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Below you will find links to some excellent study aids and computer utilities. All of these programs are free and have been tested by Praxis! It is not our desire to include every free program we can find, but only those worthy of a Praxis! recommendation. We hope you enjoy them and come back often to check on new additions to our list.


 

Study Aids

The FreeBible

The FreeBible is written by Steven Kollmansberger to provide PC users with a quality, friendly Bible program that is free.

The FreeBible features a powerful search engine, allowing you to search all or part of the Bible using both include words and exclude words. Search results are shown as both a list of verses and the actual verse, and a double click on the verse brings it up in context.

Includes Easton's Bible Dictionary, Nave's Topical Bible, Torrey's Topical Textbook, and Strong's Lexicons, integrated into the program. A simple double click on any word in the Bible brings up it's entry in these references, as well as its Strong's number and definition. Studying word and phrase meaning has never been easier!

It also includes maps, lists of miracles and parables and much more! The Freebible's enhanced bookmark engine allows you to store as many bookmarks as you want, tagging each one with a description and even categorizing them into folders. You can easily manage bookmarks and entire folders.

The FreeBible can be customized in many ways, including full control of fonts in the program. You can set the fonts to be any style, color, and size you want. You can even set a different style for the words of Christ. You can make the toolbar larger or smaller, and resize many of the windows. With intuitive toolbar buttons and a comprehensive help file, the FreeBible is one of the easiest to use programs with a minimal learning curve.

 

Bible Plus

Free search tool of the King James Version of the Bible designed for Windows.

A lightning fast search engine powers the system. Great for quick and easy searches of the entire Bible (both Old and New Testaments). Bible Plus works with ALL versions of Windows from 3.1 to 95/98 and NT

Bible Plus is offered as a public service by Contact Plus Corporation. Bible Plus is free and unsupported. The entire program can be redistributed without charge.

 

Easter Calculator

Free Easter Calculator

This free, easy to use, calculator will tell you the date that that Easter Sunday fell or will fall on for any year after 1583. It comes with complete install and uninstall capabilities.

 

Theophilos Bible Study Suite for Windows 95/98/2000/NT

A free, fast, and effective way to explore God's word.

Theophilos comes packed with powerful features that you wouldn’t expect to find in a free program. The fact that Theophilos is free should in no way mean that "you get what you paid for". In fact you are receiving a package of great value that can grow even more with many available add-ons broadening its possibilities.

What will you get? The free package of Theophilos comes complete with the following:

  • Full version of Theophilos Bible Software. No registration fees, no expiration reminder screens. This is not a so called "Demo" or "Light" version either.
  • Full text of King James (Authorized) version of the English Bible (including Old and New testaments).
  • Complete Matthew Henry's Commentary on the whole Bible
  • Complete Easton's Bible Dictionary .
  • Preview of multimedia Bible narration with pictures and sound.
  • Samples of topic book and Jumplists™ to help you learn to create your own Creeds of Christian faith.
  • Intro music - excerpt from "And I Saw As It Were... Konelrad" by Kerry Livgren from his album "One Of Several Possible Musiks". Copyright © 1989 Kerry Livgren Productions, Inc. Used by author's permission.

The Early Church Fathers E-Book

A free electronic book that features the letters of The Early Church Fathers and The Virgin Mary! Read from your browser Mary's testimony concerning Jesus. Discover the writings of Ignatius, Polycarp, and Clement of Rome, who received their training from the Twelve Apostles. This is an essential book for any Christian who desires a direct link to Jesus and the Apostles as well as to defend the Faith from the charges of corruption and redaction!

The Complete Early Church Fathers Collection in WinHelp Format

Free, 37 Volume Set of the Writings of the Early Church Fathers

[An Unbelievable Gift! Ed.]

The 'Early Church Fathers Series in WinHelp Format' is a 37-volume electronic collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church. This collection is divided into three series, Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II.

These writings include apologetics, biblical commentary (mainly by St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom, the Golden Mouthed), sermons, treatises, letters, liturgies, poems and hymns, dialogues, ascetic writings, Church canons and history...

Features:

  • It's freeware! Give copies to your friends!
  • Designed for Microsoft® Windows® 95/NT 3.51, 4.0 or later (under Windows 3.1x,
    some features may not be available).
  • Full text search with advanced options (under Windows 95/NT 3.51, 4.0 or later).
  • Under Windows 95/NT 3.51 or 4.0, each volume uses a table of contents file (.cnt) to generate a hierarchical list of all the volume's contents with topics and sub-topics arranged in a treelike manner.
  • The text in these WinHelp volumes is formatted using various font points, styles and colours, as well as tables (as appropriate) for easier reading.
  • Each volume is divided into appropriate sections or chapters, accessible through a hypertext table of contents.
  • You can also browse the articles in each volume using convenient '<' and '>' buttons on the volume's toolbar.
  • You can print any article directly from within WinHelp.
  • You can copy an article (or any selected part of it) to Windows Clipboard.
  • You can also change the size of the font used for text display.
  • You can put bookmarks and personal annotations in any article for future reference.
  • You can view a list of visited topics (History Window).
  • Compact file size due to the use of internal WinHelp compression algorithms.

Book of Jesus

[Not reviewed by Praxis!]

A Free Chronological Harmonization of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John By Dennis F. McCorkle

In this book, the events set forth in the four Gospels have been harmonized into a single, chronological account. As you read, please keep in mind that this text was never intended to replace or invalidate the accounts preserved in the various Biblical records that have been preserved and translated throughout the years. It is however, one man's interpretation of how the events might have unfolded.  

The BiblePlanner

Free Daily Bible Planner and Personal Organizer

The BiblePlanner is a "Full Featured" daily planner for Windows. The BiblePlanner features include: printable daily, weekly, and monthly calendar a complete address book to store detailed information about friends, family, coworkers or church members. The BiblePlanner also includes a "To-do list" to help you organize your daily appointments and projects. Yet the BiblePlanner is more than a daily planner, it is also a devotional Bible resource which features: Daily Readings, Christian web site launcher, an extensive Bible trivia quiz, The complete book of Acts and all the Epistles of the Apostle Paul, a collection of Christian Hymns, a complete Bible outline, several Bible studies on important Christian topics and much much more!

Bible Sequence Game

Free Bible Game by David McMaster

Bible Sequence is a simple little game that teaches you the correct order of the books of the Bible. Share it with all those people that sit around you in church that never quite seem to get to that passage in Nahum before the pastor moves on to the next reference.

Bible Knowledge Quiz

Free Bible Quiz by Clinton Graham

The Bible Knowledge Quiz program will quiz the user on their memory and knowledge of the Scriptures. It's designed to be a fun way to get involved in Bible study. The program comes with various quizzes on Old Testament and New Testament books, characters, and stories, and features an editor for users to create their own quizzes. Allowing the users of the program to freely create and distribute quizzes makes the question base for the program virtually limitless.

The Ten Commandments Screen Saver

Free Screen Saver

A screen saver with the basic rules of life.


Praxis! Recommends these Free
Utilities for your Computer

StarOffice

Free Office Suite

StarOffice™ software is a powerful, cross-platform office productivity suite -- available free of charge -- that delivers seamless access to applications and files.

Integrated, Interoperable, Cross Platform Software

  • Fully integrated productivity environment, including: spreadsheet, word processor, presentation, graphics, database, event planning, e-mail, and news reader applications
  • Import, edit, print, and export Microsoft Office files ­ Word, PowerPoint, and Excel -- as well as files from other office suites -- Lotus and Corel
  • Runs natively on the Solaris™ Operating Environment (SPARC™ and Intel platforms), Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux, protecting your hardware and software investments and helping you to lower your total cost of ownership Supports open protocols, open file formats, and industry standards
  • Award-winning design: Recipient of the 1999 LinuxWorld Editor's Choice Award for Productivity Application/Suite software

 

InoculateIT Personal Edition

Free Virus Protection for Your PC

InoculateIT Personal Edition is complete virus protection for Windows 98/95 PCs and Windows NT Workstation. InoculateIT Personal Edition is based on one of the leading anti-virus products in the worldwide market, consistently performing well in independent tests. InoculateIT PE automatically detects and cleans conventional file and boot sector viruses as well as macro viruses that infect Office 95, Office 98, and Office 2000 Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint files, and Access databases. It provides excellent protection against Internet and email-borne viruses, protecting your PC from infected files downloaded from web sites around the world, and from infected attachments sent to you via e-mail.

Free Unlimited Upgrades

CA's commitment to this initiative is complete as illustrated by the fact that in addition to FREE virus protection, CA also will provide free signature updates. This will ensure that your PC will be virus free.

 

1st Page 2000

Free HTML Editor and Web Site Builder


[The name of this product will be changing sometime during the Spring/Summer of 2000 due to a trademark dispute. Praxis! will reflect the change as soon as it becomes available. Many of the pages used in Praxis! have been built with this excellent program. Ed.]

From Australia to California to Germany, professional web builders are exploring 1st Page 2000, the world's free web builder to create and manage world-class Web sites. Its power and flexibility lets anyone create the web site they want. Ask any professional web builder and they'll tell you the sad stories behind using standard WYSIWYG editors. Professional web builders know that WYSIWYG editors never create clean html code which means they'll end up wasting more time fixing, cleaning and correcting code later on. With this common problem in mind, you'll be glad to hear that 1st Page never ruins HTML code, in fact it doesn't even add unwanted html codes to your important projects.

Evrsoft 1st Page 2000 helps you write, edit and improve your HTML, its powerful tools let you author websites faster, easier and better! Most new builders don't realize the time they're losing by relying on traditional based text editors like Windows™ Notepad to author their sites. Whether you're a beginner or an HTML guru you'll find 1st Page 2000 great to use!


 
ZoneAlarm [This product is highly recommended! Ed.]

Free Personal Internet Firewall

Combining the safety of a dynamic firewall with total control over applications' Internet use, ZoneAlarm gives rock-solid protection against thieves and vandals. ZoneAlarm makes ironclad Internet security easy-to-use.

 

Wondrous Works Christian Screen Saver
[Also available from ZDNet]

Free Christian Screen Saver

Screen saver consists of 25 beautifully done 3-D images presented in a Christian  theme. Fully configurable settings including 14 sweeping effects with delay setting, password option, set as wallpaper and automatically cycle the images as wallpaper. Verses from the bible on every image. The images used in this screen saver are Copyrighted 1999-2000 by Alan Cole and used with his permission.

 

PowerArchiver 2000
(Formerly EasyZip 2000)

[This product is highly recommended! Ed.]

Free Zip and Unzip Utility

[You can also download this product directly from Praxis! Download Now 1,603 KB]

A great, powerful, and totally FREE Archive Utility for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Some of PowerArchiver 2000 features include:

Complete built-in support for ZIP, CAB and LHA(LZH) archives, built-in support for reading and extracting many other file formats like: RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, TAR, GZ, and complete built-in support for XXE and UUE Internet encoded files. Lot of powerful archive operations: multiple disk spanning, powerful SFX Archives, passwords, comments, renaming files in archive, installing archive, checking archive for viruses, ... Complete integration with Windows (Drag and Drop from and to Explorer, extracting and creating archives directly from Explorer - using Context sensitive menus). Tool for converting between archive formats (e.g. CAB -> LHA, or RAR -> ZIP), tool for converting spanned ZIP file to a single ZIP file, tool for a converting single ZIP file to a spanned ZIP file Great interface similar to other popular archive utilities now with two modes of viewing archive (Classic and Explorer like), integrated file browser. Detailed help in new Microsoft HTML format + tutorial with pictures for beginners, and many, many other powerful features. So try out this great utility.

 

Norton™ Zip Rescue™

Free Disaster Recovery Utility

Norton™ Zip Rescue™ is a must-have for any Windows® 95 or 98 user. Disaster recovery software on a single 100MB or 250MB Zip disk. Quick and easy system recovery. Works in familiar Windows environment. Custom rescue disk maintains your unique settings. And best of all, it's FREE, courtesy of Symantec™. (Not for use with Zip USB drives.)

 

Task Plus

Free Task and Calendar Management

A program designed for simplicity and speed. It will keep track of an unlimited number of personal tasks on the calendar as well as holidays and repeating events such as birthdays.

 

Customize Internet Explorer with a Great New Look and Increased Functionality or, Customize your Windows Desktop!

Free Browser Skins & Desktop Designs

A fun new service that allows you to customize Internet Explorer 4+ with the design of your choice. We also offer a great looking desktop for Windows!

 



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