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...
by rg7878 | Oct 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
I mentioned some time ago of my intention to work slowly through the pastorally-suggestive book of 2 Chronicles. This episode is a part of that. Honest pastors know that the interpretation of the Bible is not always straightforward. There are pitfalls and byways, and...
by rg7878 | Sep 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hi! I’m Randy Greenwald, and welcome to this episode of what I call “Rainy Day Conversations around Greatheart’s Table.” I am always on the lookout for generous, gracious, and thoughtful people who have insight into the work of pastors and into the interaction pastors...
by rg7878 | Sep 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Recently we’ve revisited the question of when a pastor should possibly leave one church for another. Those episodes were resets first written nearly four years ago. I find that now I’m getting asked a question I was not being asked back then: “When do you think you’ll...
by rg7878 | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello, all. Welcome again to another Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart’s Table. This is the second half of an episode that first aired in September of 2024. The first half aired a few weeks ago. I’m reprising this conversation because of the value of...
by rg7878 | Sep 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by rg7878 | Sep 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by rg7878 | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by rg7878 | Aug 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
