Apprentice

I bought a new phone recently and as I was reading through the manual (NNNERD!) I discovered that my new phone is equipped with a “fake call” feature. You can schedule a time you want your phone to ring “when you want to get out of meetings or unwanted conversations”. You can even use a recording with [...]

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I can’t post that last video without posting this one:

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I recently sent the following text to myself one night:
Hi Future-John, this is yourself contacting you from the past. Just letting you know the IPC costs €135. I hope the sermon went well.
The point was to remind me to collect a cheque to pay for the Irish Preacher’s Conference. I could have used the reminder [...]

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I’ve been thinking about doing a series of posts about the people in my life I have learned, and continue to learn from. This is the first of however many posts I manage to get out before I run out of blogging steam again.
P is one of my closest friends, I’ve known him since I [...]

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Sarah and I are taking 8 teenagers to Germany for TeenStreet. Please pray that it all goes well.
John.

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I lost my favourite Bible on the train last week. It was a Compact ESV. I’d had it for a couple of years and it was nicely broken in and small enough to fit in my pocket so I could bring it everywhere with me. The weather was unexpectedly warm last Friday so while I [...]

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Short post again but it’s better than nothing. I’ve been sick since St. Stephen’s Day and aparently 12% of the country knows how I feel. I’m on the mend now but have had to take a few extra days off work. I’m also a bit fed up of wheezes and chest infections, which is what [...]

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People, I am doing good. Life is fantastic! God is good! But I am so busy lately so a longer post will just have to wait.

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Yes, I’m still alive. Yes, I still plan on keeping this blog going.
I think I’m depressed again. I’ve been going through some hard stuff since June, which I won’t go into too much detail about now.
Back in Greystones, during Encounter I was stitting in a room (the Red Room as it was known) which we [...]

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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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