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...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 8, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others, Rest & Busyness, Soo-Inn Tan, Spiritual Friendship
It was 1974. I was waiting for my A-level results and did a stint as a temporary teacher for a few months. They assigned me to the toughest standard/primary three class. One day, we had a meet-the-parents session. There was a student doing very poorly in class. His...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 1, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, God, God's Love, Preaching & Teaching
Last Sunday I had the privilege of preaching via zoom to Sungai Way-Subang Methodist Church in Petaling Jaya. At the end of the sermon I had the chance to chat with a few folks online. One brother shared that in 1998 he was in a seminar I conducted in the church. It...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 24, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, Small Groups
Even as I am writing this piece, many of my friends who are pastors and church elders are holding urgent meetings to decide how next Sunday’s corporate worship services will be organised. Larger numbers are now allowed to congregate and worshippers can now sing...
