Dr. Robert Owens Chronicles the History of the Future

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens July 31, 2024

God is above, beneath, before, and after all things. 

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

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens July 30, 2024

God is the true center of all things no matter how things appear.

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

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens July 29, 2024

If we separate the God of blessings from the blessings of God, we are walking in grave danger like walking on thin ice in the dark.

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

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens July 28, 2024

Like tripping on a sunlit day and falling into darkness, the shadows of our sins will overtake us.

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

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens July 27, 2024

Regrets come in two forms: for what we have done and for what we haven’t done.  Ultimately regrets flow from missed opportunities to do what’s right.

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

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens July 26, 2024

We shouldn’t turn our backs and walk away from those who need help, our hand is the hand of God to them.

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 July 25, 2024

When we’re born again everything connected with our old life must go.  Whatever we hold onto will hold us back.

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 

My Witness July 24, 2024

When I was young, I was not a nice fellow.  Snakes would cross the street when I sauntered down the sidewalk.  My all-consuming passion was getting enough alcohol and drugs to help me forget something I couldn’t remember.  Playing music and living in a 24/7 party atmosphere was all I cared about.  Other people were collateral damage on my way to a buzz.  I had the name of my guitar tattooed on my arm so women would know where my loyalties lay. 

Spiritually I was dead inside.  I called myself an atheist and I was faithful to my boast.  Anyone who spoke to me of any religion was automatically consigned by me to irrelevance.  The closest thing I had to an actual conviction was a strident attachment to militant apathy.  I didn’t care about anything, and I couldn’t stand anyone who did.

That was my life until I was thirty.  Then God spoke to me.  God touched me.  God changed me.  God gave me a new life.  I was born again.

Today I can remember what I did in my former life, but I can no longer relate to it.  It as if my life before God was a movie I have seen.  I can recall the important scenes and the important characters, but I feel a complete detachment to being one of the actors in the plot.

God gave me a wife who is the love of my life.  He gave me a son who is my heir and friend.  He gave me a daughter-in-love who is the daughter I always wanted to have.  He has given me two grandchildren who are the joy of my life as a seasoned citizen.  He has allowed me to see miracles, plant churches, be a pastor, found ministries that fed and clothed thousands, watch people accept Him, watch people grow in Him, and hold the hands of people who went to join Him.

I was born again on Palm Sunday in 1980 so I just had my 37^th birthday as a child of God.  I give Him the glory for my life.  I give Him the honor that is His due.  I cannot even give a fraction of the love He has shown.  He is my source, my summit, and my all.

As we approach the celebration of His rising from the dead, I am reminded of the fact that it is faith that saves us and that not of our self for even the faith is a gift.  I look at all the traditions and customs we have developed in more than two thousand years, and I smile.  I pray that everyone who calls on His name has a blessed and joyous Resurrection Day.  Enjoy the season as best meets the requirements of your faith.

Let us all recall that if we confess Jesus as Lord and if we believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead we shall be saved.

That is the truth, the truth upon which all of reality rests.  That is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, all the rest is window dressing.  Just as one enjoys Italian food and another enjoys Chinese yet all food is good to those who like it.  So too, our traditions and customs if they do not detract from the truth of by who and how we are saved are all good.

Have a wonderful time with family and friends, co-religionists and those C&E Christians who make it standing room only at so many normally empty churches at this time of year.  Love them all and let God sort them out.  Just remember, the biggest surprise when we get to heaven in not who is there but that we are for it is not by works but by faith that we are saved.  The greatest saint and the worst sinner both need the Lord’s grace to enter in.

There is no sin so great that it cannot be forgiven if we lay it at the cross.  He knows us better than we can ever know ourselves and he forgives us.  Don’t labor under a load you were never meant to carry any further than the cross.  Give it all to Him and he will give you rest.

I praise Him for saving me.  I praise Him for giving me life.  I ask Him to open doors for me to serve Him.  And when I am gone there is but one eulogy, I wish anyone to hear, “God got the glory!”

Season Three Episode Twenty-two July 23, 2024

In Episode Twenty-two / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share one some more old-time gospel songs: Jesus Got Aholda My Life,  and Gone at Last.  We also share another of our homegrown songs: I just Want to Talk About Jesus.  In our Bible study this week we do something a little different. Opening the second chapter of Ephesians we read the first sentence of the first five paragraphs and the last five sentences of the final paragraph in the chapter.  This builds into a teaching on how we are saved and why. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) reading Essay # 16 from the book, Hope: “My Witness.”

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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens July 22, 2024

If we go along with the crowd we’re going to end up where the crowd ends up.

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