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What's in a Phrase?: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause
127Overview
Well-known biblical phrases -- "in the fullness of time," "fearfully and wonderfully made," "in the beauty of holiness," and others -- suggest and evoke and invite. In this book Marilyn Chandler McEntyre offers brief reflections on more than fifty such scriptural phrases that prompt readers to pay attention, to pause where we sense a beckoning.
Some of these select phrases are devotional, some speculative, some whimsical, some edgy. McEntyre encourages us to see such "words within the Word" as invitations and, in doing so, to discover that they are places of divine encounter, epiphany, or unexpected guidance.
The three sections of the book "Assurance," "Invitation," and "Surprise" -- organize the reflections by tone as well as theme. Rich with eloquence, wisdom, and wonder, these reflections will lead readers to enter the sacred spaces of Scripture, play with possibilities, and connect the biblical word with the ordinary -- and extraordinary -- lives we've been given to live.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780802871145 |
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Publisher: | Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company |
Publication date: | 04/20/2014 |
Pages: | 127 |
Sales rank: | 635,823 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is professor of English at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California. She has written dozens of articles and reviews in such journals as The Washington Post, Theology Today, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Christianity Today. She is also the author of Dwelling in the Text and A Healing Art: Regeneration through Autobiography.
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Assurance
incline your ear 1
put in custody 3
fed you in the wilderness with manna 5
for you alone, 0 Low, make me dwell in safety 7
hidden with Christ 9
all Israel was recorded in genealogies 11
delight is in the law 12
teach me your paths 14
in the night also my heart instructs me 16
make a way 18
I will scatter 21
become one flesh 23
we live and move and have our being 25
Invitation and Admonition
speak peace 29
make for yoursefl a carved image, or any likeness 32
pray to the Loxv for you 34
mourning over the faithlessness 36
leave them for the poor 38
that I may discern 40
considers the poor 43
no one spoke a word to him 45
and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you 47
to love kindness 49
whatever your hand finds to do 52
exhort one another 54
made no further answer 57
some fell into good soil and grew and yielded 59
holy convocations 61
to hear the groans of the prisoners 64
imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises 66
solemn rest 68
work heartily 71
those who sold and those who bought 73
do not harden your hearts 75
for the wild goats 78
in the beauty of holiness 80
in prison and you came 82
Mystery and Surprise
in the fullness of time 85
praise him, you highest heavens 87
when the mountain goats give birth 89
fearfully and wonderfully made 91
dawns on them like the morning light 93
who can play well 95
put a new song in my mouth 97
let there be light 99
looking at him, loved him 101
born of water and the Spirit 103
who do people say that I am 106
wrestled with him 108
suppose 110
Works Cited 113