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Matthew 24:9-14 Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this...

Matthew 24:3-8 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" And Jesus answered them, "See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See...

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...

Chapters twenty-four and twenty-five of Matthew's gospel share Jesus' private teaching with his twelve concerning the destruction of Herod’s temple, Jesus' return, and the end of the age. At the core of this teaching is the reassurance that Christ will return for HIS elect despite the reality that HE must depart. We all desire to know when a beloved will return if he or she must go away. Love attr...

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 Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24 & 25 unpacks Christ's love for HIS people and HIS people's love and longing for Christ's return. Jesus instructs his disciples about the end of all time, his parousia, HIS eventual return, through direct discourse and by parables. In summary, today's passage, Jesus' finale, is a condemnation and a prophecy, but it is also a teaching on Christ's LOVE and the genui...

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 23:34-36 v1 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,v2 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the alter. v3 Truly...

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...

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets. Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. Yo...

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...

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. In Woe #6, Matthew 23:27-28 Jesus rebukes the scribes and Pharisees for an outward righteous and beautiful appeara...

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...

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.” Jesus follows his previous statements with figurative language that condemn the false piety of these religious leaders. He calls out these scribes for being eagerly driven on the single task of polishing up their public image. [v. 25a] “For you...

This passage of Jonah's prophecy depicts the repentance of the Assyrian Ninevittes following Jonah's brief message of judgment. A review of Jonah's prophecy of judgment from verse four will set the stage for a greater understanding of the mass repentance described in verses six to ten.
"Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be o...

Exaggeration of the unimportant can be the easiest way to gain the attention of others. The contemporary version of this is internet clickbait; an exaggeration of something that is truly unimportant but is expressed as the MOST IMPORTANT thing. It is the way that news media and social media influencers grab the attention of their followers and grow their base of influence. Hyperbole is a rhetorica...

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 third WOE in Jesus's Sermon of Seven Woes now shifts from the charge of closing the kingdom of heaven to the lost and for leading false converts into their religious legalism; to the charge of being blind guides, fools, and men who worship the created rather than the creator. They are the blind leading the blind to the gates of hell. The importance of the Jerusalem temple cannot be overstated...

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...

Jesus’ second Woe should guard the church against mistaking missionary and evangelism zeal with divine truth. This WOE is valuable to us to hear because we the Evangelical Church are tempted to look at missionary outreach and church growth as signs of God’s blessing. We mistakenly embrace large movements of evangelism and missions as validation that God loves us because of our dedication to spread...

Blessings and Woes are opposites that are regularly present in the scriptures. From the Old Testament historical books to the wisdom literature and prophets, we see God speaking directly to the patriarchs and kings and peoples of either blessings or woes. Blessing indicates a state of happiness or human flourishing and is often associated with a new beginning. Woes express sorrow or pity, usually...

Jonah: A Prophet This minor prophetic book is unique among all the books of God’s Prophets in that the theme of the book is more about the Prophet, the man than it is about the message that God gives to that man. Because this small book tells of a man being swallowed by a great fish, many scholars have dismissed the book of Jonah as a myth … as fiction. Unfortunately, one traditional way to study...

Whether it be too many responsibilities at work or at home, we can easily become overwhelmed and burdened to the point where we cannot handle what is expected of us. Sometimes others place too much burden upon us. Sometimes we are too blind to see what burdens we place upon others. We begin Matthew twenty-three by seeing the overwhelming burden of works-righteousness that the Jerusalem Temple lead...

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...

Good Resurrection Sunday Morning!! Our Lord has Risen!! He is Risen Indeed!! Today is the day for all Christians to remember and to celebrate our Savior Jesus Christ as HE has shown us all that Resurrection is not only possible but that Jesus himself, God’s Son, our Savior, alone has been and currently is the only person ever to conquer death. Resurrection is the truth that death no longer wins. D...