This morning, I spoke at the Alberta Home Education Association’s convention on technology in the home. The talk was called: “The SMART Family: Balancing Technology and Life”. I presented a five step process on how to create some principles and rules
Diagnosis: How can you tell if you are addicted to your phone? If you are average you check your device 150 times per day (67 percent of the time, that’s not because it rang or vibrated). This means you open
Have you ever wondered how big the camera would have to be for God to take a selfie? Sadly, the question is nonsensical since God prohibited images of himself in the second commandment. But since we live in a world
Manufacturing Desire: After the industrial revolution, the economy produced more goods than people needed. For example, with only two machines, one company “could immediately produce 240,000 cigarettes a day–more than the entire U.S. market smoked. Such overproduction was the rule,
Horses Don’t Use Litter Boxes! In 1900, New York city “had about 175,000 horses.” There are no litter boxes for horses, which produce “up to thirty-five pounds of manure and a quart of urine a day.” If you do the
Have you ever longed for something that is not yours? Once, when I was a kid, my mother set me up to experience the power of forbidden fruit. While putting some chocolate bars in the cupboard, she said, “Joshy, don’t
If you were to ask a person in their 20’s what they value most when it comes to choosing a career, most will say that having a “balance between work and life is the number one factor…A job that requires
Some Things are Better Live: I don’t know how much it costs to make beer commercials, but they often catch my attention. Recently, one commercial stood out because of the way it hints at a key Biblical idea. The basic
The Happy Face Guy: It’s that time of year again! School is going to start in a week or two and I can’t wait. In the meantime, new college students are figuring out what to pack and hoping they will
Why Did God Make Us? Was He Just Lonely? If you were God, and possessed all knowledge and power, existed for eternity, and had no need for anything, what would motivate you to create anything outside of yourself? A book