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  • Stress & ministry focus of new study
    by Lisa Cannon Green, posted Tuesday, September 01, 2015 (9 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Though pastors are stressed about money and overwhelming ministry demands, only one percent abandon the pulpit each year, LifeWay Research finds.

    LifeWay Research surveyed 1,500 pastors of evangelical and historically black churches and found an estimated 13 percent of senior pastors in 2005 had left the pastorate 10 years later for reasons other than death or retirement. The study, released today (Sept. 1), was gathered from a survey conducted March 5-18. Read More

  • CALL TO PRAYER: The certainty of Christ
    by Lance Taylor, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

    "The uncertainty of life brings stress, but the certainty of Christ brings peace," writes Lance Taylor, executive pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church, in this week's Call to Prayer. "I don't know about you, but I can sure live between these two realities." Read More

  • Tips for beating holiday stress
    by Michael Lewis, posted Thursday, December 04, 2014 (9 years ago)

    ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- The holiday season is one of my favorite times of year. I love the opportunities it brings to spend time with my family and friends, enjoying good fellowship and good food in the process. Read More

  • Limits, exercise advised for pastors' stressful Dec.
    by Tobin Perry, posted Thursday, December 04, 2014 (9 years ago)

    Photo courtesy First Baptist Church of Gallatin
    GALLATIN, Tenn. (BP) -- Miss a Sunday School Christmas party and you could lose a church member. That's an unfortunate reality that 25-year ministry veteran Larry Yarborough discovered when a church member left the church after Yarborough missed a Sunday School Christmas party.

    "And here's the thing -- he fully expected me to know why he wasn't at the church," Yarborough, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gallatin, Tenn., said.

    "I had no idea why he hadn't been to church. I called him and asked. He said, 'Well, you just wasn't good enough to come to my Christmas party.'" Read More