by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 3, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
I was back in Penang the last few days to be with mum. (Penang is my home town about 250 miles from Kuala Lumpur where I presently reside.) I took a cab from the airport and discussed world affairs with the cab driver in Hokkien (Chinese dialect) as we went along. I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 24, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Will
“Why doesn’t God just gave me a straightforward answer when I ask Him for His will?” Invariably someone will ask this when I run a seminar on “Finding God’s Will.” The logic of this question is even clearer in an Google age. After...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 17, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Love, Happiness, Life Issues, Media, Music
I received a copy of The Very Best of Jim Croce for Valentine’s Day. Croce was an American singer-songwriter who died in an air crash in 1973 just as his career was taking off. As I played the CD I was reminded of two of my basic convictions: that everybody...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 10, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
I had the privilege of witnessing the birth of no.2 son. (No.1 son was born in a public hospital where fathers where not allowed into the delivery room because there were a number of mothers sharing a room.) I remember that from the time “the water burst”...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 2, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Dependence on God, God
The following sequence of events will be very familiar with those who have been afflicted by painful episodes of kidney stones. (I have since learnt that there are those who have a predilection for stone formation, folks referred to as “stone formers.”)...
