by rg7878 | Jan 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by rg7878 | Jan 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
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 engage...
by rg7878 | Dec 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
“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+...
by rg7878 | Dec 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Merry Christmas, everyone! Welcome to Greatheart’s Table. I’m Randy Greenwald, one wearied by the ubiquitous Christmas playlists found in stores and coffee shops this time of year. I can only stand so much rockin’ around the Christmas tree. On the other hand, were I...
by rg7878 | Dec 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Pastoral ministry is serious business. And, as we know from the Spiderman movies, with great seriousness comes great responsibility (or something like that). I suggest here that we are responsible from time to time to lighten up. A congregation needs a pastor with a...
by rg7878 | Dec 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
No one would really dress pastors in capes and ask them to stop a runaway locomotive of to faster than a speeding bullet. And yet, we can forget that they, or we, are human. Pastors are humanly subject to the same struggles and afflictions and, yes, doubts, as...
by rg7878 | Nov 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Some of the truest things every spoken have been spoken through story, through fiction. What follows here then is fiction in a genre I have dubbed “pastoral horror.” It’s brief, and for some it will be unsettling and for others it will be resonant. Either way, it...
by rg7878 | Nov 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’m Randy Greenwald and this is Greatheart’s Table, the podcast for “busy” pastors and those who care for them. I’ve put quotes around “busy” because this is the second of two reset episodes from first released in August of 2021 on the subject of the “busy-ness” of...
by rg7878 | Nov 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
With this episode and the next I reset and re-release two episodes from August of 2021. As we all know, to be busy and to be a pastor are co-morbid conditions. But should they be? There will always be things to do. But are they the right things? Thanks for listening....
by rg7878 | Oct 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Greatheart’s Table, the podcast for pastors and those who care for them. In this episode I want to take you on a tour around our small suburban house, to consider the trees in our yard. I assure you that you have not accidentally linked to a podcast on home...
