Wayfarer

I am once more blown away at how God perpetually connects all things together even as He perpetually recreates, with old things passing away and new things coming. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 12. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

I like to wear hats. I have a lot of them. Not the ubiquitous baseball cap, but actual hats like a pork pie and fedora. It’s a thing. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 11. The text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Sometimes, it is lost on children just how serious a matter can be. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 10. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

In the quiet this morning, I find myself marveling once again at how God’s message is consistent even as He communicates it differently at different points of the Great Story. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 9. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Holiness always seemed to me to be defined as some kind of super-powered moral perfection, but the further I get in my spiritual journey, the more I realize that’s not it. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 8. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

One of the things modern readers struggle with in reading Leviticus is understanding some of the rules God put down. They seem so strange to our 21st century lives. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 7. The text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

It’s hard for me fathom, but the Hebrew people had no formal code of law or order at the time Leviticus was given. Life together was one big game of Calvinball. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 6. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Along my life journey I’ve observed fundamentalist types who use sin as a tool for social control rather than treating it as the universal spiritual condition that it is. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 5. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

One of the things that modern readers struggle with most is the blood and guts of ancient sacrifices in Leviticus. It is so foreign to both our modern realities as well as sensibilities. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 4. The text version may always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

In ancient Mesopotamian religions, the gods inhabited their own spirit world and had little regard for human beings who were lesser than and relatively unimportant to them and their world. The God of Moses is so very different. A chapter-a-day podcast from Leviticus 3. The text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.