by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 19, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Obedience & Faithfulness, Rest & Busyness
The introductory blurb sounded very promising. As her lead-in to her article, “The Art of Multitasking”, (FAST COMPANY October 2002), Alison Overholt writes: “Feeling overworked? Overwhelmed? The dirty little secret of the slow-growth economy is that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 6, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Rest & Busyness
In his book WORKING THE ANGLES, Eugene Peterson points out the following: ” The Deuteronomy reason for Sabbath-keeping is that our ancestors in Egypt went four hundred years without a vacation (Deuteronomy 5:15). Never a day off. The consequence: they were no...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 16, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Rest & Busyness
“What do people do when their earnings are less predictable, their jobs less secure, and their incomes potentially higher or lesser than before? They work harder. Not only do they put in more hours on the job, they also work more intensively.” Robert . B....
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 24, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
“If you asked twenty good Christians today how they are doing, nineteen of them would reply, busy. But if you asked almost any of the desert fathers, they would have told you that busyness is a sin. You see what has happened? A vice has become a virtue.”...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 3, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Battling Sin, Christian Living
The March 11th 2002 issue of Christianity Today(CT) contains a very poignant testimony by a homosexual Christian man. Remaining anonymous, he writes about his daily battle against his homosexual desires, “a battle that comes at considerable psychological cost to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 11, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others
Do you know Tim Sanders? He is the chief solutions officer at Yahoo. In a recent article in Fast Company magazine (Feb. 2002), Sanders writes: “The most powerful force in business isn’t greed, fear, or even the raw energy of unbridled competition. The most...
