by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 28, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
My birth certificate is a yellowing document, frayed at the edges. But the vital information it contains is still legible and clear. Among other things, it shows clearly the exact date and time I was born. I have no equivalent document for my spiritual birth. I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 13, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
The source was reliable. The numbers were staggering. The estimated number of Christians killed for their beliefs around the world in 2006 — 173,000 (“By the Numbers, “Newsweek International, August 13, 2007, p.5). There is renewed interest in...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 3, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
I was back in Penang the last few days to be with mum. (Penang is my home town about 250 miles from Kuala Lumpur where I presently reside.) I took a cab from the airport and discussed world affairs with the cab driver in Hokkien (Chinese dialect) as we went along. I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 3, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
Went to see the movie “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” with my cell group members last night. Only the actors that played Lucy and Mr Tumnus seemed to be in their roles. The rest were merely playing theirs. And most of the time the White Witch was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 22, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Following Jesus, Jesus
“You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride, You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side, You may be workin’ in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair, You may be somebody’s mistress, may be somebody’s heir But you’re...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 18, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Family, Following Jesus, Jesus, Marriage, Singleness
Those of us of a certain vintage will remember that in our college years, we were told that in the matter of choosing a life partner, we must follow this rule: mission before mate. In other words we had to be first clear as to what God wanted us to do with our lives....
