by Soo-Inn Tan | May 19, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship
Here are the statistics. Lyrics of popular worship song “I could sing of your love forever”, 109 words. Psalms 89 which has the same theme, “I will sing of the LORD’s great love forever”, about 850 words. Big difference. And in the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 20, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship
We were tucking into the Super Supreme and the Hawaiian Supreme when no.2 son (Andrew) asked: “Dad what is mid-life crisis?? Interesting that no.2 son should ask this since he is about to turn 15. Dad went into his Wikipedia mode and tried to explain that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 30, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
Just discovered that my Saturday is going to be crazy. I will be giving a three-hour seminar on mentoring and then go straightaway to preach at a Saturday service. (When I accepted the gig for the mentoring seminar we had not gone on to Saturday services yet.) Am I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 9, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship
Last weekend my church started a Saturday worship service. We used to have two worship services on Sunday. Now we have one on Saturday, at 6pm, and one on Sunday, at 10am. I went for the Saturday service and gave it two thumbs up for various reasons. First, it was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 1, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Church, Media, Movies & Television, Preaching & Teaching
Miyagi: Your friend, all karate student, eh? Daniel Larusso: Friend? Oh, yeah, those guys. Miyagi: Problem: attitude. Daniel Larusso: No the problem is, I’m getting my ass kicked every other day, that’s the problem! Miyagi: Hai, because boys have bad...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 2, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Mentoring
“How do you introduce spiritual mentoring into a church without adding more items into the church programme?” I was having a meal with the senior pastor of a fast growing church recently and he asked me the above question. I was giving him my usual spiel...
