by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024, Discipleship, Mentoring
“Spiritual mentoring is an intentional, relational process for helping people grow in Christlikeness by which one person becomes a spiritual guide for one or several others.” Two Saturdays ago I did a three-hour seminar on spiritual mentoring for a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 26, 2024 | 2024, Preaching & Teaching
In the early days of my preaching, I would write out my notes on note cards and bring my note cards to the pulpit. I rarely wrote out my sermons in full nor did I try to memorise them. I wanted more eye contact with my audience. But I was nervous about...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 19, 2024 | 2024, Rest & Busyness, Spiritual Maturity, Work & Vocation
I have had the privilege of serving as the chaplain of the Singapore Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship (CMDF) for some time now. Last weekend we had a leaders’ retreat to plan for the ministry going forward. In preparation for the retreat, our...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 12, 2024 | 2024, Articles, Growth, Leadership, Obedience & Faithfulness, Soo-Inn Tan
Recently I was chatting with a Gen X (born 1965–1980) Christian leader. He said that his leadership board was made up of people in their 60s and 70s. He also said that it was time to introduce some younger leaders into the board. For that to happen, however, some of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 5, 2024 | 2024, Christian Living, Discernment, Discipleship, Growth
A new year! Another opportunity to revisit the 4 Cs of life: Communion — our walk with God Community — our walk with others Co-labour — our participation in God's purposes Cadence — our commitment to live with a work-sabbath...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 29, 2023 | 2023, Hope, Jesus' Birth, Loving Others
This Christmas I felt very conflicted. On the one hand there were the usual encouragements to “ho-ho-ho”; to rejoice because Jesus had come. I preached a number of Christmas sermons, including one on John 1:1–18 and reminded one and all that...
