by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 8, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Justice, Malaysia, Obedience & Faithfulness, Persecution, World Issues
Yesterday (7th November), my good friend Rama was told to report to Bukit Aman police headquarters to record a statement. In his own words: On 3 April 2018, after an 18 month investigation, Suhakam (Human Rights Commission of Malaysia) announced its decision that the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 25, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Death & Grief, God, God’s Sovereignty, Growing Old, Life Issues, Obedience & Faithfulness
We just came back from Penang where we celebrated my mum’s 92nd birthday. (Mum has Alzheimer’s dementia, is recovering from a broken hip, and is staying in a nursing home in Penang.) We had a great time with mum. First we took her for lunch at a fish and chips place....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 4, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Obedience & Faithfulness, Solitude & Quiet Time
January 2019 is an interesting month in that it is the first time in a long, long time that I have no speaking engagements on any of the Sundays. I have an itinerant ministry and I have the privilege of preaching at various churches on any given Sunday. But no church...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 14, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Authors, Christian Identity, Christian Living, Discernment, Growing Old, Malaysia, Obedience & Faithfulness, Rest & Busyness, Soo-Inn Tan, Spiritual Friendship, Work & Vocation
Recently I was ministering in Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia, and took the opportunity to meet up with an old friend, Pastor Lam Kee Hing. (He is a little older than me.) I don’t think I exaggerate when I call him the key leader in the ministry to indigenous...
by Bernice | Aug 31, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Obedience & Faithfulness
We cannot all be heroes and thrill a hemisphere With some great daring venture, some deed that mocks at fear But we can fill a lifetime with kindly acts and true There’s always noble service for noble souls to do (1st verse of the Tanjong Katong Girls’ School...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 19, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Following Jesus, Jesus, Obedience & Faithfulness
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906–9 April 1945) The first thing that strikes you about the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the last thing that remains with you is probably this line: “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Here is the...
