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The team at Dads4Kids is so thankful to the three daring dads who featured in the Decorate Dad Challenge video. One of those amazing dads is Ashton Reed. Last Thursday, Ashton and his three beautiful children agreed to be featured in the TV story about [...]

Dear Friends My friend Dr Bruce Robinson tells a story in his bestselling book, which forms the introduction to Fathering from the Fast Lane. An unforgettable and sad thing happened to me at a restaurant one evening. It illustrates how important it is to know [...]

Intention Abortion is perhaps the greatest moral issue of our time. Prayer is the greatest response -- and God will end abortion! Scripture “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but [...]

Intention Obeying God sometimes means disobeying evil authorities. Scripture “Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if [...]

Intention We must declare life to that which is dead—beginning with ourselves and all across our nation. Scripture The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a [...]

The science shows that families who play together stay together, for more reasons than one. Jim Burns, in his article “Families that Play Together Stay Together”, said, “Playing together is an essential trait of happy, healthy families. Certainly, our children need to do their chores, [...]

In the history of Australia, no sitting leader has gone to an election promising to legalise euthanasia as part of their party platform. But this week, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk broke with tradition to campaign on her and Labor’s proud pro-death agenda. At Labor’s official [...]

Intention God is challenging us to be better parents. Scripture “Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, [...]

Amy Coney Barrett is a danger to families who desperately want children. So says Senator Tammy Duckworth, based on an advertisement which Judge Barrett signed back in 2006. This, Senator Duckworth suggests, disqualifies Judge Barrett from the US Supreme Court. I don’t know Judge Barrett [...]

Intention How we vote in upcoming elections must have in view the precious lives of the unborn. Scripture “A man was going from Jerusalem to Jericho and was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes and beat him, leaving him for dead. A priest and [...]

"In family life, be completely present," is a saying of Lao Tzu from 600 BC. Here we are now, 2600 years later, and we are still struggling to learn this simple but profound piece of advice. This advice is all the more critical for fathers, [...]

Intention The Incarnation of Jesus is a reminder that the unborn are people too, and all of us have great value in God’s eyes. Scripture “In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she [...]

Intention We must pray for government, because we get the government we pray for. Scripture “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may [...]

Two weeks ago, I wrote about “Work Day with Dad”. In the article, I told the story of a number of dads who had changed their children for the better by simply hanging out with them. The act of taking your children to work, or [...]

Intention In times of great opposition and peril, it is important to know we already have victory and life in the mighty and wonderful name of Jesus. Scripture “Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of [...]

Intention It is time for us to listen to the voice of God, the just judge, and to take action on behalf of the defenceless. Scripture “All rise! For God now comes to judge as he convenes heaven’s courtroom. He judges every judge and rules [...]

Intention God entrusts us with an amazing responsibility: the care of new life. May our communities learn to value and nourish each person, especially pregnant mothers and the children they carry. Scripture “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come [...]

I once went to a men’s breakfast where Paul Bartlett, then a father of young children, was speaking about the importance of fathers in the lives of their children. He told the story of how, once a month, his dad, who was in a high-pressure [...]

“Love is a many-splendored thing” is the title of a popular song from the fifties. Many people would argue the sanity of that song and concur instead with Shakespeare who said, “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage”! Nobody would disagree with you if [...]

As the world races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, a number of Archbishops in Australia have been calling for caution. In particular, Anglican, Orthodox and Roman Catholic leaders in Sydney requested the Morrison government not to use a treatment based upon the bodies of [...]