by Soo-Inn Tan | May 25, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
It’s not easy for me to revisit my past, especially a period I call my ten black years. I wished I could go back in time and do things better, make better choices, be a better man. But I can’t go back in time. Now, I seek to redeem my past by sharing whatever lessons I learnt from those dark times, with others. The most important lesson is this — God is bigger than our failures.
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 18, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Church, Young Adult Ministry
Graceworks organized its first Young Adult Ministry forum in November, 2014. Since then the Lord has confirmed our calling to minister to this age group. This article was published in February 2015. Two years on, it is a good reminder of our call to empower and equip...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 11, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
In her book, The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith writes: As much as we might wish, none of us will be able to go through life without some kind of suffering. (Emily Esfahani Smith, The Power of Meaning, New York, NY: Crown, 2017, 185.) Smith does not write from...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 4, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Church, Community
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 27, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Church, Community
There is a song that goes: Open our eyes, Lord We want to see Jesus To reach out and touch Him And say that we love Him Open our ears, Lord And help us to listen Open our eyes, Lord We want to see Jesus (Robert Cull, 1976) I understand the sentiment behind the song....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 20, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Book Launch, Graceworks, Publishing
This Wednesday, 26th April, Graceworks will be launching one of my books, Walking With The Risen Christ. Writing does not come easy to me. I am energised when I am preach, teach, or have conversations one-on-one or in small groups. But when I write, I don’t have...
