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Good Defense, Better Offense
While watching the NBA game last month, a commentator described a play with the words, ” good offense but better defense.” That got me thinking. With the high-caliber play NBA players are displaying, you never know who will win the game. It seems like NBA players have reached a level of competitiveness that is out…
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Finding your Leadership Identity
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. The story about my dad shaped not only me but all of us in the Sy family. We were taught that when we…
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The Day Daddy Won My Respect Big Time
1 Corinthians 11:1 Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. There are defining moments in a dad’s life that would shape how his kids would see him. It can be a success story or a story of how a man responds to a test given to him. I love my dad. I respect…
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Leadership is Never Playing It Safe
Stan Toler said that “Leadership is about moving people in a preferred direction toward a destination born out of a vision.”[1] It’s telling the people you are leading this is where we are going. It is driven by a compelling vision worth flinging your life to. I grew up in a safe church. All we…
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Multiplying Leaders with Pastor Steve Murrell
In this five-minute leadership podcast, Pastor Steve Murrell and I discuss the importance of multiplying ourselves to others to solve the leadership crisis in any organization and church. I shared here the journey of Victory Greenhills, which had only me as full-time staff with 250 people, and how it has multiplied to have 400 small…