Dictionary: Rest
Synonyms: relax, take a rest, ease up/off, let up, slow down, pause, have/take a break, unbend, repose, laze, idle, loaf, do nothing, take time off, slack off, unwind, recharge one's batteries, be at leisure, take it easy, sit back, sit down, stand down, lounge, luxuriate, loll, slump, flop, put one's feet up, lie down, go to bed, have/take a nap, nap, catnap, doze, have/take a siesta, drowse, sleep, lie, be laid, recline, be, be placed, be positioned, support, prop (up), steady, balance, lean, lay, set, sit, stand, position, place, put, be based on, be grounded in, be founded on, depend on, be dependent on, rely on, hinge on, turn on, hang on, pivot on, be contingent on, revolve around, centre on, relaxation, leisure, ease, inactivity, respite, time off, time out, breathing space, break, interval, interlude, intermission, base, holder, stay, prop, brace, rack, hook, frame, shelf, bracket, trestle, tripod, plinth, pedestal, foundation, bed, foot, substructure, a standstill, a halt, a stop, remainder, residue, remaining part/number/quantity, part/number/quantity (that is) left over, others, those left, remains, remnant, remnants, rump, surplus, difference, extra, excess, superfluity, overflow, overspill, additional people/material/things, extra people/material/things, remain, continue to be, keep, persist in being, carry on being, go on being
Antonyms: work, motion, movement, struggle, rage, go mad, have a fit, see red, hit the roof, toil, be active, labor, effort, agony, activity, do, blow one's stack, blow a gasket, do one's nut, go ape, go wild, lose it, drive, action, move
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251. Sunday of the Passion
Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11
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John R. Brokhoff
... Isaiah 50:4-7 Yahweh's servant faces suffering confident of his help. This pericope constitutes the third of the four Servant Songs in Isaiah. Yahweh's servant hears his voice and is therefore fortified with determination to suffer mental agony in terms of ridicule, false accusations, humiliation, and shame. He suffers confidently because he believes Yahweh will vindicate, help, and pronounce him innocent. Philippians 2:6-11 Jesus' humiliation and God's exaltation of him. Paul is pleading for unity ...
252. Good Friday
Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 19:17-27, Isaiah 52:13--53:12
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... Pastor: Jesus' death destroys any reason to pretend with faith; and it challenges us to take up our cross and follow our Master. People: Our faith is in Christ who forgives us, strengthens us, and call us into discipleship. Collect Almighty God, who suffers through the agony of seeing your Son rejected by those he is trying to save: Grant that our faith may be a sincere acceptance of your Son; that we may cease to bring you hurt, and avail ourselves of the forgiveness of our crucified Lord, in whose name we ...
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Joe Pennel
... even from the fear of death in that prison camp. And they could have a future with hope, as Peterson writes: "But strangely, this (the conditions of their imprisonment) is not my sharpest recollection of those dreadful days. Our shared conversations seldom dwelt on our agony or the injustice of our captors. Rather, our time was spent more often reflecting on what we would do when we got out of our confinement. I think Florence (his wife) still has tucked away little lists I made on the back of dirty scraps ...
254. Magic Mountain
Matthew 17:1-13
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... on that mountain. Let me tell you the story ..." As they went down the mountain, Jesus said to them, "Tell no person the story of the vision, until the Son of man is raised from the dead." Jesus wanted them to connect that mountain-top experience to his agony and death in the light of his resurrection. He wanted them to be able to tell the whole story so it would be properly told and understood by people, instead of being rejected or misinterpreted as some kind of an act of magic. And he wanted them to know ...
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... in God and his infinite love. It is just that she cannot fit the two together, and they do not make sense. If the Lord be with us, she says, why has this befallen me? One hears it time and again from people who look around at the agony of our world today. The love of God seems an empty phrase amid the bursting bombs, hostility between nations, the horror of ruined cities, self pity, cruelty, and despair. If God cares about people why do so many millions starve and die? How can we square what is happening ...
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... overcome oppression and inhumanity. The Glory, Glory Hallelujah! of the Epiphany glory mightily attracts and cheers us. Yet this day also points foward to the tiring trek to the top of gory Golgotha, where Jesus the Son of God is glorified in suffering agony and dark defeat accompanied by cries of "Crucify! Crucify!" The horror and terror of the divine presence manifested in such reality of crushing death repels and terrifies us. Jesus is the Son of God so designated by the heavenly voice from the cloud ...
257. God of the Ordinary
Exodus 13:17--14:31
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... a very ordinary cross, made of a very ordinary tree, and, to the Roman soldiers carrying out their duty, it was just another ordinary criminal they were ushering to his death. But to those of us who know the saving power of the One hanging there in agony and blood, it is wondrous, extraordinary, and unique. It is the sensation of the ages, and superlatives fail us when we try to describe it. Yes, God used ordinary, natural means to deliver his people long ago - a rod in a human hand, a cloud, wind; so ...
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... us? No, God keeps his promises and when he says he will walk with us through the "valley of the shadow of death," he does just that. A little boy was looking at a very graphic picture of the dying Jesus on the cross. It showed, in gory detail, the agony of the crucified Christ. Finally, the child looked up to heaven and said, "God, if you'd been there, it would never have happened!" But God was there, and will be there! That's a promise, it is his promise to us. Let me remind you that Christ's very ...
259. Communion Is Repentance
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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... the altar, be aware of your sinfulness, be aware that you have not lived up to God's expectations of you as a Christian, be aware of your need for his gracious, loving forgiveness. When you eat the bread, remember his body hanging on that cross of agony, tearing, bleeding, writhing in pain. When you drink the wine, think about his blood oozing down his brow from the crown of thorns and pouring from his spear-punctured side. Focusing our hearts and minds on the fact that it was our sin - not his - that put ...
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... ." He knew that one could, at best, guess what was in the man’s heart and mind when he decided that life was too painful for him to endure it any longer. Only God could answer the question. Was the man merely seeking an escape from the agony of living a lonely and physically agonizing life (he was severely crippled with arthritis, too), or was he honestly hoping to get on to a better existence without waiting any longer? The only answer possible was, "Only God knows why he did it." But God was with him ...
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... of the weary, Object of the spirit’s love, Fountain in life’s desert dreary, Savior from the world above. It concludes this way: Jesus, may our hearts be burning With more fervent love for thee; May our eyes be ever turning To thy Cross of agony; Till in glory, parted never, From the precious Savior’s side, Graven in our hearts forever, Dwell the Cross, the Crucified. That kind of faith, built on the foundation laid by Christ, becomes a vehicle that builds right relationships with God and others, and ...
262. Different Worlds
Luke 16:19-31
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Brett Blair
... eat. We are slowly and methodically told it is O.K. to live our life of luxury while others live their life of poverty. But alas, it is not so! Heaven's reversal of fortune shall one day awaken us to the fact that we have separated ourselves from the agonies of others. That we did not care about others who suffered.
Drama
... 's will since those first blessed kicks within my womb. Oh, how I love him! But what am I to do? He speaks of his death, of dying willingly. My son, God's Son, has to die! Oh world, are you deserving of his blood? Are you worthy of his agony? I cannot change his mind. God forgive me, I should not try. But if only ... if only ... Narrator: Mother - Mary (Mother): My son? Narrator: I must do what my Father would have me do. I must do the will of him who sent me. Mary (Mother): And that's the ...
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James R. Tozer
... . We seek strength from Christ so that we can overcome suffering and become an encouragement to other people. To "rejoice in sufferings," as Paul did, seems contrary to our inclination. When sickness or business failure stagger us, how can we rejoice in such agony? Having given the basis of Christian assurance in the first four chapters of Romans, Paul concluded in Romans 5:1, "Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Paul was saying that as we ...
265. Managing Our Memories
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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Leonard W. Mann
... likely to be more cautious if we can remember the last grisly auto accident we saw. Simon Peter, warming himself by the fire, vehemently denied his Lord. Then, says the Scripture, he "remembered the word of Jesus and he wept." He could have spared himself a lot of agony if he had remembered sooner. In the old days of the American camp meeting, a man knelt on the ground at the "mourner’s bench" and gave his life to the Lord Christ. Later that day he drove a large wooden stake into the ground at the very ...
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Various Authors
... to hold to the parched lips of Jesus. There ran the spiritual ancestor of Gunga Din and Onesiphorus and all the other ministers of refreshing. Of all that crowd who stood around the cross with vengeful, hate-filled hearts, or with uncaring curiosity, beholding Christ’s agony, here was one person who ran to do some little thing to relieve his thirst. If ever one small, anonymous act of kindness made someone blessed of God, surely that was it. "I was thirsty and you gave me drink." I love the person who ...
267. Lent 3
Psalm 142:1-7, Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25, Ephesians 4:17--5:21, John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41
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... beautiful, because he completely puts himself in the hands of God. It is quite evident from the LBW perspective that the use of this psalm, especially when the psalm prayer is taken into consideration, is connected to the passion of Jesus, particularly to his agony on the cross, despite the fact that this is only the third week of Lent. Such an interpretation affirms once more that Lent ends with the crucifixion and death of Jesus outside of Jerusalem; it keeps the faithful going in the right direction ...
268. Now Thank We All Our God
Luke 17:11-19
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Erskine White
... became a giant morgue. In one year alone, Pastor Rinkart conducted funerals for 4,500 people, including his own wife. The war dragged on; the suffering continued. Yet through it all, he never lost courage or faith and even during the darkest days of Eilenburg's agony, sat down and wrote this table grace for his children: Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom the world rejoices So keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed, and free us ...
269. The First Billionaire
Luke 17:11-19
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Brett Blair
... . Every decision, attitude, and relationship was tailored to create his personal power and wealth. But three years later at the age of 53 he became ill. His entire body became racked with pain and he lost all the hair on his head. In complete agony, the world's only billionaire could buy anything he wanted, but he could only digest milk and crackers. An associate wrote, "He could not sleep, would not smile and nothing in life meant anything to him." His personal, highly skilled physicians predicted he would ...
270. The Eighth Son
1 Samuel 16:1-13
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... : Little boy blue come blow your horn! The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn. Where’s the boy that looks after the sheep? He’s under the haystack, fast asleep. In this season of Epiphany we celebrate the birth of him who was anointed in agony and born in a despised province of a hated land. A Son of David born in the village of the shepherd king of old. Christ’s birth was heralded by three wise men and not just one wise sage named Samuel. A King anointed with oil even as the young ...
271. Color It Purple
2 Samuel 5:1-5
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... as did General Sherman, that "war is hell." An astute politician whose savvy grasp of statecraft reveal him as a Machiavellian prince of the first rank. An athlete knowing full well what "Wide World of Sports" likes to call "the thrill of victory; the agony of defeat." David: poet, prince, and praise-singer. David: sinner and saint. David. Here was a man. The Color Purple is Steven Spielberg’s film based on Alice Walker’s novel about a homely and downtrodden Georgia black woman. In the movie, "purple is ...
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... his Ecclesiastical Sonnets, "Father - to God himself we cannot give a holier name." A father is not a machine. He is not questing with quixotic intensity for the soul of a new machine. A father is a man, and like a man, is prey, as we all are, to the agonies as well as the ecstasies of life. Our role is to make our fathers proud of us. Martin Luther once plucked a rose from his garden and said that, if a man could make such a flower, he would be thought great. Fathers give life to children who are to ...
273. Faces of the Nation
2 Samuel 19:9-43
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... her through the dark valleys of death into the sun-speckled highlands of hope. Absalom’s pied piper’s promise of gold had led the nation to the black abyss of death. She had said "yes" to Absalom’s gold and "no" to David’s God. In the agony of defeat she longed for the thrill of victory. David and his merry men were flush with victory as they encamped east of the Jordan near Gilgal, where the people of Israel had first entered the Promised Land. David’s heart was broken over the death of Absalom ...
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... that the crowds will adore Him and then turn on Him in a fury? Does she foresee the day when she will stand beneath a cross and watch Him die? Maybe Mary recalled the long, hard journey to Bethlehem, the search for a room to rent, and the agony of giving birth. Maybe she smiled wryly at the strange purposes of God, that He confounds the world by coming in the glory of a lowly manger. Maybe she remembered with a warm glow the simple shepherds, the sophisticated Wise Men, and the talk of stars and angels ...
275. Christ the King
Matthew 25:31-46
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... the confession with this statement by Nicholas Berdyaev: "Bread [and water] for myself is a material question: but bread [and water] for my brother [sister] is a spiritual question." (source unknown) You may want to continue with Georgia Harkness' poem, "I Listen to the Agony of God," or you may want to use the following litany between pastor and ministers: Pastor: This day, in all the world, for every one well-fed, with fresh water, there are others who are hungry and thirsty. We are fed; we have water ...
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