“I am going to send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
Malachi 4:6 CSB
A voice of one calling:
Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; the uneven ground will become smooth and the rough places, a plain.
And the glory of the Lord will appear, and all humanity together will see it, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 40: 3-6 CSB
Most fathers don’t set out to parent in opposition to their wives. But life has a way of pulling a couple into parallel lanes—busy schedules, different stress thresholds, different family histories, different instincts. Then a child (especially a sharp one) notices the gap: “Mom said yes.” “Dad said no.” “But you always…” And suddenly you’re…
Before we ever talked envelopes, chores, Roth IRAs, or compounding interest, one dad opened our time with a line that landed like a weight in the room: “The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow…” (Psalm 146:9, KJV) He pointed out something easy to miss: Scripture presents “fatherless” and “widow” as conditions…
A Trinity Dads reflection on Galatians 3 and the subtle drift into “God-points” parenting Most fathers don’t wake up intending to drift. We start with good desires—lead our kids well, love our wives well, walk with God sincerely. But somewhere between carpool chaos, bedtime meltdowns, headlines, and our own insecurities, we can quietly slide from…
There is a reason the church has historically leaned on Q&A as a primary tool for passing down the faith. Long before most families owned a Bible—and long before kids could carry a phone—Christians formed belief and character through catechesis: guided instruction, often in question-and-answer form. In the early centuries, new believers (catechumens) were taught…
A theme kept surfacing in the conversation—sometimes stated plainly, sometimes felt underneath the jokes and the sidebars: our children are being trained to consume. Not just content, but experiences, ideas, even identity. And if Christian fathers don’t respond intentionally, the default current of the culture will do the training for us. What struck me wasn’t…
