by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 22, 2000 | 2000, Articles, Church, Young Adult Ministry
I was visiting my comic store a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised to hear the DOORS’ “Light My Fire” playing over the store’s music system. For the uninitiated, the DOORS were a rock group popular in the 60’s and the 70’s....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 15, 2000 | 2000, Articles, Life Issues, Suicide
RM20,000 (USD 5,263.02) doesn’t seem like much money these days. Surely one doesn’t take ones’ life because of a debt of that amount. Yet it was reported on the front page of the Malaysian STAR yesterday that two women jumped to their deaths from the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 8, 2000 | 2000, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
God’s quality control is atrocious. At least where sermons are concerned. It’s unbelievable the kind of stuff that is churned out Sunday after Sunday in pulpits all over the world. I’ll bet if God put Bill Gates in charge of the quality control of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 2, 2000 | 2000, Articles, God, Media, Movies & Television, Redemption
The Wolverine character in the ‘X-Men’ movie would seem to be a poor choice to remind us of the Lamb of God. We first encounter him as a vicious wrestler and for the whole of the movie, he has a chip on his shoulder the size of an oak tree. Yet his saving...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 29, 2000 | 2000, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, Media, Music
In the last few weeks I have been blessed by many emails warning me about the ”Harry Potter” books. Children reading these books by J. K. Rowling, stood a good chance of being turned to satanism, I am told. I really appreciate the concern of the many dear...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 18, 2000 | 2000, Articles, Ethics, Life Issues, Work & Vocation, World Issues
The term “business ethics” has longed being considered an oxymoron in many Christian and non-Christian circles. Christian children are told that they are “too straight” to really make it big in the world of business. Furthermore, the new...