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136. Truth, Lies, and the Pulpit

by | July 28, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Those who know me know how skeptical I am about the use of statistics by pastors, and how much I mistrust a certain oft-quoted polling organization based in California.  But my concern is not statistics per se, but the fact that if we are not careful the pulpit,...
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RDC 4B. Healthy Teams and Pastoral Flourishing, Part Two

by | July 21, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

As many know, on the first, second, and third Mondays of each month I reproduce here an audio version of my Substack newsletter, for those who prefer their content in audio form. But on the third and fifth Mondays I release audio only conversations with others who...
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Reset 20. Uncommon Sources of Sermonic Wisdom

by | July 14, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

I love good children’s books. This is so well known, that a 9 year old member of our church recently took great joy in giving me Volume 1 of a collection of Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie books. She was beaming, and so was I. Books like these ought to be read for the...
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135. Children and the Promises of God

by | July 7, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The content of this episode is excerpted from my retreat addressing what I call “off-script kids.” I explained this in a post a few weeks ago. The retreat is linked in the show notes. Parents of off-script kids carry many different emotions. But what they should not...
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136. Truth, Lies, and the Pulpit

Jul 28, 2025 |

Those who know me know how skeptical I am about the use of statistics by pastors, and how much I mistrust a certain oft-quoted polling organization based in California.  But my concern is not statistics per se, but the fact that if we are not careful the pulpit,...

read more

Reset 20. Uncommon Sources of Sermonic Wisdom

Jul 14, 2025 |

I love good children’s books. This is so well known, that a 9 year old member of our church recently took great joy in giving me Volume 1 of a collection of Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie books. She was beaming, and so was I. Books like these ought to be read for the...

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.