Links to other resources

There is a wealth of high quality Christian material on the web; much more than can be covered in a single list of links. In keeping with the general theme of this site, these links have been selected to provide resources for those interested in a serious study of Christ, His works, and His church's mission.
You do not have to leave the St Albans site to use these resources; all the links will open in a new browser window.

• Reference.
  Reference works and reference sources
• "Apologetics"
  The reasoned defence of the faith
• Resources
  Christian teaching resources.
• Missions
  The missions of the church - news, views, and some enlightening statistics.
• "Closer to home"
  Our local links.

Disclaimer. The following links are to sites that are of significant interest, and whose content is generally in keeping with the beliefs and ethos of St Albans. The linked sites are not, however, our sites, and with the exception of the online scriptures we do not necessarily endorse all views expressed on them.

Feedback. If you would like to suggest a web resource to be included in our list of links, please use our feedback form. Links are included at our discretion, and no correspondence will be entered into.

• The "Blue letter bible"; An excellent biblical reference. The Blue Letter Bible now has over 3,560,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions!

• Biblical Studies Foundation Home of the New English Translation. Bible studies area includes over 3,000 studies organized by topic or book of the Bible.

• The International Bible Society, whose purpose is " to faithfully translate, publish and reach out with God's Word so that people around the world may become disciples of Jesus Christ and members of His Body"

• The Bible Gateway Concordance & Logos Topical Search facility

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves! All of the books on this server are believed to be in the public domain in the United States unless otherwise specified. Copy them freely for any purpose. Outside of the US, check your local copyright laws

• Electronic text centre, University of Virginia. The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images

• The Library of Congress holds one of the largest collections of works. Many works are of interest to the Christian community, including such exhibitions as the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Institute for Christian Leadership."Guide to early church documents". An excellent scholarly resource.

• "World Scripture; A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts"

• Online theological library. With special emphasis on tools for biblical interpretation covering textual criticism, historical context, and resources for biblical languages.

• The "Early Church" site offers access to large numbers of early church documents

• If you want to find a particular version of the bible online, the "Virtual Christianity" site has the largest list - bar none!

• Topical search systems are offered by Nave's and also by Logos Research systems.

• The "World wide study bible" is an excellent study resource, this site also links to textual criticism sites, and information on the development of the canon of scripture.

• The Wabash Centre offers a selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.

• The Internet Christian Library (ICLnet) has grown upon the foundation laid by The Institute for Christian Leadership (ICL).

• The Ecole initiative aims to create a hypertext encyclopedia of early church history on the WWW.

• Reasons To Believe. "Answering Skeptics, Encouraging Believers". Reasons To Believe is an international, interdenominational ministry established to communicate the uniquely factual basis for belief in the Bible as the wholly true Word of God and for personal faith in Jesus Christ.

• "Stands to Reason". Building Christian Thinkers for the Public Defense of the Faith

• "Apologia" is the home of the Wellington Christian Apologetics Society (Inc.)

• The work of the The Christian Research Institute is summed up in the acronym "EQUIP". CRI exists to provide Christians worldwide with carefully researched information and well-reasoned answers that encourage them in their faith and equip them to intelligently represent it to people influenced by ideas and teachings that assault or undermine orthodox, biblical Christianity

• Alpha and Omega Ministries, The Christian Apologetics Ministry of James R. White. "Our ambition...is to be pleasing to Him" (2 Cor. 5:9)

• Sponsored by Christian Leadership Ministries (the faculty outreach and training arm of Campus Crusade for Christ International, LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY site includes resources from the high school to research levels, with an emphasis on the scholarly Specially note "Advice to Christian Philosophers" by Alvin Plantinga.

• Ariel Ministries Founded by Dr Arnold Fruchtenbaum, a Messianic Jew and one of todays foremost biblical scholars and teachers.

• Christian Apologetics is presented by Trinity College of Florida and C.S.Lewis trust. The site includes skeptics welcome page, chat room etc.

• Answers in action states it's aim as "training Christians to adopt and promote a Christian world view in every area of their lives".

• The Christian Apologetics Journal, published by Southern Evangelical Seminary, is a forum for scholarly articles contributing to the defense of the historic Cristian Faith. Edited by Christian apologist Norman Geisler.

• ACAP stands for the Atlanta Christian Apologetics Project , Inc. It is an interdenominational, evangelic Christian ministry organization based in the Atlanta area. It's mission is to educate Christians to understand what they believe and why they believe it and to equip them to be able to respond to questions about the Christian faith from skeptics, atheists, cultists, and members of non-Christian religions. Atlanta GA.

• The Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics (CRTA) is dedicated to providing biblically sound online resources for the edification of God's people. The Center is committed to the system of doctrine known as Calvinism.

• The Academy of Christian ApologeticsThe Academy is a ministry to the body of Christ whose goal is to provide each and every Christian with the materials needed to learn how to articulate and defend their faith in a way that stands up to intellectual criticism

• "Unravelling Wittgensteins Net - A Christian ThinkTank" Resources primarily aimed at those seeking a more sophisticated understanding of theological issues....

• Christian Research and Evangelism (Jude3.net's) large list of 'apologetics' links

• CrossSearch's extensive list of Apologetics links

• TheDeepSight Trust is the New Zealand representative of the wider Gospel & Culture movement. An ecumenical missionary organisation, its primary focus is on the deeper issues of our culture and is actively engaged in assembling resources, both human and material, to facilitate this process.

• "Christian Answers" a mega-site providing biblical answers to contemporary questions

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  • Christian apologetics and research ministry (CARM) is a nonprofit Christian organization whose purpose is to equip Christians with good information on doctrine, various religious groups (Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.), cults, Evolution, New Age, and related subjects.

  • The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics by Norman Geisler. ...is a truly exhaustive database and glossary of information on cults, sects, new religious movements, doctrines...

  • Gospelcom's (large) apologetics index

• The "Desperate Preacher" website.

• "Sermons.org" - the lazy preacher's pot of gold!!

• The "textweek" site offers a scripture study, with worship links and resources indexed according to the Revised Common Lectionary, and by Scriptural Text

• For over 30 years Youth Specialties has led the pack in training, equipping, and encouraging Christian youth workers to effectively minister to young people.

• "Start4All" Portals, forums, chat sites, Live TV, media, video, webcasts - study, topical issues, mission........

• "HisPraise" Christian Music site, by Tom and Madeleine Fernandez

• Cross Search Online Christian Resource directory (From Gospel Communications Network)

• The official site of "Christianity today"

• The "Christian start page"

• The Spurgeon Archives

• G.K.Chesterton's Orthodoxy

• "GOSHEN" Global Online Service Helping Evangelize Nations. Very large and rich resource list.

• "Jesusfolk" - Large and rich list of resources

• "Christian best" Very large resource index.

• Sowing seeds of faith A Christian Devotional Site with ATTITUDE, Humor, Great Stories and a Down-to-Earth Bible Study

• "Send International" are an interdenominational faith mission agency, with 500 missionaries in more than 20 countries of Asia, Europe and North America.

• The "World Christian Resource Directory"offers a very extensive range of resources for missionaries and Christians worldwide.

• "Global Resource Ministries" says that "Our Mission is to serve and support the emerging global church (which is the Body of Messiah) by providing relational as well as technical networks of churches, ministries, mission agencies and church leaders. We seek to facilitate the sharing of resources and to act as a catalyst for unity in the body."

• For some inspirations on the use of the internet for evangelism and mission, have a look at the SoulTsunami site, and also the SufferingMessiah sites.

• Centre for Mission direction By Bob Hill. This site includes links to the well-known "FridayFax" journal.

• YWAM "Youth With A Mission"

• Maranatha Christian Journal, one of the best sources of Christian news.

• "Operation exodus" One of the most amazing missions of modern times, "Operation exodus" is a gentile mission to return God's special people to the homeland He has promised them.

• Council for World Mission

• Annual Table of World Religions, 1900-2025

• Forecasting the Future in World Mission.by Dr. David Barrett

• The American Religion Data Archive is a site designed to gather and preserve quantitative data sets on American religion. As a data archive the site will promote the use of and ease the distribution of data to denominational officers, social scientists and members of the press alike.

• "Adherents"Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 62,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc

• Monday Morning Reality CheckCurrent realities in Christian missions. A regular essay analyzing current statistics, plans and trends related to the Great Commission, by Justin Long, an associate editor of the World Christian Encyclopedia and editor of The Network for Strategic Missions. David Barret, a British clergyman who edited the first World Christian Encyclopedia, is co-editor.

• The Keston Institute monitors freedom of religion and researches religious affairs in communist and post-communist countries

• ISSP survey on religion - 1991. Questions. Dataset is also available

• Palmerston North (New Zealand). Information for visitors, tourists and those thinking of moving to our city. 'Pray for our leaders and community'.

• Godzone, the service that hosts this website, and those of many other Christian missions.

• "Vision NZ" offers links to many New Zealand churches and Christian organisations.

• "YouthTrain" leadership training for Christian Youth workers.

• "Beit Immanual" Our sister church, in Jaffa, Israel.

• "Greyfriars" Greyfriars Presbyterian church - Now pastored by the Very Rev Rob M Yule.