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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Jill J. Duffield
... us as one of those “best practices” places; discipleship: sorted. We can be gritty, determined, and SMART and therefore surely counted among Jesus’ followers, right? But what do we do about that troublesome language about hating those closest to us, the very ones we’d lay down our life for? What about that odd call to hate our life that sounds downright pathological in a culture awash in talk and titles of self-love, life balance, and self-care? Does God really require us to hate that which we most ...
4052. Words and Deeds
Matthew 21:23-32
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Will Willimon
... Beliefs." You've had people ask you, "What do Christians like you believe?" The implication is that Christianity is mostly a matter of believing. Christianity is some philosophy of life, a set of intellectual propositions. But Jesus was no philosopher laying out a new system of disembodied belief. Jesus was a teacher whose life embodied, enacted what he preached. This is one of the mistakes of Christian fundamentalists. Jesus' rich life is reduced to five or six propositions about Jesus, "fundamentals ...
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Jill J. Duffield
... evangelical than most of that flock and she talked in terms that made some buttoned up Presbyterians uncomfortable. She wasn’t afraid to talk about Satan and evil and the power of prayer. She was a self-proclaimed prayer warrior who periodically came into my office to lay hands on me and pray for God’s protection. If I expressed a concern, a worry, or an anxiety about anything she would declare, “You are a princess of God! Don’t you forget that! You tell Satan to go back to hell where he came from ...
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Will Willimon
... poor Joseph to grief, that coat, sign of his father's favor, that coat which was sign of Joseph's brothers' resentment. Jesus criticized a rich man who was dressed "in purple and costly linen" (Luke 16:19). Quite a contrast with the poor beggar Lazarus who lay outside of the gaze of the rich man. 1 Peter 3:3 ff. criticizes women who come to church dressed in fine jewelry and beautiful clothing. All this Bible talk about clothes raises the question of what clothing means for us and for God. The Psalmist says ...
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Elaine M. Ward
Garrison Keillor has said that if you are shy and from the Midwest and Lutheran, it is always Lent. Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lecten meaning "spring." Its liturgical color is purple, signifying both humility and royalty. In the early church Lent was a time to prepare for baptism, which took place on Easter Eve. Lent is the forty day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter (excluding the six Sundays), a symbolic reminder of the forty years of the Exodus of God's people in the desert and the forty ...
4056. Let It Go!
Mark 8:31-38
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Elaine M. Ward
Long ago there was an ancient bell that was famous for its beautiful tone. It had been commissioned by the king. The king's advisors had told him that making a huge temple bell would secure the nation from foreign invasion. The specialist who cast the bell had produced several failures until he concluded that the only way to produce a great bell was to sacrifice a young maiden. Soldiers were sent to find and fetch such a young girl. Coming upon a poor mother in a farm village with her small daughter, they ...
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Elaine M. Ward
When the Israelites heard the first word of the Law in the Ten Commandments, so the old rabbinical story goes, they swooned. Their souls left them. So the word returned to God and cried out, "O Sovereign of the Universe, you live eternally and your Law lives eternally. But you have sent me to the dead. They are all dead!" Thereupon God had mercy and made his word more palatable.1 God told a story. Our sacred story for today said that they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. Long ...
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Elaine M. Ward
As swimmers dare to lie face to sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freefall, and float into Creator Spirit's deep embrace, knowing no effort earns that all surrounding grace. (Denise Levertov, Oblique Prayer) God so loved the world ... that love, that unconditional love, is the foundation for our faith. John wrote, "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life ...
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Elaine M. Ward
When a brother visited the hermits in the desert and saw them working, he asked, "Why do you work for the bread that perishes? Mary has chosen the best part, to sit at the feet of the Lord without working." The Abbot told his disciple to give the brother a book and a cell and there he left him all day to read. At the ninth hour he looked out to see if the Abbot was going to call him to dinner and at last set out to find him. "Did the brethren not eat today, Father?" "Oh, yes, we have just eaten," the Abbot ...
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Elaine M. Ward
This is a joyful day, but in a world of sorrow and sadness, joyous people seem foolish. If we listen carefully to the story of Palm Sunday as written by Mark, it is a foolish story. The Lord needs a colt that has never been ridden? The disciples put their cloaks on the colt for Jesus to sit on? First, men wore two pieces of clothing, a cloak and their undergarments. Second, they set Jesus on all those cloaks on a small animal. What a foolish, fun-filled story! What a foolish people! Can you see Jesus ...
Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done.
Evelyn Laye
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