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...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 4, 2018 | 2017, 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Obedience & Faithfulness
Are you a sprinter or a long-distance runner? I am more of a sprinter. I want the quick kill. I want to give it my all in one decisive event. But to faithfully put one foot in front of another with no immediate emotional gratification, with no quick sense of closure —...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 14, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Obedience & Faithfulness, Young Adult Ministry
Had a Facebook video call with a friend in Pune, India, this morning. He was one of a number of key younger leaders I had met at the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Jakarta last year. He was originally from Mumbai but had been sent by his group of churches to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 29, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, God, God's Will, Obedience & Faithfulness
Last August, I had the privilege to be part of the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Jakarta. One of my highlights was meeting up with a brother from Pakistan that I had met for the first time at the previous Younger Leaders Gathering 10 years earlier. Then, he...
