125. Dour Scotsmen and the Courage to Speak

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...

124. The Back of the Pack

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...

15 [Reset]. Smells Like Groupie Spirit

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...

123. Hello, God. It’s Me, Randy.

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...

RDC 2. Pastoral Sustainability

“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+...

122. Winning, Losing, and the Little Town of Bethlehem

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...

12 [Reset]. Lighten up and Fly Bright

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...

121. Doubt, Belief, and the Thoughtful Pastor

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...

120. Canyons

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...

14 [Reset]. The Un-Busy Pastor

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...