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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Bulletin Aid
... Jesus your Son, through whom we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We want to do good, Father; but too often we find ourselves doing that which is not good. We fail because our faith fails; and we cannot keep doing good just for the sake of doing good. Forgive us for our disinterest or doubts which keep us from knowing and believing you. Cause our faith to mature; that we may commit ourselves to sincere discipleship. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Hymns "All the Way My Savior Leads Me" "God of the Ages, by ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... fell in love with himself. This is the generation that is preoccupied with self. We dwell on self-admiration, self-love, and self-concern. The "I" is the number one in our lives. In recent years we keep talking about and searching for self-identity, self-understanding, and self-fulfillment. This is the age of humanism. We keep talking about the dignity and value of a human being. We appeal to people to be human. The greatest thing in the world, they say, is to be a human being. It is the ultimate value in ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... post-crash investigation, due to lack of discipline in the cockpit. Instead of following prescribed procedures, the crew was busy discussing politics and used cars. A Christian is one who practices the discipline of putting priorities in their proper order. It is the discipline of keeping your eye on the ball whether it is golf, tennis, basketball, or football. In our text Jesus is asking us to make him our first love. Then he goes on to discuss the love of members of a family whom we usually love more than ...
3054. Holy Tares!
Matthew 13:24-30
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John R. Brokhoff
... who will not repent and be saved? They send themselves to the fire of the weeds. Let it be crystal clear: God does not want you to die. God wants you to live and live forever. That is why he gave his only son to die on the cross: to keep you from the fires of hell. God really loves you and wants you to live forever. The church is like no other organization or institution. Unlike all other groups, it embraces both the good and the bad, wheat and weeds, the hypocrites and the sincere. The reason is that the ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Solomon received wisdom because this was his greatest desire. If we keep an open mind and a receptive spirit, one day we will find what we are looking for. It may come unexpectedly or suddenly. ... the supreme pearl for years and then he found it - at last! This may mean a lifetime search, but we must never give up; we must keep searching until we find it. The pearl may be found where you do not expect it. Years ago there lived a man who was restless for ...
3056. Food for Faith
Matthew 14:13-21
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John R. Brokhoff
... crashed into the side of the Andes mountains. Only sixteen of the forty-five survived by eating the flesh of the dead passengers. Two of the team set out to find some help. They struggled across huge mountains and after many days came across a peasant keeping watch over his flock in a remote valley of the Andes. At first the farmer thought the two men were terrorists and left them. The next morning he was back and the two survivors frantically tried to make him understand but the roar of a river separating ...
3057. Jesus ... Who?
Matthew 16:13-20
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John R. Brokhoff
... Peter said, "If you wish, I will make three booths here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." The Disciples wanted to keep them together and with them for always. Maybe you are surprised that pride is suggested as a reaction, because you usually think of pride ... ? Could you be ashamed of him when you are with a secular crowd who does not go for church and Jesus? Do you keep silent and not let anyone know you are a Christian and active church member? Do you deny him among your social circle or ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... , the resolution to stay alert for the best signs in the worst times and the grace to accept what cannot be changed. It is an art to be practiced, a skill to be sharpened, a faith to be kept, a philosophy to maintain and a hope to keep bright. It is not blind surrender to inevitable fate, euphoric capitulation without effort, nor stuporous cowardice that ceases to care. Into every life come those moments, days, weeks, and even years when all the pieces of the puzzle do not seem to be present, when the clear ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... to say he has faith, if his actions do not correspond to it? Could that sort of faith save anyone’s soul? If a fellow man or woman has no clothes to wear and nothing to eat, and one of you say, ‘Good luck to you, I hope you’ll keep warm and find enough to eat,’ and yet give them nothing to meet their physical needs, what on earth is the good of that? (James 2:14-16, Phillips) ... A man is justified before God by what he does as well as by what he believes." (2:24) In other ...
3060. Peace
John 14:15-31
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... piece of glass. Glass breaks very easily and it must be handled carefully. Jesus talked about things that were fragile and one of the things he mentioned as being fragile is peace in the world. We know that what he said is true because we have a hard time keeping the peace. Someone is always fighting with guns and bombs and breaking the peace. That kind of peace is very fragile. It is being broken all the time. It is like a piece of glass in the box. There is another kind of peace that is not fragile. This ...
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Harold Warlick
... let the mind go elsewhere and never experience the joy at all. I can remember a lesson about a simple prayer that we all know. The prayer goes: Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. I once heard a young mother say that her child was using that simple little prayer now but she hoped that when he grew older he would discard it for something better, more original, more exciting. "Something more exciting!" I retorted! Then ...
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Harold Warlick
... family squabbles, and the hospitals, we will be waiting a long, long time! If we do nothing else, we must be there simply to relate to them. Notice also that the first thing this Samaritan woman did was try to get Jesus in a religious argument to keep from talking about her life-style. One of the first things a minister learns in life is that people who are always arguing about the Bible and splitting hairs about religion are really trying to divert attention away from their own life-style! They are trying ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... terrifying fury! It’s interesting to note that the Bible (KJV) says the name of the storm was Euroclydon. I keep telling you the Bible is more up-to-date than tomorrow’s newspaper! Did you think the American Meteoroligical ... , "no lives lost" - "all saved." Sounds like the ending of a fairy tale - "they all lived happily ever after." We never need to worry about God’s keeping his end of the bargain, we just need to check ourselves to see if we are doing all we should. So now you are on your way ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... we often fail to be very logical. Preserving the status-quo experience is no more realistic than Harry Emerson Fosdick’s delightful little quatrain he learned as a child: "I eat my peas with honey - I’ve done it all my life; It makes the peas taste funny - but it keeps them on my knife!" We must not say, "Well, I’ve never done it, so it’s not for me." That kind of illogic is akin to that of the two small girls who were playing together one afternoon in the park. "I wonder what time it is?" said one ...
3065. Hooray for Humility!
Philippians 2:1-11
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Barbara Brokhoff
... anonymously; the next year gave a new piano to the church; the next year an organ to enhance the worship services; and never let me tell who did it! Marvelous humility, isn’t it? You can do a lot of good if you don’t care who gets the credit. Keep in mind that the aim of the Christian is not self-display, but self-obliteration. Christ humbled himself to death on a cross, can we humble ourselves to death that hides behind that same cross? We might be able to better illuminate the way to God if we could ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... so badly." Jesus would never do that to anybody, because he cares. God is so concerned about us that he even keeps count of the numbers of the hairs on our head. Someone recently estimated that blondes have approximately 145,000 hairs, brunettes have 120,000 hairs, ... and red-heads approximately 90,000 hairs. That’s a lot of hairs to keep track of! The Jews used to be so impressed with the individual attention of God that they claimed each blade of grass had ...
3067. Paul Today
Acts 17:16-34
Sermon Aid
T. A. Kantonen
... ’s story - in plain terms, we are fallen creatures and the tale of Adam and Eve is the story of you and me."25 There is nothing paradoxical about "true myth"; for myth, used here as in Plato, is not fiction but a vehicle of profound truth. In keeping with the Hebrew concept of corporate personality, Paul constantly uses Adam to denote humanity as a whole, just as he refers to the new humanity as being in the last Adam, Christ. He affirms that "sin came into the world through one man" but he does not teach ...
3068. Minute Accounting
Matthew 12:22-37
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Herchel H. Sheets
... or she has spoken at the final reckoning? Another question involves the justice of such a policy. Are there not so many other things more important than the careless words one speaks that one may become guilty of majoring on the minors by concentrating on keeping inappropriate careless words from slipping out of one’s mouth? We can understand why we should have to do some accounting for our speech, but is this not going too far? It leaves us no leeway at all. It puts us under the continual responsibility ...
Drama
Robert Clausen
... ? You’ve opened the door for death, and now he walks among us, the uninvited guest, who asserts his power over us and evicts us from our homes. Nothing was made for him, and yet he claims everything for his own. Not even the holy circle of love can keep him out. Oh, sin, what have you done to my Father’s world? [He weeps.] MARTHA: We know you loved him, Lord. SECOND CLERGYMAN: [Snappishly] We’re going to be late to the cemetery. MARY: We’d better go on, Lord. JESUS: Open the casket. MARY: Open it ...
Drama
Robert Clausen
... I deny you. JESUS: Wait here, then, while I go to pray. [PETER, JAMES, and THOMAS seat themselves. JESUS goes apart.] JESUS: Father, the hour is come. I’ve worked on earth for your glory. Now give me again the glory I had with you before the world began. Keep safely those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are. Let your love be with them. [He returns to the others.] Peter, couldn’t you stay awake with me this little while? PETER: What happened, Lord? I felt so tired. JESUS: The spirit ...
Drama
Robert Clausen
... . Now I don’t know. WIFE: What will you do? GOVERNOR: Why do you care? WIFE: I fear him. GOVERNOR: Why? WIFE: I keep having a dream ... GOVERNOR: What about? WIFE: The time I heard him. GOVERNOR: Where? WIFE: In the city. GOVERNOR: You never told me. ... get where I am now. I’ve smiled at people I hated and I’ve had to hate people I liked. I like this man, but to keep what I’ve got ... WIFE: That’s our kind of dirt. GOVERNOR: One slip ... one slip ... and we never climb as high again. WIFE: It’s a ...
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Leonard Mann
... and especially beyond it. Yes, some days will be darker than others - which means, of course, that the others will be brighter. Were this not so we couldn’t make the comparison in the first place, could we? In the conflict between our future-related hopes and fears, we must keep our hopes in control, and we can if we are walking into tomorrow hand in hand with one who is going on. He isn’t going to drop our hand out there somewhere and say, "So long; it was nice to have you walk with me; but this is as ...
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Leonard Mann
... tragic loss, and as a result of the faith that sustained him through it, Luther Bridgers wrote one of the best of our gospel songs: He Keeps Me Singing. The story is that he sat on the stone doorstep of what once had been his and his family’s home, and there ... path seems rough and steep, See his footprints all the way. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus - Sweetest name I know, Fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go. One of our gospel hymns, sung to a tune called "Precious Name," begins with these lines: Take ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... ultimate security. You don't so much possess a treasure; rather, it possesses you. You can have many possessions but only one treasure. Jesus said that wherever your treasure is, there your heart will be. Jesus would never approve the keeping of your treasure in a safe deposit box. "Keep it in heaven," Jesus said. Where is your treasure stashed? The most important thing about the commitments of time, talent, and money that we will make to God over the next month is that they indicate where the treasure of ...
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Bill Bouknight
... . When the string breaks for some reason, you would think that the kite then without restraint would soar higher into the skies. But it doesn't. It starts zigzagging, flipping, and diving. Finally, it crashes into a tree or power line. I see an analogy here. Only when I keep the line taut between me and God, only when I operate according to his design and command, then and only then do I soar. When I break free from him to do my own thing, I am bound for a crash landing. In verse 22 of our scripture lesson ...
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