by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 18, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Sex
Last Friday our cell group discussed sex. And I wondered how often does this happen in conservative evangelical churches in Asia. A lot of the credit must go to our pastor, Rev. Wong Fong Yang. He is running a pulpit series on Money, Sex and Power. He is a believer as...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 11, 2005 | 2005, Afterlife, Articles, Life Issues
“This world is not my home, I’m just passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me from Heaven’s open door And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.” [Words and Music by Albert E. Brumley]...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 2, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Mentoring
“How do you introduce spiritual mentoring into a church without adding more items into the church programme?” I was having a meal with the senior pastor of a fast growing church recently and he asked me the above question. I was giving him my usual spiel...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 2, 2005 | 2005, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
Recently I have been thinking about what it means to grow old. Why? Maybe it’s because I am now 50. Or maybe it was brought on by the death of my father two years ago. But I suspect it’s all the World War 2 documentaries I have been watching. Often these...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 14, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others
“If we live in a dog-eat-dog world, then why are we frequently so good to each other?” [Fehr and Renninger] Once more our TV screens overflow with images of human misery. One report estimates that 40,000 have perished in the recent earthquake in South...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 7, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!” [Eugene O’Neill} I am not too hot about doing my autobiography. Some places in my past are still a bit too intense to revisit. Unfortunately I lead a mentoring ministry called...
