Chalmers' Blog

Sometimes the best gift God can give you is pain

Over the last ten years I’ve read tons of books and blog posts on suffering and devoted countless hours in study and thinking about the topic of suffering and pain. Why? Well, for the last 10 years I have been suffering from constant chronic pain. You can read a little about that here.

Intentional Interruptions

Ever feel that you’re being pulled in 100 different directions because of the little notification nightmare in your pocket?

Our world is full of distractions that can take up all of out time, if we let them. But interruptions aren’t all bad! Jonathan Thomas helps you see that there are interruptions that God can and does use to help His people draw closer to Him.

Saturday Snippets (July 29)

As well as reading a lot of books, I also read a ton of articles every week. Here are some of the articles that I’ve read recently and have found interesting, helpful, challenging and encouraging. I hope that they will be the same for you, my dear readers…

The Character of Christ

Sometimes you come across a book that just hits the spot. It brings the right balance of encouragement and challenge, theology and application. This is the latest of those kind of books that crossed my desk.

Saturday Snippets (July 22)

Illustrated shorter catechism

One of the things that I have grown to love about Reformed theology over the years is the importance that it places on training children in the way of the Lord. Don’t get me wrong, other traditions do this too, but I have grown to love some of the resources that have come out of the Reformed camp.

One such resource is the Westminster Shorter Catechism (WSC). the WSC was written by the Westminster Assembly in 1647 and was designed to the basic doctrines of the Christian faith. The format of the WSC is question and answer and you probably know number 1 without thinking too hard…

Saturday Snippets (July 15)

Saturday Snippets (July 8)

If your Pastor’s door could speak

At first glance, it’s a door like any other. There’s a small window, maybe even a few steps before it, a doorbell or a knocker, the aesthetics don’t really matter. Regardless of what it looks like, there’s a door. Before it stands a person with their struggles, their grief, their loss and their pain and before them is… a door.

Teaching Leviticus

Leviticus, for some, is a difficult book. I’ve heard it described, I think by Tim Challies, as the book where Bible reading plans go to die. People start the year with enthusiasm and the desire to read the Bible in a year. Starting at Genesis things go well until Leviticus where it gets complicated. The book is full of talk about animal sacrifices, different kind of offerings and laws for the worship of the Old Covenant nation of Israel. But Leviticus is glorious! It’s not a book I’ve preached from much, but one I plan to preach from soon, Lord willing. But how exactly can you teach a book like Leviticus?