We cannot understand our times, or know what we should do in them, unless we see our times in the larger framework of history. There is a framework of history, and Christians can know it. Jesus reveals it to us in the parable of the wheat and the tares, and this is the subject of our study.

The field is the world, where the Son of Man goes forth daily, sowing seeds of the Kingdom. The enemy seeks to thwart His work, but to no avail. On the final day of harvest at the end of the age, the Lord returns not to a weed field, ready to be burned, but to a glorious wheat field, infested with weeds, but brimming with fruit for the Kingdom and glory of God.

Is this our understanding of history? If so, then we will order our lives accordingly. If not, then we are probably allowing our under-the-sun contemporaries to tell us how we ought to live, while our under-the-heavens calling to the Kingdom and glory of God languishes without fruit.

Men and brethren, these things ought not be.

​ReVision studies are designed as brief introductions to the subject under consideration. We hope they will enlarge your worldview, help you to become more firmly rooted in Scripture, equip you to minister to others, and stimulate you to want to learn more about the Word of God and the Biblical worldview.

Our friends and neighbors who have chosen to live under the sun rather than under the heavens congratulate themselves for having outgrown what they consider the childish and futile practices of religion.

But nothing could be further from the truth.

Our secular friends are as seriously religious as we are. They’ve simply chosen to follow a religion other than that of the Bible.

Secularism is a belief system and, therefore, merely another form of religion. But what does it worship? How does it counsel us to live? And how’s it doing as a religious faith?

These are some of the questions we will explore in this study as we continue seeking to understand the times in which we live, so that we as Christ’s witnesses might know what we should do.

​ReVision studies are designed as brief introductions to the subject under consideration. We hope they will enlarge your worldview, help you to become more firmly rooted in Scripture, equip you to minister to others, and stimulate you to want to learn more about the Word of God and the Biblical worldview. 

Christians have been sent to the world as Jesus was sent, to embody and announce the coming of God’s Kingdom on earth, as it is in heaven (Jn. 20.21; Acts 1.8).

This is a high and holy calling. It’s also a daunting challenge. To succeed in this endeavor, we’ll need to be like the sons of Issachar, who understood the times in which they lived, and thus knew what Israel should do (1 Chron. 12.32). These are secular times, times when people live “under the sun” rather than “under the heavens.” Which means that many people today are living a lie.

This helps to explain why their lives lack significance, purpose, and joy. Everything about their worldview ends in death, thus denying even their fleeting moments of happiness any real or abiding significance. If life is a banquet, then all the fare is vanity, and feeding on the wind.

Solomon knew about living under the sun. But he also understood living under the heavens, and in the book of Ecclesiastes, he imparts wisdom for those who think they can beat the odds, live it up, deny God, and somehow find lasting happiness.

His advice to the people of his day is as sound for us as it was for them. His observations can be of much help to us as the seek to understand our times and know how best to fulfill our callings.

ReVision studies are designed as brief introductions to the subject under consideration. We hope they will enlarge your worldview, help you to become more firmly rooted in Scripture, equip you to minister to others, and stimulate you to want to learn more about the Word of God and the Biblical worldview

Nobody likes to be thought of as strange.

Yet many of our secular contemporaries think of those who believe the Gospel as strange, perhaps even dangerous. So disenchanted has their worldview become, that they have no place for spiritual realities or God – or weird people like us who believe such things.

But our calling is to present the strange truth of the Gospel to our neighbors in ways that help them see that maybe it’s not the Gospel that’s so strange after all.

In this study we’ll look at Paul before the philosophy club of Athens, to see what we can learn about helping our unbelieving neighbors, co-workers, and friends understand the truth that is in Jesus.

​ReVision studies are designed as brief introductions to the subject under consideration. We hope they will enlarge your worldview, help you to become more firmly rooted in Scripture, equip you to minister to others, and stimulate you to want to learn more about the Word of God and the Biblical worldview.