by rg7878 | Dec 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hey, welcome to another “Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart’s Table.” Unlike the normal short episodes, these are longer conversations in which I invite men and women with insight into issues of concern for pastors and those who care for them to talk about their...
by rg7878 | Dec 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hi, and welcome to Greatheart’s Table, the podcast for baseball lovers and those who care for them. Wait. That’s a bit skewed. But let’s run with it. Having grown up with baseball, I often see parallels between the sport and the Christian life. People tend to...
by rg7878 | Dec 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hi. Thanks for pulling up a chair around Greatheart’s Table, a community of pastors and others considering life in general, and life in the church particularly. This episode, a reset of one first aired four years ago, applies widely to men and women in all stages and...
by rg7878 | Nov 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello everyone. Welcome to Greatheart’s Table. I’m Randy Greenwald. And welcome to the week of Thanksgiving, in the U. S. at least. This has put me in a playful mood. Perhaps you will judge this to be trivial. It may be. But I think Thanksgiving is a good time to back...
by rg7878 | Nov 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’d like to welcome you to another “Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart’s Table.” This episode first aired just after Christmas in 2024 and addresses those factors that help pastors persevere for the long haul, and those challenges that can cut that short. This...
by rg7878 | Nov 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post applies far beyond the pastoral office. We are a technological people. “Applied science,” as C. S. Lewis names it, has so shaped us that we never question it. We tend always to baptize it as good. It has been welcomed into our churches and homes and schools,...
by rg7878 | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today the words and voice that follow will not be mine, but that of a wise friend of mine. Mike Osborne and I have known each other since seminary. For the past fifteen years we’ve pastored churches in the same town. He’s a gift. Over lunch a few months ago, Mike, who...
by rg7878 | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
The triple negative in the title of this episode is more than a gimmick. We have power, we are not to seek power, and we revel in our weakness. And that can be confusing. Pastors for the past forty years, in my experience, have been battered and attacked by vocal...
by rg7878 | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello, and welcome to this episode of Rainy Day Conversations around Greatheart’s Table. I’m Randy Greenwald. This is part two of our two part conversation with Dr. Jessie Swigart of Covenant Theological Seminary regarding professional identity formation. In the first...
by rg7878 | Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ministry, like life, can be beautiful, and at other times confusingly messy. Sometimes we are given the opportunity to see the fruit of our labors. But at other times, we see no fruit, and we only sense the weight of what feels like futility. This is a reset of an...
