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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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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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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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As part of my Spirituality and Self Understanding Course at the IBI I’ve been asked to keep a journal. I’ve tried writing down my thoughts in a separate journal for this but keeping multiple journals is kind of annoying in a multiple-personality kind of way. As long as they don’t get too personal I’m going [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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