by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 7, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism, Spiritual Friendship
“Could you take a workshop at our church camp? The speaker who was supposed to do it can’t make it.” The request came from a community that meant a lot to us. And the camp was nearby, in Johor Bahru. We normally would have said yes barring any divine guidance to the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 25, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television, Work & Vocation
I am not surprised that the movie, The Three Idiots is the highest grossing movie in India and the highest grossing Indian movie internationally (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots). Bernice saw it a year ago and highly recommended it but busyness and the fact...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 19, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television, Work & Vocation
We watched The Three Idiots last Sunday (June 16, 2013), Father’s Day. We were at our church camp and our usual practice is to view one movie together and comment on what we learned from it. In a nutshell, The Three Idiots is, in spirit, an Indian version of The Dead...
by Bernice Lee | Jun 12, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Church, Community, God, God's Grace
The past two weeks have been pretty challenging ones. Dad was discovered to have a life-threateningly low heart rate of 36 when we took him in for his regular appointment with his geriatrician. She insisted on warding him immediately. That night, his heart rate...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 19, 2012 | 2012, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others
[rb_dropcap]W[/rb_dropcap]e are back in Penang for my mum’s 85th birthday. Planning a “surprise” lunch. Wondering what to get her. It’s standard practice to give gifts to people on their birthdays, to bless them, to give them joy. This is especially important for the...
