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 http://www.thepastorsheart.net and via audio podcast.
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Podcasts and audiobooks by Galerie. Founded in 2014 by Simon Asencio and Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Galerie is an immaterial art gallery dealing exclusively with immaterial artworks. Galerie uses the term immaterial for artworks that cannot be reduced to a physical object or to the documentation of an action. For example a conflict, a custom-made socio practical mantra (joke) or a therapy format. More information at www.galerie.international.
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Recovering our larger story helps know ourselves and our place in God’s world - with Sarah Irving-Stonebreaker
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Historical literacy is a critical tool for Christians, deepening faith and enhancing evangelism and discipleship. Sarah Irving Stonebreaker says we’ve forgotten how to engage well with the past, we don’t know why the past might be relevant to us today, and we have missed out on being part of a larger story. We need to uncover overlooked histories, …
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067: A Report from Israel on the First Anniversary of 10/07/2023
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On the first anniversary of the October 7th attacks on Israel, Bishop Julian Dobbs reports back on his first tour of duty as the Chair of the Global Mission and International Relations Task Force for the Anglican Church in North America.By ADLW
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066: One Family's Adoption Story: Adopted children and their Heavenly Father
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On this 66th episode of Living Through the Word, Producer Marc Steele is interviewed by Bishop Julian Dobbs about the Steele's adoption journey. Learn about the important roles various congregations played in supporting Canon Marc and his wife, Korleen, and understand how this special calling of adoption introduced and reinforced the depth of God's…
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Parenting in God’s family - with Harriet Connor & Kat Ashton Israel
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What is Christian parenting? How do we do family Bible time well? How can we prioritize church, even when it’s hard? Navigating social media with teens? And how to parent teens who are doubting, drifting or deserting? Parenting is joyous, magical, tiresome, boring, stressful and complicated. Harriet Connor is editor of ‘Parenting in God’s family: B…
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Preaching illustrations to win Muslims - with Samuel Green
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How to preach to build confidence so members want to invite Islamic friends and workmates to church and better educate our Christians for conversations with Muslim friends. What topics might we address? How to best engage with the authority and authorship of the Bible vs the Qur’an, plus Jesus and Muhammed, the Trinity, Incarnation, Sin and human n…
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Leading up as a ministry team member - with Peter Blanch, Megan Stevens and Michael Davies
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How do you work in a team excellently with those above you in ministry? How do you as a team member take responsibility for the success of your church? What can ministry team members do well to help the whole team function better? What mistakes do team members make? And what about confidentiality on team? Michael Davies is associate pastor of Light…
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Coercive control in Christian families and the impact on children - with Jenni Woodhouse
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How do we help children in Christian families escape and recover from the devastating effects of domestic abuse? Pastoral consultant Jenni Woodhouse says there is a hidden epidemic of coercive control where a parent with narcissism or borderline personality disorder makes life impossible for their both their spouse and children. We also explore the…
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Confronting the big attendance drop - with Toby Neal, Dave Jensen and Geoff Bates
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What should the church pastor / staff team / church council or bishop do about the big drop in attendance? A new report (bit.ly/AttendancePatterns) shows Adult Attendance in churches in Sydney is down 7% or 14% against population (over a decade). Adult attendance declined at approximately two-thirds of Sydney Anglican comparable church centers, and…
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The terrible scourge of Female Genital Mutilation and what Christians are doing about it - with Bishop Mwita Akiri
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Plus how the Tanzanian Church has been built through the labors and prayers of Australian Christians, and why prosperity gospel preachers are as wicked as witch doctors! We are joined by Bishop Mwita Akiri from Tarime in rural Tanzania, Judith Calf who served as a missionary in theological education in Tanzania for 20 years, and Tim Swan who leads …
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Growing Up in the Pastoral Spotlight: Insights into the lives and wellbeing of Ministry Kids - with Valerie Ling
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What impact does growing up in a pastoral family have on ministry kids? Valerie Ling from the Sydney Centre for Effective Living joins us to unpack the ‘Ministry Kids Wellbeing Survey,’ revealing what Australian ministry children, say about their upbringing. They tell of heightened responsibilities and an acute awareness of adult realities plus con…
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The battle for the truth of the gospel - with Thomas Schreiner
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One of the world’s leading New Testament Scholars Thomas Schriener is in Sydney for the Moore College Lectures on ‘The Battle for the truth of the gospel.’ At the center of his attention is NT Wright and the New Perspective on Paul, a debate that questions whether ancient Judaism was legalistic. Schreiner tells of his roots in Roman Catholicism, a …
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065: We Stand with Israel: An Update on the Middle East Crisis
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Canon Marc Steele hosts as Bishop Julian Dobbs takes the guest chair to provide an update on the situation in Israel based on his over 20 years of visiting the Holy Land and recent advocacy missions he has undertaken in Washington, D.C. There are many complementary resources for this episode, listed below.Bring them Home Now: https://stories.bringt…
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From defensive to offensive in the religious freedom debate - with Mark Spencer, Mark Sneddon and Mike Southon
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Religious Freedom leaders are calling on Australia's Government to quickly bring a Religious Discrimination Act to the parliament. Mark Sneddon says the Religious Discrimination Act is not about granting unlimited freedoms, but about preventing adverse treatment of religious individuals and organizations. He says there needs to be a fair compromise…
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Expressive Individualism and Church Music - with Philip Percival and Alanna Glover
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What does Expressive Individualism mean for churches? And what specifically does it mean for church music? Here is the expressive individualism worldview: ‘Truth comes from inside me. It’s important that I look inside to discover who I truly am’ and ‘I need to express my individuality and personal truth to the world around me to receive validation.…
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A way back from disillusionment and disappointment in ministry - with Karl Deenick
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Disillusionment is one of the great threats to the Christian life and to Christian ministry A wise man said the worst thing in ministry was not a pastor who quits, but a pastor who doesn’t quit, but who keeps going when they’ve given up. Sydney Missionary and Bible College Karl Deenick shares his own experience of hitting a major wall after seven y…
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What I wish I knew before becoming a senior minister - with Jon Kwan and Dave Keun
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What would Dave Keun and Jon Kwan like to tell their younger selves if they could travel back in time before they took on the position of senior minister? How has their sense of ownership changed? What has been most difficult about the transition to the role? What mistakes have they made? Dave Keun has been senior minister of Kellyville Anglican Ch…
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Roadmap to reset Anglican Communion - with Paul Donison and Glenn Davies
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Roadmap for a reset communion - with Paul Donison and Glenn Davies The chair of Gafcon Laurent Mbunda and chair of Global South Justin Badi Arama are to meet to work out a roadmap for the resetting of the Anglican Communion. Global South Anglicans have endorsed the Former Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies call for the communion to be reset on biblical…
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How do we diagnose complex problems within our church - with Greg Lee
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All the time in church there are unexpected things happening. We or someone else makes a decision to change something which then relationally or missionally impacts another area of church life that we didn’t expect. Sometimes we put too much attention into one area of church - and now other areas are suffering. Whatever size your church is - the ch…
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Ministry families and adopting and foster care - with Sarah and Mat Yeo and Matthew Wilcoxen
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How do you balance the instability and chaos of external ministry with adding a foster child or adopted child to a ministry family? What are the implications of taking children in crisis into the ministry home? What motivates ministry families to become foster parents or to adopt? How do older children and the church respond? Sarah and Mat Yeo serv…
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Acting like men? - with Phillip Jensen, Craig Hamilton, Adrian Russell and Robin Kinstead
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What is it to be #likeaman? There are not many places in the New Testament where men are spoken to specifically. Today we are thinking about being a Christian man. In the ESV and NASB the translation of 1 Corinthians 16:13 has ‘Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong’. (ESV) But what does that mean? Dominic Steele put that que…
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Strategies to increase the retention of the children of members - with Al James
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There are three different ways that the adult population of churches can grow: Adults being saved. Christians transferring from another congregation within your denomination of switching from another denomination. Children of members growing up in the church and taking on their parents faith for themselves. Most evangelical churches - even growing …
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064: Bishop Julian Dobbs' 2024 Pastoral Address to the assembled Synod of the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word.
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https://www.scribd.com/document/735794461/Bishop-Julian-Dobbs-Pastoral-Address-to-the-assembled-2024-Synod-of-the-Anglican-Diocese-of-the-Living-WordBy Bishop Julian Dobbs
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What morality should we teach artificial intelligence? - with Stephen Driscoll
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A new massive ethical question has risen up with the advent of artificial intelligence. How will people decide what kind of morality to give to their artificial intelligence creations? There will need to be a morality. But what should it be? The market is already making different choices. Elon Musk has said he wants the AI behind X (formerly Twitte…
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Getting high quality preaching from trainee ministers - with Toby Neal
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How can a senior minister best train junior preachers (student ministers and assistant ministers) in preaching? There’s a tension we all feel: we want to be a training church raising up the next generation of leaders and yet we also want to make sure that the quality of what happens in our gatherings is high. We don’t want a Sunday morning ‘plane c…
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The traumatic implications of artificial intelligence - with Stephen Driscoll
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Artificial Intelligence is an oncoming tsunami that will catch all of humanity off guard. It is a change more like a wheel than a typewriter. But what will this do to our sense of self? Stephen Driscoll, in ‘Made in our Image - God, artificial intelligence and you’ says artificial intelligence may do great harm - giving more power to sinful people,…
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‘The hardest talk I’ve ever given: Loving God’ - with Ray Galea
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‘God wants all of me to love all of God all the time’ says Senior Pastor of Fellowship Dubai, Ray Galea. We want our staff and leaders to live and serve in ministry out of an overflow of the love of God for them. Grasping this love properly lifts our service from duty to desire. As pastors we are so committed and focused on encouraging our congrega…
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Inside the ‘Compelled to Resist’ movement in the Church of England - with Charlie Skrine
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“It may be that God is destroying the Church of England and who am I to stand in his way? “The real tragedy would be if, in this traumatic, confusing time, if all of the evangelicals and the broader Orthodox group fall out with each other… if we can bear with each other in our different strategies, then that will be what we need (in whatever the fu…
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