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. 

​All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

​When atheists hear conversion stories that begin with, “I was a staunch atheist and then  . . . ”, they tend to roll their eyes and doubt the claim. However, this is exactly what happened to me. I had been a 150-percent atheist and materialist for almost forty years before I embarked on a spiritual journey that ultimately, after many twists and turns, led me to belief in God and Christianity. I had no life crisis, no epiphany, and no spiritual experiences at all. It was the result of purely rational, scientific, philosophical, and historical arguments that gradually changed my mind as a scientist. Here is my story.