Ochorus for pastors and preachers
Free classics for pastors and preachers
The great preachers on preaching, prayer and the care of souls, and hundreds of their sermons, free on any phone or computer. Baxter’s Reformed Pastor, Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students and Chrysostom on the priesthood, for the study and for your own soul.
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- 295
- sermons
- 251
- reading plans
- 36
- languages
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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 sermons that shaped the church
Sermons preachers still learn from: one a week, read at home and talked through with your staff or elders.
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Week 1
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodJonathan Edwards, Deuteronomy 32:35
4 study questions 36 min read
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.
Good places to start
For the study
The work of the ministry, by those who did it.
Sermons to learn from
Collected sermons of the great preachers.
For the pastor’s own soul
Prayer, humility and the hidden life.
Why pastors use Ochorus
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Sermons to learn from
Hundreds of sermons by Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edwards, Wesley, Moody and others, each with its text. Read how the great preachers opened a passage, built an argument and pressed it home.
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Who preached on your text
Look up a passage of Scripture and see the sermons and books that take it up, a quick way to hear older voices on the text you are preparing.
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Classics on the work itself
Baxter on shepherding the flock, Spurgeon’s lectures to his students, Chrysostom on the priesthood and Torrey on personal work: books pastors have trained on for centuries.
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For your own soul first
E. M. Bounds wrote that the preacher is made in the closet. Reading plans on prayer and the deeper life give you a short reading a day, before the work begins.
Meet the writers
The lives behind the books: each one has a full biography, with the books and sermons they left.
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.
Praying Men: A School of Prayer with E. M. Bounds
48 days·~9 min/daySeven weeks in the furnace of intercession with the great apostle of prayer. E. M. Bounds begins with the preacher's own need of power, then unfolds the purpose that makes prayer prevail, and the necessity that makes it the whole business of the Christian life.
Day 1 ·Power Through Prayer
The Puritan Heart
54 days·~11 min/dayEight weeks with three masters of the inner life. Richard Sibbes binds up the bruised reed, John Owen wages war on the sin that still dwells within, and Thomas Watson rests the whole struggle on the promise that all things work together for good.
Day 1 ·The Bruised Reed
The Key Teachings: Four Teachers
86 days·~7 min/dayTwelve weeks with four teachers, one short chapter a day, each ending in questions and a prayer: Richard Baxter on the saints' everlasting rest, Jonathan Edwards on the beauty of God and true religion, A. B. Simpson on Christ our Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer and Coming King, and Watchman Nee on the normal Christian life.
Day 1 ·The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter
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.
“Every true minister of God, every true missionary, every true Sunday-school teacher and Christian worker is a faith-worker.”
Ways to use it in your ministry
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Beside your commentaries
When you prepare a text, read how Spurgeon or Whitefield preached it. Older sermons see things that newer commentaries pass over.
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A book for your elders
Read The Reformed Pastor or Men Who Tended the Flock with your elders or staff, a chapter before each meeting.
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Training the next preachers
Spurgeon gave his Lectures to My Students to young men learning to preach. Give them to yours, free, with nothing to buy.
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Point your people to what you preach
Preaching through a theme? Share a reading plan or a sermon on it so your congregation can keep reading through the week.
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.
Can I quote these sermons and books in my preaching?
Yes. The classic books and sermons are in the public domain, so you can quote them as freely as you like. The Ochorus Originals are new works; please contact us before reproducing them at length.
Can I find sermons on a particular passage?
Yes. Search by Scripture reference, or open the Scripture index, to see the sermons and books that take up a passage. Each sermon page also lists the passages it engages.
Is there anything for my congregation?
Yes. Reading plans, sermons with study questions and young-reader editions are all free for your whole church. The page for churches gathers them together.
Sit at the feet of the great preachers
Start with a book for the study, or read how Spurgeon and Whitefield preached the text you are working on.