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About Us
About Interpreting the Times &
Dr. David Bowen
I have often heard people who have grown up in a Christian home and have been going to church since they were a child say they don’t have much of a testimony because all they have ever known has been church. They may not think they have much of a testimony, but I have always felt envious of people like that because I grew up being the complete opposite. My family never went to church. I never had the Sunday school experience learning about all the stories of the Bible. I never came home from a VBS singing about “Father Abraham had many sons…” I didn’t hear about the Lord until my mid 20’s. To begin to understand the Bible I had to go buy a children’s Bible story book just to learn about Moses, Abraham, and King David.
"My family never went to church...my childhood revolved around sports."
My childhood revolved around sports, particularly baseball. In my teenage years my family moved several times causing me to go to three different high schools in three different parts of the country: New Jersey, Alabama, and Arizona. Each time I had to try out for the varsity baseball team with no prior local reputation as a ballplayer. I made each team and succeeded in each state and went on to play college ball, however a high school knee injury caused me to fail a physical, eventually costing me a college baseball scholarship and an arm injury ended a short professional career which was filled with broken promises and failed dreams.
With no desire to do anything other than play ball and with no college degree I was searching for purpose. Living with family in New England, a TV show called Spencer for Hire came to Boston. I decided to check it out and before I knew it, I was on the set meeting some great people and learning about television. I had zero experience with theater, and I never had a desire for the stage, but being on location filming a TV show was exciting. Actors say you don’t get paid to act; you get paid to wait. That is true. Each scene can take hours to set up and get right. In that downtime I talked to everyone. The people I connected with the most were the stuntmen. I thought what they did was cool. I felt with my athletic background, I could do what they did. After a few months I was told if I was serious, I needed to move across the country and get to Los Angeles, so I loaded up my car and off to Hollywood I went.
In California I sought out stunt work. How does one get started? How do you become a stuntman? I did the same thing in LA that I did in Boston. I went around and started meeting people and asking a lot of questions. Eventually I came across some young guys who were just beginning to form their own independent production company. I always enjoyed writing and we connected so I joined their team and began to learn how to produce feature films. It took a couple of years, but our first film was released by MGM/UA and that opened the door for more possibilities. I was young, in Hollywood, and enjoying life.
"...for the first time in my life, I heard the Word of God."
But then a dear friend of mine, a true stuntman, invited me to a Monday night Bible study and for the first time in my life I heard the word of God. God took a hold of my heart, and He has never let go. I was hungry and wanted more and more of the Bible. I ended up walking aways from the dream of Hollywood and just wanted to serve God. Again, with no background but with a lot of desire I didn’t know where to start. I was hired by a Christian para-church organization whose ministry was reaching out to kids in street gangs. They mainly did family counseling. I thought "what if I brought acting and baseball into their program? What if we open a youth center and create some activities?" They loved the idea, and I was able to use my baseball, and Hollywood past to reach kids caught up in street gangs.
From there I was hired by Youth for Christ and eventually I was hired as a part time Youth Pastor. God then opened a door for me to go to seminary without an undergrad degree. Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California had a program available, and I was accepted into seminary. At the same time, I met my wife and was married two months before starting seminary. Life was moving fast!
Pastor Dave, Dr. Dave, Professor Bowen
Thirty years later my wife and I are still in ministry. Together we started a church, opened a preschool, and became involved in many different aspects of ministry. God brought baseball back into my Christian life. For six years I was a chaplain in professional baseball. God brought movies back into my life as I was approached by Worldwide Pictures (Billy Graham’s ministry) to write a feature film called "The Ride".
In 2010, God began laying on my heart a passion and the desire to understand and teach about end times. He brought some wonderful people into my life who were well established in end times ministry. That led to creating and hosting a weekly local radio show in Phoenix, Arizona. After five years of local radio, God opened the door to be on national radio. I currently have a TV show airing out of El Paso, Texas and I write weekly articles and do a weekly video teaching for a national prophecy ministry.
God opened the door for me to earn a doctorate degree from Anderson University in Anderson, South Carolina and He created an opportunity for me to become a university professor at a well-known Christian university. Currently, as Pastor Dave, I still pastor Standing Stones Community Church, the church my wife and I started twenty years ago in Phoenix. As Dr. Dave, I speak at conferences and host TV shows, & as Professor Bowen I teach at the university level.
"My heart and my passion are for Bible prophecy and end times."
But here is why you are on this page. My heart and my passion are for Bible prophecy and end times. Why? Because of the hour we live in but also because I have found there is a great need for solid Biblical teaching on this topic. Churches shy away from the topic of end times, yet, when I speak around the country, I can tell you there is a deep hunger to understand the day we are living in. The book of Daniel explains that as God revealed to Daniel the truth of the coming Tribulation period God told Daniel to seal up what was revealed to him because the truth Daniel received was not for his day, it was for a day in the future. It was for people who one day would understand the days of the end and have a desire to know more about eschatology. Folks, we are living in the days God told Daniel about! Welcome to Interpreting the Times!
ENDORSEMENTS
“Dr. David Bowen is one of the most effective preachers of Bible prophecy on the scene today. His presentations are neatly organized and focused, and they are beautifully illustrated with PowerPoint slides. Most important, he delivers them with an infectious zeal for the Lord’s soon return. I highly recommend him to churches and conferences seeking a spiritual feast.”
Endorsed by Dr. David Reagan,
Founder of Lamb & Lion Ministries
"What I appreciate about Pastor Dave is his guts to begin asking the question: what should we as believers do about all these technical advancements? ...Pastor Dave is taking strong leadership. I commend and appreciate his heart for those that need more instruction on Biblical Eschatology and End Times signs. Especially for pastors and leadership in our Churches today. Let’s reward men that stand up in this season with our attention, willingness to share, and like and subscribe."
Scott Townsend,
I Am A Watchman.com
