Posts by Jeremy
Licht
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Ik ben heel enthousiast over het Lichtfestival Gent 2012. Vorig jaar heb ik het festival gemist. Maar niet in 2012. Gent is een prachtige stad. Zeker ‘s nachts. De oude gebouwen, het water. En de lichten! Wat een verschil maken de lichten! En tijdens het festival zijn de lichten heel speciaal. [...]
Contentment
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Friday, 21 October was World Student Day. I spent the afternoon walking around in Gent and praying. I saw lots of students. At one point I sat on a bench between the river and “het Groot Vleeshuis.” Only a few people passed me by, so it was a nice place for reflection and prayer. Directly across [...]
Baseball hats and mud pies
1September 22, 2011
A few weeks ago a lot of time and energy in my family were given to “back to school” activities, the primary activity being, shopping. I saw something in Zeeman that I found very interesting. It was a baseball hat with the words “Twins 45 Minnesota States.” If you look at the photograph you can see [...]
World Assembly
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I write this post from Krakow, Poland. I am at the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students conference, World Assembly. I am here with our fearless leader, Tom, chairperson of the Ichtus Vlaanderen board, Micheline, and Sem, perhaps Belgium’s nicest nice guy. Two Ichtus students, Febe and [...]
Not the end
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Easter was a week ago. I was not ready. Many of you know and practice the traditions of Lent. My church loved Easter Sunday. We had fantastic music—a great choir, talented soloists, and congregational hymns full of the inspiring images of the resurrection. As a teenager I often got to play my [...]
It has been long enough.
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Today I found myself feeling sad. I thought it was because we had visiting family members from America who are returning tomorrow. My kids will miss their grandparents again, my wife her parents, and even I will miss my in-laws who I likely won’t see again in 2011. But in a surprising moment of [...]
Cross cultural TV watching
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I like to watch TV. Here in Belgium there are lots of programs to watch that I would have never seen living in the U.S. One program that has become a favorite of our whole family is Total Wipeout on BBC. Contestants try to conquer the biggest obstacle course in the world. Only recently did we [...]
Harder to believe than not to
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I want to draw your attention to an interchange between Jesus and his follower and friend, Peter. In John 6 Jesus teaches some difficult things, including the necessity of eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Some in the crowd say, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” Then we read, [...]
A place on the sofa
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I have four children. The oldest is 8 and the youngest is just 19 months. The other night we decided to watch a movie. While I got the movie going my wife made popcorn. There is just enough room on our sofa for the four kids to sit in a row. It makes a pretty cute scene. Four kids of various [...]
The wonderful world of IFES
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Vorige week ben ik met mijn gezin naar Duitsland gegaan voor een IFES Europe conferentie. IFES is the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, en Ichtus is een lid. Ik sprak met collega’s uit Engeland, Duitsland, Bosnië, Spanje, Frankrijk, en meer. Deze mensen begrijpen mijn leven omdat [...]
