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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Sermon
James Merritt
... am not interested.” Well, I want to say firmly and clearly, the Lord Jesus Christ is not looking for “weekend warriors” who come once a month to a National Guard Meeting. He is looking for full-time “spiritual Marines. The Lord Jesus, in one statement, lays down the specific conditions which must be met if anyone is going to truly follow Him, be His disciple, join His spiritual marines, and they must all be met. There is no shortcut to discipleship. Did you hear about the wedding ceremony where the ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... because of what you could give Him. He sent Jesus because of what He could give you. Still, there is one other thing that God has done. III. God Has Delivered His Love To Me God did not just give His son to the world. He did more than just lay that son at the world’s doorstep. He wants that son to be delivered into your very heart and into your very life. Listen to the last part of that verse. “Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16b, ESV) Jesus didn’t come ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... the Life, you can say that people will live even if they die, but it’s another thing to prove it. So we go to the part of the story that we all love. “Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, ‘Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.’ (John 11:38-39, ESV) Well we just read where Martha believed, that she DID believe ...
3254. The Loser
Mark 10:17-31
Sermon
James Merritt
... empty. When he looked at his life he realized there was a piece of the puzzle missing. “I am not firing on all eight cylinders.” This man enjoyed a tremendous social life, but he didn’t have eternal life. This was a very heavy question he is laying on Jesus. He didn’t just think this question up. I imagine that ever since he had heard about Jesus - perhaps he had heard Jesus talk about the Kingdom of God. Maybe being a Pharisee like Nicodemus, maybe they were buddies and maybe Nicodemus had told him ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.” (Luke 10:31-32, ESV) The temple was served by three classes of people - priests, Levites and lay people. The priest evidently had been to the temple to serve and was on his way back down the mountain to Jericho where many of the priests lived. They would go to Jerusalem for a two-week assignment and then return to their homes in Jericho, because it was more ...
3256. Lost
Luke 15:1-7
Sermon
James Merritt
... forest. One day she wandered off into the woods to explore, but as you can imagine she soon lost her bearings. She became lost and couldn’t find her way back. As darkness descended fear gripped her heart. She began to scream and cry and weep until finally she just lay down and went to sleep. It wasn’t long until her father came looking for her. He looked for a couple of hours calling out her name and suddenly saw her lying on a patch of grass. He called out her name and ran over to her as fast as ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, ‘Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?’” (Matthew 19:3, ESV) Jesus ultimately answers their question, but when He gets through they wish they had never asked Him, because Jesus clearly lays out for them and for us how God sees divorce and remarriage and how we should see it too. I. Know the Reason Behind Divorce Jesus has just presented an ironclad case for why marriage should be permanent and why divorce basically should be absent. The ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... most of the New Testament was written in Greek, but some of the Bible was written in Aramaic. Another thing to remember is not all the books are the same kind of books. Some books are purely history. Some books are law books or legal books laying down the kind of laws that the people of God will live by. Some books are poetry. Some books are music. Some books are straight forward teaching. Some books, like the Gospels, are biography. Much of the New Testament is personal correspondence (letters written from ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . There was once a time when love was made manifest by a greater expenditure of effort than that of this Frenchman. It was that time when the Lord Jesus hung on a cross to show us how important we are to God. “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command . . . This is my command: Love each other.” The Golden Rule, as wonderful as it is, is insufficient for this task. We are not simply to do unto others as we would have ...
Sermon
... of the Bible, beginning with Genesis and not stopping until Revelation. Each time a verse spoke to the topic of poverty, wealth, justice, or oppression, they cut it out. They wanted to see what a compassionless Bible looked like. By the time they finished, nearly two thousand verses lay on the floor, and a book of tattered pages remained. They discovered that if you cut concern for the poor out of the Bible, you cut the heart out of it. (2) I wish more of us had a heart for the down and out like Jesus did ...
Eulogy
William Shakespeare
... ; To be imprison’d in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: ’tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed wordly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Eulogy
Thomas Gray
... heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; “The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Grav’d on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.” THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and ...
3263. Moving On Up
Mark 9:33-37
Sermon
King Duncan
... through northeastern Galilee heading toward Capernaum. It was the first leg of their final journey toward Jerusalem. Jesus wanted to keep their presence from becoming known because his public ministry in Galilee had ended and now he wanted to prepare his disciples for what lay ahead. They came to Capernaum after an absence of some months. Jesus had noted some bickering by his disciples while they had been on the road. When they were in the house, Jesus asked them what it was they had been arguing about ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... at the heart of Jesus’ teaching. His incarnation--his coming in human flesh--was a most powerful demonstration of that truth. His death, which he had just predicted, was a demonstration of that. As he himself once put it: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13). His washing his disciples’ feet at the last supper was an indication of that. Think of it. The great, matchless God of all the universe stoops down to become a human being and becomes a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... his head, his hands, his feet,” wrote Isaac Watts, “Sorrow and love flow mingled down! Did e’er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown?” On one occasion Christ himself summed it up, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13). A man traveled a great distance for an interview with a distinguished scholar. He was ushered into the man’s study, where he said, “Doctor, I notice that the walls of your study are lined with ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... long leafless, bring forth new love, kindness, new mercy and compassion . . .” Could you find joy and give thanks this Christmas if you were deaf, blind and unable to speak? Helen Keller knew a joy that few people ever attain. She learned how to lay aside every anxiety and in “every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present [her] requests to God.” “Rejoice in the Lord always,” writes St. Paul, “I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of every academic discipline. In his long life, Goethe became renowned as a poet, as an artist, as a musician, as a playwright and as a historian. There was hardly a single facet of human knowledge of which he did not have a tremendous grasp. As he lay dying in 1832, the story is that he suddenly sat up, bolted upright in bed, and cried out with great poignancy, “Light, light, more light.” (5) Isn’t that essentially the cry of us all? “Light, light, more light.” There is so little that any of us ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... and importantly, he learned that the way to God is usually forward, not backward. I. Perhaps that was what Jesus meant when he told the scribe that the foxes have holes and the birds have nests but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. I remember reading in detail the campaign arrangement of then presidential candidate Gerald Ford of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Every minute of every day and night was thoroughly scheduled by his handlers. He was brusquely hustled from one place to another to maintain ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... to help the victim. Rather, it was required he help the man in the best way possible with what he had. Love is risky. It is not stupid. It is not foolish. But love is vulnerable. Love does take chances. The Good Samaritans of the world do lay themselves open to attack either in the streets or the courts of law. We must not let the legalists, the defensive, fearful, narrow exclusivist people bind our society in fear or choke it with laws that reward the bad and penalize the good. Any such revised version ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Thinking quickly, the soldier hatched a plan. When the order was given, he simply stood still, not moving a muscle. The sergeant demanded an explanation. “It’s a promise I made to my father,” said the guilty but creative soldier. “As my father lay on his deathbed,” he continued, “I told him I would never bare a bayonet on the anniversary of his death. Today is that day” “That’s the most outlandish fish story I ever heard,” thundered the sergeant. “Let me see that bayonet.” As ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: ‘Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!’” Maybe Jesus was singing as he entered Jerusalem that day. He could see what lay ahead, yes, the cross--but beyond the cross to the resurrection . . . and his ascension to be with the Father . . . and then to Pentecost when the church would be empowered to carry out his ministry . . . and to today in 2016 when we would be gathered in ...
3272. Blinding Anger
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... only intended to scare the drunken general, his aim was true and the spear took the life of his childhood friend. Deep remorse followed his anger. Overcome with guilt, Alexander attempted to take his own life with the same spear, but he was stopped by his men. For days he lay sick, calling for his friend and chiding himself as a murderer. Alexander the Great conquered many cities and vanquished many countries, but he had failed miserably to control his own spirit.
3273. A New Status
Acts 19:2
Illustration
Michael P. Green
The story has been told of a group of colonists who left Virginia in the late 1700s and started across the mountains to the land that lay far to the west. As the story goes, they were forced to interrupt their journey for some reason, perhaps fear of Indians, or the death of a horse, or the breakdown of a wagon. For whatever reason, they spent twenty years in the mountains, during which time they saw no ...
3274. Am I The Exception
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Michael P. Green
... is told of an author, William Saroyan, who had achieved great success in his field. His works had been acclaimed in the literary world, his name was a familiar entry on best-seller lists, and he had even been awarded a Pulitzer Prize. But now he lay dying in New York City of cancer, which had spread to several of his vital organs. One evening, as Saroyan reflected on his condition and what the future held for him, he placed a phone call to Associated Press. After identifying himself to the reporter who ...
3275. My Road Ends Here
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Michael P. Green
... missionary told an old Indian chief about Jesus Christ, describing him as God’s only way to heaven. “The Jesus road is a good road,” the aged chief agreed. “But I have followed the Indian road all my life, and I cannot change now.” A year later, he lay in his hut, deathly sick. The missionary hurried to his side and once more told him of Christ. “Can I turn to Jesus now?” the dying chief asked. “My own road stops here. It has no way through the valley!” Every road that a man walks in life ...
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