Category: Weekly Meeting Notes
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The Power of Intentional Family Traditions: Imprinting Goodness in Your Children
Life moves fast. Between work responsibilities, school schedules, and everyday busyness, it can feel like there’s little time to pause and reflect on the deeper impact of what we do as fathers. But what if I told you that some of the most powerful lessons we teach our children aren’t…
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Building Godly Homes: Leadership, Protection, and Intentionality as Fathers
A summary of a Trinity Dad’s discussion with John Glenn, the third talk in the series. Parenting is one of the greatest callings God gives to a man. As fathers, we are called to reflect the heart of our Heavenly Father in our homes, raising children in the discipline and…
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Building a Legacy of Faith: A Father’s Journey Through Marriage and Parenting – Part 2
As Christian fathers, we often find ourselves navigating the complex waters of raising children while trying to model Christ-like character. Recently, a group of dads gathered to discuss the challenges and victories of parenting through difficult seasons, particularly focusing on handling anger, building lasting connections, and developing godly character in…
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Building a Legacy of Faith: A Father’s Journey Through Marriage and Parenting – Part 1
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 As Christian fathers, we’re called to lead our families with both strength and tenderness – to be both the lion and the lamb. This journey isn’t…
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Building Bridges: Teaching Our Children to Connect Across Differences
In our increasingly divided world, one of the most valuable skills we can pass on to our children is the ability to connect with others across differences. As Christian fathers, we have a unique opportunity—and responsibility—to model Christ-like love and understanding, especially during challenging conversations. The scripture reminds us that…
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Advice From a Dad with College Age Children: Lessons Looking Back and Forward
Nov 15th – Trinity Dads This past friday we had a wonderful guest speaker who has two boys in college This are notes from our meeting, blog style. As Christian fathers, our greatest calling and challenge is to raise children who know, love, and serve Jesus Christ. We long for…
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Anger and Fatherhood: A Christian Dad’s Guide to Managing Emotions
In our recent Trinity Dad’s Coffee meeting, a dad started the meeting by asking, “if you could take a pill and never be angry again, would you do it?” The idea wasn’t to say that anger was bad or good, but to talk about anger and how to handle it. …
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How to Not Let Stress Leak Out On Your Kids
Nov 1, 2024 Meeting Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or exasperate your children [with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by favoritism or indifference; treat them tenderly with lovingkindness], so they will not lose heart and become discouraged or unmotivated [with their spirits broken]. – Col 3:21 (AMP) One of the fathers…
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Recognizing & Regulating Emotions -> Then Acting
This week we went back to some of the discussion we had last school year around recognizing emotions and then regulating. This time, there was a whole new spin on things as we had different dads in the room. Emotions Aren’t Bad, They Need to Be Recognized To Be Processed…but…
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Reviewing David Thomas’ Presentation on Raising Emotionally Strong Kids and Teens (Part 1)
By Chris Savage A few Trinity Dads and their wives recently attended a David Thomas Presentation on Raising Emotionally Strong Kids and Teens at Trinity Last week. We talked about it this past Friday, but we could probably talk about it for a few weeks. I’m going to dig into…
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