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06/10/2026

The world says enjoy them while they’re little. We say keep them close for life.

Little feet, little years, blink and they’re gone we’ve all heard it. But it tells you the good part ends at 18.

It doesn’t. The toddler years were sweet. But, having the marrieds who live together on the family compound, grandbabies passed around the table, aunts and uncles like a second parents. And marriages we still get to speak into...
this is the harvest.

And it doesn’t happen by accident. You aim for it the whole way.

Keep their hearts. Stay in their lives. The best season isn’t behind you.

i get asked all the time when we are going to give our children a phone.my answer has not changed. when we want them exp...
06/10/2026

i get asked all the time when we are going to give our children a phone.

my answer has not changed. when we want them exposed to image-based lust, predators, and a feed engineered to steal their attention and their innocence. that is what these devices deliver by default, not by accident.

95% of teenagers carry a smartphone. most are online almost every waking hour. and in the same years that screens took over, teen depression and anxiety doubled. that is not a coincidence. it is a warning.

it is so challenging raising a family in a culture that is an unknown territory. I realize there was po*******hy when we grew up but the availability is what is so incredibly different than when we grew up.
i'm a watcher...we are watching families doing it well, and we watch the ones who lost their children to screens in the back bedroom. a wise man learns from other people's mistakes.

so in our home there are no devices in bedrooms. the doors are not locked. we have full access to every phone, and when our children tell me they are bored, i tell them boredom means they need to be creative. go build something. go outside. go be capable.

because the goal was never raising children who can just scroll and escape. it was raising adults who can change a tire, hold a conversation, run a business, and set nothing wicked before their eyes.

every generation gets a test. screens are the test of ours.

this week's episode is one of the most important conversations Daniel and i have had on the podcast.

listen, and then go take charge of what comes through your children's eye gate.

🏹 Episode drop..."No Phones, No Tablets, No Problem" is live now.

Comment PODCAST and i'll send it to ya!!

06/09/2026

Most people will spend 30 years paying a bank for permission to live in a house they technically don’t own yet. Thats not what we teach our children. Our daughter and son-in-law decided not to play that game.

They’re building their home themselves ICF walls, their own hands (and a little help from family & friends)no construction loan hanging over it.

It’s not the easy route but when it’s done, it’s theirs. No payment that dictates which jobs they can quit, which risks they can take, or how free they get to be with their own lives.

We taught our children that debt steals your options. You don’t notice the cage until you want to do something and can’t.

Building debt-free isn’t about being cheap it’s about staying free because Proverbs 22:7 says the borrower is slave to the lender.

More on having a debt free family follow us on Arrows & Acres

06/09/2026

The phone in your child's hand was built to capture their mind.

Years ago a cartoon aired in Japan, and the flicker rate alone filled hospitals with children having seizures. The screen did that. It was never neutral.

These devices were engineered to hold attention the way a slot machine holds a gambler. The pull your child feels is not weakness. It is the product working exactly as designed.

Daniel and i are not going to call it a harmless babysitter just because everyone else hands one over at six years old.

"Bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." (2 Corinthians 10:5, NKJV)

So whose hands are shaping your child's mind, yours or the machine's?

Grab our 30-Day Screen Reset for Families Guide by commenting RESET and we will send it over.

06/08/2026

Someone asked Josh McDowell when you should hand a child a smartphone. His answer was simple. When you want them to see explicit content.

We would never flip the lid on our septic tank and let our children fall in and play around. So why would we hand them a device that pipes that same filth straight into their hands?

In our home, no devices go in the bedrooms. Ever. The doors are never allowed to be locked. And when we are not doing school, Daniel and I unplug the internet.

"I will set nothing wicked before my eyes." (Psalm 101:3, NKJV)

We are not trying to manage the access. We are guarding our home.

If you are ready to take back the device in your home, comment RESET and we will send you our 30-Day Screen Reset.

Are you guarding your children, or just hoping the filter holds?

my entire feed is full of people outraged over an influencer couple’s decision to abort their unborn baby because of a r...
06/07/2026

my entire feed is full of people outraged over an influencer couple’s decision to abort their unborn baby because of a reported disability.

i am outraged too.

but what concerns me even more is that it takes an influencer with millions of followers to spark this level of outrage.

if this story has broken your heart, it should. being allowed to end the life of a 5 month old baby in the womb because the doctor said that baby won't be perfect is awful.

but let it break your heart not only for this baby, but for the thousands of babies, disabled and non-disabled, who are aborted every day while much of our country, even the church, remains silent.

my hope is that this story doesn’t simply turn people against one couple. my hope is that it opens people’s eyes to the tragedy of abortion itself.

don't let your outrage stop with this headline...let it extend to every unborn child whose life is treated as disposable.

let this "influencer" actually influence us to pray to end abortion once and for all!



here's a pic of daniel and i with just 4 of our grandbabies...

06/06/2026

This is what building a family compound looks like in real time.

100 acres. A son who grew up watching his dad work. A son-in-law who chose this family and this vision. And a whole lot of dirt that’s slowly becoming something generational.

We didn’t take the normal path. We never really wanted to.

This is what we’re building toward land, legacy, and a family that does life together.

It’s messy, loud and exactly what we asked God for.

🏡 Follow along - we’re just getting started

06/05/2026

You can say it until you are blue in the face. The day they hear it from someone they respect, they write it down.

We have told our children the same truth a hundred times. Then a voice they admire says it once, and suddenly it lands.

That is not failure. That is design. God built children to be sharpened by voices outside the home, and He built families to put them in front of the right ones.

This week we welcome special guests Ben and Nili Stewart. The purity retreat Ben and Nili built gave one young man his vision for staying pure before marriage. Everybody loves Ben, and when Ben says it, our children write it down.

Purity was never meant to be can't, can't, can't. It was meant to be a heart set on Christ before a covenant is ever made.

We put everything we have learned about raising sons and daughters for marriage into one free resource. Courtship, Character, and Covenant. Comment the word courtship and we will send you a copy.

Daniel and Allison Hartman with Ben and Nili Stewart on the truth every parent learns the hard way.

Parents, who is the trusted outside voice in your child's life right now?

06/05/2026

Most families never stop to ask what God's plan is for their family.

Not family in general. Your family. The one under your roof.

Ben and Nili Stewart walked away from full-time ministry, took a prayer walk, and obeyed. They found a mountain, bought the top of it, moved their whole family, and built something.

Discovering His plan does not start with a strategy. It starts with engaging the children God actually gave you. Their personality. Their vision. The richness already in your home.

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15, NKJV.

What has God been calling your family to that you keep talking yourself out of?

06/04/2026

Every single errand is a classroom.

Most parents rush through checkout scan, tap, grab the bags, go. I used to do the same thing. Faster that way.

But faster doesn’t build capable adults.

So now? My children handle it. They hand over the money or tap the card. They wait for the change. They say thank you to the cashier. They learn that transactions are normal, not scary and that they are capable of doing hard (and simple) things in the real world.

The goal is Raising Adults, not Raising Children Who Need You to Do Everything.

The goal was never to raise children who are comfortable being dependent. It was to raise humans who can function and eventually lead without me.

Start small. Let them check out. Let them hand the cashier the card. Let them feel the confidence of doing something real.

That moment of independence? Worth every extra second it takes.

🏹 Save this if you’re raising future adults, not permanent children. Share it to encourage others!


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