We discuss the similarities and differences of presenting to a full room of people versus to a camera, how to relax and the difference post production can help make in capturing and keeping attention.

(This episode will interest Australian Church leaders)

In a special edition James Flavin and Raj Gupta join Dominic Steele late on Easter Day to process the new guidelines for government assistance for churches released late on Thursday afternoon.

We talk about the massive impact on income for some churches. Plus assistance packages available from various levels of government.

As we are busy preparing online presentations for Good Friday and Easter Sunday, two of Australia's leading Christian Communicators join Dominic Steele to discuss how COVID-19 has changed our task.

Mike Raiter is from Melbourne's Center for Biblical Preaching and Sam Chan is an evangelist with City Bible Forum, Sydney. We discuss how preaching will to change both this coming Easter weekend and over the coming months.

The zeitgeist has changed profoundly in the last month. Our 2020 vision calendar has been ripped up. We can’t predict what will happen next week, or even tomorrow.

We discuss the following questions: How has being online changed the audience for our sermons? How do we show the relevance of the gospel to a culture which is reeling?

How should communicating online be different to an in person Church service? How do we connect with gospel-curious people in an online sphere?

What questions are our covid impacted communities asking about God? How will these changes we are implementing now impact how we do Church into the future?

Mike and Sam share their own personal reflections and experience of fear, insecurity and being pushed to trust God.

This week on The Pastor’s Heart, we talk with Phillip Jensen about the seriousness of the situation we are facing and how it highlights structural issues within our individualistic 21st century society.

We discuss autonomy and submission, free press and censorship, materialism, wealth and the complacency of our society. Phillip challenges us to understand the changes we are facing as ministers of God’s word.

‘Our buildings are shut down, but we can’t shut down our identity of being salt and light and love for the world’

Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies joins Dominic Steele in a live broadcast to answer questions on how we can lead our churches through the COVID-19 crisis.

From midday Monday (23 March) religious gatherings and places of worship have been shut down in Australia, with only a small exception for small weddings and funerals.

The restrictions turn church life on its head.

Calm God centred leadership for your church in the corona era with Pastor Eugene Hor, Bishop Gary Koo and Dr Irmgard Pascoe 

We discuss the top 15 mistakes senior leaders make, with Wisdom in Leadership author Craig Hamilton from Sydney’s Glenmore Park Anglican Church.

How does Easter fit into your evangelistic pathway? How can you get Easter guests back? How do you create an atmosphere which helps believers celebrate the truth of the resurrection and equally, helps newcomers consider the resurrection for the first time.

Tony Wright got everyone talking through a provocative series of articles about 1-2-1 evangelism vs course based evangelism.

We get to the bottom of it with Sam Hilton on the strength of evangelistic courses and Tony Wright on the importance of personal evangelism.

We talk frankly about the issue of the week - The standing down of Acts 29 CEO Steve Timmis under a cloud of claims of Spiritual Abuse with Mezz McConnell and Matthew Spandler Davidson who are in Sydney for the Acts 29 Australia, NZ and Japan leaders conference.

Senior pastors need to stop turning a blind eye to this subject and talk much much more about abortion in church.

There are women in all our lives and churches who have had an abortion. Men, women and children who have been touched by abortion - in our workplaces, churches and families.

We look at key questions: Is it possible for Churches to work together despite differences? Will this lead to a watering down of the gospel? Concern about how evangelical leaders interact in partisan political debates (especially in the US)? Is it right for a church of Jesus Christ to align themselves with one side of politics? How might this impact the ability of the Church to evangelise?

We have big problems in the Christian Church with money. Problems with the prosperity gospel, sending people back to slavery and teaching what’s culturally popular. The big problem is a failure in the seminaries says Generosity Monk Gary Hoag.

How should a leader respond, when a member of a church community takes their own life? And what can leaders do to prevent such tragedies?

A frank analysis of the history of Australia’s evangelicals and indigenous peoples with historian Stuart Piggin.

While all abuse is wrong, there are added complexities in ministry relationships.  Often a ministry job is entwined with a ministry families house, income stream, city and community for a ministry family. With that much at stake, wives can feel a pressure not to raise concerns.

Simon Manchester explains how to show your congregation the beauty of 1 Timothy 2.

Simon’s been lead pastor of one of Sydney’s larger churches, St Thomas’ North Sydney, for thirty years, before standing down last December.  

Simon is opening the bible this week to two thousand Christian leaders at the Church Missionary Society Summer School in Katoomba in Sydney’s fire damaged Blue Mountains. 

He sits down to talk about how he organises his week, how he prepares to teach, and the wonderful message of Paul’s first letter to Timothy.

Rhett Harris says ‘rosters are contrary to the gospel’ and ‘ministry teams give better outcomes.
Listen to this reheat of one of our most stimulating discussions, that just might revolutionise everything about your church!

In this discussion we attempt to serve those who might be grappling with the death of a loved one or just may be thinking #WakeUpOlive doesn't seem to be right way of handling a little girl’s death, but aren’t able to properly articulate why.’

Teresa and Dan Lee are on staff at MBM Rooty Hill and Andrew Barry is from Janalli Anglican Church.

Leaving a ministry is never easy, and leaving badly can do significant harm. So many leaders have undone so much good work by leaving badly. 

Tim Hanna is the outgoing CEO of Compassion Australia, and is coming to the end of his fourth major ministry role. He speaks with Dominic about what he’s learned about setting up the ministry’s furtive security, before he departs.