Christian leaders join Dominic Steele for a deep end conversation about our hearts and different aspects of Christian ministry each Tuesday at 2pm Sydney time. We share personally, pastorally and professionally about how we can best fulfill Jesus' mission to save the lost and serve the saints. The discussion is broadcast live on Facebook then available in audio and video on our website http://www.thepastorsheart.net.
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Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness - with Akos Balogh
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Australia’s former Prime Minister Scott Morrison releases a new autobiography this week where he speaks explicitly about his Christian faith, and there’s a bible quote on almost every page. Akos Balogh of Blue Fox Media joins Dominic Steele to review Mr Morrison’s new book where the former Prime Minister writes of wrestling with whether to study at…
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A high stakes game of ecclesiastical poker in the Anglican Communion - with Justin Badi Arama and Paul Donison
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It is almost D day in the Anglican Communion. Today we give the background for two highly significant meetings. One to take place next week in Rome. The second in June in Cairo. The Rome gathering has been called by the rejected Canterbury leadership. The Cairo gathering has been called by the leadership of the Global South. As background, The Chur…
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We have a problem with Truth - with Lionel Windsor
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We are moving into a post - post-modern world But what does that look like and mean for truth - and us as pastors - as we attempt to communicate with our churches? Our church members have unconsciously adopted some of the presuppositions of our society in the way we process texts and information. We are living in a fake news world on social media w…
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Navigating new laws on Conversion Practices: A Pastoral Approach to Compassion and Legal Compliance
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What is permissible and not permissible under new conversion practice laws in New South Wales - with Neil Foster, Matt Aroney and Michael Stead Sydney Anglican Bishop Michael Stead, who chairs Freedom for Faith, describes the new laws as the least worst that he has seen in Australia. Associate Professor of Law at Newcastle University and author of …
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Things that hinder and sins that entangle - with Dominic Steele
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The Pastor’s Heart - A word to our heart from Dominic Steele In a Pastor’s Heart special, Dominic Steele speaks to our hearts today as we engage in the battle of the Christian life. We get a call today to perseverance and resilience. Dominic addresses, not just pastors, but young and old; healthy and unfit; wealthy and poor; busy and quiet; husband…
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We explore the delicate dynamics of faith, family, and identity in the world of church leadership. As pastors most of all we want our kids to love Jesus. And yet Barnabas Piper says so often pastors kids are messed up. What are the unique experiences, joys and challenges of being pastors kids? And how can we better parent as pastors? There are issu…
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Theologically rethinking youth ministry - with Ruth Lukabyo, Bill Salier and Tim Beilharz
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How do we speak to children about sin? How can we help youth understand themselves as sinful and in indeed of forgiveness? What to make theologically of the sense of entitlement in youth culture? Plus how do we think theologically about the important issue of vibe in youth and children's ministry and in regards to how kids engage with church. And w…
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Nationwide evangelistic collaboration: Meet Jesus and the power of prayer - Richard Chin, Rory Shiner, Baden Stace and Elliot Temple
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The old saying is ‘A rising tide lifts all boats.’ But could the spark of story telling, and celebrating faith increase evangelism in churches and on university campuses everywhere? National Director of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students Richard Chin is emphasising the importance of prayer, through what he calls a 'two-for-two' model…
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The Application Revolution - with Paul Grimmond
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“It’s like they got the exegesis spot on, then closed their eyes, fired an arrow randomly into the air, opened their eyes to see where it landed and said, ‘That looks like a good place to do application!’” - Theological College lecturer on student sermon application. But are those of us who have graduated from theological college much better? For a…
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The magnificent beauty of God’s design for men and women - with Andrew Leslie
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Andrew Leslie is encouraging us to first take a step back from practical concerns and reflect on the beauty and wisdom of the bible’s teaching about manhood and womanhood. In much contemporary debate about gender we focus on practical questions about what different people can do. However the head of Moore Theological College’s Doctrine Department s…
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Creating a future proofed church - with Stephen McAlpine
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Stephen McAlpine says the real question is “Does the future have a church?” The statistics are not our friend. We have been talking on The Pastor’s Heart about dropping church attendance. Stephen McAlpine is writing about the more widespread phenomenon. He says some countries like the US are coming off a high base and in those places there is fat a…
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How TikTok changes everything for social media and churches - with Hannah Thiem and Liz Fong
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Social media is changing again. In an increasingly digital age, our collective consciousness is captured by infinite scrolling, short-form videos, and internet personalities. A church's social media presence has gone from an optional nicety to a key lever for engaging newcomers to church. How can pastors and ministry teams best capture the opportun…
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Better relationships between senior pastors and female ministry team members - with Clare Deeves
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How can male senior pastors have better relationships with the women on their ministry teams, where everyone shares complementarian convictions. In those contexts - there are stories around that suggesting that relationships between some senior pastors and the women on the teams have been strained and have sometimes broken down completely. There’s …
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Bridging Secular Wisdom and the Christian Mission: A Dialogue on Growth, Change, and Spiritual Transformation - with Archie Poulos
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What can we learn from recent secular literature about the practice of Christian pastoral leadership? Head of Ministry at Sydney’s Moore Theological College Archie Poulos looks at how the 'The Infinite Game' concept, popularized by Simon Sinek, can be applied to ministry. Sinek explores the consequences of short and long term thinking in business a…
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‘Many of the ways we are running our churches and ministries and many of the ways we are exercising leadership within our churches, has become a significant hindrance to the growth of the church.’ Andrew Heard’s about to be released book Growth and Change will be the ‘must read’ book for pastors for 2024. In his opening preface Gospel Coalition fou…
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Riding the wave of significant growth - with Indian Ocean Archbishop James Wong
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Gospel ministry in the Indian Ocean is growing rapidly. Anglican Primate James Wong leads the ministry in Seychelles, Madagascar and Mauritius and is visiting Sydney, on a speaking tour of the Church Missionary Society Australian Summer Conferences. Archbishop Wong charts a course for further growth in ministry in his region. Plus he outlines the d…
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What to do about threats and weaknesses - with David Rietveld
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The massive drop in church attendance is a crisis facing churches across the Western World and there are external pressures and internal weaknesses that need to be addressed at every level of the church. We highlighted a few months ago the attendance drop in Sydney Anglican Evangelical Churches in the last ten years. Raj Gupta first called it a pla…
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BEST OF: What if Colin Buchanan was Archbishop? - with Colin Buchanan
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We catch up with Australian Christian musician for one of our funniest ever episodes, but with a serious message. Colin talks with Dominic Steele about managing life as a public Christian, living with integrity in family, church and while engaging in the secular media. Colin draws on his experience with Play School to share top tips for kids' minis…
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BEST OF: How do we deal with anxiety in the Christian life - with Paul Grimmond
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‘Do not be anxious about anything’ says the Apostle Paul. But Paul Grimmond says saying that to an anxious person is a bit like telling an icecream not to melt in summer. How do we think biblically about anxiety while taking on board what else is happening with a person’s biology and environment? How can we see anxiety as a gift? What does the inte…
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Relationships, Results and Rhythms of Ministry Teams - with Grahame Fuller and Jo Gibbs
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As we head to 2024 most of us are recasting ministry teams for the new year. But how can we do this without making some of the mistakes that we have made in 2023? How do we do better with staff teams and all the various volunteer ministry teams across our church? And even in the best places - there’s an inertia that we will slip back to functioning…
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Improving your Christmas service and talk - with Dave Jensen and James Galea
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How can we make our Christmas Services better? With just a few days to Christmas, and while some of us are well planned, some of us are still scrambling around putting things together. Whether it’s Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, or a kids gathering, carols or Gingerbread and Wreathmaking... What are the pitfalls we can fall into? How do we avoid t…
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How youth ministry is changing and needs to change - with Andy Stevenson and Ruth Lee
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Cultural changes and increasing push back against churches are impacting youth ministries. It is getting much harder for Christian Teenagers to be Christian among their secular peers. Teenagers don’t just walk in the door of a church. What are latest youth ministry trends and opportunities? How can we do youth ministry on the front foot? Andy Steve…
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Church planting is the Bible’s answer to poverty - with David Williams
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Poverty is fundamentally relational says David Williams What might a theology of caring for the poor look like? The bible’s terms for the poor (widow, orphan and alien) are all relational terms which describe someone who has lost relationships and as a result have lost connection with the land. David and his wife Rachel started serving as missionar…
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No crumb of comfort in a tragic and disastrous Church of England decision - with Vaughan Roberts
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The Church of England has abandoned the teaching of Jesus with prayers for same sex blessings potentially to start before Christmas. ‘Tragic’ says Gafcon. ‘Disastrous’ says the Global South. ‘Deeply Troubled’ says the Church of England Evangelical Council ‘First order difference requires first order differentiation’ says Vaughan Roberts ‘It is hard…
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Rethinking retirement to avoid the sin of the sluggard - with Mike Raiter
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Years and years of putting your feet up is the lifestyle of the sluggard. To be a sluggard is a so called ‘deadly sin.’ The concept we now know as retirement is a 19th century invention and not a Christian concept. Former Missionary, Bible College lecturer and principal Mike Raiter says the idea that we should stop work at 65 and enjoy 20 or 30 yea…
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