Apprentice

My MAP Journal is now closed. I’ve finished my portfolio and I hand it all in tomorrow. There’ll be little if any changes around here because I plan to keep up blogging. MAP or no MAP, I’ll always be an apprentice.
Really busy this week, proper blogging will resume shortly.

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Narrator : Previously on Apprentice: http://apprenticeblog.org/2008/04/22/re-rediscovering-the-gospel/
Keith McCrory has continued his great series “Rediscovering the Gospel” and so I’m going to continue responding on this blog. Here’s my response to his latest post:
I agree with Keith that the Pharisaical yeast of legalism has to go. If we want the church to rediscover the joy that it [...]

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Here’s what I want to do, or at least attempt to kick off:
It’s a community project with the community being Christians in Ireland. The aim is to create a free audio Bible that anyone can download and hear the Word of God read aloud in the voices and accents of the everyday Christians in Ireland. [...]

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Peter and I put up a new banner on the church on Thursday last week. The Easter banner was past due to come down and the first one we got (the non-seasonal one) was ripped off in a storm so I got to order a new banner. I was given the chance to choose this [...]

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Keith McCrory from MCC has a brilliant blog and he’s currently doing a series on “Rediscovering the Gospel”. Here’s my response to his post about the decline in the Irish church:
Hi Keith,
Good post today, no sugar-coating.
I agree with you. Many in the church (and I’m guilty of this myself from time to time) have forgotten [...]

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This year I come to the end of my certificate course at the IBI. If you had asked me last year what I would do I would have probably said “continue on and get the degree” but to do that I’d have to switch to full-time studies (or else finish when I’m 30) and I [...]

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As you may know, I tried for a long time to get up extra early in order to pray. It worked for a while but I had my off-days where, even if I forced myself by sheer act of will to pray, I found myself drifting in and out of consciousness. Even when I was [...]

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Tomorrow it will be two weeks since I posted the flyers in Cahir about the free Gospel outreach. So far I haven’t received one request, no letters, no phone calls or texts, no emails, nothing. I’m planning on going into Cahir tomorrow to check on the flyers. Could you please pray for this little project, [...]

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Colin Adams at Unashamed Workman has a short helpful post up about how he prepares a sermon. Like Colin, I prefer to type up a full manuscript. I fear being lost for words and it’s nice to have something prepared to fall back on but I do feel free to ad lib and paraphrase. Sticking [...]

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It occurred to me recently that I haven’t posted about my MAP Meetings with Peter in a while. Sorry. I forgot. The meetings are still going well but writing about them is basically just re-writing the notes that are already going into my MAP Journal so it’s not very productive. So unless anything unusual [...]

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