by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 26, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Loving Others, Preaching & Teaching
I See You is a greeting. In the Na’vi language, it is expressed Oel ngati kame for a neutral greeting or Oel ngati kameie to express a positive feeling about meeting someone. Furthermore, the Na’vi have two versions of the verb “see”:...
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...
