Derek Vreeland

Missio Leading Voice

Derek Vreeland is the Discipleship Pastor at Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri. He and his wife Jenni have three boys, Wesley, Taylor, and Dylan. He earned a MDiv from Oral Roberts University and a DMin. from Asbury Theological Seminary. Derek is the author of numerous books including By the Way: Getting Serious About Following Jesus (2019), and his newest work, Centering Jesus: How the Lamb of God Transforms Our Communities, Ethics, and Spiritual Lives,released in August 2023.

Books by the Author

By the Way: Getting Serious About Following Jesus

N.T. Wright and the Revolutionary Cross

Through the Eyes of N.T. Wright

Culture / Formation / Mission

Interrogating ‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity

Culture / Formation / Theology

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

Culture / Theology

Learning from the Margins: The Difference Between Human and Kingdom Power

Theology / Witness

How Our Ignorance Slows Racial Justice and What We Can Do About It

Witness

An Open Letter to my SBC Sisters and Brothers

Book Review

The Impact of Eugene Peterson: A Conversation with Winn Collier

Culture

Why Do White Christians Remain Silent?

Culture

Online Missionaries in a Digital World

Culture

A Nation Waits: The Source of Our Hope

Formation

Pandemics Aren’t So Unprecedented: What We Can Learn from Early Christians

Formation

Ecclesiology in this Weird Time of Social Distancing

Culture

Three Ways to Pastor a Politically-Polarized People

Formation

Four Ways to Practice the Peace of Christ at Christmas

Formation

Four Surprising Habits for Christian Formation

Formation

Addressing the Elephant in the Church: Seven Necessary Components of Integrated Discipleship

Theology

Why Biblical Inerrancy Doesn’t Work

Theology

Jesus Died So God Wouldn’t Be Angry With Us Anymore…and Other Misunderstandings about the Cross

Witness

Church, Today We Need Dr. King’s Vision of Justice

Formation

Four Ways to Walk in Love as Resurrection People

Culture

What’s Your Definition of Marriage?

Formation

We’ve Gotten Salvation All Wrong: Let’s Reclaim the Heart of Christian Discipleship

Theology

Did Jesus Really Usher in the Kingdom of God?

Culture

Guns in the Kingdom of God: An Eschatological Appeal to End Gun Proliferation

Witness

Emboldened for Mission and Ministry: An Interview with Tara Beth Leach

Theology

How the Cross Overcomes Love of Power with the Power of Love: An Interview with Derek Vreeland

Formation

Self-Awareness and the Enneagram: A Response to Kevin DeYoung

Formation

A Trinitarian Vision of Spiritual Transformation

Witness

Armed Only with Vulnerability: Sean Palmer on the Mission of God

Witness

Do We, White Christians, Have the Strength to Stoop Down

Theology

Is the Cross Even Necessary?

Theology

Is Penal Substitutionary Atonement Necessary?

News

Wright Sings Dylan: The Powerful Prophetic Winds of the Spirit – An #Awakenings17 Reflection

6 years ago

Formation

4 Essential Practices for Spiritual Formation

Formation

Five Pieces of Christ-Centered Wisdom For a Foolish Age

Culture

A Fight for Nonviolent People

Uncategorized

Four Things You Need to Know about American Civil Religion

Formation

Don’t Let Hate Mock the Song

Formation

Awaiting the Lord, Not the President

Culture

The Sky is Not Falling

Formation

Wendell Berry to the Rescue: Reading Poetry in an Age of Angry Rhetoric

Formation

How to Keep the Voting Booth from Tearing us Apart

Culture

A Christian Memory of 9/11

Formation

Pastors: The CEO Has to Go

Witness

A Holy People: The Jesus Way of Changing the World

Culture

It’s OK to be Patriotic, But…

Theology

The Politics of Trump and the Politics of Jesus

Formation

Who Do We Get to Hate?

Formation

Book Review: The Dusty Ones by A.J. Swoboda

Theology

Looking Back at the Cross through the Resurrection

Formation

Stupid is Repairable: Growing as Thoughtful Followers of Jesus

Theology

Muslims and Christians: Reframing the “Same God” Debate

Theology

Leave it to the Wrath of God: An Eschatological Response to Terrorism

Culture

People To Be Loved – A Review of Preston Sprinkle’s Latest Book

Formation

Becoming Philosophers of a Certain Kind

Formation

Marathons & Religion

Culture

Virtual Community is No Community at All

Culture

Sticks, Stones, and Social Media: Words That Accuse and Words That Reconcile

Uncategorized

N.T. Wright & A Renewed Vision of the Apostle Paul

Uncategorized

Is the Holy Spirit the Love Between the Father and the Son?

Uncategorized

Come, Creator Spirit: A Reflection for Pentecost Sunday