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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3526. How Much Is That Preacher?
Illustration
Jean Shaw
... this minister over here? Comes from a management background. Trained in business operations at Beatitude College. Adept with committees. Gets his work done by 11:30 every morning. His tag says he's an IBM 400. Madam, you have a discerning eye. IBM stands for Innovative Biblical Methods. This man will positively revitalize your church. I'm not sure our church wants to be revitalized. Haven't you got something less revolutionary? Well, would you like someone of the social worker type? We have this Ghetto #130 ...
3527. His Plan For Me
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Staff
... have been Had He had His way, and I see How I blocked Him here and I checked Him there And I would not yield my will, Shall I see grief in my Savior's eyes; Grief though He loves me still? Oh, He'd have me rich, and I stand there poor, Stripped of all but His grace, While my memory runs like a hunted thing Down the paths I can't retrace. Then my desolate heart will well-nigh break With tears that I cannot shed. I'll cover my face with my empty hands And bow my uncrowned ...
3528. Hold Your Ground
Illustration
... the side when the last man lost his footing. He was held up temporarily by the other four, because each had a toehold in the niches they had cut in the ice. But then the next man slipped, and he pulled down the two above him. The only one to stand firm was the first guide, who had driven a spike deep into the ice. Because he held his ground, all the men beneath him regained their footing. F.B. Meyer concluded his story by drawing a spiritual application. He said, "I am like one of those men who slipped, but ...
3529. Spiritual Teaching Gifts
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Dr. Earl Radmacher
... behind any person's speech or act. Evangelism: Communicating the gospel with power and persuasiveness as well as equipping the saints for evangelism. Leadership Gifts. Leadership (executive ability): Standing before people and inspiring followers by leading them aggressively but with care. Administration (legislative ability): Standing behind people to collect data, set policy, and develop plans which will guide a course of action with wisdom. Faith: Seeing through any problem to the Ultimate Resource ...
3530. The Namless Last Student
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Staff
... of the room. This made for quite a mess, remember there were 1000 students in the class. During this particular final, one guy entered the test needing a decent grade to pass the class. His only problem with Calculus was that he did poorly when rushed, and this guy standing in the front of the room barking out how much time was left before the tests had to be handed in didn't help him at all. He figured he wanted to assure himself of a good grade, so he hardly flinched when the professor said "pencils down ...
3531. Being Prepared
Matthew 25:1-13
Sermon
King Duncan
... extraordinary. She waits about a minute and then she kicks the newborn calf head over heels and sends it sprawling. Talk about tough love. If the baby giraffe doesn’t immediately get up on its legs, she kicks it again, and again. Finally, the little giraffe stands for the first time on its very wobbly legs. He’s now ready to follow her and the rest of the herd. Please understand. The mother giraffe is not being cruel to her baby. Quite the contrary! She knows that lions and hyenas and leopards would ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... for spiritual and moral cowardice. But this parable does make its point quite emphatically it is a terrible thing to bury the gifts God has given us and not to use them. It is a terrible thing to give in to fear and timidity when God is calling us to stand up against evil. It is a terrible thing to live your life cowering in fear rather than trusting in your Heavenly father. One does not light a lamp and put it under a bushel. Followers of Jesus are to live by faith and not fear. We get the same message ...
3533. It Pays To Tip
Humor Illustration
... in line at the Atlanta airport waiting to have our baggage checked. We noticed that some people ahead of us gave the skycap a dollar or two as they asked him to handle their baggage carefully or make sure it got on the right plane. But the man standing just in front of us took a different approach. He didn't offer a tip, but sternly lectured the skycap about taking special care of his two bags. He swore loudly when one of his bags tipped over accidentally, then angrily stalked off toward his gate. As we ...
3534. Live To Tell About It
Humor Illustration
... suspected," chided the drill instructor. "Not a hero among you. Didn't anyone want to jump on that grenade to save the others?" A little later the DI again threw a pinecone. This time, all the recruits but one jumped on the "grenade." "Why," demanded the instructor, "are you still standing there?" "Sir," the only standing recruit replied, "someone had to live to tell about it."
3535. Unable to Move
Humor Illustration
... , AN AMERICAN LIFE, Reagan tells about a dinner honoring Francois Mitterrand: "He and his wife and Nancy and I finished the receiving line, and the four of us walked from the East Room into the State Dining Room. As was customary, everyone in the room was to stand until Nancy led Francois to her table and I led Mrs. Mitterrand to my table at the opposite side of the room. "Nancy and Francois headed for their table, but Mrs. Mitterrand stood frozen, even after a butler motioned at her that she was to walk ...
3536. Punny Headlines
Humor Illustration
... For Rabbit Former Girl Wins Top Honors In Dog Show Girl Becomes Methodist After Delicate Operation University's Food Service Feeds Thousands, Grosses Millions Utah Girl Does Well In Dog Shows Grandmother Of Eight Makes Hole In One Ike Says Nixon Can't Stand Pat Two Convicts Evade Noose; Jury Hung Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus To 66 Gorillas Vow To Kill Khomeini Sewer Input Sought Short Police Officer Loses Sex Appeal Retired Priest May Marry Springsteen Morality Rates Lower Than Normal At Mobil Park ...
3537. No Such Thing As Perfect
Humor Illustration
In a marriage seminar the speaker said , "There's no such thing as a perfect man. Anybody present who has ever known a perfect man, stand up." Nobody stood up. "Those who have ever known a perfect woman, stand up." An older lady stood up. "You knew an absolutely perfect woman?" ask the speaker, somewhat amazed. "I didn't know her personally," replied the woman, "but I have heard a great deal about her. She was my husband's first wife."
3538. A Mule Egg
Humor Illustration
... burst open. Seeing in his rear view mirror what had happened, the driver turned his truck around and drove back to retrieve his mule egg. Meanwhile the big old Texas jackrabbit was hopping by and saw this watermelon burst in the road and he hopped over to it. Standing in the middle of that watermelon, he begins to eat. Here comes the two city men. They spy their mule egg burst open, and there is this long eared creature in the middle of it. One of the men shouts, "Our mule has hatched." Seeing those two men ...
3539. The Little Heckler
Humor Illustration
... the meeting. The program chairperson was quite persuasive, so I agreed to do so. The speech must have gone well, because the ladies coming through the line were saying nice things to me, and smiling as they shook my hand. Pretty soon I noticed a little boy standing in front of me. He looked straight at me and said, "Your speech stunk!" Well, there were more ladies coming through the line so I just ignored him. But a little while later he came through the line a second time. Again, he placed himself directly ...
3540. The Time of Day
Humor Illustration
There's an old Jewish man standing on a crowded bus. The young man standing next to him asked, "What time is it?" The old man refused to reply. The young man moved on. The old man's friend, sensing something was wrong, asked, "Why were you so discourteous to the young man asking for the time?" The old man answered, "If I had given ...
3541. Mark 13:34-37
Mark 13:32-37
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... hour,” then how much more should the disciples should count themselves out of the loop and not complain about their lack of divine knowledge as well? Instead of appointing themselves time-keepers, Jesus exhorts his disciples to take on a different role. They are to stand at the gate and act as ever vigilant watchmen, always on guard for the return of their master. If the return of the Son of Man will be marked by the gathering together, the “home-coming” of the elect, then it is imperative that those ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . We no longer get “15 minutes of fame.” We are “famous” in our own minds every minute of every day. John the Baptist refused to step into the spotlight. He knew that his divinely gifted mission was to bear witness to the light, not to stand center stage in the spotlight. Every year at Advent season we are all reminded to take up John’s mission, to announce to a dark and troubled world that the light is coming. “Decking the halls,” Christmas concerts, cookie baking marathons, shopping sprees ...
3543. A Matter of Perspective
Luke 1:26-38
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There are two men standing on Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street in New York City during the Christmas rush, waiting for a red light. One of them was irritated by the traffic. "This ... was a baby born of peasant parents in a little out-of-the-way place halfway around the world from here. The parents had no money or social standing, yet 2,000 years later that little baby creates a traffic jam on Fifth Avenue, one of the most sophisticated streets in the world. This irritates you? It should FASCINATE you." Surprise!
3544. Doing Your Own Thing
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Sermon
King Duncan
... who started a new diet, The Purina Diet named, of course, for Purina dog food. Well, he didn’t really eat dog food, but have you noticed how some people can ask silly questions? Well, this guy is standing in line at Wal-Mart with a large bag of Purina. A woman behind him asked if he had a dog. There he is standing in line with a large bag of Purina . . . “Well, duh . . . .” So he decided to have some fun. He told her no, he didn’t have any dogs. He went on to explain that he was starting The Purina ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... at the edge of a sharecropper’s field. In this scene from the movie, we see Ray as a child run into his house and trip over a chair. He starts to wail for his mother. She stands at the stove, right in front of him, and instinctively reaches out to lift him. Then she stops . . . backs up . . . stands still . . . watches. “Young Ray stops crying. He listens. He hears, behind him, the water on the wood stove whistling to a boil. He hears, outside, the wind pass like a hand through cornstalks. He hears the ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... outcast) were hardly recognized as human, Paul wanted Christians not only to consider the weaknesses of the “other,” but to stand in their shoes. Here is Paul asking followers of Jesus to think as the mentally ill might think, to feel as ... might react. Because in Christ there truly is no slave nor free, no male nor female, no rich nor poor, because in Christ all stand together thanks to God’s mercy, we are forever called to let the “better angels of our nature” guide us. What are those better ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... book you’re reading, setting aside your projects . . . (4) Studies show that most of us are not as good at multitasking as we think we are. When it comes to listening, there is really no such thing as multitasking. A mother named Star Paterson tells of standing at the kitchen sink, working diligently on dinner preparations, her mind totally committed to the task at hand peeling potatoes. In the army, she notes, they call it “KP” duty. Star thinks that’s a good title for the task, but in her home KP ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . In other words, some scholars believe there may indeed have been two such incidents in Jesus’ life. Whatever the case, the actions Jesus takes and the pronouncements he makes are all eventually leveled against him as part of his indictment when he stands accused before both the religious and political authorities. In this week’s text Jesus is acting as any good, observant Jew. He has traveled to Jerusalem, with thousands of others, on a pilgrimage to the Temple for the celebration of Passover. Judaism ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... for one’s enemy, it would be good to recall that in this context Jesus is speaking to his own disciples. He is addressing his “friends” and laying out the basis for the obedience he demands of them. Furthermore, among these “friends” still stands Judas Iscariot, the one who will betray Jesus, as well as Simon Peter, the one who will deny him. These “enemies” and “betrayers” are the “friends” for which Jesus will offer his sacrifice. In the Old Testament only Abraham (2 Chronicles 20:7 ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... this Paraclete presence. That this new Age of the Paraclete is not some second place consolation prize but is the divinely mandated fulfillment of Jesus’ mission is made evident by Jesus’ parting words in today’s gospel text. Even though Jesus still stands before his disciples, there are “many things” he cannot yet tell them. Before the cross, before the empty tomb, before Jesus’ glorification, there is just no way for his followers to follow him fully. It is only after Jesus has departed, and ...
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