Recent Changes

2026

May – June

• Launch the Above Thy Name rebuild as the successor to Good. Books. Free.—structured JSON for content, PHP templates for layout, Vite for styles and scripts, and readable URLs (for example /Bible/King-James-Bible/Genesis/1 instead of opaque numeric paths).
• Build conversion scripts to pull content from the GBF codebase, normalize links, and store each chapter or entry as reusable data.
• Deploy the core site shell: navigation, error pages, contact form, light/dark theme, and breadcrumbs.
• Migrate the King James and Geneva Bibles with chapter navigation, parallel passages, and audio on KJV pages.
• Migrate both metrical psalters—the Scottish Psalter and Bay Psalm Book—with tune indexes, titles, and preaching helps.
• Set up git-push deploy to Dreamhost; stage.abovethyname.org runs this codebase.
• Migrate commentaries to readable /Commentary/ paths: Gill, Henry, Poole, Spurgeon’s Treasury of David, Brown on the Psalms, Hodge and Haldane on Romans, and Geneva Notes.
• Migrate devotionals (Morning & Evening, Faith’s Checkbook, Daily Light), books (Ryle, Edwards, Charnock, Pink, Spurgeon, and others), and reading plans (the ATN one-year plan and M’Cheyne’s calendar).
• Add a Utilities hub with the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; migrate sermons and catechisms; publish the 1689 London Baptist Confession.
• Replace the old Bible word list with a searchable Glossary; add a Site Contents index and section hubs across the site.
• Add thumb navigation, dismissible banners, scripture cross-links across works, and compact chapter paging.
• Preserve hundreds of legacy short URLs (/grace, /jbh, /read, /scriptures/…, and many more) and GBF scripture paths via redirects.
• Migrate and restore this Recent Changes changelog from Good Books Free (including the legacy /news shortcut).
• Migration is still in progress: some GBF meta pages (audio hub, friends list, and others) are not yet recreated here, and traffic at goodbooksfree.com is not being redirected to this domain until the move is ready.

April

• Work on migration to AboveThyName.org.

March

• Add Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and C.H. Spurgeon’s All of Grace.
• Rebuild J.C. Ryle’s Holiness. Also re-link, etc.
• Improve Stephen Charnock’s The Existence and Attributes of God, A.W Pink’s Seven Sayings of the Savior on the Cross, and Jonathan Edwards’ Charity and Its Fruits.
• Update Haldane’s Romans commentary: improve linking, update footnotes (still incomplete), add bio, etc., improve more.
• Make tons of technical changes to the service/site/application.
• Add/update index pages and link the footer navigation for numerous categories: Scriptures, Helps, Sermons, Psalters, Catechisms, Confessions, and Books (maybe more).
• Update status pages (including the silly image): e.g. the 404 error page.
• Add “thumb navigation” to bottom right of each page, to allow easier navigation to some non-standard pages/features.
• Move the tunes page to the Psalters directory.
• Implement cookies to make banners dismissible.
• Update the Bible Word List to add filter capability, along with other refinements.
• Add verse-level navigation to John Gill’s Whole Bible Commentary/Exposition.
• Add favored tunes to individual pages within the Scottish Psalter.
• Make numerous minor improvements to master pages/assets.
• Make massive updates to Gill’s commentary (replacing Greek and Hebrew ciphers with Unicode characters).
• Rebuild Daily Light, link scripture references, and add some appropriate styles.
• Add scripture links to John Brown of Haddington’s Psalm Commentary.

February

• Rebuild Matthew Poole’s Commentary with Bible and internal links.
• Improve Bible reference linking generally.
• Update all-caps KJV references like "LORD", "GOD", and "JEHOVAH" to small-caps.
• Add Matthew Poole’s Annotations upon the Holy Bible.
• Work on 1769 Oxford KJV (presently unimplimented).
• Add relative link support to keep linked text from “hiding” behind the banner.

January

• Improve chapter navigation for all whole Bible book (Bibles, commentaries, utilities)
• Improve Treasury of Scripture Knowledge styles and code.
• Improve chapter index navigation for the King James Bible.
• Add Stephen Charnock’s The Existence and Attributes of God.
• Add A.W. Pink’s Seven Sayings of the Savior on the Cross.
• Add Jonathan Edwards’ Charity and Its Fruits.
• Improve Feedback links.
• Replace numerous KJB audio files.
• Add next and previous navigation to our One-Year Bible Reading Plan.
• Make numerous improvements to the Bible Reading Plans, display, etc.
• Update styles for alerts atop pages.
• Update Good Books Free One-Year Plan printable versions (non-leap-year, and leap-year).
• Create a Good Books Free One-Year Plan, and add a second (M’Cheyne’s) to a new site Reading Plans section.

2025

December

• Update styles to remove commas following month links atop devotional pages.
• Add humans.txt file.
• Fix month-day-only devotional link builder, and the table of contents for the Spurgeon’s Checkbook of the Bank of Faith Table of Contents page.
• Update devotional page indexes/Tables of Contents markup significantly.
• Add accesskeys to parallel works, and update parallel work names.
• Add links to the bottom of the John Brown (of Haddington) commentary to see the psalter that you just read commentary on.
• Fix multiple references in Matthew Henry’s commentary to set php short tags correctly.
• Fix issue where headings “bunch up” when parallel passages button still exists, but are hidden.
• Finish adding Spurgeon’s Treasury of David. … may need to be re-added later. 😟
• Add Charles Spurgeon’s Treasury of David.
• Update the parallel works cog/gear.
• Improve Psalm 84 in the Treasury.
• Add John Brown of Haddington’s Commentary from The Psalms of David in Metre, with Notes.
• Improve the handling/routing of John Brown commentary pages.

November

• Make forgettable improvements, and leave ambiguous note about those improvements.
• Add explanatory pages about cookies, donations, and copyright, and copyright info in the footer.
• Add accesskey ˽ for the audio bible play button
• Add skip back to beginning button on audio player on King James Bible pages (e.g. Genesis 1).
• Improve audio player display.
• Add audio player on King James Bible pages (e.g. Matthew 1).
• Add “Today” link for devotionals (e.g. Daily Light on the Daily Path).
• Make minor punctuation corrections to entries in Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening.
• Improve accesskeys, in terms of which letters to avoid collisions with OS/Browser keybindings: E (Chrome main hamburger menu), F (File menu), D (Windows Address bar), etc.
• Display accesskeys, and add styles (for non-mobile devices).
• Add image, style, and other asset caching.

Earlier in 2025

• Add David Clarkson’s Public v. Private Worship sermon.
• Add Increase Mather’s Sabbath sermon.
• Add Charles Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening devotional.
• Add Charles Spurgeon’s The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith devotional.
• Add the Bagster Family’s Daily Light on the Daily Path devotional.
• Add functionality to, and update, the Bay Psalm Book.
• Update markup, etc. in Charles Hodge’s Romans commentary.
• Update markup, etc. in Charles Haldane’s Romans commentary.

2009-2025

• Find some stuff.
• Cleanse some stuff.
• Link some stuff.
• Upload some stuff.
• I don’t remember. A lot of things can happen in 16 years. 😀

2005

October 23

• Initial domain (ReformingWorship.org) registered. You can find an early version (2006-04-07) on the WayBack machine.