by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 13, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, God, God's Grace, God's Will, Jesus, Jesus' Birth
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was no wimp. The angel Gabriel declared that Mary was “highly favoured” and that the Lord was with her (Luke 1:26–28), which are Luke’s code words for the fact that Mary was a woman of substance. She was maybe 14 years old? Yet she stood her...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 26, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Church, God, God's Grace, Preaching & Teaching
Last Saturday I had the chance to share at a CRU reading advocacy event. It gave me a chance to revisit some of the books that had impacted my life. One, which impacted my preaching, was Frederick Buechner’s book, Telling the Truth (New York, NY: Harper &...
by Bernice Lee | Nov 24, 2016 | 2016, Articles, God, God's Grace, Gratitude, Life Issues
Last week, during the question-and-answer segment of Prof James Houston’s public lecture, someone asked him what spiritual disciplines had enabled him to continue to serve so vibrantly even in his 94th year. Prof Houston’s immediate reply was a hearty guffaw that was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 28, 2016 | 2016, Articles, God, God's Grace
The email asked if I was ready for my ministry the coming weekend. It came from a pastor friend in Miri (Sarawak) and it left me cold. I didn’t have the ministry commitment in my planner. I vaguely recalled that this was a teaching commitment for 2017. I checked...
by Bernice Lee | Jun 12, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Church, Community, God, God's Grace
The past two weeks have been pretty challenging ones. Dad was discovered to have a life-threateningly low heart rate of 36 when we took him in for his regular appointment with his geriatrician. She insisted on warding him immediately. That night, his heart rate...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 29, 2013 | 2013, Articles, God, God's Grace
The lorry behind me kept flashing its lights. It had been behind me for a while but it had not stopped flashing its headlamps. I was alone, driving to Senai, Malaysia to speak at a retreat for youth workers. It was a lonely stretch of highway and the lorry on my tail...
