Dennis Sy

Dennis Sy Dennis Sy is a leadership coach and consultant, podcast host, author of four books, and pastor

20/07/2026

“Lifelong friends don’t count the years. They count the moments that made the years worth it“

13/07/2026

Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself for godliness. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.” 1 Timothy 4:7

You are not just getting through the day. You are cutting stone for a cathedral. In church, we talked about the Liturgy ...
10/07/2026

You are not just getting through the day. You are cutting stone for a cathedral.

In church, we talked about the Liturgy of the Home — how the small, repeated, forgettable rhythms of family life are quietly shaping the faith of our kids.

Dinner conversations. Bedtime prayers. The open door. The seasonal traditions no one thinks twice about. None of it feels spiritual in the moment. But over years, these micro rituals carry macro implications.

Deuteronomy 6 doesn’t hand us a curriculum — it hands us a day. Sitting, walking, lying down, getting up. Faith isn’t caught in one big moment. It’s formed in ten thousand ordinary ones.

So the question isn’t whether your home is discipling your children. It already is. The only question is: toward what?

Show me your liturgies, and I’ll show you your loves. - James K.A Smith

Watch the preaching here: https://www.youtube.com/live/xLdTHdMoBrw?si=xwnBYBH-4IfXhixY

Young people are reinforcements, not replacements.I heard this line last year while visiting a church in Singapore, and ...
06/07/2026

Young people are reinforcements, not replacements.

I heard this line last year while visiting a church in Singapore, and I haven’t been able to shake it since.

I’ll be honest, for many leaders my age, there’s a quiet fear that comes with watching a younger generation rise. We call it succession planning, but sometimes what we really feel is displacement. As if their arrival signals our exit. As if the church only has room for one generation at a time.

But that visit to Singapore reframed everything for me. When I saw a church intentionally reaching generations — I realized the question was never “Who will replace us?” The question is Who will run with us”

Reinforcements don’t push you off the field. They join you on it. They carry what you can no longer carry alone. They go where you can no longer go. And the mission moves forward faster because there are more hands, more feet, more voices.

This is not a new idea for Victory. Since 1984, we have been building a student-led campus ministry and planting campus-reaching churches around the world. Reaching the next generation isn’t a department in our church. It’s the DNA of it.

That’s why last Saturday undid me a little. Close to a thousand people — most of them young — filled our Saturday service at Victory BGC. I didn’t see a crowd. I saw a mission force being formed. Students who will one day preach, plant, lead, and go to campuses and nations we haven’t touched yet.

Our job now is clear: disciple them, develop them, deploy them.

Not someday. Now. Because the next generation doesn’t need us to hold our position. They need us to hand them the ball while we’re still running.

The best days of the Church are not behind us. They are sitting in our services right now, waiting to be raised up.

Excited for what God has in store. Thank you Mark Muleta and Marner D. Santos Jr. for pastoring the generations!

2 Timothy 2:2

“and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.”
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29/06/2026

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. — Colossians 3:3

We live in a world obsessed with “me.” Our songs, our feeds, our stories—all curated to put self at the center. But the gospel flips the script.

To be hidden with Christ means He becomes the subject and the object of our worship. Not my performance. Not my platform. Not my preferences. Him.

Jesus said it plainly: those who love their lives will lose them, but those who lose their lives for His sake will find them. The way up is down. The way to be found is to disappear into Christ.

More of God. Less of me. That’s not loss—that’s the only life worth living.

Excerpt from chapter 2:Eugene Peterson’s question was not “What should I preach on this Sun-day?” but rather, “Who are t...
29/06/2026

Excerpt from chapter 2:

Eugene Peterson’s question was not “What should I preach on this Sun-day?” but rather, “Who are these particular people, and how can I be with them in such a way that they can become what God is making them?”

Many Christians today, spiritual growth and nourishment are often sought in the disembodied voices of celebrity pastors speaking into our earbuds through online sermons and podcasts. Many of our own revered “teachers” we’ve never even met face to face. Their sermons and books have changed
our lives, and they mean the world to us.

Yet, in reality, they have no clue we even exist. We have forgotten the significance of “embodied words” and have settled for raw information, naked facts and stripped-down soundbites that, like cracked cisterns, cannot hold the living water we need and will not adequately feed our souls.

In the words of N. T. Wright:
The word became flesh, said St. John, and the Church has turned the flesh back into words: words of good advice, words of comfort, words of wisdom and encouragement, yes, but what changes the world is flesh, words with skin on them, words that hug you and cry with you and play with you and love you and rebuke you and build houses with you and teach your children in school.?

Yesterday I attended our 3PM service at Victory Makati and spent time with some of our youth leaders and scholars. We ta...
22/06/2026

Yesterday I attended our 3PM service at Victory Makati and spent time with some of our youth leaders and scholars. We talked, laughed, cried, and caught up—but more than that, I listened to their stories.

Three years ago, many of them were just beginning. Today they’re leading small groups on their campuses, graduating, stepping into great jobs, and stepping up in ways I couldn’t have imagined. Sitting with them, I felt something deeper than joy. I felt the quiet confirmation that a multi-generational approach to church and ministry is worth every ounce of effort.

Here’s what I’m learning about fatherhood: parents prepare their kids; they don’t perform for their kids. We’re not on stage trying to impress the next generation—we’re behind them, equipping them, clearing the path. The heart of every parent is to set up the generations that follow for success, even success that outpaces our own.

Pastor Steve Murrell talks about the “leadership runway”—the truth that healthy churches don’t just recruit leaders, they develop them over time, giving the next generation room to gain speed before they take off. You don’t build that runway in a weekend. You build it over years, through patient investment in people who will one day fly further than you. Leadership development isn’t a program a church runs; it’s a culture a church is. Conviction, culture, and constructs working together. When a church is genuinely designed to lead, it doesn’t measure success by who’s in the room today, but by who’s being deployed for tomorrow.

This is why building close, working relationships with our Every Nation campus missionaries matters so much. Campus ministry isn’t a side project—it’s a frontline. It’s where we develop and deploy young people to be effective salt and light in every sphere of society.

Fatherhood, I’m learning, is multi-generational by design. The goal was never to raise followers. The goal is to raise leaders who raise leaders. Let’s don’t just raise sons and daughters but prepare future fathers and mothers!!!

19/06/2026

anime: Hapon

JUSTICE AND WORSHIP Most of us have a habit we’ve never really questioned. We walk out of a worship service and the firs...
11/06/2026

JUSTICE AND WORSHIP

Most of us have a habit we’ve never really questioned. We walk out of a worship service and the first thing we ask is, “How was it for me?” Did I feel something? Did the songs move me? Did I encounter God today? We coined it the WORSHIP EXPERIENCE. That concept reveals a misunderstanding of worship liturgy—we’ve made ourselves the subject of worship, when the whole point is that God should be the subject and object of our worship.

Worship is not a mirror to admire my own experience. It’s a window. The true worshipers worship the Father in spirit and in truth John 4:23–24). We don’t worship to get. We worship to give Him what He is due. The moment we get that right, justice stops being a department of the Christian life. It becomes our nature.

Because when worship is about us, justice becomes about us too—a cause we wear to feel like good people. But when worship is about God, justice is no longer my project. It’s His mission and we get to take part in it.

You can’t truly worship a God and stay indifferent to what breaks His heart. This is the Micah mandate: “He has told you, O man, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you. To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). You can’t walk closely with Him and not start loving the widow, the orphan, the abandoned child waiting for a home.

James K. A. Smith reminds us we are not first thinking things—we are lovers, formed by what we worship. Worship isn’t where we express what we believe; it’s where we get re-formed. Every time we gather, our loves are recalibrated toward His kingdom. We become like the One we worship.

So church, let’s go back to the heart of worship. It’s all about Jesus. And when it truly is, it won’t stay inside these walls—it reorders our loves to live for God and for others.

Thank you, Generations Home, Saddleback Church, Life Song Ministries for the orphans and the body of Christ who gathered to pray and worship with us as we participate in God’s redemptive purpose for our nation!

Sony Mandap , thanks for the pics

JUSTICE AND WORSHIP Most of us have a habit we’ve never really questioned. We walk out of a worship service and the firs...
11/06/2026

JUSTICE AND WORSHIP

Most of us have a habit we’ve never really questioned. We walk out of a worship service and the first thing we ask is, “How was it for me?” Did I feel something? Did the songs move me? Did I encounter God today? We coined it the WORSHIP EXPERIENCE. That concept reveals a misunderstanding of worship liturgy—we’ve made ourselves the subject of worship, when the whole point is that God should be the subject and object of our worship.

Worship is not a mirror to admire my own experience. It’s a window. The true worshipers worship the Father in spirit and in truth John 4:23–24). We don’t worship to get. We worship to give Him what He is due. The moment we get that right, justice stops being a department of the Christian life. It becomes our nature.

Because when worship is about us, justice becomes about us too—a cause we wear to feel like good people. But when worship is about God, justice is no longer my project. It’s His mission and we get to take part in it.

You can’t truly worship a God and stay indifferent to what breaks His heart. This is the Micah mandate: “He has told you, O man, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you. To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). You can’t walk closely with Him and not start loving the widow, the orphan, the abandoned child waiting for a home.

James K. A. Smith reminds us we are not first thinking things—we are lovers, formed by what we worship. Worship isn’t where we express what we believe; it’s where we get re-formed. Every time we gather, our loves are recalibrated toward His kingdom. We become like the One we worship.

So church, let’s go back to the heart of worship. It’s all about Jesus. And when it truly is, it won’t stay inside these walls—it reorders our loves to live for God and for others.

Thank you, Generations Home, Saddleback Church, Life Song Ministries for the orphans and the body of Christ who gathered to pray and worship with us as we participate in God’s redemptive purpose for our nation!

Sony Mandap , thanks for the pics

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