REDISCOVERING JOY:
The power of the Reformation in Galatians
By Tim Chester. IVP. 91 pages. £6.99
ISBN 978 1 783 594 818
So, you’re looking for something to read over the summer … You think you ought to read something on the Reformation.
But is that really going to be relevant to your everyday life? Better, perhaps, to read something to help you study a book of the Bible? But that might be quite hard work, and at the end of the church year you’re feeling jaded. What you really want is something refreshing, to reignite your love for Jesus and remind you what’s so great about being a Christian. But there’s no way you’re ever going to read three different books in the next six weeks.
To get you thinking
If that’s you, then Rediscovering Joy is exactly what you need! In this short, easy-to-read book, Tim Chester connects the main themes of the Reformation and Galatians with life as a Christian today. Whilst the language is clear and the tone engaging, there is plenty to get you thinking. Each chapter concludes with excellent questions to help you reflect on the implications and apply it personally, making it a great book to share with a friend and discuss chapter by chapter. The focus is on the joy that comes from knowing that we are saved by faith alone, loved and adopted by God, included in his family, and enabled to live by the Spirit.
Inevitably, combining three such large subjects into such a short book means that there is more to say on all of them. But this book functions as an accessible introduction, without being superficial. So, I’m now digging into Galatians for myself and looking forward to reading more on the Reformation later in the year.
If you’re only going to read one Christian book this summer, make it this one!
