Michael Lawrence
Good Friday Meditation: A Fitting Crown
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 04.02.2010In love, God decided that the story of thorns would end at the cross.
Leaving Home, Returning Home
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 04.02.2010The consequences of Adam and Eve’s rebellion are even more profound than at first appeared.

Book Review: Family Driven Faith, by Voddie Baucham
Review by Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 04.02.2010Baucham has done a service to the church by calling us back from a wrong-headed trust in programs and professionals.
Why Every Pastor-in-Training Should Read Ed’s Book: An Interview with Michael Lawrence
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 04.02.2010It’s easy to critique pastors who are fixated on “numbers.” But what’s the root issue there, and where does it show up in my heart?
How to Become a Liberal Without Attending Harvard Divinity School
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: A New Evangelical Liberalism | 04.02.2010I love my sheep. And I love myself. And it’s those two loves, wrongly focused, that tempt me down a gospel-denying path.
How to Become a Liberal Without Attending Harvard Divinity School
By Michael Lawrence | 03.01.2010It’s not just, or even mainly, my wrongly ordered love of the sheep that pulls me toward liberalism. Even more powerful is my love of self.
A Pastors’ and Theologians’ Forum on Selecting Elders
By B. Keisling, E. Roberts, F. Catherwood, J. MacArthur, M. Lawrence, P. Newton, T. R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Elders (Part 1) | 03.01.2010A Pastors’ and Theologians’ Forum:
What lessons have you learned the hard way in selecting elders?
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Where Is Your Story Written?
By Michael Lawrence | 03.01.2010Biblical theology is an attempt to understand the whole Bible as Christian scripture telling the story of Christ.
Why Every Pastor-in-Training Should Read Ed’s Book
By Michael Lawrence | 02.26.2010Fear of man isn’t the only issue pastors face, but it’s a huge one and will have an outsized impact on the faithfulness and shape of their ministry.
Let the Word of God Dwell in You Richly
By Michael Lawrence | 02.26.2010These two lessons have impressed themselves upon me already concerning the preparation of expositional sermon series on a schedule.
What about the confessing Christian who lives like the world?
By Michael Lawrence | 02.26.2010The free grace that forgives is also a grace that transforms, turning bad trees which produce bad fruit into good trees which produce good fruit.
Leaving Home, Returning Home
By Michael Lawrence | 02.25.2010From the perspective of the Fall, we understand better not only what it means that we have all truly left home, but also how we can make it back again.
Good Friday Meditation: A Fitting Crown
By Michael Lawrence | 02.25.2010Jesus did not claim the throne of Rome or any other empire. No, his claim was over the whole world, the entire creation, and for that only thorns would do.
How to Become a Liberal Without Attending Harvard Divinity School
By Michael Lawrence | 02.24.2010I love my sheep, and I love myself. And it’s those two loves, wrongly focused, that tempt me down a gospel-denying path.
Biblical Theology with Mike Gilbart-Smith, Michael Lawrence, and Jonathan Leeman
By J. Leeman, M. Dever, M. Lawrence, M. Gilbart-Smith | 06.24.2008Mark Dever leads a roundtable in discussing the importance of biblical theology for the pastor.