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 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...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 10, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Preaching & Teaching
For the longest time I held out on using video lectures as my primary way of teaching, especially when I taught in seminaries. I had minimal PowerPoint presentations which I often felt were distractions. I continued to be committed to showing up in the classroom,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 20, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
Some of the teachers that influenced me most at Regent College had done their doctoral work at Oxford University. So, sometime in my third year at Regent, I toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate at Oxford too. I ran the idea by John Nolland, a New Testament...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 23, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Preaching & Teaching
I was delighted to find out at the recent Regent 50th anniversary celebration that some alumni had put together a festschrift for Sven Soderlund. He started teaching in Regent in 1978. I started my studies there in 1981. He wasn’t one of the luminaries like J. I....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 25, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Preaching & Teaching
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. . . ( 2 Timothy 3:16 NIV) I never had the privilege of studying under Dr Gordon D. Fee. When he joined the Regent faculty I had just finished my studies...
