by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 5, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring
I wasn’t sure I would see them again this side of heaven. I really wanted to. These two couples loomed like giants in my life. They were four key mentors who shaped my life decisively. I owed them big time. But they were retired. One couple lived in the US. The...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 29, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Obedience & Faithfulness
Ever heard of Shiphrah and Puah? You should. They get my vote for Christian role models for the new millennium. In case you were sleeping in Sunday School, Shiphrah and Puah were the Hebrew midwives mentioned in Exodus Chapter 1. Talk about an impossible choice. They...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 19, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Obedience & Faithfulness, Rest & Busyness
The introductory blurb sounded very promising. As her lead-in to her article, “The Art of Multitasking”, (FAST COMPANY October 2002), Alison Overholt writes: “Feeling overworked? Overwhelmed? The dirty little secret of the slow-growth economy is that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 13, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues, Suffering, Violence, World Issues
I lost a wife to lung cancer. After been touched by pain and tragedy I can never again be glib about the pain of others. On the anniversary of September 11th I look afresh at the impossible pictures. It is too much. The pain represented there is way too much for me to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 6, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Rest & Busyness
In his book WORKING THE ANGLES, Eugene Peterson points out the following: ” The Deuteronomy reason for Sabbath-keeping is that our ancestors in Egypt went four hundred years without a vacation (Deuteronomy 5:15). Never a day off. The consequence: they were no...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 30, 2002 | 2002, Articles, God, God's Word
“When Jesus gathered the twelve disciples he communicated with them orally. Likewise the crowds who heard him came without notebooks and left without paperback copies of ‘The Good News According to Jesus’. They simply had to retain his message by...
