by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 9, 2009 | 2009, Afterlife, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
What happens after death? Nothing, according to some. Death is the universal anticlimax to life. So we should “seize the day” or “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (1 Corinthians 15:32 NRSV).” Then there are those who, like the ancient...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 26, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Leadership
I have long come to realise that team leadership is norm. Perhaps, when I was younger, I held to the individualistic, heroic, bigger than life model of leadership (and maybe believed I was on the road to being one.) But life, and the Word, have taught me that the norm...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 23, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Books, Graceworks, Media
Writing has never come easy for me. I prefer to preach or teach any time. When I stand before a group of people and preach or teach, I see some results of my work straight away. Your listeners may love you or they may hate you but you have a pretty good idea from...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 9, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, Remembrance
“Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8) Therefore to know the Jesus of tomorrow you need to know the Jesus of yesterday.” I would often exhort folks to do journaling with the above challenge. (Sounds kinda cool too.) I would say that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 5, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose, Small Groups
“How are you?” “How was your week?” “Can you name one item of joy and one item of concern in your life?” The many groups that Bernice and I lead are terribly predictable in one aspect — there will always be a time for people...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 25, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose, Solitude & Quiet Time
Those of us who grew up in evangelical circles know all about “quiet time.” This was spiritual discipline 101 pre-Richard Foster. All serious Christians took time every day to spend some quiet time with God. This usually involved reading a portion of...
