by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 24, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose
I was chatting with a friend yesterday morning. His wife, also a dear friend, is fighting cancer with faith and courage. I said he must be very tired. He said he was but that he has also been energised by the fresh realisation of his own mortality. He talked about his...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 20, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Governance, Malaysia, World Issues
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 13, 2009 | 2009, Aging, Articles, Family, Honoring Parents, Life Issues
Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. (Proverbs 23:22 TNIV) I was with mum the last few days. This is the first time I have visited with her this year since the Lunar New Year (January). She teased me numerous times...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 6, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Christian Living, Graceworks, Spiritual Friendship
Spiritual friendship is friendship that is rooted in Christ, for the purpose of growing in Christ. “What is the vision of Graceworks?” Often folks would ask Bernice or myself about the nature of our work and we usually reply by stating our mission:...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 29, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
Singapore’s ‘father of counselling’ Anthony Yeo, who had leukemia, died yesterday from complications. The veteran counsellor and consultant therapist at the Counselling and Care Centre was 60 years old. He was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 22, 2009 | 2009, Articles, God, God's Grace
Smell is the only sense that does not make a brief stop at the brain’s relay station, the thalamus, before going to the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that explains, reasons and rationalizes. Smell is unmediated, unfiltered; it hits the prefrontal...
