by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 10, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Christian Unity, Church, God, God's Love, Loving Others
I have often found it difficult to sing the song “I Love You Lord and I Lift My Voice” (Laurie Klein, 1978). It is a lovely, short song of devotion and I often get goose bumps singing it even after all these years. But I struggle to sing it for two...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 27, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, Following Jesus, God, God's Will, Jesus
Have you heard of the phrase “What would Jesus do?” The Wikipedia article on this is helpful. The phrase “What would Jesus do?”, often abbreviated to WWJD, became popular particularly in the United States in the late 1800s after the widely read...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 20, 2022 | 2022, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Spiritual Maturity
In a recent talk, Philip Yancey said that the main reason people read memoirs was not to discover more about the people who wrote them but to discover more of themselves. It certainly felt that way when I read the following from Henri Nouwen’s Sabbatical Journey...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 13, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues, Suffering
Christians are not spared the storms of life. This came home to me afresh when I met three medical students in Budapest recently. Coming from Nigeria they had paid a hefty cost to enter a medical school in Ukraine. They were in the 3rd and 4th years of their studies....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 22, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Mentoring, Soo-Inn Tan
Life is full of contradictions! I have said often that you can’t teach mentoring through a lecture. People need to actually experience the love, care, and interest of someone walking with them in their journey to becoming what they were meant to be in Christ. But here...
