by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 8, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Christian Living, Prayer
How is your prayer life? I have always struggled. As an activist I am more comfortable doing things for God than communing with Him. I expect 2016 to be no different. Yet the heart of the Christian faith is our relationship with our heavenly Father. Well, maybe we can...
by Bernice Lee | Dec 18, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Christian Living, Death & Grief, Life Issues, Remembrance
Dad left us a year ago today to go home to his Dad. It’s taken me this long to put my thoughts into words because the emotions have remained quite raw. I try not to live with regrets, but one I do have…that dad slipped away without us being by his side. I’d looked in...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 11, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism, Life Issues, Suffering
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of speaking to the Cancer Support Group of Pantai Baptist Church (previously First Baptist Church), a church where I served as pastor in the early ’90s. After I had given the message I asked the group to divide themselves into...
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by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 20, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Christian Living, Spiritual Friendship
I had the privilege of teaching a short course on spiritual leadership recently. On the first day of class, a brother came up to me and introduced himself. He was a taxi driver and he was at a talk on spiritual friendship that I had given a few years ago. I will never...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 14, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, Governance, World Issues
I learnt one of my most important spiritual lessons from a neighbour, Encik Omar. This happened many years ago when I was living in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. We were chatting one day when he said: “There are times when it seems like Allah is losing. But we know he will...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 16, 2015 | 2015, Articles, Christian Identity, Christian Living, God, God’s Sovereignty
Once in awhile mum would ask me, “Are you a Singaporean?” What she means is, have I surrendered my Malaysian citizenship and embraced Singapore citizenship. I have lived in Singapore for about eight years, since 2007. Previously I had lived in Singapore for seven...
