The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele

29-year-old David Bennett, who describes himself as a former anti-Christian gay activist now Christian, says Jesus is good news for same sex attracted Christians. David joins us on The Pastor’s Heart to talk through his story and his two ‘coming outs,’ one as a 14 year old, and then later a second as a Christian believer. The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

We launch The Pastor's Heart for 2019 with an 'on the road' edition from the CMS Summer School in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.  Dr Gary Millar answers questions on how to preach better so that your sermon lands with real application. Gary is the principal of the Queensland Theological College and is the chair of the Gospel Coalition Australia. He was the main speaker at the 2019 Church Missionary Society Summer School in NSW. During the conference he took time out with Dominic Steele to share the story of when he was put on trial in Ireland to face 27 charges of heresy. The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Raising up and training ministry trainees as harvest workers!Why those of us in local churches should? And how we should?Our guest is Carl Matthei, who leads the ministry team in the Campus Bible Study and Unichurch UNSW at the University of New South Wales.Carl has more ministry trainees than anyone else in evangelical ministry in Australia.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How Christians can and should wisely engage with our increasingly hostile secular culture. How can we have a posture of grace in a time of outrage?CEO of the Gospel Coalition Australia, Akos Balogh, has a background in Campus Ministry, and is a influential christian writer and blogger.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

We feature an interview conducted in church with a domestic violence survivor.  It’s a confronting and personal interview and does deserve a ‘trigger warning.’ Jenni Woodhouse and Dominic watch as the abuse survivor tells her story, then Jenni critiques Dominic’s pastoral handling of the situation.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

There’s been lots of talk recently about ‘The Leadership Pipeline’ but what exactly is it and how can the senior church leader make the most of this new pastoral practice.The leadership pipeline is a super helpful tool to think about leadership development, for yourself as a senior church leader, but also for others.Senior MInister of Toongabbie Anglican Church Raj Guptahas been developing a training program for senior ministers of churches built around the leadership pipeline.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How do you care for people where a spouse has just left? Or committed adultery?There's pain and hurt. How do we care best for divorcees in the wider non Christian community?And if they are Christian often one at least of the partners ends up leaving the church.Michael Sheedy and Melinda Hunt have been leading Village Church Annandale's divorce care program for the last eight years.They've seen more than 100 divorcees helped and heal through this program.They join Dominic Steele to talk about the things they've learned along the way. Every divorce is different. But there are some common threads.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How do we go about employing people? What are the issues we face with with structure, culture, job descriptions?  How do you best 'onboard people' onto your team?  How you function in the first 90 days? How do you introduce behaviours that you plan to repeat such as, discipleship, positive feedback and trusted corrective feedback? What about ongoing management, six monthly reviews, delegation and coaching?The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

It’s less than two months to Christmas and we are sharpening ourselves on the practice of proclaiming Christ at Christmas. Whether you are speaking at a carols service, a gingerbread and wreath making event, a Kids service, Scripture Christmas Service or Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, this discussion will be helpful for you. We’re joined by Luke Tattersall from The Campbell Street Presbyterian Church and Kanishka Raffel, the dean of St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney. Some of my questions are: • In your preparation how do you think about a Christmas talk differently to a regular in series talk? • What else are you aiming to achieve in your Christmas meetings? • How do you choose your Christmas passages? • What does preparation look like for these occasions? • What's the goal of a Christmas talk? • What makes a boring / interesting Christmas address? • How much are you looking for guests and how much for regular members?The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Today we are talking, ‘the profession and professionalisation of Christian ministry,’ with Archie Poulos.Archie lectures in ministry at Moore Theological College, and is completing a PhD on building the competency of ministers. In what sense are ministry leaders ‘professionals’?What separates ordinary Christian ministry/ministry leaders from amazing ones? Why is a theological eduction no longer adequate for Christian ministry?How can we do the task of ministry better?This is the heart of Archie’s PhD studies and we are looking forward to hearing from him. The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show