The Listening Place
A journey towards greater freedom and trust
Some things become clearer only when we learn to stay with them in God’s presence.
The Listening Place is a three-session journey of prayer, reflection, Scripture, and conversation that helps you notice what shapes your relationship with God and learn to listen for his presence and invitation with greater freedom.
Each gathering introduces a theme through a short teaching and guided prayer practices, creating space to reflect together before continuing the conversation with God between sessions. Over time, you’ll discover that the deepest insights often come not during the gathering itself, but in the quiet moments that follow as you continue listening.
What we Explore
The Listening Place centers on four themes on a rotating schedule. Each journey explores a different aspect of our life with God, creating space for greater freedom, trust, and attentiveness in everyday life.
Each journey spans six weeks and includes three gatherings, meeting every other week.
Seeing God Through New Eyes
We all carry an image of God — the picture in our minds and hearts of who God is and how he feels about us. Some of it is rooted in Scripture. Some has been shaped by our experiences, disappointments, unanswered prayers, relationships, or the quiet conclusions we've drawn along the way. Often we don't realize that image is there until it begins to shape how we pray, what we expect from God, or the parts of ourselves we hesitate to bring into God's presence. Together we'll explore that image, encounter God's character through Scripture, and begin seeing God through new eyes.
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The Freedom of Enough
The pull toward more runs deeper than most of us recognize. More security, more status, more accomplishment—even more ministry. It shapes what we pursue, what we fear losing, and what we quietly believe we need in order to feel okay. And it is remarkably effective at keeping us moving—working for God, serving God, doing things for God—without ever actually stopping long enough to meet him. Drawing on Richard Foster’s teaching on simplicity, this journey explores both the interior pull toward more and the outward life it produces. It concludes by helping you develop a personal rhythm of simplicity shaped by your own life, creating more room for what matters most.
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Free to Trust
Much of our anxiety comes from trying to manage outcomes we were never meant to control. We pray with answers already in mind. We serve hoping our efforts will succeed. We give, but quietly measure the response. This journey invites us to loosen our grip on what we cannot control and discover the freedom of living with open hands before God. As trust grows, faithfulness becomes less about producing results and more about responding to God’s invitation in the present moment.
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Calling as a Way of Life
Many of us carry ideas about purpose that keep us searching for clarity about our role rather than noticing how God may already be present and at work in our lives. This journey gently reframes calling as something lived in ongoing relationship with God rather than something we must fully figure out before we begin. Together, we cultivate a posture of curiosity toward God, ourselves, and the world around us, discovering that purpose begins to feel less like pressure and more like trusting the God who is already guiding our lives.