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Reset 23. Pack It Up and Tear It Down

by | September 8, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

This episode of Greatheart’s Table is the third of three which are here reset from when they originally aired in the fall of 2021.  One of our objectives here is to encourage pastors to stay in ministry and, if possible, to stay at their churches. But also, we...
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Reset 22. Just a Little Bit Longer

by | September 1, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

This is the second of three resets from the fall of 2021 exploring the question of when a pastor might want or need to leave his church. A part of that question is why we stay? Why do we hang around doing a job that is admittedly hard with people who can be...
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Reset 21. Oh, Won’t You Stay?

by | August 25, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Something that is rarely discussed, it seems to me, is when pastors should leave a church. Rarely discussed, of course, does not mean rarely thought about. I’m an advocate of long pastorates in single places. But not every place is suited for that. There may come a...
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RDC1A. The Power of Pastors’ Wives, Part One

by | August 18, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Hello, everyone. Welcome to another Greatheart’s Table Conversation for Rainy Day People, which is actually a reprise of our original conversation first posted in September of 2024. In this conversation I speak with three women with a wealth of ministry experience to...
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Reset 23. Pack It Up and Tear It Down

Sep 8, 2025 |

This episode of Greatheart’s Table is the third of three which are here reset from when they originally aired in the fall of 2021.  One of our objectives here is to encourage pastors to stay in ministry and, if possible, to stay at their churches. But also, we...

read more

Reset 22. Just a Little Bit Longer

Sep 1, 2025 |

This is the second of three resets from the fall of 2021 exploring the question of when a pastor might want or need to leave his church. A part of that question is why we stay? Why do we hang around doing a job that is admittedly hard with people who can be...

read more

Reset 21. Oh, Won’t You Stay?

Aug 25, 2025 |

Something that is rarely discussed, it seems to me, is when pastors should leave a church. Rarely discussed, of course, does not mean rarely thought about. I’m an advocate of long pastorates in single places. But not every place is suited for that. There may come a...

read more

Hey there, I'm

Randy!

The author and pastor behind Greatheart’s Table. I currently pastor Covenant Presbyterian Church in Oviedo, Florida and teach preaching as a visiting lecturer at the Orlando campus of Reformed Theological Seminary.
My years of pastoral experience have fed my concern for the ordinary pastor. Pastors, particularly those of smaller churches, long to be validated and encouraged but are often instead beaten down by the enormous and unreachable expectations of modern Christian culture. I began writing and producing Greatheart’s Table to provide an alternative narrative that encourages pastors, especially those in smaller churches, to be comfortable in their pastoral skin. There is great value in simply being a pastor and many pastors, and those who care for them, need to be reminded of that.
Prior to Greatheart’s Table, my writing has appeared in a variety of venues, from the family worship guide As for My House to the web site of The Gospel Coalition. In 2020 Christian Focus Publications published my book Something Worth Living For, a presentation of historic Christianity based upon the content of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. I blog, though less frequently these days, at RandyGreenwald.com.
I grew up in a small town outside Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating from Michigan State University I taught seventh-grade English for three years before attending and graduating from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. I pastored a church on Florida’s gulf coast for twenty-five years before being called to my current church in 2010. I am married to Barb and we have been blessed with six children and an innumerable multitude of grandchildren.