Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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David E. Leininger
... . No thanks, no rewards, just drudgery. And the story of Christmas says that, in the midst of the drudgery, God is there. Story #4. Boy Meets Girl. They fall in love. They marry. They have kids...two good ones and one miserable wretch. Two "A" students, one drop-out. Two with successful careers, one who could never hold a job. Two who were pillars of society, one the dregs of society. Could the conclusion be "two they loved and one they didn't?" Not at all. They loved each one. And now it is December 24th ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... in time to see the first of the 353 planes coming across the mountains for their attack on the harbor. The time, 0755.(3) A decade ago, in Desert Storm, we watched our pilots drop their bombs right down the elevator and ventilator shafts of buildings. The technology was amazing. Sixty-two years ago, at Pearl Harbor, one pilot dropped a bomb right down the smoke stack of the USS Arizona. It went five decks down into the boiler room and exploded like a volcano. But the most devastating bomb hit the forward ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... grill. Then she opened the file of debts, took one out, read their name out loud, tore the debt in half and said, "I forgive you," and dropped it into the fire. She looked at Kenneth and asked, "Son, would you want to try it?" Kenneth said, "I don't think I can." His ... her burning those debts. Finally, he slowly reached into the file, got out a debt, read their name out loud, tore it up and dropped it into the fire. It took a good thirty minutes to complete the task, but when it was finished it was as if a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... on the Sabbath day . . . and where everyone had to go to church?" "Yes, sir," Talmage declared, "that would suit me. It would be paradise to live in a community where everyone was compelled to go to church on Sunday, where no one could drink a drop . . . and where the law would make every man good . . . " "And you think such a man would be a good Christian?" Ingersoll asked, "A better man than I am?" "Why, of course," Talmage responded. "Then," said Mr. Ingersoll, "I advise you to go to the penitentiary ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to our vocabulary. Habituation. Scientists have measured the effects of habituation in the laboratory. For example, repeat a sharp noise every five seconds. Then measure its effect on your consciousness. The first sound will cause a sharp drop in skin resistance. The second sound will cause a smaller drop, the third still less, as the response of the skin becomes "habituated." In familiar terms, we would say, we have grown accustomed to the noise. We are "used" to it. Habituated. When we see an unfamiliar ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Mellon. Finally, one day he was ready to make his move. He leased the apartment directly beneath Mellon's in Washington and covered the walls with masterpieces. Then, before returning to New York, Duveen offered Mellon the key to the apartment and invited him to drop in whenever he wanted to look at the art. It took only one visit. Mellon was hooked. He couldn't stay away. He came back night after night and stayed for hours admiring the paintings. Finally, he called Duveen; he was ready to deal. He bought ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... s mercy. God said, "I shall not punish you. However, in atonement, you must bring back from earth the most precious thing in the world." The angel began the search. He found a soldier dying of wounds that he received defending his country. The angel caught the last drop of blood and brought it back. God said, "The courage of one who gives his life is precious, but not the most precious thing in the world." The angel resumed his quest. Wearily he roamed the earth until he came upon a nurse dying of a disease ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... crying he makes." Campbell took issue with that verse. Jesus was a normal child. Normal children cry. Campbell said:"It would be strange if He did not cry as a child...He did as a man!" How true! And no picture of Jesus is complete without noticing the tear drops on His cheeks. For some weeks we have been considering Jeremiah, who is often known as "The Weeping Prophet." And the title fits. But it fits Jesus even more. He was "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." (Isaiah 53:3). That's not all we can ...
259. Walk With Confidence
Ephesians 6:10-20
Sermon
King Duncan
... and compose a letter of confession to your brotherincluding your plan to repay him the rest of what you owe him." They enclosed the check in the letter, sealed the envelope, and walked together to the mailbox. As the man dropped the letter into the mailbox, his face showed he had dropped a great burden from his life. (4) Some years ago, in Miami Springs, Florida, a crowd of residents rushed to pay overdue water bills. The surprised clerk said, "I never saw anything like it. They came dashing in as fast ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in an article in PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. He told of watching television with his family back in the days of live broadcasts. A woman was walking down a staircase carrying what they all thought was a real baby. Midway down the stairs, she dropped it. Since it wasn't a real baby, and since dropping the baby wasn't in the script, the actress picked up the doll and finished the scene. Chance says he would have forgotten that show long ago but for one thing. When that "baby" fell from the actress's arms, his mother ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... kind of light for seven seconds. The tomatoes then came out a rosy pink, almost red. Then they devised a package so strong that they could put a bunch of tomatoes in a Styrofoam crate, and lift it twenty feet high above solid concrete and drop it without bruising the tomatoes. They made marvelous use of the latest technologies to get their problems solved. However, after all this was done, they discovered they had a new problem: The tomatoes didn’t taste very good. They didn’t taste like tomatoes are ...
262. Wrestling With God
Genesis 32:22-32
Sermon
King Duncan
... all mean? Who am I, really? Does my life really matter? As he wrestled with God that night, the encounter was so demanding that he threw the hollow of his thigh out of joint. One thinks of Jesus kneeling in the garden of Gethsemane with drops of sweat like great drops of blood falling from his brow. This was that king of encounter for Jacob. From this day forward, he would never be the same again. For you see, Jacob needed more than anything else in life to understand that God was the Master of the universe ...
263. God And The Irs
Matthew 22:15-22
Sermon
King Duncan
... it for any other. No, rendering unto Caesar is not a problem for most of us. BUT FOR MANY OF US RENDERING UNTO GOD IS PROBABLY OUR GREATEST SPIRITUAL PROBLEM. A recent survey of members of one of our leading denominations showed that among members who had dropped out of church, the number one complaint was that the church talked about money too much. Now some of that was rationalization, to be sure. But I would offer a predictionand I hope I am wrong about this. I would predict that giving to God will be ...
264. In Defense Of Ceremony
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
Sermon
King Duncan
... a child at the altar or the commitment of our own lives, baptism is the first step toward a new life. Abraham Lincoln used to remark that he could get any number of men who are "willing to shed their last drop of blood," but he found it difficult to get men to shed their FIRST drop of bloodto make a beginning. Once the eminent philosopher John Dewey found his son in the bathroom. The floor was flooded and he was mopping furiously trying to contain the water in that room, keeping the damage to a minimum. The ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... made mistakes. For example, he taught that if a one-pound ball and a five-pound ball of the same size were dropped at the same time from the same height, the five-pound ball would fall five times as fast as the one-pound ball. That was reasonable, and ... for nearly 2000 years it was accepted as fact. But then Galileo dropped two such balls from the tower of Pisa. They hit the ground at the same time. One of the great thinkers of all time had ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... put it, he simply wants to "go the distance." "Going the distance" is a noble achievement. Many begin races that they never finish. It is always disheartening to a pastor to see middle-aged people drop out of the church "after the children are grown." Even more astounding is to see a person who has been a dedicated officer drop out of church when he or she yields a position of influence to another. "Going the distance...." That is part of the reason we join together as a body in Christ. Sometimes the race ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... become more important to maintain the image than to possess reality. Karen had no possibility of learning to read until she dropped the facade and asked for help. Likewise, it is impossible in the spiritual realm to have an adequate relationship with God ... one mediator between God and men, The man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all...." It is God ™s will that we drop our masks and become authentic in our faith and in our living. And there is only one way that can happen, and that is when we ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... she went only to find the same result. "As she would not mend her ways and kept on being rude and cross-tempered, no one wished her to live with them." (1) Have you ever known people like that? Whenever they speak "a toad and two snakes" drop from their lips? Don't mention any names. Actually it would be helpful if whatever was in person's heart was revealed in a visible way in their speech. Then when nice sincere people speak flowers and diamonds would fall from their mouths. And when someone insincere ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... off infection. He discovered that as the students watched this uplifting film, their antibody level rose significantly ” even for those who did not like Mother Teresa (some thought her a fraud.) He then showed the students a film on Atilla the Hun and their antibody levels dropped. The implication is clear. The things we focus on can affect the way we feel. If we want a feeling of gratitude in life, we need to focus on what's good in life. You may have noticed a recent study that indicates that in cities ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in the heavens. "Could this be the sign we have been looking for?" they wondered. Perhaps if they followed the star it would lead them to the answers they had been seeking. Notice, first of all, the wise men's response to the star of Bethlehem. THEY DROPPED EVERYTHING AND FOLLOWED IT. Some people spend their lives star-gazing ” but never act on what they see. There is an interesting story about a director of Standard Oil Company who was reading his Bible one day and came upon Exodus 2:3. This is the story ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . There was a picture of Ali holding his championship belt high in triumph from the world-famous fight dubbed: "The thrilla in Manilla." As the camera cut to the pictures, you couldn't help but notice they were covered with white streaks. The white streaks were bird droppings. Just then the ex-champ looked into the rafters at the pigeons who made his gym their home. Then perhaps as a statement of despair, Ali walked over to the row of pictures and one by one turned them over. Then he walked to the door and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... cascade downward. But that day Gary and Mike decided that they wanted to get a little closer than they had before. They hiked through the woods and stepped gingerly across the glassy rocks to a lookout point very near the falls from which they could see the water drop off. The footing was slippery, and the spray was cold, but they were closer to the waterfall than either of them had ever been before, and the view was fantastic. Mike wanted to go just one step farther onto a rock that was just a few feet ...
Sermon
Timothy J. Smith
... s wife and children. The man was almost deaf and blind and had difficulty eating without spilling his food. Occasionally, he would drop a bowl and break it. His son and his wife thought it was disgusting and made the old man eat in a ... in these flames." Do you see the irony? Instead of Lazarus begging for food from the rich man, now the rich man is begging for a few drops of cool water from poor Lazarus. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. This parable teaches us that WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN LIFE IS NOT HOW MUCH WE ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... 86, Dead; Ballplayer Muffed Fly in 1912." Sixty-two years later, and yet they could not forget his mistake. Never mind the fact that Fred later became mayor of the city of Oxnard, California, and was a successful banker and rancher and raised a fine family. He dropped a pop up in the 1912 series, and they couldn't forget his mistake. How different from Christ who not only forgets our mistakes but forgives them. (1) FORGIVENESS IS NEVER EASY BUT IT IS ALWAYS THE WILL OF GOD. Many years ago there was a movie ...
275. "Say It Ain't So"
Deuteronomy 6:1-25
Sermon
King Duncan
... set up, release, etc. Those are the most simple basics for a quarterback. It's amazing to me that professional quarterbacks will attend a camp to do such simple procedures. Ten-year-old kids in peewee football are taught those simple basics of taking snaps, dropping back, setting up, etc. High school and college quarterbacks drill on those things all the time. These pro quarterbacks are paying $10,000 for the week-long session plus they get video tapes to study at home! The New York Jet coach, Bruce Coslet ...
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