by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 20, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
This is going to be a tough Christmas for some of my friends. These are friends that lost their spouses sometime this year. This will be the first Christmas without their spouses. It will be rough. . . . almost all survivors experience anniversary reactions. The first...
by Bernice Lee | Dec 10, 2010 | 2010, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
Earlier this week I had lunch with a dear friend, one of the bravest ladies I know. A breast cancer survivor, she discovered last year that the cancer had snuck up on her again. I’m sure she had her share of long and hard discussions with her Maker following that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 6, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism
Our church care group is having a Christmas outreach event tonight — with a difference. In previous similar events, our primary concern would be on how to “save the lost” — how to get people to make commitments to Jesus. This is still our concern because...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 30, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Life Issues, Mental Illness
I remember the night my clinical depression overtook me. It was an evening in 1998. I had the privilege opreaching at a friend’s ordination service. Later that evening I was to join a group of young adults in my church for an evangelistic camp. After the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 22, 2010 | 2010, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television
The wisest quote from the movie RED (2010) cannot be found in any list of quotable quotes from the movie. It comes from the scene where Frank Moses, the Bruce Willis character, visits his mentor, Joe Matheson, the Morgan Freeman character, who is living in an old...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 15, 2010 | 2010, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
I was having lunch with two friends earlier in the week. One of them shared about the struggles of an organization he was helping to lead. Somewhere through his sharing I blurted out “Can I get on the board of directors? Maybe I can help. Maybe I can support...
