by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
I am writing this at 10.53pm on a Thursday evening. I am tired and sleepy but I need to get this done because we send out this weekly ecommentary every Friday. I seriously doubt that I can write this tomorrow because tomorrow will be a full day. As was today. Many...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 26, 2018 | 2018, Aging, Articles, Death & Grief, Meaning & Purpose, Remembrance
If the measure of a man’s greatness is not the amount of money in his account when he dies, but the number of lives he has touched, Eugene Peterson, who died on Oct 22 at 85, was a great man. The moment it was known that he had passed on, social media exploded...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 12, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Work & Vocation
Whenever I am back in Petaling Jaya I try to drop by Lit Books, an independent bookstore owned and run by a husband and wife team, Min Hun and Elaine. (I must thank son Andrew for giving me a heads up about the store.) Husband and wife came from sterling careers in...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 28, 2018 | 2018, Afterlife, Aging, Articles, Hope, Meaning & Purpose, Soo-Inn Tan
The third third of life, 60–90 and beyond, is a time of loss. It is a time when we bid goodbye to many things. We bid goodbye to a younger body. Our energy levels are not the same. We may need multifocal spectacles or go for cataract operations. Our hearing begins to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 21, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Christian Unity, Church, Evangelism, Loving Others, Persecution
What are the weapons of our warfare? I have always been intrigued by how the early church grew so rapidly. To quote Alan Kreider: The growth of the Christian church in the Roman Empire is mysterious. Scholars who spend their entire lives studying this phenomenon...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 14, 2018 | 2018, Aging, Articles, Authors, Christian Identity, Christian Living, Discernment, 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...
