by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 6, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Church, Community
I often get asked to preach on 1 Corinthians 13 for weddings. I am glad to do so but I am also aware that 1 Corinthians 13 is calling for a love between brothers and sisters in the church, though the principles are also helpful for husbands and wives. Paul uses strong...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 30, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Jesus, Jesus' Resurrection
Linen: cloth made of flax and noted for its strength, coolness, and luster. (Merriam-Webster) So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 24, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others
In preparation for my Maundy Thursday sermon, I relooked at the foot-washing incident in John 13:1–17. I have read this passage many times. As always, God teaches you new things each time you look at a passage. This portion touched me this time round. Jesus knew that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 16, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Life Issues, Suicide
I can’t imagine what it is like to lose someone to suicide. I was therefore very sad when someone we knew took her life recently. We pray for her family though I suspect the grief and the questions will haunt them, and indeed all of us, for a long time. When a suicide...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 9, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Media, Movies & Television
It’s a pity that the recent return of The X-Files (season 10, 6 episodes, fourteen years after the end of the last season) ran on Fox channel when X-Files season 4 was running on Hits Channel at the same time. Season 4 was a showcase of some of the best of those...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 2, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Books, Media
In the introduction to his book The Longing for Home, Frederick Buechner writes: Time, like the receding waters of the ocean, bears all of us who are time’s children farther and farther away from the near shore and closer and closer to those mysterious depths...
