December 2018

New Year’s Goals

The New Year holds promise for us all. A fresh beginning, a new start, a grand opportunity to start over. We reflect on what we have done and where we have been and what we should do. Sometimes this self-reflection can be discouraging but it is an activity that should be pursued nonetheless for the greater good of all. Many years ago, after some time of reflection and prayer in the ...

By |2018-12-29T04:22:53+10:00December 29th, 2018|Dads, FAMILIES, Other Topics|0 Comments

Christmas – Special Time of The Year

To our children, Christmas is one of those special times of the year. When I was growing up it was the best time of the year and was always a long time coming. New Year was always an anticlimax, despite my Scottish heritage and the importance of Hogmanay in that country. When I was 6 years old, we lived with our mum and grandmother in Edinburgh, Scotland. Christmases were cold and ...

By |2021-05-18T13:32:44+10:00December 23rd, 2018|Children, Dads, FAITH, SINGLE DADS|1 Comment

Religious Freedom: Harassment of Christians is a blind spot for Ruddock

By JENNIFER ORIEL https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/jennifer-oriel/harassment-of-christians-is-a-blind-spot-for-ruddock/news-story/05a151d60e067228910a442909ff8287 Editors Note: Jennfier Oriel  is probably one of Australia most most eloquent and passionate defender of faith, family and freedom. This is a copy of a very good recent article in the Australian Newspaper. The government has proposed a religious discrimination act to protect the right of Australians to live in accordance with their faith. Its response to the Ruddock ­review is preliminary and will face further ...

By |2021-06-29T11:20:51+10:00December 17th, 2018|FAITH|0 Comments

Keeping Yourself True

Recently a friend of mine told me he was going in for surgery into the hospital. I offered to pray for him. He looked at me with eager and hopeful eyes which told me about the joy of my offer to him and the fear of the challenge ahead. The prospect of going under the knife myself, sent a shiver down my back. It is downright scary. You are totally in ...

By |2021-05-14T13:26:51+10:00December 15th, 2018|Children, Dads, MANHOOD, SEXUAL INTEGRITY|0 Comments

Deadlock on religious freedom is a shambles

EDITORS NOTE: This is a very good analysis reproduced from the Australian of the current attack on religious freedom in the last week of Parliamentary sitting for  2018. Deadlock on religious freedom is a shamblesPaul Kelly Attorney-General Christian Porter during question time. Picture: Kym Smith. 11:00PM December 7, 2018 596 Comments The progressive transformation of Australia has brought the Liberal and Labor parties into fundamental conflict on the philosophical but practical ...

By |2021-06-29T11:20:57+10:00December 11th, 2018|FAITH, SEXUAL INTEGRITY|1 Comment

Wild at Heart

Last weekend I attended a three day 'Wild at Heart' Bootcamp with John Eldridge and his team at Stanwell Tops, NSW. I was joined by over 400 other men from all over Australia and all over the world. Men came from USA, England, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. In the USA, one can only get into a Wild at Heart Bootcamp by random ballot, such is the demand. I have been ...

By |2018-12-08T05:48:17+10:00December 8th, 2018|Dads, FAITH, MANHOOD|0 Comments
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