by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 9, 2004 | 2004, Articles, God, God's Grace
Did it ever strike you as odd that God allowed Solomon to succeed David as king? And become an ancestor of Jesus in the process? (See Matthew 1:6) Not only was Solomon not David’s oldest male offspring, he was a child of David’s marriage with THAT woman,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 2, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
When did you stop making New Year resolutions? For me, it must have been sometime the last 10 years. It must have been a time when life was so demanding that one year just slipped into another. Which is not to imply that I have anything against New Year resolutions....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 26, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
There may have been a time when I thought that the Christian life gets easier when one gets older. No longer. I have come to terms that there is no such thing as an ‘easier’ Christian life this side of heaven. Surprise! That’s what Jesus told us:...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 19, 2003 | 2003, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty
I was having dinner with some good friends a few nights ago. One of them shared that she was pregnant, her first pregnancy. We rejoiced with her. I marveled again at this experience of bearing a child, an experience foreign to men. A child conceived in love as this...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 12, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus, Life Issues, Suffering
Every time I read of a new suicide bombing in Israel or Iraq, I am reminded that certain segments of the Muslim world see themselves as in a ‘hot’ war and are willing to kill and die for their cause. I am reminded that in numerous training camps in Asia...
