Yesterday we visited a different church, to see our friends Eliud and Dorothea get officially engaged. The denomination was Evangelistic Assemblies of God Tanzania (our normal church is just run-of-the-mill Tanzania Assemblies of God), and this particular church was called ‘Kambi ya Waebrania’ — the camp of the Israelites. Up […]
I am generally not a fan of devotionals, but in this very hard season of our lives my normal things weren’t working, and I felt I needed something to ground me. Well, Nailed It! 365 Sarcastic Devotions for Angry Or Worn-Out Christians by Anne Kennedy is absolutely sensational. It’s a super […]
In 2010, Tamie and I were introduced to some new habits through an international dinner party meeting weekly in Melbourne. These things have since become second nature to us and we find ourselves passing them on, so it’s about time I shared them here. After hearing a story from the […]
In TAFES, as in other movements across IFES, inductive Bible study has been considered a desirable practice. However, the steps involved – including ‘observation, interpretation, application’ – are not necessarily easy to absorb, even for tertiary students. Students in Tanzania may be unaccustomed to in-depth reading other than for the […]
‘Manuscript discovery’ is an approach to Scripture engagement and Bible study that anyone can lead and pass on. Here is a step-by-step guide to creating your own Bible manuscripts ready for printing. A. Find your text Go to Biblegateway.com. This website makes it easy to remove all add-ons such as […]
We spent a fair bit of our time in Australia talking about prosperity as a distinctive of Tanzanian theology, and the question of how to live wisely and well as a Christian. A fairly common question we got was how eschatology plays into this. That is, how does the return […]
This post was written in 2014. We’re publishing it now before a new round of posts in the lead-up to our time in Australia. ‘So what do you and I actually think about the Canaanite genocide these days, Tamie?’ I asked. It’s a curly question for anyone who considers themselves a […]
