The Pastor's Heart

22/12/2025

Adrian Russell says people are more open at Christmas to hearing about Jesus but are also highly distracted. https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/making-your-christmas-talk-better-chan-russell-barry

22/12/2025

Sam Chan on last minute best Christmas talk ideas. Check the full episode here: https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/making-your-christmas-talk-better-chan-russell-barry

19/12/2025

For some of us, Christmas and January is a very difficult and challenging time of year. A time to be endured rather than a time to be enjoyed.

It’s a time when many of our structured work, life, and church activities are in recess.

But there are things that we can do to be a blessing to all who might be struggling in this time.

Check out this great episode of The Pastor's Heart where Dominic Steele interviews Single Minded Executive Director, Dani Treweek, about this very issue.

https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/lovingsingles-christmas-january

For some of us, Christmas and January is a very difficult and challenging time of year. A time to be endured rather than a time to be enjoyed.

It’s a time when many of our structured work, life, and church activities are in recess.

But there are things that we can do to be a blessing to all who might be struggling in this time.

Check out this great episode of The Pastor's Heart where Dominic Steele interviews our Executive Director, Dani Treweek, about this very issue.

https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/lovingsingles-christmas-january

19/12/2025

Making your 'Christmas Talk' better - Sam Chan, Andrew Barry and Adrian Russell

How to preach Christmas that engages and connects.

We've pulled in three experts to help us prepare for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We share talk structures, attention hooks, and illustrations that connect with guests who didn’t come for a sermon but need a Saviour.

Sam Chan talks about tailoring length, tone, and imagery for each.

Andrew Barry frames Christmas with a pastoral lens: some in the room are celebrating their first Christmas in Christ, others their last -- and how this shapes content and cadence, putting joy and gravity side by side.

Adrian Russell talks about speaking into tragedy at Christmas, by preaching peace that is more than a feeling—reconciliation with God that makes real.

For Christmas morning, we share passages and closes that put God’s face turned toward us and the cross in view, with invitations that are personal and memorable.

http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/making-your-christmas-talk-better-chan-russell-barry

19/12/2025

We planned a “last minute Christmas Talk ideas episode of The Pastor’s Heart” for Tuesday.

But when the massacre happened at Bondi, we juggled things around, and did a special edition with Archbishop Raffel, the minister of Bondi Anglican Martin Morgan and Sydney Christian-Jewish Minister Ben Pakula.

However, we didn’t want to wait till next Tuesday to get you the last minute Christmas Talks ideas episode.

So today we are joined by Sam Chan, Andrew Barry and Adrian Russell in another special edition on The Pastor’s Heart. (Our last for 2025).

http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/making-your-christmas-talk-better-chan-russell-barry

19/12/2025

Sydney Anglicans Archbishop Kanishka Raffel calls on Sydney to embrace our Jewish neighbours in love, friendship and support and to reject antisemitism, violence and hatred.

Archbishop Raffel says this is the way of Jesus.

https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/love-in-the-face-of-terror-raffel-morgan-pakula

18/12/2025

Bondi Anglican Minister Martin Morgan was locking the church door when the shooting started just down the street.

Listen to the full interview. https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/love-in-the-face-of-terror-raffel-morgan-pakula

17/12/2025

The Pastor's Heart goes out each week on a range of platforms - including - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube & Facebook.

Our Spotify end of 2025 stats are interesting.

The Pastor's Heart is more talked about, shared and listened to than 95% of Spotify's other podcasts.

From our Spotify Audience ...

Our listeners/viewers music of choice is: City Alight, Taylor Swift and Sovereign Grace.

Our listener/viewers top audio books were The Air we breath by Glen Scrivener, Both/And Ministry by Gary Millar and Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung.

25% of people hit play within 24 hours of an episode drop.

On Spotify we reach sixty countries - the top ones being Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States and Singapore.

And our top Spotify episode was 'Creating Warm and Deep Church Gatherings with Toby Neal and Liv Chapman Leggett'.

It is interesting to see the different most engaged episodes on the different platforms. The most popular episode on Youtube was our discussion with Sinclair Ferguson.

15/12/2025

http://thepastorsheart.net/podcast/love-in-the-face-of-terror-raffel-morgan-pakula

15/12/2025

Archbishop Kanishka calls for love in the face of terror at Bondi - Kanishka Raffel, Martin Morgan and Ben Pakula

Sydney’s Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel calls on Sydney to embracing our Jewish neighbours in love, friendship and support and to reject antisemitism, violence and hatred.

Archbishop Raffel says this is the way of Jesus.

Minister of Bondi Anglican Martin Morgan says they sheltered people in the church last night, who were terrified, running for their lives.

Archbishop Raffel is joined by minister of Bondi Anglican Church Martin Morgan and Messianic Jew (also an Anglican Minister in praying for those family and friends and the Bondi community, impacted by the gunman opening fire - leaving 16 dead including a 10 year old girl

http://thepastorsheart.net/podcast/love-in-the-face-of-terror-raffel-morgan-pakula