Greatheart's Table

The tone of this episode is a bit darker than ordinary, and the length a tad longer. A line from the Bee Gees’ song “Words” keeps bouncing around in my head. “This world has lost its glory, let’s start a brand new story.” The reputation of pastors has lost its glory, and perhaps the start […]

As many of you know, I’ve been riffing on the pastoral themes arising from a study of the life and ministry of the Twentieth Century London pastor John Stott. Continuing that, then, in this episode we consider the matter of change. It was early in my ministry when I realized two related things. First, that […]

Of all the podcasts, in all the streaming services, in all the world, you’ve walked into mine. And I’m grateful! The words “Play it again, Sam” are often quoted from, but are actually never spoken in, the movie Casablanca. But that is what I’ve been doing for several weeks, resetting, re-recording, and re-posting a few […]

As most know, I’ve been re-recording and re-airing the earliest Greatheart’s Table episodes. This spate of “early summer” reruns is allowing me to catch up on life. I hope these have felt fresh to you. They have to me. This one encourages us to assess what we do not from the concepts of success or […]

Thanks for joining us at Greatheart’s Table. I’m Randy Greenwald, the over-committed host. I say that not to garner sympathy – I do these things to myself – but to explain why I am re-recording and re-airing the early content from the Greatheart’s Table archives. Doing so is giving me a break to help me […]

As I’ve explained at the Greatheart’s Table Patreon and Substack pages, both of which are linked below, I am for a few episodes re-recording and reposting the earliest content from the early months of Greatheart’s Table’s existence. When I released this one to the world I was a bit concerned about the use of the […]

For a short time I am re-recording and re-releasing the earliest content of Greatheart’s Table. For an explanation of ‘why’ you can read the May Third Monday post at the Greatheart’s Table Substack or Patreon page. The links are below. As I reread this episode on the expectation that pastors “run” a church, I wondered […]

If you’ve been listening, you will notice a different audio quality in this episode. I’m sorry about that! It was unavoidable, but should be fixed by the next release. As GHT is published on the first, second, and fourth Mondays, there will be no audio produced next week, a third Monday. But I urge listeners […]

Those of you who are new to Greatheart’s Table might benefit from listening to February’s post #67, “Mr. Greatheart and This Metaphorical Table,” to orient yourselves to what we’re doing here and why. Also if you’d like to support this work, you can do so on my Patreon page (link below). The most helpful thing […]

The life of a pastor can be one of constantly giving out. If we are not taking in we soon have nothing left to give. As we continue to work through the themes of Tim Chester’s book Stott on the Christian Life, we have an occasion to consider just what it is with which we […]