by Jesselyn Ng | Dec 5, 2025 | 2025, Community, Following Jesus, Loving Others
Karl grew up in a church with a vibrant youth ministry, which he was very happy to be part of. He had a small circle of three close friends who were always there for him—attending services together, praying together, going for meals together. But when their...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 28, 2025 | 2025, Christian Identity, Evangelism, Following Jesus
I was having lunch with some friends when one of them turned to me and asked: “Why is it that there are so many non-Christians who behave more Christianly than many who identify as Christians?” This is a question that raises many more questions, and to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 4, 2025 | 2025, Christian Identity, Discipleship, Evangelism, Following Jesus
I spent an intense but very meaningful weekend with the Petaling Jaya Evangelical Free Church in Selangor, Malaysia. I was one of the speakers at their Disciple Making Conference. The Lord had spoken to them five years ago that this was to be their focus going...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 6, 2024 | 2024, Community, Following Jesus
I was privileged to witness a baptism service last Sunday. There were five baptismal candidates. The oldest was 61, the youngest 24. One spoke in Chinese, the rest in English. There were three men and two women. One was a limousine driver, one an undergraduate, one a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 7, 2023 | 2023, Death & Grief, Following Jesus, Obedience & Faithfulness, Spiritual Friendship
I take a break from my series on friendship interactions to honour a friend. This morning (5 July 2023) I woke up to a message that my friend, Pastor Ng Kok Aun, had passed away. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise. He had been fighting cancer for more than six...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 16, 2023 | 2023, Following Jesus, Spiritual Friendship
In his study on friendship, Robin Dunbar discovered that there was a direct correlation between the strength of a friendship and the amount of time the friends spend with each other. He writes: How emotionally close we feel to someone is directly related to how much...
