“Suffering is a defining reality of life. Yet so many of us are so focused on avoiding discomfort that we’ve never learned how to actually suffer. But what if we could move from anxiety to durable hope?”

In The Deepest Place, Thompson invites us to explore how the Apostle Paul’s experience of love, secure attachment, and the deeply felt sense of God’s abiding presence carried him through the challenges he faced—and how it can help us not just survive, but flourish in the presence of suffering.” (from the back cover)

We will read together Curt Thompson’s book The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope.

The morning class is full and no longer accepting registrations. There is still space available in the evening class.

“Suffering is a defining reality of life. Yet so many of us are so focused on avoiding discomfort that we’ve never learned how to actually suffer. But what if we could move from anxiety to durable hope?”

In The Deepest Place, Thompson invites us to explore how the Apostle Paul’s experience of love, secure attachment, and the deeply felt sense of God’s abiding presence carried him through the challenges he faced—and how it can help us not just survive, but flourish in the presence of suffering.” (from the back cover)

We will read together Curt Thompson’s book The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope.

If you are looking for Relational Skills in the Bible, please know the class was changed to Strong Like Water. We apologize for the inconvenience. We think you will also really enjoy this class. It is being taught by the same facilitators as were originally scheduled. The morning class is now full. There are still openings in the evening class.

In Strong Like Water, author & therapist, Aundi Kolber offers a framework for true flourishing:

• Learn how your nervous system can help you move through pain instead of being stuck in it.

• Explore practices, rhythms, and resources to support you in a challenging circumstance with compassion & hope.

• Discover how to internalize connection, love and safety--empowering you with greater resilience.

Join our experiential class where we spend time applying the discoveries of neuroscience and spiritual formation. Come experience hope with us as we encounter beauty and gratitude, hear ideas together, journal, and meet Immanuel, God-with-us, in our stories.

Learn to recognize and break eight bad habits that contribute to frustration, misunderstanding and conflict in communication. Attune to others through empathy and respect. Build deeper understanding in every relationship through biblical insights and practical, humorous exercises.

“If you have found your faith squeezed into various boxes of shame, anxiety, and disillusionment, Attached to God is a shaft of light.”

“The practices offered in these chapters are an invitation to stop running and striving and to let all that has been shut down and silenced be soothed by kindness (from the foreword).”

We will read together Krispin Mayfield’s book, Attached to God.

Join our experiential class where we spend time applying the discoveries of neuroscience and attachment theory to spiritual formation. Come experience hope with us as we encounter beauty and gratitude, hear ideas together, journal, and meet Immanuel, God-with-us, in our stories.

“If you have found your faith squeezed into various boxes of shame, anxiety, and disillusionment, Attached to God is a shaft of light.”

“The practices offered in these chapters are an invitation to stop running and striving and to let all that has been shut down and silenced be soothed by kindness (from the foreword).”

We will read together Krispin Mayfield’s book, Attached to God.

Join our experiential class where we spend time applying the discoveries of neuroscience and attachment theory to spiritual formation. Come experience hope with us as we encounter beauty and gratitude, hear ideas together, journal, and meet Immanuel, God-with-us, in our stories.

Please obtain a copy of Attached to God by Krispin Mayfield, on kindle or in paperback.

An intense conversation, a spat with a partner, or even an obnoxious tweet―these situations aren’t life-or-death, yet why do we often react as if they are?

Join our experiential class where we spend time applying the discoveries of neuroscience to spiritual formation. Experience hope with us as we learn to befriend our nervous system, hear ideas together, journal, and meet Immanuel, God-with-us, in our stories.

An intense conversation, a spat with a partner, or even an obnoxious tweet―these situations aren’t life-or-death, yet why do we often react as if they are?

Join our experiential class where we spend time applying the discoveries of neuroscience to spiritual formation. Experience hope with us as we learn to befriend our nervous system, hear ideas together, journal, and meet Immanuel, God-with-us, in our stories.

Join our experiential class where we spend time applying the discoveries of neuroscience to spiritual formation. Come experience hope with us as we encounter beauty and gratitude, hear ideas together, journal, and meet Immanuel, God-with-us, in our stories.

We will be using Curt Thompson’s, The Soul of Desire. Curt suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known. We will explore together how this desire is expressed by our need to make things of beauty. Come see how desire and beauty go hand in hand.

Join our experiential class where we spend time applying the discoveries of neuroscience to spiritual formation. Come experience hope with us as we encounter beauty and gratitude, hear ideas together, journal, and meet Immanuel, God-with-us, in our stories.

We will be using Curt Thompson’s, The Soul of Desire. Curt suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known. We will explore together how this desire is expressed by our need to make things of beauty. Come see how desire and beauty go hand in hand.

Learn to engage with God and live from your true heart through quieting, listening and journaling, instead of continually striving to go, go, go and do, do, do. Engage your experiences and emotions in healthy ways to reveal truths about who God made you to be. This curriculum was created by David Takle of Kingdom Formation Ministries, and is an introduction to the Life Model course series.

Hearing God by Dallas Willard will be the basis of this 10 week book discussion. The key to hearing God, says best-selling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator.

The pain of your past has prepared you for great joy in your future. Discover how your wounds are the unlikely guides to living out your deepest calling. Each week we'll study the book Redeeming Heartache together, and add gratitude & body practices, as well as Immanuel Journaling.

Reverberation

Prepare your heart this Christmas season through a weekly
advent experience in two parts. In our first hour we will engage in
spiritual practices such as Lectio Divina and Immanuel Prayer,
music, and readings. In our second hour we will create an artistic
response to our engagement with God in the first hour. This
response might be a drawing, coloring, poem, collage, or another
artistic expression – it’s up to you. No artistic ability required.
Come for just the first hour or stay and enjoy being in community
as you create. Join us every week or drop in when you can. We
realize the Christmas season is a busy time of year and full of
commitments. Give yourself permission to participate in grace.

Explore the pathways to biblical joy and strengthen resilience for dealing with life’s challenges. Impact communities and culture with transformative insights and practical exercises to building joy through relationship.

Instead of white-knuckling our way through life, which tends to leave us feeling overworked and numb, Aundi Kolber shows us through latest psychology, practical exercises, and her own story, how God specifically designed our bodies and minds to work together to process our lives and overcome obstacles.

Engage in a solution-based approach for building joy, receiving inner healing and developing life-giving relationships. Also learn about neuroscience of the brain, trauma, addiction and your style of attachment to God and others.

Learn to engage with God and live from your true heart through quieting, listening and journaling, instead of continually striving to go, go, go and do, do, do. Engage your experiences and emotions in healthy ways to reveal truths about who God made you to be. This curriculum was created by David Takle of Kingdom Formation Ministries, and is an introduction to the Life Model course series.

Join us each week to open our eyes, ears, hearts and minds by exploring a work of art. Jan Haugen, a docent at the National Gallery of Art for over a decade, will join us for a 15 minute presentation to unpack a work from the collection. What is Jesus saying to each of us as we experience his creation? We will practice gratitude exercises, a variety of responses to goodness and beauty, and conclude with Immanuel Journaling.

Learn to engage with God and live from your true heart through quieting, listening and journaling, instead of continually striving to go, go, go and do, do, do. Engage your experiences and emotions in healthy ways to reveal truths about who God made you to be. This curriculum was created by David Takle of Kingdom Formation Ministries, and is an introduction to the Life Model course series.

Life is full of painful losses that must be grieved, but many of us have found that our culture does not welcome grief nor supply the support we need to face the pain and let it go. This interactive workshop looks at what we grieve, how we grieve, how to move through the process of grieving including journaling with God about our regrets, our need to forgive and any anger we may be feeling.

My Grandmother's Hands, a NYT bestseller, will be the basis of this 12-week study exploring racial trauma in America and a pathway to healing. We'll use portions of various video clips and podcasts, combined with appreciation practice, exercises of mind-body connection, and Immanuel Journaling.

Jemar Tisby unpacks the chilling connections between the church and racism throughout American history. Through 12 weekly video segments based on the book, Tisby compels viewers to focus on hard truths addressing the realities of American Christianity’s racial past. We will view and discuss an episode each week, and spend time listening and journaling with Immanuel prayer. Reconciliation doesn't happen without truth telling, so white Christians, let’s do the work of listening together.

How do we strengthen and grow our attachment to God? Everyday life holds sacramental possibilities if only we learn by God's grace to be present and to dialogue with each other and with God. In this 14 week study, we’ll focus on learning to be present to ourselves and to others as we awaken to God's attachment to us. Our text will be Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life, by David Benner, Ph.D. We will pair each chapter with a journey through the book of Mark, along with various exercises and Immanuel Journaling.

Online only. Learn to recognize and break eight bad habits that contribute to frustration, misunderstanding and conflict in communication. Attune to others through empathy and respect. Build deeper understanding in every relationship through biblical insights and practical, humorous exercises.

Life is full of painful losses that must be grieved, but many of us have found that our culture does not welcome grief nor supply the support we need to face the pain and let it go. This interactive workshop looks at what we grieve, how we grieve, how to move through the process of grieving including journaling with God about our regrets, our need to forgive and any anger we may be feeling.

An opportunity to practice your listening skills in groups of three! This is a private class limited to those who have taken Listening for Heaven’s Sake starting March 2, 2020.