by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 30, 2004 | 2004, Articles, God, Media, Movies & Television, Redemption
‘The Last Samurai’ is an excellent action flick. Unfortunately most of the characters in the movie were taken from the Hollywood dictionary of stereotypes. *The money grabbing, commerce obsessed westerner. *The evil easterner who has been seduced by the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 9, 2004 | 2004, Articles, God, God's Grace
Did it ever strike you as odd that God allowed Solomon to succeed David as king? And become an ancestor of Jesus in the process? (See Matthew 1:6) Not only was Solomon not David’s oldest male offspring, he was a child of David’s marriage with THAT woman,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 19, 2003 | 2003, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty
I was having dinner with some good friends a few nights ago. One of them shared that she was pregnant, her first pregnancy. We rejoiced with her. I marveled again at this experience of bearing a child, an experience foreign to men. A child conceived in love as this...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 24, 2003 | 2003, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty
I took part in a play only once in my life. In my second year in university I played Earnest in “The Importance Of Being Earnest.” I thought our best performance was the full-dress rehearsal. We were a little tense on the night of the actual performance....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 27, 2003 | 2003, Articles, God, God's Provision
“Dad has just come out of the operating theatre. Can’t you hear him coughing in the background? That’s him.” Through the wonder of cell phones, my sister had just informed me that dad had survived his by-pass operation. I was with dad on...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 19, 2003 | 2003, Articles, God, God's Provision
You find that you have cancer. Or maybe it’s a member of the family who has been afflicted. And suddenly friends, acquaintances and complete strangers volunteer to help. First there will be the recommendations of all sorts of herbal preparations, vitamins, and...
