One of the projects I had wanted to do on the trailer as we were planning to make our big run out west was to upgrade a number of electrical components on the rig. Primarily, I wanted to be able to run more of the AC system off battery power…
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Luke van der Hoeven
Working from home when home is anywhere is pretty cool. The only downside is trying not to skip out on work to go play in the cool places we get to go. Almost one week in and we're only starting to try to establish some routines. Katie is…
So with seminary done (I think we graduated anyways...), our family is headed out on the road for a number of months. We've sold the house and now we're dedicated to roaming the earth as sojourners for a year! Our first stop will be out in…
A bit of a less intense post than some I've done in the recent past. I've been digging some older jazz albums of late and thought I'd drop them here. Spotify put together a solid mix of Louis Armstrong classics which have been on…
We finished one more semester at Bethlehem College & Seminary [http://bcsmn.edu] (with one more to go!) and over this break, I’m trying to refresh on a lot of my original language skills. I still get fairly frequent workouts in Greek, but my Hebrew vocabulary is already kinda…
In a recent exchange regarding my last post, a friend of mine asked for me to answer the following question, “in a nutshell.” My nutshells always turn out to belong to nuts the size of a watermelon, and my effort in attempting to answer the question proved to be really…
They say for people who are considering suicide, one of the most helpful things we can do is simply ask about about it. It brings the hidden agendas of the mind into the open and makes them concrete, along with the consequences that may be unconsidered at such a drastic…
These landed really hard on me this week. I realize that both of these have been very true of me for a long time. I have often felt lonely even in the midst of Christian community. I also know that I often confess and forgive myself even when “confessing” to…