Ochorus for small groups
Free books for your small group or Bible study
Choose a classic for the term and everyone in the group can read it, free, on their own phone. Prayer, holiness, grace and the life of faith, from Murray, Tozer, Brother Lawrence, Hannah Whitall Smith and many more.
- books
- 295
- sermons
- 251
- reading plans
- 36
- languages
- 10
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 prayer
Six preachers on the life of prayer: one sermon a week, read at home and talked through together.
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Week 5
Intercession Every Christian's DutyGeorge Whitefield, 1 Thessalonians 5:25
4 study questions 21 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.
Six weeks on grace
The heart of the gospel, from the great evangelical preachers: what grace is, and what it does.
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.
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 Pursuit of Holiness
63 days·~19 min/dayNine weeks on being wholly the Lord's. Andrew Murray traces our holiness to our union with the Holy One, William Law calls us to a life devout in every ordinary hour, and John Wesley sets out plainly what Christian perfection is — and is not.
Day 1 ·Holy in Christ
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.
Why small groups use Ochorus
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Everyone can have the book
Every book is free, so nobody is left out for the price of a copy. Send one link to the group and everyone can start reading that evening.
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A pace the whole group can keep
Reading plans set out one short reading a day, so the group arrives at the meeting having read the same chapters.
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Sermons that fit one evening
A sermon by Spurgeon, Moody or Wesley is short enough to read in the week and talk through in an hour, and many come with study questions.
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Find a book by its theme
Topics gather books and sermons on prayer, suffering, holiness, the Holy Spirit and more, so you can choose a study that meets the group where it is.
Ways to use it in your group
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A book a term
Pick one classic, read a chapter or two a week, and spend the meeting on what struck each person.
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A sermon a week
Read one sermon before you meet and use its study questions to open the conversation.
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Read together on a plan
Start a reading plan on the same day and talk through each week’s readings when you meet.
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Meet the writers
Many writers have a full biography, so the group can hear the story behind a book before reading it.
Good places to start
Short books for a term
A chapter or two a week, and a good conversation every time.
For a group that wants to pray
Read about prayer together, then pray.
Lives to read together
True stories that give a group plenty to talk about.
“If we love Him, we cannot but love one another, as Christ loved us.”
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.
Does everyone in the group need an account?
No. Anyone can read without signing up. A free account is optional: it keeps a reader’s progress, notes and saved books in step across their devices.
Are there discussion questions?
Many sermons come with study questions and answers, drawn from the sermon itself. For books, a reading plan gives the group a shared pace, and the chapters are short enough to talk through.
Can we read it without a phone?
Yes. Ochorus works on any computer or tablet as well, and some books can be downloaded as free PDF and EPUB files from the book’s page.
Choose your group’s next book
Start with a reading plan, or browse the library and pick a classic to read together.