Synonyms: captured, trapped, catch, took, arrested, grabbed, taken, seized, stuck, apprehended, picked up, entangled, nabbed, jammed, abducted, acquired, got, bagged, gotten, netted, cornered, appropriated, tangled, snared, ensnared
Antonyms: free, freed, unconfined, loose, unrestrained, set free, uncuffed, emancipated, enfranchised, released, ambiguous, flaccid, let go, discharged, unbound, uncaged, unchained, unfettered, unleashed, unshackled, untied, avoided, discounted, disregarded, missed
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Donald Macleod
... it summed up a person’s character. As someone said, in the Bible a name was "a condensed definition." Or, as Albert C. Winn wrote: "[A name] stands in a very real way for the man himself. All his authority, all his power, all his essential self, are caught up in his name."1 Do we realize, then, what we mean when we use the phrase, "in Jesus’ name"? The hymn writer, Caroline Noel, sang, "At the name of Jesus, Every knee shall bow." Why? Because every true Christian believes it is through his name that we ...
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Robert Allen
... of their sin. Like Adam and Eve, we have all been confronted with the reality of our sins. We know what it is to feel guilty ... We know what it is to be caught off-base and to be embarrassed ... We know what it is to come up short of what we expect of ourselves ... We know what it is to do things that are wrong, not get caught, and then have to live with it, whatever the frustrations might be. Sin is not simply something from biblical times. Every last one of us is confronted each day with the reality of ...
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Robert Allen
... is filled with joy. Joy is within you or you don’t have it. If it is not within you, as far as you are concerned, it is nowhere. Joy is something you experience in an inward way. Some time ago, someone asked me, "Robert, if your house caught on fire, what one thing, after your family, would you want to save?" What would you save from your house? I thought about some expensive items like the televisions ... or the china ... or the silver dinnerware. But, the more I thought about it, I knew what I would ...
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Robert Allen
... up in the emotion of the part, he joined in on the shouts of "Crucify!" ... "Crucify!" ... "Crucify!" As Jesus was being led away toward Calvary, carrying the Cross on his back, he walked past this little man in the crowd, who was still caught up in the emotion of the moment, shouting insults at the top of his voice. Just as the character playing Jesus walked by, this little man spit in his face. The big, burly man stopped in his tracks. He reached up and wiped his face dry, looked at this little ...
230. Send Me!
Isaiah 6:1-13
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Frederick C. Edwards
... today puts it this way, "They gave up everything and followed him." If we were able to ask Simon when that great change took place in his life, or James or John, they might say, "It was when we took that tremendous catch of fish. Remember? Never had we caught so many at once. Our boats were about to sink with the weight of them." Luke seems to credit Jesus with the miraculous catch, but they all surely regarded it as a sign from God. Fear seized them and they felt unworthy to be in Jesus’ presence. Jesus ...
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Carl E. Zahrte
... it did happen. I, the guilty one, was set free. He, the innocent one, was condemned to death. Before I got caught and thrown into that dungeon, I used to feel that I could do just about anything that I made up my mind to do. So my life of crime went ... from robbery, to rebellion, to murder. But once the law caught up with me, I was trapped. The gang that I had been with didn’t have the brains or the power to free me. I didn ...
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Durwood L. Buchheim
... in our modern climate and its idolatrous desire for self-affirmation. We may have made some mistakes or bad decisions because we were wrongly positioned in our family, but surely these little things couldn’t separate one from God? Several years ago the country was caught up in the drama of an 18-month-old girl trapped in a deep and narrow abandoned well. For three days the country watched and waited as television crews in pictures and words reported this race with death. But finally the second shaft was ...
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Leonard H. Budd
... . He no longer needed the trail-signs to guide him for he could hear Ayin’s frightened bleating and the lamb’s weaker cry. The shepherd boy knew that the sound of his voice would frighten the big ram, so he reached out with the crook of his staff and caught Ayin around the neck turning him around. Then holding Ayin securely the boy felt for the lamb. The baby was to weak to walk so the shepherd boy lifted the lamb to his shoulders and driving Ayin ahead of him with his staff, they made their way out of ...
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Richard A. Jensen
... and in the valleys. This world can be a better place to live. You can make it so. Your neighbor’s life can be lifted from despair. You can make it so. The light of my victory over the principalities and powers of evil and death can shine upon lives caught in the darkness. You can make it so." "It is well that we are here." That was the response of Peter and the disciples on the mountain of Christ’s transfiguration. "It is well that we are here." That is so often our response to the mountaintop religious ...
235. Where Do Sins Go?
2 Samuel 12:1-31
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Edward Chinn
... the buildings and the roads of that place. When troops later entered that devastated city, they saw the shadow of a person who had been sitting on the steps of a bank, the shadow of a soldier unbuttoning his shirt, the shadow of a painter caught in the act of dipping his brush. There are other shadows, too, which have an enduring quality. Shadows of personal influence remain permanently etched on human lives long after the persons themselves have gone. When Marc Antony climbed that pulpit in Rome to deliver ...
236. It Might Have Been ...
Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56
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... later after the enormity of the betrayal had had time to settle in, was unable to think any good thing about Judas - and painted his picture as black as he could in his gospel. So I don’t see avarice or greed as the loyalty in which Judas was caught up. Basically I think his problem was that he gave his prime allegiance to his nation. And therein lay the seeds of his destruction. Twice we get clues about Judas. Right after Christ refuses to accept a crown from a crowd who would make him a king, he says ...
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William McKee Aber
... my Father’s business" as the KJV puts it.) If you can get this picture in a contemporary setting, I’m sure you’ll have no trouble guessing the tension this kind of answer probably produced. Here was a real generation gap; Jesus was caught up in the EXPERIENCE OF THE MOMENT, completely oblivious of his parents’ anxiety. Furthermore - and we can only guess at this from the actions of his later life - he was QUESTIONING THE AUTHORITIES AND THE POWER STRUCTURES OF HIS DAY. Amid the elders and leaders ...
238. Getting Ready
Mark 13:24-37
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Brett Blair
... , it would have meant instant death. She found her child and she hardly recognized him. He was skin and bones. She kidnapped her own child and literally walked away from the home and never came back and, remarkably she was never caught. Of the 300 children who entered the Volkswagen Children’s Home, this one child survived. Over the years, the child Vladimir Kreassman and his mother Marie have been interviewed many times to tell their incredible story. That was a rescue mission. It was a salvation mission ...
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Brett Blair
... altogether eliminated. For many the word repentance is a word that belongs to yesterday. It is equated with sackcloth and ashes and mourners benches. Some see repentance as something that we do only if we get caught. But repentance is far more than simply blurting out “I’m Sorry” if we get caught cheating the IRS or cheating on our wife. Nor is repentance merely turning over a new leaf. Instead, repentance means to turn around and go in another direction. What John the Baptist wanted his audience to ...
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Ron Lavin
... authority of God. Even then, some turned away. We should not be surprised today when people are preoccupied with trivialities and caught in the satanic power of the "Me Generation." It has always been so. Authority. "Shall we call down lightning and destroy ... enough, but the larger truth is that if I had my life to live over again, I would give more of my life to God and be less caught in the chaos; I would give more of my life to God, and be less trapped in the trivial; I would give more of my life to God, ...
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Daniel G. Mueller
... speaks to John in a very visual way about the urgency of always being prepared. "Behold, I come as a thief," he told John. "Blessed is he who watches and keeps his clothing so that he will not have to walk around naked and ashamed in public." Don’t get caught with your pants down, Jesus said. Be ready, Be prepared! (Revelation 16:15). The way to be ready is to be about the Lord’s business, to be doing what God wants us to do. Jesus compared it to a man going away on a trip and leaving his servants ...
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Daniel G. Mueller
... him and he was justified. The good news about our Lord Jesus Christ is not only that he knows all things, but that he accepts us and loves us as we are, in spite of all that he knows about us. Jesus knew all the dirty details about that woman caught in adultery one day. She couldn’t hide anything after the people dragged her out in front of him for punishment. He forgave her. Jesus knew all about the public sins of that woman who washed his feet with her tears. She didn’t try to hide and he forgave ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... says it well: faith is "opting out of a stream of history that [is] going nowhere, to plunge into and to be caught up in [the] surging movement" of the Kingdom of God. He goes on to tell us that "humankind is characterized by faith. ... aglow and said, "For the first time in my life, I like myself." The breakthrough of healing had come. She was a new person. She had been caught up in the faith and love of an intense caring group and had found healing. Let the Church be the Church! A man who has meant much ...
244. Saved!
Mark 10:17-31
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Warren Thomas Smith
... the reply. "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel...." Thus it was that a limping man returned home, limping because he had wrestled with himself and with God, and God blessed him with a new name, a new personality, a new being. Charles Wesley caught the mood and spirit in his "Wrestling Jacob": Come, O thou Traveler unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with thee; With thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day, With ...
245. Enduring
Mark 13:1-31
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Warren Thomas Smith
... up their minds on major issues, and utterly devoid of common sense. They refused to recognize life as it was and take positive measures to meet the needs of their subjects. Caught in the social/political/religious sins of predecessors long dead, they could not find a way out. Ruin came. This is history. It cannot be changed. But are we not caught in the same tangled web? We do not wear crowns; we do not govern millions of people; but is our attitude toward this torn, bleeding, frantic world not on par with ...
246. Nicodemus
John 3:1-21
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Brett Blair
... there today that are not looking for more theories--they are looking for what John Wesley called the religion of the warmed heart. Jesus said: Nicodemus, you must be born again. You see friends, it is easy to get caught up in the form of religion and lose touch with the reality of God. We can get so caught up in doing church work, that we fail to be the church. Our intellectual comprehension of the creeds can take precedence over our living the creeds. We can learn about the Bible and fail to be shaped by ...
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Brett Blair
... second thing we learn from this boat ride in the storm. We can lose our direction. This is probably an obvious fact but it is one that needs mention. Many of the disciples were experienced fisherman. They had charted those waters hundreds of times before. They had been caught in storms before: so, why all the fear in this storm? One obvious answer is this was a storm unlike any other. Possibly, but I don’t think so. I think this storm was like any other. They knew how to deal with. What I think is this ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... handbags. She found a defect in every one. In desperation the salesman said, "Madam, if there were not a defect, it would not be an alligator." So, we expect to sin, and we take it in our stride. If we are caught in our sin, we are not sorry that we did it. We are just sorry that we were caught. You know how it is: You get a ticket for speeding and after the patrolman leaves, you don't have tears of remorse, but you berate yourself for not having watched the rear-view mirror more closely. And since we ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... has been the experience of the prophets and poets and mystics of the centuries. When we come to behold both the outer and the inner galaxies we are startled by mystery. Whether it is Moses and the voice of God from the burning bush, or Isaiah caught up in a religious trance in the incense-filled Temple, or Jeremiah trembling with the inner Word of God, or the shepherds amazed in the presence of angels and Jesus, people through the ages have been awakened by mystery. Sometimes the experience of nature does ...
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John W. Wurster
... named “Not Pitied.” It is a stark name, reflective of a stark reality: God will no longer have pity on these people. They have strayed too far, sinned too much, and prostituted themselves in pursuit of all sorts of pleasures. Their history of unfaithfulness has finally caught up with them. They are people not to be pitied for they have brought their sorrows upon themselves. The final child is given the name “Not My People.” The reason for the name is clear: “You are not my people and I am not you ...
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