by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 9, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
Confession time. A few days ago I turned 46. Yup, four more years (God willing) and I hit the big five. The signs are all there. Hair is greying – rapidly. The battle of the bulge has been lost. And cute babes I meet now call me ‘uncle’. So, birthday...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 1, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
“Daddy, why doesn’t Jesus heal me straight away?”, Andrew, my 10 year old son asked me last week. He had been coughing non-stop for five days. We had been to the doctor twice.It was confirmed that Andrew had a bad chest infection and he had been put...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 23, 2001 | 2001, Articles, God, God's Grace
It isn’t always easy to tell the good guys from the bad in the bible. David was a man after God’s own heart. Yet the guy was a real jerk. He arranged for a man to be murdered to cover up his adulterous relationship with the man’s wife (2 Samuel 11)....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 15, 2001 | 2001, Articles, God, Trinity
Ever been jarred while reading Matthew 28:19? It reads: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit…”(NRSV) “The name” is in the singular. You expect one...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 9, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
One of the most profound moments of my life was my attendance at the birth of my second son, Andrew. I was with his mother throughout the eight hours that Andrew took to safely emerge from her womb. There are some mysteries no man will ever be party to. One of these...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 1, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Loving Others
That Jesse Jackson had fathered a child with a mistress probably didn’t come as too much of a shock to an American public already overdosed on news of the moral failures of her public figures. It surely didn’t come as a shock to God who, being all knowing,...
