Michael Lawrence
20 Quotes from It Is Well: Expositions on Substitutionary Atonement
By M. Dever, M. Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.201920 quotes from It Is Well, a book by Mark Dever & Michael Lawrence.
Your Understanding of Salvation should Shape your Philosophy of Ministry
By Michael Lawrence | 08.14.2019If you believe God is totally sovereign in conversion, then that should affect your philosophy of ministry—how you preach, how you evangelize, and even how you structure your membership process.
Without Exception: How to Handle Exceptions to the Statement of Faith
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Following the Lord Together | 05.07.2019What do we do when someone takes exception to our church’s statement of faith?
Why Young People Leave the Church
By Michael Lawrence | 04.03.2019Young people need to be given a worldview that answers the hard questions, not one that masks over questions with moralism and fun.
Hey Calvinist, Enough of Your Revivalism
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Ecclesiology for Calvinists | 02.04.2019How do you grow your church? It’s a question every pastor or church leader asks, a question in which almost every Christian is interested.
Conversion
By Michael LawrenceHow God Creates a People Does what a church believes about how people become Christians change how we do evangelism? In this concise book, Michael Lawrence explains the doctrine of conversion and … keep reading…
Belonging Before Believing?
By Michael Lawrence | 12.20.2018Pastor Michael Lawrence explains why this ministry philosophy, though well-intentioned, is not a good idea.
3 Reasons You Should Preach through Ezekiel
By Michael Lawrence | 11.29.2018Unless you’re one of those people that is into arcane prophecy and end-times speculation, then why should you preach the book of Ezekiel? Here are three reasons.
No Application? Then You Haven’t Preached
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Expositional Preaching | 06.18.2015Explaining the text is not applying the text, and if you haven’t applied the text, you haven’t preached.
How Should Christians Relate to Excommunicated Family Members?
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 06.17.2014How should Christians relate to family members who have been excommunicated from a church?
How “Belonging Before Believing” Redefines the Church
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: The Underestimated Doctrine of Conversion | 02.29.2012When we begin to deliberately blur the line, we confuse Christians about what it means to be a follower of Jesus in the first place.
