by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 8, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Racism, World Issues
Singaporeans can expect new policies to tackle acts that denigrate other races or religions, preach intolerance, or sow religious discord. The impending changes will take place this year [2016] to protect secular Singapore’s racial and religious harmony, Home...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 2, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. (Hebrews 13:7 NIV) I first met Denis and June Lane in 1976, when I joined a church community that would eventually become Evangel Baptist...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 25, 2017 | 2017, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues, Suffering
“Your story is not over yet.” I was at a very low point in my life. Everything was falling apart. I felt trapped, paralysed, looking at an oncoming car on the road of life, about to be road kill. I happened to be at a morning prayer meeting for church...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 19, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring, Spiritual Friendship
In their classic book on Spiritual Mentoring, Anderson and Reese give us various dimensions of the practice of spiritual mentoring. They say that spiritual mentoring: . . . cultivates recognition of the already present action of God in the life of the mentoree through...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 4, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Identity, Christian Living
Met an old friend recently. As we caught up he said something that he had mentioned before — that he was too intense and that he needed to change. He said even friends and family teased him about the fact that his face had a perpetual frown. In his fifties now he has...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 28, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Christian Living, Faith
I enjoyed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) so much that it didn’t hit me till later that all the main heroes in the story die. In fact one of the most memorable scenes in the movie is Jyn and Cassian dying in each other’s arms on the beach of Scarif as the...
