by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 3, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
“I am not sure your preaching style would work in Singapore.” I had just preached in a church in Malaysia. Apparently the sermon had gone down well. (My personal policy is to withhold any judgement as to the effectiveness of anything I do till I see Jesus.) One of the...
by Bernice Lee | Jul 31, 2012 | 2012, Afterlife, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
Our youngest son is home for the summer holidays and, as has been the practice in years past, he had his high school classmates over for a meal. As many as were able to turned up for food, fun and fellowship. The gauche and less-than-confident schoolboys of 4C1,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 20, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Christian Identity, Christian Living, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 13, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
In a few weeks I will be leading a workshop at a Counselling Conference. The topic of my workshop? The Wounded Healer: The Blessings of Brokenness. Perhaps it is a counselling seminar so dealing with pain is a given. There are still some in the Christian community,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 5, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God...
by Bernice Lee | Jun 29, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Christian Unity, Church, Publishing
“I feel like a tadpole,” he said, as a preamble to the devotional he was about to share. This, from someone who’s been to the ends of the earth and back (well, nearly) to provide training and instructional design consultancy work. I was attending the...
