For lots of people the idea of thinking about theology seems pretty boring. But it shouldn't be like that. Theology is about knowing and loving God. In this podcast, join Karl Deenick, a pastor, theologian, writer and lecturer, as he digs deep into theology, the Bible and the Christian life, not just for the sake of it, but so we can love God more with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.
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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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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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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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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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Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness - with Akos Balogh
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Australia’s former Prime Minister Scott Morrison releases a new autobiography this week where he speaks explicitly about his Christian faith, and there’s a bible quote on almost every page. Akos Balogh of Blue Fox Media joins Dominic Steele to review Mr Morrison’s new book where the former Prime Minister writes of wrestling with whether to study at…
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A high stakes game of ecclesiastical poker in the Anglican Communion - with Justin Badi Arama and Paul Donison
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It is almost D day in the Anglican Communion. Today we give the background for two highly significant meetings. One to take place next week in Rome. The second in June in Cairo. The Rome gathering has been called by the rejected Canterbury leadership. The Cairo gathering has been called by the leadership of the Global South. As background, The Chur…
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We have a problem with Truth - with Lionel Windsor
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We are moving into a post - post-modern world But what does that look like and mean for truth - and us as pastors - as we attempt to communicate with our churches? Our church members have unconsciously adopted some of the presuppositions of our society in the way we process texts and information. We are living in a fake news world on social media w…
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Navigating new laws on Conversion Practices: A Pastoral Approach to Compassion and Legal Compliance
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What is permissible and not permissible under new conversion practice laws in New South Wales - with Neil Foster, Matt Aroney and Michael Stead Sydney Anglican Bishop Michael Stead, who chairs Freedom for Faith, describes the new laws as the least worst that he has seen in Australia. Associate Professor of Law at Newcastle University and author of …
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