by Soo-Inn Tan | May 24, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Unity, Church
In most towns we frequent, there is one church that we consider our “home church”. In Penang, not surprisingly, it is Georgetown Baptist Church (GBC). I grew up in that church and served as her pastor for four years, my first pastorate after seminary. Georgetown...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 17, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Soo-Inn Tan
Photo credit: Alteregocomics.com [Spoiler alert for Avengers: Endgame (2019)] Rocket: No, Groot! You can’t. You’ll die. Why are you doing this? Why? Groot: We are Groot. [Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)] How many of you watched the movie Gladiator (2000)? How many of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 10, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Community, Relationships, Soo-Inn Tan
Photo credits: Adelene C A few evenings ago, Bernice and I attended the 88th birthday bash of her fourth aunt. The theme of the evening was Peranakan. Peranakans are an ethnic group descended from Chinese settlers from the southern provinces who came to the Malay...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 3, 2019 | 2019, Aging, Articles, Soo-Inn Tan
A common friend told me that J had started dialysis and that he didn’t look too well. I visited him on Wednesday and was a little ashamed that it took a health crisis for me to make the time to go see him. We were friends who had grown up together in Penang. I have...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 26, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Dependence on God, Persecution, Soo-Inn Tan
The book of Revelation was written to Christians who were undergoing horrendous persecution at the hands of the Romans and the satanic powers behind them. In Chapter 12, the writer tells us how the saints were able to triumph over the Enemy. 10 Then I heard a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 19, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Jesus' Death, Soo-Inn Tan
Many of the Jews in Jesus’ time thought that their main problem was the fact that they were under the control of a pagan power—the Romans. The answer to that problem? A Messiah who would come and militarily demolish the Roman armies. But the Messiah came on a...
