Category: Weekly Meeting Notes
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Intentional Habits – 3 Practices To Try In The Morning
This was adapted from the book “Habits of the Household” by Justin Whitmel Early. We talked about all the following 3 habits in group this week. Key Takeaways Topics: Habit of Waking #1: Make a Habit of Kneeling in Prayer Before Standing in Your Day Habit of Waking #2: Make…
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Emotions: Naming/Breathing/Coping (Trinity Dads Coffee – 031524)
We moved to the Library for this week (back upstairs next week) Last week – Putting it into practice Carr talked about how his enjoyment during Spring Break was put in Subservience to his family’s enjoyment. Paul talked about how he noticed that his children watching a show about someone…
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Trinity Dads 030124 – Impulse Control
Putting it into practice One dad decided to say yes to his kid when she asked and he didn’t feel like it. Another spent the morning with his 5 year old and built a fort Another caught himself watching YouTube and not interacting with his family Another threw baseball right…
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Servanthood and Rest
“ “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”” —…
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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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