by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 14, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Grace
I preached on Deuteronomy 17 last Sunday, a chapter that contains the following instructions. “Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you, in one of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 4, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Will
This summer I will have the privilege of teaching a course at Regent College, Vancouver. Entitled “Surviving Success, Appreciating Failure: A Biblical Perspective on Handling Success and Failure in Christian Leadership,” it will run from July 31 till...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 24, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Will
“Why doesn’t God just gave me a straightforward answer when I ask Him for His will?” Invariably someone will ask this when I run a seminar on “Finding God’s Will.” The logic of this question is even clearer in an Google age. After...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 17, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Love, Happiness, Life Issues, Media, Music
I received a copy of The Very Best of Jim Croce for Valentine’s Day. Croce was an American singer-songwriter who died in an air crash in 1973 just as his career was taking off. As I played the CD I was reminded of two of my basic convictions: that everybody...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 2, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Dependence on God, God
The following sequence of events will be very familiar with those who have been afflicted by painful episodes of kidney stones. (I have since learnt that there are those who have a predilection for stone formation, folks referred to as “stone formers.”)...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 17, 2005 | 2005, Articles, God, God's Will, God’s Sovereignty
I don’t know how it feels to be a beautiful woman. For the record I am a greying paunchy middle aged man. (Well I did dress in drag once but that’s different.) Like every other human permutation, I would guess that being a beautiful woman has it’s...
