• Band of Brothers

    25 September, 2026

    Twenty-five years on, "Band of Brothers" still reminds us of the courage, brotherhood and leadership forged when ordinary men rise to extraordinary challenges.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • hero

    5 February, 2026

    A teenage boy’s heroic swim to save his family becomes a powerful reflection on courage, faith, fatherhood, and the kind of character our culture should celebrate and cultivate.

    Kurt Mahlburg

  • Bonhoeffer film

    28 March, 2025

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s story is compelling and illuminates many important issues for us today. Hopefully, like me, you’ll be encouraged and spurred on in your fatherhood while watching this film. Stand strong, be a guide to others, protect, and lead your family in love.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • heroes

    10 November, 2023

    Not all heroes wear capes. Mostly, they’re just everyday people. As we approach International Men’s Day on November 19, take some time to think about the heroes and positive male role models in your life.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • adventure

    13 October, 2023

    Here's the thing about adventures: not only are they educational and great fun; they create incredible, never-to-be-forgotten memories that you and your kids will cherish forever.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • hero

    29 December, 2022

    A GoFundMe page has been set up to help a hero dad fix the family’s damaged truck and cover time off work after a carjacking incident. On 30 November around 8:40 pm, Derek Gotchie and his family were delivering seasonal gifts to friends when their SUV, with his kids inside, was stolen. The four kids, all under the age of five, we left in the family car in order to keep ...

    Rod Lampard

  • dragon slayers

    9 December, 2022

    Paraphrasing the great G.K. Chesterton, novelist Neil Gaiman wrote, “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” His words summarise the essence of an obscure essay from Chesterton called The Red Angel, written in defence of the ordinary hero, who is set against extraordinary odds. ‘Fairy tales don’t give the child his first idea of ...

    Rod Lampard

  • 25 April, 2021

    Today is Anzac Day, 25th April. The most holy day in the Australian calendar. It is a day when we remember the men who gave their lives for us all, that we might walk in freedom. Dawn Remembrance Services are held across the nation.  This phrase from the Bible is repeated ten thousand times, if not more, in these dawn gatherings: “Greater love has no man than this that he lay ...

    Warwick Marsh

  • 20 April, 2013

    Some are speculating that this year’s 98th celebration of ANZAC Day could be one of the biggest ever.  The curious thing is that more and more young people are getting up very early in the morning to take part in the traditional ANZAC dawn service.  This year tens of thousands will make the pilgrimage to Turkey to commemorate the heroic landing of our troops at ANZAC Cove. One could argue that ...

    Warwick Marsh

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