Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Psalms published by Tom Vander Well beginning in July 2020. Posts will be added as they are published. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post. Chapter and title are found in the caption of each photo.
Psalm 1: In the Flow of Life
Psalm 2: Refuge in Royally Troubled Times
Psalm 3: Been There, Done That
Psalm 4: David’s “Seven Steps”
Psalm 5: Of Layers and Flow
Psalm 6: “Get it Out, Little Dude”
Psalm 7: The “Why Me?” Blues
Psalm 8: The Honor of Creation
Psalm 9: Running to the Same Stronghold
Psalm 10: The Perplexing Mystery
Psalm 11: Faith or Flight
Psalm 12: Much Needed Affirmation
Psalm 13: The “How Long” Blues
Psalm 14: People-Eaters
Psalm 15: Cutting the Mustard
Psalm 16: “I’ve Got Your Back”
Psalm 17: Just Appeal
Psalm 18: Praise-to-Plea Ration
Psalm 19: A Good First Step
Psalm 20: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Psalm 21: Oracle
Psalm 22: Prophecy & Professor Trelawney
Psalm 23: The Predicate
Psalm 24: Of Rules and Appetites
Psalm 25: The Disorder Blues
Psalm 26: “If I Really Believe What I Say I Believe…”
Psalm 27: The Feed
Psalm 28: Patterns
Psalm 29: Of Storms and Shelter
Psalm 30: Hope and the Pit
Psalm 31: My Times
Psalm 32: Spiritual Pivot-Point
Psalm 33: Sui Generis
Psalm 34: The Story Behind the Song
Psalm 35: Guernica
Psalm 36: Captive Brain
Psalm 37: The Simple, Complex Mystery
Psalm 38: The “Woe-is-Me” Blues
Psalm 39: “SIT ON IT”
Psalm 40: Eye Opening
Psalm 41: Betrayal
Psalm 42: Of Corruption and Cravings
Psalm 43: Chain Reaction of Praise
Psalm 44: The “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” Blues
Psalm 45: Love Song
Psalm 46: Refuge Within
Psalm 47: King of the Mountain
Psalm 48: Thin Places
Psalm 49: Wisdom and Winnowing
Psalm 50: The Religion Game
Psalm 51: A Psalm 51 Moment
Psalm 52: The Impotence to Respond
Psalm 53: Same Song, Only Different
Psalm 54: Prayer of Desperation
Psalm 55: Lament (and Parenting)
Psalm 56: Fear Response
Psalm 57: Highest Authority
Psalm 58: Getting it Out
Psalm 59: Surrounded and Slandered
Psalm 60: The “Bitter Defeat Blues”
Psalm 61: Postcard Promises
Psalm 62: The Mystery of the Missing Word
Psalm 63: The Nightwatch
Psalm 64: Unraveling
Psalm 65: Muted by 2020
Psalm 66: That Story is My Story
Psalm 67: Voices on the Whispering Wind
Psalm 68: Journey
Psalm 69: One Song, Two Stories
Psalm 70: “HELP!”
Psalm 71: Unseen Choices
Psalm 72: The Day the Music Died
Psalm 73: Envy: The “Pretty” Sin
Psalm 74: Child-like Feelings, Child-like Faith
Psalm 75: Beginning the End of a Shaky Year
Psalm 76: “It’s a Miracle!” (or Not)
Psalm 77: The One Thing I Always Fail to See
Psalm 78: Epic Wisdom
Psalm 79: Devastation, Dinosaurs, and Spiritual Development
Psalm 80: Meaning in the Metaphor
Psalm 81: The Mystery of the Voice
Psalm 82: Questions of Justice
Psalm 83: Fight Song
Psalm 84: My Heart’s Highway
Psalm 85: Stop, and Listen
Psalm 86: “Consider it Joy” (Again)
Psalm 87: “Centering Down”
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Exodus published by Tom Vander Well in May and June 2020. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 26: From Bricks-and-Mortar to Flesh-and-Blood
Chapter 27: The Church’s Blueprint
Chapter 28: God Friended Me
Chapter 29: Another Choice
Chapter 30: I Smell
Chapter 31: Sabbath
Chapter 32: Before Old Things Pass Away They Often Lure Me Back
Chapter 33: Breaking a Stiff-Neck
Chapter 34: Positively “Horny” with Light
Chapter 35: The Question that Makes All the Difference
Chapter 36: More Than Enough
Chapter 37: Worth Repeating
Chapter 38: A Lesson in the Margins
Chapter 39: Building People
Chapter 40: The Continued Exodus
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of 1 Corinthians published by Tom Vander Well in November and December 2018 and January 2019. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 1: The “Divine Right” (to be Equal)
Chapter 2: The Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 3: Cooperation, not Competition
Chapter 6: Life, and Light, Under the Bucket
Chapter 7: Answering Accusation (or Not)
Chapter 8: Context and Relationships
Chapter 8: Non-Essential Liberty
Chapter 9: Vocation and Ministry
Chapter 10: “Ten Bucks”
Chapter 11: From Simple Ritual to Complex Regulation
Chapter 12: Rediscovering the Organism
Chapter 13: The Activating Ingredient
Chapter 14: My Lessons from Diverse Experiences
Chapter 15: The Grace Response
Chapter 16: Love in the Ordinary
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of 1 John published by Tom Vander Well in April 2020. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 1: The Ringing in My Ears
Chapter 2: Transformed by Love
Chapter 3: An Uncomfortable Realization
Chapter 4: Let it Flow
Chapter 5: Only When I Receive…
2 John: Incomplete Joy
3 John: “LandBnB.org”
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of 2 Corinthians published by Tom Vander Well in Jan-Feb 2019. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 1: The Unexpected Prophecy
Chapter 2: Trying Not to Stink
Chapter 3: Both “Letter” and “Spirit”
Chapter 4: Outward Groaning, Inward Growing
Chapter 5: Creation and Re-Creation
Chapter 6: (No Need to) “Wait for It!”
Chapter 7: It’s Colder than the Arctic. Oh, the Joy!
Chapter 8: Drilling Down to Spring Generosity
Chapter 9: The Miser, and the Psalm 112 Man
Chapter 10: Lunch with the CEO
Chapter 11: Not an Application, an Invitation
Chapter 12: Level 1 Pain; Level 4 Purpose
Chapter 13: Mentor, Protégé, and Attitude
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Romans published by Tom Vander Well in March 2019. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 1: Art History; History Art; Art, History
Chapter 2: “Oh Yeah, That’s One Of Mine”
Chapter 3: The Inclusive Exclusivity Problem
Chapter 4: Legalism’s Tragic Imitation of Faith
Chapter 5: WELL…SH!T
Chapter 6: 90 M.P.H. Down a Dead-End Street
Chapter 7: Masking Tape Mess
Chapter 8: Fear: The Great Motivator
Chapter 9: Forever Young Maturity
Chapter 10: New Discoveries in Familiar Places
Chapter 11: The Doorway of Defeat
Chapter 12: Is “Living Sacrifice” an Oxymoron?
Chapter 13: Wrestling with Subjection to Authority
Chapter 14: Keeping it to Myself; Holding it Together
Chapter 15: Grace in the Journey: Given and Received
Chapter 16: High-Fidelity Follower
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Ephesians published by Tom Vander Well in April and May 2019. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 1: Learning How to See
Chapter 2: Getting Direction and Flow Right
Chapter 3: Prisoner of Whom?
Chapter 4: Out with the Old, In with the New
Chapter 5: The Way of Love
Chapter 6: “All Kinds” on “All Occasions”
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Philippians published by Tom Vander Well in May 2019. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 1: When “Love” is Hard
Chapter 2: The Christ-Likeness of Mothers
Chapter 3: Not Earth to Heaven, but Heaven to Earth
Chapter 4: Pomp and Circumstance
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Colossians published by Tom Vander Well in May 2019. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.
Chapter 1: Expanding My View of “All Things”
Chapter 2: Rooted
Chapter 3: An “Eternal Question”
Chapter 4: Seasonal Companions
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These chapter-a-day posts began in 2006. It’s a very simple concept. I endeavor each weekday to read one chapter from the Bible. I then blog about my thoughts, insights, and feelings about the content of that chapter. Everyone is welcome to share this post, like this post, or add your own thoughts in a comment. Thank you to those who have become faithful, regular or occasional readers along the journey along with your encouragement.
Each photo below corresponds to a chapter-a-day post for the book of Philemon published by Tom Vander Well between 2006 and 2019. Click on the photo linked to each chapter to read the post.