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  • 127. Malachi’s People

    127. Malachi’s People
    Mar 3 2025
    I mentioned in a previous Third Monday post my intention of now and then spending some time reflecting on the insights into pastoral ministry from the unlikely source of 2 Chronicles. I want to ease into that by considering the spirit and tone of the whole book and particularly the faith of its author. He […]
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    9 min
  • 126. Of Dreamers and Cynics

    126. Of Dreamers and Cynics
    Feb 24 2025
    Hello. I’m Randy Greenwald. Welcome to Greatheart’s Table. Imagine John Lennon as a pastor. It’s easy, if you try. Okay, maybe it’s not that easy. But it’s easy to imagine the song he might have written had he been a pastor: You may say that I’m a cynic,but I’m not the only one. It’s not […]
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    8 min
  • 26 [Reset]. Of Groupies and Mentees

    26 [Reset]. Of Groupies and Mentees
    Feb 10 2025
    If you’re new, head back to episode 67 to find what’s up here. That episode is titled “Mr. Greatheart and his Metaphorical Table.” In short, our desire is to encourage pastors. But we find that the net that is cast is much broader, and that many others in ministry, as well as those not in […]
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    8 min
  • 125. Dour Scotsmen and the Courage to Speak

    125. Dour Scotsmen and the Courage to Speak
    Feb 3 2025
    I write to encourage pastors, particularly those weary or beaten down, those needing to be reminded of the value of what they do regardless of the unrelenting expectations of modern church culture. As pastors we fill a prophetic role. What to speak, how to speak it, and when, are questions that concern us all. It […]
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    9 min
  • 124. The Back of the Pack

    124. The Back of the Pack
    Jan 27 2025
    Those feelings of doubt and disorientation which we’ve come to know by the name of “imposter syndrome” are not the exclusive experience of one profession or activity. But they’re well known to pastors. Pastors of small or struggling congregations may feel these things with particular intensity, but they plague all at some level. Comparison and […]
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    8 min
  • 15 [Reset]. Smells Like Groupie Spirit

    15 [Reset]. Smells Like Groupie Spirit
    Jan 13 2025
    Once each month or so I re-post previous installments. This one was first released in August of 2021. Consequently, some of the issues referenced may seem old to us now. I’ve left those unedited, however, if only to show how quickly the issues on which pastors, or others, are expected to be expert come and […]
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    8 min
  • 123. Hello, God. It’s Me, Randy.

    123. Hello, God. It’s Me, Randy.
    Jan 6 2025
    I don’t need to tell you that I’m not Tim Keller or Beth Moore or John Owen or any other Christian celebrity living or dead. I don’t need to tell you, and I don’t need to tell God, but I do need to remind myself of this now and then. We all enter ministry and […]
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    8 min
  • RDC 2. Pastoral Sustainability

    RDC 2. Pastoral Sustainability
    Dec 30 2024
    “Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart’s Table” are audio interviews that I have with men and women who have insight on topics of concern to the Greatheart’s Table community. For this conversation I’ve invited two men with a great deal of pastoral experience (60+ years between them) to speak into the subject of sustaining pastors in […]
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    48 min