by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Articles, Mentoring, Soo-Inn Tan
I am low-key excited about the launch of my next book, Growing People Relationally. Excited because the book deals with a subject that in many ways defines my ministry — spiritual mentoring. Low-key because I still struggle about inflicting another book on the world,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 20, 2025 | 2025, Articles, Church, Community, Soo-Inn Tan, Spiritual Friendship
Some of you will know that I have stopped taking church camps (https://graceworks.com.sg/no-church-camps-for-now/). You may be wondering why, then, am I still ministering at church camps. Well, the latest one I took, with the Centre of New Life...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 12, 2025 | 2025, Articles, Christian Living, Discipleship, Holy Spirit, Soo-Inn Tan
Last Sunday the church celebrated Pentecost Sunday. We commemorated the momentous event recorded in Acts 2 when God’s Spirit was poured out on all of God’s people who gathered in Jerusalem. We must remember that in the Old Covenant, the Spirit was only poured out on...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 4, 2025 | 2025, Gratitude, Spiritual Friendship
A few months ago I discovered that one of my lecturers when I was at Regent College, Dr Roy Bell, had passed away. I did my Master of Divinity (MDiv) there. It was jointly offered by Regent and Carey Hall, a Baptist College. Regent would offer more of the classic...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 29, 2025 | 2025, God's Grace, Success
In my last visit to Petaling Jaya (Malaysia) I met up with an old college friend. We had not met up in person since college, about 48 years ago, though we had kept in touch over social media. We had both stayed in King Edward 7th Hall (KE Hall), a residential college...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 22, 2025 | 2025, Aging, God's Will, Third Agers, Work & Vocation
I visited a friend in hospital yesterday and one of the things we talked about was the different stages of being old. Never knew this was a thing till recently. Here is how ChatGPT breaks it down: Young-old: Ages 65–74 * Often still active,...