Fred R. Lybrand is founding executive director of Free Grace Alliance and senior pastor of Northeast Bible Church near San Antonio, Texas. His public speaking career began thirty-four years ago and has also included teaching Speech Communication at the University of Alabama. Furthermore, Lybrand holds a D.Min. degree from Phoenix Seminary and has maintained a consistent pulpit ministry since 1986. He says that learning to preach on his feet in 1994 has since completely revitalized his work.