News Articles by Terri Lackey

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--Is the climate in your home a bit chilly where words of love and warmth are rarely uttered?

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--What do the phrases Sherman tank, ticking bomb, handwringer, wonderful, entitled, perfect and bull-headed have in common?

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--Deacons should serve as agents for settling conflict in the church, not jump in the middle of it, a Florida Baptist Convention leader said.

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--Ministers and their families sometimes feel as if they are living in a fishbowl with their congregations looking in, waiting for the next spectacular back flip or embarrassing belly flop.

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--"People, and ministers especially, encounter 40 to 50 incidents of stress a day, and what it does to our bodies is deadly."

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--Think of your life as a rubber band stretched to its limit. If you add one more activity to your schedule, you are likely to pop.

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--Christians facing a breakdown or burnout "are taking on tasks beyond our ability, tasks God never intended us to do," said Margaret Kennedy, a women's leader and member of Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Dothan, Ala. "God is never going to burn us out."

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--Drums in worship; choir robes or regular clothes; hymnals versus projection screens; and the question of outdated organs. These are all tensions that can cause worship wars among church members, said Robert Wagoner, music events consultant for LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--No matter how hard men's ministry leaders wish, they cannot produce a church full of God-fearing, God-loving men by just snapping their fingers, two leaders said. They must have a strategy.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Being a caregiver himself, Barney Self, a licensed family and marriage therapist and LeaderCare counselor for LifeWay Christian Resources, knows the causes and symptoms of a malady he calls "compassion fatigue."