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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Children's Sermon
Object: a balance scale, a tennis shoe, a carrot and a potato Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever seen a temple or a cathedral? (Wait for show of hands.) Temples and cathedrals are very, very large churches. They might have lots of very old stained glass windows in ...
Children's Sermon
... silver sparkles. She wanted to ride it all by herself. So she got on and her dad held the back of the bike. He let go and she was riding all by herself. She looked back at her dad to say, "Look, Dad!" When she looked back she lost her balance. Guess what happened next? (Let them respond.) She didn't fall down. Across the street lived a minster with a lime green car. This little girl didn't know how to stop and she was going so fast, that before she fell she hit the car with her purple sparkly ...
328. Epiphany 6
Luke 6:17-26, Psalm 1:1-6, Jeremiah 16:1--17:18, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34
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George Bass
... and walk.' " Jeremiah 17:5-8 (RC, L); 17:5-10 (E, C) - "The Choice." 1. Human beings have a choice to make in life; they may trust in human beings, in themselves, or they may put their trust in God. Their fate, present and future, hangs in the balance. 2. Trusting only in humanity will ultimately and finally lead to despair and death; that's the way it always is, because these persons have no hope. They are like the "shrub" that is growing in the desert, always in danger of drying up and being blown away. 3 ...
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George Johnson
... be forgotten or lost. At the same time, I believe justification by faith has become a potential heresy in our church today. What do I mean by heresy? One definition of heresy is - a truth that is distorted, exaggerated, over emphasized; a truth that is not balanced with other truths. When I talk today about the heresy of justification by faith, I mean the use of it in such a way that it is distorted or causes us to neglect other truths, resulting in its becoming an escape from even more important truths ...
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Thomas Slavens
... cleared, and either cut down more wood, if we have it, or emigrate into the Western country. People in this generation are accelerating the process of erosion by plowing up and down hills, keeping land in production too much of the time, failing to balance livestock with the capability of the land, and through a general lack of appreciation for the problems of soil conservation. Why should it be otherwise? Why should we attempt to conserve the soil? A minimal motive for soil conservation is that it results ...
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Thomas Slavens
... and equipment can fail to educate the whole individual. Much depends on the teacher in the class room. Perhaps the most effective thing that the churches can do for higher education is to make a place in higher education for balanced Christian instruction and maintain its presence as a respected alternative to state-funded secular institutions, providing the highest quality education for those who desire spiritual as well as secular understanding. Prayer Our God, who are “gracious and merciful, slow to ...
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... all the king's men. We adults must live with the reality that every story does not end with lovers holding hands, or warriors coming back from war for their lovers unscathed and unmaimed, or the pendulums of justice swinging unhampered in the balances for the oppressed. We adults must learn to live beyond our unhappily-ever-after experiences. This is the true test of both our character and our spirituality. While our three scripture lessons spotlight the lives of three women whose endings were not happily ...
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Donald Macleod
... and about how we act and why. They must not be wishy-washy and tolerant of all fuzzy opinions and attitudes. Jesus said, "Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." This is the happy combination of an informed intolerance and a balanced tolerance. An open mind is a tolerant one, but it cannot tolerate that which prevents us from becoming and continuing in what life in God's kingdom requires. "Sooner or later," wrote Ned Rorem, "you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes ...
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Larry Goodpaster
... a few of his statements and teachings that bother us. We are not really all that comfortable praying for and loving our enemies, nor with turning the other cheek. Such lessons cause us to jump a bit and to catch our breath for a moment. But we balance those words with talk of loving our family, and tending to the needs of our neighbor, and we can, therefore, remain rather comfortable. Life can go on as usual, having enjoyed our momentary distraction. Then all of a sudden it happens. From out of nowhere we ...
335. Give Me A Break!
Matthew 11:25-30
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Larry Goodpaster
... in God is given when we take Christ’s offer and become yoked to him and with him. To be so bound to Christ links us with the source of deep and abiding joy emanating not from things but from the heart of God. It restores a proper balance and a new perspective about life and about what is ultimately of significance. Above all, perhaps, because we are yoked to Christ, his closeness and his guidance keeps us on the right track, preventing us from getting sidetracked. There is our rest! It is not a rest that ...
336. Saved By Grace
Exodus 32:1-33:6
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Walter Kimbrough
... are intellectually astute, sin is still sin, and the result of sin is still death. The anger of God was aroused against Israel because of sin. Likewise, the sin of the world today stirs up the anger of God. Sin, then, throws out of balance the basic and dominant characteristics of God. Love, compassion and mercy are better descriptions of the temperament of God. To have overlooked the soul of Israel would not have been just or loving. A surgeon performs a delicate operation to remove cancerous cells from ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... no easy task. The Jews of the day were nationalistic and many were religious fanatics. It would be sort of like a foreigner trying to govern Iran today. No, Rome and Pilate might have been in charge of Israel in Jesus' day. However, they had a delicate balancing act to do if they were to keep things under control and peaceful. Consequently, if enough Jews were against Jesus, the thing for Pilate to do was to play to the crowd - to give them what they wanted (even if Pilate knew that Jesus did not deserve ...
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Richard Hasler
... a manager, an athlete, a writer or someone else -- we need to learn how to play and not take life too seriously. What is play for you? Golf? Snorkeling? Walking? Running? Mountain climbing? Gardening? We all require some kind of diversion to give us a balanced life, and even more, to prepare us for playing in that great Day of the Lord. Leaping For Joy Implies Adventure Leaping for joy not only implies celebration and play but it also implies adventure. The leaping calves in Malachi’s delightful figure of ...
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Charles E. Wolfe
... is not yet perfect. And their love for each other is not yet perfect. But they have made a start in all three directions. There is, no doubt, still a remaining tinge of fear in all three relationships, but their on going life in the Spirit of God tips the balance more and more on the side of love. At the end, our prayer for them is that they demonstrate that “there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.” — Charles E. Wolfe Hampstead, Maryland
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Robert Beringer
... 't it? It changes the looks of our homes and our community. It changes our stores and our city streets, our highways and our air terminals. It changes the pattern of life from dull routine to excited anticipation. And of course, it changes things like our bank balance and perhaps even our waistlines! Sometimes it even changes our attitudes just a bit. For at least a few weeks, there seems to be a touch of goodwill that is not felt in other seasons of the year. Now these exciting changes are fine as far as ...
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John Jamison
... like he really expected a reply. That one priest had one foot on shore and one in the water and didn't know which one he should stand on. It was an odd sight. Those of us watching started to smile, partly because of the priest's balancing act, but more honestly because it was nice to hear someone finally calling a snake a snake. The priest finally took a step back toward dry ground as the baptizer took a step toward him announcing, "Bear fruit worthy of repentance. Just because you come from good stock ...
342. To Be Sure
Luke 17:11-19
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Theodore F. Schneider
... was a Samaritan! Be we leper or foreigner, no one is outside the reach and the concern of God's grace. The breadth and depth of God's faithfulness to us are important parts of today's gospel. They are the fulcrum over which gratitude and ingratitude are balanced in this story and in our lives. God's faithfulness embraces the grateful and the ungrateful. The inclusiveness of God's grace is not unique to the New Testament. For example, we have in 2 Kings 5:14-17 the story of Naaman, the commander of the army ...
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Theodore F. Schneider
... for our salvation, we have faith in his continuing ability and desire to provide for our needs. "We know that in everything God works for the good with those who love him." It is the confidence in God's providential presence, not the balance sheet of our accumulated blessings, that forms and feeds the root of gratitude. Moreover, gratitude and commitment go "hand in hand." Gratitude leads to acts of thanksgiving - the first thought and the first response - and thanksgiving leads to submission to God's will ...
Eulogy
William Luoma
... hears ... II. God helps Although we may not care to admit it, there are times when we need help. Aunt Agatha needs someone to climb up the stepladder to take the leaves out of her eaves spouts. Little Cindy needs someone to hold the bike until she learns to balance her new two-wheeler. John is unable to fill out his medical insurance by himself. Alex, who has had an operation on his leg, cannot yet stand up by himself. Even though we may like to think that we are self-sufficient, we all need help at some ...
345. Birthright Blues
Genesis 25:19-34
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Justin Tull
... broke out. Friend: They have lots of good, non-allergenic makeups out now. Why don’t you go see a dermatologist? Jane: Yes, but I know what he’ll say. He’ll say I don’t eat right. I know I eat too much junk and don’t have well-balanced meals. That’s the way it is when you live by yourself. Oh, well, beauty is only skin deep. Friend: Well, that’s true. Maybe it would help if you took some adult education courses, like in art or current events. It helps make you a good conversationalist, you ...
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Johnny Dean
... temptation, Jesus was mysteriously, as if in a bad dream, transported to the highest pinnacle of the Temple. In his humanity, as he stood precariously perched on that ledge, Jesus must have feared for his very life. He may have wondered to himself, "What if I lose my balance and fall from here?" And Satan said, "Jesus, Jesus – what are you afraid of? Don’t you believe God is watching over you? It’s in the Bible, Psalm 91, look it up if you have your pocket Bible with you. If you believe what it says ...
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Johnny Dean
... controversial) Barbie Doll. This particular model could "talk." And one of the phrases in her vocabulary was, "Math is hard." I can’t argue with that. Anything beyond simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division has always given me difficulty. I can balance my checkbook, but don’t ask me to figure out algebraic equations (as my daughter can tell you). But several national women’s organizations took offense at this innocent-sounding remark. They said that it implied that mathematics is a ...
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Johnny Dean
... ." My curiosity was aroused. "Training wheels? What exactly do you mean by that?" "You know," he said, "like the training wheels you have on your first bicycle when you’re a kid, before you learn how to ride. You have these little training wheels on the back to balance the bike so you don’t fall over so much. Well, religion, to my way of thinking, is sort of like moral training wheels. You need it when you’re young, before you’re old enough to get out into the world on your own, before you know ...
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Johnny Dean
... the kingdom of God is here. We want to thoroughly discuss the matter, look at it from every possible angle, weigh all of our options and come up with a five-year plan of implementation before we go one step further. We are, after all, rational, well-balanced, well-adjusted people, and we’re not willing to change directions impulsively, or make decisions based on passion rather than intellect. You just can’t be too careful, you know? Or can you? I want to share with you this morning a story I came across ...
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Betty Lynn Schwab
... life. If the disciples wanted to abide in him, and he in them, they were to love one another as he loved them. Then Jesus prayed that his disciples would be one just as he and God were one. Reader 1: The festival of Shavuot calls on all Christians to balance the Law and the Love of God. Faith without love is empty at its core. Love without obedient faith has no depth. Jesus Christ shows us how to live out truly loving faith and truly faith-filled love. Jesus is our way into union with God. Jesus shows us ...
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