by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 12, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Will
This week I was reminded afresh that the search for truth comes at a very high price. In Malaysia, a leading academic resigned after his work was considered “rubbish” by a high government official and his own think tank publicly distanced itself from his...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 29, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Dependence on God, God
I am exhausted. I am half way through a seven day conference and I am tired. (I am at the Lausanne Young Leaders gathering and I guess that is part of the problem. It’s been sometime since I was a young leader.) This conference follows a great retreat I had with...
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...
