Michael Lawrence

Michael Lawrence is associate pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist and adjunct professor of systematic theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 

  • Comfort My People Article by Michael Lawrence

    FROM TABLETALK | April 2015

    Because shame is always hiding, it often catches us by surprise. An unbeliever had been attending my church for several months. Always professionally dressed and well spoken, he often thanked me for my sermons. But nothing in our previous interactions prepared me or his visit to my office. In the previous Sunday’s sermon, I’d considered David’s humiliating flight from Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 15. I observed that not only was David learning to trust God through his humiliation, but he was also pointing to Jesus Christ. Like David, Jesus left Jerusalem humiliated. Every scrap of dignity was … View Resource