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 starting up…
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Luke van der Hoeven
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 the Black Hills of…
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 repeat for a number of weeks.…
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 slipping.…
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…
Tyrants are more a reflection on us the ruled than they are on the ruler himself. > But even in the case of men such as this [Nero], power to dominate is given only by the providence of the supreme God when he judges that the state of human affairs deserves…