Relationships

The ‘Gift’ of COVID

The ‘gift of COVID’ is that many of us have experienced new and positive ways of living, thinking, working and cultivating relationships.

Don’t Just Find Your Tribe, Open the Circle and Let People In

Who else would be grateful for an open invitation into your tribe today? Love often lies on the other side of convenience.

Hey Single Girl, How’d You Go On Mother’s Day?

To the single woman who wants to be a mother but isn’t and the woman who desires to be a wife but is not. This letter is for you.

Is Your Daughter a Victim of Gaslighting?

Gaslighting is sinister, and like other forms of abuse, it seeks to harm the victim and then blame them for it. Learn to recognise the signs.

Helping Your Blended Family Thrive, Not Just Survive

These 4 things will help your new blended family better navigate the changes to family life, strength relationships and diffuse tensions.

How to Deal With Toxic Family Members Biblically

Not sure how to deal with toxic family members? Here’s how to identify the signs of a toxic relationship and what the Bible has to say about cutting ties.

50-Something, Single, Childless – And Really Okay With That! Author Donna Ward

A memoir on spinsterhood unveils a life without the common family structure and reflects on a society that inherently alienates the single and childless.

How to Help Our Elderly in the Pandemic Shutdown

While social-distancing measures are designed to preserve our wellbeing, they can also erode the mental health of the older population.

Developing Relationship Intelligence in Teens

What young people everywhere have in common is the need for love – in some ways, they crave it as much as (or even more than) basic needs like food.

When Friendships Go Wrong For Girls

Girls need to know that arguing doesn’t have to be the end of a friendship, but that squabbling can be vital to help learn respectful conflict resolution.

3 Keys to a Happy Marriage and 4 Rules for the Tough Times

Love goes through phases and stages, and you don’t always have that fluttery feeling, but that doesn’t mean that love’s not there.

Rend Collective Band Leader Chosen by Sponsor Child

On the eve of their sell-out Australian tour, Rend Collective’s Gareth Gilkeson opened up about being one of the last to be chosen as a Child Sponsor.

Want a Better Relationship With God? Start Here.

We can’t just sit around and hope to magically have this strong faith and trust. If you want a better relationship with God, you have to take action.

Be a Better Friend and Understand Your Adult Children

I’ve discovered the world has two types of people. Realising that some people are relational and others are tasky, helped me to be a better friend.

Do People Matter?

As the day closed I looked on as those around me returned home; mothers, tradesmen, students, businessmen and grandmas. All with their own lives.

Kath Sees Our Christian Community, And She Wants Some

“We haven’t got everything right,” I said, “But our church community has been amazing at helping people and being a family.”

Marriage: 26 Years and One Day Later

My constant prayer is that our earthly marriage will end by death or by Jesus’ return, marriages end for so many reasons other than those two things.

A Dad who Loved with All His Heart!

As a result of his wartime experiences, Dad had a thing about speed, machines and death. And he over-compensated in a lovely kind of way.