by Sharyn Ng | Jun 3, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Dependence on God, God, God's Provision, Obedience & Faithfulness
The account in Exodus 3 is commonly known as the call of Moses. I identified with this story and found it particularly comforting when, at the age of 16, I was asked to lead a cell group in the youth ministry . In Exodus 3, I saw this great hero of faith...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 27, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, Following Jesus, God, God's Will, Jesus
Have you heard of the phrase “What would Jesus do?” The Wikipedia article on this is helpful. The phrase “What would Jesus do?”, often abbreviated to WWJD, became popular particularly in the United States in the late 1800s after the widely read...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 20, 2022 | 2022, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Spiritual Maturity
In a recent talk, Philip Yancey said that the main reason people read memoirs was not to discover more about the people who wrote them but to discover more of themselves. It certainly felt that way when I read the following from Henri Nouwen’s Sabbatical Journey...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 13, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues, Suffering
Christians are not spared the storms of life. This came home to me afresh when I met three medical students in Budapest recently. Coming from Nigeria they had paid a hefty cost to enter a medical school in Ukraine. They were in the 3rd and 4th years of their studies....
by Sharyn Ng | May 6, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, Generations Project
In my last commentary Messily Beautiful; Beautifully Messy, I left off with a string of questions on what it would look like if a church truly embraced the different generations and intentionally cultivated intergenerational relationships. Perhaps the real reason I...
by Sharyn Ng | Apr 29, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Generations Project
“We’re an intergenerational church. A family church.” I’ve heard this said many times and even said it myself, of the church I belong to. But what does it mean? Often, what is meant is that we’re a multigenerational church, a church that comprises and caters to more...
