Fred Smith

Key questions to ask before taking action.

Your spiritual companions are more important than you may realize.

A reflection on Christian humility.

People fit to worship God practice integrity in their speech, in their relationships with neighbors, in their business dealings, and in their financial transactions.

Only in Christ do we find true worth.

Psalm 46 affirms the sufficiency of God’s mighty presence when life gets too big for us to handle.

Few successes at work are achieved without a team.

Character always trumps the bottom line.

Professional athletes often credit their success to a coach in high school or college.

In our spiritual life, we can’t perform to earn God’s grace.

Mastering six overlooked fundamentals of clear communication.

The gateway is personal relationship.

Bringing out the best in people.

How to read the people you lead.

Twelve questions to keep your personal accounts in order.

Reviving an ancient teaching method that adds life to ministry.

A diversity of giving styles are illustrated in Scripture—not just one.

What is God like?

God in the in-between.

Mastering five overlooked fundamentals of clear communication

Mentor and sage Fred Smith receives lots of questions from leaders, and sometimes his greatest gift back is to reframe them.

8 signs of leadership potential.

8 signs of leadership potential

Questions to keep your personal accounts in order.

10 signs that someone has what it takes to learn leadership.

The questions to ask to sharpen your most important leadership skill.

The two-letter word that can save your ministry, even your life.

Just as small businesses are the backbone of the nation’s economy, so too are small churches indispensable in God’s economy.

Wisdom isn’t in the multitude of voices; it’s finding, and listening to, the right one.

The pastor is more conductor of an orchestra than CEO of a business.

A look at one of the greatest gifts a pastor can give a congregation.

To improve our teaching it pays to go back to basics.

Some people want you to listen; others genuinely want you to speak.

Is this a topic we preach only for the money?

With so many people for peace and unity, why is it in such short supply — especially within the church?

The quest for intellectual integrity in Christian leadership has a ways to go.

The secret of any organization’s success is choosing the right people.

Answering the question will impact your teaching.

Good teaching does more than entertain or transfer information. Good teaching changes behavior.

Getting older is like racing in the Indianapolis 500. The last 10 miles are what the first 490 are all about.

A layman offers useful insights on effective counseling.

Four attitudes that will help keep joy in the Christian life.

He built a billion-dolar corporation, but neither success nor failure were crucial to his interior life. He treated those two impostors just the same.