Links
Resources for those new to the Reformed faith
Audio
- Reformed Audio — Reformed Audio’s goal is to create a resource for thoughtful Christians that provides high quality audio versions of some of the best Christian theological literature. They also offer PDF versions of many of the books and articles they have recorded. Reformed Audio is administered by two ordained PCA Deacons.
Bibles, Commentaries, and Reference
- Bible Reading Plans — Ten different plans for helping you read through the Bible in a year. They’re available in several different formats including Web page, RSS feed, e-mail message, Mobile phone, and print.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library — A digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
- English Standard Version (ESV) — An essentially literal translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with excellence, beauty, and readability.
- Westminster Standards Database — Search the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Shorter Catechism, and the Larger Catechism. You can also find where particular verses appear in the Standards. To help you learn, try the Shorter Catechism Quiz and Larger Catechism Quiz.
Booksellers and Publishers
- Banner of Truth — The Banner of Truth Trust originated in 1957 in London. The founders believed that much of the best literature of historic Christianity had been allowed to fall into oblivion and that its recovery under God could well lead not only to a strengthening of the Church today but to true revival.
- Reformation Trust Publishing — Founded in 2006 as a publishing imprint of Ligonier Ministries, Reformation Trust Publishing seeks to produce books that are true to the historic Christian faith and make those truths clear to laypeople.
- Westminster Bookstore — Westminster Bookstore is the campus bookstore for Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and usually offers very good prices.
Forums
- PuritanBoard — A popular and well-run (the administrator is a Marine Corps officer) Reformed message board. To participate one must be a church member and subscribe to recognized confessional standards.
Missions
- PCA Mission to North America — MNA serves PCA churches and presbyteries as they advance God’s Kingdom in North America by planting, growing and multiplying Biblically healthy churches through the development of intentional evangelism and outreach ministries.
- PCA Mission to the World — MTW is the mission-sending agency of the Presbyterian Church in America, helping to fulfill the Great Commission by advancing Reformed and covenantal church-planting movements through word and deed in strategic areas worldwide.
Music
- NetHymnal — Features over 10,000 Christian hymns, author and composer biographies, hymn histories and gospel songs from many denominations. You’ll find lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, and more.
- RUF Hymnbook Online Hymnal — MP3s, lyrics, and lead sheets of the RUF hymns we sing in our service.
- Trinity Hymnal – The original Trinity Hymnal was published in 1961 and is widely used in the PCA and other Reformed churches.
News
- WORLD Magazine — “We stand for factual accuracy and biblical objectivity, trying to see the world as best we can the way the Bible depicts it. Journalistic humility for us means trying to give God’s perspective. … We cover all aspects of the news: national, international, and cultural; politics and business; medicine, science, technology, and sports. … But what matters the most is this: We believe in a God who tells the truth and wants us to do the same.”
Persecuted Church
- Voice of the Martyrs — The Voice of the Martyrs is a non-profit, inter-denominational Christian organization dedicated to assisting the persecuted church worldwide. VOM was founded in 1967 by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was imprisoned 14 years in Communist Romania for his faith in Christ.
Prayer
- Pray the Bible — An online edition of Matthew Henry’s method for prayer. Praying scripturally will teach us what prayer is, even while we do it, it will correct “shopping list” views of prayer which abound in the Christian community, and it will begin to solve in our own minds the question of “unanswered prayer.”
Reformed Reading
- Monergism.com — Monergism.com’s purpose is to equip Christians in the truth by making available the finest classic articles and resources of historical orthodoxy.
Software
- Ages Library — Offers digital CDs of the works of Calvin, Luther, Spurgeon, Wesley, the Early Church Fathers, and many other writers.