by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 27, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Remembrance
How was your Christmas? I spent mine nursing a migraine headache. (Yes, I did go for Christmas service.) The headache wasn’t surprising. Here are some of the highlights of my last three weeks: *My two boys took turns to get bad throat infections. *I drove to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 20, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Family, God, God's Word, Parenting
No. 1 son (16 going on 17) wants two things for Christmas. First he wants a Discman, a portable CD player. Nothing special here. Every teenager functions with a constant soundtrack. His second request blew me away. He wants me to do bible study with him. He made it...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 13, 2002 | 2002, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
The one question that most of us avoid is this: “When will we die?” Most of us are part of this universal denial. We live as though we will live forever. Barring the second coming of Jesus to wrap up time and space, and He has taken much longer than any of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 7, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Church, Community
I’ve always been drawn to the Emmaus Road account (Luke 24:13-53) because it speaks of one of the most crippling of human experiences – disillusionment. The two disciples had betted their lives on Jesus. They had come to a point in their lives where they...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 29, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Unity, Church, Media, Movies & Television
The last season of the X-Files has just begun its run on broadcast television in Malaysia. As a poor X-File fan who cannot afford cable TV this was my chance to catch the last season of one of my favourite TV series. The opening two parter was ok. But clearly the life...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 22, 2002 | 2002, Apologetics, Articles, Christian Living, Media, Movies & Television
Ex Nihilo: “from or out of nothing.” Here are some interesting scientific ‘facts’: 1. As far as we know the universe consists of 50 billion galaxies. This is as far as science can see at the moment. The universe may be infinite for all we know....