Dr. Robert Owens Chronicles the History of the Future

Season Three Episode Thirteen May 21, 2024

In Episode Thirteen / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share an old-time gospel song: Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Jesus and one of our favorite songs: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.  The homegrown song we share this week is, Who Writes the Review. Our Bible study this week looks into the fourth chapter of Philippians (4:4-7) and based on the idea, “Why worry when you can pray?”  Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) Robert reads Essay # 1 from the book, Love, All that Really Matters. 

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 19, 2024

What we believe at twenty, has a way of shaping the rest of our lives.

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 17, 2024

What most of us call common sense is anything we learn before we’re eighteen.

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 16, 2024

Words can kill and words can give life.  We get to choose what kind of fruit we want to share.

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 

The Meaning of the Book of Revelation May 15, 2024

A twisted mess of conflicting desires.  We want what we want until we get it then we wonder why we wanted it to begin with.  So often the wanting is much more fulfilling than the getting because the having is always transitory and the losing is inevitable. 

Does that sum up your experience in the world?  It does mine until I met Jesus and committed my life to Him.  The answer never quite fit the question.  Or was it that the question never quite fit the answer.  Either way I always ended up halfway home half of the time standing on a cold corner waiting to die alone.

I was always asking, “What’s it all about?”  Everything seemed so senseless.  You work hard all your life and then you die with no U-Haul behind the hearse and no pockets in the shroud.  As they used to say in the old neighborhood, “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”

Once I gave my life to Jesus things changed.  Hope was birthed in my life and joy filled my heart.  Along the way I found two things that didn’t fit the mold of the having not fulfilling the expectation of the wanting.  Giving my life to Jesus has proven to be much more than I ever could have expected.  And the gift of my wife and the life we have together in Christ grows deeper each day and is better than I ever dreamed possible.

But as to the “What’s it all about?” question God did not leave us without an answer.  Many seek it in the Book of Revelation.  I have found it there and I want to share it with all who can receive it. 

In the Sci-Fi classic “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the mice ask the ultimate question, “What is the meaning to life, the universe, and everything?”  Although an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years eventually comes up with the answer, “42” it somehow leaves everyone a bit unsatisfied.

In real life there is an answer to this ultimate question.  His name is Jesus.

It is only through my hope in Him that I can walk through this hopeless world.  It is only through my joy in Him that I can face the sorrow of knowing that everything in this world that isn’t in Him is meaningless.  Life in this world is a race around a circle looking for a point.  You’re young forever until you’re old.  Almost everyone says, “If I would have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself” but few ever do even after they know this truth. The young disregard the old and the old disrespect the young.  One hand washes another yet neither hand is ever clean.

The religions of this world seek to make us gods.  The religion of God seeks to make us Gods’.  We cannot possess what we do not have and that which does not have us seeks to possess us.  We enter this world lost and God wants us to find Him so that we can find ourselves in Him.  What is the sound of one hand clapping?  It is the sound of fingers slapping the heel of our hand.  What is the answer to the unanswerable question?  It’s found in my exegesis of the entire book of Revelation in one sentence.

Jesus is God, God wins in the end, and no matter how bad it gets we should pray, “Even so come Lord Jesus.”

There you go.  That’s it.  In other words, “Know Jesus and know peace or, no Jesus and no peace.  Every one of us gets to choose for ourselves and in the perfect economy of God through His perfect justice each of us gets what we choose.

Season Three Episode Twelve May 14, 2024

In Episode Twelve / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share an old-time gospel song: Victory in Jesus and an old revival song: I’ll Fly Away.  The homegrown song we share this week is, Be Ready. Our Bible study this week looks at the first paragraph of the introduction to the Book of Revelation in The Message and Revelation 22:20 looking atwho God is and what He has done for us.  Robert reads another essay from the first in a series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) Robert reads Essay # 18 The Meaning of the Book of Revelation. 

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 13, 2024

When people reply without listening, we may end up with two one-way monologues disguised as a conversation.

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 12, 2024

The rich put their trust in money, they think it will insulate them from all the misfortunes of life, until it doesn’t.

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 11, 2024

A fool cares only about what they say paying no attention to the words of others.

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 10, 2024

Those who seek God find wisdom everywhere.

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