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)
Read the entire Apostolic Letter here: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (23 November 2025)
LEO XIV APOSTOLIC LETTER IN UNITATE FIDEI ON THE 1700 th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA ____________
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November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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When we live as hypocrites, we can be successful in the eyes of others. We can get things done and stack up our accomplishments, but we fail to become what is most fundamental.
We fail to be good.
(Only wrote 600 words today, but these are some of them.)
#amwriting
We fail to be good.
(Only wrote 600 words today, but these are some of them.)
#amwriting
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
When we live as hypocrites, we can be successful in the eyes of others. We can get things done and stack up our accomplishments, but we fail to become what is most fundamental.
We fail to be good.
(Only wrote 600 words today, but these are some of them.)
#amwriting
We fail to be good.
(Only wrote 600 words today, but these are some of them.)
#amwriting
Maybe we have forgotten this primal instinct.
We have spent so much time asking if we are prospering and productive people that we forgot to ask ourselves, “Are we becoming good people?”
We have spent so much time asking if we are prospering and productive people that we forgot to ask ourselves, “Are we becoming good people?”
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Maybe we have forgotten this primal instinct.
We have spent so much time asking if we are prospering and productive people that we forgot to ask ourselves, “Are we becoming good people?”
We have spent so much time asking if we are prospering and productive people that we forgot to ask ourselves, “Are we becoming good people?”
We have been created in the image of God who is pure, untainted, infinite goodness. And all that God has made is good, indeed it is very good (Genesis 1:31). Though we may define what constitutes "the good" differently, don’t all people everywhere, deep down, want to live for some kind of good?
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We have been created in the image of God who is pure, untainted, infinite goodness. And all that God has made is good, indeed it is very good (Genesis 1:31). Though we may define what constitutes "the good" differently, don’t all people everywhere, deep down, want to live for some kind of good?
The quote is taken from “Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare." Read the whole essay here: ourendgame.com/wp-content/u...
ourendgame.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The quote is taken from “Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare." Read the whole essay here: ourendgame.com/wp-content/u...
Jesus is not literally going to take you to a green field or to a still lake. Lewis' point is that if you cannot imagine these things, then you will not understand what is meant by “the Lord is my shepherd.”
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Jesus is not literally going to take you to a green field or to a still lake. Lewis' point is that if you cannot imagine these things, then you will not understand what is meant by “the Lord is my shepherd.”
In order to understand the meaning of God as our shepherd, we need an active imagination of green pastures, still waters, right paths, the valley of the shadow of death, the shepherd's staff, and a banquet table with enemies.
These are all poetic metaphors.
These are all poetic metaphors.
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In order to understand the meaning of God as our shepherd, we need an active imagination of green pastures, still waters, right paths, the valley of the shadow of death, the shepherd's staff, and a banquet table with enemies.
These are all poetic metaphors.
These are all poetic metaphors.
These “limits” aren’t limits on divine power. They’re clarifications about divine character.
God isn’t limitless power. God is love, pure goodness untainted by evil or absurdity.
This is the God made famous by Jesus.
#Godisgood
#goodtheology
God isn’t limitless power. God is love, pure goodness untainted by evil or absurdity.
This is the God made famous by Jesus.
#Godisgood
#goodtheology
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
These “limits” aren’t limits on divine power. They’re clarifications about divine character.
God isn’t limitless power. God is love, pure goodness untainted by evil or absurdity.
This is the God made famous by Jesus.
#Godisgood
#goodtheology
God isn’t limitless power. God is love, pure goodness untainted by evil or absurdity.
This is the God made famous by Jesus.
#Godisgood
#goodtheology
Moral evils are not options for God. God cannot deny the goodness that defines who God is.
Logical absurdities are not options for God. God cannot make a round square or create a rock too heavy to lift.
Logical absurdities are not options for God. God cannot make a round square or create a rock too heavy to lift.
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Moral evils are not options for God. God cannot deny the goodness that defines who God is.
Logical absurdities are not options for God. God cannot make a round square or create a rock too heavy to lift.
Logical absurdities are not options for God. God cannot make a round square or create a rock too heavy to lift.
...but it would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it."
#KingJesusGospel
#KingJesusGospel
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
...but it would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it."
#KingJesusGospel
#KingJesusGospel