by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 4, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Will
This summer I will have the privilege of teaching a course at Regent College, Vancouver. Entitled “Surviving Success, Appreciating Failure: A Biblical Perspective on Handling Success and Failure in Christian Leadership,” it will run from July 31 till...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 30, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
Just discovered that my Saturday is going to be crazy. I will be giving a three-hour seminar on mentoring and then go straightaway to preach at a Saturday service. (When I accepted the gig for the mentoring seminar we had not gone on to Saturday services yet.) Am I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 23, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Human Rights, World Issues
Jesus’s Kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36). This means that often, Christians have little political leverage. Consider the case of Mr. Abdul Rahman. An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 20, 2006 | 2006, Apologetics, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others
Apologetics is in the air! And what is that you ask? No, it’s not the art of giving good apologies. Apologetics is that branch of Christian theology “concerned with the intelligent presentation and defense of the historical Christian faith.” Its the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 9, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship
Last weekend my church started a Saturday worship service. We used to have two worship services on Sunday. Now we have one on Saturday, at 6pm, and one on Sunday, at 10am. I went for the Saturday service and gave it two thumbs up for various reasons. First, it was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 3, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
I was back in Penang the last few days to be with mum. (Penang is my home town about 250 miles from Kuala Lumpur where I presently reside.) I took a cab from the airport and discussed world affairs with the cab driver in Hokkien (Chinese dialect) as we went along. I...
