The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele
Christian leaders join Dominic Steele for a deep end conversation about our hearts and different aspects of Christian ministry each Tuesday afternoon.
We share personally, pastorally and professionally about how we can best fulfill Jesus' mission to save the lost and serve the saints.
The discussion is broadcast live on Facebook then available in video on our website <u><b><a href="http://www.thepastorsheart.net">http://www.thepastorsheart.net</a></u></b> and via audio podcast.
Episodes
404 episodes
SPECIAL: Will the Pope go to heaven? Protestants understanding Roman Catholicism in a Post-Francis world
The death of Pope Francis marks a pivotal moment for Roman Catholics.What does this transition mean for the future of Catholicism and how should Protestants respond?From Vatican City, Leonardo Di Chirico offers a firsthand persp...
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Season 7
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Episode 18
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Obeying God or the Government? NSW Conversion Practices Law with Neil Foster, Michael Stead & Simon Swadling
New South Wales’ Conversion Practices Ban Act has just come into effect — along with guidelines from Anti-Discrimination NSW that many Christian leaders believe overstep the legal boundaries and impact ordinary pastoral ministry.
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Season 7
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Episode 17
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A new openness to searching for purpose and meaning. Are we post Christian or post secular? - with Mark McCrindle
The new McCrindle report ‘An undercurrent of faith’ says: Those turning to Christian faith are not who we might expect - it’s especially older people, the recently widowed and recently separated or divorced.The move is...
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Season 7
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Episode 16
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Marshall Ballantine-Jones: Pastors helping parents talk to teens on social media, the internet and porn
The average 11-year-old spends 4.5 hours daily on non-school screens. By 15, 70% of boys regularly view pornography. This isn't harmless fun—it's rewiring young brains during critical development. The addictive nature of ...
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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The big 50 year impact of Campus Bible Study - with Tony Payne, Al Stewart & Tracey Gowing
Today we review the 50 year impact of The University of New South Wales’ Campus Bible Study on Christian ministries across Australia and around the world - in raising up gospel workers, sending missionaries, planting churches and in Christian p...
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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Chris Braga: The missing principle of proclamation
Proclamation is for every Christian, one’s Christian faith is always public and a command is not needed to link faith to speech. 'I believed therefore I spoke' - That’s what the Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:13. And yet it’s ...
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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Archie Poulos: The Minister Imposter Syndrome
Pastors facing up to our imposter syndrome - navigating the noise that leads us to make bad decisions.As Pastors, we feel the pressure to have the right answers to people’s questions.We want to be able to navigate the complexities...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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Kirsty Bucknell: Improving self reflection to strengthen resilience in ministry workers
A new study shows that training in systematic self reflection will develop resilience among ministry workers, who are at risk of stress related ill health. Self reflective resilience training is beneficial to those in ministry roles...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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Openness to Jesus among young people - especially young men! - with Andy Stevenson, Katie Stringer, and Dave Jensen
We are hearing reports from the university campuses, from young adult ministries, and from youth groups - that there is an increasing openness to the gospel of Jesus - and there’s a new openness among young men. There’s a shift in t...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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Rob Smith: The sexed body reveals and determines the gendered self
As pastors we’re expressing leadership in our churches on gender and sexuality. We want to help our people think biblically - and yet with the culture moving so fast - it is an area that we feel ill equipped. On today’s Pastor’s Hea...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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Craig Hamilton: Exploding pastoral leadership myths!
What happens when a leader operates without a clear vision. And how poetic or concrete should a vision be? How to organise things so the overall vision cascades down through every area of church life? What should...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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Hans Kristensen: Ten archaeological facts to increase confidence in the Old Testament
There are claims - and you hear them every so often - that archeology has disproved this story or that in the bible, and claims from this or that scholar of particularly late dating of different bible books.How do we as evangelical pasto...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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Paul Grimmond: How godliness differs for men and women and how to teach it!
How does godliness play out differently if I am a man, a woman, a young man, a young woman, a husband or a wife?All Christians are called to live like Christ. Why does the Apostle Paul choose to write about what godliness looks li...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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Gary Millar: Godliness vs Effectiveness - the Both/And Dilemma
Godliness vs Effectiveness - the Both/And Ministry dilemma Godliness vs EffectivenessTheology vs Pragmatics People centered vs Organisationally mindedLeading from the front vs Serving others ...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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William Taylor: ‘Give yourself wholly to the work of the Lord’
What is the work of the Lord? What is in vain if the resurrection is not true? What truly lasts and what does gospel work looks like in our daily lives? The debate over eschatology and one’s view of the new heavens and new earth. &n...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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Indigenous Australians and the Christian Gospel - with Michael Duckett
Indigenous Australians and the Christian Gospel - with Michael Duckett As we approach ‘Aboriginal Sunday’ (19 January) we focus on the progress of the gospel among the indigenous in Australia.What are the cultural changes and...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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Alistair Begg: Honesty, Humor and Hope
We speak to Alistair Begg about pastors, suffering, humility and surviving long term in ministry.Alistair Begg is in Australia speaking at the Church Missionary Society conference in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Alista...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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Christian Ethics and Bitcoin - with Jeffri Chiam
How should we guide our congregations in thinking ethically about engagement in Bitcoin? What is Bitcoin? How do we as Christian leaders assess the morality of bitcoin? Proponents say that it’s design fosters...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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Same words, different worlds: Reaching Roman Catholics - with Leonardo De Chirico and Rachel Ciano
Most of us evangelical pastors, theological colleges, indeed the whole of evangelicalism - we have a blind spot when it comes to Roman Catholicism in our theology, missiology and practice. Where do we as Evangelicals make mis...
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Season 6
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Episode 52
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William Taylor: What to do when the denomination around you is imploding?
It is difficult times in the Church of England.Having previously publicly betrayed his ordination and consecration vows - the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby - has now resigned over his handling of a safeguarding matter, following...
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Season 6
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Episode 51
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More pressure on government over chronic gambling - with Stu Cameron
Church Leaders have welcomed the report of the trial of cashless gambling which recommends that ‘account based gambling’ be introduced in New South Wales by 2028. There are bigger problems with gambling in Sydney and New South Wale...
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Season 6
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Episode 50
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Are churches losing global mission focus? + How to fix this! - with Tim Silberman
Is the church losing its global mission focus?The number of overseas missionaries being sent out is down on ten years ago. Church and mission leaders have encouraged Christians to respond to the need for mission locally, espe...
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Season 6
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Episode 49
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Peter Mayrick: Being more intentional in discipleship
How do we encourage our staff teams and members to be more intentional in Jesus’ mission of making disciples?Disciple making is entering into relationships to help people trust and follow Jesus - the whole journey from conversion through...
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Season 6
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Episode 48
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How to be fun and not boring in Christmas preaching? - with Nigel Fortescue and Pete Stedman
Planning Christmas Preaching.What we are nervous about? What we want to get right? What has worked best? What hasn’t? And how do we leverage the cultural moment? Nigel Fortescue is senior pastor of Christ Church S...
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Season 6
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Episode 47
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Older people & ‘Positive Jesus focused choices’ - with Ying Yee, Carmel Vincent and Ian Carmichael
How do we proactively serve Jesus in retirement? How might we motivate our older church members to prioritise the work of the gospel? Mike Raiter said on The Pastor’s Heart a little while back that retirement needs rethinking to avo...
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Season 6
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Episode 46
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