Category: Weekly Meeting Notes
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Trinity Dads – Valentines Day Recap
Brad Wilcox in the Wall Street Journal on his new book “Get Married” – don’t buy into the soulmate myth. He warns that, a very modern self-centered soulmate based understanding of marriage has served to weaken this central institution of human society. He’s also blunt in stating this, “Men and women…
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Trinity Dads – Valentines Day (Loving Our Wives Well) Edition
Dads share tips and suggestions Valentines Day Ideas Do it yourself Chocolate Covered Strawberries Dress the kids up and do a family tea and finger foods. Set expectations that we will celebrate Valentines day for a different night, get half price candy and cheaper flowers. Homemade Charcuterie Board…. Gifts Daughters…
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Trinity Dads – Emotional Scaling and Bracketing
(sorry I thought I sent this!) Late Breaking This week we talked about how we tried to put into practice what we discussed last week. Practical Implementations Paul talked about sitting down with his children and talking about how God made us with emotions, that Jesus had emotions “Jesus Wept,”…
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Trinity Dads – Raising Emotionally Strong Children – Week 1
This past Friday we kicked off our Winter/Spring season in Trinity by announcing our rebrand to “Trinity Dad’s Coffee” (hence the domain change). Our goal is to make Trinity Dads Coffee a permanent fixture at Trinity School! Most of the details were in the email that I sent out, so…
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Intentional Fathers – Week 11 – Starting With The End In Mind
“Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.” Ps 90:12 NLV What if you had one year to live? For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. Anyone who builds on…
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Intentional Fathers Week 10 – Family On a Mission Part 2 – Explore Big Dreams
In Week 1, Hunter presented an interesting idea: WHAT IF YOU COULD CRAFT YOUR OWN STORY FOR YOUR LIFE? And he talked about what it takes to make a good story. The challenge he issued for you and your family is “Are you willing to move from Drifting and Confused”…
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Intentional Fathers Week 9 – Becoming a Family on a Mission (Part 1) – Writing a Story you want to live in.
This week Hunter Davis (dadfieldguide.com) presented on becoming a family on a mission. What is the best movie you ever watched? What about the worst movie? What if you wanted to make your family story, and you could craft it? The Enemy: The Whirlwind Our whirlwind is everyday life. It…
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Intentional Father’s Week 8 – Fostering Independence in Our Children – “Old Enough”
The number of 16 year olds that don’t want a driver’s license is growing. Netflix show, “Old Enough” children doing things at a shockingly young age. Carr asked his daughter, Clementine, to get a box of Lucky Charms and have her meet Carr in the produce section. She showed up…
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Intentional Fathers – Week 7 – Compassionate (Non-Violent) Communication
4 Steps of non-violent communication All of this is to slow it down. Responses/Application Are they HALT(ER)? You have to pray for your kids too. Their heart won’t change unless Holy Spirit does his work. How do we develop self-control in the midst of all of this? You do step…
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Intentional Fathers Week 6 – Intentional Discipling
“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk…
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