Apprentice

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. [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

I have come to notice lately how hurtful I can be with my words. I can’t wait to criticise people, whether it is to their face (although it’s often not) or to other people. Paul wrote:
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Peter and I just had our fourth MAP Meeting. It went quite well. Mostly we talked about my preaching on Sunday. I gave Peter one of the review forms from the MAP manual to fill out after I preached on Sunday. There was no rush with the form but Peter had it filled in and [...]

[Read more →]

Wow, 10 days since I last posted, there’s a lot I should have written on already. Sorry about that.
Yesterday I gave my first sermon at my home church*. Don’t ask me how it went. It all feels like a blur but I have been assured that it was not just a blur to the listeners. [...]

[Read more →]

Peter and I had our third MAP Meeting at Peter’s house. We discussed how I was doing in each of my goals.
Spiritual and Personal Development
I think I’ve discovered a way to have daily quiet time that works for me. Now I am having my quiet time in the mornings, I tried going to be before [...]

[Read more →]