This page has been created in order to keep returning users of TOLBSS up to date on the changes that are being made.  Please continue to let me know of any errors or additions.  I really appreciate your comments and emails about the site and your suggestions for its improvement.

As always, if there are any bad links, spelling errors or additions to make, please let me know.  I would rather hear about the problems 10 times than have them still exist.  Also, if you have an Online Bible website and want to have a link from TOLBSS to it, or if you've created any material for the Online Bible, please email me and let me know. 

The changes which were made during 1999 have been moved to the What's New - 1999 page.  Please see that page for details.  This page will contain the changes as will be made in the year 2000.

December 27th, 2000

  • A new version of Gunther Engel's utility to convert text to bible modules has been uploaded, those who are preparing custom bible modules should take note. You can get the new file from the Utilities page.(ES)
  • I have been informed by my doctor that my back is in good enough condition to attempt to return to work as a ditch digger-this means I won't be as available to do updates/ answer e-mails/ work on olb modules as I have been, but we'll still be here as the Lord allows--I'd like to thank the many who have been praying on my behalf for this and ask that you continue to pray that the process of returning be sucessful and free of trouble.  (ES)
December 25th, 2000
  • Let me take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas from all us here at Tolbss. Thank you so very much for your prayers and support:-).
  • Added "Legends of the Jews" by Louis Ginzberg to the History Books page.
  • Userlib has been updated. (ES)
December 23rd, 2000
  • The Links pages, both the index and the Windows Links and the General Links have been updated and alphabeticised (is that a real word?). (JD)
  • The Installation Files page has been updated to add the new official site, http://www.answersingenesis.org/theword/(JD)
  • The link to Leupold, H.C., D.D. - Exposition of Genesis is updated on the Official Commentaries page.  (JD)
  • The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia by W.M. Ramsay got an update tonight, I added the illustrations I forgot, Sorry. You can get the updated version on the Prophecy Books page.(ES)
December 22nd, 2000
  • Rather a major happening, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) has been updated with many corrections made and a major reformatting to eliminate hard returns by Jeff, this has resulted in the index working at a good speed that I believe, now makes it usable without the need for two very large modules--if anyone has trouble with this module, please let me know and I will put the uncompiled version back up. You can get the updated version on the User-Made Dictionaries page. (ES)
  • Added The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia by W.M. Ramsay to the Prophecy Books page.(ES)
December 20th, 2000
  • Just in time for the holidays! Added Christmas Music for OLB and Christian Music for OLB to the Devotional books page. Enjoy!
  • Userlib updated accordingly.(ES)
December 19th, 2000
  • Added B.W. Johnson's "Vision Of The Ages" to the Prophecy Books page. 
  • Userlib updated.
  • Hope everyone's ready for Christmas, it's almost here:)!(ES)
December 16th, 2000 December 12th, 2000
  • Welcome back Jonathan! It's sure great to have you back aboard (now maybe all my bad spelling will get fixed up;)! 
  • Added "A History of the English Baptists" by Joseph Ivimey to the History Books page.
  • Userlib updated, I added a section to make it easier to find the maps. (ES)
December 10th, 2000
  • Clean up progress:  All component module pages have been finsihed.  There should be no typos (if any remain, they are the fault of my computer *grin*) and all modules whould be in alphabetical order.  If you see any errors or ommissions please let me know.  (JD)
  • Re-added the Utilities page.  It was lost somehow.  (JD)
  • Added BTXT2OLB - Converter V1.2 to the Utilities page.  This is a utility which will aid in the creation of user-made Bible Translation modules.  Please read all documentaion which comes with the utility and use at your own risk.  This is not meant for anyone but experienced users.  (JD)
  • Removed the Other Languages page.  This page has been recreated in the form of having a different page for each language.  Please see the Main Components page for a listing of the languages pages. (JD)
  • Personal Note:  I simply wanted to say that it is great to be back serveing the Lord through Tolbss.  This year has seen me married.  (Wedding photos @ http://www.geocities.com/jsdphotos/ )  Also, I have moved from university to a full-time position in youth ministry at Grace Chapel in Halifax, NS, Canada.  We've been in a car accident, and walked away from it with only bruises.  We've seen financial problems, but the Lord has seen us through.  In all things, we praise the Lord!  To all of you who are part of the Tolbss community, I trust that God has seen you through the year as well.  I hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas season, and a very Happy New Year!(JD)
December 6th, 2000
  • The cleanup of the pages on Tolbss continues (Jonathan doing all the work;), it's starting to look much better. As always, if you find bad links or other problems, please let me know.
  • New Bible translation added, The American King James Version to the the English Translations page. 
December 1st, 2000
  • Added Joe, the Hotel Boy by Horatio Alger to the Fiction Books page.
  • Userlib (finally) updated.
November 30th, 2000
  • New book added to the the Children's books page, Bible Talks In Simple Language, it's a 130 yr old childrens bible story book, it will have the pictures added by and by.
November 27th, 2000
  •  Benjamin Wilson's, The Emphatic Diaglott has been updated to standard bible format on the English Translations page.


November 25th, 2000

  • Added the Hebrew Names Version bible to the the English Translations page. A word about the many bible translations that are available and will become available as time goes on here and elswhere, the bible, any bible--is just a book, if not mixed with faith and discerment that can only come from the one who used men to write it, as I use this machine to write words upon this page. James 1:5 says: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. (AV) I suspect most who visit here are well aware of this, this entry is for those who are not.
November 23d, 2000
  • To everyone in the US, happy Thanksgiving! Thanks to several brothers and sisters in Christ, my  family is also having a happy one. I have unexpectedly heard from my union, the company is finally acknowleging my on the job injury and I will recieve pay pending further evaluation as to my fitness to return to work eventually, only time and the Lord will determine what this means. For the meantime, please don't send any more money, my wages will in time fully recover us. Only please continue to pray for us.
  • Over the next couple of weeks I will be doing some cleanup of the pages on Tolbss. Some modules that we never recieved permission for have had the entries taken down, some others at the author's request, several have been updated or modified, but the entries are only now being updated, should be some new books and possibly another pd bible version within the next week or so, if the Lord be willing.
November 18th, 2000
  • Some minor changes to the wording of the upload policy, I'm sorry this has become necessary due to recent misunderstandings. Uploads
November 17th, 2000
  • For those six fellow heirs with Christ, who lightened my load today, I am deeply grateful. Just after I recieved your checks in the mail, I recieved cut off notices from the power and water companies, so those checks were right on time (isn't God good?, May He be richly praised:). I thank you my brothers and sisters from the bottem of my heart.
November 13th, 2000
  • Userlib updated.
November 12th, 2000
  • Several user made bibles updated, World English bible, Twentieth Century NT, both converted to the new format. the footnotes now work (it was my fault, minor formatting error, now fixed).
November 11th, 2000
  • If anyone's curious about how much I recieved from the appeal for donations below, I recieved nothing. That's all right, my Lord still supplies my needs, hopefully someone is at least praying. I would like to publically thank my fellow union members of Local 483 IBEW who, through our brotherhood fund, paid my mortguage payment ($500.00), and Rick Hite, the union leader, who contributed $30.00 to fix my broken down old Ford truck, and the ladies in the union hall who "passed the hat", may God bless you all. And my home church, which is still supplying needed food. The state agency which supplies care for my disabled wife, took care of the phone bill, so I still have internet, so I'll continue to shower what blessing I can, as my Lord does. (Almost forgot my beloved sister in Christ, Miss Jolene Josey, who'll probably never see this, but contributed $100.00, because she knew a brother was needful, may God be praised for such wonderful people, who live thier religion in faithfulness)
  • I recompiled The World English Bible that is listed on English Translations page to standard Online bible version format tonight, it is uploaded and ready for download, it's the one listed as "Note" format. Be aware, the footnotes don't currently work right, this has been reported to Larry. Other bible versions will be updated after this bug is fixed and I have time.
  • I've reconsidered my stance on selling a tolbss cd, more to come about this later.


October 31st, 2000

October 25th, 2000
  • Gary Gallant's Sermon Outline was repaired to include the Christ1.doc file that is a part of that module, be aware, you must manually move this file into the soi00 directory for the module to work.
  • This grieves me greatly, to air my dirty laundry for the whole world to see, but I'm afraid I can no longer afford the luxury of pride. The problems with the company I work for are no better, and I have recieved no pay for several months, and my savings are exhausted. I will not submit this web site to banner ads or make money from the work of saints who long ago left this world to be with the Lord. If anyone feels led by the Lord to make donation to meet my family's needs and pay the phone and power bills to allow me to continue the little bit I do here, the address is Ernie Spillman, 5004 Diamond Blvd SW, Lakewood, Wa. 98499. I earnestly solicit your prayers. There's no need to fear the site going down, only my ability to maintain and update it. 


October 22nd, 2000

  • Added Gary Gallant's Sermon Outline to the User-Made Commentaries page.
  • Added new page, General Christian links-wanna see where I go to church, it's all there (along with some other great sites, give 'em a look-see) You can find it here.
October 14th, 2000 October 11th, 2000 October 5th, 2000
  • Userlib updated
September 30th, 2000
  • New Olb Discussion board implemented, I have some control over this one, please read the message I posted on it for details. Please stay in prayer for us all. I am having many troubles besides the problem we had there in addition to problems with finances/job/family/health, Satin obviously would like to see this site go down and stop me from maintaining it and adding content, please pray for my courage as well, wish I had more sometimes. I would also ask prayer for my employer, The Tacoma Water Department, there have been racial and anti-christian issues there for many years as well as a general lack of concern for the well being of thier employees, I sincerely hope God will change this. Ernie Spillman.
September 24th, 2000 September 21st, 2000 September 20th, 2000
  • Userlib Updated
September 14th, 2000
  • I'd like to thank everyone who wrote expressing support, I would just ask that you all continue to pray for us and what we're trying to do here, I love you all in Christ.
September 13th, 2000
  • Perhaps some don't know, I work a full time job as a ditch-digger (reads "water utility worker";) in addition to being a full-time husband to my wife and father to three "too much like thier daddy was" sons. Neither myself, nor to my knowlege, Jonathan recieve -any- financial compensation for the maintanance of this web site. Only the knowlege that we are doing a service to the body of Christ and fulfilling His love for His church. For me, and I'm sure Jonathan, that's enough.  This is in response to an accusation that "Tolbss is not user-friendly". We try to make it be, and invest a lot of hard work to make it that way, but neither of us are IT proffesionals, merely a couple of guys trying to do the right thing, so please have some understanding, if I can't get right back with you in response to an email right away, or post everyday, it takes time to do both, I have little of it. Thank you for your understanding.
September 11th, 2000
  • Added a link to the new Guatamala bible on the North American site, You can access the link here.
September 9th, 2000
  • James Burkett NT Notes added to the User-Made Commentaries page. If anyone has a legitimate reason why these notes from an 1807 bible commentary that have been corrected and reformatted and compiled to a searchable format, should not be posted, please email me  and we'll discuss it. Ernie. 


September 5th, 2000

  • I noticed today that the locked bible versions have been reposted at the Official Online bible site, here's a link for anyone in need of the modern locked versions like Niv, etc : www.online-bible.com.
  • The Userlib file was updated to correct some minor errors, if it's giving you trouble please download it again.


September 4th, 2000

September 2nd, 2000
  • Userlib updated.
September 1st, 2000
  • Removed the link to Answers in Genesis locked versions page, they've removed it from theirs probably to fix some problems, so I'll do the same, when it returns there I'll put it back.
  • New Alger book added (Frank's Campaign)  to the Fiction Books page.
August 31th, 2000
  • Don't know how I forgot these but two books by GK Chesterson were added a short while ago, The Wisdom of Father Brown and The Inocence of Father Brown to the Fiction Books page.
  • Something that is not on Tolbss but I'm sure is of intrest to those visiting, Answers in Genesis now has all the Official Locked Bible versions, such as the NIV, NASB, and several others available as downloadable files from thier website (be aware there are royaties that must be paid to the publishing companies that made those bible versions, see thier webpage for details and prices). 
  • The Tolbss mailing list is currently not working, I don't know how it's done, so it will have to wait until Jonathan returns, sorry for any inconvienance.
August 30th, 2000 August 29th, 2000
  • Added Etub to the Web Books page.
  • Added Articles on Dispensationalism to the A. W. Pink Collection page.
  • Is anyone finding the Horatio Alger novels useful? (Fiction Books page) I taught my children to read with these and have many that could easily be Ocr'ed, if I thought it would be useful to someone. If you do, please leave a message on the discussion board and you'll see more of them.
August 28th, 2000
  • Added Spiritual Growth to the A. W. Pink Collection page.
  • Added a link to Why Four Gospels on the same page (Thanks Gary;).
August 26th, 2000
  • Moved all Internet Indices to the Web Books page by popular request.
  • Added a new one - Emaps links to many diffrent maps sites - enjoy!
  • Added an article to help those making compact disks to save hard drive space-see it here.
August 24th, 2000
  • Several E-indice dictionaries moved from  the Web Books page to the User-Made Dictionaries page, I hope this will make them easier to find, if it causes problems, please let me know on our Discussion Board.
  • Added A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies by Henry Wace E-Indice to the User-Made Dictionaries page.
  • Userlib has been updated.
  • The Images of the Online Bible have been updated, be aware they are large (1024x768, around 250kb) and will take a while to load if you're using a modem, you can find them here.
  • The Other Languages link has been repaired, as well as the page.
August 21st, 2000 August 21st, 2000 August 19th, 2000
  • Added  Abstract of Systematic Theology to the Theology Books page. 
August 18th, 2000
  • New Unofficial Map set contributed by the kind folks at The Interactive Bible Site  please be aware these will -not- be viewable with the "View maps and charts" button within the Olb, you must access them as a topic book under the title "Bibmaps-maps from www.bible.ca" in the view topics dialog. Get them here.
  • Added The Wisdom of Father Brown to the Fiction Books page.
August 15th, 2000
  • A couple of changes, The 1650 Scottish Psalter has been moved to it's proper place on  the English Translations page. The Reformed Presbyterian materials to the Theology Books page. Both should be recieving updates in the near future.
  • Correctly listed the World English Bible in Commentary format, readded the version in topical format. Both can be downloaded here.
  • Added Gleanings in Paul to the A. W. Pink Collection page.
August 14th, 2000
  • Added the 1650 Scottish Psalter and Reformed Presbyterian materials to the Devotionals page.
August 12th, 2000 August 12th, 2000
  • Added Evines and Ebie internet indices to the Web Books page.
August 11th, 2000
  • Added Ebaker and Eode internet indices to the Web Books page.
August 7th, 2000
  • Re-added the uncompiled ISBE for those with older, slower machines-you can get it on the User-Made Dictionaries page.
  • Added E-Db and E-Dev internet indices to the Web Books page.
August 6th, 2000
  • For anyone who doesn't know yet, Jonathan is away for a time and I am taking care of the site in his absence and am more than happy to address any concerns or problems with the site. I can be reached via either of the above links. Ernie Spillman.
  • Added The Biography of Mr. George Foxe to the  Holiness-Inspirational page.
August 5th, 2000 August 4th, 2000 August 2nd, 2000
  • Added Baptist Faith and Message to the Theology Books page.
  • Ark of the Covenant on the Theology Books page has been updated again the links to the Dos executable should now work with Version 9.01, please read the enclosed word .doc for more information.
July 29th, 2000
  • Updated the Userlib Index file, for those (like me) who still have legacy topic modules from the 'good old days-they are now supported in this, don't be concerned that the .exe says libeng.exe, that is a minor problem I hope to have fixed soon-it's really Userlib. You need to select it in the lower window in "Selection Preferences." Download it here .
July 27th, 2000 July 25th, 2000
  • Tolbss now has a message board, many thanks to the individual (who wishes to be anonymous) who made this. You can access it right here .
  • The LibEng file has had a name change to USER Lib so it won't be over-written every time you re-install the program. To use this file as the default Library index you must high-light it in the lower box in "Selection Preferences". This will be updated on a regular basis, as new material becomes available. Download it here .
July 23d, 2000
  • The link for the Books Index (LibEng) file has been repaired, you can download this handy little item here.
July 20th, 2000
  • Removed dead links on the English Translations page.
  • Added link to Emphasized Bible to the English Translations page.
  • Added Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the History Books page.
  • The link for the Official Mapset is not working-I will leave it until I determine it's status.
July 17th, 2000
  • Edershiem's Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah has been updated with new indexing, a new way of displaying the embedded footnotes and many of the bible references are now done as hyper-text links (more will be done as soon as I can get some time). It is also compiled in the new format Download it from here.
  • Added Ark of the Covenant to the Theology Books page.
  • Updated link to  Acts 17:11 - Bible Studies on the Theology Books page.
July 14th, 2000
  • Added a couple of Screen Captures of Online Bible Beta 12 to the Links page.
  • Bagster, Jonathan - Daily Light on the Daily Path has been completely updated.(Devotionals page.)
  • Gary's Grammer was updated.(Reference Books page)
  • Added Sermons by Alexander Maclaren to the Sermons Books page.
  • Added Sermons by AW Tozar to the Sermons Books page.
  • Added Sermons by Edward Griffin to the Sermons Books page.
  • Added Sermons by J.C. Ryle to the Sermons Books page.
  • Added Sermons by Jonathan Edwards to the Sermons Books page.
  • Added Sermons by Robert Murray M'Cheyne to the Sermons Books page.
  • Added Sermons by Thomas Goodwin to the Sermons Books page.
  • Added Sermons by Thomas Manton to the Sermons Books page.
July 12th, 2000
  • All of the Charles Finney books listed below are now compiled in the new format.
  • Added E-Daily Bread to the Devotionals page.
July 11th, 2000 June 4th, 2000 May 30th, 2000 May 18th, 2000
  • Spurgeon, C. H. - Puritan, a Catachism has been removed as its contents are included in the module Catechism.
  • Spelling Errors fixed on this page.
  • Added categoriy to the books division - Children
  • Updated and Repaired Links which were broken throughout the site.
  • Added pages for the Collections of Richard Baxter and H. Gratan Guinness.
  • Added pages for each of the Languages which the Online Bible has components availble. other than English.  See the bottom of the Main Components page.  In light of this I have removed the Other Languages translation page from the Main Translations page.
  • Eliminated the Components Menu frame and placed the menu at the bottom of all components pages.  This might make the pages load slower, but it will eliminate one more frame.  (Boy, I hate frames.  *Grin*)


April 13th, 2000

  • The books pages have been divided into sections rather than alphabeticalls.  See the main books page for a list of sections.  Also, a vast number of new books have been added along with some indexes.  These will not be listed here.  See the different sections of the books archive for a list.
  • A new discussion mailing list has been added to the mailing list page.
  • Various bugs and broken links have been repaired.
February 28th, 2000


February 22nd, 2000

January 23rd, 2000 January 22nd, 2000 January 20th, 2000
  • Changed all graphics and graphical menu bars.
  • Added a Feedback Page.
  • Removed Koinos as all former Koinos components are now User-Made Books modules.
January 19th, 2000 January 17th, 2000 January 7th, 2000