Derek Vreeland
✝️ Jesus-follower
⛪️ Pastor
📚 Author of Incarnation, Centering Jesus, & others
🎙️ Host: Peaceable & Kind Podcast
🏃🏻♂️ Runner (26.2, 13.1, 10K)
- Crucifixion, the next God in the Neighborhood Bible Study, releases in TWO WEEKS. Eight passages on the death of Jesus from The Message for personal devotion or small groups. Pre-order now for Lent: amzn.to/4a5G1Ji Join the Launch Team👇 forms.gle/VdYugbYZYmm6...
- I have been gathering some exegetical observations on the death of Jesus in the book of Hebrews. It is too long to post here, but if you are interested you can read about it on my Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DUQ1Nmjkey... #atonement #exegesismatters
- Praying the Psalm for the day has shaped my prayer life by giving me language and honesty before God. To help you pray the psalms, I created the Daily Office Lectionary and Psalms with dated psalms for every day. Get it here: amzn.to/4pzTv5S #prayer #psalms
- And so it concludes… #LOTR
- “In this phial is caught the light of Eärendil’s star. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be to you a light in dark places, when all other lights go out.” – The Lady Galadriel to Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring #lotr #light #epiphany
- Mon Mothma said it best: “Of all the things at risk, the loss of an OBJECTIVE REALITY is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of TRUTH is the ultimate victory of evil.” #truth #monmothma #andor #starwars
- Lord have mercy. The time for de-escalation is long past. Praying for peace in Minneapolis. #deescalateICE apnews.com/live/minneap...
- The psalms give us a language of prayer. They teach us to feel, to lament, to express our complaints. They teach us to trust God and praise. The psalms teach us to pray. #Psalm23
- Check out my podcast interview with Louis Markos as we talk about his new book From Aristotle to Christ. We talk about Plato and Aristotle and why reading the ancient Greeks can help Christians today. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0TQY...
- “Curiosity can be a kind of saving grace to prevent stalled spiritual development.” - @brianzahnd.bsky.social
- Congrats to Winfield Bevins on the release of How Beauty Will Save the World, a beautifully written book on the need and necessity for Christians to reclaim the liturgical power of the arts. Go get this one! amzn.to/45O0HEh #arts #beauty #book #newbook
- De-escalation is the road to peace. This is my prayer. “May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!” - Psalms 29:11 NRSV #ICE #peace
- Don't discount the power of the spiritual discipline of just showing up—showing up for the sake of others. #community #church
- I NEED YOUR HELP! The next two Bible studies in the God in the Neighborhood Series drop February 17, just in time for the seasons of Lent and Easter. I need YOUR help to spread the word. If you want to join the launch team, fill out the form here: forms.gle/3GFc6SEFF6bW...
- “The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit….evening passed and morning came, marking the third day.” - Genesis 1:12-13 NLT Jesus was the seed laid in the ground that produced the vegetation of new life on the third day. #Jesus
- My new Bible study, Crucifixion: 8 Lessons on How God Saves Us, releases next February 17, just in time for the season of Lent. If you want to encounter the heart of God revealed at the cross and reflect on the love that saves, get a copy! 👉 Preorder: amzn.to/459bNUk
- I’m stunned and grieved. I have no stones to throw, just a sinking sense of lament and sorrow. The scourge of sin leaves such deep wounds. Lord have mercy. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/auth...
- Handing over a 13,229 word, 30 page, book proposal (that includes three sample chapters) to your agent, feels like a significant thing. Publishers are free to say no. Only one needs to say yes! #amwriting
- Remember Maslow’s hammer when nations start dropping bombs or launching military strikes. Lasting peace requires we put our hammers down. #peace
- Treebeard, in Tolkien’s The Two Towers, sums up my feelings regarding taking sides. #LOTR
- And so it continues… #LOTR
- “The Word of God Himself assumed humanity that we might become God.” – Athansius, On the Incarnation “What God is by nature, Christ enables us to become by grace, that is perfected in love.” - @brianzahnd.bsky.social
- Merry Christmas! 🎄 “And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” - Luke 2:10-11 KJV #ChristmasVibes
- Taking a little break. I’ll be back for Christmas! #Advent #socialmediabreak
- And so it begins… #LOTR
- A great conversation with my man Rich Villodas talking about his new book, a devotional for Advent. open.spotify.com/episode/3fnx...
- Eating Turkey is not biblical. Enjoy that bird, sinners. #biblicism
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...”
- 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.
- 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.
- Go Eat Pop Corn #IYKYK
- There is beauty all around us. If only we have eyes to see it. #autumnvibes🍁
