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The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele

The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele

By: Dominic Steele
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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 discussion is broadcast live on Facebook then on YouTube and on our thepastorsheart.net website and via audio podcast.

© 2025 Dominic Steele, Village Church Annandale, Sydney, Australia Christianity Social Sciences Spirituality
Episodes
  • The evangelical application problem - with Richard Coekin

    The evangelical application problem - with Richard Coekin
    Jul 15 2025
    We evangelicals, says Richard Coekin, have a problem—and it’s a preaching problem.


    Richard Coekin says we are too often careless—his word—when it comes to application in preaching.


    We work hard on exegesis, we labour to understand the original context and the author’s intent—but then we stop short. We leave our congregations with sound doctrine, but little direction.


    Richard has just concluded 29 years as senior pastor at Dundonald Church in London and as the founding leader of the Co-Mission network across the UK capital. He now heads up Reach UK.


    Richard’s new book, Apply: How to Preach the Bible for Real Life, is about to be released—and today he joins us to explore why good application is not an optional extra, but the very purpose of preaching.

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    31 mins
  • Knowledge, Nakedness & Shame - Sex and Gender in and out of the garden - with Rob Smith

    Knowledge, Nakedness & Shame - Sex and Gender in and out of the garden - with Rob Smith
    Jul 8 2025

    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 foundational questions: Was humanity created androgynous? Does Genesis allow for more than two sexes? Is sexual difference a core part of the imago Dei? What does it mean that the man and woman were naked and felt no shame?

    Dr Rob Smith lectures at Sydney Missionary and Bible College and serves with Living Faith, a pastoral ministry of the Sydney Anglican Church caring for those navigating same-sex attraction or gender incongruence.

    Rob is the author of a new book The Body God Gives.

    Rob also spoke to us in February 2025 about the historic and cultural issues relating to the transgender, under the heading 'The Sexed body is the Gendered Self'.

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    36 mins
  • Humility and Peace: the relationship between the Bible and science - with Lewis Jones

    Humility and Peace: the relationship between the Bible and science - with Lewis Jones
    Jul 1 2025

    There are understandings/interpretations of the Bible that conflict with the conclusions of modern, empirical research - where science and the Bible are thought to be giving competing explanations of the same event or concept.

    One way of reading the Bible leads to the conclusion that the Earth is 6000 years old while your local science department will tell you it is more like 4.5 billion years old.

    Were human beings created in an instant from dust, or over billions of years through a gradual, meandering evolutionary process?

    Was there a moment in our historical timeline at the curse of God on the sin of Adam and Eve when the physical nature of our universe changed?

    Were there no volcanoes or earthquakes or floods or bushfires before the curse, or has the universe operated on the same physical principles since its creation, as the conclusions of mainstream geology and astronomy suggest?

    Dr Lewis Jones is an astrophysicist from North Carolina, who moved to Sydney to do post doctoral research. Lewis is now director of the Simeon Network, the postgraduate and academic arm of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students.

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    32 mins

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