Heartache. Anxiety. Brokenness. These are well known symptoms that people suffer after experiencing terrible loss. A Mum and a Dad lost their blonde-haired, brown eyed baby boy – Maverick – in a tragic accident right on a family farm in the northern tablelands of NSW. This is their story of heart-wrenching pain and loss. But it is also a story of amazing hope and remarkable strength that this family has found in God and the promises in His Word.
Back in 1895, a 30-year-old Banjo Paterson was staying at Dagworth Sheep Station near Winton, when he heard the story of the recent death of a striking sheep shearer at the nearby Combo Waterhole. He wrote the tale and put the lyrics to the tune he had heard the station owner’s daughter playing on the…
On the 11th of December 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States drawing the country into the heart of World War II. As an act of aggression, Hitler deployed his dreaded U-boat wolf packs into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to patrol the American coastline. The U-boats were…
Ancient records tell us that salt was a valuable trading item, and merchants developed salt routes to transport it to sell to other countries. Salt even came to be used as a currency known as white gold, and its history has been interwoven into countless civilisations for thousands of years. But what does the Bible…
What makes our planet unique is that it is teeming with life. As humans, we like to get near these magnificent animals, to watch and admire them in their natural habitat. But many of these animals are not only spectacular but unpredictable and dangerous; they might look cute and cuddly but could kill you in…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian, is a Christian hero for many. Executed by the Nazis just days before the end of WWII for his participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler, Bonhoeffer is hailed as a 20th-century martyr. But Bonhoeffer struggled with a moral dilemma – his religious views were in stark contrast to the…
In the McPherson Rangers near the most easterly point in Australia, is the site of one of the most amazing rescues in Australian aviation history. How is it possible? So many search planes had already flown thousands of kilometres trying to spot that one crashed aircraft. So many people searching, so many people investigating and…