Apprentice

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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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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I preached my sermon on Romans 3:19-26 today. I think it went well and, as usual when I preach, I’m thankful to God that I didn’t swear or anything. It’s always a worry. My parents came along today, making this the first time they’ve ever set foot in my church. My sister and her kids [...]

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God has really been direct about reminding me of his presence lately. Prayers I’ve prayed have been answered… a lot. One request in particular I had just finished praying when it was answered. My hands were still joined in prayer. While I always know God is real and he is with me there are [...]

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Last Summer I went on my first short-term mission trip when I did Encounter run by World Harvest Mission and IFES Ireland. I had such a great time and it was really one of those life-changing events. I found myself doing things I never thought I’d do, relying on God instead of myself and seeing [...]

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On Monday last week (the 21st) I lead my first Bible study at Cahir Presbyterian Church. I had only lead one Bible study previously, while I was doing missionary work over the summer and for that one I read notes I had emailed to myself off my phone. For this latest Bible study I made [...]

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Things are still just calming down here but I’ve managed to get my assignments done so now I have time to catch up on my MAP Journal. Peter and I had a MAP Meeting with Peter on Tuesday the 8th but I still haven’t journaled it from the notes yet so here goes:
Spiritual and Personal [...]

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On Tuesday I had my sixth MAP meeting with Peter. This was the last meeting we’ll have this year. Here’s how things are going:
Personal and Spiritual Development
My schedule kind of went out the window on Monday night. I installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop and I was tinkering with that until about 4 in the [...]

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Thanks to my fondness for my own bed this meeting has been a long time coming so Peter and I had a lot to catch up on. So here’s what we discussed:
Spiritual and Personal Development
Since our last meeting I’ve cleared away my old computer, which was just sitting in my room taking up space. I [...]

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I had to reschedule this week’s meeting with Peter from Tuesday (the usual) to today. It would have been fine if I didn’t miss it. The meeting completely slipped my mind. Peter was trying to call me but I was still in bed. I felt terrible when I realised what I’d done. I phoned Peter [...]

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