by Soo-Inn Tan | May 13, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues, Suffering
Christians are not spared the storms of life. This came home to me afresh when I met three medical students in Budapest recently. Coming from Nigeria they had paid a hefty cost to enter a medical school in Ukraine. They were in the 3rd and 4th years of their studies....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 4, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, Prayer
A dear friend is fighting for his life. He has not been conscious since Friday. It is still touch and go. Prayer meetings have been organised. Many are praying. He is one of those special people who has touched many lives. He is husband and father. He is young. There...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, Hope, Loving Others, Malaysia, World Issues
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV) Periodically, I still get asked if I have adopted Singapore citizenship, both by my Malaysian friends and by my Singaporean friends. It is an understandable...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 20, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, COVID-19, Faith, God, God’s Sovereignty, Malaysia, World Issues
KUCHING: The nation’s first Covid-19-related death was recorded in Sarawak on Tuesday (March 17), the state disaster management committee announced. The victim, 60-year-old Pastor David Cheng (pic), from Emmanuel Baptist Church here, passed away at 11am at Sarawak...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 14, 2020 | 2020, Articles, COVID-19, Faith, Fear, Hope, Life Issues
Once, in 1968 when I was 13, I developed a high fever. Dad and mum gave me the usual antipyretics but the fever continued to spike. They consulted doctor friends who recommended that I be hospitalised straight away because the fever was dangerously high. So I was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 3, 2020 | Articles, Christian Living, Dependence on God, Faith, God
Somehow, and somewhere, behind and above a discouraging world, stands a poised Father, completely in control and utterly unfrustrated. To believe that human beings are the final arbiters of history is inevitably to become a whiner rather than a thanker because human...
