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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2851. Seventy-Seven
Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... us our anger. It costs us our right to revenge. It costs us our high road to hatred. Offering forgiveness forces us to retract our claws and recall our true cause, the cause of Christ and His kingdom. The call to forgiveness calls us to hear what drives our heart. Are we driven by love? Are we driven by service? Are we driven by shalom? Are we driven by a need for superiority? Are we driven by guilt? Are we driven by grace? Offering — or refusing forgiveness squeezes out and squishes that which circulates ...
2852. That's Not Fair
Matthew 20:1-16
Sermon
King Duncan
... a few years ago. Journalist Bill Moyers created a documentary based on the hymn “Amazing Grace.” One of the more unusual scenes in the film took place at a massive benefit concert in England. All day, fans had been blasted with hard-driving rock music. Strangely, the concert organizers had scheduled opera singer Jessye Norman to close the concert. Fans reacted negatively when Ms. Norman first took the stage. Here was a middle-aged black woman without any back-up band, depending completely on her voice ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... freeze that a smart-alecky, satirical magazine was born. It wasn’t some well-heeled, upper-crust publication, financed by any special “lobbyist” group. It was “MAD magazine.” A comic book. But a well-written comic critique of the craziness that was driving countries “MAD.” MAD magazine dared to lampoon the possibility of global annihilation. Written for a 10-100 year old audience, in its pre-internet heyday MAD magazine was the place to peel back the looniness and manipulation of the times and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... officials in that city have been successful in recovering nearly a million dollars owed by these tax cheats by this method. The sense of shame evoked by the racket is enough to make most people come out and pay, says a tax official, who noted, “The drive has been such a great success that we have had several inquiries from other cities and towns about it.” I hope our tax officials do not find out about their success. Our neighborhoods are noisy enough. The people of Jesus’ time felt the same way about ...
2855. Running over the Cat
1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11
Sermon
King Duncan
... was called in to take over emergency firefighting. On January 14 these substitute firefighters were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat. The soldiers arrived with impressive haste, very cleverly and carefully rescued the cat, and started to drive away. But the lady was so grateful she invited this squad of heroes in for tea. They enjoyed their tea. Then, with fond farewells and warm waving of arms, the soldiers started out of the driveway . . . and ran over the woman’s cat ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... don’t need practice. You have to be careful about announcements though. At one small college in the Northeast, snow had been coming down steadily for hours when an announcement came over the intercom: “Will the students who are parked on College Drive please move their cars so that we may begin plowing?” Twenty minutes later there was another announcement: “Plowing has been completed. The six hundred and twenty-seven students who went to move 26 cars can return to class now.” (3) John the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... fifteen. “Fifteen,” he writes. “It’s an awkward time. Your body is somewhere between childhood and adulthood. Hormones are doing all sorts of weird things to your body . . . And there is this great race to grow up. Still, at fifteen you are not old enough to drive a car, vote, stay out late, or live on your own. At fifteen, there are a lot of things that you are not allowed to do. Now, close your eyes for a moment. Remember yourself at fifteen years old. You are in Junior High, interested in things ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... up his wife and her mother who was visiting them from her home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and they walked to the car. It had started to snow. Fiddler’s wife got in the front seat, and her mother got in the back. And just as they were about to drive away, the two large men reappeared by the car. They had only their sleeveless denim jackets, and their hair and arms were wet with snow. They said that they were visiting from out of town, that the friend who had driven them to church hadn’t returned to pick ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... most elementary missions, that are making the most difference in a community. Big churches that run big programs, organize inter-church sports leagues, send members to Catalyst conventions, are no more important than small town or rural churches that offer to drive a few preschoolers home after dark through sketchy neighborhoods or feed them supper. Big fringes, small fringes — it doesn’t matter. Fringes don’t matter. What matters is if the thread that ties the fringes to the garment binds faith to ...
Sermon
David J. Kalas
... . Soon he was back into the familiar cycle, and his chin was back in his chest. I have experienced that struggle. We all have. Perhaps we’ve fought it in a classroom or a committee; while trying to enjoy a movie, a concert, or a play; while driving at night, which is a particularly frighten­ing experience. Or, perhaps we have even felt the struggle to stay awake while in the midst of a one-on-one conversation. Sometimes, sleep simply seems irresistible. And no matter how hard we try, we cannot manage to ...
2861. Come Home
Matthew 25:14-30
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... that choice comes the rejection of any chance of a “homecoming,” for the joy of entering into the pleasure of the Master. And you and I were made with a homing instinct that yearns for a homecoming. To be sure, we have become an incredibly mobile people. We fly, we drive, we bus, we boat, we bike all over the planet. How many of you now live in the “home town” you grew up in? How many of you need to think a minute and pick among a couple of candidates to select your “home town?” How many of you ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... us that “waiting” is the most becoming “lifestyle” for a follower of Jesus. If you believe the story that “Christ has come, Christ is here, Christ will come again, waiting on that final fulfilment in Jesus’ Rubik’s cube of promises and possibilities is what drives our life forward on the highway of faith. The way we live out our “waiting” is what makes Christians different from the rest of world. As we live our lives and love our neighbors, we are called to express to this fallen world not ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... you imagine a world where no young person felt the need to act out in destructive ways in order to gain parental attention or approval? At heart this is the solution to the world’s deepest and most tragic problem, the emptiness and loneliness that drives people to despair: “You are my son, you are my daughter, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” Baseball great Cal Ripkin, Jr. was quoted saying something about parental love sometime back. “Growing up, ‘I love you’ wasn’t spread around too ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... thing. Water can be amazingly destructive. Bridges wash out, homes fall and then are carried away. You’re on the road . . . you come to a place where water covers the road . . . it looks like perhaps the water will only come up to your hubcaps. So you drive on through. But it’s deeper than you think. Your car stalls out and suddenly you discover that you are at the mercy of the water. Over the years that is a scenario that has played out many times in almost every flood situation sometimes with tragic ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... quickly, and some among the group began to panic in fear that they would not reach their destination before the heavy snows. Several members proposed to the rest of the group that they should quit their practice of stopping for the Sabbath and continue driving onward seven days a week. This proposal divided the close knit community. Finally it was suggested that the wagon train should split into two groups: those who wanted to continue to observe the Sabbath and those who preferred to travel on that day ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... , “Then I’ll just go on my own and I’ll pay for my own college.” I said, “That’s fine. It saves me a lot of money. I have just one question, ‘How are you going to get there?’” With a surprised look he said, “I am going to drive my car there.” I said, “You don’t have a car.” He said, “Yes I do. It is parked outside.” I said, “That is not your car.” He said, “You gave it to me.” I said, “I don’t think so. Go down to the dash and see who the ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... as being rich. If you heard that announcement, your first response would be, “We aren’t rich so we will sleep in.” You are actually the second reason why nobody would come, because what you would do is say, “We don’t need to hear the message, but let’s drive up there to see who does show up.” So those people who think they are rich wouldn’t come, because they don’t want others to think that they are rich and the they don’t want others to think that they think they are rich. I have a ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... (No it is not pictures of babes in bikinis) It is all the newest clubs, newest drivers, newest irons, newest wedges, and newest putters. I’ve noticed they say the same thing about this year’s list that they said about last year’s list – “never been another drive made like it, best irons ever built, this putter will ensure you sink every putt.” Do you know what it makes me do? It makes me look at last year’s driver like a piece of junk. It makes me think “Yeah if I had that putter I could ...
2869. The Reject
Luke 19:1-10
Sermon
James Merritt
... husband and got his permission and (2) we would meet there, at the school, in a public place. She assured me she didn’t need to call her husband, but I assured her I wouldn’t come unless she did. I drove up in one of the longest two-hour drives of my life. I did not know what she would say when we met. We sat down there in the office of that school and it wasn’t long before all that hurt and heartache I had caused her burst to the surface and she began to weep. I leaned ...
2870. The Loser
Mark 10:17-31
Sermon
James Merritt
... , he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.” (Mark 10:22, ESV) At first that verse is hard to understand. Why did he go away disheartened? This guy is rich. You don’t go away sad because you are rich. You go away sad, because you are driving a 17 year old, 3 cylinder Kia! Why would walking away with all these riches make him sad? Here is the reason. This man was forced to come face-to-face with the realization that what he owned, owned him. What he possessed, possessed him. What he had had ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... come back and pay anything else that the man owes. This is important, because any person who could not pay their bill could be sold, as a slave, by the innkeepers in order to get full payment for a debt. The crowd is about to fall out already when Jesus drives the knife in all the way to the hilt. He looks at the lawyer and says, “Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” (Luke 10:36, ESV) The answer almost gagged this lawyer. He can’t even ...
2872. Just Grace
Matthew 20:1-16
Sermon
James Merritt
... trips. I sing on a praise team. I share my faith. I read my Bible. I give offerings. How many of you perfectly obey every law in this state all the time? You always come to a complete stop at a stop sign even when nobody is around? You always drive in the proper lane? You always use your turn signals? You always obey the traffic rules? None of us do that, but suppose you did? Would the government send you a check every month in gratitude for what you have done? Nope. You only did what you are supposed to ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... to them. I don’t care who you are married to and how much you love them. I promise there are things about your spouse you don’t like. There are things about your spouse you wish you could change. There are things about your spouse that drive you up the wall. I can’t help but laugh every time somebody gets divorced over what they call “irreconcilable differences.” Can you tell me any two people on this planet that don’t have irreconcilable differences? I want you to listen to something that C.S ...
2874. It's All Good
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
James Merritt
... , no hospices, no cemeteries and no gravesides, no funerals, and no funeral homes. There is no need for universal healthcare. No more sitting by the bedside of a loved one whose body is wasting away from the ravages of cancer. No more need to worry about a drive by shooting, murder, or a terrorist attack. There will be no need for gun control. There will be no more death. The reason why there will be no more sorrow and no more death is because there will be no more sin. “But nothing unclean will ever ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... them or even refuse to speak to them. What it does mean is you cut off fellowship with them. You let them know there can be no more social or relational contact with them until the problem is resolved. The purpose of that is, hopefully, to drive that person to come to the point where they are finally willing to admit their wrongdoing and do their part to restore the relationship. Let me tell you something. Matthew 18 works. It works in a marriage, a friendship, business, with neighbors, and any relationship ...
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