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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Drama
Tom Eberle
... . Well, these characters wouldn’t let me out of their sight. I thought I had managed to ditch them in the Arabian desert, but when I got to Jerusalem they were still on my tail - figuratively speaking. You notice that stars really don’t have tails. [motions as if to show them] So I figured I would pick some backwoods little village and stop there - just to confuse them. [Three wise men wearing crowns enter from the rear of the sanctuary. They begin moving slowly toward the front.] One: [looking at a map ...
Drama
Tom Eberle
... : Now everyone’s doing it to me. Voice 3: I’m not bugging you. I was just commenting that you certainly seem to need a vacation. That’s all. Voice 4: O.K., O.K., so I need a vacation. Is that anything strange? People get fed up to here [motioning across face] and have to get away once in a while. If I had a choice I would take a vacation for the rest of my life. Anything wrong with that? Voice 3: No. Although I’m sorry you don’t feel like going back. Maybe Bermuda will change your ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... sensitive to the special needs of the handicapped. Everywhere we go we are faced with reminders of thousands of people in our land who can’t take for granted what many of us often do take for granted - the ability to walk or see or hear or think or motion. But then we don’t have to look to the nation to be reminded of these matters. In our congregations we have many handicapped people. Three members of the congregation I serve are legally blind and at least one of my people has the use of only one eye ...
279. Must We Have All the Answers?
Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... slowly. And each time I found myself mentally formulating some sentence that would break this silence, something said to me, gently but inescapably, "Be quiet!" So I continued to be silent. Suddenly her eyes opened and her face turned toward where I was sitting. Her hand motioned me. And then I heard ... yes, I heard these words, coming from the depths of her sorrow: "Pastor, give me peace." I had not said a word. Now I replied, "Yes, Madame, that is why I have come." I knelt down beside her bed and placed ...
280. The Un-Parade
Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... Save one’s bills, I don’t know much else that comes to one minus the use of persistence. A well-groomed summer lawn is won only at the cost of perpetual vigilance. A bug-free environment is won only at the cost of a fly swatter in perpetual motion. A dust-free family room is won only at the cost of a regularly employed dust rag. And more seriously, a good marriage is won only at the cost of persistent attentiveness, a healthy family environment at the cost of constant effort, or a healthy parish at the ...
281. Onesimus
Isaiah 43:1-13
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... in the lighted doorway was a youth, a cellmate, tall and muscular - obviously a slave. The older prisoner rushed forward, "My name is Paul, welcome ..." Silence, "And this is my friend, Timothy, he is just leaving." The guard thrust the newcomer into the cell and motioned to Timothy to make a quick exit. The door slammed; hush fell. The youth did not speak, but threw himself into a corner, face buried in his hands. Once more there was an attempt at conversation, "I said my name is Paul ... and yours?" A ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... in our concepts now. I am making only one point at this juncture. I am teaching that facts are perceived in various modes. If you will seek more enriching concepts and aspects of Christian meaning, that’s what the gospel is all about. Alfred Hitchcock made a motion picture several years ago about a blind, fine-looking man in London who was trying to solve a murder case. He was given a message to proceed to a certain house and meet the informer there. He took a taxicab and arrived. With courage despite his ...
Sermon
Allan J. Weenink
... through the seas of time, sails unfurled, driven by an Almighty force. Dr. Leonard Griffiths calls the Spirit, "the truth of the invisible God in action." That’s an accurate but modest description of the stupendous surging energy unleashed at Pentecost, setting in motion far-reaching forces still undiminished. "But how do I know the power is real?" asks the skeptic. By what happens! Said the little lad to his grandfather, "What is the wind?" "I don’t know, my boy, but I can hoist a sail." Evidence ...
284. The Unexplainable Reality
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
Allan J. Weenink
... the word of the Lord spread throughout all the region. So did the news of their dynamic influence. Soon they became known as the people who turned the world upside down ... or better yet, right side up. Whatever it was, Pentecost had set in motion a force that could not be deterred. Soon the loose-living, immoral, corrupt Roman Empire became frightened and concerned. Here was a new morality ... so compelling that men were willing to leave all and follow ... willing even to die for what they believed. But ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... where he was going; but he knew with whom, and this was enough. I suppose there are two ways of walking into tomorrow. Let me illustrate. I saw two blind men, each walking along the main street of town. One groped his way, arms outstretched in wild motions of search, his feet shuffling tentatively as though they mistrusted one another. The other man strode, a spring in his step, white cane tapping lightly before him as he went, his body erect, head held high in the posture of one who sees. The first man is ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... history closed. He has done a lot of coming this side of that. If you could ask John Wesley concerning the dramatic transformation of his life, I think you would hear him say, "I was defeated and frustrated and lost; all my doings were mechanical, the making of motions, with no spirit and no joy; that’s the way it was with me - but then came Jesus, and I found my heart was strangely warmed within me." And, of course, you can multiply the witness of Wesley a great many millions of times and write it over ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... one, if I may. One year just before Easter I was burdened with work, weighed down with responsibility, beset with difficulty - or so I thought. I was bone weary and mentally tired. In this condition I went one day alone into a room to preview a motion picture film on the resurrecton of Jesus. Sitting there in the dark, I watched the familiar episodes of the drama unfold. But I was only half seeing, half hearing. Then there on the screen was the Apostle Thomas in prison telling his prison mates about it ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... and we have this: Jesus Christ of Nazareth. To be completely correct, it should read: Jesus, the Christ. The definite article belongs there - both in the grammatical and the historical sense. They started something, who on his circumcision day name this Child. They set in motion a sound wave which has never died away, although nearly twenty centuries have gone by. If you shout from a mountainside, other mountains may pick up the sound and echo it from hill to hill until at last it fades away in some distant ...
Drama
Sarah Walton Miller
... competition with her computer. TWO: Carol? CAROL built a COMPUTER? ONE: Shhh! Not really. Her DAD did it, but SHE won the prize, so what’s the difference? TWO: Don’t you remember the stink two years ago? ONE: What stink? TWO: Some student entered a perpetual motion machine and IT won. ONE: So what? TWO: One of the teachers got to thinking this student was just too dumb in class to build that machine. So he investigated. And sure enough his Dad paid some engineer to build it. ONE: Wow! What it must be ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... . In the early days of civilization, it was quite natural that man, as an activity of courtship, should imitate the animals by engaging in mating dances just like many of the animals did, dances which were an imitation and a suggestion of the physical motions of sexual intercourse, displaying how well their individual bodies could perform these functions. For them, that was not sin, that was the level of their light. But we have more light. We know that love and courtship and marriage mean more than showing ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... toughness, in which we bowed down to some kind of a taboo against tenderness. We acted as though we thought that the boorishness and brutishness that we saw in so many lives were signs of masculinity and strength. These were our heroes in the motion pictures. The man who found ‘em, slapped ‘em down, beat ‘em up, loved ‘em and left ‘em, this was the real man! Brutish! Boorish! Any ignorant, stupid FOOL can be a BRUTE! And WEAKLING can be a BOOR! Genuine signs of sentiment, gestures of respect ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... prayer that we heard or learned as a child, the principle is always the same - WE HAVE NO EXPECTATION IN IT! But consider James Montgomery’s classic words that go to the very heart of it: "Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, Unuttered or expressed A motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast." That is praying! Certainly the direct opposite of the vain repetition about which our Lord warns us of often. It’s the kind of prayer that puts the breath of God into a mere man. Emerson’s biographer ...
293. Chapter I
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... it was my aunt’s birthday my grandmother had baked her a cake, and had gone out into the kitchen to put on the candles. She brought the cake, candles blazing, into the dining room, and pushing the dishes aside set it down in front of my aunt, motioning to the family to begin singing their birthday greeting. But before anyone could move, the thirteen-year-old girl suddenly sat bolt upright. Then she stood, and catching her breath, began to scream, "Dad, I can see! I can see you ... I can see your face!" As ...
294. Chapter VI
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... bubbled up within the hearts of people and soon set even brothers at each other’s throats. The drive to dominate, to become first, is an old one! It drove Cain to turn the earth red with the blood of Abel, his brother. That blow set a shock wave in motion that has never stopped! In the desire to have things our way, we have learned through a continuing stream of evidence, some men will go to any lengths. They will lie, cheat, steal, and finally kill to get what they want. Often we will try all of the more ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... anywhere with me and sometimes, like this morning, he helps tell boys and girls stories about Jesus. In a minute Sport’s going to help me, but first I want to explain something to you. Sport, (pretend that you’re talking to this dog and petting him and then motion for him to go and sit down while you talk. Exaggerate all you can) you go over there and sit down while I tell the boys and girls something. That’s it. Sit down right there. Jesus taught us that we must make a choice between God and money ...
Sermon
Michael J. Anton
... right cola, brush with the right paste, pour the proper conditioner into my locks, smear my face with the best creams, purchase the most expensive brand of shoes. I frantically strip the store shelves of all these essentials and apply them to my body in one sweeping motion. I smell good, I look "in" and I feel empty. It’s all a laughable farce. The hills are gorgeous and alluring. But they don’t make me feel any better; they don’t answer my cry for help. I run headlong through the valleys between the ...
297. OBSERVER OF THE TIMES
Deut. 18:10
Illustration
Stephen Stewart
... persons who had a superstitious regard for days that were supposed to be lucky or unlucky, as decided by astrology. Such persons were condemned, as our text shows. They were supposed to be able to foretell political or physical changes by the motions of clouds. I suppose that any of us reading this description would think immediately of the astrologers of today, and the myriads of astrology columns that fill our daily newspapers. Unfortunately, many people are still duped by this kind of pseudo-scientific ...
298. SILVERSMITH
Judges 17:4; Acts 19:24
Illustration
Stephen Stewart
... to shape the object; with saws and hammers to make the shapes and designs he wished. Silver used to be extensively used in coinage, but today, although this use has declined, its value in the arts and in industry has soared. Motion pictures would not have been possible without silver, and silver solders are important in the aviation industry. Silver is used in the manufacture of photographic materials, in electronics, manufacture of chemicals and foodstuffs, and in laboratory equipment. Compounds of silver ...
299. Reconciliation
Luke 23:26-43
Sermon
Burton F. Blair
... guards. Mary, the mother of Jesus, steps forward to request permission to minister to the needs of her dead son. A guard roughly pushes her aside. Then one of the other Marys pushes forward seeking permission. She, too, is turned away. Finally, with a sweeping motion of her hand, Mary Magdalene loosens her golden hair so that it cascades down her back. "Marcellus," Mary calls the guard by his name, "have you ever seen hair like this?" And then she thrusts out a foot and asks, "And have feet ever danced ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
Once in every lifetime something happens on the world stage, which shapes the course of human events. That event occurred three year ago on the morning of Sept 11th. Consider for a moment what was set in motion by the terrorist attacks of that day: Our nations capital was attacked. Over 3000 people lost their lives (1). The Manhattan skyline was irrevocably changed. The financial trade center for 150 nations was completely destroyed. The world’s economy was greatly tested. We waged a war against the ...
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