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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3426. Epiphany 8
Lk 6:39-49 · 1 Cor 15:51-58 · Jer 7:1-7 · Isa 55:10-13
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John R. Brokhoff
... do anything about it? If not, the speaker wastes his/her breath and the listeners their time. A person who listens and obeys the words of Jesus is likened to a house built on a foundation which during a storm holds the house secure. It is another way of saying, "Be doers of the Word and not hearers only." Lesson 1: Isaiah 55:10-13 1. Power (v. 11). The Word of God has within it an inherent, latent power. Jesus compared the Word to seed. A seed has within it the power of life, to break out of its shell ...
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... believe in God and his infinite love. It is just that she cannot fit the two together, and they do not make sense. If the Lord be with us, she says, why has this befallen me? One hears it time and again from people who look around at the agony of our ... dares to say, delivered them into the hands of the Midianites. It is not because God does not love that things turn out badly. It may be even because God loves us. It is because God’s love is at the basis of life and all that it offers us that life turns ...
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Richard L. Thulin
... tidal wave; like the gentlest movement of air rather than a hurricane. It takes special care to even notice it. Maybe we cannot be blamed for feeling a bit disappointed at the way John tells it. The story of Pentecost after all is a story of power. ... to the fact that the Spirit has been given in order that we might bear the presence of that kingdom in our own lives. It may be true that no flames will ever dance above our heads. None of us may traverse the globe on a preaching mission. But the promise of the ...
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... I? I’m carried by the current of an all-possessing Love. I’m on my way, God’s way for me, so let it be. He could have been speaking for all who have placed their faith and trust in Christ in life and in death. Today, we remember such ... for all of God’s children, and he has made eternal life available to all in Jesus Christ, our Lord. That is why we, too, may be able to say, "Thank you for letting me die," and "forgive everything," and even "Remember the best" - and mean it - and die in Christ in peace ...
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Harold Warlick
... health if we do not convert that energy into praying for those who despitefully use us; we must not cut ourselves off from those we are angry with or we will miss some of life's finest blessings; and we must make a critical adjustment from being pleasure centered to being other centered. May God help and bless all of us as we cope with anger in close-up relationships. 1. Leo Madow, Anger: How to Recognize and Cope with It (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972), p. 20. 2. Ibid, p. 29. 3. Jones, as quoted ...
3431. Advent 1
Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122:1-9, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 24:36-51
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... race. With each passing day, the time for Christ's return draws nearer. He will come again to usher in a new era, the day of salvation, in God's good time; the gospel tells us about that. 2. That's why we, like the people Paul addressed, need to be awake, anticipating the return of the Lord, and living in the light ofthe new day, rejecting all ofthe works of darkness. 3. This is the time of living out our baptismal relationship with the Lord by dying daily to sin and rising to live the new life in Christ. 4 ...
3432. Advent 4
Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25, Psalm 24:1-10
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CSS
... . (The Gospel Lesson) 4. Few people will become prophets after the order of Isaiah, and fewer will become actual martyrs, but all of us can express our sainthood, as did Joseph, in full and complete surrender to God of all we have, all we are, and all we hope to be in life and in death. Isaiah 7:10-14 (15-17) - "Immanuel - God's Word to the World" 1. The word God spoke to Ahaz - Immanuel - has been heard, not by Ahaz alone, but all over the world. 2. Immanuel is a word of blessed assurance; God is with the ...
3433. Proper 16 & Pentecost 14
Isaiah 22:1-25, Psalm 95:1-11, Psalm 138:1-8, Isaiah 51:1-16, Exodus 5:22--6:12, Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20
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... The charge against him and his fate are spelled out in the first oracle, 22:15-18; his position had gone to his head, and he had attempted to set himself up as one of the royal family by carving out a tomb for himself where only they could be buried. The second oracle, the first reading for this Sunday, tells of his dismissal from office and the appointment of Eliakim in his place: I invest him with your robe, gird him with your sash, entrust him with your authority ... I place the key of the House of David ...
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... is secondary. If we both believe and practice this, it follows that the unity of his disciples is a cross to carry which, at times, may become very heavy. To serve him with no strings attached is to live with him and die with him. The crucifixion cannot be separated from the resurrection or vice versa. LOYALTY IS NOT AN OPTION in Christian unity. As the close of the century comes upon us, ecumenists, loyal to their Lord, are seeing signs of a harvest, rich in all aspects of the Faith, as it was delivered to ...
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Michael L. Sherer
... I wasn’t positive. In fact, I wanted to find out. You see, my parties had begun to get a little boring. Conversation was beginning to go stale. Besides, I got involved with some of these poor folk not long ago. One of our city’s tenements was due to be torn down. The residents would not have had a place to live. The city engineer asked me to work with him to see if we could remedy the structure, shore it up, and save it, rather than demolish it. I volunteered my services without a fee. And as we worked ...
3436. The Blessing Of Bondage
Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24
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Barbara Brokhoff
... in or out of Eden, we humans are still expected to live on God’s terms. To honor the laws of God leads to our well-being. God is not a harsh despot who gives us difficult laws to obey just so he can frustrate us. Nor does God make rules for us ... to assure that we remain subservient to him, lest we "become as God." What a stupid lie of the devil to think that God could ever be threatened in the least by puny humanity! But for our good, God gives us rules; as a nation has laws for the common good, as a ...
3437. Power to the Faint
Matthew 11:25-30
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Dennis Kastens
... made white as snow, that they have been blotted out. He has buried our sins in the ocean of his forgiveness, never to be brought against us any more. If we really stand on that sure word, then we can rejoice. If we truly believe this message, ... and hanged himself from the chandelier, but the rope broke! He took lethal poison but recovered! Finally, he decided the only thing to do would be to throw himself into the river. He went out and hailed a taxi - a horse and carriage - and told the driver to take him ...
3438. What’s God Going to Do With You?
Hosea 5:1-15, Hosea 6:1--7:16
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John R. Brokhoff
... feel we have been born again like the man, who was released from prison after sixty-six years, said, "I feel like I’ve been born again." If and when we return to God, our faith will come alive again. For many, faith is not what it used to be. For some, there is no faith at all. Our paucity of faith is revealed by our church connections and activity. In an average Protestant church, forty percent of the members are inactive. It is another way of saying that four out of every ten members of the church have ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... but shudder at the bad news. Both are necessary, for God is both love and justice. As long as humanity sins, the bad news will be received. Yet, we loathe the bad news, and we tend to speak only of God’s love. In our text today, we have two preachers ... all one gets after a sin - "God loves you"? Where is justice in this case? Yes, God loves us, but there is a penalty to be paid. Justice demands it. God is also justice. Christ forgave the repentant thief and promised him paradise, but he still had to pay the ...
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Richard Hoefler
... ’s thought water represents the forces of evil that are opposed to the salvation intended for Israel. When Jesus walks on the water he is saying, "Fear not the forces that attempt to rob you of salvation. I am greater than they are."5 These approaches to the miracle can be summarized by the account of Gorch Fock, a sailor in World War I, who wrote home to his mother: If you should hear that I have fallen in a naval battle do not cry. Remember that even the ocean in which my body sinks is only a pool in my ...
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Robert Noblett
... that life about us is not nearly so determinative. It may rain, but we don’t have to stand in it. With others, chronic tension is an internal household badly in need of spring cleaning. I’ve spoken with people from time to time who find their homes to be so crowded with the accumulations of the years that they scarcely know where to begin in tending to the mess, so they choose not to tend to it. The dust continues to gather, the piles get taller and they simply choose to watch it happen. People do that ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... in mind. But in this case you don’t take others along to prove wrongdoing, but rather to help the reconciliation. It may well be that we are the ones, and not the other person, who are in the wrong! Hate often develops against those whom we have wronged ... s the fourth step, tell it to the church. The fifth follows right afterward "... if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector" (Matthew 18:17). V. The advice to treat him as a Gentile and a tax collector ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... question never fails to jar me a bit. I’m always forced to ask myself: "What do I know for sure?" and the answer always seems to be a kind of mocking echo in my mind: "Not much, and that’s for sure!" Look in God’s Word for sureness, and you find a ... loved: I’m not sure the earth is round Nor that the sky is really blue. The tale of why the apples fall May or may not be true. I do not know what makes the tides Nor what tomorrow’s world may do, But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you. What ...
3444. Strained Gnats
Matthew 23:1-39
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Herchel H. Sheets
... is not worshiped in the Bible, it definitely is not ignored or discounted. One is expected to use one’s mind, to think, to reason, to plan, that he or she may avoid errors and learn to live according to the truth. Yet try as one may, one will never be able to know all things or to keep from making some mistakes of the mind. And these may cause one at times to appear unable to distinguish a gnat from a camel. Parents, for instance, often strain out gnats in rearing their children. They don’t mean to, but ...
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Leonard Mann
... Some may argue that this is oversimplified drama. Perhaps. But I do believe it is a good way to make a point which needs to be made. And while we are about it, will you permit me to press the drama somewhat further, and make the point a bit more vivid ... to you and me as we approach our heavenly Father in prayer. Very often we go to someone in the name of another. I may be unknown and uninfluential, and the president or the king of the Very Important Person, VIP, wouldn’t have time for me or interest in me. ...
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James Bjorge
... buddy, you’re wasting your time. There aren’t any cherries up there now." The snail kept up his minute movement and said, "There will be when I get there." Maybe we all need to slow down a bit and live along the way. Mad dashes only wear us out. ... schedule. However, there were other teachers who expected us to give a summary of the lesson without advance notice. They urged us to be ready in season and out of season. There was an alarming alertness on the part of the students under such class procedure. I ...
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Jerome W. Nilssen
... the two of us here together. (Finally; hissing) God, I hate that damn music. (She turns, smiles at him, turns away) But then I suppose Seth told you all about me. Even if he is prejudiced. Just what did he say about me? I suppose he made me out to be a real pig - that’s what Seth would do - that’s the way I remember him. Extremely vindictive. GRACE (Turning again) Vindictive? CAIN I’ll bet you didn’t think I knew any words that big. Hell, I’ve been around. I’ve hob-nobbed with the great and the ...
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Wesley T. Runk
... how good Charley was at hanging on the wall? Not very good, was he? But when he is filled with milk he is terrific. You can be like Charley and Sally and Pat and work hard at using the talents that God has given you. If you use your special talents well, you ... to let Jesus help us with our spiritual problems. God wants us to pray to Him for our help and when we get it we will be glad and strong. A BETTER WAY 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, verse 10: But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. Object: Two ...
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Erskine White
... she had them with her in the Bethlehem stable that night. She might also have packed some salt, since it was the custom in those days to rub the newborn baby with salt before putting on the wrapping cloths. Like good parents everywhere, Mary did what she could to be ready when the time came. The Bible says that God was also busy preparing for the birth of His Son. First, He sent the angel Gabriel to speak with an old man named Zechariah, to prepare him and his aged wife, Elizabeth, for the birth of a son to ...
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Durwood L. Buchheim
... a night, or for that matter, even a few hours in jail. A text like this forces one to think about that. I remember reading some years ago this comment by Dean Inge, "We are distressed because our churches aren’t half-empty; but many of them would be emptier if the gospel were preached in them." To insure my safety and popularity do I water down the gospel? I know some people who for conscience sake, were arrested and spent a night in jail. They were very fearful and apprehensive. Was this the right thing ...
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