The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele
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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 discus...
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Wholistic help for Christian addicts - with Antony Dandato
How can we help those trapped in addiction? What about when we ourselves are the ones struggling?
Addiction is often an elephant in the room for...

A managerial Archbishop & fractured communion - with Laurent Mbanda, Lee Gatiss and Vaughan Roberts
The Church of England has confirmed that the Bishop of London, Dame Sarah Mullally, will take on the role of Archbishop of Canterbury — but instead of...

Old wisdom for a young pastor
Sinclair Ferguson on the Charlie Kirk controversy, John Macarthur, RC Sproul and preaching to the Queen.
Sinclair Ferguson joins...

Trusting God when everything is awful - with Richmond Wandera
How do you understand God’s sovereignty when your dad is murdered, your family is in poverty, you are living in the most awful slum and your extended...

Honouring Dick Lucas - with Phillip and Peter Jensen
This week marks the 100th birthday of Dick Lucas, one of the most influential evangelical leaders of the 20th century. For nearly four decades as Rect...

The missing 70% - Coz Crosscombe, Andrew Beddoe and Simon Gillham
Reaching the 70% of the population who are significantly underrepresented in our churches.
We’re talking about everyday Australians — people who...

A new goal to see 5% of average service attendance saved - with Pete Stedman, Jon Kwan, and Jo Gibbs
After a significant debate over two days, the Sydney Anglican Synod has voted unanimously to embark on a bold new five-year mission focus, praying and...

How to keep going when the knives are out at church? - with Brian Croft and Matthew Spander Davison
The call to ministry is a call to lay down your life for others, but how do we create a well-thought-out roadmap toward pastoral perseverance - when t...

How to improve our preaching - with David Cook and Robin Sydserff
Today our focus on The Pastor’s Heart is on how to preach for transformation for real changes in people’s lives.
Two men with a lifetime’s pass...

Beyond the Crisis: Global Perspectives on a training culture for the next generation
A training culture for the next generation: Healthy Churches producing new ministers for the next generation.
Across the world, the number of c...

Unblocking the pipeline: Identifying and addressing obstacles to ministry recruitment- with Orlando Saer
In the past month, two of the most respected evangelical training institutions in the world have closed or announced closure of their campuses.
...

Growing by five percent conversion growth - how might this work? - with David Jensen and Chris Braga
What change would a leader and church need to make for a congregation, denomination or movement to grow by five percent annual conversion growth.

Phil Colgan: A theology of statistics
It is an uncomfortable but important question: What place should numbers have in our thinking about ministry success?
We all want to be faithful...

The evangelical application problem - with Richard Coekin
ChurchSuite Taster Days in Australia
Churchsuite is a Church Management Platform. Check us out at a Taster Day - Sydney October 21,22; Brisbane...

Knowledge, Nakedness & Shame - Sex and Gender in and out of the garden - with Rob Smith
We’re digging into the Bible’s teaching on sex and gender—inside and outside the Garden of Eden - relating to transgender.
We’re asking foundat...

Humility and Peace: the relationship between the Bible and science - with Lewis Jones
There are understandings/interpretations of the Bible that conflict with the conclusions of modern, empirical research - where science and the Bible a...

Target: Double the number of reformed evangelicals in Australia over twenty years.
In a bold move, a meeting of movement leaders from across Australian Reformed Evangelicalism has resolved to work together to see their numbers double...

Andrew Heard responds: The Case for Goal-Driven Churches
Andrew Heard says ministries cannot be other than outcome-focused in their work - the question is will those outcomes be good or bad? Conscious or unc...

An apology and a correction - Dominic Steele
An apology and correction in regards to our episode of Tuesday 10 June 2025.
ChurchSuite Taster Days in Australia
Churchsuite is a Church...

Creating warm and deep church gatherings - with Toby Neal and Liv Chapman Leggett
How can we create gatherings that are both warm and deep? How can we avoid gatherings that are superficial or dry.
How do we embed gospel cultu...

Richard Coekin: ‘Pious Passivity’ vs ‘Strategic Intentionality’
What happens when churches move beyond "pious passivity" to strategic intentionality in reaching the lost?
Richard Coekin—founding pastor of Du...

Multisite Churches: What works and what doesn't | Wade Burnett - Live from Reach Australia
Live from the sidelines at the Reach Australia Conference on the Central Coast of New South Wales, we sit down with Wade Burnett from McLean Bible Chu...

Paul and Sue Harrington: Lessons on the way - Live from Reach Australia
This week on The Pastor’s Heart, we’re live from the Reach Australia conference at Erina on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
It’s an inspi...

‘Not so fast my friend’ - 1700 years since Nicaea - with Rachel Ciano and Leonardo Di Chirico
It is 1700 years since the council of Nicaea and the publication of the Nicene Creed - but what are we to make of it?
It was the twentieth of Ma...

What’s really going on in the faith lives of young Australians? - with Graham Stanton
We explore the findings of the Your Story Research Report — a significant national study that listens to the voices of more than 400 young people as t...

Could it be revival? The surprising UK youth culture shift towards Jesus - with Glen Scrivener
For decades, the trend across Western countries seemed one-way: away from faith in Jesus Christ. But could the tide be turning?
E...

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 ho...

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 leade...

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:
Founder and Principle of McCrindle research, Mark McCrinde, says his report shows a n...

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 rewi...

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 wo...

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 th...

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...

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 he...

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...

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...

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 th...

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 scho...

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 calle...

Gary Millar: Godliness vs Effectiveness - the Both/And Dilemma
Godliness vs Effectiveness - the Both/And Ministry dilemma
Most Christians at some point do start to wonder if they are the real deal. What Go...