April 2019

What Women Want

Many years ago, I went to the largest single day men's conference in Australia, the Hillsong Men's Conference.    One of the speakers, Dr A.R. Bernard, shared the title of his message, "What do Women Want". A holy hush descend on the 5,000 men gathered in the auditorium as they all thought "Wow! I am going to find out today the question that many of my forbears desperately wanted to know but ...

By |2021-05-14T13:18:57+10:00April 29th, 2019|LOVE & MARRIAGE|0 Comments

Easter Family Holidays

Henry Youngman, a comedian who was known as 'King of the One Liners' once said, "I was an atheist for a while, but I gave it up, no holy-days." Such a one liner about holy-days sums up the subject of this week's newsletter - Easter Family Holidays. Most of us celebrate Easter holidays but where did they come from and why do we celebrate them? Most countries in the world celebrate ...

By |2019-04-21T09:44:21+10:00April 21st, 2019|Dads, FAITH, FAMILIES|0 Comments

Fathers & Families – The Priority of Adventure

Richard Branson said, “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” It is the priority of adventure that makes being out in the bush with a bunch of dads and their kids really exhilarating. Wollondilly River Station, the place for our annual Dads4kids Bush Camp, is set in a deep valley not too far from the famous Wombeyan Caves in the Southern Highlands ...

By |2019-04-15T07:00:35+10:00April 15th, 2019|Children, Dads, FAMILIES|1 Comment

A Man Called Mick

Counting Crows had a hit in 2002 with Joni Mitchell’s famous song Big Yellow Taxi. Good songs never get old. The line that stands out in the song for me is “all and all it seems to go, but you don’t know what you got till it’s gone”. Such was the case of a good friend of mine, Mick Robbins. We had only met a half a dozen times, but he ...

By |2021-05-14T13:18:57+10:00April 7th, 2019|Children, Dads, FAITH, FAMILIES, LOVE & MARRIAGE, MANHOOD|2 Comments

Real Men

Eric Clapton sang, “If I could change the world.” Many men dream about changing the world, but very few actually attempt it. Some succeed in bringing change, but is that change healthy, or does it create more problems than it solves? As a student radical, growing up in the late sixties, I believed it was possible to change the world. Of course, when you are young, and want to change the world, ...

By |2019-04-05T07:38:38+10:00April 5th, 2019|FAITH, MANHOOD|0 Comments
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