"I grew up going to church. And I hated it." That's not the testimony most dads share with their kids. But the sanitized version—the one that skips the doubt, the boredom, the moments you thought everyone around you was crazy—leaves your children alone when they hit their own wall of unbelief. Here's the problem: you've got a 90-minute documentary's worth of spiritual formation crammed into a 22-second elevator pitch. And you're delivering that same thin version to your five-year-old, your fi...
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"I grew up going to church. And I hated it." That's not the testimony most dads share with their kids. But the sanitized version—the one that skips the doubt, the boredom, the moments you thought everyone around you was crazy—leaves your children alone when they hit their own wall of unbelief. Here's the problem: you've got a 90-minute documentary's worth of spiritual formation crammed into a 22-second elevator pitch. And you're delivering that same thin version to your five-year-old, your fi...
The Noonday Demon: Why Your Distraction Problem Is Worse Than You Think
Authentic Masculinity
4 minutes
1 month ago
The Noonday Demon: Why Your Distraction Problem Is Worse Than You Think
You think you just need better focus, another productivity hack, or maybe more caffeine. What if your scrolling habit isn't a brain chemistry issue but something far more sinister actively hunting you? The early church understood something we've forgotten: there's a personal force invested in your wasted hours. Every time you doom scroll instead of doing meaningful work, every YouTube rabbit hole, every "just five minutes" that becomes fifty—it's not random weakness. It's calculated warfare a...
Authentic Masculinity
"I grew up going to church. And I hated it." That's not the testimony most dads share with their kids. But the sanitized version—the one that skips the doubt, the boredom, the moments you thought everyone around you was crazy—leaves your children alone when they hit their own wall of unbelief. Here's the problem: you've got a 90-minute documentary's worth of spiritual formation crammed into a 22-second elevator pitch. And you're delivering that same thin version to your five-year-old, your fi...
