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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King Duncan
... named in a single word: `belief’. . . there’s genuine magic in believing.” As the Master says in Mark 9:23, “Everything is possible for one who believes.” Want evidence? A 2001 study from Duke University revealed that hospital patients who were struggling with their religious faith or who harbored such feelings as “being abandoned by God” or “believing the Devil caused their illness” were 19 to 28 percent more likely to die during the two‑year follow‑up period after their hospital stay ...
Sermon
Rick McCracken-Bennett
... as a church, we don't restrict communion to those of age, so to speak, they said that she was too young. She wouldn't understand it anymore than if it were a snack at coffee hour. So on it went, Sunday after Sunday, they would come up, Georgina would struggle to get her hands on the bread, and her parents would lovingly ask me to give her a blessing. One Sunday, I'll never forget, we were worshiping in the high school in those days, Georgina broke loose from her parents, and came all the way down the aisle ...
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April Yamasaki
... for you and me today? Is there something that we're holding on to that gets in the way of following Jesus? Do the things we own end up owning us? That can be a problem for any of us even if we're not especially well off. Maybe you struggle to pay the bills, maybe you're in serious debt, maybe you haven't had a raise in years even though the cost of living keeps going up. Yet on a global scale, you and I still have a lot of possessions, and sometimes our attachment to those things -- or ...
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April Yamasaki
... like Thanksgiving dinner. Don't worry about clothing. Don't worry about how long you're going to live. Don't worry about anything that you need. To Jesus' first hearers, this must have sounded both strange and impossible! Most were poor and struggling to survive. Between subsistence farming and the oppressive Roman taxes, they were hardly getting by. A minority might be middle class or even wealthy like the rich young man described in Mark 10, but the rest were understandably worried about how to feed ...
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King Duncan
... statesmen of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill achieved what others only dream of. He courageously led his country, the United Kingdom, to fight against the tyranny of Adolph Hitler. As renowned and successful as he was, however, Winston Churchill had his struggles. Churchill as a young man was confronted with two big challenges. First, he suffered a speech impediment--a lisp caused by a dental condition. But this did not stop him from becoming a celebrated public speaker. We’re told that he ...
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King Duncan
... our sophistication, there are areas of our life in which we are so vulnerable, so uncertain, so insecure. Middle-aged people, watching young people and remembering days gone by, say knowingly, “I wouldn’t be 13 again for anything in the world.” All of the struggles . . . all of the intense feelings . . . we envy their youth but not their situation. Probably we will sit around in heaven some day and say the same thing about our days on earth. “It was nice while it lasted, but I wouldn’t want to go ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... his money to the poor. He repays everyone he has cheated. He treats kindly people whom he had never noticed before. In short, he enters into the way of life of a saint. Sometime later his old lover sees him and seeks to unmask him before his wife. A struggle ensues, the mask is tossed to the ground, and his old lover laughs in triumph. He must turn and face his wife. But when he does, he is shocked by her question. She asks, “Why did you have a mask created that looks precisely like your own countenance ...
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King Duncan
... the inspiring musical Fiddler on the Roof. The story is set in 1905 in a small village in Imperial Russia. It centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions. It is a constant struggle. For example, he is forced to cope with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters who wish to marry for love rather than having their marriages arranged by their parents, as was the tradition. Unfortunately each one’s choice of a husband ...
3434. Flying High
Mark 10:35-45
Sermon
King Duncan
In the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, you don’t see too many people hang gliding. But ol’ Zeek decided to save up and get a hang glider. He goes to the highest mountain, and after struggling to the top, he gets ready to take flight. He takes off running and reaches the edge‑‑into the wind he goes! Meanwhile, Maw and Paw Hicks are sittin’ on the porch swing talkin’ bout the good ol’ days when maw spots the biggest bird she had ever seen! “Look ...
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King Duncan
... cruelly clipped some of its feathers. When the geese started to resume their flight, this one bird tried frantically, but vainly, to lift itself into the air. Its clipped wings would not allow it to take flight. The other geese, observing this goose’s struggles, flew about in obvious efforts to encourage him; but it was no use. His damaged wings would not allow it. And then something astounding happened, said Dr. Schweitzer. The entire flock settled back on the pond and waited, even though the urge to go ...
3436. Of Mice and Men
Hebrews 10:11-18
Sermon
King Duncan
... ’s delight, the man suggested he was responsible. He had heard a loud noise while passing the truck with the wings of the cultivator up, and now he assumed he had caused the damage. But the weeks that followed were torturous as Mark struggled with his guilty conscience. He repeatedly considered telling the truth, but was afraid. Finally one day he impulsively blurted it out. “Dad, there’s something I need to tell you.” “Yes?” his dad asked. “You know that pickup door?” said Mark. “I was ...
3437. The Light Still Shines
Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7
Sermon
King Duncan
... have written so, if his life had been privileged? I don’t know. He would probably have had more pleasures in life, but would he have known authentic joy? It is amazing how often persons who have everything materially are spiritual zeroes, whereas those who struggle through life have souls with both depth and height. In Luke’s story, the primary attendants to Jesus’ birth are shepherds. If there is a more humble occupation in the world than that of a shepherd, I don’t know what it would be. They ...
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King Duncan
... He began by reading from his prepared text: “I want to talk about my mother and the wonderful influence she has had on my life. She is a shining example of parenthood, and I love her more than words could ever do justice.” At this point he seemed to struggle for words. After a pause, he looked up with a sly grin and said, “Sorry, but it’s really hard to read my mother’s handwriting.” (2) We know how important Mary and Jesus were to each other. One of the final acts that Jesus performed, even as ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... and most of the new victims are innocent women and children — twelve million children have been orphaned by AIDS in South Africa alone. And the litany continues. In our diminished and conflicted denomination there are hyperbolic cries of constitutional crisis as we continue to struggle and vote about who is in and who is out within God’s family of grace. In a statistical sense we mainline Protestants are in a big time crisis mode. Our denomination has lost 50% of its membership in the last fifty years ...
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Susan R. Andrews
... between God as lover and God as judge. Recently within the presbytery I serve, our gathered body passed an overture to the General Assembly calling for gun violence prevention. It grew out of a multi-congregational process of gun owners and gun control advocates struggling with what it means to be peacemakers in Christ’s name. The overture focused on education and called for a ban on assault weapons and a limit on ammunition while also defending the second amendment right to own a gun. There was great joy ...
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Susan R. Andrews
... of this. Ministry is all about servanthood. Ministry is all about serving the needs of others. Ministry is all about submitting to the power and authority of God as well as submitting to the power and authority of the church. Needless to say, I have had struggles with this dichotomy between servanthood and authority for all of my forty years as a pastor. I remember going to a retreat for clergywomen when I was in my early thirties. A feminist biblical scholar was the retreat leader, and she led us through a ...
3442. In the Light of His Glory
Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... , she couldn’t face the boredom anymore. So one night, in the middle of a dirty classroom, Bessie had her tearful talk with God. Not long afterwards, Bessie signed up for her first college classes at Old Dominion University. For seven years she struggled to balance her job, her new classes, and her family. At one point, she had to juggle all this while also mourning the untimely loss of her younger sister, who died of kidney failure. Her father’s health worsened considerably during those seven ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ’” (Luke 22:39-40). Notice that linkage--prayer and temptation. What follows is a description of Jesus’ own battle with the tempter. It is here he prays, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me . . .” (v. 42). The description of his struggle in Luke’s gospel indicates that this prayer was no mere formality. “And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground” (v. 44). He knew what it was to battle temptation. His humanity ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... never bear witness to that fact by living a Christ-like life? But you ask, didn’t St. Paul warn us against depending on works righteousness for our salvation? He did, but you need to understand that Paul’s teachings to a great extent grew out of his futile struggle as a Pharisee to keep all the rules of his faith. He discovered that trying to keep all those rules only made him miserable. It did not save him. When he talked about the Law which weighed him down, he was not talking about the Law of Christ ...
3445. The Journey of Salvation
Luke 22:39-46, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Sermon
King Duncan
... -i, E’lo-i, ma sabach-tha-ni?” which means, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Only a person who has experienced such physical and emotional pain can properly empathize with such a plaintive utterance. Then suddenly there is a loud cry, and the struggle is over. A centurion who watches him die is heard to exclaim, “Truly, this man was a son of God.” But fortunately the story does not end at Golgotha. There was near the place he was crucified a garden (John 19:41). In that garden was a ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
... is like a transmission. It shifts us to a different faith gear; that is, into a more mature faith. It is inevitable that on your faith journey, you will experience times of doubt. When that happens, don’t run away. Face your doubts. Deal with them. Struggling with doubt is a faith-building process. Wrestling with doubt has the potential to take you to that place Dostoyevsky described when he said: “I do not believe as a child does; my hosannas have been forged in the crucible of doubt.”[2] There is ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
... or still addicted. We are especially equipped here at this church to welcome you if you are “down in the dumps” or having some sort of life crisis. In this congregation you can probably find at least one person able to identify with your struggle — purely from personal experience. If you happen to be one of those folks who just does not like “organized religion,” you will love this church. This congregation has raised being “unorganized” to an art form. We offer a special welcome to those who ...
3448. What a Difference a Change Makes
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... you. Five o'clock sharp! Understand? All right! Good-bye!" And off went Claude. Next the prince sent Barney Butterfly. Barney was not so sure of himself with the rain and wind, but he said he would try. His soft wings lifted him gracefully into the air. He struggled with all his might against the wind as it blew him back and forth. Just as he was about to reach the window, a bird swooped down and nearly ate him alive. After a frantic chase, Barney flew inside the window beyond the bird's snapping beak. He ...
3449. Feed My Sheep
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... the meal into bite sizes and placed them in his mouth, I felt awkward, conspicuous, but much needed. Before long I was coordinating bites as well as if they were entering my own mouth. He told me of his unfortunate accident, his lonesomeness, his joys, his struggles, his faith, his hope. His name was Bill. Our spirits blended—we experienced sacrament! Upon returning to my seat, my spirit was humbled as I thought of all the people who have had the Good News of the gospel set before them. It's available but ...
3450. Working Together
Humor Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
Two men were riding a bicycle built for two when they came to a big steep hill. It took a great deal of struggle for the men to complete what proved to be a very stiff climb. When they got to the top the man in front turned to the other and said, "Boy, that sure was a hard climb." The fellow in back replied, "Yes, and if I hadn't kept the brakes on all the way we would certainly have rolled down backwards."
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