by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 24, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, God, God's Grace, Growth, Leadership
Tonight (23 June) I will be sharing at an FES (Singapore) leadership consultation on “Leaders who Fail.” There is a sense of deja vu here. In 2003 I was part of the first Eagles Leadership Conference and was asked to do a workshop on “Growing Through...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 10, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Christian Unity, Church, God, God's Love, Loving Others
I have often found it difficult to sing the song “I Love You Lord and I Lift My Voice” (Laurie Klein, 1978). It is a lovely, short song of devotion and I often get goose bumps singing it even after all these years. But I struggle to sing it for two...
by Sharyn Ng | May 6, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, Generations Project
In my last commentary Messily Beautiful; Beautifully Messy, I left off with a string of questions on what it would look like if a church truly embraced the different generations and intentionally cultivated intergenerational relationships. Perhaps the real reason I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 1, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, God, God's Love, Preaching & Teaching
Last Sunday I had the privilege of preaching via zoom to Sungai Way-Subang Methodist Church in Petaling Jaya. At the end of the sermon I had the chance to chat with a few folks online. One brother shared that in 1998 he was in a seminar I conducted in the church. It...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 24, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, Small Groups
Even as I am writing this piece, many of my friends who are pastors and church elders are holding urgent meetings to decide how next Sunday’s corporate worship services will be organised. Larger numbers are now allowed to congregate and worshippers can now sing...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 18, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Preaching & Teaching, Soo-Inn Tan
At my mother’s funeral service, one of her students from teacher’s college gave one of the eulogies. He said that in his time in college, the students respected only two teachers, one of whom was mum. They respected her because she was an excellent instructor in the...
