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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Donald B. Strobe
... whisper in your ear The word you love so much to hear. And love will stay forever new, If you will be my POSSLQ! It all sounds so new, so modern, (and in the age of AIDS, so dangerous)! But here we have Jesus, nearly 2000 years ago, sitting by a well, confronting a woman involved in just such a living arrangement. And the curious thing is, I do not find Him treating her harshly. She seems to have been treated harshly enough by life, already. She had had five husbands. Now, I cannot imagine that each husband ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... it was a place where weights and measures were established and taxes were levied. Perhaps this man was what we might call a “customs inspector.” He lived and worked in Capernaum, and he had a son who was gravely ill with a fever. We can just picture him, sitting at the dinner table with his wife, worrying together about their son’s illness. The official then tells his wife that he has heard of a man called Jesus who had performed wonders in Cana (some 20 miles away), and he says to his wife, “If the ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... ”? One can only wonder what God thinks of our profuse professions of faith on Sunday morning when he sees what a penurious job we have done of carrying out our stewardship of time, talent, and treasure. I once saw a cartoon of a horror-stricken woman sitting at her writing desk, saying, “Good heavens! I accidentally sent the church our $12.00 check which was to go for dog food and sent the $2.00 check to the dog food company.” What are our priorities, anyway? What about our professions of faith and ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... was really the Messiah, but that He was a “reluctant Messiah.” Perhaps if he (Judas) maneuvered Jesus into a position where Jesus would be forced to use a display of His power, then perhaps the religious authorities and the political authorities would sit up and take notice and become convinced that He really was the Messiah. Judas cheered when Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers in the Temple. “At last!” he thought to himself, “Jesus is beginning to make some sense. He is waking ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... , and I’m not that crazy about harp music in the first place! There is an old story of a man who died and awakened to find himself resting comfortably in a hammock, doing nothing. When he sought to rise up and get a lemonade, a servant told him to sit still, the lemonade would be brought to him. Then he thought that he might get up and do some gardening, a hobby that he had always enjoyed. But again, another servant told him that the gardening was all being done for him. Then he tried to play a game of ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... of the Gospel.” “But you’ve been a soldier in two wars yourself. You know the Russians would occupy Western Europe in a couple of days if our armies folded up their tents and went to prayer meetings. Pretty soon, there’d be a foreigner sitting at this desk.” To which Pope Francesco replies, “We do not know’ these things, Mr. President. We have more faith in God’s goodness than to presume that disaster would strike us for obeying His word.” (New York: Macmillan Co., 1978) But the president ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... Church, we forget that fact. We can easily become discouraged and disillusioned when we have to work with imperfect human beings who make up the Church, people with failings and foibles just like the rest of us; or when we have to sit through interminably long and often unbearably dull meetings dealing with the organizational affairs of the church. Sometimes we like to dream of a “perfect Church” somewhere, like the eschatological Church the writer of the Letter to the Ephesians talked about, a Church ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... a short play titled, The Angel That Troubled the Water, reflecting the ancient belief that the first person who succeeded in scrambling into the water after the surface of the water was disturbed would be cured. He has the invalid in his play cry out: I shall sit here without ever lifting my eyes from the surface of the pool. I shall be next. Many times ever since I have been here, many times the angel has passed and stirred the water, and hundreds have left the hall leaping and crying for joy. I shall ...
3559. Slippery Rock
Matthew 16:21-28
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Donald B. Strobe
... not want a “moderately competent” surgeon. There isn’t much hope for a marriage in which the partners are “moderately faithful.” How can we think that we will get by with a faith that is “moderately committed?” You can say this for Peter: he was never one to sit on the fence. Sometimes he said the wrong thing, but he dared to say something. Sometimes he did the wrong thing, but he dared to do something. And so must we. For Jesus’ final words to Peter come down the centuries to each one of us ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... This is Andrew Bar-Jona.” “How do you do?” “Andrew is the brother of Simon Peter.” “Oh! How do you do!” Andrew always played second fiddle to his more famous brother, and believe me, playing second fiddle is no easy job. It is not easy to sit back and watch somebody else get ahead of you, without murmuring or complaining. But somehow Andrew managed it. Andrew was always in the background. He didn’t even have a name of his own. He was called “Simon Peter’s brother.” He is so called in ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... have been his new name in Jesus, for it means “God’s gift.” But Matthew only became God’s gift after he had received God’s greatest gift himself. We read in Matthew 9:9, “And as Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he rose and followed him.” II. JESUS CALLED. MATTHEW ANSWERED. IT SOUNDS SIMPLE ENOUGH, BUT I DOUBT THAT IT WAS. It surely cost Matthew something to follow Jesus, for he was making a pretty good ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... and give our hearts and allegiance to Him. At first we may not fully understand the radical nature of His call. We are happy with what Leonard Sweet calls a “Jacuzzi Jesus,” a religion which brings us warmth and comfort but makes few demands upon us. Then, as we sit at the feet of the Master, we begin to hear Him say startling things: “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.” (Luke 6:27) Now we are faced with a dilemma. We must either make some radical changes in our lives, or get off the ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... A strong tradition suggests that this man, too, was tinged with Zealot sympathies. He was still looking for a visible kingdom of God on earth, led by Jesus, who would slay His foes and lift high His friends, and he hoped to be one of the Twelve who would sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Cf. Matthew 19:28) But Jesus’ answer caught this fellow off guard, and may well be taken as a rebuke to his violent Zealot sympathies. Jesus said to him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... (Acts 1:23, 26) But Matthias was never heard from again! Evidently some sort of mistake was made. Perhaps the apostles were not as careful as they ought to have been. Perhaps the hour was getting late, and they were getting tired. Perhaps they had been sitting through meetings all day.....and by the end of the day they would have settled for almost anybody. “Let’s just get a warm body so that we can get the meeting over with.” Matthias’ election was done so quickly, one gets the impression that he ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... middle of a sentence. There was no time to gather up all the loose ends. The world itself was the loose ends, and all history would hardly be enough to gather them up in. The women went to the tomb and found it empty. A young man in white was sitting there - on the right, Mark says, not on the left. He has risen, the young man said. Go tell his disciples. And Peter, Mark adds, unlike Matthew and Luke again. Was it because he’d known Peter and the old man wanted his name there? So the women ran out ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... blemished reputation and precarious memory of his friends.” (N.Y. Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1932 p. 16) In a more recent book on preaching by George Sweazey, the author reminds us that “Christianity is not something you talk about, it is something you do. Sitting through sermons can become the major Christian activity.” And, of course, that is not all that we are called to do, is it? “What we want is deeds, not words,” we sometimes say. But Dr. Sweazey says that that is a false dichotomy. Indeed ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... do nothing is the person who thinks himself or herself so good that nothing needs to be done! Theologian Karl Barth once wrote: “Christians who regard themselves as big and strong and rich and even dear children of God, Christians who refuse to sit with their Master at the table of publicans and sinners, are not Christians at all.” (Karl Barth, THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1981., p. 80) Strong words, but they are echoed by our Lord ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... . A whole Church Council had to fight this battle. You read about it in Acts 15. And there was a battle between those two giants of the early Christian faith: Peter and Paul, over this matter of allowing Gentiles into the Church. Peter had once refused to sit down to table with Gentiles, and Paul, not realizing that Peter was the first pope, and therefore presumably infallible, bawled him out to his face. (See Galatians 2:11) III. WHAT ON EARTH ARE WE TO MAKE OF THIS STRANGE PASSAGE IN MARK? Can we really ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... Him held fast even in the face of death, He appeared. You see, there are two ways to get a chicken out of an egg. One way is with a hammer, but something of the chicken is lost in the process. A better way is for the mother hen to sit patiently on the egg, surrounding it with warmth, until it is time to hatch. There are two ways to command faith, one is by hammering us over the head, the other is with warming our hearts with love. God has chosen the second, less spectacular, way. About a century and ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... sometimes. We all like things “the way they were,” not realizing that God may be calling us upward and outward toward something newer and better. “Let’s stop and stay here awhile,” we say. You’ve seen the ads on television: a group of friends sitting around a campfire. A clean, clear mountain stream is rushing by. A skillet filled with fish. A tub filled with “Old Milwaukee.” And one of the friends says to the others, “Fellows, it doesn’t get any better than this!” (I am indebted to ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... a voice asked me, ‘Would you like to see hell?’ and I said, ‘Oh, I am very interested to see it once.’” Then a window was opened and he saw an immense desert. It was very cold, not hot. In this desert there was only one person sitting, very alone. Barth was depressed by the loneliness. Then the window was closed and the voice said to him, “And that threatens you.” Barth said: “There are people who say I have forgotten this region. I have not forgotten. I know more about it than others do ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... is “Will you love?” Marriage is the glue that holds you together on the days when you don’t like each other much. We become one; we are not automatically one. Oneness is something toward which we strive. It takes work. You can’t just sit back and wait for it to drop into your lap. You must work at it. Television personality Willard Scott said, “A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns ...
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Donald B. Strobe
As the salesman came to the front door, he turned to the little boy sitting on the steps and asked, “Is your mother home?” The boy said “Yes,” and the salesman began to ring the doorbell. After several rings and no response, he turned to the boy and said, “I thought you said that your mother was home.” To which the boy replied, “She is, ...
3574. Sine Qua Non
Mark 12:28-34
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Donald B. Strobe
... . Intelligent love of one’s neighbor in a highly complex society is a high moral, intellectual, and spiritual achievement. It takes “smarts” to love our neighbor, as well as our God. We are to love with our minds here, as well. Christians ought not to be “sitting ducks” for every con artist who comes down the pike. In every situation, we must use our minds to ask: “What is the most loving thing I can do for this person?” When a person asks for money for a meal, perhaps the most loving thing ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... do for us? Does it help us to “go out” and deal more effectively with the shadows and crosses and conflicts which beset us and our world? Or is it true instead that “after we have sung a hymn” we do nothing at all? Instead of going out, we sit down and think we have done all that there is do to. But it is only the beginning. An angry reader once stormed into a newspaper office waving the current edition, asking to see the one who wrote the obituary column. He was referred to a cub reporter to ...
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