by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 2, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
You’ve seen the pattern before. First God gives you a strength. So you learn to make full use of it. You get used to it. You polish it. You begin to count on it. Then God has to wean you off it. Take Jacob, old heel grabber, aka the deceiver. He survived all his...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 25, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Church, Community, Media, Music
“In fact, some of the parts that seem weakest and least important are really the most necessary.” 1Corinthians 12:22 (NLT) John Entwistle died on 27th June 2002. Who is John Entwistle you may ask? He was the bass player for the legendary British rock...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 19, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Church, Leadership, Media, Movies & Television
I find myself in the minority. Everyone I have talked to who has seen the movie, Minority Report, has enthused about it. I thought it was just so-so. It starts out as a sci-fi movie and morphs into a who-dun-it. Its actually quite a respectable who-dun-it though the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 12, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Fear, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues
His wife’s cancer had come back. They last fought the big ‘C’ 17 years ago. It had gone away. For almost two decades. But it had come back. The prognosis was good. But still? What if? They had three young children. His work entailed a lot of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 5, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Church, Leadership
What sort of people should be leading our churches and our parachurch groups as we enter a new millennium? Recently I revisited my master’s thesis. Entitled “Leadership Qualifications in the Pastoral Epistles”, it sought to understand the leadership...
