About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Steven J. Lawson is the senior pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, having served as a pastor in Arkansas and Alabama for more than thirty years.
He is a graduate of Texas Tech University (B.B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and Reformed Theological Seminary (D.Min.).
Dr. Lawson is the author of twenty books, his most recent being In It to Win It: Pursuing Victory in the One Race That Really Counts and The Kind of Preaching God Blesses. His other books include The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther; Foundations of Grace and Pillars of Grace from the Long Line of Godly Men series; Famine in the Land: A Passionate Call to Expository Preaching; Psalms volumes 1 and 2 and Job in the Holman Old Testament Commentary Series; Made in Our Image; and Absolutely Sure. His books have been translated into various languages, including Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Albanian, and Indonesian. He has contributed articles to Bibliotheca Sacra, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Faith and Mission, Decision magazine, Discipleship Journal, and Tabletalk, among other journals and magazines.
Dr. Lawson’s pulpit ministry takes him around the world, including Russia, Ukraine, Wales, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan, and to many conferences in the United States, including The Shepherd’s Conference and Resolved at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California.
He is president of OnePassion Ministries, a ministry designed to bring about biblical reformation in the church today. He serves on the executive board of The Master’s Seminary and College, teaches expository preaching at The Master’s Seminary in the doctor of ministry program, and hosts The Expositors’ Conference at Christ Fellowship Baptist Church. Dr. Lawson has participated in the Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series at The Master’s Seminary and serves on the advisory council for Samara Preachers’ Institute and Theological Seminary in Samara, Russia.
Dr. Lawson and his wife, Anne, have three sons, Andrew, James, and John, and a daughter, Grace Anne.