
Notes From the Journey
Fresh Start: Embracing God’s New Mercies Each Day
Every sunrise is God’s reminder that yesterday doesn’t define us. His mercies are new every morning. That means today, you get to begin again.
Everyday Miracles
Small Miracles are all around us. How to see them in your everyday life.
Building a Legacy: Creating Family Culture That Produces Multi-Generational Leaders
Part 5 of 5-part series "Beyond the Screen: Building Leaders Who Master AI Instead of Being Mastered by It"
Any strategic professional knows that the best systems are designed to operate reliably long after their creator moves on. Your family culture is the most important system you'll ever design—and it needs to produce leaders for generations you'll never meet.
The Stories We Pass On: Why Childhood Books Shape Lifelong Faith & Imagination
Some of the most powerful lessons in life don’t come from a classroom or a sermon—they come from stories. Stories shape how we see the world, how we understand right and wrong, and how we dream about what’s possible.
The Human-Centered Leader: Raising Strategically Capable Kids Who Actually Care
Part 4 of 5-part series "Beyond the Screen: Building Leaders Who Master AI Instead of Being Mastered by It"
The world doesn't need more brilliant problem-solvers who lack wisdom, empathy, or character. It needs strategic leaders who solve problems that matter and care about the people their solutions affect.
Building Future-Ready Kids: The Strategic Skills That Actually Matter
Part 3 of 5-part series "Beyond the Screen: Building Leaders Who Master AI Instead of Being Mastered by It"
While other parents worry about whether their kids will be replaced by AI, you're going to systematically develop children who will design and lead the AI systems of tomorrow.
AI Will Make Our Kids Smarter or Intellectually Lazy: The Choice Is Ours
Discover how AI can either dramatically enhance your child's intelligence or create dangerous intellectual dependency—and why the difference lies entirely in how you teach them to use these powerful tools. Learn practical age-appropriate guidelines for AI use, recognize early warning signs of dependency, and understand how to raise AI-enhanced thinkers rather than AI-dependent users
Designing Family Systems That Work: The Engineering Approach to Household Leadership
Part 2 of 5-part series "Beyond the Screen: Building Leaders Who Master AI Instead of Being Mastered by It"
You wouldn't launch a major project without understanding requirements and potential challenges. Yet most parents approach family leadership without any systematic design thinking
The Strategic Parent's Advantage: Why Systematic Thinking Is Your Secret Weapon
Part 1 of 5-part series "Beyond the Screen: Building Leaders Who Master AI Instead of Being Mastered by It"
While other parents panic about screen time and AI companions, you have something they don't: the ability to think systematically about complex problems.
Raising Leaders or Followers? How Social Media Is Teaching Our Kids to Conform
Discover why college students today score 40% lower on empathy measures than 30 years ago and how screen-based childhoods are undermining children's ability to feel and respond to others' emotions. Learn the spiritual and relational consequences of the empathy crisis, recognize early warning signs in your children, and get practical strategies to rebuild compassion and emotional understanding in your family.
The Empathy Crisis: Why This Generation Struggles to Care About Others
Discover why college students today score 40% lower on empathy measures than 30 years ago and how screen-based childhoods are undermining children's ability to feel and respond to others' emotions. Learn the spiritual and relational consequences of the empathy crisis, recognize early warning signs in your children, and get practical strategies to rebuild compassion and emotional understanding in your family.
Digital Dopamine: Why Your Child Can't Enjoy Simple Pleasures Anymore
Understand how technology is chemically hijacking your child's reward system, making simple pleasures like reading, creative play, and family time feel boring and unrewarding. Discover the neurological and spiritual consequences of digital dopamine addiction, and learn a practical recovery process to help your children rediscover joy in everyday moments and develop the contentment that leads to spiritual peace.
When Your Child Trusts Google More Than You: The Death of Parental Authority in the Information Age
Last week, I caught myself checking my phone for the third time while reading a single page of a book. The uncomfortable realization hit me: I've been rewired for notifications. If this is what constant interruptions have done to my adult brain—one that was fully formed before smartphones existed—I can only imagine what it's doing to my children's developing minds. We're raising the first generation whose brains are being fundamentally rewired by constant interruptions, and the consequences go far beyond shortened attention spans.
How to Explain AI to Your 5 and 7-Year-Old: A Dad's Guide Using LEGOs, Hot Wheels, and Kid Logic
Learn how to explain artificial intelligence to young children using toys and concepts they already understand. Get practical activities using LEGOs and Hot Wheels to teach AI concepts, age-appropriate boundaries for 5 and 7-year-olds, and simple rules that help children see AI as a helpful tool while maintaining their unique human gifts and creativity.
The Notification Generation: How Constant Interruptions Are Rewiring Our Children's Brains
Yesterday, my 8-year-old corrected me about a historical fact he'd 'googled' while I was explaining something to him. When I gently suggested his source might be incomplete, he confidently replied, 'But Google knows everything, Dad.' In that moment, I realized we've reached a tipping point: our children are learning to trust algorithms more than the people who love them most. We're facing a crisis of trust, authority, and wisdom transfer that strikes at the heart of family formation.
Stay Creative
Creativity isn’t just for artists—it’s the engine that powers progress in every field. Stay Creative is your guide to keeping that engine running in a fast, noisy world. From shaking off perfectionism to using tech as a creative partner, it’s a call to keep producing, experimenting, and thinking differently—because bold ideas don’t happen by accident.
Campfire Wisdom: Ancient Truths for Modern Families
There's something magical about gathering around a fire. The crackling flames draw us in, the warm glow creates intimacy, and somehow the dancing light makes even the most ordinary stories feel profound.
Young Boys Love Throwing Rocks
There's something primal, something deeply satisfying, about the weight of a good rock in a young boy's hand. The way his eyes light up when he spots the perfect stone. The careful consideration of trajectory and target.
The AI Relationship Trap: How to Save Your Child From the AI Relationship Trap
Get immediate, actionable steps to establish boundaries, build human relationship skills, and model authentic connection. Learn age-appropriate guidelines, warning signs to watch for, and specific family practices that protect your children's capacity for real love before it's too late.
The AI Relationship Trap: Why AI Companions Are Destroying Our Children's Capacity for Love
Explore what children actually lose when they choose artificial relationships: atrophied empathy, diminished patience, and the inability to handle real human complexity. From a biblical perspective, discover why AI relationships represent a fundamental rebellion against God's design for authentic community and what this means for your child's spiritual development.
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