Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event November 8, 2018
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When:
Friday November 9 5 PM – 9 PM
Saturday November 10 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday November 11 9 AM – 3PM
Where:
Hawkeye Downs
4400 6th St SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All ten of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Two novels –America’s Trojan War, and a sequel America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again. Three books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, and Then Came Trump. Four History Books: America Vol. One: Colonial History, The Azusa Street Revival, The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same (describes how the elites in America use presidential assassinations to create and sustain a secular political religion), and America Won the Vietnam War! And a book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. All of these books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Coming Soon: Dr. Owens’ Third Novel America’s Armageddon
Vote For God’s Candidate November 6, 2018
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized.Tags: Casting Crowns, Dr. Robert Owens, Election 2018, redemption, Salvation
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Election Day 2018 and everything is on the line. At least as far as the direction this country is going to take America First or Globalism, capitalism or socialism. Tune in to any one of the talking heads that litter the airwaves and this is it. This is the BIG one.
As a political science teacher I always tell my students don’t let anyone indoctrinate you. Don’t let anyone blindly lead you into supporting something you may really disagree with if you knew more. Study the candidates. Study the issues. And then make an informed decision. I also add one more step. Ask God who you should vote for.
One side says if the other side wins they’ll make America miserable again. They’ll put the brakes on an economy ready to go in orbit, erase the border, and unleash the mob.
The other side says if their opponents win they’ll gut social security, close the hospitals, keep illegal children in cages, and continue to confirm judges who will stop common sense gun control and generally bring back slavery.
It’s all a soap opera. Yes, it makes sense here in a world ruled by sense knowledge. Yes, it’s important who wins here and now but what about in eternity? Ten billion years from now will it make much difference if you were a diehard red or a fanatic blue?
I’m not trying to discourage any one from voting. We should all do our civic duty. We should all study the issues and then vote our conscious. As a pastor I’ve always counselled vote for God’s candidate. Vote for the one who stands up for the things of God. And remember a vote for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.
These things intrude upon us from a world that doesn’t want to take no. It bombards us 24/7 from TV, radio, and even our phones. The voices and the images fill social media, the wall-to-wall news spigots, and anywhere else anyone might care to look.
Being a history junky and a politicalholic I have battled my entire life to get my mind right. I can easily become obsessed with the History of the Future or current events as some people call it. Until I was thirty years old that was all I had. I only believed in what I could see, touch, and feel. I was ruled by sense knowledge.
But then praise God I met Jesus. He’d been there all along just waiting for me to notice Him. Once I did I realized there was no one else I needed to know. It’s like the Bible. Once I realized it is God’s Word, His revelation to humanity, the operator’s manual for the planet earth I realized that it was the most important book in the world. And as a readaholic that’s saying something.
So this morning I wake up on what might be the most important election day of my life and what do I find?
Well, woke up this morning with my mind, my mind stayin’ on Jesus.
Casting Crowns describes and defines our situation well in their hit song Jesus Friend of Sinners:
First they aptly describe our current situation:
Jesus, friend of sinners, we have strayed so far away
We cut down people in your name but the sword was never ours to swing
Jesus, friend of sinners, the truth’s become so hard to see
The world is on their way to You but they’re tripping over me
Always looking around but never looking up I’m so double minded
A plank eyed saint with dirty hands and a heart divided.
Then after more insightful verses that expose who we are and what we’re doing they define what we should do with a question:
Nobody knows what we’re for only what we’re against when we judge the wounded what if we put down our signs crossed over the lines and loved like You did?
Then they offer a prayer:
Oh Jesus, friend of sinners
Open our eyes to the world at the end of our pointing fingers
Let our hearts be led by mercy
Help us reach with open hearts and open doors
Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours.
The inspiration, knowledge, and hope I always gain from Casting Crowns’ songs always leads me back to the place they got it all: the Bible.
We find a story in the Word of God:
The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sight of everyone and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught red-handed in the act of adultery. Moses, in the Law, gives orders to stone such persons. What do you say?” They were trying to trap him into saying something incriminating so they could bring charges against him.
Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt. They kept at him, badgering him. He straightened up and said, “The sinless one among you, go first: Throw the stone.” Bending down again, he wrote some more in the dirt.
Hearing that, they walked away, one after another, beginning with the oldest. The woman was left alone. Jesus stood up and spoke to her. “Woman, where are they? Does no one condemn you?”
“No one, Master.”
“Neither do I,” said Jesus. “Go on your way. From now on, don’t sin.”
We’ll never know until we can ask Him in heaven what Jesus wrote that day in the sand. But the Pharisees and scholars were attempting to trap Him by using the commandments He came to fulfill. And he not only fulfilled the old He also gave us a new commandment when He said, “Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”
As we enter the voting booth today remember as important as this is there is something much more important, something of eternal significance.
Another prayer from Casting Crowns might help us focus:
Help us to remember we are all the least of these
Let the memory of Your mercy bring Your people to their knees.
Pray before you vote and listen to God. If you are His; His voice is ever there guiding and leading you into the paths of righteousness. If we do what He tells us to do we’ll always make the right choice and remember His guiding will never conflicts with His Word.
May God bless us one and all as we strive to follow Him and may God bless the United States of America.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event November 2, 2018
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When:
Friday November 2 4 PM – 9 PM
Saturday November 3 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday November 4 9 AM – 3PM
Where:
Sergeant Bluff Community Center
903 Topaz Dr
Sergeant Bluff, IA 51054
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All ten of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Two novels –America’s Trojan War, and a sequel America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again. Three books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, and Then Came Trump. Four History Books: America Vol. One: Colonial History, The Azusa Street Revival, The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same (describes how the elites in America use presidential assassinations to create and sustain a secular political religion), and America Won the Vietnam War! And a book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. All of these books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Coming Soon: Dr. Owens’ Third Novel America’s Armageddon
Jump! October 29, 2018
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Religion, Uncategorized.Tags: Dr. Robert Owens, faith as a mustard see, It is finished, mustard seed, speak to the mountain
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Christ came to fulfill the Old Covenant. He paid the price for Adam’s sin and made a way back into fellowship with God. Sin was the problem and Jesus is the answer.
When he was offered up by the High Priest as a sinless sacrifice He fulfilled all that had ever been required in the Old Covenant.
When He breathed His last on the cross and cried out, “It is finished,” the curtain in the temple was ripped in half. God left the Holy of Holies on earth signifying the end of the Old Covenant. When Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven He poured out his blood on the eternal alter of God in the heavenly temple of God. All the sacrifices of the Old Testament had been but a foreshadowing of this event.
When we confess Jesus as Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead as it says in Romans 10:9-10 we shall be saved. It doesn’t say we might be saved. It doesn’t say we will be saved by and by. It says we shall be saved. The moment we do that we’re born again, recreated, and translated from the old world of sin caused separation from God and death to the new world of fellowship with God and life.
Once we’re saved from the curse of sin we become the righteousness of God. This means we can stand in the presence of God without any guilt, shame, or fear for we’ve become His children. And as His children we have the right and the ability to come boldly into our Daddy’s throne room any time we want.
Think of it this way, if you or I walked up to the gate of Buckingham Palace and told the guard, “Let me in I want to see the queen” we wouldn’t even get a smile from one of those guys. But if Prince Phillip walked up and said the same thing they would immediately usher him into the royal presence.
It’s the same with us and the heavenly Holy of Holies. God is our Father. We can enter His presence any time we want. There’s no need to beg or plead. It’s our right as His child because we are one with Christ. He’s the head and we’re the body. We’re the very living stones built up into His eternal temple. We’re individually the tabernacles of His Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
Don’t accept less. Be all that God re-created you to be. We’re a new creation the old has passed away and behold all has become new. We dwell this moment in God’s New Jerusalem and collectively we are His Holy Temple. God the Father is on His throne. Christ the Lamb that was slain for the sins of the world and yet lives is seated to His right hand. The Holy Spirit indwells the temple built of living stones.
There is nothing left to be done. It is finished. There is nothing we can add. We have been given the authority to act in the Name of Christ. We shouldn’t sit back waiting to get good enough. We shouldn’t expect some hireling to do what God has called us to do. We’ve been called to take the light of Christ into a world of darkness.
He never told us to build a lamp. He never told us to pay a lighthouse tender. He told us to take the light of His love to those sold under bondage to the king of this world. And we must always remember greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.
Jesus told us that if we have faith, even if it’s as small as the smallest seed, and we tell the mountain to jump it’ll jump. So let’s quit waiting for some collective bulldozer to move the mountains and start living as what we are: children of the Most High God.
In the desert God told Moses to speak to the rock. He has told us to speak to the mountains. So now, all together on the count of three let’s say to the mountains in our life, “Jump!”
One, two, three.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event October 25, 2018
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When:
Friday October 26 5 PM – 9 PM
Saturday October 27 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday October 28 9 AM – 3PM
Where:
Iowa State Fairgrounds
3000 E Grand Ave
Des Moines, IA 50317
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All ten of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Two novels –America’s Trojan War, and a sequel America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again. Three books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, and Then Came Trump. Four History Books: America Vol. One: Colonial History, The Azusa Street Revival, The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same (describes how the elites in America use presidential assassinations to create and sustain a secular political religion), and America Won the Vietnam War! And a book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. All of these books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Coming Soon: Dr. Owens’ Third Novel America’s Armageddon
Want To Buy A Bridge? October 22, 2018
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy.Tags: caravan of migrants, Clinton, Dr. Robert Owens, Illegal immigration, Kavanaugh, Pelosi, President Donald Trump, President Trump, Soros, Trump
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From the “You can’t make this stuff up” Department:
It is beyond me how the Communists, I’m sorry I mean the Socialists, oh excuse me I mean the Democrats are able to peddle the bilge they’re spewing this election cycle. But I’m sure that a significant segment of the voting public will swear this bilge is rose water come Election Day. Now if these Soros-Clinton-Pelosi-Waters supporters were knuckle-dragging drooling Neanderthal types I could understand it. However, I personally know many very intelligent people who prove they’ve had one too many drinks of Kool-Ade by casting their precious votes for the Party of Obama and the new normal.
And now for some anecdotal proof:
I live in a State that is enjoying record high employment, has received the biggest tax cuts in history, has a balanced budget, millions in a rainy day fund and is ranked near number one in education and healthcare. In response to this the Pelosi Party has a gubernatorial candidate who says people are starving to death in the streets, rotting away on gurneys in the halls of broken down hospitals, and the pining away for the good old days of presidents who bow to kings and a perpetual Great Recession.
Nationally the party of globalism, open borders, and mobs as always promises one thing and plans on delivering another. They promise to fight for the little guy, protect Social Security, provide health care for all, and rainbows every day of the week. If given control of the House and/or the Senate they will deliver years of Kavanaugh style show trials and though their leader tells them not to talk about it they will impeach President Trump in 2019.
Currently their propaganda arm in the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media foist what they hope is a self-fulfilling prophecy of a huge blue wave on the low information voters. To facilitate this fever dream and create a spectacle they hope will overwhelm our border agents, detention camps and legal system they’re financing and coordinating an army of gang-age males hiding behind the skirts of women and children. Marching north after violently storming across Mexico’s southern border carrying the flags of Guatemala and Honduras the publicity flacks of the ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCPBSNPR Cartel tell us over and over these are peaceful hardworking people are peaceful asylum seekers and not the gate crashing pawns we can see tearing down fences and forcing their way into Mexico.
Promising to raise taxes, increase regulations, expand welfare, shut down the oil and coal industries, impeach Kavanaugh and President Trump the campaign slogan for the America Last fellow-travelers should be “Let’s Make America Miserable Again!” All I can say is if you buy this bilge I’ve got a bridge you can buy right here.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Dr. Owens’ America’s Trojan War # 2 October 18, 2018
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Hear a second excerpt from Dr. Owens’ first novel America’s Trojan War
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Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event October 15, 2018
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When:
Friday October 19 4 PM – 9 PM
Saturday October 20 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday October 21 9 AM – 3PM
Where:
Westfair Fairgrounds
22984 Highway 6
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All ten of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Two novels –America’s Trojan War, and a sequel America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again. Three books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, and Then Came Trump. Four History Books: America Vol. One: Colonial History, The Azusa Street Revival, The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same (describes how the elites in America use presidential assassinations to create and sustain a secular political religion), and America Won the Vietnam War! And a book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. All of these books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Coming Soon: Dr. Owens’ Third Novel America’s Armageddon
Dr Owens’ America’s Trojan War #1 October 11, 2018
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Hear Dr. Owens speak about his breakaway first novel and read an excerpt.
We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood October 1, 2018
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Watching the recent political theater that our ever more divided country serves up as leadership reminds me that the natural man cannot receive the things of God for they’re foolishness to him. The mockery of the late night political hacks masquerading as comedians or of the not even close to being funny Democrat shills haunting SNL reminds us that weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.
I wonder if someone came forward and said that Nancy Pelosi sexually abused them when they were a minor but they can’t remember where, or when, how they got there, how they got home, and everyone they said was a witness denied it … do you think the Congressional Ethics Committee would investigate it? Would the ABCCBSNBCPBSCNNMSNBC Cartel do wall-to-wall panel discussion about the validity of the claims?
As we watch these show trials staged for no other reason than to destroy the reputation and life of a man who the testimony of all who know him say is impeccable don’t lose heart. What the enemy means for evil God can turn to good. When we see what appears to be all of the media from New York to Hollywood piling on don’t despair the enemy may come in like a flood but God is well able to lift up a standard just as Moses lifted a serpent in the wilderness. Look with your spiritual eyes and see the real battle for we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood. We battle against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
We’ll never have the strength to stand for what’s right until we hit our knees. Faith is the answer and prayer is the key. Forget about the unfairness of it for the fallen world is inherently unfair. Take your eyes off the here and now and get a view of eternity. All of this will pass away. Remember God not only wins in the end He’s won already. Stop living in the world. Jesus said we must be born again born from above. If we confess Him as Lord if we believe God has raised Him from the dead we will be saved. The moment we do that we enter into His kingdom. We die to this world and we’re born into the new heaven and the new earth. And we’ve done all the dying we’ll ever do. Our body will stop one day but we’ll live for all eternity in Him.
While it may be entertaining and it may make a world of difference here and now all this back and forth between one side and another is merely man re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Looking back did it make any difference which side of the deck someone was standing on? We’re they on the left or the right? When the ship went down both sides hit the water.
In a hundred years no one will know who we were. Some descendent may know our name, maybe even where we were born and where we died. But they won’t know who we are. In a thousand years no one will even know we were here. In a hundred thousand years America will have been erased from memory. But in an eternity from now we who choose to live in Christ will still be praising Him filled with joy and living hope.
The political and social battles of this life may make good TV, they may give us endless hours of animated conversations, and they’ll have an impact on the current course of this fallen world. But remember they aren’t what they seem. It isn’t about right versus left. It’s always about good versus evil, light versus dark, and life versus death. But never fear Christ is here. He has won the war and He has told us that “It is finished.”
So accept the victory and stop fighting a battle that’s already been won.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2018 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
