Sovereign Grace Baptist Church

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

Don’t you hate getting caught doing something that you are not supposed to be doing? You know those times when you sneak to get that last piece of apple pie from the fridge late at night and then your wife walks in? Or if your kids pull out their favorite toy when they are supposed to be reading or going to bed? Think about that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach when mom catches you in the...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

I am an advocate for military service for young men and women. I wish that our military could persuade more young people to volunteer for at least two years of military service because the benefits of focus and discipline cannot be ignored. Matthew 24:36-44 is a passage that calls for the church to remain alert as if one is to wait for someone important to come home. It is a call by our LORD to be...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

Can we trust everything that Jesus says? Of course. He is trustworthy and always true. We must trust only what scripture says about Jesus and what Jesus himself said about salvation and the kingdom of heaven, but we can also trust the teachings of Jesus by HIS own actions. Eschatology is the theological category of thinking about Christ's second coming and the last days of judgment. Scripture ofte...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

The apostles of the church were dedicated to the gospel and to the church to the point of death. Of Jesus’ twelve apostles, all were martyred except John the Beloved but he did die in imprisoned exile. The apostle Paul also faced a martyr's death from beheading. Luke’s account of Jesus’ life and ministry was followed with a second volume we now call the Acts of the Apostles [ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ]. Ch...

The responsibility that Christ Jesus gives the apostles and elders to steward God’s house is a heavy burden. Honestly, it is a calling of responsibility that no one could adequately do. The primary stewardship is over the sheep that the God the Father gave to Christ, the Son. Jesus prays to His Father in Heaven: “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours th...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

Sometimes men think differently than women or children. I know this is hard to comprehend by some in our overly hostile-against-the-patriarchy culture, but men think and act in ways that are truly beneficial to the church. A man, that is a good man, a godly man, will focus on the protection or guardianship of his home. The idea of a husband comes from the agrarian practice of stewarding the land....

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

The apostles delegated the practical ministry of distribution of benevolence to the poor because they saw that what was being neglected was their most important ministry for the church. Not only were the needs of the widows and the poor being neglected, so too was the critical need for prayer and preaching. Prayer and ministry of the word was the most important ministry that the apostles could pro...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

Disconnection brings chaos while unity brings amazing passion and hope. What do I mean by this? Have you ever rushed out of the door in the morning to find little Susan crying in the bathroom, little Johnny hiding in a closet somewhere, the car keys have vanished, and the dog just broke away from his leash outside and is digging up the neighbor's prized petunias. Or imagine the separation of famil...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

Olivet Discourse: So Will Be The Coming The sign of a great story, a great movie, or a great novel, is that the climax does not dissapoint. The narrative will drop hints that draws the listener into a longed for event. When this climax happens, the listener or, participant in the story, feels the excitement as not the end of the story, but simply the beginning to a deeper truth of the story. The c...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...

Matthew 24:15-22 15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 18 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 19 And alas for women who are preg...

This podcast feed hosts the public teaching ministry of Dr. Bryant K. Owens. I am an independent scholar exploring Christian Studies in today’s secular world. I believe that thoughtful Christianity can bring meaningful change in our churches, classrooms, homes, and communities. With years of experience as both a pastor and educator, I am passionate about the historical Christian worldview and the...