Category: Weekly Meeting Notes
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One Home, One Voice: Building Unity With Your Wife for the Sake of Your Kids
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…
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Raising Stewards: Teaching Kids Money Without Raising Entitlement
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…
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Biblical Q&A in the Car: Definitions to Run Through With Your Children
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,…
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Raising Makers, Not Consumers: Creativity, Screens, and the Father’s Quiet War for His Child’s Imagination
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…
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Building a Different Current: Fatherhood, Screens, and the Slow Work of Sanctification
Some of the most important conversations in fatherhood don’t begin with a prepared lesson—they begin with a gut-punch moment. In our dads’ group, one father shared a “PSA” that landed on all of us: a quick look at YouTube history revealed content that no child should be consuming. The shock…
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The Laboratory of the Home: Learning Each Child’s Heart
Last week we looked at Joseph as a model for fatherhood: a beloved father rooted in God’s love, a courageous father who took risks, a working father who quietly provided, and a hidden father who faithfully stayed in the background. In Matthew’s Gospel, Joseph accepts a child who is not…
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Starving the Sumo & Redeeming the Car Ride: Raising Men (and Women) in a Confusing Age
There’s a lot of noise right now about “toxic masculinity,” confusing messages about gender, and a culture that quietly disciples our sons and daughters every time they open a phone. In the middle of that swirl, a group of dads sat together and asked a simple but huge question: What…
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The Father’s Heart
The Father’s Heart: Lessons from Joseph, Abraham, and Paul The Father’s Heart Fatherhood in Scripture is not defined by control or authority but by a man’s posture before God. Whether we look at Abraham’s risk-taking faith, Joseph’s quiet obedience, or Paul’s words of instruction, the pattern is clear: a godly…
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Title: Raising Kids Without Shame: Learning to Parent Like the Father
When Adam and Eve sinned, their first instinct was to hide. Shame drove them into the bushes. Yet God called out, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9). He still came close. He covered their nakedness, not to excuse their sin but to restore their dignity. That image—the Father seeking His children…
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