Free (and Useful) Software

Here are a few links to free PC software that you may find useful.

REFORMED CONFESIONS      DOWNLOAD

Reformed Confessions is an MS Windows Help file that contains many of the historic and Reformed Christian creeds, confessions, and catechisms. It runs on Windows, and is about 600k in size. It comes as a self-extracting file, so it is user-friendly to install; just double click on it to run it like any other program to set it up. It is freeware and so can be freely distributed to any who would like to have it. The author of the program says, “I hope all who use it may gain a deeper understanding of the Bible, theology, and Christian history, and so ultimately grow in their walk with Christ.”

It contains the following documents:


* The Apostles’ Creed
* The Nicene Creed
* The Athanasian Creed
* The Chalcedonian Creed
* The Belgic Confession
* The Canons of Dort
* The Heidelberg Catechism
* The Westminster Confession
* The Westminster Larger Catechism
* The Westminster Shorter Catechism
* The French Confession
* The Second Helvetic Confession
* The Waldensian Confession
* The Children’s Catechism
* Savoy Declaration
* London Confession of Baptist Faith
* Thirty-nine Articles of Religion
* Lausanne Covenant
* Manila Manifesto
* Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

MORNING & EVENING      DOWNLOAD
Spurgeon's Devotional

This program allows you to read and print Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening devotional book via a Windows program. It comes as a self-extracting file, so it is user-friendly to install; just double click on it to run it. The program and it's needed files will be extracted to C:\MORN_EVE directory. To put a link to the program on your desktop, navigate to the C:\MORN_EVE directory, and with a right click hold and drag the Morn_Eve.exe file to your desktop, and select "Create Shortcuts Here".

Here is a screenshot of the program:

BIBLE SOFTWARE

Bible Software is extremely useful to pastors in the preparation of sermons and studies, but can also be very helpful to other Christians as well. This kind of software that, among other things, allows searching scripture by reference and phrases is very helpful for individual study of the Bible, and such things as preparation for Bible study meetings and Sunday School classes. Commercial versions of these kind of programs often cost hundreds of dollars, but there are very comparable free programs available on the Internet.

There are several free Bible software programs available on the Internet. Here are two examples that you might wish to download and try out. They both include several Bible translations and commentaries, and have the ability to search by reference and/or phrases. If you do any serious Bible studying you will probably find one of these programs to be helpful.

E-SWORD          LEARN ABOUT E-SWORD AND DOWNLOAD

BIBLE EXPLORER      LEARN ABOUT BIBLE EXPLORER AND DOWNLOAD

A PLAN FOR READING THROUGH THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR   DOWNLOAD


Please Note: This download is a .PDF file. If you don't have Adobe Reader you can download it free here.

The Internet has many choices available of plans for reading through the Bible in one year. I've listed this one mainly because it prints out nicely on one sheet of paper which makes it convenient to put in your Bible and have with you at all times. The plan also switches between areas of the Bible on a weekly schedule that provides a variety of types of Bible literature. This will help to keep you from getting bogged down in one part of the Bible for a long period of time.

If that plan doesn't seem right for you, you might want to try this one.

That's the end of the free downloads list for now, but check back later for new additions.