Teaching the Truth in the Love of Jesus Christ

International Sunday School Lessons

Each weekly lesson includes an International Bible Lesson, an English Lesson for Teachers (ESL/TEFL), and an English Lesson for Students (self-directed). Learn and teach the Bible and English through Scripture-based lessons for churches, classes, homes, and learners around the world.

International Bible Study Commentary

Study the complete verse-by-verse commentaries and lessons:

• The Good News From John’s Gospel
  Go to The Gospel of John
• The Good News From John’s Letters
  Go to The Letters of John
• The Good News From The Letter of James
  Go to The Letter of James
• The Good News From Matthew and Mark
  Twenty-six commentaries and lessons in historical order.
  Go to The Gospels of Matthew and Mark
• The Good News for Everyone
  Fourteen commentaries and lessons from Paul’s Letter to the Romans.
  Go to The Letter to the Romans

Each commentary and Bible Lesson above includes study helps, applications, prayers, puzzles, and tests for Sunday Schools, house churches, Bible study groups, and mid-week Bible classes for youth through adults.

International Bible Lessons Commentary

• International Bible Lessons Commentaries by Books of the Bible
• International Bible Study Devotionals

Some Basic Bible Beliefs

• What Is Truth?
• What Is Truth? — Class Handout
• The Greatest Communicator
• The Logic of God
• What the Bible Teaches About God
• What the Bible Teaches About Jesus
• What the Bible Teaches About the Holy Spirit
• Why Believers Worship Jesus

Where Christians Have Varied Ideas

• Noah and the Spirits in Prison from Genesis 6 & 1 Peter 3:17–22

Hymns for Public Worship and Private Devotion

• Come, Let’s Follow Jesus
• I Will Sing with Devotion to the Lord Forever

Responsive Readings for Public Worship and Private Devotions

• A Psalm and A Prayer: For Private and Public Devotions

Read and Study the New Testament in Thirteen Weeks

• Study the New Testament in Thirteen Weeks

Prayer and Spiritual Discipline

• Prayer Steps to Serenity: The 12 Steps Journey
• Serenity Groups: A Christian Recovery Group
• International Prayer Lessons: With Audio
• When Love Disciplines: The Story of Jonah and God’s Salvation

Recommended Reading

John Bunyan

• How to Pray in the Spirit: Thirty-One Devotional Readings on Personal Prayer

Charles H. Spurgeon

• How to Find God Again: Taking the Path to God’s Open Heart (Paperback)

Lessons from the Lost Sheep, the Lost Silver Coin, the Lost Son.
Includes commentaries by C.H. Spurgeon and L.G. Parkhurst, Jr., with study questions for individuals and groups.

Charles G. Finney Books — The Principles Series

• Principles of Prayer (Paperback)
• Principles of Prayer (E-Book)
• Finney’s Answers to Prayer (1st) (Paperback)
• Finney’s Answers to Prayer (2nd) (Paperback)
• Principles of Consecration (Paperback)
• Principles of Devotion (Paperback)
• Principles of Discipleship (Paperback)
• Principles of Discipleship (E-Book)
• Principles of Faith (Paperback)
• Principles of Holiness (Paperback)
• Principles of Union with Christ (Paperback)
• Principles of Union with Christ (E-Book)
• Principles of Righteousness: Finney’s Lessons on Romans, Vol. I (Paperback)
• Principles of Righteousness: Finney’s Lessons on Romans, Vol. I (E-Book)
• Principles of Peace: Finney’s Lessons on Romans, Vol. II (Paperback)
• Principles of Peace: Finney’s Lessons on Romans, Vol. II (E-Book)
• Principles of Joy in the Holy Spirit: Finney’s Lessons on Romans, Vol. III (Paperback)
• Principles of Joy in the Holy Spirit: Finney’s Lessons on Romans, Vol. III (E-Book)
• Principles of Revival (Paperback)
• Lectures on Revival (E-Book)
• Lectures on Revival (Paperback)
• Finney’s Systematic Theology (Paperback)
• Finney’s Systematic Theology (E-Book)

Both Systematic Theology editions include the lecture on Finney’s theology, “True to Scripture, True to Reason, True to Life,” by L.G. Parkhurst, Jr.

The Charles G. Finney and Charles H. Spurgeon Face-to-Face Series

Messages from an American revivalist and a British evangelist as e-books:

• 1. The Rich Man and Lazarus
• 2. The Sower and the Seed
• 3. Will the Will of God When You Pray
• 4. The Prodigal Son
• 5. The Greatest Treasure
• 6. The Mary and Martha Matrix
• 7. How All Things Work
• 8. The Cause and Cure of Spiritual Blindness
• 9. The Way to See God
• 10. How to Hear God
• 11. The Power of Persistent Prayer & The Story of a Relentless Widow

The Prayer Steps Series

• Prayer Steps to Serenity: Daily Quiet Time Devotional (Paperback)
• Prayer Steps to Serenity: Daily Quiet Time Devotional (E-Book)
• Prayer Steps to Serenity — The Twelve Steps Journey: New Serenity Prayer Edition (Paperback)
• Prayer Steps to Christmas: Daily Quiet Time Devotional (E-Book)

The Believer’s Secret Series

• The Believer’s Secret of the Abiding Presence (Paperback)
• The Believer’s Secret of the Abiding Presence (E-Book)

By Andrew Murray, Brother Lawrence, and L.G. Parkhurst, Jr.

• The Believer’s Secret of Christian Love (Paperback)
• The Believer’s Secret of Christian Love (E-Book)

By Andrew Murray, Jonathan Edwards, and L.G. Parkhurst, Jr.

• The Believer’s Secret of Intercession (Paperback)
• The Believer’s Secret of Intercession (E-Book)

By Andrew Murray, C.H. Spurgeon, and L.G. Parkhurst, Jr.

• The Believer’s Secret of Spiritual Power (Paperback)
• The Believer’s Secret of Spiritual Power (E-Book)

By Andrew Murray, Charles Finney, and L.G. Parkhurst, Jr.

Biographies of Francis and Edith Schaeffer

• Francis and Edith Schaeffer (1st Edition) (Paperback)
• Francis and Edith Schaeffer: Expanded and Updated Edition (E-Book)
• How God Teaches Us To Pray: Lessons from the Lives of Francis and Edith Schaeffer (E-Book)
• Francis Schaeffer: The Man and His Message (Tyndale House Publishers — Out of Print)

  L.G. Parkhurst, Jr., writer of one of the portraits

• Francis A. Schaeffer: Portraits of the Man and His Work

Lane T. Dennis, Editor (L.G. Parkhurst, Jr., writer of one of the portraits)

• The Art of Life

Edith Schaeffer (writer), Floyd Hosmer (artist), L.G. Parkhurst, Jr. (compiler and editor)

About L.G. Parkhurst, Jr.

Louis Gifford (L.G.) Parkhurst, Jr. received the BA, MA, and MLIS degrees from the University of Oklahoma and the MDiv degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He wrote the weekly Bible Lesson column for The Oklahoman newspaper for 35 years, which motivated him to begin the International Bible Lessons Commentary series. He is the founder and publisher of Agion Press.

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