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I was recently privy to a conversation between two young women, 19-year old’s I know well. They were lamenting the fact that they would never meet a guy who didn’t consume porn, whether a Christian or not. Every guy is into it. “I guess I’ll [...]

One of the tools we've been developing are HOPE cards. These simple, ‘business cards’ feature the word hope and a QR code link to our Discover Hope website with a Gospel message and several personal testimonies of finding hope in Jesus. When used as an [...]

For many people, the lockdown has provided nothing but bad news. However, it is important to remember that God is working through all the difficulties to bring people to Himself. Michelle's Upbringing “I knew of the Lord but I did not know Him,” states 20-year-old [...]

KA-THUNK! Shudder shudder shudder… 300 kilometres north of Perth, our Mobile Mission team’s road trip came to an abrupt halt as the rear axle broke out through the wheel of their caravan. It was day one of a week-long outreach trip to Roebourne in Western [...]

How a dad's viral videos resonate deeply with fatherless youth. There are many aspirational “influencers” on the internet creating carefully staged, professional-looking content in the hope of attracting viewers. But Rob Kenney, an assuming middle-aged man, seems to have stumbled into internet stardom with simple [...]

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ~ Viktor Frankl, Jewish Holocaust survivor When Viktor Frankl arrived at the Nazi prison camp, he immediately promised himself that he wouldn’t ‘run into the wire’, a term for the [...]

Please note the following article includes discussion on the issue of sexual assault. For almost two decades now, people have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of children accessing pornography online and it’s seemingly fallen on deaf ears. Little children, primarily boys, are consuming [...]

There are some great resources out there to help the church understand and to develop a response to contentious social issues that are impacting young lives. On the touchy issues around sexuality and gender, it appears the horse has truly bolted, us older generations have [...]

Jake's journey through addiction. Testimonies are powerful. For my book Lost Boys: Bring Them Home, I interviewed a number of young men about their experience with pornography and their journey to freedom. I was only able to record three in the book, but all of [...]

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything.” ~ G.K. Chesterton Gen Z or Zoomers (those born from the mid 90s to 2010) are considered the most sceptical of all [...]

Destroy the Patriarchy! Women DON’T need men! The amount of times I’ve heard these slogans by angry women, the fruit of today’s misandrist climate, is concerning. Misandrist: a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against men. Women don’t need men for what exactly? [...]

The uprising of the woke generation. We are in a bitter culture war. Young people are graduating our education system not with freedom and diversity of thought, but with a new framework for understanding life -- a new worldview -- which is somewhat angry, anti-authority [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about honour lately, or perhaps the lack of it in today’s culture, particularly manly honour. What is it exactly and why has it lost its value in our culture. According to Collins Dictionary: Honour means doing what you believe to [...]

i am a person, who is going through some hard times. my thoughts are beyond me. i just want to get noticed … Thus is one of the recent trending discussions on Reddit. I just want to get noticed. This is actually a need more [...]

Intention An outburst of joy, straight from the heart Scripture “Lift up your heads, O you gates: be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in. Who is this Kind of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty [...]

Young Christian women have been lamenting the perceived man drought that the West is currently facing. Even the ABC has chimed in on the conversation with an article titled Australia’s ‘man drought’ is real -- especially if you are a Christian woman looking for love. [...]

2020 was certainly the year of firsts. The December issue of Vogue Magazine featured on the cover for the first time ever a solo man. And more specifically, a man in a dress. Literally thousands around the world are discussing this hot topic and it’s [...]

A compelling article in Fatherhood Today magazine was published some years back which many have been discussing since. In it, psychologist Wade Horn explains how the Kruger National Park in South Africa had a concerning problem of an overpopulation of elephants. The once low numbers [...]

I met 17-year-old Patrick while he waited for a friend on the outside tables at McDonald's. We got into a conversation about all sorts of things, but I was particularly interested in why he described himself as a ‘gamer’ up until a couple of months [...]

The first little piggy built his house of straw. I got into a conversation with a young man in a coffee shop today. I was drinking my coffee while mulling over the topic of nihilism for this article. I wanted a young man’s view­ -- [...]