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Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.

Kingdom of God: 05×12 “Remember”

“There is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time” – Mark 10:29-30

  • Is everything good now?
  • “Be on guard”
  • Do we Christians live in the safe zone?
  • Go to the dark places
  • “Wise as serpents, innocent as doves”
  • Family and the Kingdom of God
  • Did Communism win?
  • What’s your 5-year plan?

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Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.

Good People: 05×11 “The Distance”

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:43-45

  • Rick’s calculus
  • What is hope at this point?
  • You’re survivors AND people
  • Dissent with Rick
  • “Just because we’re good people …”
  • Total Depravity
  • Love your enemy
  • Great Commission

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Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.

Character: 05×10 “Them”

“He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5:45

  • Filler?
  • Struggle to Survive
  • Too many characters
  • Hope
  • Why do we exist?
  • Common Grace/Intervention
  • When do you see someone’s character?
  • Hairsuits & Father Gabriel
  • Characterizing Christians
  • Would you drink the water?
  • Do you trust strangers?

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Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.

A Meaningful Death: 05×09 “What Happened and What’s Going On”

“To live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:21

Our inaugural episode!

  • A meaningful death?
  • Inevitability/Predestination
  • What does a Christian life look like in this world
  • Forgiveness
  • Hope
  • Is death better?

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Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.

Memento Mori: Theology and The Walking Dead

We discuss The Walking Dead from a distinctly Christian worldview.

What does the world of The Walking Dead tell us about what it means to be human? How does Christian theology inform our participation in this endeavor?

Join us as we break down each episode of The Walking Dead weekly.

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Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.

Welcome to the Christus Victor Podcast Network!

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The Freed Thinker is a podcast project spawned from years of study and discussion in areas of theology, philosophy, Biblical studies, science and many other topics. I try to be fair and balanced in my critiques of atheism and naturalism but also the problems I see in modern American Evangelicalism, Christian liberalism and Christian Fundamentalism.

 

MementoMoriPodcast

On Memento Mori we discuss The Walking Dead from a distinctly Christian worldview. What does the world of The Walking Dead tell us about what it means to be human? How does Christian theology inform our participation in this endeavor? Join us as we break down each episode of The Walking Dead weekly.

 

Ask a Millennial Christian

Ask a Millennial Christian is a call-in show where we answer questions on theology, culture, and news from the perspective of the most sought-after marketing segment of the day. Join us and participate in the conversation!

 

Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.

Is Rob Bell a Universalist? A Review of Love Wins.

Rob Bell: Love Wins - A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

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That seems to be the basic question that everyone has after the release of “Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.”

Yes.

The short answer is that yes, he is – albeit in a slightly modified way.

I will focus on laying out what, exactly, Rob Bell believes. I will not critique Bell’s re-imagining of hell, others have done so quite eloquently and they are worth reading. Instead I simply desire to show – through the almost constant equivocation – what Rob Bell appears to be saying.
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Owen grew up in Los Angeles and moved overseas after college. After a brief stint in political campaigns, Owen returned overseas as a missionary in Russia & Bulgaria with his wife and son.