Dr. Robert Owens Chronicles the History of the Future

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 5, 2024

Discipline a puppy and you’ll have a good dog.  Let it run wild and you’ll have a wild animal that might bite you.  The same holds true for children.

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 

Season Three Episode Fifteen June 4, 2024

In Episode Fifteen / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share one old-time gospel song: Jesus I’ll Never Forget and a newer praise song: Living He Loved Me.  And once again one of our homegrown songs: The Nashville Gospel. For our Bible study this week we tune into God’s revelation that salvation is needed by everyone, that it’s a free gift, and all we need to do is accept it to receive it.  We expose this through a look at Romans 3:9-20 and Ephesians 2:1-10. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) reading Essay # 3 from the book, Hope: “By Grace You Have Been Saved.” 

The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com and www.drrobertowens.com  All of Robert’s more than thirty books are available through Amazon.  We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.

An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens June 1, 2024

No one builds a ship to keep it in the harbor.

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 May 31, 2024

The lazy worship luck.

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 

All We Need to Know May 29, 2024

The Bible tells us Adam sold us down the river of sin.  His first sin, disobedience was followed by death; spiritual death or separation from God and then physical death.  The Bible also tells us no one gets a free pass.  Every one of us descended from Adam is born in sin and subject to death.  Because that first sin of Adam’s broke humanity’s relationship with God in every way.   

However, the far-reaching extent of this wasn’t apparent till God made it crystal clear to Moses.  Here’s what we learned from God’s detailed and explicit law: Sin is a yawning chasm separating us from God that leads to death.  We also learned that even those who don’t sin in the same way Adam did, by disobeying a specific command of God, sin in one way or another.  Consequently, we all experience both the spiritual and the physical end of life which is separation from God not just as an inheritance but as something each of us earns on our own.  

But God didn’t leave us hopeless.  When God cursed the serpent for tempting Eve to sin which is what dragged Adam into choosing fellowship with his wife over fellowship with his Creator, He also made a promise that from woman would come a Savior.  From the moment of the fall comes the hope of resurrection pointing ahead to the One chosen before the foundation of the world to get us off this one-way conveyor belt to hell.

To maintain God’s absolute justice sin had to be paid for.  The penalty of separation and death had to be fulfilled.  All humanity could ever do was continue the cycle over and over since everyone sinned and added to the burden of the verdict.  Then Jesus Christ, God Himself, came to bear the burden and pay the price becoming a sinless sacrifice, the just for the unjust.  His death foreshadowed by every sacrifice ever offered up under the Law.   

However, the blood of goats, bulls, sheep, and other animals could never cleanse from sin.  The best they could do was cover symptoms of sin through obedience to the commands of God.  They couldn’t deal with the root cause, separation from God because no human ever lived a sinless life after offering one sacrifice, so another was always needed, and death flowed like a river of sewage through the lives of all.  

Just as Adam’s sin brought death into the world one person condemning many the sacrifice of Jesus brings life into the world One person making the way open for many.  Though one foreshadowed the other and one fulfilled the other the gift of Jesus is not perfectly parallel to the death-dealing sin of Adam.  You see if Adam’s sin put all of humanity in the well-deserved black hole of separation from God, imagine what God’s undeserved gift poured out through Jesus Christ’s sinless sacrifice can do.  How can we possibly compare Adam’s death-dealing sin and Jesus’ life-giving gift?  The righteous verdict on Adam’s sin was the death sentence on everyone born of Adam.  The gracious verdict on the sacrifice of Jesus is this life restoring sentence on everyone born of Jesus, the second Adam. 

Here it is in a nutshell: Death which is separation from God gained the upper hand through Adam’s sin.  Now the astounding recovery of life, real life, life in union with God explodes in our spirit as soon as we’re born-again out of the descending line of Adam and into the ascending line of Jesus.  Since the price has been paid and an acceptable sacrifice made the just for the unjust everyone who accepts this absolutely undeserved and free life-gift sees reality flow back into the mold God initially wanted for humanity: Living, loving, and praising in union with Him.   

That’s the back story now for all you need to know: 

If we confess Jesus as the head of our life and if we believe in our hearts God raised Him from the dead, we will be saved.   

It just that easy and it’s yours if you want it. 

Season Three Episode Fourteen May 28, 2024

In Episode Fourteen / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share two old-time gospel song: Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus and He Set Me Free.  Our homegrown song for this week is, Jesus Would Have Gone to the Cross. Our Bible study this week focusses on God’s promise of a Savior as first revealed in Genesis 3:14-15 and as further highlighted in I Peter 1:17-21. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) Robert reads Essay # 2 from the book, Hope: “AllWe Need to Know.” 

The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com and www.drrobertowens.com  All of Robert’s more than thirty books are available through Amazon.  We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.

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

Turning over in bed never plowed a field.

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 May 26, 2024

If all we see is a good time, we’re wasting our time.

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 May 25, 2024

If we plant one row of corn, we shouldn’t expect to harvest twenty.

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 May 24, 2024

If we preach hate, we shouldn’t be surprised if we experience hate. 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