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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3151. The Holy Trinity
Deuteronomy 4:32-40
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An idea keeps echoing through the Book of Deuteronomy: "Remember!" "Beware, lest you forget." The writer of Deuteronomy knew it isn't always easy to "remember," but also recognized its importance, so he kept emphasizing it. He knew how vital it is to recall our origins, to be aware of where we came from, to remember how we got where we are, and to keep, consciously, before us the recognition of vital things that allowed us to get here. J. Wallace Hamilton tells of a sensitive Jew who wrote a book called, " ...
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He entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector, and rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not, on account of the crowd; because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, make haste and come down for I must stay at your house today." So he made haste and came down, and received ...
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Adolph Hitler had a dream of a thousand-year empire. The years may make us forget too soon and too easily the terror that was Adolph Hitler. The terror was that this little man, not in stature alone, but in smallness of mind, had managed to do in an extraordinary degree what others had done before him, and what we are all capable of doing. What he did, says Kenneth Burke, was to make virtue vice, and vice virtue. When, therefore, the Nazis put six million Jews and millions of others into the ovens, they ...
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The year - 1979. The place - New Orleans. There's no joy in this town today. Mighty Mardi Gras has struck out. The police are on strike! Parades are canceled. Visitors are not visiting, citizens not celebrating. No one laughs, no one revels, no one is even tipsy, let alone drunk. Is this any way to begin Lent - somber and sober? Businessmen are giving up their profits for Lent because of lack of customers. Families are tightening their belts, picking at meager meals, afraid, without police, to venture to ...
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Peter gives a very dramatic and descriptive look at what it means to be the people of God. "You are a chosen race," he said, "a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were no people, but now you are God’s people. . ." That is a significant and encouraging affirmation not only of who we are but of whose we are. It was a difficult and dangerous time for the early Christians when Peter ...
3156. Parable at the Candy Store
Proverbs 16:16
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Three children were taken into the candy store by their father who said, "Now each of you can have a candy bar -- whatever kind you'd like." The first child said, "I'll take that giant-sized bar." The youngest said, "I'd like several kinds, but I can't have chocolate. I am allergic to it, so what can I have?" Then she made her choice shortly. The third child was dismayed at the great number of choices. She wavered back and forth and finally started to cry. "I can't make up my mind," she said in her tears ...
3157. Be Prepared
Matthew 25:1-13
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Object: A pair of shoes and some shoe strings which have been broken and knotted several times; a coat without buttons. Good morning, boys and girls. Was it easy to come to church this morning? Were you prepared for church? Did you have all your clothes laid out, plenty of toothpaste for your toothbrush, and milk for your cereal? Well, if you had all of that, somebody at your house was well prepared. Who takes care of all those things at your home? Your mother? Isn't that wonderful that your mother thinks ...
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Object: A gas can and car window cleaner. Good morning to all of you boys and girls. Who can tell me what day it is today? Sunday, that's right, and what a tremendous day this Sunday is going to be. When you got up this morning did you take a deep breath and thank God for being alive and well? I hope so! I want to talk to you this morning about a word that is very easy to use. The word is sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I broke it. I am really sorry. I'm sorry that I hurt you. I'm sorry that I forgot. I'm ...
3159. Proper 9
Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 · Gal 6:7-18 · 1 Ki 21:1-3, 17-21 · Isa 66:1-14
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John R. Brokhoff
COMMENTARY 1 Kings 21:1-3, 17-21 For refusing to sell his lot to King Ahab, Naboth is falsely accused and murdered so Ahab can take possession of the land. Here we have only the beginning and ending of a dramatic story involving a king, a subject, and a prophet. To understand it, one must know and tell what happens between the first and last verses of the pericope. King Ahab offers to buy or trade the lot of Naboth whose land is next to the palace for his vegetable garden. Because he received it as an ...
3160. Advent 4
Lk 1:39-55 · Heb 10:5-10 · Mic 5:1-4
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John R. Brokhoff
COMMENTARY Micah 5:1-4 Out of Bethlehem will come a shepherd king who will be great. Micah was a prophet of the seventh century during the reigns of Ahaz and Hezekiah. The first three chapters are considered to be the work of Micah, but chapters 4 and 5 are believed to be the work of an unknown author writing during or near the end of the Babylonian exile. In the dark years of the exile, the Jews looked for a restoration of the nation under a Davidic shepherd-king who, like David, would be born in ...
3161. Proper 20
Lk 16:1-13 · 1 Tim 2:1-8 · Amos 8:4-7 · Hos 11:1-11
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THE LESSONS Hosea 11:1-11 Yahweh so loves his disobedient people that he cannot give them up to destruction. In one of the most moving passages in the Old Testament (Lesson 1), Israel is pictured as Yahweh's prodigal son. Hosea sees God and the nation as a loving father and his rebellious son. As a loving father Yahweh loves Israel when a child, brought him out of slavery in Egypt, and cared for him in the wilderness. He took his child in his arms, taught him to walk, and nurtured him. In spite of this, ...
3162. Proper 22
Lk 17:5-10 · 2 Tim 1:1-14 · Am 5:6-7, 10-15
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John R. Brokhoff
COMMENTARY Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 Though Israel is guilty of social injustices, Yahweh will be gracious to her if she seeks the Lord and loves good. Amos urges Israel to seek life by seeking the Lord, hating evil, loving good, and establishing justice. Because of their sins, they will experience the fire of judgment. Their sins are of a social nature: the wealthy oppress the poor, afflict the righteous, and accept bribes. Amos calls upon the nation to repent by turning from evil and turning to Yahweh. Then it ...
3163. Proper 9
Matthew 11:25-30
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Assistant: Jesus said: "Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads." People: How often we feel weighed down with burdens and cares, struggles and frustrations, hurts and hatreds. Pastor: Jesus, our Savior, we turn to you as you have invited; we bring to you our loads and lay them at your feet, recognizing in you the one who can help us - the person of God who stands with us in the experiences of life. People: We thank you for your invitation, and we come to you, Lord Jesus. Assistant: ...
3164. Christmas Eve or Day
Isaiah 62:1-12, Titus 3:1-11, Luke 2:8-20
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First Lesson: Isaiah 62:6-7, 10-12 Theme: The joy of salvation Call to Worship Pastor: Open your hearts, my friends. Let salvation enter. People: God has sent his Son to save us! We are God's people because he has redeemed us. Pastor: The Savior is born. Let the whole world know that God loves his people, and rejoice. People: Joy is bursting our hearts! May all who hear of our Savior's birth prepare for his redeeming love. Collect Gracious God, who fills our hearts with the joy of salvation through the ...
3165. Third Sunday in Lent
Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42
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First Lesson: Exodus 17:3-7 Theme: Hardened hearts and God's salvation Call to Worship Pastor: There is a very ugly side to human nature: God guides, protects, and loves us. Yet we find it so easy to rebel against him. People: God blesses us so much, that when we must face hardships, we feel he has deserted us. Pastor: When the Israelites complained to Moses about not having water, God proved he had not deserted them and gave them water from a rock. People: We know our sinfulness hurts God. Yet in Christ, ...
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Christ is born! A rough manger is his cradle. We have a reason for rejoicing, even today, in a world that makes us ponder the fate of the whole human race, perhaps of all life on the earth. The story of the birth of Christ unfolds, according to St. Luke, much like a play in four acts, therein revealing our cause for celebration of Christ’s birth at his cradle in Bethlehem. The first act has to do with the journey Mary and Joseph had to make from Nazareth to Bethlehem. About all we know of the journey is it ...
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Matthew and John, the two evangelists, seem to be at odds about the beginning of Jesus’ ministry; they tell a rather different story. John picks up the story after Jesus’ baptism and describes how two of John’s disciples, one of whom was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke to Jesus, asking him where he lived. Jesus said, "Come and see," and, immediately, Andrew became a disciple of Jesus. Then he found his brother, telling him, "We have found the Messiah," and Peter went with him to Jesus and became a ...
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Far above the cool, clear waters of New York State’s Lake George, looms Black Mountain, the highest of the mountains guarding that deep, clear lake. I spent five summers on that lake as a seminarian, traveling many times, as the Iroquois once traveled, under the shadow of that awe-inspiring peak. The winding trail from the lakeshore to its summit has felt the rough leather boots of hikers of a century ago and the soft deerskin moccasins centuries before that. Along the trail runs a brook filled with ...
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On Baltimore’s near West Side, there is a winding hilly way which may have been a deer trail long before the Europeans settled in this land. Along that road stands a fine grey stone fortress, with a steeple stretching to the stars. In 1875, the members of First English Lutheran Church, who had been burned out of their church home on Park Avenue, built that fortress. I was near there a few weeks ago, returning from a visit with one of our members who worshiped in that church as a girl. From a stop light, I ...
3170. What God Sees
Isaiah 58:1-14
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Salzburg is a splendid town, rolling in and out of the hills that dance about the Salzer River. In the town center sits a fortress topped with many castles. Below that hill Salzburg’s fairyland cathedral stretches its bulging roccoco arms this way and that to offer its praise to the Lord. I lived in Salzburg a few weeks one summer, studying German at the University. I loved to walk through the town, its narrow streets leading me up secret alleys to hidden surprises. Up one street stood Mozart’s birthplace ...
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I begin with a word about two American cities, cities of fame and sometimes of infamy. The first is in the east, almost as far as the Atlantic Ocean. It is this nation's capital, workplace of the president and of senators and representatives and of thousands of bureaucrats. It is a place where decisions handed down and deals hammered out affect millions of lives. It is a place so attractive and important that millions of dollars are spent to get there. It is Washington, D. C., and it symbolizes power. The ...
3172. Proper 7
Matthew 10:1-42, Romans 5:12-21, Genesis 28:10-22
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First Lesson: Genesis 28:10-17 Theme: God renews his covenant with Jacob Call to Worship Pastor: God expressed confidence in Jacob even though Jacob was unworthy through sin. People: As Jacob was running from his sin, God came to him with the assurance of divine protection. Pastor: God renewed the covenant he had made with Abraham, promising Jacob he would be blessed with God's faithfulness. People: Like Jacob, may we realize God's presence in our lives, and commit our ways to him. Collect O loving God, ...
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Richard L. Thulin
John's story of Pentecost seems better suited for a time other than our own. It is so quiet in the telling that it hardly slows us up. No need for camera crews here, nor even a newspaper reporter. No need for police to hold the crowds back, nor attendants to help us find parking spaces. There is no massive display of unleashed energy. There are no sounds as of rushing wind and no tongues as of fire. No sermon, no baptisms, no "wonders and signs." It is like the slightest ripple of water rather than a tidal ...
3174. The Love God Wants
Matthew 22:34-40
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Judging from current fads in vocabulary, it seems that most of us think that life is too complicated, or at least, more complicated than it needs to be. One clue is the frequency of the words, "basic" and "basically" in our speech. "The basic idea of the proposal is...." "Basically, how do you see the situation?" And most all of us have given in to the fashion of creating nouns out of adjectives as we express the need to "get back to the basics" in everything from education to economics. We long for ...
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How quickly we learn the desire to be great. The quest to become "number one" is a given in our competitive society. To some degree it is what fosters achievement and causes people to strive for excellence. Few people succeed without a fairly strong motivation to be foremost in their field. That’s the positive side. The negative side has to do with the absence of compassion and the undue pride that can go along with ambition. We can feel sorry for losers, but we prefer to associate with winners. Nothing ...
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