Big Lessons from Little Places traditional images of God (as

traditional images of God (as an all-powerful father figure) and much standard prayer and worship language are no longer plausible for many believers

were originally presented by Evelyn Underhill (1875 –1941) at a retreat she conducted at her beloved Pleshy

This book offers the methodology as well as 30 Old Testament and 24 New Testament stories with lesson plans

The "difficult psalms" which amount to more than a third of the Psalter

and the allure of being “spiritual but not religious

Big Lessons from Little Places traditional images of God (as"Churchwide discussions on structure and growth tend to focus on the importance of increasing butts in the pews and bucks in the plates. Suggestions have been made on merging smaller dioceses to create larger ones and closing the doors of congregations which do not have Sunday attendance of at least 200. This is a model of scarcity without consideration of the value and abundance to be found in small churches. Discover the roles, possibilities,