Chalmers' Blog

Gracious reminders

It’s easy to get comfortable. It’s easy to begin to think that we can manage on our own. The message our world promotes is one of independence, self-reliance and individualism. But is that all real or a façade that we often play along to?

Easter Devotions

Lent is an interesting time where Christians from many different church traditions and backgrounds use the time in the run up to Easter to prepare themselves for celebrating the magnificence that is Easter. Some Christian publishers bring out new devotionals each year to help people focus on Jesus, let me introduce you to two of those that may help you this year. Both of these books are a little bit different, which I quite like.

Saturday Snippets (February 10)

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…

Exceeding joy, service and apologetics

January was a strange month for me. Sadly, I was ill for most of it which meant a lot of time working on the sofa and brain fog that kept me from writing. Thankfully the ailments are lifting and so now I feel like I have the capacity again to write. So, what have I been reading over the last few weeks? Well, let me give you a quick run through and brief review of the titles.

Saturday Snippets (February 3)

Ministry in the New Realm

You’ve probably heard people in church speak about the ‘now and not yet’. We currently live in the here and now, we serve God, the church, people and we share the gospel with the hope of our faith in Jesus Christ that is lived out in the here and now, but there is also a ‘not yet’. Christians await a glorious future of perfect union with Christ in the Lord’s presence for eternity. As Christians part of the now, is that we are in a new realm, we are new creations and we are serving Christ in the Kingdom of God, that is the topic Dane Ortlund tackles in this book ‘Ministry in the New Realm: A Theology of 2 Corinthians‘

Saturday Snippets (January 27)

Saturday Snippets (January 20)

Saturday Snippets (January 13)

2000 years of Christ’s power; the Age of Enlightenment and Awakening

I’m a firm believer that every Christian should have a basic understanding of some of the key moments and happenings in the history of the church. There are plenty of books out there that provide that, let me introduce you to one. Nick Needham is a Church History lecturer at Highland Theological College in Dingwall, Scotland. He’s written a whopper of a series called ‘2000 years of Christ’s power’. The series does as it says on the tin, it starts back at the beginning of the early church father and walks through to the 18th Century in this newest volume.