Fredrick Russell

Richard Dobbins, a family therapist, said, "People do not change until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change." Change is never an easy thing to accept. Yet every organization eventually needs to make changes. Hopefully,…

Whlle browsing in the self-improvement section of a bookstore, I came across a rather odd sight: a solitary book on failure, placed right in the center of a vast array of books on success. The title was provocative:…

Discouragement is an occupational hazard of ministry; it comes with the I turf. Ministers skirmish on the front lines of the "battle royal," where (pointed attacks on their professional well-being and personal confidence I are the name of…

It was a frigid, snowy Saturday morning eight years ago when we pulled up for the first time in front of my new church. The entire metropolitan area had just been hit with its worst snowstorm in decades.

Sprawled…