An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 30, 2024
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It’s our faith that makes us right with God not our righteousness.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 28, 2024
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When God decides it’s time for humanity to know something people around the world will think of it. This is an excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens. This and all his books are available from Amazon in paperback or kindle at Amazon
An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 27, 2024
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Look for leaders who can see.
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He Touched Me June 26, 2024
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God’s immediate immensity overwhelms me. He’s present everywhere and yet He’s present to me. There are more planets, stars, and galaxies than we have a number to describe. God created them all. He upholds them by the power of His word. And yet He touched me. He touched me and now I’m no longer the same.
The God shaped hole in my life ached for Him even when I denied Him. Stumbling like a blind man in a world filled with light I couldn’t see what me and I was around couldn’t see where I was going. Landing in a ditch I thought the fetid water was clear and the overgrown wilderness of weeds was a garden. Then He touched me and oh what joy filled my soul.
Raising me up from my graveyard of sin, He gave me a new life, gave me my soulmate as a wife, and allowed me to work in His garden. And since I’ve met this blessed savior, since he’s cleansed and made me whole, I’ll never cease to praise him I’ll shout it while eternity rolls, “He touched me, Oh He touched me, and oh the joy that floods my soul! Something happened and now I know He touched me and made me whole.”[1]
[1] He Touched Me by The Gaither Vocal Band
Season Three Episode Eighteen June 25, 2024
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In Episode Eighteen / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share one of the most popular Christian songs of all time, Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man Who Stilled the Waters, an old time gospel song: Gone at Last, and one of our homegrown songs which inspired the name of this podcast and is the one we use for a theme song, I Took a Right Turn. In the Bible study this week we look at the fact that Jesus wants to save and heal us all. To do this we open up Matthew 8:1-3. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) reading Essay # 12 from the book, Hope: “He Touched Me.”
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 23, 2024
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Christ rescued us from this evil world by offering Himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 22, 2024
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The gift of freedom in Christ is subtle and delicate, it is often perverted and often surrendered. This is an excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens. This and all his books are available from Amazon in paperback or kindle at Amazon
An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 21, 2024
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We shouldn’t let strong-arm religious tactics and the moral intimidation of wolves masquerading as shepherds to manipulate us into surrendering our freedom in Christ.
This is an excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens. This and all his books are available from Amazon in paperback or kindle at Amazon
An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 20, 2024
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God doesn’t coerce us from the outside He frees us from the inside.
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Does Any of This Make Any Sense? June 19, 2024
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Looking at the world around us it’s easy to find ourselves asking this question. When we see the suffering, the depression, the poverty, and the horror of everyday life for so many it’s hard not to see the nightmare reality of this world as a curse.
That’s a good place to start searching for the meaning in it all because it is a curse.
You see when God created the world He created it as a good thing, a wondrous, and beautiful thing. Here’s the rub; actions have consequences.
I’ve always thought if I ever found a perfect church, I’d spoil it by joining because I’m not perfect. Most of us mature enough in life to realize we aren’t quite what we could or should be. Some people never attain this level of self-awareness, and we judge them to suffer from a type of psychological problem known as narcissism. A central aspect of narcissism is grandiosity. That is, narcissists tend to think highly of themselves. In particular, they tend to have a positive view of themselves compared to other people.
Most of us don’t suffer from this malady. It is more often some form of feeling we aren’t good enough that plagues us. Those who stumble out of a dysfunctional family are all too often familiar with this one.
Whatever brand of psychobabble seeps through our lives working itself out in hubris and braggadocio or anxiety and self-doubt it doesn’t take a genius to figure out this world is messed up. Neither is it too complicated for the least perceptive among us to discern. All too often what the world calls good is bad and what the world calls bad is good.[1] This alone is enough to make us see the fractured carnival mirror reflection of justice that permeates our reality. Add to this our personal experiences and anyone who thinks we’ve found ourselves in a bed of roses may be fooling themselves, but they aren’t fooling anyone else.
Anyone who can walk through this vale of tears with no faith is a better man then I Gunga Din.[2]
I wasn’t able to do it. I made it till I was thirty years old and the meaninglessness of it all was on the verge of driving me to suicide. I kept coming back to if that’s all there is, my friends then let’s keep dancing let’s break out the booze and have a ball if that’s all there is.[3] However, I found living at the perpetual party at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe was not very uplifting and after a while I couldn’t even pretend it was fun.[4] How anyone can stagger through all this with no hope of anything beyond this is beyond me.
I can only pray that if they ever come to the end of themselves, they will look to God. That’s what I did and I was surprised to find that God was looking at me.
‘Why is the world so messed up? Because God made man His viceroy in this creation and instead of listening to God and doing things His way we listened to Satan and gave the whole shooting match away. The story is there for us in Genesis and because of that decision God laid a curse on the whole deal.
But He also gave us a promise at the same time that He would send a Savior. Jesus is that Savior. The penalty for disobeying God is eternal separation from God. The only way back is to live a perfect life which no one can do. So, God became a human, lived a perfect life, and then died for the sins He never committed as a substitute for us.
In doing this He defeated sin, death, and the Devil. He also opened the way for all of us to get in on the action. All we have to do is accept Jesus as our leader in life and believe that God raised Him from the dead and that’s it. The whole deal is reversed, and we’re once welcomed home. Let’s run like the prodigal to greet the Father who has waited for us, who greets us like the like lost child we are.
Does any of this make any sense? It does. As a matter of fact, it makes perfect sense.
You see no matter how messed up it is if we will accept God’s offer, if we will step past the end of ourselves and into His waiting arms the veil will fall from our eyes, and we will see this world for what it is: an incubator for the children of God.
It’s not a matter of seeing and then believing instead it’s a case of believing so you can see.
The Bible lays all this out in great detail. Anyone who’s interested can contact me for a guided tour.
[1] Isaiah 5:20
[2] Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
[3] Is That All There Is by Peggy Lee
[4] Restaurant at the End of the Universe the 2nd book of the trilogy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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