by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022, Following Jesus, God, God's Will
Last Saturday (Oct 15th) Bernice and I were privileged to be at an event that celebrated Rev Dr Daniel Chua's 65th birthday. Graceworks was also privileged to help put together the Festschrift to honour him and I had the further privilege to contribute an essay to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 27, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, Following Jesus, God, God's Will, Jesus
Have you heard of the phrase “What would Jesus do?” The Wikipedia article on this is helpful. The phrase “What would Jesus do?”, often abbreviated to WWJD, became popular particularly in the United States in the late 1800s after the widely read...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 6, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, God, God's Will, Hope, Malaysia, World Issues
The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in Czechoslovakia as a Communist state after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of...
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 | Jan 25, 2018 | 2017, 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, God, God's Will, Life Issues, Mentoring, Suffering
“Shit Happens” Idiom: used to say that bad things happen as part of life and cannot be prevented (Merriam-Webster) I was at a very low point in my life, perhaps the lowest to date. I had lost a wife to cancer, another to a divorce, which led to the loss of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 29, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, God, God's Will, Obedience & Faithfulness
Last August, I had the privilege to be part of the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Jakarta. One of my highlights was meeting up with a brother from Pakistan that I had met for the first time at the previous Younger Leaders Gathering 10 years earlier. Then, he...
