Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event October 14, 2021
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When:
Saturday October 16 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday October 17 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Illinois State Fairgrounds
Orr Building
801 E Sangamon Ave
Springfield, IL 62702
Dr. Owens published three new titles in 2020 and four new ones in 2021.
There are more on the way in 2022
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty-three of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump that took him sixty years to complete, and The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Make America Great Again – Again October 12, 2021
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On Saturday October 9th at a rally in Des Moines Iowa President Trump
unveiled his campaign slogan going forward:
Make America Great Again – Again
Dr. Robert Owens suggested this slogan to President Trump in 2020.
He also published a book by the same title in July 2020.
This book is filled with thirty-three of President Trump’s major accomplishments, proving that he accomplished more in one term than any other president.
Most of this has never been covered by the echo-chamber megaphone pretending to be an objective media. Some of it has been covered as if through a carnival mirror, distorted and reshaped to fit the negative agenda of the Left.
Though the media elites, the perpetually re-elected, and the bureaucrats of the deep state were united in their determination to defeat Donald Trump and are working feverishly to erase the record of his accomplishments this book is THE historical record of the first outsider to ever be elected president.
Make America Great Again – Again!
Available at Amazon
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event September 24, 2021
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When:
Saturday September 25 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday September 26 9 AM – 4 PM
Where:
100 Lakeview St
Gray, TN 37615
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and four new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty-three of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event September 9, 2021
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When:
Saturday September 11 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday September 12 10 AM – 5 PM
Where:
Hickory Metro Convention Center
1960 13th Ave Dr SE
Hickory, NC 28602
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and four new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty-three of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
The Day I Was Born Again September 8, 2021
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I can remember when I was born-again. I came up from me knees a new creature living in a new creation, old things had passed away and everything had become new. I had this life changing experience in a church where that kind of thing was not supposed to happen.
In this church they shared the Lord’s Supper at every service. This was the first time I felt I was ready to partake of the bread and wine. While kneeling at the altar rail I reflected upon my recent study of the four Gospels. I had come to a place where I thought this Gospel is either the truth or it’s a lie. If it’s the truth it is undoubtedly the most important message ever delivered. If it was a lie, it was just one among many.
As a person who had studied History daily for many years, I knew that all of the writers of the Gospels had been martyred. This led me to reflect, “If these men had written a lie, they would have known it was a lie and that Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, there is no salvation, and the whole thing was a hoax.”
I also knew that before they were martyred, they were given a choice, say what they’d written was a lie and worship the emperor or stand by what they’d written and die. All of them chose to die. The thought that four men would all choose to die to promote or perpetuate a hoax didn’t sound or feel believable to me.
All this had been running round and round in my mind for weeks. Finally, as I knelt at that altar I decided, “It has to be true.” Right then and there I prayed, “Jesus, I want you to be the Lord of my life. I want to give my life to you. I repent of my sins, and I ask you to save me.” That was it. I believed God had raised Jesus from the grave and I accepted Him as my Lord.
Instantly I was translated into an ecstasy of joy. I raised my hands and I praised God for hearing my prayer and for saving me. From that moment on I knew beyond all doubt that Jesus is God, that He came to earth to save the lost, and that He will meet us wherever we are and accept us no matter what we’ve done. From that moment to this I have known the intimacies of the new birth and no one nor no thing can ever separate me from my Savior.
That was what happened on the inside deep within my being as my spirit which had been dead to God came alive. On the outside I stayed at the altar after everyone else left and returned to their seats. I stayed there throughout the rest of the service and for about another half hour after everyone left the sanctuary and moved into the fellowship hall.
I was completely oblivious to any sound or movement around me. I had no awareness of the passage of time. I was bathed in the joy of God, surrounded by His presence, communing with my Savior, wrapped in His love.
When I returned to normal consciousness I got up, I looked around dumbfounded at the empty sanctuary. To me I had only been at the altar for a few moments. I followed the sound of people talking into the fellowship hall. As I entered, I began praising God. I told them all, “I’ve just been born again!”
Everyone, the pastor included looked at me as if I was crazy. You would have thought I had just said, “A unicorn jumped over a rainbow and gave me some candy.” The President of the Church Council told me, “We don’t go for any of that Born-Again nonsense here. If you’re going to act like that drag it down the street someplace else.”
I was confused. From my reading of the scriptures everyone must be born again if they want to see God and His kingdom and here was a leader in the Church telling me this life changing experience was somehow out of place in this particular church.
But I knew what I had just experienced, and no one was going to convince me that God hadn’t just touched me, that He hadn’t wiped away my guilt, and made me new. No one could convince me that I hadn’t just been born again.
The Pastor seeing my look of confusion took me aside and asked me what had happened. When I described the miracle as clearly as I could he told me it was probably an emotional response to a thought-provoking sermon.
Imagine if you lived on an island where everyone crawls instead of walks. It has always been this way, and this is the only way anyone can ever remember it being. Then one day a person stands up and starts to walk. Everyone is shocked. They are scandalized. The leaders of the community express the thoughts of the majority, “I mean whoever heard of such a thing, someone walking instead of crawling.” Turning on the lone walker they cry in unison, “Get back down here and crawl like you’re supposed to! What if others start this walking business? Do you want to destroy our traditions? What if the children see you and start walking instead of crawling?”
It’s not that crawling is better than walking. We all know that it isn’t. It’s just that this is the way things have always been so that is seen as the way they should be. Anything different is rejected out of hand, no consideration, no inner reflection, no comparison of two different options just instantaneous and total rejection.
This is just how it seems when people who have never experienced the new birth, have never experienced the unrivaled intimacies of a loving God bringing life to the dead spirit we inherited from Adam try to tell us who have, to settle down and follow traditions.
Instead of the eternal everlasting death we all deserve due to our Adamic inheritance and our own sin God in His infinite mercy and love gives us eternal life. And He has not only given us life He gives us the very life of Christ the life that defeated death. In a foreshadowing of the life-giving power of Christ once some Israelites were about to burry a man when a sudden attack of the enemy forced them to forego using a new grave and they placed the body in the tomb of Elisha the prophet. As soon as the body of the dead man touched the bones of the prophet the man came back to life. And so it is with every spiritually dead person who comes to the cross of Christ who surrenders themselves and accepts Jesus as Lord.
We must never let anyone convince us that humanity can be perfected outside of God’s plan of salvation and through Jesus Christ. Nothing, not education, politics, economics, genetic engineering, theology, philosophy, or psychology can forge a way to life for the spiritually dead except through Christ. All of these things can be helpful tools. They can all help us make sense of a fallen and disordered world. But they cannot save us. They cannot change us from fallen and lost people into what we were created to be: children of the Most High God.
And it is purely through grace that this is even possible. We cannot earn our way. There is no twelve-step plan to salvation. There is no self-help program that will deliver us from evil. In His great love for humanity God opened the way through Christ’s sacrifice and His resurrection for the dead to live, the fallen to rise, the blind to see, and the lost to be found.
May every one of us, descendants of Adam, the lost and the spiritually dead repent of our sins, turn from the world, and accept the glorious gift God offers us. Let’s embrace the life Christ has won for us.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2021 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook, Twitter, Gab, or MeWe @ Drrobertowens, or visit Dr. Owens’ Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
God Keeps His Promises August 31, 2021
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Imagine if the Jewish people had accepted and proclaimed Jesus as their Messiah. In this scenario the High Priest, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes would recognize the hand of God upon Jesus and the Holy Spirit within Him. They would have no doubt taken Him into the Temple and worshipped Him for what He is: God and man united in a virgin’s womb.
There would have been no crucifixion and therefore no resurrection. In the what-if of this imaginary tale, though the people of God read the signs of the times, though they perceived and accepted the coming of God, they would have remained an earthly people.
For without the crucifixion there would be no substitutionary death cleansing humanity of sin. Without the resurrection there would be no risen body of Christ, and consequently we would have no chance to be raised with Him. And without the ascension of Christ into Heaven the Helper never would have come and no one would be baptized in and subsequently filled with the Holy Spirit.
The promises given by God to the people of Israel through Abraham all related to earthly things. Things which the Bible says, “perish with the using.” I don’t in any way mean to say the faith of either historical or present-day Jews does not deal with deeper things than that which we can see, taste, touch, or feel. Or, that the plan of God for the Jews did not include things that may be forever hidden from us.
However, from the Biblical record which is the only record we will ever have that is directly from God, the Jewish people were an earthly people whom God called out from among the Chaldeans and promised them the land “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates.”
And even though it may be beyond our understanding, “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” How these things work out in the here and now may not be recognized, they may be misinterpreted, they may not even be noticed by the generation who witnesses them, but we can be assured when all is said and done it will all be done just like He said.
In the meantime, here in the flowing stream of reality we call the present and in its historical wake the whole pageant of Israel’s existence: their repeated rejection of God, their worshipping of idols, their almost deification of tradition ceremonies and laws, and finally their rejection and crucifixion of Christ, has come about so that all the people of the world could be adopted into the family of God.
The Jews were dispossessed of the land God promised them. They were scattered over all the earth. They have been persecuted, rejected, and the other people of the world have attempted to obliterate them. But God has preserved them while those who sought their destruction have themselves faced annihilation time after time. Their very existence has proven the reliability of God’s word.
There is an old story which goes like this: Queen Victoria, who was an agnostic, asked her Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli who was a Jew who had converted to Christianity, “If you can prove to me the existence of God I will believe.” Disraeli answered, “Madam, I can prove the existence of God with just two words.” The Queen taken aback by this calm assurance asked, “And what are those two words?” “The Jews,” her Prime Minister answered.
Whether or not the return of the Jews to their promised land after World War Two and the subsequent founding of the modern state of Israel is the long-anticipated ingathering foretold in scripture, which may be beyond our powers of perception, one thing is clear. The reestablishment of a Jewish state in the promised land is unequivocally a banner to all nations that God does not repent of His promises.
Here’s a New Testament promise we can all hold on to, “… if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2021 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook, Twitter, Gab, or MeWe @ Drrobertowens, or visit Dr. Owens’ Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event August 24, 2021
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When:
Saturday August 28 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday August 29 10 AM – 4 PM
Where:
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Sports & Events Center
100 Ben Chapman Dr
Hoover, AL 35244
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and four new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty-three of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
August 10, 2021
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We Can’t Do It On Our Own
There is something about us that makes us want to make everything about us. If there is any way to make it appear to anyone, everyone, or even just ourselves we will move any mountain, swim any sea, or rationalize any action to see ourselves as the center of the universe. And salvation falls into this same pattern.
For this reason, every religion man has ever devised has been built upon works. We must earn our way to heaven. That way we can take the credit.
I taught Comparative Religion for several colleges. During the semester as we covered the major and many minor religions of the world I would right on the board a section on each one. In these sections I wrote what it takes to receive salvation or make it to heaven in these different religions. At the end I asked the students to review all the sections and see if they could spot one striking similarity and one striking difference.
Inevitably at least one, often several, would discern that every religion except one required people to earn their salvation. And only one, Christianity, said salvation comes through faith alone.
Several times after this exercise students sought me out after class and accepted the Lord as their personal Savior. One time a woman brought in her whole family, and they all confessed Christ as Lord and professed their belief that God had raised Him from the dead.
We know there is a profound and life altering difference between a mental assent that Christ is Lord and a knowledge that God raised Him from the dead and a living faith in these two realities. The very faith we use to accept and profess is a gift from God. However, God gave us our intellect. He doesn’t mean for us to check our mind at the door when we enter His presence.
Learning the truth is a fundamental step towards accepting the truth.
The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart. Humanity does not need another teacher, a leader, or a new way of looking at life. The problem is that since the fall of Adam man has been spiritually dead. We are separated by an uncrossable gulf from God and each other. What we need is spiritual re-birth and reunification of fractured humanity.
Once we are re-created in Christ our feet are on the highway of holiness leading to life in, through, and with our Savior, but we aren’t merely passive passengers along for the ride. Because once we’re saved, we have work to do.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2021 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Parler, Facebook, Twitter, Gab, or MeWe @ Drrobertowens, or visit Dr. Owens’ Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event August 6, 2021
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When:
Friday August 6 4 PM – 9 PM
Saturday August 7 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday August 8 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Warren County Fairgrounds
1400 W 2nd Ave
Indianola, IA 50125
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and four new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Don’t Just Live Be Alive August 3, 2021
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All of humanity have physical life while we spend our moment upon the stage of the world. Most have a soulish, or mental life whether we exercise it or not. But only those who have been born-again and united with Christ have spiritual life.
Try to imagine a human being who has no wisdom or understanding, no mental activity beyond what it takes to move, eat, and exist. This person might be in great shape, but their true humanity would be gone, and they would exist more as an animal than as a human.
This is how it is when we have not been born from above or re-born of the spirit. We may be in great shape, we may even be famous, or rich, handsome, beautiful, and acclaimed by all but we wouldn’t be a child of God. We would be dead in our spirit and separated from all that truly makes life worth living: union with our Creator.
Like casting pearls before swine trying to explain spiritual things to anyone who hasn’t been joined to the Body of Christ and received the Holy Spirit is like trying to hold the opposite ends of a magnet together, they repulse each other by their very nature.
Think for a moment of any funeral you’ve ever attended. There was grief present. There may have been tears. There might even have been stunned silence as the mourners contemplated the suddenness of death and the transitory nature of lie. One thing that is never there though is the one in the coffin taking any notice of any of this.
And that’s just how it is with the spiritually dead. The life of God’s Spirit is going on all around them. His Spirit is upholding and maintaining the integrity of all creation. His Spirit is alive and working in all the born-again Christians walking around them all day every day.
There is no more recognition of the passage, the work, or the presence of God’s Holy Spirit among the lost than there is recognition of all the life going on around a corpse in a casket. The spiritually dead read the Bible as it was just another book. They think of God as if He were a moral principle, the force, or a myth. They think of being born-again as something other people do, something that makes no sense, or else they don’t think about it all.
A person who is blind isn’t startled when you turn on a light. A person who is deaf doesn’t jump when you yell at them. It’s the same with those who are spiritually dead and living comfortably in sin, they couldn’t care less that God is holy and that He will not abide sin. They are neither frightened of the consequences of their sin nor are they enthralled with the rewards of salvation. They are blind. They are deaf. They are dead. When we speak of the deep things of God to these walking dead, we might as well be speaking to a brick wall. We are casting our pearls before swine. There is only one message we should seek to share with the lost: repent of your sins, accept Jesus as your Savior, and find life.
The whole meaning of the Gospel, the good news delivered to humanity through Jesus Christ, is seen in His resurrection.
Sin, death, and the devil are defeated when Jesus triumphed over them in the pit of hell disarming principalities and powers making a public spectacle of them as He led captivity captive. We must never forget that He was perfectly sinless and that He was delivered to the executioner for our transgressions and then He was raised for our justification.
Jesus didn’t come to die and then rise again to raise our awareness or further our education. He didn’t live a sinless life and then suffer for the sinful merely to provide us with a moral guide. God didn’t sacrifice His only Son to establish a cultural tradition. No, the passion of the Christ happened so that humanity may learn the truth about God’s love for us and His provision of a way to return to Him and become His children. This is the truth, and the truth has been revealed so that we may be free.
When someone has been missing for a certain length of time the authorities begin looking for them. If when they find them, they’re dead, after notifying their nearest family what else is there left to do except burry them. Because once we’re dead, we begin to decay rather quickly.
Preaching the Word without the anointing of the Holy Spirit is no more than searching for dead bodies. For without the Spirit there is no life. An old story says that once a man had a heart attack and died in a spiritually vacant church and it took the EMTs half an hour to figure out which one was the physically dead among all the spiritually dead.
Having scoured the highways and the byways for those willing to give up an hour on Sunday morning and pay their tithes these blind leaders of the blind can do no more with the breathing corpses than burry them in an upholstered pew. They preach a socially relevant something being careful to end the service in time to make it to the local buffet before all the other stained-glass graveyards get out.
It’s amazing but true, many who have never experienced the new birth will dispute with those of us who have what it is, how it operates, and what it does within us. Leave the laws, traditions, and ceremonies of the world behind and find the freedom that God wants you to have in Christ Jesus and don’t just live, be alive.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2021 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Parler, Facebook, Twitter, Gab, or MeWe @ Drrobertowens, or visit Dr. Owens’ Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Dr. Owens’ Latest Book July 27, 2021
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America I’m Glad I knew Ya
In this book Dr. Owens offers his opinions and predictions about what is happening in America today and where we’re going. It ends with what he believes is the only solution to the dissolution of the Constitution and the decay threatening the world’s last best hope for freedom:
the United States of America
as a representative federal republic built upon democratic principles.
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event July 14, 2021
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When:
Friday July 16 4 PM – 9 PM
Saturday July 17 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday July 18 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Winnebago County Fairgrounds
Moss Hall Bldg. 1
500 West First St
Pecatonica, IL 61063
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and four new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Dr. Owens’ Latest Book June 28, 2021
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This book completes the trilogy of books Faith, Hope, and Love.
These books were written with two goals.
One, that they encourage and deepen the faith of my brothers and sisters
who have already confessed with their lips that Jesus is Lord
and believed in their heart that God raised Him from the dead
and are therefore members of the Body of Christ.
And two, that these books will be used as outreach tools.
Each word was prayerfully placed with the hope that they will be
a blessing somehow, to someone, somewhere.
That they will be a step along the road to salvation
in and through Jesus Christ.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event May 27, 2021
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When:
Friday May 28 4 PM – 9 PM
Saturday May 29 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday May 30 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Midwest Old Threshers
405 E Thresher Rd
Mount Pleasant, IA 52641
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and two new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Five books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, and Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Two books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, and Hope. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event May 20, 2021
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When:
Saturday May 22 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday May 23 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
St Charles Convention Center
1 Convention Center Plaza
St. Charles, MO 63303
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and two new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Five books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, and Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Two books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, and Hope. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event May 13, 2021
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When:
Saturday May 15 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday May 16 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Ozark Empire Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds E-Plex
3001 N Grant St
Springfield, MO 65803
Dr. Owens has three new titles published in 2020 and two new ones so far this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All Twenty of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Five books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, and Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Two books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, and Hope. The first in a series of six book in a commentary on the book of Ephesians. A book of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump. And The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
Here We Are May 10, 2021
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Uncategorized.Tags: Dr. Robert Owens, election of 2020, Evangelism, Gospel, Politics, Salvation
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For sixty years I’ve tried to warn people that unless we as Americans woke up and started paying attention our listing ship of state was going to crash into the iceberg of socialist authoritarianism. I held up the freedom and the uniqueness of our Republic, the equality it proclaimed, the prosperity it produced, and the liberty it protected. I extoled, cajoled, and foretold the coming of this long dark winter of our discontent. I tried to use reason, satire, and sarcasm and yet … here we are.
Fifty years of Cold War destroyed the Soviet Union. Twenty-nine years of victory destroyed the United States. All of our bravado, bluster, and hubris has accomplished is to make the post-Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev, “The Butcher of the Ukraine” into a prophet. He told us several things long years ago that we Cold Warriors laughed off as the rantings of a homicidal megalomaniac. Now they sound like a fire bell clanging in the night or the mournful peal for whom the bell tolls. Here are a few things Stalin’s clown, JFK’s nemesis, and our blood-soaked communist Jerimiah told us:
- “You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”
- “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”
- “The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.”
And as if pulling a page from the secret plan of the Masters of the Universe, he also said, “The press is our chief ideological weapon.”
I have spent decades blowing the trumpet. Many others have stood upon the wall and warned us that the enemy of freedom was already within the gates. Over and over America has been warned. And after all of that, the center has broken, the citadel has fallen, and according to the woke world rising all around us, we are now the barbarians within the gates.
So much for the chimera of reality that is the material world. What is here and now is merely what is here and now. Like distorted images we see in a cracked carnival mirror or the mirage of an oasis in the desert the shifting fog of history surrounding us is but a pale representation of God’s reality. The lying spirit of this world tries to tell us all truth is relative. The Spirit of Truth tells us, “… you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Now for the rest of the story.
For forty years I’ve been shouting this from the rooftops, “Jesus Christ is Lord!” All the rest, everything is just window dressing. This is the only truth that really matters. For as the old saying goes, “All things will pass, only those things done in Christ will last.”
The politics of this world are as fruitless as a dog chasing its tail. We’re gazing at our navel, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, enjoying a first-class seat on the Hindenburg. We’re investing our attention on things that perish with the using and have no eternal significance at all. I’m as guilty as anyone else. I’ve expended much of my thought, energy, and writing skills trying to preserve the freedom and liberty we’ve enjoyed here in America and yet … here we are. I wonder now if I ever encouraged even one person to turn off the game, set down the bear, and look at the shell game Ponzi scheme policies our elected leaders have used to herd us into the socialist corral?
I just can’t do it anymore. I can no longer spend the majority of my time on the minor things of life. I will devote my life to holding out the only hope there is for humanity, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As Paul presents it, “… that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures …” which leads to the ultimate gift of God, salvation, “… that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
That’s it. There are no Herculean tasks to accomplish. You don’t have to meticulously follow some prearranged path of prayer or works. Or, as the Word tells us, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast …” It’s all Him. He does it all. It’s His sheer unmerited favor that opens the door, and it’s His faith that makes it possible for us to believe. And once we are saved, we have an assignment. We are to be His witnesses.
I once was a sinner, lost and alone. I rejected God and served only my own passions and lust. Then Christ revealed Himself to me through His Holy Word. He touched me and made me whole. He gave me a new life, a Proverbs 31 wife, and a mission. That mission is to share what He has done for me with you.
And unlike my fruitless toiling in the fields of political punditry it will bring a harvest. “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” A harvest is promised and a harvest there will be.
You see even though most will ignore this trumpet call just as they ignored the one trying to save the great experiment that was the United States, I am assured that some will choose the right way, “For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Another promise, a few will find it. The Word says it, I believe, and that’s it. After false starts, wasted efforts, and misguided attempts … here we are.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2021 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Parler, Facebook, Twitter, Gab, or MeWe @ Drrobertowens, or visit Dr. Owens’ Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Unmasked December 15, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Uncategorized.Tags: Build Back Batter, Dr. Robert Owens, fraudulent votes, stolen election, stuffed ballot boxes, The Great Reset, the New World Order, Voter Fraud
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The roaring voice of all the rebels, free thinkers, green warriors, and New Agers have spoken through the bullhorn of Chicago-style vote counting and the one true outsider ever elected to the presidency is replaced by the quintessential political hack and the Establishment regains control of their swamp. And all the while the hopelessly deceived can’t see that their swallowed-whole public education indoctrination group-think mindset tells them they’ve struck a blow for freedom by empowering manipulators who will deliver the chains of authoritarianism.
But maybe I’m being too harsh? Just stay huddled in your home hoarding your toilet paper listening to the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media and the Tech Lords knowing they’ll tell you all you’ll ever need to know. Don’t forget to wear your mask if you dare to go out. And if you see too many cars in your neighbor’s driveway be sure to call the police, they might be pandemic-deniers who need some re-education.
Look for the coming Biden Boom to decimate our economy as his family’s benefactor, the Red Emperor, leads his slave state to become the largest economy in the world. The blessings of the Green New Deal will deliver millions of unemployed energy sector workers, four dollar a gallon gas, and rolling blackouts as a power mad bureaucracy of Gia worshipping tree huggers tell us what we can and can’t do with our own property. The “Tear Down the Wall” chants coupled with free everything will bring an avalanche of illegals overwhelming everything. Toss in a few new forever wars and presto-chango America First will be discarded in favor of a return to the glorious America Last policies of the Obama years.
As the coming avalanche of shutdowns, regulations, and bowing down to China destroys the greatest economy ever known ask yourself, “If we cook our Golden Goose, do we still get the golden eggs?”
Stand-by for coming announcements concerning those guns you thought you had a right to keep and bear. The governmental gun grabbers will seek to impose astronomical taxes on the guns you already have, on any you try to buy, federal forms to buy ammunition, liability for all gun manufacturers for any and all victims of gun related violence, and of course we must eliminate all those hateful “Assault Rifles” which probably means anything besides a double-barreled shotgun.
Some might say this is all a conspiracy theory but how can it be a theory when they tell us plainly what they’re planning to do.
And here is the tip of the ugliest iceberg of all. By what I am sure is just a bizarre coincidence the slogan of Placeholder Joe, “Build Back Better” is also the slogan for the Great Reset designed and promoted by the World Economic Forum.
What is the Great Reset? The WEF supplies the context, “The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making. The inconsistencies, inadequacies and contradictions of multiple systems –from health and financial to energy and education – are more exposed than ever amidst a global context of concern for lives, livelihoods and the planet. Leaders find themselves at a historic crossroads, managing short-term pressures against medium- and long-term uncertainties.”
Using that as a foundation they then describe the opportunity this crisis offers, “As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons. Drawing from the vision and vast expertise of the leaders engaged across the Forum’s communities, the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being.” Doesn’t that make you feel so honored?
As if to highlight the use of the Covid-19 plandemic for socio-political purposes former Chief of Staff in the Obama White House Rahm Emanuel, pontificating with fellow Democratic operative masquerading as a journalist George Stephanopoulos, on ABC’s This Week said, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste. Start planning for the future. This has to be the last pandemic that creates an economic depression. We’re going to have more pandemics, but this has to be the last economic depression.”
Back in the days before the return of the Ancien régime we used to call this the New World Order. Those of us stodgy enough to be hung up on our old fashioned uniquely American values and traditions thought that was a bad thing no matter how much our rulers tried to tell us it was all for our good. But now that the Woke have followed the orders of their programmers and helped provide enough electoral cover and support for the front men of the Deep State to steal an election we’re assured the Great Reset is for our own good. I wonder why it doesn’t make me feel so good.
Don’t worry all you cultural Democrats and fellow travelers on your Titanic of Blind Trust in anyone not the Donald, icebergs can’t sink this ship of state if we all pretend it’s unsinkable. While your pretending, if you can pretend masks work, please pretend I’m wearing one.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2020 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 23, 2020
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When:
Friday Oct 23 5 PM – 9 PM
Saturday Oct 24 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday Oct 25 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Iowa State Fairgrounds
3000 E Grand Ave
Des Moines, IA 50317
Dr. Owens has three new titles published this year.
Bring in a book to be signed or purchase one new. All sixteen of Dr. Owens’ titles will be available. His books include: Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Five books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom, and Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles some of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term. Five, 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), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. And two books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, and Hope.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
All That Really Matters September 14, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Uncategorized.Tags: Born-again, Dr. Robert Owens, Jesus saves, Salvation
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Back when I was an atheist and I believed this is all there is I was passionately interested in politics, economics, and current events. I was committed to working for my side and to defeating the other guy. Now that I’m a born-again child of God, a citizen of Heaven, and merely a pilgrim here I follow the ever-changing kaleidoscope of civic events more like a soap opera.
Yes, I understand that within this bubble we know as the space-time continuum the ins and outs of who’s up and who’s down actually make a difference. For example, it will have a profound impact on the United States whether we hand the government over to socialist revolutionaries or if we deliver it to capitalists. However, in the grand scheme of things this makes about as much difference as which queen bee is laying eggs in which hive.
I came to this level of a wokeness after years of Bible study, prayer, and fellowship with God. Just as a caterpillar goes through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly, I believe humans go through much the same process. Only instead of a two-stage process like a butterfly we go through three stages.
First, we’re a fetus (in Latin fetus means little one) for approximately nine months. Second, we’re born into this world and live here for as long as we do. And finally, we pass from this world into eternity. Let’s see: nine months, maybe 120 years, eternity. Which stage do you think is the real deal? The nine months prepare us for the 120 years and the 120 years prepare us for eternity. Two of these stages are merely steppingstones for the main event. Therefore, I contend that humans are in fact eternal beings who pass through two stages of development to become what we were created to be.
All that really matters in this stage of our development is the direction we’re facing when we leave it. Are we looking to God and putting our faith in Him? Or are we looking to the world still grasping for all it has to offer? Think of it this way: if when we’re a fetus inside our mother the umbilical cord is wrapped wrong or if there is a chromosomal problem we could enter life with some sort of handicap that we will spend the next 120 years dealing with. In the same way if we enter eternity facing in the wrong direction, we will spend eternity dealing with the ramifications of that choice.
From my personal Christian perspective here’s the 411 on how we turn from the world and face in the right direction.
Everyone can see that this world is broken. Evil runs rampant. The bad are rewarded. The good are crushed. Sickness, poverty, and oppression are on display in every direction. If God is good, why would He create such a horror show?
The easy answer is He didn’t. When He was done with creation He paused and looked around. Surveying all that He had done and it was “Good.”
Then man turned away from God, embraced Satan, and God cursed the world while at the same time promising that a Savior would come who would step on Satan’s head and deliver humanity from the grip of the evil we chose.
The price was a sinless sacrifice, the good for the bad. No human could do it because none of us has ever or could ever live a sinless life. Therefore, God sent His only Son, Jesus, to be incarnated as a human, live a sinless life, and then offer himself up as a sacrifice for us all. After His sacrifice Jesus descended into hell and as an eternal being suffered the punishment for every sin that had ever or would ever be committed. Then He was born-again in the very heart of darkness, triumphed over Satan, and God raised Him from the dead. Jesus led all those who had died waiting for this deliverance out of Satan’s grasp and emerged on the third day with the keys to death and hell.
After spending forty days instructing His disciples on how to carry the message of the best news ever to the world He ascended into heaven. Ten days later the Holy Spirit arrived and filled the new believers so that from then on they were no longer earth bound humans. They were instead wall-to-wall God birthed children of the Most High on a pilgrimage here with a mission to share their experience to be witnesses.
There it is in a nutshell. The word Gospel means “Good News” in old English. So, when you get filled to overflowing with all the bad news the world vomits up every day why not turn to the good news.
Don’t worry about what you can’t do anything about. Do you think if you missed one news broadcast or if you stopped watching them for ever it would make any difference to what is happening on the stage of the world or would the actors just keep reading their lines and playing their parts? The bad news impacts us more than we can ever impact it.
It’s like a joke making the rounds:
An English asks an Amish fellow, “Why isn’t the COVID rampaging through your communities?” The Amish fellow says without hesitation, “Because we don’t have any TVs.”
The TVs, radios, magazines, and papers may carry the news, but only the Bible has the Good News. It all comes down to choices: “choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” In other words no matter what, we’re all going to serve somebody. It will either be any one of the countless gods of this world or the one true God.
How do you make that choice? Is it by joining the right church? Is it by attending the correct services, worshipping in a certain way, or following any of the endless rules the world invents to complicate and build a barrier between us and the God who wants us to join His family? No! Not only has He made it simple He has made it easy. All we need to do is confess Jesus as the Lord of our life and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead and we will be saved. That’s it. Do that and we have joined God’s family. Then we can pour ourselves into His Word so that it’s life-giving Spirit will fill us and recreate us.
Forget about the bad news and study the Good News instead. Let’s “Eliminate the negative, accentuate the positive, latch on to the affirmative, and don’t with mess mister in between.”
Or to put it another way, “Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.”
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2020 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
Veteran’s Benefits Aren’t Entitlements March 10, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy, Uncategorized.Tags: Dr. Robert Owens, Forever GI Bill, Mission Act, National Roadmap to Empower Veterans, Veteran’s benefits, Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act
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Federal law requires everyone who enlists in the Armed Forces of the United States to take the enlistment oath. The oath is traditionally performed in front of the United States Flag. Everyone who has ever worn the uniform has said:
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
When every veteran took this oath to defend our country, our Constitution, and our way of life they presented the nation with a blank check to serve and protect We the People. That check was written with their lives, their bodies, and their sacred honor. They pledged to give their all. And as the saying goes, “All gave some. Some gave all.”
Those of us who have enjoyed generations of peace need to acknowledge our country is the home of the free because of the brave. We live our tranquil lives unmolested by hordes lurking beyond our borders who would love to pillage the richest nation the world has ever seen. From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Normandy from Flanders Field, Inchon, Khe Sanh, Fallujah, and ten thousand nameless battlefields in-between America’s best and brightest have fought selflessly and heroically.
Often, they’ve come home and quietly taken up their lives unrecognized by those of us who reap the benefits of their sacrifice. Sometimes they’ve been ridiculed, belittled, and even spat upon for the debt they paid for the rest of us. Mostly they’ve been forgotten. The benefits promised by a government swift to call and send but slow to remember were often second-rate, slow in coming, or denied all together. Administration after administration paid lip-service to our veterans while doling out benefits with a stingy hand.
But then came Trump.
Since his inauguration President Trump works tirelessly to provide the benefits and services our brave veterans deserve. He seeks to keep the promises made to generations of veterans. He’s leading the charge and winning the battle to finally give our heroes the homecoming they were promised, the one they’ve earned.
President Trump has declared, “My administration is committed to taking care of every warrior that returns home as a veteran.” As a case in point President Trump is ensuring our veterans receive the student loan and educational benefits to which they are entitled and deserve. He has previously noted the process by which our disabled veterans apply for Federal student loan discharges is too burdensome. Which has led to this sad reality; only half of the roughly 50,000 disabled veterans qualified to have their Federal student loans discharged have received this entitled benefit.
Consequently, on August 21, 2019 the President signed a presidential memorandum ensuring our totally and permanently disabled veterans obtain the Federal student loan debt discharges they’re entitled. The memorandum directs the Secretaries of Education and Veterans Affairs to develop a new expedited process to help totally and permanently disabled veterans have their Federal student loan debt discharged with minimal burdens. This combined with the Forever GI Bill which the President signed into law in 2017 allows individuals to access their veteran educational benefits at any point during their lifetime.
Turning to a more general assault on the stone wall standing for too long between our veterans and their earned benefits in June of 2017 the President signed into law the Veterans Affairs (VA) Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, making it easier to fire failing VA employees and support whistle blowers.
Since the passage of this act, the VA has successfully fired more than 7,600 employees who’ve failed our veterans. Previously the archaic rules of the bureaucratic swamp made it almost impossible to remove these roadblocks to the healthcare of veterans. Using the new streamlined policies, the VA has instituted reforms to increase efficiency and decrease abuse.
Consequently, VA healthcare has now significantly improved since President Trump was elected and trust in VA outpatient health care has risen in all areas.
Building the foundations necessary to win the victory in his Battle for the Vets the President signed the VA MISSION Act. This provides more healthcare options for veterans by consolidating existing programs and expanding access to care in veterans’ own communities. Eligible Veterans can use VA health care services nationwide, including through mobile health clinics serving rural areas and via telehealth (care through a phone or computer). Under the MISSION Act, veterans have more ways to access health care.
This includes within the VA’s network and through approved non-VA medical providers in your community, called “community care providers.” Depending on the situation for example, if a certain type of health service isn’t provided by VA the veteran may be able to go to a non-VA provider, using their VA coverage. This is one way to break the logjam which kept so many deserving Vets waiting in line until they died. Because of the reforms spearheaded by President Trump this is a victory for our heroes.
Stepping into a tragedy that unfolds in too many lives of those returning from service, President Trump signed a new Executive Order on a National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Veteran Suicide (PREVENTS) to address veteran suicide prevention. The executive order creates a new cabinet level task force led by VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. The task force will create a comprehensive public health road map bringing together local government along with the private sector to improve the quality of life for our Veterans and turn the tide on the Veteran suicide crisis.
“It is about pulling together the resources of the federal government, our states and localities our charities non-government organizations and coming together with a road map and resources,” said Secretary Wilkie.
The President said, “Our mission is to mobilize every level of American society to save the lives of our great veterans and support our veterans in need.” The President added, “To every veteran I want you to know that you have an entire nation of more than 300 million people behind you. You will never ever be forgotten. We are with you all the way.”
And remembering Ronald Reagan’s famous quote, “The best social program is a productive job for anyone who’s willing to work,” thanks to the roaring Trump economy since the President’s election, veteran unemployment has been reduced to the lowest level ever recorded.
The VA Secretary Wilke also said, “I’ve said many times that the mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs is to remind our fellow citizens why they sleep soundly at night. They sleep soundly at night because of the sacrifices of a select number of their fellow Americans.” This is a sentiment we would all do well to ponder.
The sum of all this adds up to one thing; Veteran’s benefits aren’t entitlements. They’re payments for services rendered and the least a grateful nation can give to the faithful few who answered the call.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2020 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
