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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Maxie Dunnam
... – impulsive. Vehement in the expressions of his feelings, often violent in relation to others and his own self-criticism. To get started today, let’s look at some brief snapshots of Peter. Do up remember when he first met Jesus? He and his friends were toiling with their nets along the Sea of Galilee and came along. Without any kind of introduction or warming up His subject Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.” The scripture doesn’t say so, but I would stake ...
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J. Howard Olds
... are we willing to live? Isaac Watts asked long ago: "Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease While others fight to win the prize and sail through bloody seas? Sure I must fight if I would reign, increase my courage, Lord. I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, supported by thy word." Today it is time to move from self-indulgence to sacrificial service for the sake of the world. That would be a dramatic move for most of us. It is time to make a move today. It is time to make a move ...
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J. Howard Olds
... , I am still not sure how I got to the church so fast. I may forget. God does not forget. I may procrastinate. God keeps his promises. God is on time every time. You can count on that. You, beneath life's crushing loads Whose forms are bending low, Who toil along the climbing way, With painful steps and slow. Look now! For glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing. O rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing. The time is right for a visit from God tonight. II. THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR YOU TO ...
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J. Howard Olds
... , nevertheless, they surround us today as a great cloud of witnesses on the grand stage of life cheering us on to completion. We do not live by ghosts and goblins. We live by the saints and the legends. It’s grace that has seen us through the toils and troubles of our days and has empowered us to keep on keeping on. Mr. Holland’s Opus is a touching movie about a high school teacher in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Holland really wants to achieve critical fame as a classical musician, but the pressure of making ...
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J. Howard Olds
... afraid of today or tomorrow, or me. He had been poor and was now secure. He had lived with death and was alive. He was grateful and needed somebody to tell about it. It was a celebration of gratitude." We have made it, you and I. Through many dangers, toils, and snares we have survived. There were times when we thought we couldn't. There were moments when we almost didn't. There were valleys where we thought we wouldn't. But grace intervened and we are alive. Thank God Almighty we are alive. What can we do ...
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J. Howard Olds
... . Instead, Henri found his soul. In becoming a servant there was satisfaction and peace. In conclusion, St. Ignatius of Loyola gave us this prayer: Teach us, good Lord, to serve as you deserve To give, and not to count the cost To fight, and not to heed the wounds To toil, and not to seek for rest To labor, and not to ask for any reward Save that of knowing that we do your will. Remember, we never stand taller than when we stoop to serve.
282. When God Builds the House
Psalm 127:1-5, 1 Corinthians 3:10-15
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J. Howard Olds
... have come to stay. The good Lord willing and my health doesn't fail, you are stuck with me for a while. There is a verse in Solomon's psalm that I have overlooked for a lifetime. It's verse 2—In vain you rise early and stay up late toiling for food to eat—for God grants sleep to those he loves. Did you know that was in the Bible? God grants sleep for those he loves. Do you have problems sleeping? Do the worries of the day and the stresses of life haunt you in the night? Do you ...
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J. Howard Olds
... fell out of bed one night. When his mother went to comfort him, she asked what happened. The frightened little boy said, “I guess I fell asleep too close to where I got in." It takes grace to relieve our fears. It takes grace to get through the dangers, toils and snares. It takes grace to put on the mind of Christ, to see as Christ saw, to think as Christ thought, to love as Christ loved. So Wesley liked to ask the question—Are you going on to perfection? Are you earnestly striving for it? Do you hope ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellow ship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is. (Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus p. 403) Who is this Jesus? The pursuit of this question ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... me, Lord, Lord shall enter the Kingdom but those who live out the will of God. And, this mountain man who never tried to escape the valleys, laid down a measuring scale for us. He said, “By their fruits shall you know them.” The call of the valley where people toil and sweat and sin and suffer is just as urgent as it was when Jesus walked the earth. Do I need to remind you of that? I think not. But I do need to remind you of one thing. As the call of the valley is just as urgent as ...
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Charles L. Aaron
... we aren't careful, we can end up in despair over this passage. Even with all of this talk of obedience and judgment, Matthew knows that we are saved by grace not works. In chapter 20 he recounts the parable of the laborers in the vineyard. Some of the workers toil away in the heat for hours. Others work half a day. Some barely break a sweat in a short hour of work. At the end of the day, they all receive the same wage from the owner of the vineyard. That is grace. We do not earn the dominion of ...
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Charles L. Aaron
... was still chipping away at the rock. The foolish builder doesn't see any problem with his house. Everything is fine until a storm comes. In just a few seconds, the house built on sand crashes down. The house built on rock, which took more effort, more time, more toil to build, stands fast. The details of the parable seem obvious to us. What doesn't seem obvious to us is that building our faith is just as hard as building a house on rock. Do we not realize that the storms of life are coming? We should expect ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... my interaction with others must contribute to that mission, the pressure would be unbearable — a guilt-trip. Besides, such a view would contradict Saint Paul's contention that we remain trapped by sin (Romans 7:17-20) and the book of Ecclesiastes' reminder in chapter 4, verse 4 that "all toil and all skill in work come from one person's envy of another." All we do is vanity. I sure hope that what I do on my own is not of eternal significance. All I do is marred by sin. But the good news is that you and I ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... sin, there is no security in life; nothing lasts forever. Contrary to all the talk about "legacies" you hear these days in the media, no one will remember you and me someday. As the preacher said in Ecclesiastes 5:15-17, it all amounts to a toiling after the wind. Even Christians come naked from their mother's womb and return naked to the ground in death with nothing they can take with them. In between, there is darkness, spent "in much vexation and sickness and resentment." The preacher of Ecclesiastes is ...
290. Political Pardon
Matthew 18:21-35
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Wayne Brouwer
... moved to the old Brouwer homestead, the land that they had sharecropped for so many years remained under their care as rental property. After all, no one could be trusted more with its well-being than Dad and Mom, who had invested their toil and sweat and family into it for decades. The old sharecropper arrangement was turned into a self-renewing rental contract. If neither the landlord nor my parents said anything by August 1 each summer, the rental arrangement continued for another year. Even in rural ...
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Tony Everett
... 's most powerful empires. It was this group of "haves" who expected to be welcomed home by a rejoicing city of "have nots" as they marched triumphantly through the streets of Jerusalem. Not! Instead the exiles returned to rubble, rubble, toil, and trouble. They observed new people in leadership positions; new people occupying their vineyards and farms; new people living in their old houses. So, they tried everything from appeals to guilt and duty to new organizational structures and planning models. Nothing ...
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David J. Kalas
... years seemed like a few days because of Jacob's love for Rachel. In addition to being romantic, the verse rings true for us. We know from our own experience that labor is made lighter by love. Something within us resonates with Jacob as he toils cheerfully day after day, looking forward to the day when both his love and his labor would have their reward. When that day finally arrived, however, there was a terrible surprise. In a brash and heartless move, Laban substituted his older daughter, Leah, for his ...
293. How, Then, Shall We Live?
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
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Mary S. Lautensleger
... our time. We don't know if God has chosen the "right person" for us to marry. That is not what is really meant by Christian hope for the future. When Christ returns, salvation will be finalized. We will be delivered from all suffering, pain, toil, and tears. Relationships are certainly important in our lives. For those who have known genuine love, the most glorious word in all our vocabulary is the word together. Many times those who love are separated. They may be separated by illness, when one spouse is ...
294. The Cost of Discipleship - Sermon Starter
Luke 14:25-35
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Brett Blair
... mark of a great leader is the demands he makes upon his followers. The Italian freedom fighter Garibaldi offered his men only hunger and death to free Italy. Winston Churchill told the English people that he had nothing to offer them but "blood, sweat, toil, and tears" in their fight against the enemies of England. Jesus demanded that his followers carry a cross. A sign of death. Andrew died on a cross Simon was crucified Bartholomew was flayed alive James (son of Zebedee) was beheaded The other James (son ...
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King Duncan
... graves were for the plantation owners. The owners were buried in the same cemetery as their slaves. (1) The Dickey’s graves were marked. Small consolation that may have been. Their bodies still lay in the cold, cruel ground as did the bodies of those who toiled their fields. Death is no respecter of persons. It is life’s one universal. It makes no difference if you are a Hollywood star or a garbage collector, the mortality rate is still 100 percent. I don’t want to come across as too morbid, today ...
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Leonard Sweet
... of “work-to-make-things-better” world for the disorder of a social system based on brown-nosing and glad-handing. Those who thought their faith entitled them to a life of support and special treatment disobeyed the apostolic examples of daily toil and labor Paul and his companions had demonstrated personally. To all these wrong-headed notions there was one simple apostolic answer: “Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.” Paul rejected the world of patronage and privilege. Instead he advanced a new ...
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Leonard Sweet
... all we need to continue in our kingdom walk. Jesus said that the “birds of the air” didn’t sow, reap, or store. But those “birds of the air” do scavenge for seeds, dig out grubs, swoop up insects. The “lilies of the field” might not “toil nor spin.” But flowers know how to put down roots, suck up nutrients, stretch for the sun, move with the wind. If we are going to recognize and integrate the guides God sends us into our lives, we need to discern the “guises” and “disguises” these ...
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David E. Leininger
... remind us that we are not nearly as lost as we thought we were, that all the time we thought we were dead inside, beautiful things were being born in us.[1] As a very wise preacher once suggested, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you ..." (Matthew 6:28 ...
299. Matthew 20:1-16
Matthew 20:1-16
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Leonard Sweet
... of the lord of the vineyard. Now, at last, the tie-in to Matthew 19:30 is made evident. The master orders the steward to pay the last hired workers first, and then work his way backwards to those who were hired first. For the laborers who had toiled since sunup and were anxious to be paid and go home, this order must have been initially off-putting. But when the first-hired observed that the last hired, and all the others who worked a shortened day, received a full denarius, they no doubt would have assumed ...
300. Troubled Waters
Genesis 9:8-17
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Ken Lentz
... taken from tin cans, wounded by an attack of sand fleas, wrapped in dark or red burnt skin, overcome by the summer Caribbean heat, but alive! They searched for a place to conduct devotions. Someone suggested that they sing "Amazing Grace." Through many dangers, toils and snares... we have already come. 'Twas grace that brought us safe thus far ... and grace will lead us home. The novice seamen seasoned by six days upon the deep sang words of gratitude. There are few people from Christian cultures who cannot ...
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