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
Wesley T. Runk
Object: None or pictures of various celebrities from different fields (movies, sports, presidents, etc.) Have you ever met a celebrity? A celebrity would be someone who is well known because of a talent he has or because he is a government official, or because he is rich. Movie stars, baseball and football players, presidents and kings and owners of large companies are usually celebrities. When we meet people like this we usually feel different from when we meet other people like ourselves. They seem so ...
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Brett Blair
Comedian Jack Benny, from TV’s Golden age, had a skit which illustrated how we place money ahead of everything. He is walking down the street when suddenly he is approached by an armed robber, "Your money or your life!" There is a long pause. Jack does nothing. The robber impatiently queried, "Well?" Jack replied, "Don't rush me, I'm thinking it over." This morning I would like us to think a few moments about our money and our life. Let’s see what Jesus has to say about these two subjects. The background ...
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The word that Christ our Lord would like to have us hear this All Saints’ Sunday is a firm word, gently spoken, lovingly applied. Faintly we recall that he said something similar to this before, in a sermon everyone applauds, but few apply, The Sermon on the Mount. "Blessed are the poor in spirit," we remember, and we like that. It doesn’t touch our assets. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness," and we could use a little righteousness like ours around the nation and the church today ...
Children's Sermon
Object: a magnifying glass, a piece of wood, and some wood filler. Good morning, boys and girls. Is anybody perfect? We would all like to think that we are pretty good, but we know that none of us is perfect. As a matter of fact, there is practically nothing perfect about us. We are a lot like this beautiful piece of wood that I have in my hand. When you look at it from where you are sitting, it looks pretty nice, almost perfect. The wood is smooth and the grain is lovely. But suppose you took this ...
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Dean Lueking
Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so would I have told you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. (John 14:1-3) When Have You Heard These Words Many of us have heard these words at another time and place. I have spoken them often to you in your living room, or when sitting at a kitchen table in your house on the occasion of the death of ...
Children's Sermon
Object: A wooden box, a long choir robe, a tall hat, and a tape measure. Good morning to all of you. How are you on this first Sunday in September? Good. Is everybody happy about the idea of school starting? I knew that you were, but I thought that I would just check for the teacher and tell her how much you like it. Do any of you ever worry about school? Do you worry if you are going to pass or worry about a test or just worry because you like to worry? Jesus used to like to laugh a lot, and one day he ...
3682. Epiphany 3
Lk 4:14-21 · 1 Cor 12:12-30 · Neh 8:1-10 · Isa 61:1-6
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John R. Brokhoff
COMMENTARY Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the returned Exiles. The book of Nehemiah tells the story of the return of the Exiles under Governor Nehemiah during the reign of Artaxerxes. Under Nehemiah the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt and various reforms were introduced. He is known for his relationship with Yahweh and his frequent prayers. Today's pericope tells us of the gathering of the people for the reading of the Mosaic law by Ezra, the priest and scribe. When the people ...
3683. Epiphany 2
Psalm 40:1-17, John 1:29-34, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 49:1-7
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THEOLOGICAL CLUE A careful examination of the readings appointed for this and the other Sundays of Epiphany in the three-year cycle reveals that something is different; a radical change has been made; the three lessons are not in harmony, because the Corinthian letters make up the Second Lessons for virtually all of the Sundays after the Baptism of Our Lord. This same pattern of readings is picked up again on the Second Sunday after Pentecost, so that in the other Sundays of Epiphany and Pentecost the ...
3684. Proper 4
Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Genesis 12:1-8, Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29, Romans 3:21-31, Psalm 31:1-24, Psalm 33:1-22
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THEOLOGICAL CLUE From this point until late in the Pentecost season, on Sundays there is only the general theological framework of the church year to provide biblical/theological clues for worship and preaching themes. Pentecost, as "the time of the church," is eschatological; the church worships and waits, learns and grows, and witnesses and works for the coming of the fullness of the kingdom in Jesus' promised return. On the Sundays of Pentecost, the church is counting time, not marking time, until the ...
3685. Proper 8 & Pentecost 6
2 Kings 4:8-37, Genesis 32:22-32, Psalm 89:1-52, Psalm 17:1-15, Isaiah 2:6-22, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Matthew 10:1-42
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THEOLOGICAL CLUE Beyond the natural progression of the Pentecost cycle/season, with its eschatological emphasis, there is no clear and definitive clue from the church year. The insertion of these particular readings within the theological framework of the church year does, however, tend to emphasize realized eschatology as much as it does any future eschatology. The latter, of course, is always present, if only in the Eucharist with its "as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the ...
3686. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Daniel 2:24-49, Daniel 2:1-23
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Bill Bouknight
My friend Mary Jane had just picked up her little boy from kindergarten. She was in a hurry, so she eased through a stop sign instead of coming to a complete stop. A city policeman saw it all and pulled her over. He was very abrupt and stern. She tried to offer a word of explanation but he interrupted and said, "I'm going back to my car and write you up." Mary Jane sat there seething with anger. She said out loud, "That turkey! That guy is an absolute turkey!" She forgot that her four-year-old son was ...
3687. From Beast to Believer
Daniel 4:28-37, Daniel 4:19-27, Daniel 4:1-18
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Bill Bouknight
The front page of yesterday’s Commercial Appeal showed us yet another example of a person acting like an animal. A man wielding a machete entered an elementary school in Felton, Pennsylvania, and injured three women and six children. Lest we get a superiority complex, we should remember that all of us have the capacity to act like animals. Jeremiah the prophet indicted us all when he declared, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:09) Today ...
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Bill Bouknight
If fishing is one of your passions, you will love our scripture lesson for today. Though I prefer hunting to fishing, I have a soft spot in my heart for fishing because of a childhood experience. I was about 10 or 11 years old. One Wednesday afternoon Papa took me with him to a nearby pond to do a little fishing. I was just learning to use a rod and reel. Papa caught a little bass weighing about half a pound. Then he had to leave for prayer meeting. He asked me if I wanted to stay a bit longer and make a ...
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Bill Bouknight
Someone told me recently about a Methodist man who lived in a traditional Catholic neighborhood. Every Friday the Catholics were driven to distraction because, while they were sadly eating fish, the Methodist was outside grilling steaks. That wonderful aroma from the grill was bothersome to the Catholics. They worked on the Methodist, attempting to convert him. Finally they succeeded. They took the Methodist to the priest who sprinkled Holy Water on the man while saying, "Born a Methodist, raised a ...
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Twice Paul’s ministry brought him into direct confrontation with commercial interests. The first such incident took place at Philippi, the second at Ephesus. Both of these were Graeco-Roman cities with a materialistic western culture, different from that of the Orient. In the East there was a slower pace of life and a greater accommodation between religion and commerce. Jesus had often lashed out at the selfish rich and even physically drove the money changers from the temple without arousing the kind of ...
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Dennis Kastens
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. As he went ashore he saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said, "They need not go away, you give them something to eat." They ...
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Peter Rudowski
I doubt there is a person in this sanctuary who doesn’t know the AT&T ad which says, "Reach out and touch someone." Cincinnati Bell plays it for us all the time. It is on the television and on our car radios. We are bound to run into it at one of the commercial breaks. If we do not watch television or listen to the radio but we go to the ballgame, there it is on the big scoreboard in centerfield between the innings. In great big letters comes this great big sign, "Reach out and touch someone." The music ...
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Bill Bouknight
Tragedy can strike so quickly and capriciously. While going about our everyday lives, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, the world can be changed. As a nation we've been living with that awful reality since 9-11. Thousands killed for no reason by complete strangers, who assumed, somehow in their mind, they were doing some good for this world. Then there are natural disasters: tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes...If you have avoided tragedy at this point in your life thank God that you have been ...
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Harold Warlick
At the close of a worship service a minister was approached by a sincere young man. "Do you think I ought to come to church when I don’t feel like it?" he asked. "There are times when I want to come and really enjoy the service, but there are other times when I’ve no inclination at all. Am I a hypocrite to come then? In addition, sometimes I find worship quite boring. Why should I come to something that bores me?" The minister responded to the young man in this way: "Well, Bob, do you only pay your bills ...
3695. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross
Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20
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Bill Bouknight
I like the story that is told about an old Baptist minister who preached every Sunday on baptism by immersion. His folks agreed with his doctrine, but they were tired of hearing the same subject every week. The deacons undertook to solve the problem through diplomatic means. They complimented the pastor on his pulpit skills and suggested to him that he was such a natural preacher that they wanted to try an experiment. They wanted to hand him a piece of paper with a scripture lesson on it just before he ...
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Bill Bouknight
In a labor room on the obstetrics wing of a hospital, a doctor found a crumpled paper on which an expectant father had done some scribbling. Obviously, during the pauses in the long labor process, he had been thinking about the child about to be born. This is what he wrote: John Peter Jones, John P. Jones, J.P. Jones, John Jones, Governor John Jones, President John P. Jones, All the Way with JPJ!" Maybe the baby turned out to be Juanita Paulene Jones! I can tell you one thing that father and mother ...
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Don Yocom
"And he (Elijah) repaired the altar of the Lord ..." (1 Kings 18:30) The biblical setting for this message is a showdown as to who really is God. It is a contest between 450 prophets of Baal and the God of the prophet Elijah. God, through His messenger, the prophet, had informed the king that no rain would fall of the land because of the wickedness and idolatry of King Ahab and his wicked Queen, Jezebel. For more than two years, no rain had fallen, and the country was in a severe drought. How would we feel ...
Drama
Sarah Walton Miller
Why not age-cast this skit? It will mean more to the teenagers. CAST: Barbara, age 15; Susan, age 6; Mother and Grandmother. PROPS: Chair for Grandmother and for Mother. Handwork for Grandmother. Doll and doll dress for Susan. Barbara’s necklace and lipstick. [GRANDMOTHER enters, sits and begins handwork. SUSAN enters, sits on floor to dress doll and put necklace on doll. In a moment MOTHER enters, sits wearily.] MOTHER: [sighing] What a day. GRANDMOTHER: You wear yourself out for nothing. Cleaning those ...
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Bill Bouknight
Almost 20,000 runners competed in the 1986 New York Marathon. I don't know who won, but I do know who finished last. His name is Bob Wieland. While the winner completed the race in just over 2 hours, Bob Wieland finished in four days, two hours, forty-eight minutes, and seventeen seconds. Why is that remarkable? Because Bob ran with his arms. Seventeen years earlier while serving in Vietnam, Bob's legs were blown off in battle. So, when Bob competes, he sits on a 15 pound saddle, covers his fists with pads ...
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R. Blaine Detrick
Paul For personal reading: Acts 9--28 For public reading: Philippians 3:4-14, 20 Outline Jewish Citizenship (Philippians 3:4-6; Romans 9:3; 10:1; Acts 23:6-8) Roman Citizenship (Acts 16:16-39; 22:24-29; 25:9-12) Heavenly Citizenship (Philippians 3:20) Q-SHEET Paul - A Citizen of Three Worlds Acts 9--28 QUIZ: (Match a city with each statement, then a person with the city; try first without a Bible, then use the verses to verify each answer.) 1. Paul lowered over wall in basket (9:25) _______ _______ (9:10) ...
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