Fasting
- Monday, July 1, 2002, 6:37 am
- Letter from the Manse
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Have you marked Saturday 13th July in your diary? The office-bearers have agreed to set that day aside as a day of special prayer for the church. We would want as many of you as possible to join us in that.
Often in the Bible when God’s people set aside time to pray, they also fasted. So we have agreed that we will fast for the whole day or part of it.
What is fasting? It simply means doing without food (and sometimes even without …
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- Saturday, September 1, 2001, 6:34 pm
- Letter from the Manse
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Within the next few weeks 150,000 young people will arrive in Manchester to study. (Manchester has the largest student population in Europe.) They will come from all over the UK and from all across the world. Some are returning from their summer break having already spent a year or more here. Others will arrive as “freshers”. For many it will be their first experience of living away from home and family.
In past years we have been grateful for the …
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