by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 12, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, God, God's Provision, God’s Sovereignty
“No, don’t sweep the floor on the first day of Chinese New Year. You will sweep all our luck away!” Growing up in Penang I associated the Lunar New Year with many instructions like the above. There were a number of things one had to do or not do so as not to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 18, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, God, God's Provision
It’s been a long time since I wrote on “faith healing”, the conviction that if we have enough faith, God will surely heal us. That’s because I haven’t heard a sermon on faith healing in a long time. I heard one recently. And as I have written before, as in many...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 20, 2019 | 2019, Articles, God, God's Provision, Gratitude, Life Issues
I came ready to speak on conflict management. It was my fourth and final address for the Geylang Methodist School (Secondary) beginning-of-term prayer and praise gathering. I was asked to focus on spiritual friendship for the sessions and I came ready to talk about...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 25, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Family, God's Provision
Last Friday, January 18th, I became a grandfather. I was in Singapore. Austin Tan arrived in Melbourne. I heard the news. I saw the pics. I can’t wait to carry him, to kiss him, to smell him, like my dad carried me, and kissed me and smelled me when I was a baby. It’s...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 28, 2018 | 2018, Articles, God, God's Provision, Gratitude, Life Issues
These few days I have been sleeping earlier than I usually do and waking up later than I usually do. I am tired. It has been a demanding year for a number of reasons. First, the volume of work has risen considerably. We have had many more interesting manuscripts to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 1, 2018 | 2018, Articles, God, God's Provision, Gratitude, Life Issues
Gratitude: The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. (Oxford Dictionary) “Your bill has been paid.” We were having lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant at Harbourfront. We were near the end of our meal when the cashier...
