Free e-book downloads

Plus other downloadable resources

We are excited to offer these key book titles and other resources, with grateful thanks to their authors and publishers. These resources have been chosen to equip you, either specifically for digital evangelism, or also wider areas of outreach, culture and communication. Most are PDF files. Kindle and other electronic book reader users can easily convert these into their own formats – check your operating manual.

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Title and author	Brief description	Review / other information	Download
Well Connected – Releasing Power, Restoring Hope Through Kingdom Partnerships Phill Butler Authentic Books/World Vision	Phill Butler's book is born out of many years of helping missions, ministries, and churches to collaborate strategically. (Phil is the ministry leader of visionSynergy which exists to facilitate such collaboration.) He explains, with frequent case studies, the principles needed to unlock the incredible potential of partnerships. There is really no other book that offers all these insights.	Read review	download PDF
The Gospel: For Here or To Go? Keith Giles KeithGiles.com	In the West, we often still have to learn lessons for effective evangelism that cross-cultural missions have long since put in practice. Giles explains clearly in this 115-page e-book some key issues in sharing the good news in our postmodern post-Christian age. 'Attractional' and formulaic 'one size fits all' approaches won't work well now, if they ever did.		Free PDF e-book. Download PDF
Using Film in Christian Communication Tony Watkins	Valulable 16-page introduction to the world of film, by culture-watch guru Tony Watkins.		Download PDF Download EPUB version
Creating a Good Church Website FaithHighway	Faith Highway have created this 19-page e-book based on their experience of providing church websites and other resources.	Visit Faith Highway	Download PDF
Free stock video clips from VideoBlock	Stock video clips to use in church services and elsewhere. Free 7-day trial signup.		Videoblocks
Social by Social A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact Nesta ISBN 978-1-906496-41-8	Written for non-profits, this is a practical guide to using new technologies to create social impact. It makes accessible the tools you need to engage a community, offer services, scale up activities and sustain projects.	Book review	Download as PDF or zipped PDF here
The Psychology of Cyberspace John Suler PhD Department of Psychology, Science and Technology Center, Rider University	Psychiatrist John Suler offers some valuable insights into the way people interact and behave differently in cyberspace, than they do in face-to-face interaction. These are very strategic in relation to online evangelism and discipleship.		Read online or download here
How Adults Become Christians Dave Bennett Bridge Builders	Bennett conducted this study by interviewing a range of lasting adult convert regarding the factors that had brought them to faith. We should take these conclusions into account for any type of evangelism.	Bridge Builders was formerly known as Pocket Testament League.	Download as Word file
Reaching the Community with Church Websites Ceri Longville College dissertation	95-page e-book is a valuable insight into the potential for making church sites truly ‘outsider friendly’.		Download PDF
Effective Church Websites for Emerging Generations Frank Johnson Digital media strategist	Significant 13-page booklet explains the principles of using church websites to reach outsiders.	Book review	Download PDF
70+ Tips for Effective Church Sites Internet Evangelism Day	Our church website advice webpage is set up to print out as a 9-page article. Our church website self-assessment questionnaire enables you to assess your website and highlight areas for modification and provides a free customized report with suggestions.		Tips article Questionnaire
Facing the Challenge Study course on relating to culture Focus	These seven acclaimed group-study courses are available as free downloads. Although intended for group study and discussion, you can also use them for personal study.	Course review	Download
Insider’s Guide to Mobile Tomi T Ahonen Communities Dominate Brands	Comprehensive overview of mobile telecoms and smartphones business opportunity, from end-users to service and apps, to handsets, to the business of mobile. This free edition has 340 pages of original content, plus over 100 pages of excerpts and reviews of Ahonen’s previous books. Since mobile phones are a major opportunity for evangelism and discipleship, this book is a useful introduction to understanding the mobile world.		Download PDF
Free articles for syndication Rusty Wright	Rusty Wright is a web evangelist who writes ‘skeptic-friendly’ evangelistic articles which are free for syndication in print or online.	Rusty’s bio	View free articles
Free e-books Josh McDowell	McDowell has great experience as an apologetics writer and speaker.	Josh’s bio	View free downloads
Free evangelistic video clips from YesHEIs, Global Short Film Network & PowertoChange	In an increasingly visual digital communication culture, video clips are vital. We can use them in various ways: posted onto Facebook, embedded in blogs, downloaded into mobile phones, or projected in a group setting.		YesHEIs.com Global Short Film Network Power to Change
The Mentor Center from PowertoChange.com	The Mentor Center is a ready-made follow-up system offers partnerships to churches and ministries who want to reach out online, so that they can have a raedy-made confidential email response tool to help people. In addition, volunteer e-mentors can work spare-time at home to provide mentoring support to inquirers using the Mentor Center.		The Mentor Center
CRU PRESS ebooks	CRU (formerly CCC) offer a wide range of free e-books on many areas of evangelism and discipleship.		Book catalog
Mission related resources	Two short mission-related e-books from John Alley and the Impact Eternity self-study missions course.		Jesus’ return in relation to missions Opportunities in mission for retired people Impact Eternity study course
Free Bible Commentary Dr. Bob Utley Online and Free CD 28 languages	Dr. Utley writes, “We are a non-profit Bible study ministry dedicated to empowering people to interpret the Bible for themselves. These verse-by-verse, exegetical video, audio and printed commentaries are committed to the trustworthiness and authority of Scripture, emphasizing the intent of the original inspired authors by means of their: 1. Historical Setting, 2. Literary Context, 3. Grammatical Features, 4. Choice of Words, 5. Genre, 6. Parallel Passages.”		View online, or request free CD: Free Bible Commentary
Getting online one click at a time BBC	If you are a completely new Web user, or need help to encourage a newcomer to use computers and the Web, this BBC booklet starts at the very beginning and explains everything in everyday language. Although a PDF file, it cannot be saved – you have to use it while online. Other related BBC pages for newcomers.		View online
More free e-books, drama scripts and evangelism-challenge music	We link to a number of other free e-books in our book review page. In each book category, there is at least one free book, sometimes more: eg. humor | writing and technical | Facebook marketing. See also the free evangelism-challenge drama scripts and MP3 music.		Book page Drama scripts Music