Owen Strachan

The Accidental Reformation: How Luther and Calvin Reformed the Family
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning | 12.10.2019Martin Luther and John Calvin represent two theologians of the Reformation, that Bible-driven movement so long ago, who promoted God’s vision for the family and led many to do the same.

Book Review: A Big Gospel in Small Places, by Stephen Witmer
Review by Owen Strachan | 11.07.2019Do not be misled: this is a book for every pastor in every place. It will spark all sorts of good thinking about pastoral ministry and the work of the local church.

God of the Cross: 5 Recommended Books on the Atonement
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: The Heart of the Gospel: Penal Substitutionary Atonement | 08.20.2019Consider recommending these five books on this precious doctrine to your people.

Reformation Doctrine Fuels Reformation Ecclesiology: A Brief History
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Ecclesiology for Calvinists | 02.05.2019The Reformation fire has not gone out, nor has the evangelistic zeal of the modern American church died. The Word still speaks—and the gospel still is mighty to save.

Singleness in Modern Culture
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Singles | 03.20.2017Vocation and service: two major areas of life that are often neglected in the pulpit, but that help the people of God find purpose and hope in this fallen, often lonely world.

A Brief History of Complementarian Literature
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.19.2015Just as the Reformation constituted a mighty preaching and writing engine, so evangelical complementarianism has produced many millions of words that have revived and strengthened God’s church.

Complementarianism as a Worldview
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 03.19.2015Complementarianism has explanatory power on a range of major, life-shaping matters. But more than this, it has apologetic power, both in the living of this doctrine, and the speaking.

The Wilberforce Test: Preaching and the Public Square
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 11.18.2014The pastor who preaches for the transformation of his people is equipping them for service in this life that will echo into eternity.

Complementarianism & Cultural Engagement
By M. Dever, O. Strachan | 10.23.2014Mark Dever interviews CBMW President Owen Strachan on Chuck Colson, Carl F. H. Henry, and the state of the complementarian debate.
A. T. Robertson, the Book of James, and Dudes with Ambition
By Owen Strachan | 06.11.2014If you have not picked up Greg Wills’s recent The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009 (Oxford, 2009), you owe it to yourself to do so. It’s a huge book, it is an … keep reading…

Pastoring the Idle
By Owen Strachan | 01.25.2014It is not you, ultimately, who builds the church and awakens the idle. It is Almighty God. He loves your people far more than you do
His Arm Is Strong to Save: A Trajectory of Conversion in America
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: The Underestimated Doctrine of Conversion | 02.29.2012How have Christians in different periods understood conversion and, more specifically, the means of conversion?

Book Review: The Next Christians, by Gabe Lyons
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011As we’ll see, there is room for agreement and disagreement in the answers Lyons provides to these questions.
The Genesis of Gender and Ecclesial Womanhood
By Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Women | 07.01.2010Don’t miss the point here: gender is front and center in creation, the fall, and the curse.

Book Review: Womanly Dominion: More Than a Gentle and Quiet Spirit
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Women | 06.25.2010In 200 crisp, scripturally saturated pages, Chanski charts an engaging course for Christian womanhood in a feminist age.