We are very proud of members of our churches who were confirmed at St Paul’s on Sunday the 16th February, by Mark Bishop of Bolton. It was a wonderful heartfelt service, and showed how much it meant to all of the candidates, by the beaming smiles and tremulous responses. Well done, and congratulations to you all.
Prayer is not an art to be mastered, but a way into an ever deepening experience of the love of God through our lives. The hardest thing about prayer is beginning. So just start. Your longing for God and your wanting to pray are the beginning of a relationship that can grow and grow. Tell God that you want to know Him…
Lent is the period of forty days prior to Easter; it is a season of reflection and preparation before the Easter celebrations. By observing the forty days of Lent, Christians replicate Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and the withdrawal into the desert. Very few people fast for the whole of Lent, though some maintain the practice on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. More often…