St Paul's Auckland

We continue our new series, When God Speaks, looking at Jonah 3:10-4:11. In this passage, Jonah reveals a God whose mercy reaches beyond the boundaries we might want to draw. We'll explore God's compassion, our resistance to his mission, and the people we may struggle to see as worthy of grace. What happens when God's mercy is wider than ours? 

We continue our new series, When God Speaks, by looking at Amos 5:10–24. Amos challenges a people whose religious practice has become disconnected from justice. We explore what God sees, particularly in the treatment of the vulnerable, and what genuine worship looks like when it shapes the way we live. What does God see that we might overlook?

Pete is back and will be sharing a few sabbatical learnings, including a visit to a Welsh retreat centre with a remarkable spiritual history. He will look at the 'ancient wells' of the Celtic Christian tradition and ask what it looks like for us to follow Jesus faithfully in today's world as we mark 185 years as a church this year.

In Ephesians 5, Paul calls us to live as dearly loved children, walking in love, light and wisdom. Our lives are to become a “fragrant offering”, carrying something of Christ into the world around us. Listen in as we unpack the question: What do people experience when they encounter us?

In chapter four of our Ephesians series, Paul shifts from his effusive praise of all that Christ has done for us, to a challenging invitation: “I…beg you to lead a live worthy of your calling.” It is an invitation that is only possible through the glory and the grace of the one who now indwells us!Sam shows a short clip from this video during his talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y71r-T98E2Q

Our world badly needs peace. Paul tells us that Christ is our peace, that Christ is the peace-maker. What is peace exactly? And how are we to ally with God in his peace-making ways? In this talk in our Wide Awake series, we are exploring the idea of remembering as the first step on the path of peace. We look at Ephesians 2 and 3.

Paul reminds us that we were spiritually dead, but God, because of His great love and mercy, has made us alive with Christ. Listen this week as we ask: Are we living from grace, or still trying to earn it? We are looking at Ephesians 2:1-10 (NIV).

Ephesians invites us to wake up to the wonder of what God has done in Jesus - and to allow that reality to reshape who we are, how we live, and what we carry into the world. As we become increasingly awake to God’s grace, love and presence, our lives begin to carry the fragrance of Christ. This new series invites us into a faith that doesn't simply inform us but awakens us - a faith that can't help but share what God has done in Jesus.Matt shares a video during his talk on how we have been spending our time over the years, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzzGtlG-zU And at the end of his talk he shares a song, you can listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6kbzYPAHgUIM1pT6lDs3Gc

Listen in as we close out our Teach Us to Pray series and focus on what it means to live in hope and what prayerful spiritual warfare looks like for us in our everyday lives.

We continue our Teach Us to Pray series by exploring the real and challenging experience of navigating prayer when God is silent, and what He might be doing in these seasons.Lamentations 3: 1-2, 7-9, 21-29