Throughout history and in every culture wise leaders have universally recognized the virtue of justice and the treachery of injustice. Read Psalm 140:12-13.

Psalm 140 acknowledges that the character of God is the absolute standard for justice. A leader’s ability to have awareness of this moral standard is part of our having been created in the image of God. Read more »

God is a personal being who has paid a great price to make it possible for individuals to enter a relationship with Him through the merits of Jesus Christ. A leader’s relationship with God shapes their perspective. Read Psalm 139.

In Psalm 139 David explores the depths of his relationship with God. He thinks about what it means that God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. David’s intimate relationship with God and his thoughts about God’s nature shape David’s perspectives on life and leadership. David could be out of answers for his team but God was his source of answers beyond his own ability. David could be isolated as a leader but he was never alone. David could be in a leadership situation where he was totally out of power to control events that looked eminent but his relationship with God allowed him hope. David’s relationship with God allowed him to draw upon God’s perfect wisdom, kept him accountable to God’s justice and gave him a source of infinite power. Read more »

Every leader will make mistakes but they don’t have to prove fatal to your leadership career. Read Psalm 51.

The Bible’s record of King David, Israel’s second king, indicates that he made some major moral and ethical mistakes but God allowed him to stay on the throne until his death. One of David’s mistakes was so heinous that it violated many Jewish laws, several of the Ten Commandments, and could have been punished by death. David’s sin was done in secret from people in his own court but God knew all about it. God sent His prophet Nathan to confront David concerning his adultery and resultant pregnancy with a woman named Bathsheba and to also confront him for arranging to have her husband murdered to cover up his sin. Psalm 51 is David’s response to that confrontation. Read more »

Christian leaders must balance their identity as a child of God with their self-confidence. Read Psalm 8.

How self-assured should a leader be? When does a leader’s confidence become arrogance? God has stated that He hates arrogance and loves humility but leadership by its very nature requires a large dose of self-confidence and that kind of self-confidence can be dangerously close to arrogance. Additionally, leaders can display a healthy, godly self-confidence for years and then after a few successes begin believing their own press clippings and actually morph a healthy self-confidence into arrogance. This can be a very tricky area for Christian leaders. Read more »

Good leaders need to be secure in their self-identity and humble enough to admit when they are wrong. Read Job 40:3-5 and Job 42:1-6.

When God confronted Job with His power and majesty, Job responded with humility, did not defend himself and did not rationalize his feelings. He confessed his wrong thinking, went silent and waited for God to finish His lesson. Read more »