by Soo-Inn Tan | May 22, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Death & Grief, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues
We visited a pastor friend last night. In obedience to God’s call, he left the world of business many years ago to enter the pastoral ministry. In his journey, time and time again, he took on difficult church assignments in obedience to God’s leading. You would have...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 14, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
Sometimes you read something that is all at once beautiful, wise, and states powerfully what you have already discovered to be true. This is how I felt about the following passage that I read last night: When we find that all that we hope for does not happen, that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 25, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Christian Living, Governance, Persecution, World Issues
PETALING JAYA: The cross on a new church in a shophouse has been taken down after about 50 residents conducted a protest during Sunday service this morning, according to a media report. The church in Taman Medan is situated in a shophouse. The protesters gathered at...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 6, 2015 | 2015, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty, Violence, World Issues
This Easter was different. I must have preached on most Easter Sundays in my 30 years of church ministry, but this year was different. I know that Easter should be a time to remember the resurrection of Jesus from the grave; a time for joy. But my heart was heavy. It...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 30, 2015 | 2015, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty, Governance, World Issues
Last Friday, Joshua, our pastor, gave a powerful word at our church’s prayer meeting. With the nation still in mourning over the death of her founding prime minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, pastor pointed us to Isaiah 6. It was a timely word. In the year that King Uzziah...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 19, 2015 | 2015, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty, Governance, World Issues
King Josiah was one of the good guys (2 Kings 22:1–23:30; 2 Chronicles 34:1–35:27). Upon encountering the Book of the Law (2 Kings 22:8), he instituted far-ranging spiritual reforms in Judah, putting down idolatry and leading the people back to a proper worship of...
