions for a person who means to go on toward heaven and not stop.

8 sections · about 1.1 hours

Bunyan's allegory of the town of Mansoul, seized by Diabolus and besieged by Emmanuel. A picture of the soul under the rule of Christ and under attack.

46 sections · about 7.4 hours

A medieval book of counsels on following Christ in humility and in the ordinary duties of a quiet life. The chapters are short and meant to be read slowly.

116 sections · about 4.8 hours

Bunyan's sermon of mercy for the worst of sinners. He preaches from Christ's word that repentance should be preached, beginning at Jerusalem.

16 sections · about 2.7 hours

George Fox's journal of his travels, preaching, and imprisonments in the first years of the Quakers. This reader includes both volumes of the edition.

231 sections · about 37 hours

Luther's longer catechism for pastors and parents. He teaches the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, baptism, and the Lord's Supper.

27 sections · about 3.6 hours

A dialogue about a man who lives carelessly and dies without repentance. Bunyan's picture of a life that never turns.

36 sections · about 5.8 hours

David Brainerd's diary of sickness, prayer, and missionary work among Native peoples, as edited and published by Jonathan Edwards.

54 sections · about 8.2 hours

Müller's account of the orphan houses at Bristol and of looking to God for their daily bread. It is his record of how those needs were met, not a theory of prayer.

114 sections · about 12 hours

Murray's addresses on Christ dwelling in the believer, and on handing over a life that has been ruled by self.

18 sections · about 3.3 hours

Murray's plea that Christians take up intercession as a ministry: prayer for others, kept at with the seriousness of any other work.

52 sections · about 4 hours

Bounds argues that prayer is not optional equipment for the Christian life but its essential breath. The chapters press the reader toward habitual communion with God.

15 sections · about 2.4 hours

Luther's theses of 1517 on the power of indulgences, offered as points for academic debate. They question whether a payment can settle sin.

3 sections · about 21 min

Moody's sermons on the Christian life as a fight that can be won. He speaks of temptation, the divided heart, and the strength to overcome.

15 sections · about 2.6 hours

Bunyan's exposition of the Pharisee and the tax collector who went up to the temple to pray. He writes on the prayer God receives.

26 sections · about 4.3 hours

Bunyan's allegory of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. The road, the company, and the dangers are a picture of the Christian life.

26 sections · about 4.4 hours

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Conversations and letters of Brother Lawrence, a lay brother who practiced the presence of God while he worked in a monastery kitchen.

20 sections · about 49 min

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Tozer's call to seek God himself. Short chapters on hunger for God, the presence of God, and a faith that wants more than religious habit.

13 sections · about 2.2 hours

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Bounds on prayer as a real dealing with God. He writes about asking, about the God who hears, and about answers that come.

18 sections · about 2.7 hours

Baxter on the rest that remains for the people of God, written to turn the heart toward heaven. This reader uses Benjamin Fawcett's abridgement.

58 sections · about 9.1 hours

Luther's brief catechism for teaching the faith at home and in the church. It explains the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, baptism, and the Lord's Supper.

16 sections · about 18 min

Spurgeon's exposition of the Psalms. This reader includes Project Gutenberg volumes one and two only, covering Psalms 1 through 57.

422 sections · about 54 hours

Moody's plain addresses on coming to God: conviction of sin, repentance, faith, and the assurance of being heard.

21 sections · about 3.1 hours

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Writings from the generation after the apostles: Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Barnabas, and Hermas. They show how the first churches taught, corrected, and held together.

411 sections · about 12 hours

Short devotional meditations on nearness to God, in the English translation by J. Hendrik de Vries. Kuyper writes for readers who want worship to shape daily life.

111 sections · about 13 hours

Murray's lessons on prayer drawn from the life of Christ. He teaches prayer as discipleship under Jesus, not a technique added to an otherwise self-directed life.

37 sections · about 5.7 hours