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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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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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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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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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“Death is dead,
love has won,
Christ has conquered”
Happy Easter!

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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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You know the muscles you use for vomiting? Mine are sore from overuse. I contracted some sort of food poisoning yesterday and let me tell you it is not as fun as those government warnings make it sound. Not fun at all!

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Sorry I’m late! I have been so busy lately. This new job I was speaking of is working in my brother’s new takeaway. Things have been kind of crazy as we find our feet. I’m only supposed to be part-time but we are under pressure (although it is thankfully starting to ease up a bit [...]

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