by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 14, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
In their book Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader, William J. Rothwell and Peter Chee talk about the importance of teaching by example (New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2013, 95–120). They note that teaching by example, or modelling, has been around for a long time...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 14, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
Preachers are in the mind-changing business. Every time we preach we hope that the Lord will see fit to use our sermons to effect some God-desired change in our hearers. Hence what Howard Gardner says about mind change for larger audiences caught my eye. Large...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 10, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Christian Unity, Church, Media, Movies & Television
[rb_dropcap]B[/rb_dropcap]ernice and I had a pleasant surprise flying back from Nairobi. We got to see the new Samurai X movie, “Rurouni Kenshin” (2012). (See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979319.) The whole family had been exposed to the TV series for some time. We...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 10, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Christian Unity, Church, Family
When people ask us how many children we have, we say “4” but we quickly go on to explain that it is a “2 + 2” situation before they get an exaggerated view of our fertility. Bernice and I have two children each from our first spouses. We lost our first spouses to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 3, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
“I am not sure your preaching style would work in Singapore.” I had just preached in a church in Malaysia. Apparently the sermon had gone down well. (My personal policy is to withhold any judgement as to the effectiveness of anything I do till I see Jesus.) One of the...
by Bernice Lee | Jun 29, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Christian Unity, Church, Publishing
“I feel like a tadpole,” he said, as a preamble to the devotional he was about to share. This, from someone who’s been to the ends of the earth and back (well, nearly) to provide training and instructional design consultancy work. I was attending the...
