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Tamie Davis

Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.

The good news about the bad news

Someone I love and respect told me the other day how horrified she was by the claim she’d heard some other Christians make that those who did not believe in Jesus Christ were destined for Hell. To her, that was the essence of tearing relationship apart, to pass judgement on […]

Made Me Glad

This morning I read Psalm 73, a familiar and well loved Psalm, enshrined by Hillsong in verse 2 of  ‘Made Me Glad’. What struck me is how well this Psalm reflected my own experience, and perhaps yours too.

Tanzania, Ahoy!

Over the last few years, Arthur and I have been developing a ministry job description for ourselves – a philosophy of student ministry and and where we fit. Our big question, though, has been whether there would be somewhere we could carry that out. Would there be a place for […]

What was David’s sin?

The sermon at church tonight was on 2 Samuel 11-12 – you know, the story about David up to no good with Bathsheba and then the prophet Nathan tells David a story which helps him to see his sin and repent. As I was looking at the passage, though, I […]

Pastoral Identity: Take 2

This is the final post in the ‘Take 2’ series, which are some thoughts for my Ministry Formation essay. Please critique these as I think out loud for the essay. Feel free to ignore the footnotes and the poor writing – this is just a first draft! But I’d love […]

Office: Take 2

Continuing to think out loud for my Ministry Formation essay, here’s the question of how office fits into calling, again, continuing discussions started here. This section is quite a bit of theory but it was both new and helpful to me once I found it. Your thoughts? (Lots of footnotes […]