Peter's Path
Peter's Path
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Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.
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Why read the book? Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1864. Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a coded message from an old Icelandic explorer. He sets out with his nephew Axel and a quiet guide named Hans. They...
Why read the book? Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. The story is short and direct. A lawyer named Gabriel Utterson investigates the strange behaviour of his friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the...
Why read the book? Yossi Cohen served as director of Mossad from 2016 to 2021. In The Sword of Freedom he describes how Israel has faced existential threats and still found ways to defend itself. He explains key operations, including the...
Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4: The Age of Religious Conflict. It is the fourth book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers the years from the late sixteenth...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Books 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2 by Nick Needham Can I Trust The Bible? by R.C. Sproul 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3 by Nick Needham Zero to One by Peter Thiel Does...
Hiked part 5/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 18.82 kilometres from Reeuwijk to Haastrecht. You walk right through the Reeuwijkse Plassen along the narrow lanes that separate the lakes. In 1657 four felled ash trees were said to have...
Today two colleagues said goodbye. It is hitting me harder than I thought. I cried. Nikki and Anouk appreciated my honesty. They were honest with me too. That is rare. Honesty is not a given in the world today. It is full of fakes and...
Why read the book? R.C. Sproul answers a common question: does prayer make any difference? He shows that prayer does not change the mind of God. God already knows and plans all things. Yet prayer still changes things. God uses the...
Why read the book? Peter Thiel explains how to build companies that create new value instead of improving on old ideas. He shows that the best businesses escape competition by solving unique problems and securing monopoly positions. The...
Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3: The Renaissance and Reformation. It is the third book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers the period from the late Middle Ages...
Hiked part 8/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.92 kilometres from Deventer to Klarenbeek. Along the IJsselkade in Deventer you will see the fast-flowing river IJssel, after which the stage runs over the dike and along floodplains to the...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Biking Biking in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park Biking in Hollandse Duinen National Park Books The Odyssey by Homer 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 1 by Nick Needham Hiking...
Why read the book? R.C. Sproul wrote Can I Trust The Bible? It is a short and clear book from his Crucial Questions series. Sproul takes the most common objections people raise against the Bible and answers them one by one. He looks at...
Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2: The Middle Ages. It is the second book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers the long medieval period from the fall of the Western...
For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama on Apple TV. Ronald D. Moore created it with Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi. It imagines an alternate history where the Soviet Union reaches the Moon first, and the space race never ends....