Books by Ron Owens

The Song We Sing is a story that came within hours of never being written!

Lessons Learned from a Funny-Looking BearThe stories in Gang Gang and Baboomba Bear go back to when my grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Underhill, whom I called Gang Gang, would put me on his knee and tell me story after story about a very special bear that lived in the forest near the lumber camp where he worked in New Brunswick, Canada. He was such a good storyteller that I remembered many of them years later and passed them on to my own grandsons, Ethan and Evan who, along with their parents, encouraged me to write some of them down.But there was more to Gang Gang than storytelling. In his younger years, he was also a world champion log-roller. I remember reading about him in a clipping from the Montreal Gazette. But as proud as I was of his accomplishments, to me, he was a quiet witness of a life lived to please God. I watched him as I grew up, and his example would eventually play an important part in my becoming a follower of Christ.About the AuthorRon "Grah Grah" Owens was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada. His father, John Thomas Owens, was a church planter, and as a result, the family lived throughout the eastern Canadian provinces before moving to Switzerland. Ron's early interests were largely focused on ice hockey and track in which he won considerable recognition for his achievements in both. After returning to North America to further his studies, he cultivated his love for music as well. Ron met his wife, Patricia, in a music conservatory in Rochester, NY, and together they travelled in North America and many other countries as a music team. They have written many songs and several musicals that have been translated and performed in other languages. Ron is also the author of several biographies, books on worship, and an English/Russian language book of poetry published by Moscow's Center for World Culture. Ron and Patricia have one son, Jeff, a daughter-in-law, Jessica, and two grandsons, Ethan and Evan.

ABOUT THE BOOK:Nothing is higher on God's agenda for Himself and for His people than worship. To God worship is so vital that to fail to experience genuine worship is fatal. Yet it is possible to go through life thinking we have worshiped without ever having done so. Any study of worship is incomplete without a life-action response. This six-week interactive study presents a process where God brings you face-to-face with His truth, then guides you to an interaction with that truth. This study brings the pastor, staff, church leaders, and congregation to a mutual conviction regarding what worship is as God has revealed it in His Word. The purpose of this study is to help a church corporately come to unity of heart and life in their understanding and experience of God's requirements and standards for worship. Week 1: What God Did in Creation Week 2: Why God Is So Central in Worship Week 3: What Is God's Standard for Acceptable Worship? Week 4: The Lifestyle of a Transformed Worshiper Week 5: Heaven's Pattern for Worship Week 6: What Would Happen if We Returned to Worship?ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Henry Blackaby has spent his life in ministry. He has served as a music director, Christian education director, and senior pastor in churches in California and Canada; his first church assignment was in 1958. Following his local-church ministry, Dr. Blackaby became a Bible college president, a missionary, and an executive in the Southern Baptist Convention. In the early 1990s, Henry Blackaby became one of North America's best-selling Christian authors and committed the rest of his life to helping people know and experience God.Ron Owens has ministered as a worship leader, and through music, in many areas of the world, teaching, composing, publishing, and recording, along with his wife, Patricia. Their music has been translated into several languages. He was worship and music consultant for the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, as well as Associate to Henry Blackaby for ten years. Ron and his wife presently minister in conferences and churches in the United States and abroad, with special emphasis on worship and revival.