Tag: LEADERSHIP

  • Finding your Leadership Identity

    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…

  • The Day Daddy Won My Respect Big Time

    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…

  • Leadership is Never Playing It Safe

    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…

  • Leading with Wisdom

    Leading with Wisdom

    James 3:13-18 13-16 Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here’s what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It’s the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn’t wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn’t wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound…

  • SEA Games Complaints and Church Complaints

    SEA Games Complaints and Church Complaints

    So to clear things up first – this is not a blog to pinpoint what’s right or wrong with the SEA Games. I am with the people who encourage us to stop putting in social media our feelings about the SEA Games preparation especially if we are not involved in it. It’s interesting to note…