What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause
What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause by Marilyn McEntyre is a thought-provoking exploration published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing on April 20, 2014. This 127-page book invites readers to engage with well-known biblical phrases such as “in the fullness of time” and “fearfully and wonderfully made.” Through brief reflections on over fifty scriptural phrases, McEntyre encourages readers to pause and consider the deeper meanings and invitations these words present.
In this edition, readers will find reflections organized into three sections: “Assurance,” “Invitation,” and “Surprise,” each highlighting different tones and themes. The book offers a blend of devotional, speculative, and whimsical insights that aim to connect the biblical text with everyday experiences. McEntyre’s eloquent prose invites readers to discover moments of divine encounter and unexpected guidance, enriching their understanding of Scripture and its relevance to both ordinary and extraordinary aspects of life.
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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.
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