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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276. The Shepherd King
Jeremiah 23:1-6
Sermon
John Wayne Clarke
... I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the Lord" (v. 4). Take a moment to look around you, what do you see? We are those shepherds. We are the faithful remnant and we are called to care for one another. We are directed by Jesus to be responsible for all of God's children. Jesus told us to, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the ...
277. Small Towns
Luke 2:1-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... a note tucked in the bottom of the box. Not realizing the note was intended to be private, she set the quilt aside, picked up the note and began reading it. Then she discovered that her mother had made the quilt for her. The unmatched materials were remnants of her life her mother had saved over the years. She had cut swatches of material from items dating back to her first Christmas dress. Some of the swatches were as current as the shirt she wore to the doctor the day she found out she was pregnant ...
278. Christian Hope Had Changed His Life
Luke 3:7-18
Illustration
James W. Moore
... , so that their families and loved ones back home could be notified. It was a heart-breaking and exhausting task, but it had to be done. The people worked in shocked silence well into the night until they almost dropped from fatigue. When every last remnant of death had been picked up, they each went silently to their individual rooms. That night, after midnight, there was a knock on the chaplain's door. Outside stood the young lieutenant, the Mortuary Officer. He said nothing. He just stood there and wept ...
279. John 10:22-30
John 10:22-42
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... detail that “it was winter.” Perhaps because of the chilly temperatures, Jesus was walking not in the open courtyard, but under the shelter of the “portico of Solomon,” a portion of the temple so-named because it was believed to be a remnant from Solomon’s original temple construction. John 10:1-18 takes place during the Feast of Tabernacles, some three months before the Dedication festival. As Jesus walks, his audience still the same, he is confronted by “the Jews.” The initial question in ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... of the earth?”; not “Who is a God like unto thee, that confoundeth the devices of the sinner and holdeth the wicked in derision?”; but this Listen to Micah 7:18, 19: Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins, into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:18,19 ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... and the south. Israel had known few periods of peace and none free from the threat or the actual fact of war itself. She had seen her great cities destroyed, her leaders taken captive, her temples desecrated and destroyed. She had seen a remnant of survivors come back from exile and start all over again, rebuilding the city, the temple, and the spiritual and moral fabric of the people. Looking back on all this — an experience that stretched over several hundred years, the Psalmist lifts his voice ...
282. Are You Able?
Matthew 20:20-28
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... , except to people who don't understand." Perseverance produces character. Character produces hope. Cancer has made you a better person—I hope so, never let a trouble go to waste. B. Hope Hope is faith regarding the future. Hope looks at the shattered remnants of a storm-tossed soul and envisions a life that has even more purpose and meaning than existed before. Hope is rooted in a goodness that is deeper than suffering. It is immersing ourselves in God, whatever the circumstances may be. The Dalai Lama ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... it in his book And Are We Yet Alive? twenty-five years ago. Will Willimon said it in his book Rekindling the Flame. Our response to such prophets has been to shoot the messenger instead of receiving the message. ‘We are called to be the true remnant of our heritage,’ say the defenders of the status quo. I wonder if John Wesley thought that when he took to preaching in the fields? ‘Let’s be practical,’ say others ‘and protect our pensions by raising more apportionments to fund them.’ Pastors of ...
Sermon
Lee Griess
... the pathway of life can be just as treacherous as any trail through an abandoned mine field. The threat of violence or random crime, the anxiety of illness or suffering, the sudden grief of death and loss are just as much a part of our world as any remnant of war. For like that demolitions team, we often find ourselves in a mine field not of our making, in a battle with sickness that we did not cause, struggling against tragedy that is beyond our controlling. And all too often when we come face to face with ...
285. Hunger and Politics
Matthew 14:13-21
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... was divinely assured that he would always have a son of the family ruling as king (2 Samuel 6-7). Throughout the centuries, even though the Israelites lost huge tracts of their land to foreign invaders and were diminished in numbers until only a remnant remained, they kept tracking the descendents of David. One day, they knew, a child would be born from this blood line who would reassert home rule and re-establish national hope. So when Matthew marks Jesus' entrance into the human arena, he reminds those ...
286. Mistaken Identity
Matthew 16:13-20
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... of his vocation. Jeremiah's friend, Baruch, added to the mystique by including biographical information into the record that contained Jeremiah's prophetic tirades. Moreover, Jeremiah did not disappear from the scene easily. At the end of his prophecies he urged the remnant remaining in Jerusalem to stay there and rebuild. But they were fearful of a return visit from the Babylonian armies, so they kidnapped Jeremiah and forced him to march with them to Egypt. It was at that point that Jeremiah slipped into ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... water conduit on the highway to Fuller's field. He was inspecting Jerusalem's water supply in case of a long enemy siege. God had instructed Isaiah to bring his son, named Shear-Jashub, with him. Perhaps you already know that this name, Shear-Jashub, is translated "a remnant shall return" (Isaiah 7:3). Was the presence of Isaiah's son also a sign of God's promise to Ahaz? If so, Ahaz certainly did not or would not see it. Speaking the word of the Lord, Isaiah is even more specific: "Take heed, be quiet, do ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... ; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. — Isaiah 63:9 There may have been, in little Mark's prayer, a lot of "Christmasing" going on during the last few weeks. There may still be some remnants of restoration frustration that linger in your heart. In Christ, God's child, God has restored you and redeemed you. In Christ, God lifts you up and will carry you in his heart forever. That's the gospel truth, for you, forever. Amen.
Sermon
David J. Kalas
... were entirely guided by the providence of God. Joseph is quite clear on that point. Five times in as many verses, Joseph makes explicit reference to what God has done: "God sent me before you to preserve life" (v. 5). "God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors" (v. 7). "So it was not you who sent me here, but God" (v. 8). "(God) has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt" (v. 8). "God ...
290. All About Me?
Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-31
Sermon
John N. Brittain
... story, the initiative is not always seized. Amos and Hosea are sent to warn the northern kingdom that if they continue to live in a way that alienates them from God bad things will happen. They don't — so they do. Isaiah warns that it may be only a remnant of the people who will be faithful. Then Jeremiah has an astounding promise from the Lord: The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that ...
Sermon
Larry Lange
... some of his people's hearts were "hardened" (Romans 11:7) toward Jesus and were "disobedient" (Romans 11:30-32) in their "unbelief" (Romans 11:20), he also believed that they had not "stumbled so as to fall" (Romans 11:11), but that "there is a remnant, chosen by grace" (Romans 11:5) whom "God has the power to graft ... in again" (Romans 11:23). The apostle Paul uses the same grafting image to describe how the Gentiles became Christians. He treats "the elect" among his people no differently than he treats ...
292. Historical Background
Luke 17:11
Illustration
Theodore F. Schneider
... especially since the return of the exiles from Babylon in the sixth century B.C.E. Though it may be that by Jesus' day few remembered the stories of its origin, but the hostility was still there and mutually shared. Believed by tradition to be the remnant of the lost tribes of Israel which disappeared after the fall of Samaria to Sargon II of Assyria in 722 B.C.E., the Samaritans had retained many of the traditions of their Hebrew heritage, including their version of the Pentateuch (the Torah) and festivals ...
Sermon
Ken Lentz
... God of Sinai was proving himself to be a good ally. He was a keeper. The loyalty of the Israelites waned to and fro for centuries before the words of the prophets recorded after the return from the Babylonian exile proved that at least some of the remnant remembered the pact in the wilderness. Good For The New Israel The event of Jesus marked the birth of the new Israel. The pact with God at Sinai, incorporating God's goodness extended to the people in the wilderness, was taken off the shelf. Jesus came to ...
294. The Devil's Chief Device
Illustration
Charles W. Colson
... the word and the sacraments that wherever they perceive these things to be, there they must consider the church to exist...nor need it be of any hindrance that some points of doctrine are not quite so pure, seeing that there is scarcely any church which has not retained some remnants of former ignorance."
295. The Leftovers of Life
Illustration
Unknown
Leftovers are such humble things, We would not serve to a guest, And yet we serve them to our Lord Who deserve the very best. We give to Him leftover time, Stray minutes here and there. Leftover cash we give to Him, Such few coins as we can spare. We give our youth unto the world, To hatred, lust and strife; Then in declining years we give To him the remnant of our life.
296. Acts 8:26 40
Acts 8:26-40
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... to as “Cush” in Old Testament texts. It was south of Egypt in what today is part of Sudan. For Luke’s Jewish readers this man’s ethnicity would immediately recall the promise found in Isaiah 11:11, that God will gather together “the remnant of the people that is left, that which is left from Assyria, and from Ethiopia and from Babylon.” This Ethiopian not only represented one of those “scattered from Judah.” As a eunuch he was also forever forbidden from being a full participant in Jewish ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... to as “Cush” in Old Testament texts. It was south of Egypt in what today is part of Sudan. For Luke’s Jewish readers this man’s ethnicity would immediately recall the promise found in Isaiah 11:11, that God will gather together “the remnant of the people that is left, that which is left from Assyria, and from Ethiopia and from Babylon.” This Ethiopian not only represented one of those “scattered from Judah.” As a eunuch he was also forever forbidden from being a full participant in Jewish ...
298. Proper 7
1 Kings 19:1-15a, Psalm 42 and 43, Isaiah 65:1-9, Luke 8:26-39, Galatians 3:23-29
Bulletin Aid
Julia Ross Strope
... tranquility and imagination and words will stimulate fresh thoughts. People: It’s good to be here, in sanctuary. We’re glad for opportunities to gather and to express our gratitude to God and our appreciation for one another. Leader: Set aside the remnants of last week; close the calendar for the week ahead. Be emotionally present for this hour, expecting Holy refreshment. Prayer Of Thanksgiving Holy One — as wild creatures search for water, so we search for you. We thirst for the living God! Thank ...
299. Hope Again!
Zephaniah 3:1-20
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
... and they were doomed” (p. 1366). In chapter 2 there is a whisper from the prophet of hope. He calls on the people to beg the Lord to save them and perhaps he will listen and respond (2:3). Later Zephaniah writes that there will be a remnant of survivors from the judgment and calamity that will fall on them as a people. “Restoration” is a hopeful word! (2:7). The hope rises to an increasing surge of passionate care and love from God who will bring salvation and forgiveness to those who are faithful ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... received in being apostles required that they take seriously their responsibilities. Thus, as we hear in the reading, they brought the Holy Spirit, the same gift they had received at Pentecost to the people of Samaria. Recall that these people were the remnant of the so-called "ten lost tribes of Israel," overrun by the Assyrians and lost to history in 722 BCE. The apostles realized that Jesus' message of inclusivity went to all, even the long-despised Samaritans. Therefore, they unhesitatingly go to their ...
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