by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 5, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
The meeting had to be rescheduled because I had to make an urgent trip back to Kuala Lumpur. But the four members of my mentoring cohort and I managed to agree on a new date to meet. As usual the meeting would begin with dinner at 7.30 pm. A day before the meeting...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 18, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Christian Living, Rest & Busyness
I have been writing and sending out a weekly email commentary since August 3, 2000. By God’s grace, I have done this every week without fail. It has become much larger than I ever expected. I estimate that about 20,000 people read it worldwide weekly.Every week...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 28, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Christian Living, Rest & Busyness
By any account it was a tough day at the office for Elijah (1Kings 18). First there was the day-long show-down with the prophets of Baal. Interesting odds. 1 vs. 850. Then there was the waiting for God to come through, to burn up the drenched bull. God came through...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 1, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Christian Living, Remembrance, Rest & Busyness
You do know that Sunday is the first day of the week don’t you? I won’t blame you if you didn’t. Most diaries and planners start the week with Monday and end it with Sunday. You have nice long strips of planning time for Mondays to Saturdays....
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...
