Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event October 30, 2020
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When:
Friday Oct 30 4 PM – 8 PM
Saturday Oct 31 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday Nov 1 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Mc Elroy Auditorium
257 Ansborough Ave
Waterloo, IA 50701
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
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
Empires Rise and Empires Fall October 21, 2020
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Almost everyone has heard the saying of Winston Churchill, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” It’s true that one of the most important benefits of studying History is that it gives us the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of others. However, a careful study of History teaches us that this seldom happens. Which is why I’ve added an addendum to Churchill’s famous saying, “Those who do study History are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.”
Looking back over the grand sweep of History we see that all nations and empires rise and fall. From the ancient cultures of China, Babylonia, Egypt, and Rome to more modern examples such as the Spanish, Russian, French, German, and British empires and in an almost textbook case the USSR we see that no matter how powerful, enduring, or effective these societies have been in projecting their power, providing an ordered life for their citizens, and maintaining control they’ve all passed from the scene.
We’ve all heard some of our self-declared enlightened pundits compare modern day America to Rome just before the fall. True there are many parallels such as military over-reach, deficit spending, inflation, crumbling infrastructure, and metastasizing bureaucracy. I guess the example of Rome is used because so many people can relate to it.
However, if we look at the other examples mentioned we see that these same deteriorating conditions existed across the board. These malignant outgrowths of the hyper centralization of government are often highlighted and pronounced by pontifical pundits and academics as the litmus test for evaluating where along the trajectory to the dustbin of History a society may be at any specific time.
While not disputing that these indicators of decay are evident as waystations to dissolution, I would like to add one more that is seldom if ever mentioned: the rise of leaders who betray the central values, ethics, and morals upon which the society stands.
John Adams, one of the principle framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution who served as the first Vice President and as the second president said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
In many ways America has morphed from a shining city on a hill into a cesspool that makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like puritan pitstops on the way to Pee-Wee Herman’s playhouse. However, we’re still the go-to destination for all the poor huddled masses around the world. One of the problems of this is that most of them have never known anything besides authoritarian socialist government. And though the tragic results of those governments are what caused them to make the perilous journey here they seem to automatically vote for the American version of the failed systems they left. Much as the refugees from California, Illinois, and New York all appear dedicated into turning Iowa, Arizona, and Maine into smaller versions of the failed states they’ve fled. With these uninformed additions along with those who vote not by thought but by habit we currently have roughly half the people in America ready to vote for the final transformation of our country into a socialist paradise à la Venezuela.
The reason this governmental rot appears to be spreading like COVID in our society is that we as a people have lost our moorings. We’ve abandoned the fundamentals of the Christian faith: first, to love God above all else and second to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
The outward societal expression of this love does not mean we should turn the safety net of compassion established for the needy into a hammock for the lazy. But it does mean we should provide decent and respectful care for those who cannot care for themselves while encouraging everyone to achieve to the best of their abilities. It does not mean we should facilitate or allow violence and civil unrest. But we should provide and protect space for the free exercise of free speech in all its many forms. It does not mean that we should tax people into poverty and spend future generations into hopelessness. But we should contribute for the maintenance of a government of, by, and for the people. And that government should be filled with citizen legislators. Not professional politicians, intent only on keeping an iron grip on power so they can line their own pockets and those of their families and supporters with the loot confiscated from others.
Once we instinctively knew these things. They were the mother’s milk of American pride and self-reliance. Today after generations of students taught what to think instead of how to think we are faced with the spectacle of masses of people supporting socialism who don’t know the history or the 100% tragic results of socialist experiments through History. We’re confronted with shouting mobs crying out for the centralizing agenda of dedicated statists in the name of anarchy and with continuing conflagrations in our cities ignited by people who want better lives while burning down their own neighborhoods.
What we need is a revival of Christianity in an increasingly pagan America. Let those who see the light be the beacons of love Christ called us to be not conduits of condemnation who turn their noses up at anything that doesn’t resemble them or theirs. Living as we do in a representative republic which operates with democratic input, we as citizens should vote our conscious. Vote only for those who will uphold your beliefs remembering always that when we choose the lesser of two evils, we’re still choosing evil.
The ultimate source for our guidance as always is God’s Word. Speaking through the author of Second Chronicles the Spirit tells us, “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” And on a more personal note Joshua exhorted the ever wavering Israelites saying, “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, 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.”
And while God’s Word is the ultimate source of wisdom there is much to find among the words of men. Winston Churchill reminded us, “A nation that forgets its past has no future.”
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 15, 2020
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When:
Friday Oct 16 4 PM – 9 PM
Saturday Oct 17 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday Oct 18 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Westfair Fairgrounds
22984 Highway 6
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
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
He is the Head We Are the Body October 13, 2020
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As the body of Christ, we are His hands, His feet, and we should strive to speak His words, see with His eyes, and love with His heart. We’ve been washed in His blood and we are the redeemed.
And this is not merely a spiritual renewal though that is the foundation of all that flows from it. We are renewed when we reckon ourselves dead to this world and alive to God. When we put off the old man born in sin in the line of Adam and are re-born in the likeness of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the second Adam.
This action: cleansing the sinner of all guilt and making us able to stand in the throne room in the very presence of God with no shame or feelings of inadequacy may seem extravagant. Paul tells us that we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, and that all this is not some hap-hazard addendum. No, it flows directly from all God’s wisdom and prudence.
This action on God’s part not only impacts the spiritual renewal of the believer. It also leads to a physical and mental renewal which the believer experiences here-and-now. This is the redemption of our bodies.
And just as Christ is redeemed now so is the believer who is in Christ Jesus. Our bodies will someday be glorified fully in the presence of God, but in the here and now we taste the first fruit of our redemption in the total renewing of our lives. For as members of the body of Christ, as children of God, as joint heirs together with Jesus we are born of one baptism and filled with one Spirit. We are the body and Christ is the head.
However, since we are born of the flesh as descendants of the first Adam. Conceived, born, living in sin, and the members of a lost and degraded race, we must be redeemed and sanctified before we can enter the kingdom of God. Remember we were chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. Once we have accepted Christ as our Savior and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead this inheritance is our possession
However, we must possess our possessions for them to do us any good. If we don’t accept the love of God in and through Christ Jesus, they are just so many gifts lying about unaccepted.
The Life is in the blood. And it is the shedding of His blood that is the first action in the unfolding of our redemption. This is the Good News and it’s the best news ever. Christ poured out His blood so that we might be freed from our burden of sin. There is no longer an unbridgeable gulf between God and humanity. The sin life, the sin nature that the first Adam assumed when he disobeyed God and then passed on to all his offspring has been washed away in the blood of Calvary.
Lord, let us see with your eyes, hear with your ears, love with your heart, and touch with your hands. As we strive to be about Your business send us somewhere to be a blessing to someone somehow.
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 9, 2020
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When:
Friday Oct 9 5 PM – 9 PM
Saturday Oct 10 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday Oct 11 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Hawkeye Downs
4400 6th St SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
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
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Dr. Owens’ Next Book Signing Event
When:
Friday Oct 9 5 PM – 9 PM
Saturday Oct 10 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday Oct 11 9 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Hawkeye Downs
4400 6th St SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
His books include: 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, & 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, & Make America Great Again – AGAIN. Five History Books: America Colonial History, The Azusa Street Revival, The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same, America Won the Vietnam War & Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life & Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. COGIC History: The Dark Years. & 2 book designed 2 strengthen & encourage Christians called Faith, & Hope.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at:
Believe it Confess it Receive it Live it October 6, 2020
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Here’s one of those fifty cent words we Christians throw around, Omniscient. In other words, God is all knowing. Since He’s the Alpha and the Omega the first and the last He knows the end from the beginning and everything in between.
All of which brings forward a question that’s a mystery often presented as a conundrum some people pose as a veiled attack against the reality of God.
They ask, “If God knows everything doesn’t that mean He knew Adam would fall even before He created him in the first place? So why do we make a big deal about God making a way for salvation when He created man to fail?” Some even compare this to the fireman who starts a fire then calls in the alarm so that he can become a hero for putting it out.
The biblical answer for this is found in Paul’s rendition of the story of Pharaoh hardening his heart against God found in Romans chapter nine:
For the Lord says of Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” Therefore, He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
That’s it. “Does not the potter have power over the clay?” Remember what we were originally “God formed man of the dust of the ground. Adam was nothing but a clay mannequin until God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” It was only after this that “man became a living being.”
We are the clay. He is the potter. And the fact that He made one “for honor and another for dishonor” is none of our concern. It is the fact that He made a way for the dishonorable to become the honorable is what this is all about.
The first work of God for our salvation was His decision that He would make a way for us to become not only reconciled to Him but actually become His children. This is not based on anything we’ve done, will do, or could ever do. It is not because of any good which is in us. It is based solely on the love of God.
This truth gives us perfect security and assurance in our transitory world of sin. For the love of God never fails, never wavers, and is always everywhere dependable, reliable, and ever present. What can the world do to us when we’re safe and secure in the love of God?
Paul expressed this perfectly in his letter to the Romans, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Though all may be saved not all will be. All of us were born in sin. We carry embedded in our fallen bodies the burden of Adam’s original sin. Then along the way we all contribute to that sin burden ourselves. All these sins were paid for at the cross. All of us can have Adam’s sin as well as every sin we have ever or will ever commit washed away by the blood of Christ’s sacrifice however, not all will avail themselves of this glorious gift.
Look at it this way; if I purchase a brand-new car and I offer it to you. If you accept the gift it is your car. But if you refuse to accept it, it may have been purchased for you, it may be waiting right there in your driveway, but if you don’t accept the gift it isn’t yours.
From the first moment that we confess Christ as our Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead we’ve walked in the kingdom of God. Our steps may still be visible in the natural world, but we’re walking in the Spirit. Before that, satan held the title deed to our lives. We were born into the line of the first Adam, sold in sin and separated from God. But, once we’re born-again we stand in the line of Christ, the last Adam.
God places us in His family, and He has work for us to do. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
And since He has work for us to do, He has prepared us for that work. Every gift, every talent, every opportunity we have has been strategically placed in us and in our lives to help us fulfill the mission God has for us. He doesn’t send us on to the battle without equipping us for the fight. We aren’t some kind of busted up, raggedy sinner who just barely scraped in by the skin of our teeth. No! We’re the born-again children of God bought with the precious blood of Christ. In Him we are the righteousness of God.
We’re washed in the blood of the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world. Believe it. Confess it. Receive it. Live it. We not only stand blameless before God our Father we stand redeemed and holy in the love of Christ, children of God received before the throne not as one who lived a wasted life of sin, but instead as one set right, accepted, and honored as a member of the Body of Christ, a living stone in the temple of God.
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
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