Glory of Christ Fellowship

Last week I wrote about a document I keep on the desktop of my computer entitled, “My Motivation.” It is designed to remind and inspire and focus me toward Christ-centered living, but it’s comprised of pictures rather than words. Nine of the fifteen pictures are of various men of God who inspire me for a number of reasons, the first of whom is Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones. Dr. Jones is most well known for his long-tenure as the Pastor of Westminster Chapel in London where he faithfully taught the Bible for some thirty years. And indeed, the primary reason he appears in my personal “Hall of Faith” is because of his long and uncompromised commitment to preaching the Word of God, on its own terms, in the prominent worship services of the church. He received much criticism for this stalwart devotion and much pressure to teach the Bible in a more culturally relevant manner, but he never bowed to such pressure. Rather, as a true lover of God and servant of the church, he clung to the Word of

On the desktop of my computer I keep a document entitled, “My Motivation.” It is designed to remind and inspire and focus me toward Christ-centered living, but it’s comprised of pictures rather than words. Words are important and my life is filled with them, but pictures are important, too, especially when they capture something of the spirit words are meant to arouse. Five of the fifteen pictures have to do with cycling which is important to me because it is the primary means by which I pursue physical health, and I pursue physical health because I want to live long and bring as much glory to the name of Jesus Christ as I can. There is no higher calling or privilege than dying for the sake of the Name, and by God’s grace I would embrace that destiny if Christ called me to do so, but oh how I long to preach Christ with passion when I’m 75 or 90 or 100. There’s something beautiful and powerful about old preachers who’ve been long refined by the Spirit of God and time, and I want to be