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by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 13, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Living, Persecution
Today, the cross is the most popular symbol of the Christian faith. But the fish was probably the earliest of all Christian symbols. Christian tradition holds that under persecution (mostly during Nero’s reign over the Roman Empire, but intermittently throughout the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 6, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
In his memoir, Now and Then, Frederick Buechner writes about his time at Union seminary. In terms of Union’s history, I couldn’t have gone there at a more auspicious time. It was its golden age. Reinhold Niebuhr was there, and Paul Tillich was there, these two great...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 29, 2014 | 2014, Afterlife, Articles, Life Issues
To come home you must first leave home. So the first time I came home for Chinese New Year reunion dinner was in early 1975. The year before, I had left Penang for Singapore to start my dental studies in the University of Singapore. Coming home from Singapore meant...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 23, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Ethics, World Issues
I made a big boo boo when I preached on Rahab from Joshua chapter 2 last Sunday. I didn’t touch on the question of whether it is okay to lie for God. I guess the issue was not one the narrative surfaced, and I was so blown away by her conversion experience, and how a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 15, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship
I was in Petaling Jaya rummaging through the stuff in my old room, looking for a missing document when I came across a copy of my ordination certificate. I was reminded that I was ordained by the Georgetown Baptist Church, Penang on the 26th of June, 1988. (For the...
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by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 9, 2014 | 2014, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty
Recently, a scene from the movie The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) came to mind: Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is...
