Category Archives: Inheritance & Family

Building my Soapbox

I’ve spent more time, energy and resources on my blog in recent months. This often brings a question to mind: “Why do I write?” I have something to say For the first couple months after my marriage I didn’t write anything at all. When I decided to blog again, I wrestled through the question of …

August 30, 2011 – 10:28 am | By Jacob Hoyer | Posted in Inheritance & Family, Leadership & Ministry, Theology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Memory as Medicine

Erin and I visited the High Museum of Art in Atlanta yesterday. We toured an exhibition called “Memory as Medicine” by an Atlanta-based artist named Radcliffe Bailey that was at once captivating and thoroughly evocative. This from Creative Loafing: Instead of a chronological arrangement, the works have been installed around themes in Bailey’s work: “Blood,” …

August 8, 2011 – 7:47 am | By Jacob Hoyer | Posted in Inheritance & Family | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

The Vehicle of Blessing

A couple years ago I was sitting around a table in the Philippines with a bunch of men. Most of us were in our early to mid-twenties. One guy there was a mentor of ours. He was talking about honoring our parents. One of the younger guys leaned forward and said, “So what if I …

July 26, 2011 – 6:12 am | By Jacob Hoyer | Posted in Inheritance & Family | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Oil Flows Down

I’ve been thinking a lot about honor lately. Someone I respect even told me this blog should be about honor. I read a book that said honor is empowering people to live up to their potential. When I led a tribe of traveling missionaries last year I told them that to honor people was to …

July 21, 2011 – 8:02 pm | By Jacob Hoyer | Posted in Inheritance & Family | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)