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...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 27, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
I am a man on a mission. I am tracking down all the people who have impacted my life for Christ so that I can thank them. So when Bernice and I were in Vancouver in 2010, we visited with J. I. Packer. He was one of a number of profs who had taught and mentored me when...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 2, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship
Is it just me? Am I the only one thinking that so much of modern worship is reduced to privatised, personal, emotional encounters with God? This Saturday I will be teaching on worship. It has been a very long time since I last did some public teaching on worship. In...