Ochorus for new believers
Free books for new believers and those who disciple them
Clear, warm first books, short reading plans and six weeks of sermons on the basics of the faith, free to read on any phone. Give one link to someone who has just come to Christ, or read alongside them.
- books
- 295
- sermons
- 251
- reading plans
- 36
- languages
- 10
Good places to start
First books
Short, plain and full of the gospel.
Lives that began again
How others came to faith, in their own words.
In simpler words
The same books, retold in plain language.
Plans to read together
One short reading a day. Start on the same day and everyone reaches the same chapter together, each reader ticking off their own progress as they go.
New to the Faith
39 days·~8 min/dayFive and a half weeks for anyone just beginning with Christ. Charles Spurgeon meets you at the wicket gate with the plainest help there is for trusting Jesus; then R. A. Torrey, writing for new believers, shows how to begin right — assurance, the Holy Spirit, the church, the Bible, prayer and witness. Short articles along the way answer the questions every new Christian asks: what the gospel is, why Jesus died, what baptism and the Lord’s Supper mean, and how to keep growing.
Day 1 ·What Is the Gospel? A Clear, Simple Summary
The Way to God: Grace for Every Sinner
35 days·~18 min/dayA month on the oldest good news there is. Richard Baxter's tender call to the unconverted, D. L. Moody on the way to God, and Charles Spurgeon's All of Grace — the plainest of guides to how a sinner is saved, and how to know it.
Day 1 ·A Call to the Unconverted
The Pilgrim's Way
39 days·~22 min/dayThe road home, in three classics. Charles Spurgeon meets the seeker at the wicket gate, John Bunyan's immortal allegory follows the pilgrim the whole way to the Celestial City, and Bunyan's own testimony shows the grace that abounded to the chief of sinners.
Day 1 ·Around the Wicket Gate
Start a reading group
Choose a plan and the day you begin, then pass on the link. Everyone who opens it is on the same day of the plan. Nobody needs an account, and nothing about anyone is collected.
A sermon series for your group
Read one sermon at home each week, then talk it through together. Every sermon here comes with study questions and their answers, at the foot of the sermon.
Six weeks on the basics
The new birth, forgiveness, assurance and growth: one sermon a week, read at home and talked through together.
One event a week naming the sermon to read, with a reminder that morning. Send the file to your group so their calendars have it too.
Why it helps someone new to the faith
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Clear, warm first books
Moody’s The Way to God and Spurgeon’s All of Grace were written for people taking their first steps. They are short, plain and full of the gospel.
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A plan for the first weeks
New to the Faith takes a beginner through five and a half weeks of short daily readings. Nobody has to wonder where to start.
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Six weeks on the basics
Sermons on the new birth, forgiveness, assurance and growing in grace, each with study questions and answers to talk through together.
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Read alongside them
Start a reading plan together and you are both on the same day’s reading. No accounts, and nothing about anyone is collected.
“Come to Jesus, by quitting every other hope, by thinking of Him, believing God's testimony about Him, and trusting everything with Him.”
Ways to use it in discipleship
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One link, the week they believe
Send a new believer The Way to God or the New to the Faith plan the same week. It costs nothing and they can start that night.
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Read a plan side by side
Start a plan on the same day and meet once a week to talk about what you each read.
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A course for new members
Use the six weeks of sermons as a short course for baptism or membership, one sermon and its questions a week.
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Stories of changed lives
Bunyan, Augustine and Amanda Smith tell how they came to faith. A new Christian finds they are not the first to struggle.
Meet the writers
The lives behind the books: each one has a full biography, with the books and sermons they left.
Pass it on
A message ready for a bulletin, a group chat or an email. Copy it as it is, or make it your own.
Questions
Is Ochorus really free?
Yes. Every book and sermon on Ochorus is free to read, with no paywall, no subscription and no ads. The classics themselves are in the public domain, and Ochorus is a ministry, not a business.
Where should someone new begin?
Most begin with The Way to God by D. L. Moody or All of Grace by C. H. Spurgeon, then the New to the Faith reading plan, one short reading a day.
Do they need an account?
No. Anyone can read without signing up. A free account is optional: it keeps their place, notes and saved books in step across devices.
Are these books hard to read?
Some of the classics use older English. Many are also published in editions for teens, which retell them in plain words that suit any adult.
Help someone take their first steps
Send them a first book, or start a reading plan together this week.