Wayfarer

Every ordinary decision is adding something to the world our children, grandchildren, employees, friends, churches, and communities will inherit.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 16. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "like," and share. Comments welcome.

Kings and kingdoms come and go. Dynasties rise and fall. The author of Kings keeps asking: "What happened to the heart?"A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 15. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com. Please follow, subscribe, "like," and share. Comments welcome.

The God who saw through the disguise of Jeroboam at Shiloh and knew the difference between Solomon's gold and Rehoboam's bronze is still less interested in the shine of my life than in what my life is genuinely made of.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 14. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "like," and share. Comments welcome.

The enemy who announces himself may be easier to resist than the voice that sounds almost exactly like wisdom. And in an age where there are so many voices saying so many things readily available to everyone everywhere - that's increasingly relevant.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 13. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "like," and share. Comments welcome.

Today's chapter is a master class in leadership. It could be titled How to Lose Half Your Kingdom in Three Days. Specifically, it reveals how not to lead.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 12. The text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "like," and share. Comments welcome.

Rebellion may be a typical young person's problem, but spiritual drift is too often a problem in life's later stages -- when a divided heart leads to spiritual duplicity.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 11. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "like," and share. Comments welcome.

Because sometimes the most spiritually dangerous moment isn't when everything is falling apart. It's when everything is going spectacularly well.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 10. The text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "like," and share. Comments welcome.

After the spiritual mountain top of a week at summer camp, there was always an inevitable question: What does real life look like on Monday morning?A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 9. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.comPlease follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

The most important thing about knowing where home is isn't that I never wander from it. It's that when I eventually realize how lost I am, I always know which way to turn.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 8. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

As with yesterday's chapter, there is a spiritual warning hiding in the opulent beauty of Solomon's Temple.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 7. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Today's chapter reads on the surface like the boring recitation of a contractor's plans. Yet, once again, there are some important spiritual truths flowing beneath the blueprints.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 6. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

God doesn't give wisdom merely so that I might know more. He gives wisdom so that I might build well.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 5. The text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

By virtually every ancient measure, Solomon is winning. Yet the narrator has slipped several tiny warning lights onto the dashboard.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 4. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Everyone knows that Solomon asked God to grant him wisdom. You know what? It's not true. Wisdom is not what he asked for.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 3. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Solomon doesn't begin with a clean slate. He inherits David's kingdom. But he also inherits David's relationships, promises, enemies, loyalties, compromises, deferred judgments, and unresolved problems. That's life.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 2. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Who will ascend to David's throne? It comes down to two brothers. Adonijah is the eldest son. Solomon is the youngest son and the offspring of the scandalous Bathsheba.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Kings 1. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.comPlease follow, subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Today's chapter is the final chapter of 2 Samuel. Strangely enough, it abruptly ends with a census, a plague, and a sacrifice. For the casual modern reader, it's definitely a head scratcher. There's no "and all they lived happily ever after."A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 24. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, follow, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

At the end of David's story, we're given an important truth. Grace neither denies the glory nor erases the scars.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 23. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, follow, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

You know the movie is over when the song begins and the ending credits roll. Our chapter-a-day journey has reached the end of David's story. How fitting that the narrator chooses to drop one of David's own songs into the text like a fitting End Theme to the movie.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 22. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, follow, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

To the ancient Hebrews, sin was not merely an isolated transaction between perpetrator and victim. Sin created ripples through communities, families, institutions, generations, and even the land itself.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 21. The text verision may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.comPlease subscribe, follow, "Like," and share! Comments welcome.

An unnamed woman with no army, no office, no title, and no apparent authority saves an entire city with wisdom. Hers is an example I want to follow. A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 20. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, follow, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

As I meditated on both David and Barzillai this morning, it struck me that they have for me a beautiful lesson about what is required at different stages of this life journey.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 19. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, follow, "Like," and/or share. Comments welcome.

Along this earthly journey, I've observed that sometimes prayers are answered in heartbreaking ways.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 18. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Hashgachah refers to God's providential oversight that works through ordinary events rather than spectacular miracles. Today's chapter is a great example.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 17. The text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

I've learned along my own journey that repentance changes my posture toward criticism. David isn't defending his reputation. He is entrusting it to God.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 16. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com. Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

If one wrong move started this avalanche, maybe what David needs is just one step in the right direction.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 15. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

A kiss may be the quintessential act of human intimacy. Yet, through history and art it becomes a powerful device for communicating a whole host of human emotions and realities...A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 14. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.comPlease subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome!

And, as I sat with Tamar in my heart this morning and listened to her share her story with me, my father's heart broke. A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 13. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Some mistakes become life-defining. They get attached to a person's identity, and it follows them for the rest of their life.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 12. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvandewell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

For me, the lesson of today's chapter isn't simply, "Don't commit David's sins." It's the reminder to never outgrow the habits that keep me close to God in the first place.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 11. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

This is the fifth of eight Wayfarer Weekend (WW) podcasts exploring Tom Vander Well's Amazon International Bestselling Book "This Call May Be Monitored (What Eavesdropping on Corporate America Taught Me About Business and Life)." Each episode will explore one of the book's eight chapters. Hosted by Michael DeLon.

Fear has a remarkable ability to rewrite another person's motives. I know. My active mind has done it a million times. I struggle with it every day.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 10. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

In networking meetings and podcast interviews I am commonly asked, "Tom? What do you like to do?" I know that people expect that my answer will be something like golf, pickleball, or running. But what I like to do, is to be at the table.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 9. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

In today's chapter, what appears to be a boring report about military victories isn't really about battles at all. It's about stewardship.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 8. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Sometimes God's refusal isn't rejection. It is redirection toward something larger than I can yet imagine.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 7. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

David understood that his people needed to remember what they'd long forgotten and placed in mothballs both physically and spiritually.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 6. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome!

David may be leading Israel, but God is leading David. A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 5. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

One of the things that I've observed in human behavior is that when panic sets in, people grasp for security and stability. And that's exactly what happens in today's chapter.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 4. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share! Comments welcome.

Most of God's kingdom advances one ordinary day at a time, one act of obedience at a time, one quiet season of trust after another. While the world often measures our lives by visible victories, God is measuring steady growth.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 3. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

David's first move is not to act, but to ask. His ask is not about becoming King. It's about his next step.A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 2. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome!

I can't always control what others become, but I can choose who I become in response to them. A chapter-a-day podcast from 2 Samuel 1. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

This is the fourth of eight Wayfarer Weekend (WW) podcasts exploring Tom Vander Well's Amazon International Bestselling Book "This Call May Be Monitored (What Eavesdropping on Corporate America Taught Me About Business and Life)." Each episode will explore one of the book's eight chapters. Hosted by Michael DeLon.The book can be purchased on Amazon: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHS2X145

This is the third of eight Wayfarer Weekend (WW) podcasts exploring Tom Vander Well's Amazon International Bestselling Book "This Call May Be Monitored (What Eavesdropping on Corporate America Taught Me About Business and Life)." Each episode will explore one of the book's eight chapters. Hosted by Michael DeLon. The book can be purchased on Amazon ⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHS2X145

In the quiet this morning as I close the book and sit with the story, a single thread seems to run from beginning to end....A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Samuel 31. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

When God is continually my source in the quiet - He grows into my refuge in crisis.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Samuel 30. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

Sometimes the most gracious thing God does is refuse to let me proceed down a road I have chosen for myself.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Samuel 29. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

God's silence does not mean God has lost control — or that He's disinterested. Sometimes silence means God has already spoken.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Samuel 28. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

The chapter reminds me that the story of redemption has never depended on perfect faith. It depends on a faithful God. A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Samuel 27. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

David teaches me that having the opportunity to wound someone is not the same thing as having permission. This may be one of the most important leadership lessons in the entire Great Story.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Samuel 26. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome.

This is the second of eight Wayfarer Weekend (WW) podcasts exploring Tom Vander Well's Amazon International Bestselling Book "This Call May Be Monitored (What Eavesdropping on Corporate America Taught Me About Business and Life)." Each episode will explore one of the book's eight chapters. Hosted by Michael DeLon. The book can be purchased on Amazon ⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHS2X145

If there's one thing I've learned about myself along my life journey it's that I have a hair-trigger whenever I feel I'm being dishonored. It's a quick fuse to explosive rage within me.A chapter-a-day podcast from 1 Samuel 25. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.Please subscribe, "Like," and share. Comments welcome!