St Paul's Auckland

This Sunday, we will continue our Desert Mothers and Fathers series. We will explore the wilderness as a place of self-denial and unpack the dangers of materialism by focusing on the heavenly treasure Jesus talked about in his most famous sermon.

We continue our Lenten journey using Lectio 365 and 24/7 Prayer’s Desert Mothers and Fathers series. We’ll reflect on the practices of silence and solitude - exploring their relevance for our lives today, along with both the challenges they present and the fruit they can bear.

We join together with other churches around the world for the Lectio 365 and 24-7 Prayer's Desert Mothers and Fathers Lent series. The next forty days of Lent are a time to enter the wilderness with Christ, to push into prayer and deepen our spiritual formation. This talk is an intro to this six-week series leading up to Easter.

You can watch the Desert Mothers and Fathers - Wisdom in the Desert video here: https://youtu.be/Q2jyB7fJoRk

This week we wrap up our 'Songs of the Times' series with one final song. We will be looking at the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15 and how we find our way home.
You can listen to Ed Sheeran's Castle on the Hill here: spotify.com/album/5YnGwVQx2OQ4CpcQeVDthP
We also watch Phil Wickham's Homesick for Heaven here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLDMAswKf8

We're taking a look at another contemporary song that gets us thinking about the routines of everyday life. We'll explore what it has to say about how we see our work and whether we're really living with purpose. You can watch the Sabrina Carpenter music video of Thumbs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAVUl0cAKpo