The Listening Place
A journey towards greater freedom and trust
Some things are hard to name — a quiet distance from God, a trust that keeps hitting a wall, a sense that there's more freedom available than you're actually living. The Listening Place is a formational journey into those places, creating space to uncover what's in the way and meet the God who can be trusted with all of it.
Each gathering includes a short teaching, guided prayer practices that create space to listen, and shared conversation where what one person names often opens something in another. What surfaces in the gathering is carried back to God in personal prayer between sessions, supported by simple practices designed to help you keep listening. The deepest work almost always happens there — in the quiet, as you bring what has surfaced to him.
What we Explore
The Listening Place returns to four themes on a rotating schedule. Each one explores something that quietly shapes the way we live with God — and creates space for greater freedom, trust, and attentiveness in everyday life.
Each journey runs six weeks — three sessions held every other week.
The God Shaped by Your Story
What we believe about God beneath the surface can be largely formed by our story — by how we were loved, by what happened when we prayed, by the conclusions we quietly drew in moments of disappointment or silence. Those conclusions feel true because they came from real experience. But when your experience of God has been shaped more by what you've lived through than by who God actually is, trust breaks down in ways we often can't name. We stop bringing the real thing to him. This journey creates space to uncover where that happened — and to meet the God who can actually be trusted with all of it.
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 from Richard Foster's teaching on simplicity, this journey addresses both the interior pull and the outward life it produces. It closes with creating a personal rhythm of simplicity shaped by your own life, helping you make more room for what matters most.
Free to Give, Free to Trust
Most of us are more attached to outcomes than we realize. We pray with answers already in mind. We give, but we watch to see how it lands. We serve, but our peace depends on whether it worked. This journey explores what drives those attachments — where they come from and what they cost — and opens the way toward something different: a quieter, more grounded way of serving and living where outcomes don't determine your peace and discernment has room to breathe. Prayer practices support the work between gatherings, helping you keep noticing as the freedom begins to take hold.
Purpose: Discovering God’s Invitations in Everyday 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 now. 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 practice paying attention to God’s presence and invitations in everyday life, learning to become more curious about the larger work God may already be unfolding around us. Over time, purpose begins to feel less like pressure and more like trust in the God who is already guiding our lives.