Category: Weekly Meeting Notes
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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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Intentional Fathers Week 5 – Non-Violent Conflict
Nathan Clenendin talked about how he is an enneagram 9 and doesn’t like conflict. Nathan shared that he has the philosophy of story telling. Sharing redemptive stories that have hope or redemption. Stories are the language of how we make decisions and how we communicate. We think we make decisions…
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Intentional Fathers Week 4: Putting It Into Practice-Blessing
This week we talked about how we are putting the previous three weeks into practice. Blessing – Origins What is blessing? We had different ideas from the men attending: The opposite of blessing is cursing With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human…
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Intentional Fathers – Week 3 “To be a father you must first be a son”
This past Friday Chris Savage presented on a concept that is touched upon in “Things Fathers Do” by Paul Manwaring. The idea is that: “to be a father, you must first become a son.” What does this mean? Chris started off by leading worship song called “Lead Me To the…
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Intentional Fathers – Week 2 – “You Have What It Takes”
Nathan shared a story about how one of his sons, Zach, had an opportunity to go to boarding school. Instead of leaving at 18, he was going to leave at 16 for boarding school. God spoke to Nathan, “you need to let him know that he has what it takes”…
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Intentional Fathers – Week 1 – Windows of Opportunity
Thank you for all the men who came out today. There were 12 in attendance. Paul Robbins shared a little of his story talking about when his father once saw some people rappelling down a mountainside. Paul’s father stopped the car and took Paul over to the men and asked…
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