Derek Vreeland
@derekvreeland.bsky.social
✝️ Jesus-follower
⛪️ Pastor
📚 Author of Incarnation, Centering Jesus, & others
🎙️ Host: Peaceable & Kind Podcast
🏃🏻♂️ Runner (26.2, 13.1, 10K)
⛪️ Pastor
📚 Author of Incarnation, Centering Jesus, & others
🎙️ Host: Peaceable & Kind Podcast
🏃🏻♂️ Runner (26.2, 13.1, 10K)
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Derek Vreeland
@derekvreeland.bsky.social
· Jul 21
🚨 Big news! 🚨
All THREE BOOKS in the God in the Neighborhood Bible Study series are now available for preorder!
✅ Book 1: Incarnation | amzn.to/3GPA8VW
✅ Book 2: Crucifixion | amzn.to/459bNUk
✅ Book 3: Resurrection | amzn.to/40T0sp0
#BibleStudy
All THREE BOOKS in the God in the Neighborhood Bible Study series are now available for preorder!
✅ Book 1: Incarnation | amzn.to/3GPA8VW
✅ Book 2: Crucifixion | amzn.to/459bNUk
✅ Book 3: Resurrection | amzn.to/40T0sp0
#BibleStudy
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A great conversation with my man Rich Villodas talking about his new book, a devotional for Advent.
open.spotify.com/episode/3fnx...
open.spotify.com/episode/3fnx...
Episode 78: Waiting for Jesus: A Conversation with Rich Villodas
open.spotify.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A great conversation with my man Rich Villodas talking about his new book, a devotional for Advent.
open.spotify.com/episode/3fnx...
open.spotify.com/episode/3fnx...
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Pope Leo is right. What unites Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christians is much greater than what divides us!
Christianity unity, in fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer in John 17:21, is possible. If you want it.
#onechurch
Christianity unity, in fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer in John 17:21, is possible. If you want it.
#onechurch
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Pope Leo is right. What unites Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christians is much greater than what divides us!
Christianity unity, in fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer in John 17:21, is possible. If you want it.
#onechurch
Christianity unity, in fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer in John 17:21, is possible. If you want it.
#onechurch
What we usually call prayer, vocalizing our thoughts and needs to God, and Scripture reading aren’t two separate practices because much of prayer is listening.
And we listen for the voice of God as we open the Scriptures and read.
#prayer
And we listen for the voice of God as we open the Scriptures and read.
#prayer
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What we usually call prayer, vocalizing our thoughts and needs to God, and Scripture reading aren’t two separate practices because much of prayer is listening.
And we listen for the voice of God as we open the Scriptures and read.
#prayer
And we listen for the voice of God as we open the Scriptures and read.
#prayer
It’s Christ the King Sunday! As the Christian calendar winds down and we prepare for another Advent season, today we remember what is most foundational about the gospel: Jesus is King!
#ChristtheKingSunday
#ChristtheKingSunday
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s Christ the King Sunday! As the Christian calendar winds down and we prepare for another Advent season, today we remember what is most foundational about the gospel: Jesus is King!
#ChristtheKingSunday
#ChristtheKingSunday
In the opening lines of his timeless and monumental Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle writes, “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action as well as choice, is held to aim at some good. Hence people have nobly declared that the good is that at which all things aim.”
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In the opening lines of his timeless and monumental Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle writes, “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action as well as choice, is held to aim at some good. Hence people have nobly declared that the good is that at which all things aim.”
C.S. Lewis, a self-proclaimed rationalist, describes the necessity of imagination in order to make sense of those things that are true.
For example, think of Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd...”
For example, think of Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd...”
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
C.S. Lewis, a self-proclaimed rationalist, describes the necessity of imagination in order to make sense of those things that are true.
For example, think of Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd...”
For example, think of Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd...”
Does God have limits?
Yes, but not in the way we often think, because God cannot act against God’s own nature.
This isn’t weakness.
It’s perfection.
It’s coherence and consistency.
Yes, but not in the way we often think, because God cannot act against God’s own nature.
This isn’t weakness.
It’s perfection.
It’s coherence and consistency.
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Does God have limits?
Yes, but not in the way we often think, because God cannot act against God’s own nature.
This isn’t weakness.
It’s perfection.
It’s coherence and consistency.
Yes, but not in the way we often think, because God cannot act against God’s own nature.
This isn’t weakness.
It’s perfection.
It’s coherence and consistency.
Billy Graham in 1981: "I want to preserve the purity of the Gospel and the freedom of religion in America. I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. Liberals organized in the '60s, and conservatives certainly have a right to organize in the '80s...
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Billy Graham in 1981: "I want to preserve the purity of the Gospel and the freedom of religion in America. I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. Liberals organized in the '60s, and conservatives certainly have a right to organize in the '80s...
It is much more helpful to imagine America as a kind of Babylon and not a kind of Israel.
We pray for Babylon. We work for the peace of Babylon. We participate in the general life of Babylon but we recognize that Babylon is not our homeland. It’s not our source of identity, purpose, or meaning.
We pray for Babylon. We work for the peace of Babylon. We participate in the general life of Babylon but we recognize that Babylon is not our homeland. It’s not our source of identity, purpose, or meaning.
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It is much more helpful to imagine America as a kind of Babylon and not a kind of Israel.
We pray for Babylon. We work for the peace of Babylon. We participate in the general life of Babylon but we recognize that Babylon is not our homeland. It’s not our source of identity, purpose, or meaning.
We pray for Babylon. We work for the peace of Babylon. We participate in the general life of Babylon but we recognize that Babylon is not our homeland. It’s not our source of identity, purpose, or meaning.
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Jacob Needleman has me thinking about the value of not just solving problems but asking big important questions to get to real ideas, because “in front of real ideas, I become still. I am in question…”
#philosophy
#philosophy
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Jacob Needleman has me thinking about the value of not just solving problems but asking big important questions to get to real ideas, because “in front of real ideas, I become still. I am in question…”
#philosophy
#philosophy
Jacob Needleman has me thinking about the value of not just solving problems but asking big important questions to get to real ideas, because “in front of real ideas, I become still. I am in question…”
#philosophy
#philosophy
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Jacob Needleman has me thinking about the value of not just solving problems but asking big important questions to get to real ideas, because “in front of real ideas, I become still. I am in question…”
#philosophy
#philosophy
“The evidence is mounting: unchecked social media exposure is shaping us, not toward Christlike love or holy attentiveness, but toward division, distraction, and chronic anxiety.” - Glenn Packiam
Go read this!
open.substack.com/pub/glennpac...
Go read this!
open.substack.com/pub/glennpac...
Why Social Media Is Making Us Mad
New Scientific Research Confirms Our Worst Fears
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“The evidence is mounting: unchecked social media exposure is shaping us, not toward Christlike love or holy attentiveness, but toward division, distraction, and chronic anxiety.” - Glenn Packiam
Go read this!
open.substack.com/pub/glennpac...
Go read this!
open.substack.com/pub/glennpac...
It's frustrating when Christians choose to form their identity (or build their platform) based on who they are against. Especially when they do it in the name of "discernment" or "standing up for the truth" or "defending the word of God."
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's frustrating when Christians choose to form their identity (or build their platform) based on who they are against. Especially when they do it in the name of "discernment" or "standing up for the truth" or "defending the word of God."
Part of putting on the mind of Christ and thinking like Jesus is replacing the paradigm of "time vs. eternity" with "this present age vs. the age to come."
Jesus and the New Testament writers understood that they were living in this present evil age and there was an age that was to come.
Jesus and the New Testament writers understood that they were living in this present evil age and there was an age that was to come.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Part of putting on the mind of Christ and thinking like Jesus is replacing the paradigm of "time vs. eternity" with "this present age vs. the age to come."
Jesus and the New Testament writers understood that they were living in this present evil age and there was an age that was to come.
Jesus and the New Testament writers understood that they were living in this present evil age and there was an age that was to come.
A view from my deck!
#NorthernLights
#NorthernLights
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A view from my deck!
#NorthernLights
#NorthernLights
You’ve fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is this; never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!
#VizzinitheWise
#VizzinitheWise
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
You’ve fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is this; never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!
#VizzinitheWise
#VizzinitheWise
The kid is legal!
Congrats Dylan! You worked very hard to get to this point. Rage-baited and all. You are a great driver! I’m so proud of you.
#newdriver
Congrats Dylan! You worked very hard to get to this point. Rage-baited and all. You are a great driver! I’m so proud of you.
#newdriver
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The kid is legal!
Congrats Dylan! You worked very hard to get to this point. Rage-baited and all. You are a great driver! I’m so proud of you.
#newdriver
Congrats Dylan! You worked very hard to get to this point. Rage-baited and all. You are a great driver! I’m so proud of you.
#newdriver
We have spent so much time asking if we are prospering, productive, and well-protected people that we forgot to ask: Are we becoming good people?
#telos
#telos
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We have spent so much time asking if we are prospering, productive, and well-protected people that we forgot to ask: Are we becoming good people?
#telos
#telos
We fight against dying by being born again and again and again. Every day presents us with a new opportunity to get busy with the activities that bring us life, new life, born-again life. Without a pursuit of being born we will be overcome with the business of dying.
#chooselife
#chooselife
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We fight against dying by being born again and again and again. Every day presents us with a new opportunity to get busy with the activities that bring us life, new life, born-again life. Without a pursuit of being born we will be overcome with the business of dying.
#chooselife
#chooselife
Perpetual spiritual adolescents who are stuck in the shallow ground of a superficial version of the Chritian faith make a mockery of the redemption offered to us in King Jesus. Shallowness keeps us far away from the transformative power of the Spirit to form us into the image of Jesus.
#amwriting
#amwriting
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Perpetual spiritual adolescents who are stuck in the shallow ground of a superficial version of the Chritian faith make a mockery of the redemption offered to us in King Jesus. Shallowness keeps us far away from the transformative power of the Spirit to form us into the image of Jesus.
#amwriting
#amwriting