by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 1, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Church, Media, Movies & Television, Preaching & Teaching
Miyagi: Your friend, all karate student, eh? Daniel Larusso: Friend? Oh, yeah, those guys. Miyagi: Problem: attitude. Daniel Larusso: No the problem is, I’m getting my ass kicked every other day, that’s the problem! Miyagi: Hai, because boys have bad...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 25, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Communication, Life Issues
A long time ago I learnt from C. S. Lewis never to judge a man as he is without knowing how far he has come. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: “Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. When a neurotic who...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 18, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Sex
Last Friday our cell group discussed sex. And I wondered how often does this happen in conservative evangelical churches in Asia. A lot of the credit must go to our pastor, Rev. Wong Fong Yang. He is running a pulpit series on Money, Sex and Power. He is a believer as...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 11, 2005 | 2005, Afterlife, Articles, Life Issues
“This world is not my home, I’m just passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me from Heaven’s open door And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.” [Words and Music by Albert E. Brumley]...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 2, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Mentoring
“How do you introduce spiritual mentoring into a church without adding more items into the church programme?” I was having a meal with the senior pastor of a fast growing church recently and he asked me the above question. I was giving him my usual spiel...
