In today's bonus episode, we're pleased to present the full audio recording of a timeless

devotional work, the expulsive power of a new affection.

Part of Crossway's short classics series, this beloved sermon by 19th century Scottish

theologian Thomas Chalmers, inspires Christians to remove

the snares and tangles of sin, not through legalistic obedience, but through the power

of a new and greater affection for God.

Chalmers reminds God's saints that, as sojourners living in this broken world, true power over the trials and sins of this life

is found only in desiring Jesus more and more each day.

Crossway presents the expulsive power of a new affection by Thomas Chalmers, read by Greg Wheatley.

Biography of Thomas Chalmers. Thomas Chalmers, 1780 to 1847, was born in Fife, Scotland.

He desired the call of a minister early in life, becoming an ordained Presbyterian pastor before his 20th

birthday. Chalmers' intellectual gifts and rhetorical talent immediately gave him a reputation

in his home parish as a powerful preacher. However, it was not until reading the work of English

evangelical and slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce that Chalmers

was deeply convicted for his need for personal gospel faith and transformation. He was already

serving as a pastor when he underwent this radical change in his theology, preaching, and life.

In 1843, Chalmers and several hundred other pastors in the Church of Scotland

broke with the church over issues of ecclesiology. They formed the Free Church of Scotland,

with Chalmers serving as its first moderator, a position he held until his death.

Though Chalmers was a brilliant scholar, he was the chair of moral

philosophy at the University of St. Andrews for five years and was eventually named a fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh, his writing and preaching reflect most deeply an urgent desire for Christians

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