by Soo-Inn Tan | May 10, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring
“We all need someone higher, wiser, older to tell us we are not crazy after all, that what we are doing is all right. All right, hell, fine!” The late Ray Bradbury wrote the above in an essay entitled ‘Drunk, and in Charge of a Bicycle.’ In it...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 3, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, Rest & Busyness
“My name is Soo Inn. I am an info junkie.” When my internet service provider (ISP) is down I manifest cold turkey symptoms. I call the ISP office demanding to know when they will be back online. I back up my main ISP with two more ISPs. I know precisely...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 26, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
We first met 17 years ago. I was in the middle of my theological studies at Regent College. They were starting their programme. I was from Malaysia. They were a Singaporean couple. Somehow we hit it off. We became friends. Through the years our pilgrimages took us to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 21, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Solitude & Quiet Time
In Making All Things New, my all time favourite book on spirituality, the late Henri Nouwen writes: Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and God alone. If we really believe that God not...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 12, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Death & Grief, Jesus, Jesus' Resurrection, Life Issues
It has been a long time since I led in a funeral service. I did one this past weekend. Chee Man had fought a valiant battle with cancer. He had a family that did not falter in their support. No expenditure of time, energy, or money was withheld in their support of his...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 6, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Life Issues, Money
I have always been struck by Jesus’ words in Matthew 6:24. There He says: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and despise the second. You cannot serve God and...
