Enduring books of the church, arranged by era. Full texts are hosted only where the work is in the public domain; for works still in copyright the library offers a UECF study companion and the book’s details.
Augustine and other early Christian writers.
Read The Confessions of Saint Augustine online at UECF.NET. Explore Augustine's classic Christian autobiography — the public-domain Pusey translation — in a convenient, searchable Web Book format.
Read The City of God by Saint Augustine online for free at UECF.NET. Explore Augustine's classic Christian work on the City of God, history, theology, human society, and the Christian faith.
Luther and the Reformation.
Read The Legacy of Luther online at UECF.NET. Edited by R.C. Sproul and Stephen J. Nichols, this Reformation Trust volume surveys Martin Luther’s life, thought, and legacy, including the Ninety-Five Theses.
Lutheran Missionaries, Landmarks and Legacies by Syam S. Pilli — the story of the American Lutheran Mission from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Guntur, Andhra Pradesh (1842 onward): Father J. C. F. Heyer, Walter Gunn, L. B. Wolf, John Roy Strock, Anna Kugler and John Aberly, and the landmarks they left — Andhra Christian College, Heyer Hall, Gunn Bungalow, Wolf Hall, Strock Hall, Sylvanus Stall Girls High School, St. Matthew’s West Parish Church, Kugler Hospital and Aberly Pet. A free, searchable UECF.NET web book.
The complete September 2015 issue (Vol. 2, No. 4) of The Journal of Lutheran Mission, published by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, as a 117-page UECF.NET web book: papers and sermons from the 2015 International Conference on Confessional Leadership in Wittenberg on celebrating the Reformation rightly, with searchable text, article navigation, footnotes and original page images.
The complete Constitution of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church (AELC) as reprinted in 1990 — Memorandum of Association, Rules of Association (Constitution), By-Laws, Constitution and By-Laws for the Synods, and Constitution and By-Laws for Parishes — presented as a searchable UECF.NET web book with page-by-page original scans, reading controls, bookmarks and resume reading.
Bunyan, Edwards, Matthew Henry and the Puritan tradition.
Read All Loves Excelling by John Bunyan — a 1692 Puritan treatise on the breadth, length, depth and height of the love of Christ (Ephesians 3:18–19). UECF.NET Web Edition with contents, search, and bookmarks.
Read The Holy War by John Bunyan online for free. Explore Bunyan's classic Christian allegory of Mansoul, Emmanuel, Diabolus, temptation, redemption, and spiritual warfare.
Read Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan online for free. Explore Bunyan's spiritual autobiography, faith, repentance, temptation, Scripture, and the grace of God.
Read the complete Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One online at UECF.NET: Sereno Dwight's Memoir of Edwards, his Farewell Sermon and Appendix, and twelve of Edwards's major treatises — Freedom of the Will, Religious Affections, Original Sin, History of Redemption and more — in English, with a full Telugu translation of the Memoir.
The complete public-domain text of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two — sermons including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Divine and Supernatural Light, the Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Miscellaneous Observations, Notes on the Bible, Remarks on Theological Controversies, and Seventeen Occasional Sermons — free to read online at UECF.NET.
Finney, Moody, Spurgeon, Edwards and revival literature.
Read the complete Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One online at UECF.NET: Sereno Dwight's Memoir of Edwards, his Farewell Sermon and Appendix, and twelve of Edwards's major treatises — Freedom of the Will, Religious Affections, Original Sin, History of Redemption and more — in English, with a full Telugu translation of the Memoir.
The complete public-domain text of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two — sermons including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Divine and Supernatural Light, the Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Miscellaneous Observations, Notes on the Bible, Remarks on Theological Controversies, and Seventeen Occasional Sermons — free to read online at UECF.NET.
Read The Way to God and How to Find It by D. L. Moody online at UECF.NET Christian Book Library.
Read The Life of John Wesley by John Telford online at UECF.NET — a public-domain biography of the founder of Methodism, from his Epworth childhood and Oxford Methodism to the Great Awakening, his itinerant ministry and death in 1791, part of the UECF.NET Christian Books Library.
Read The Life of Charles G. Finney by A. M. Hills online at the UECF.NET Christian Book Library. A. M. Hills's 1902 biography of the American revivalist Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875) — his conversion, his early revival campaigns across New York State, the New Lebanon Convention, his years at Oberlin College, his visits to England and Scotland, and his own writing on preaching, Freemasonry and sanctification. Free English and Telugu Web Book.
Charles G. Finney's classic 1868 lectures on revival — Lectures on Revivals of Religion — a practical guide to promoting genuine revival in the church and among sinners. A UECF.NET Web Book.
Read Calling Down Fire; or, Sermons from the Penny Pulpit, Part 2 by Charles G. Finney online at UECF.NET — 21 free public-domain revival sermons preached during the great revivals in London, with Scripture linked to the NKJV Bible.
Read Book information, synopsis, table of contents and author profile for God's Generals: The Revivalists by Roberts Liardon online at UECF.NET. Explore the lives, ministries, faith, and revival movements of influential Christian revivalists.
Thomas à Kempis, Brother Lawrence, Andrew Murray and others.
Read The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence online at UECF.NET, a classic Christian devotional work on cultivating continual fellowship with God.
Read The Imitation of Christ online through the UECF.NET Christian Book Library — Thomas à Kempis’ devotional classic in William Benham’s public-domain translation, with full text, search, and a table of contents for all four Books.
The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray — the classic 1894 public-domain exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, from the UECF.NET library, published as a searchable web book with chapter navigation and dark mode.
Read Reality and Religion by Sadhu Sundar Singh online free at UECF.NET — the complete 1924 text: Preface, Introduction and all 27 chapters, faithfully preserved from the Macmillan first edition.
Wisdom of the Sadhu: Teachings of Sundar Singh, edited by Kim Comer (Plough Publishing House, 2000) — book information, background on Sadhu Sundar Singh, and legitimate reading options from the UECF.NET Christian Books Library.
Read Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray online at UECF.NET — nine classic addresses on entire consecration, the fruit of the Spirit, and a Spirit-filled life.
Read Humility: The Beauty of Holiness by Andrew Murray online at UECF.NET — twelve classic meditations on humility as the glory of the creature, the secret of redemption, and the beauty of holiness in daily life.
Read The Master's Indwelling by Andrew Murray online at UECF.NET — thirteen classic addresses on the indwelling Christ, the surrendered self, and the Spirit-filled life, from the 1895 Northfield Conference.
Read With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray online at UECF.NET — thirty-one classic lessons on prayer, drawn from the teaching of Christ and His apostles, with a closing study of George Muller.
