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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326. Which End Is Up?
Ephesians 3:1-13
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... followers of Rod Parsley.] Two experienced fishermen went ice-fishing. They chopped holes in the ice, put worms on their hooks, dropped their lines into the water and, three hours later, they had caught nothing. Then a boy came along with his fishing gear. He cut a hole ... in the ice, put a worm on his hook, dropped his line into the water and, immediately, he caught a fish. He repeated the process over-and-over again until soon he had captured ...
Children's Sermon
Tim Carpenter
... blow the balloon over the other person's head. Remember that you cannot touch it. You can only blow on it from underneath. So when I drop the balloon, begin to blow on it. Ready set go! Do this for only about ten seconds, or as soon as the balloon goes in different ... didn't it? Now I want to try something else. Everyone face the same way, and get very close together. This time when I drop the balloon, blow on it. Ready, set, go! Allow them to blow the balloon in one direction. Why did it go in one direction ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... you the story of Seville who got lost and became “the baddest of the bad” in the Badlands of Philadelphia. How did that happen? How did he end up thrust out into the inner-city streets at such a young age? It was probably not his fault at first. Somebody dropped the ball. Somebody let him get lost in a world he wasn’t ready for or prepared for. He was too young to face that teeming den of iniquity. He was launched in the wrong direction. He was pushed out into the world to survive on his own at too ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... It doesn't wander off like the lost sheep. It doesn't run away like the lost son… no, it gets lost because… somebody else drops it, somebody else loses it, somebody else lets it get away and there is a sermon there somewhere… and it's a sermon about our ... How did he end up thrust out into the inner-city streets at such a young age? It was probably not his fault at first. Somebody dropped the ball. Somebody let him get lost in a world he wasn't ready for or prepared for. He was too young to face that ...
330. Best Advice
Matthew 7:24-29
Illustration
Brett Blair
... , learned that the selection of your friends and advisors matter more than anything else. He got this advice from a personal-development speaker, who said, "Tony, think of it this way, If your worst enemy drops sugar in your coffee, what's the worst think that is going to happen to you? Nothing. But if your best friend drops strychnine in your coffee? You're dead. You have to stand guard at the door of your mind." CONCLUSION: Perhaps a few of the Disciples would have said that this was the best advice they ...
331. Our Value in God's Eyes
Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30  
Illustration
... up. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now ... money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are ...
332. They Did Not Heed the Warning
Matthew 13:1-23
Illustration
Dennis Kastens
... Palermo, Sicily, a military objective of the Allied Powers, was to be bombed by the American Air Force. To warn the Sicilians, telling them to flee, thousands of pamphlets were dropped on the city beforehand, but the citizens simply did not believe the warning. They listened, but they did not hear! When the American planes came and dropped their bombs, hundreds of Sicilians were killed; in fact, in some cold, dead hands were found the very pages urging them to leave the city. Jesus urges his disciples not ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... the 1977energy crisis, the Common-wealth of Virginia ordered all non-essential buildings closed. What was number one on the list? The church.1 More and more the church is being perceived as just another building; a place one goes for weddings or funerals, or to drop in when you think it's necessary. It is no surprise that 81% of the American people say they can arrive at their own religious views without regard to a body of believers.2 A1994 Time's mirror survey asked respondents which institution they felt ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... .10 But what is even worse is not only do we have a problem with people who can't read, but increasingly of people who do not read. Between 1966 and 1990 the percentage of students who studied in the library dropped from 27.4% to 10.1%; those who checked out a book over the course of a year dropped from 51.6% to 26.7%.11 What is the result of both our illiteracy and illiteracy? A 1988 study by the Department of Education found that: 40% of high school seniors could not place the approximate date when the ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... trying to illustrate to her boys and girls the dangers of drinking alcohol. So she filled two glasses up—one with water and one with alcohol. Then she pulled out some earthworms she had dug up and dropped some of them into the water. The worms just swam around in that water and had a wonderful time. Then she dropped some more earthworms into that glass of alcohol and those earthworms just curled up and died. Then she said, "Now boys and girls, what does this teach us?" One little boy spoke up and said, "I ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... to remind you that hell is also a place of drought. Do you remember the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16. The Bible says the rich man died and went to Hades, and the moment he got to Hades he cried out for one thing, a drop of water to cool his tongue. (Lk. 17:24) Hell is a place of eternal thirst where people will thirst endlessly, but they will never have their thirst satisfied. This is a thirsty world we are living in today. People everywhere are saying, "I thirst!" They are trying to slate ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... partner in the next line, he would pass on his light and that man would then go and pass on the light until the finish line was reached. Two things were vitally important. Number one: they could not allow the light to go out, and number two: they could not drop the torch. The Greeks coined a phrase out of that relay race: "Let those who have the light pass it on." That is exactly what we must do from generation to generation until Jesus comes. 1. James Dobson, A Word to Men and their Wives, p. 51. 2. Dr ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... without a father in the home. 80% of teenagers admitted to psychiatric hospitals come from fatherless homes.14 What about the mental devastation? Children who come from fatherless homes: Display more anti-social behavior. Do worse in school, and are three times as likely to drop out as children who grow up in a home with a father.15 Only 11.6% of children living with both parents repeat a grade in school. But for children of never married mothers the number is 29.7%, and for children living with a divorced ...
339. No Excuses
Luke 9:57-62
Sermon
James Merritt
... : "That's the life for me." There are a lot of people who go into the ministry and they burn out, flame out, and drop out for one reason: they did not count the cost. There are some people who look at preachers and all they see is the preacher ... people that must be seen. They get into the ministry and realize that it's not all glitter and glamour and flash and dash, and they drop out. Well, this man thought that following Jesus was all sunshine and no rain, all comfort and no pain. I'm sure he thought that ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... v.7) They were referring here to an incident that took place in Deut. 24:1-4. If you go back and read that passage you will discover that Moses did not command divorce, he simply gave instruction on how and why a divorce might be permitted. Then Jesus dropped two bombshells. The first one is v.8: "He said to them, ‘Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.'" He points out that the root problem of divorce is sin. Divorce is a ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... who was trying to explain the dangers of alcohol to a class of little boys. She took a glass of clear water and placed it on a desk; then took a glass of alcohol and placed it next to the glass of water. She dropped some worms into the water and they just swam around. She then dropped some worms into the alcohol and they immediately curled up and died. Holding the glass of alcohol in one hand and the glass of water in the other, she said, "Now, boys, who can tell me the lesson this teaches us?" One little ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... that raise the sun's internal temperature to 25 million degrees Fahrenheit. It consumes 657 million tons of hydrogen every second, yet it has been calculated that the sun can go on burning for another fifty billion years. Yet that massive star could not even cause one drop of sweat to fall from the brow of God in heaven. Take for example just a single bolt of lightning. Did you know that the lightning flash you see across the horizon is caused by the lightning bolt heating the air molecules in its path to ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... trail of seed." Here is a farmer pictured walking up one row and down the other, up this furrow and down the next one, just continuously dropping seed. Now that is the only job God has given to the soul-winner. It is not the farmer's job to force the harvest, it ... it is to be sown. Seed that is not sown is absolutely useless. We are to take every opportunity that God lays across our path to drop the gospel seed in somebody's heart, and then simply let God do the rest of the work. Now that's what Jesus did. If ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... slows down to pick up a mailbag. When it slows down I'll hold you out the window. When I drop you, you start running so you won't fall on your face; and simply run to a stop." Well, the train did slow down, and the man took his little friend, put ... him out the window and dropped him. The man was running along the platform waving at him, thanking him for his help. About that time, a man seated in the next car ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... 70s what Rogers and Hammerstein were in the 40s and 50s. David wrote the lyrics and Bacharach wrote the melodies to such well-known pieces as "I Say a Little Prayer for You," "Close to You," "One Less Bell to Answer," and the Academy Award-winning "Rain-drops Keep Fallin' on My Head." But they wrote one song that captured the heart of America perhaps more than any other because it perfectly illustrated our loneliness and hunger for real love: What the world needs now is love,sweet love, No not just for some ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... post! You are a miscue! You are three putts on the 18th green! You are a 7-10 split in the 10th frame! You are a dropped rod and reel in the lake of life! You are a missed free throw, a shanked nine iron, and a called third strike! Do you understand? ... , maybe we would never have had that little gospel called Mark. There was a boy whose dad died when he was five years old. This boy dropped out of school after the sixth grade. By the time he was 17 he had lost job after job after job. He married at 18, had ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... . They were the prohibitive favorites. They led throughout the entire race until they came to the last lap. They were ahead by ten meters, streaking their way to victory, but at the last handoff they dropped the baton. The United States sleek, muscular, fast as leopards, lost the race for one reason—they dropped the baton. Socrates once said: "Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim: ‘Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrap every stone to gather wealth, and take ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... to illustrate to her boys and girls the dangers of drinking alcohol. So she filled up two glasses, one with water and one with alcohol. Then she pulled out some earthworms she had dug up and dropped some of them into the water. Well, the worms just swam around that water; had a great time. Then she dropped some earthworms into that glass of alcohol and those earthworms curled up and died. She said, "Now boys and girls, what does this teach us?" One little boy spoke up and said, "I know what it teaches ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... and surrender your life to Him as the Lord of your life and be willing to do His will no matter what. Did you know that where a couple is married in a church the ratio of divorce drops to one divorce in 33 marriages? Did you know that where the couples are "regular" in church attendance, the ratio drops to one divorce in 105? When you stick with Jesus you can stick with each other. Incidentally, there are other reasons why you ought to stick together. One of the most important investments you can ever make ...
350. The Most Exciting Moment of Your Life
1 Cor 5:1-13, Rev 21:1-27, Rev 6:1-17, Heb 12:14-29, Rev 22:7-21, Phil 1:12-30
Sermon
James Merritt
... praying for her healing, and telling her to claim her healing. They would say, "Look up to God and say, ‘I am healed.'" Well, she agreed. One day a pastor who knew this young family ran into her husband and said, "How is your wife doing?" The husband dropped his head and said, "She's much much worse; in fact, two weeks ago she began to deteriorate rapidly." The pastor said, "Are her friends still coming by to pray for her?" He said, "No, they haven't been around in two weeks." The pastor said, "Would it ...
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