On the Pastor’s Heart we speak to Greg Powell, clinical psychologist focusing on helping Church and mission organisations work well together. Greg consults on complex leadership breakdown and helps team increase in effectiveness.

Rowan Kemp from the Sydney University Evangelical Union and Geoffrey Folland from Power to Change USYD speak about the impact of the gospel on campus life. McCrindle research has recently found that students who belong to faith groups will rate their experiences in those groups much more highly than their experiences at university generally. 



How do we maximise the mission opportunities that come to us at Christmas?

Every Christmas we stop. The majority of us go on holidays and relax. But for Churches, it’s usually the busiest time of the year. People are relaxed, feeling festive and are much more likely to visit their local Church.

How can we design our Christmas services to have the best missional impact? What can we do in the lead up and aftermath?

Murray Campbell joins us to discuss the Victorian Government’s plans to put sexual freedoms in front of religious freedoms, significantly curtailing churches. 

Plus Murray talks about why pastors should attempt to exercise leadership in the public square.

So many churches are stuck just under the 200 barrier. It seems it's the hardest transition in congregational dynamics to navigate.

Senior Minister of Toongabbie Anglican Church, Raj Gupta joins us to talk through the challenges, mistakes and strategies in managing this transition.

We ask Peter Adam the hard questions about friendship, mental health, avoiding burn-out and investing in senior ministers. Peter will speak openly about his own experience - one which is mirrored by a surprisingly large number of others.

Robert Creech says effective pastoral ministry is primarily about relationships, and not primarily about skills and competencies. The preacher is vulnerable in the battle between pastoral affection and prophetic courage. For too many ministers, energy is directed more to what others think and to winning friends as opposed to goal directed activity.

How to evangelise the post secularist, impacted by the growing rise of paganism?

Dr Peter Jones, Executive Director of truthXchange, talks about where society is going and how we will be most effective in communicating with post secularists as they turn to pantheistic spirituality.

With Jay Behan set to become the first bishop of the new Anglican Diocese in New Zealand, he sits down with Dominic Steele to spell out how the principles and difficulties behind responding to theological revisionism. Plus the lessons learned in New Zealand and how they might apply in the Australian context.

A group of Aussie evangelical senior pastors visit Compassion’s work in Jakarta, to visit churches and meet graduates, who have been both saved from hell and rescued from poverty through the ministry of Compassion.

There’s a key problem in Sydney’s Anglican churches with a drop in the number of newcomers. The trend is downwards across the board. It’s massively concerning.

We have a vulnerable/soft underbelly conversation about our weaknesses with Peter Mayrick from Sydney’s Center for Ministry Development and Jessica Brouwer, Mission Pastor at Village Church, Sydney.

Randy Pope, lead pastor of Atlanta's influential Perimeter Church for 42 years, joins us this week, as he transitions out of the senior leadership role.

Perimeter has been responsible for over forty church plants since 1977.

He talks ministry strategy, his realisation that he needed to focus on spiritual maturity, rather than growth, and a thorn in the flesh for many senior pastors, 'Spiritual Pride.'

‘I was hoping for another plan.  But I’ll take God’s plan.  I am comforted by the truth that it’s not out of control, but he’s using it for good.’ says Pitt Town Anglican Church Senior Minister Greg Peisley.

Greg says his brain cancer is terminal with a medium expected lifespan of 15-18 months.  With only five percent getting past two years. 

Sydney Anglican Archbishop Dr Glenn Davies speaks of weeping for the city of Sydney; the tragedy of the deception and wickedness surrounding the current revision of abortion laws in New South Wales; the virus in the Australian Anglican Church caused by ignoring the word of God and the maverick actions of revisionists in Wangaratta, Victoria.

The synod of the Australian diocese of Wangaratta, Victoria has decided to walk a path that stands in opposition to the teaching of the bible, defies the theology of the national church and rejects the agreement of the national bishops council.

Kanishka Raffel, Anglican Dean of Sydney and a member of the council of Gafcon Australia, says that the decisions by Bishop Parkes' Wangaratta diocese parallel those made by revisionists in the New Westminster diocese in Canada, which precipitated the formation of parallel Anglican expressions.

“It’s never been more hostile, but it’s never been more open” - David Robertson

Gary Millar on transformation in the Christian life

"Most of all I want a transparently biblical vision of inclusion to be shaping how the church welcomes and accepts me” - Ed Shaw

Richard Coekin leads influential network of Co-Mission churches in London. He’s been involved with the launch of many churches and ministries, including the London Men's Convention, London Women's Convention, the 9:38 Ministry Training Strategy, Passion for Life Ministry and most recently Planting Collective.

Richard is speaking to us about making sure the grace we preach is really grace, how we can best connect and impact people in our teaching, how to recruit people to Christian Ministry and the shocking allegations of abuse unfolding in the UK around the influential ‘Bash camps’ and Jonathan Fletcher.

I remember locking my office door at Village Church in 2010, not sure if I would ever walk into that room again. I ended up taking four weeks of stress leave. I know I am not alone. 79% of Protestant ministers report experiencing burnout or borderline burnout.

We hear from Jenny Brown with Craig Foster on the issues of Christian ministry, the complicated relationships involved, and how understanding family systems theory can help.

Jenny Brown heads The Family Systems Practice, is an experienced family systems therapist and the author of Growing Yourself Up.