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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King Duncan
... having a great relationship with your parents. Pro golfer Bubba Watson listed his priorities in his Twitter description as “Christian. Husband. Daddy. Pro Golfer.” He and his wife Angie have two adopted children, and Watson says that joy of being a father far outweighs any professional success he has achieved. He took some time off from golf after the first adoption so he could bond with his son. As he said, “I had to be there for my son, so golf was the farthest thing from my mind . . . Trying to be ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... creature lives in a constant cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, the Phoenix is, in most cultures, a symbol of renewal. While early Christians rejected any literal interpretation of the Phoenix myth, they did adopt the mythic bird as a symbol for Jesus Christ, Easter, and resurrection. It is believed that Pope Clement I adopted it as his official symbol. Today it remains an appropriate symbol for any Christian who has had to face the reality of failure and the struggle to rise from the ashes of unrealized ...
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Derl G. Keefer
... they learned that the diagnosis was much more serious than they were led to believe. Brenda asked her son what they were going to do about the situation. With despair in his voice he shared, “I can’t abandon her now.” So the two-year-old was adopted. Several of her bones have since broken. Surgeries have been a way of life for two-year old Alice. Phil’s mom wrote, “I went to help out the day of (one) of her surgeries. Evidence of Phil and Katie’s sacrifice for Alice was everywhere. Having given ...
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King Duncan
... we will never find our completeness in human relationships. Instead, God’s ultimate purpose for us is revealed in verse 36 of this passage: “They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.” Through Jesus, we have been adopted into God’s family. We have been adopted into all the fullness of God’s love and care. Lori Wood was working as an ICU nurse at Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Georgia in 2018 when she met a patient named Jonathan Pinkard. Jonathan was 26 years old ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... church, she collected money and clothes for the children of Ukraine. She also led trips to the Ukraine to introduce her friends to the orphanage. Her hope was to plant God’s passion for the orphans in her friends’ hearts, so they would also consider adopting a child or supporting the orphanage. But then, in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The citizens who couldn’t join the Ukrainian army were urged to flee the country. And Wendy Farrell did the only thing she knew to do: with the help of her ...
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King Duncan
... inspiration to people all over the world. You see your parent doing things like that - it's the greatest lesson in the world!" We are all influenced by our mother's life, our father’s life. We adopted their values; they live on in us.We have a duty before God to make them values worth adopting Have you prepared your family for the coming King? Chances are that you HAVE transmitted to them your values. That almost always happens in families. The question is, will they feel uncomfortable in the presence of ...
307. God's Family
1 John 3:1-7
Children's Sermon
Various Authors
... his or her own way. That’s the way God has made babies. When a baby is born, he or she becomes a part of a very special group. It’s a group that is called a “family.” Every family is different. Some are adoptive families. This means that the family “adopts” a baby, because the family sees something special about him or her. The family has chosen this person to be their child. Some are birth families. A birth family is one where the child is born into that family. Some are single-parent families ...
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Lori Wagner
... of the gospel to ALL people and all of creation. Tell the good news that the messiah has come and redemption is here. For us as disciples of Jesus, it’s not an option. It’s a command. It’s God’s command revisited. Paul tells us, we are ALL adopted children of God. And we are to go out and instill God’s covenant in all of God’s children. If we don’t, your church and mine will surely die. We as Christians today, just as the Jews in the Hebrew scriptures, live in a kind of “diaspora.” Our ...
309. Learning Our Role
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
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John B. Jamison
... orphan boys to raise in order to sustain the population of their community. Some believe that John’s diet, his speaking against the temple, and his use of baptism meant that, for some reason, young John left the community of the temple and was adopted into this more conservative, anti-temple movement of the Essenes. There are many other ideas about what John experienced and why he ended up standing in the middle of that river. But honestly, as we remember the story and see John standing out in the water ...
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Douglas J. Deuel
... had even had relations with gay men. That was how he got the disease. He then passed it on to her. Her pain did not end there, though. The woman had a five-year-old son. Out of love for him, she had allowed her brother and his wife to adopt her son. Now they would not allow her to see her own son. Living in a small town she faced the agony of seeing her son almost daily, but not being able to share his life with him. She was unable to provide the nurture he needed and she felt ...
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Douglas J. Deuel
... treat one another with so much contempt. Then something happened in his family life that helped him to be able to trust the ebb and flow of human relationships. A couple of years earlier, the wife and the kids had gone down to the animal shelter to adopt a dog. They intentionally selected what looked to be the littlest and skinniest dog in the world. They named him Cocoa but more often than not the father referred to him as their "wimp-dog." They had wanted a dog that would be gentle with the children ...
312. New Wine
Acts 2:1-13
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Barbara Brokhoff
... presence in our midst is so essential for our very existence, we should long for the Holy Spirit, pray for the Holy Spirit, and open ourselves to his coming. What do you suppose would happen to us as individual Christians, and as a church, if we would adopt the same formula to ready ourselves for the Spirit as did those early disciples in the upper room? Would Pentecost re-occur in us? They Waited And Prayed The disciples met in the upper room, and for ten days they tarried -- they waited and prayed for the ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... Wisdom from on high" can make something even out of our nothingness. Don't despair! There is hope for you yet! 19 An unusual woman was being interviewed by a reporter. She had been a widow for years, and had reared six children of her own and 12 adopted children. In spite of her busy and useful life, she was noted for her poise and charm. The reporter asked how she had managed, amidst poverty, work, and responsibility to do it all with such a great and confident spirit. "You see," she answered, "I'm in a ...
314. With Fire In His Eyes
Luke 6:17-26
Illustration
Richard A. Jensen
... decry the working of the economic systems of our world today. We decry the economic injustice that we see everywhere. We decry a world where some live in magnificent luxury while the world's billions starve to death. This has to stop! We are ready to propose that world Lutheranism adopt it as a basic confession of being a Christian that economic systems which create injustice and inequity must be rejected." "
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... God's blessing in today's race. There will be a great many witnesses cheering for you to finish. RAHAB: Thank you, Priscilla. See you at the finish line. PRISCILLA: There you have it. A well-trained athlete. And a sure winner. Maybe we can all be winners if we adopt the "Narrow Door" training of Jesus. See you at the finish line.
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William G. Carter
... virtually impossible for the recipient to offer thanks. In Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters reports the epitaphs of the people of Spoon River, Illinois. From the grave, the townspeople tell the truth about their lives. One woman, Constance Hately, reveals why two adopted nieces grew up to despise her. You praise my self-sacrifice, Spoon River, In rearing Irene and Mary, Orphans of my older sister! And you censure Irene and Mary For their contempt for me! But praise not my self-sacrifice, And censure ...
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Richard Patt
... the story stirred up his neighbor/friend at midnight? Because God is on our side; God has our needs at heart. God understands the predicaments of life. He is probably even impressed when our prayers are not for our own sake but for someone else whose needs we have adopted as our own. We should be persistent because when we have banked on God and God's goodness all along in our lives, there is no reason to stop trusting God and believing in God when we are in a jam. In fact, especially then God will be the ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... widowed mother who is following the professional mourners with their cymbals, flutes and high-pitched shrieking and wailing. It is a Palestinian village scene in Nain, just a short distance from Nazareth (Jesus' hometown), and a day's walk from Capernaum (Jesus' new, adopted town). The pallbearers are carrying the body of a young man in a long wicker basket covered by a shroud for burial outside the city. Except for very important people, ancient Jews buried their dead outside the city, usually on the day ...
319. Prepare The Way
Malachi 2:17--3:5
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Robert A. Hausman
... , Caesar. It was then decided that Tiberius would marry Caesar's daughter, Julia, so he divorced his wife. Julia did a lot of running around, so Tiberius banished her. Their marriage had produced only daughters, so there was no successor for the throne. Caesar then adopted Tiberius as his son, so that he could become the new emperor. You could keep Days Of Our Lives running quite a while on that plot! We could go on forever if we spoke of the other characters in the plot: Pilate, Herod, Philip, Annas ...
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Tony Everett
... of all births. Of course, not all are able to experience such a miraculous pregnancy and birth in their own families. Carolyn and Fred were informed by their physician that, due to Carolyn's health, pregnancy was out of the question, so they chose to adopt children who were physically and developmentally challenged. They tell everyone who will listen that each child is a gift of love -- a gift from God. For Carolyn and Fred, each new arrival into their family is truly the arrival of the Christ Child. Betty ...
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Tony Everett
... the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you" (v. 2). This is also the word of the Lord to us today. We are baptized! The Lord has named and claimed us as adopted children of God. Certainly there are now, and will be in our future, times when we perceive ourselves to be drowning in the troubles of life. Certainly there are now, and will be in our future, times when it seems as if we are either burning out or dropping ...
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James McLemore
... is not decreasing; it is increasing. Our people, like Jeremiah's people, seem to be fixed in their ways. Everybody wants things to change; nobody is willing to be changed. And the church, the house of God, has become so apathetic, so complacent. We seem to have adopted an attitude of business as usual. But the situation that this society is locked into is not a usual situation, and, thank God, our God is not a usual God. We refuse to shake ourselves up, and we refuse to wake the world up, so God is ...
323. The Blind Guiding The Blind
Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 6:46-49, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Isaiah 55:1-13, Luke 6:37-42
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William E. Keeney
... being automatic. The particular temptation of persons with such a background is to feel superior religiously to others who have not shared this benefit. They can readily identify cultural forms and practices as being a part of being Christian. If someone else does not adopt these traditions, they can be looked upon as not fully Christian. It is the peculiar sin of the Pharisees. The second type is those who have had a severe struggle to overcome major sin in their life to become Christian. Their sense of ...
324. Lent 3
Luke 13:1-9, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Psalm 63:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13
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William E. Keeney
... the corrupt society with the kingdom of God. He only rejected domination and violence as methods he would use. Persons may be called to work primarily as reformers, as educators, as evangelists, or as true revolutionaries. They can be Christian in so doing if they adopt Jesus' way of doing it, not the ways of Pilate, the Zealots, or the Pharisees. 3. Choice and Decision. All people who come to the age of accountability have choices to make. They can use their perception of self-interest as the basis for ...
325. Lent 4
Psalm 32:1-11, Joshua 5:1-12, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Luke 15:1-7
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William E. Keeney
... -- The psalmist hears the Lord claiming his own as a son. Proverbs 3:12 -- The relationship of a person to the Lord is compared to that of a father to a son. Matthew 5:9 -- The peacemakers are called children of God. Galatians 4:5-7 -- God adopts people as his children and heirs. Hebrews 3:6 -- Jesus is faithful as a son over God's house. Hebrews 12:7-9 -- Being God's children is related to discipline and illegitimacy. Revelation 21:7 -- Inheriting God's favor as children. Context of the Season The parable ...
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