by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 5, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues, Suffering
A good friend’s wife passed away on Monday (September 1st, 2014). I had to leave for Penang on the following day to help my mum with a medical appointment. So I went to pay my respects on Monday evening. I repeated what I had told my friend a number of times — I would...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 23, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
I met up with a younger colleague in ministry. We had first connected about seven years ago when I relocated to Singapore. He was on staff with another church and we would meet up periodically to talk about ministry and life in general. We had not met for a while....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 15, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Identity, Christian Living, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
The following was one of the case studies we looked at during the recent Annual Fellowship Meeting (AFM) of the Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship (CMDF), Singapore. (It is a composite story drawn from different cases.) You are doing locum work in a neighbourhood...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 7, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism, Spiritual Friendship
“Could you take a workshop at our church camp? The speaker who was supposed to do it can’t make it.” The request came from a community that meant a lot to us. And the camp was nearby, in Johor Bahru. We normally would have said yes barring any divine guidance to the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 1, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Community
Definition of BUCKET LIST: a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying Origin of BUCKET LIST: from the phrase kick the bucket (to die) First known use: 2006 (Merriam-Webster) There are few things on my bucket list. I should pay more...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 25, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Community
The early church had no political power. She emerged at a time when Rome was master and Caesar was Lord. The church couldn’t appeal to Caesar to allow them to continue to use the word “Allah”. Neither could they put pressure on Rome to stop those who wanted to...
