I’ve been feeling the terrible chronic fatigue again since last summer. I may have over-exerted myself when we moved into this house. I’m sure the author of Ecclesiastes would have something to say about that.
Back in 2006, I presented my Ecclesiastes material as a Sunday School class once again and revised it extensively in the process. Since my web page is no more, I decided to upload the newer material to a page on my blog:
https://bettercovenant.wordpress.com/ecclesiastes/
Later on I may try to upload some sermons on Abraham from the Genesis series. Those got revised extensively in 2007.
If you’re looking for older material from my defunct web site, you can still find that via the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080120085723/http://bettercovenant.org/
As Joe Garrelli on the TV show NewsRadio once said: “”Dude, you can’t take something off the Internet. That’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.”
Keep me in yor prayers if you think of it.
20 April 2009 at 2:52 am
Dear Bill,
I was delighted to hear from you. So you were in the congregation when I preached on Christ purging our sins and being seated at the right hand of God. “Sit!”
So glad that others wanted it, So strange that in the last week three different people in different places came to me in this tour of Easter special preaching services and talked to me of that sermon. Then your letter. How good is God. I preached it in Holland Michigan and the pastor’s son came to assurance of salvation through hearing it.
I am glad we have had that contact.
I am devouring your sermons on Abraham. When in Genesis chapter fourteen there was far too much of Bill Baldwin and not nearly enough of me I have put a line of acknowledgment to you and your sermon at the bottom of the sermon. I will do this. You can see this on my website (get in via Geoff Thomas Sermons on Google). Any comment on this would be gladly received.
It’s a bad old sickness you have, so mysterious, how it comes out of nowhere and lays you low for some years. Ted Donnelly had it for a long time, but it finally has gone and he knows what are his new lilmitations. All the men and women, young and old, who have had it here have eventually recovered, and I have no doubt that that wil be the same with you too. But these weak waiting years do mean one casts oneself on grace. Our only hope is that he will deliver us. The 2 Corinthains 12 secton on the thorn in the flesh is the best pastoral commentary to preach to yourself on it. What I do you don’t know now, says the Lord but one day you will know. It is preparation for the future better use of the gifts God has give you.
I will write soon again
Warmly
Geoff
24 April 2009 at 10:52 am
Bill,
Been wondering about you. Glad you are back on-line. Can you give us an update on your church life also?
Thanks,
Todd
19 May 2009 at 8:44 pm
Bill,
I’m planning to teach on Ecclesiastes at our women’s retreat this Fall. Your notes look great, extremely helpful. I’m glad that you revised them and added all the new material. I still remember the Sunday school series you did back at Trinity, some other lifetime ago.
I think of you, Lisa and the kids a lot.
Misty
29 July 2009 at 5:41 pm
Hi Bill,
I miss your preaching! I think about your many lessons/ sermons often. I wish you had your sermons online. I am hoping to hear you behind the pulpit again.
Peace be with you,
Rana
27 August 2009 at 3:26 pm
Hi Bill,
I do remember you in prayer. Thanks for continuing to post. I have benefited from your insights since my time at WSC.
In Christ,
Chris
3 November 2009 at 12:20 pm
My friend Zach Keele preached through Ecclesiastes 2 years ago. The sermons were greatly influenced by Seowe and both Klines. I really enjoyed it.
I’m sure I’ll like your work as well.
10 March 2012 at 8:17 am
Bill,
Thanks for the update and the very well presented explanation of your current status. I really enjoyed reading your thoughts behind making the change in denomination. It resounds with some of my own thinking over the past few years.
I still remember visiting Redeeming Grace and hearing you preach while I was on a break. Your writings have been a blessing to me as well. I guess we’ll never start that reformed college ministry at UC Irvine that we talked about at the Growing Reformed Churches conference that one year. But, I’m encouraged that you’ve found a ministry opportunity. I look forward to reading more about how you are doing. I’ll pray for you brother.
James Kim
2 June 2014 at 11:40 am
I happened on your paper about tendencies toward legalism in the reformed churches. Even though I don’t have a reformed church background I found that your words resonated with me as one who experienced extreme legalism in the past. It has been years now since my husband and I were finally able to break with a spiritually abusive church and enter the mainstream evangelical world: yet I find the old wine flavoring the stew more often than I would like. I really want totally rid of it. My comment I guess has more to do with a personal struggle I can’t seem to cease from: seeing legalism lurking under every leaf and rock and not being sure if its me or ‘them.’ Our pastor preaches and teaches salvation by faith in Christ alone, but it is to a congregation that is newly acquainted with grace concepts: the denomination has a history of legalism. As we are relatively new to this church and have just joined a life group, I am still feeling my way. The folks are gracious and kind, but when back at home I analize the lessons it seems to be a lot about what we do or should and not as much what Christ has done and can do through us. Sometimes I feel like I have been searching forever for a body of believers I can be a part of that is wholesale new covenant theology. Your new church sounds so inviting with its mix of cultures, but we live in the hill country of Texas, far away. Maybe there are more people searching for what you and your family have found than we realize.