Category Archives: Book Summary List

1 Kings (Nov 2022-Jan 2023)

Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of 2 Kings published by Tom Vander Well from Nov 2022-Feb 2023. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

1 Kings 1: Game of Thrones

1 Kings 2: Settling the Family’s Accounts

1 Kings 3: The Revelation of Storage

1 Kings 4: Solomon: Most Wise Fool

1 Kings 5: Purpose and Legacy

1 Kings 6: Sacred Space

1 Kings 7: “However…”

1 Kings 8: Prescience

1 Kings 9: Legendary

1 Kings 10: The Man Solomon

1 Kings 11: Rockstar Realities

1 Kings 12: Generations

1 Kings 13: Directives

1 Kings 14: God and Tragedy

1 Kings 15: Influence

1 Kings 16: Power and Chaos

1 Kings 17: Elijah: A Pivotal Character

1 Kings 18: “The People Said Nothing”

1 Kings 19: Blessed in the Running

1 Kings 20: The God Commerce

1 Kings 21: Life’s Slideshow

1 Kings 22: The Importance of a Name

2 Kings (Jan-Feb 2023)

Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of 2 Kings published by Tom Vander Well in Jan-Feb 2023. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

2 Kings 1: One Thing

2 Kings 2: Transitions

2 Kings 3: An Easy Thing

2 Kings 4: The God of Leftovers

2 Kings 5: “Consider” This

2 Kings 6: The Difference a Dinner Makes

2 Kings 7: The Message in the Moment

2 Kings 8: Thoughts on the Prophetic

2 Kings 9: The Leadership Difference

2 Kings 10: Cardiac Self-Examination

2 Kings 11: The Spare and the Savior

2 Kings 12: Wrong Person for the Job

2 Kings 13: Seasons of Life

2 Kings 14: Humiliating Defeat

2 Kings 15: How the World Works

2 Kings 16: Destructive Deference

2 Kings 17: “But He Also…”

2 Kings 18: Sacred Things

2 Kings 19: “Right”

2 Kings 20: “Trust the Story”

2 Kings 21: The Untold Stories

2 Kings 22: Life “By the Book”

2 Kings 23: Lost and Found

2 Kings 24: The Prescribed Pattern

2 Kings 25: Into the Wilderness

Jeremiah (Mar-Jun 2023)

Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Jeremiah published by Tom Vander Well in Mar-Apr 2023. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

Jeremiah 1: Certain Calling in Uncertain Times

Jeremiah 2: The Bride

Jeremiah 3: Faith-less or Un-faithful?

Jeremiah 4: Shooting the Messenger

Jeremiah 5: When to Say “Enough”

Jeremiah 6: Cross Road Blues

Jeremiah 7: The Smorgasbord of Words I Want to Hear

Jeremiah 8: “Good Luck Charm” Religion

Jeremiah 9: Mourners Need Not Apply

Jeremiah 10: The “Portion of Jacob”

Jeremiah 11: Dictates Don’t Change Hearts

Jeremiah 12: The “Boney Finger”

Jeremiah 13: The Shaming

Jeremiah 14: What I Want to Hear

Jeremiah 15: Learning the Lesson (or Not)

Jeremiah 16: A Great Day

Jeremiah 17: Scarred Hearts

Jeremiah 18: The Pertinent Question

Jeremiah 19: The Essential Ingredient

Jeremiah 20: The Man of Constant Sorrow

Jeremiah 21: Surrender

Jeremiah 22: Do the Right Thing

Jeremiah 23: The Shepherd & the Hired Hand

Jeremiah 24: Seasons of Struggle

Jeremiah 25: The Cup

Jeremiah 26: Painful Truths

Jeremiah 27: Truth or Security?

Jeremiah 28: The God In My Image

Jeremiah 29: Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

Jeremiah 30: Way, Is, & Yet to Come

Jeremiah 31: A New Covenant

Jeremiah 32: Up From the Ashes

Jeremiah 33: The Journey’s End (or Not)

Jeremiah 34: Repenting My Repentance

Jeremiah 35: Profound Simplicity

Jeremiah 36: Controlling the Narrative

Jeremiah 37: Wanted: A Prophet

Jeremiah 38: Under Siege

Jeremiah 39: “D-Day”

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Daniel (Feb-Mar 2023)

Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post and podcast for the book of Daniel published by Tom Vander Well in February and March 2023. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post or listen to the podcast.

Daniel 1: Serving the Enemy

Daniel 2: “A God in Heaven”

Daniel 3: Culture and Compromise

Daniel 4: Macro and Micro

Daniel 5: Weighed & Found Wanting

Daniel 6: The Filling Station

Daniel 7: Golf Dream

Daniel 8: “About the King’s Business”

Daniel 9: A Pattern of P.R.A.Y.E.R.

Daniel 10: My Mind is Set On…

Daniel 11: AP Prophetic Lit

Daniel 12: “Go Your Way to the End”

Habakkuk (Jul 2022)

Each photo below corresponds to the chapter-a-day post for the book of Habakkuk published by Tom Vander Well in July of 2022. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

Habakkuk 1: Habakkuk’s Cry
Habakkuk 2: Sleeping with the Enemy
Habakkuk 3: “Yet, I Will Rejoice”

Revelations (Jun-Jul 2022)

Each photo below corresponds to the chapter-a-day post for the book of Revelations published by Tom Vander Well in June and July of 2022. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

Revelations 1: The Rabbit-Hole and the Three Questions

Revelations 2: Hearing the Simple Message

Revelations 3: Spiritual Self-Exam

Revelations 4: Crowns and Surrender

Revelations 5: The Alpha Point and the Omega Point

Revelations 6: “What Do You Expect?”

Revelations 7: “Every Nation, Tribe, People, & Language”

Revelations 8: Ignorant, Mindful, & Ready

Revelations 9: “Gonna Change My Way of Thinking”

Revelations 10: Justice

Revelations 11: Prophetic Pondering

Revelations 12: Not of this World

Revelations 13: My Choice

Revelations 14: Wisdom to Know the Difference

Revelations 15: The Bigger Picture
Revelations 16: Love and Justice

Revelations 17: Rogues Gallery

Revelations 18: The Funeral

Revelations 19: The Wedding

Revelations 20: The Books

Revelations 21: Death-to-Life

Revelations 22: The End is the Beginning

Judges (May-Jun 2022)

Each photo below corresponds to the chapter-a-day post for the book of Judges published by Tom Vander Well in May and June of 2022. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

Judges 1: Git ‘er Done! (or not)

Judges 2: This Chain That I Must Break

Judges 3: The “I” in Idolatry

Judges 4: Women and Prophets

Judges 5: Deborah the Leader

Judges 6: Willingness

Judges 7: Different Ways

Judges 8: King, or Not?

Judges 9: Two Paths

Judges 10: Leaders are Not One-Size-Fits-All

Judges 11: Childish Notions

Judges 12: And So, It Begins

Judges 13: Living a Great Story

Judges 14: Achilles’ Heel

Judges 15: Who I Don’t Want to Be

Judges 16: A Confession

Judges 17: Order, Disorder, Reorder

Judges 18: Willful Independence

Judges 19: Violent Times

Judges 20: Tribal Instinct and Higher Law

Judges 21: Series of Unfortunate Events

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Joshua (Mar-May 2022)

Each photo below corresponds to the chapter-a-day post for the book of Joshua published by Tom Vander Well in March, April, and May of 2022. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

Joshua 1: Succession

Joshua 2: “That Woman”

Joshua 3: Pivotal Moments

Joshua 4: Memorials

Joshua 5: Upstaging

Joshua 6: A Different Way

Joshua 7: Life-Long Lessons

Joshua 8: Awareness and Ego

Joshua 9: Shrewdness

Joshua 10: Evolution of Conversation

Joshua 11: Facing the Giants

Joshua 12: We are Family

Joshua 13: My Inheritance

Joshua 14; Dense Fog Advisory

Joshua 15: Family Patterns

Joshua 16: Small Things, Big Consequences

Joshua 17: The Land of Entitlement

Joshua 18: Go!

Joshua 19: The Reward

Joshua 20: Justice Then and Now

Joshua 21: A Good Place

Joshua 22: The Fear Factor

Joshua 23: Success(ion) and Failure

Joshua 24: At Your Service

2 Chronicles (Jun-Aug 2018)

Each photo below corresponds to the chapter-a-day post for the book of 2 Chronicles published by Tom Vander Well during the summer of 2018. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.

2 Chronicles 1: Childen’s Stories, Powerball, and a Really Good Question

2 Chronicles 2: Family Business

2 Chronicles 3: “It’s Boring!” (Until You See the Connections)

2 Chronicles 4: “Sea”

2 Chronicles 5: The Work

2 Chronicles 6: “Hello?!! Yo! Tom!! I’m Right Here!!”

2 Chronicles 7: Mine, Yours, Ours

2 Chronicles 8: Not Getting It

2 Chronicles 9: The Hard Facts

2 Chronicles 10: The Wisdom of Those Who’ve Gone Before

2 Chronicles 11: It’s Not About Me

2 Chronicles 12: Faith, Strength, and Suffering

2 Chronicles 13: Differences In Interpretation

2 Chronicles 14: Hamilton, History, and Me

2 Chronicles 15: The Slog Will Give Way to the Passion

2 Chronicles 16: The Spiritual Barometer of Comfort

2 Chronicles 17: Reduced to a Label

2 Chronicles 18: When the Opening Hints of Doom

2 Chronicles 19: Overturning the Scales on the Spiritual Economy

2 Chronicles 20: The Implosion of Evil

2 Chronicles 21: The Epitaph Being Written Today

2 Chronicles 22: The Story is NOT Over. The Story WILL Go On.

2 Chronicles 23: Time is Not My Enemy. She’s My Dance Partner.

2 Chronicles 24: Transition of Leadership

2 Chronicles 25: Matters of Heart

2 Chronicles 26: The Strength That Leads to Destruction

2 Chronicles 27: The Junior Babcock of History

2 Chronicles 28: When Trouble Unexpectedly Blows In

2 Chronicles 29: Carrying Out the Filth

2 Chronicles 30: “Return”

2 Chronicles 31: Fail, Rinse, and Repeat

2 Chronicles 32: The Improbable Actually Happens

2 Chronicles 33: Paying Heed

2 Chronicles 34: The Book and the Journey

2 Chronicles 35: Who Will Sing for Me?

2 Chronicles 36: Time, Distance, and Perspective