Leadership – Page 6 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

God Decides Leaders: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 16)

Joseph son of Jacob had a dream as a young man that his family would bow down to him. He went many years before this was fufilled, being sold into servitude and even imprisoned, before God, in His sovereignty,

Man Has Responsibility, Not Power (Tuscarora Proverb): Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 15)

George Washington could have served more than two terms as president. He didn’t even want to serve the second term, but did so at the insistence of many who saw our young republic in need of his

Uh Oh: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 11)

A friend of mine painted a watercolor of Uriah during a sermon series on heroes of the Bible. It hung in my office for many years. In the background, behind a wall, a silhouette of a woman can be seen,

Trouble-Free Leadership: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 10)

Trouble-free leadership? Ain’t gonna happen. Ask any president of the United States. Ask any CEO of a company. Ask any parent. And though you might expect it, it somehow never comes in the exact

Promise Keepers: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 9)

There are many who believe that the promise George H. W. Bush made, “No new taxes,” and then subsequently broke, was a large part of his undoing when he ran for a second term as president of

The Humble Leader’s Reward: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 8)

In first and second Samuel we have seen the principle Hannah, Samuel’s mother, celebrated, that God brings low and He exalts (1 Samuel 2:7) based on one’s pride or humility, borne out in the

Power Hunger: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 4)

History is full of examples of how power-hungry men and women miscalculated in their attempts to gain power. We see an example of this in our text today. Desiring power is not wrong if our goal for using

Power and Political Intrigue: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 3)

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When George Washington, America’s first president, formed his advisory cabinet or council, he chose Thomas Jefferson as a cabinet member. Washington did not realize that Jefferson completely disagreed

A Leader’s Nightmare: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 29, 30)

There are times in a leader’s life when it seems everything is against him or her and those he or she leads, and his or her leadership is endangered. The leader may also be in danger of giving in

Send Us Abigails: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 25)

When you get power, when you are exalted by God, how do you handle your power? How do you handle it in your family when your children reject your authority? How do you handle it at your job when you have

Internals, Not Externals: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 16:1-13)

I’ll never forget the older gentleman who was the only one available to play racquetball with me. My judgment of him was that he was boring and not someone I cared to hang out with. We played (he

Power Plays: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 14:24-46)

President Trump was advised that with the democratic party majority in the House of Representatives his last great chance to get his wall was to veto the budget for 2019 and shut down the government as

Not Afraid of the Dark: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 14:1-23)

Are you afraid of the dark? It’s hard not to be sometimes, isn’t it? We can’t see potential enemies and we just know that they are lurking, taking advantage of the dark to get the drop

Wait, I Say, On the Lord: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 13)

I can’t help but wonder what would have happened had President George W. Bush waited to attack Iraq until there was solid intel that they had or didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. The

Soft Speak, Big Stick: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 12)

In a speech made by Teddy Roosevelt at the Minnesota state fair in 1901, then vice-president Roosevelt said, “Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that

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