A Word a Week: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause

Mcentyre, Marilyn Chander

ISBN 10: 0802873863 / ISBN 13: 9780802873866

Published by Eerdmans Pub Co, 2016

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224 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Word a Week: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0802873863
• ISBN 13: 9780802873866
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.3 kilograms

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Synopsis

Beautifully written meditations on fifteen well-chosen words 

In What's in a Phrase? — winner of the 2015 Christianity Today Book Award in Spirituality — Marilyn McEntyre showed readers how brief scriptural phrases can evoke and invite. In Word by WordMcEntyre invites readers to dwell intentionally with single words — remembering their biblical and literary contexts, considering the personal associations they bring up, and allowing them to become a focus for prayer and meditation.

McEntyre has thoughtfully chosen fifteen words (see below), and she gives each word a week, guiding readers in examining the word from seven different angles throughout the week. She draws on the spiritual practices of lectio divina and centering prayer as she encourages readers to allow these small words to help them pause and hear the voice of the Spirit. "I invite you to discover," says McEntyre in her intro-duction, "how words may become little fountains of grace. How a single word may, if you hold it for a while, become a prayer."
 

• Listen
• Receive
• Enjoy
• Let Go
• Watch
• Accept
• Resist
• Allow
• Be Still
• Follow
• Rejoice
• Ask
• Dare
• Leave
• Welcome

About the Author

Marilyn McEntyre is the author of multiple books on language and faith, including What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause (winner of a Christianity Today 2015 book award in spirituality), Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts, and Start with a Word: On the Craft and Adventure of Writing. She teaches writing at Western Theological Seminary and New College Berkeley and coaches writers.