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  • Reset 19. The Family Practice Pastor

    Reset 19. The Family Practice Pastor
    2025/06/09
    If you are a pastor, you could probably list thirty-two things that ministry requires that you don’t believe you are good at. We are harsh self critics. But what if we need to be just “okay” at these things? What if it is enough to be “good enough?” What if the pressure to excel at […]
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    8 分
  • 133. Isolation, Shame, and Off-Script Kids

    133. Isolation, Shame, and Off-Script Kids
    2025/06/02
    Many of you may know that one of my concerns has been and is the guilt and shame of parents whose adult children have made choices troubling to their parents. This sends many parents into an emotional free fall, and often they are in churches where this common situation is neither acknowledged or validated. Consequently […]
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    8 分
  • 132. Power and Its Fruits

    132. Power and Its Fruits
    2025/05/26
    In the U. S., today is Memorial Day, a day for remembering those who have given their lives on behalf of their country. I have distinct memories of, as a child, visiting a cemetery on this day and listening to the sound of taps being played, the bugle in the distance and the notes weaving […]
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    9 分
  • RDC 3C. The Reading Life of Pastors (and Other Humans), Part Three

    RDC 3C. The Reading Life of Pastors (and Other Humans), Part Three
    2025/05/19
    Hello! Welcome to this unusual, audio only, third Monday edition of Greatheart’s Table. This is the third and last of our Rainy Day Conversation with my two friends, Adam and Byron discussing books. And though our initial focus was on pastoral reading habits, all of these conversations apply widely to all Christians. In this episode […]
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    42 分
  • Reset 18. The Inertia of the Ordinary

    Reset 18. The Inertia of the Ordinary
    2025/05/12
    Pastors are always having to decide what to do. In our day of political turmoil, especially, touching as it does on a plethora of deeply meaningful moral concerns many of us feel that we need to do something, and if we don’t, our parishioners as well as internet pundits press their agenda upon us. Being […]
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    9 分
  • Reset 17. What Can the Righteous Do?

    Reset 17. What Can the Righteous Do?
    2025/05/05
    The following episode was first aired in September of 2021. The frustration, hopelessness, and caution, it touches upon remain relevant today for pastors and others. We are urged to do something! We are told to act! But what does that mean? What are we to do? What can we? It’s worth thinking about. The underlying […]
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    8 分
  • 131. The Rise of the Micro-Church

    131. The Rise of the Micro-Church
    2025/04/28
    Hello. I’m Randy, and I pastor a small church. That, of course, is meant to sound like the stereotyped introduction of an AA meeting. But this is not an admission that this idea of “Small Church Thinking” which has occupied us recently arises from my being hooked on churches being small. The truth is the […]
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    9 分
  • RDC 3B. The Reading Life of Pastors (and Other Humans), Part Two

    RDC 3B. The Reading Life of Pastors (and Other Humans), Part Two
    2025/04/21
    Welcome to this third Monday edition of a “Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart’s Table.” This episode is a continuation of a conversation that began on March 31 on the reading life of pastors (and other humans). If you missed that first episode you can go back and listen to it first, or you can dive […]
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    38 分