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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Sermon
Mark Radecke
The same thing has, I'm sure, happened to you: you live your whole life without seeing or hearing a certain word or phrase or expression, and then you see or hear it two or three times within a relatively short period. The first time I saw this particular phrase was a few years back at a synod assembly. I attended a small group session led by a pastor who had just returned from Nicaragua and El Salvador. He was showing some of his slides to help us understand the political and economic situation in those ...
402. Seeking Honor
Mark 10:35-45
Bulletin Aid
RobertT D. Ingram
Greeting: Leader: The kingdom of God is not what many would expect. Left: In the world, people who are recognized as leaders lord it over everyone else. Right: And people who reach greatness become tyrants over everyone around them. Leader: This is not the way it works among Christ's disciples. Left: For us, whoever wishes to become great must be a servant to everyone else. Right: And whoever wishes to be first among us must become a slave to all of us. Leader: Jesus, Servant King of the new world, we come ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
Object: A group of ball point pens and one very special ball point pen. Good morning, boys and girls. Christmas day is over, but we are still celebrating the birthday of Jesus. What a wonderful time all of us had on Christmas. What did you like most about Christmas? (Let them answer.) Did you remember to wish Jesus a happy birthday? (Let them answer.) I know that you would want to wish your brother a happy birthday if he had a birthday so I am sure that you did the same for Jesus. Did you know that Jesus ...
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
Theological Aim: To teach the children how Jesus showed his love for us. Props: Enough sheets of Red Paper and Children's Scissors for each child. Extra paper for mistakes. Cut out hearts with crosses for each child, hand these out afterwards in exchange for their cut out hearts. Explanation: Fold the red sheet of paper in half. On the folded end cut out half the shape of a heart. When unfolded a regular shaped heart should be the result. Now fold the heart along the same line and cut half the shape of a ...
405. Names, Not Numbers
Deuteronomy 26:1-15
Sermon
Carl Hoefler
What comes to your mind when you hear the name "Moses"? Do you think of Chariton Heston standing on a rock with his hair and his beard and his robe blowing in the wind, while at the same time, beneath his feet the Red Sea churns and rolls back as mighty walls of waves forming a path for the fleeing Israelites? Perhaps you imagine Moses as a white-haired man standing on the jagged cliffs of a mountain and holding in his sinewy arms the two stone tablets of the law. It is doubtful that any of you imagine ...
Sermon
My theme for this All Saints’ Sunday is the question, "Is the Gospel only for women?" Let me explain why I put it that way. Recently I attended a theological conference at which one of the lecturers was a woman, a professor at a church college. She observed that although there are more women in the church than men, we men are still in control, that theology - the study of God - has always been a man’s world and that all the definitions of God are usually in terms of experiences that pertain to men. She ...
Sermon
Kendall K. McCabe
A billboard with letters of red on a yellow background screams the question: WERE YOU BAPTIZED RIGHT? And underneath is a phone number where both an answer and a remedy presumably may be found. It may seem a ridiculous question to many of us, but the fact that the question is there at all indicates someone takes it seriously. Questions about the form and practice of baptism have caused many divisions in the church through the years. Persons who were baptized in their infancy come requesting baptism by ...
Children's Sermon
Object: Some choir robes. Lesson: For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you remember getting dressed this morning? (Let them answer.) Every day you get out of bed and put on your clothes so that you can go to school, or go outside to play, or just hang around the house. Putting on our clothes is something that all of us do, and we do not think it is anything special. But suppose you come to church in your best clothes and I tell you ...
409. He Bore Our Sins
2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2
Sermon
Dennis Kastens
Every year during Lent, the role of Christ bearing his cross to Calvary is re-enacted in the village of Sartene, Corsica. This has been going on ever since the Middle Ages, and it always draws a big crowd of villagers and thousands of tourists who come for the occasion. Time magazine, when reporting on one of the more recent episodes, called it "one of the world’s most brutally powerful Holy Week processions." And the report was a graphic description of what happened: A grotesque lump of a man ... barefoot ...
410. Play It Safe
Galatians 2:21b
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
Object: Suspenders and a belt. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you like to play it safe? Do you know what I mean by that statement? Let me show you what I mean. I know people who are so afraid that something will happen to them that they worry themselves to death. Take a man I know. He is afraid that he will lose his pants, so he does something about this problem. Most men wear a belt with their pants. He does that. He wears a big leather belt with a big buckle. That should keep anyone’s pants ...
Children's Sermon
Shirley Jennings
Object: Two pieces of cardboard to represent traffic lights; one with a bright red circle and the other with a bright green circle. Also a piece of black construction paper with the word "WALK" cut out and backed with a sheet of white paper. Lesson: Heeding the warning signs. We need to be careful around cars. Would you like to drive a car as dad and mom do? Why do you suppose children your age don’t drive cars? (Let them answer.) Right. We’re not big enough; we’re not tall enough; we might get hurt. How ...
412. The Remote
John 14:5-14
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
Theme: "Show us the Father." Summary: Susan is getting ready to watch television after a hard day's work. She is interrupted by a strange person who invites her to think instead of just accept all the world hands her. Playing Time: 9 minutes Setting: Susan's television room Props: Susan -- a small remote Fly -- a large remote Costumes: Susan -- contemporary, casual Fly -- fright wig, tutu, tennis shoes Cast: Susan -- a normal average person Fly-- an industrial-strength entity 11 voices on the television ( ...
Sermon
King Duncan
Yankee magazine ran a fascinating article recently entitled "Sensitive Specialists." It described men who make their living making extraordinary use of their natural senses. They cited the practiced eye of a diamond inspector, the sense of feel of a wool inspector, the developed ear of a cymbal tester, the sense of smell of a fresh fish inspector, and the sense of taste of a milktaster. All the men acknowledged that they had no special gift in the area of their senses. They had simply trained themselves to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
David McKechnie tells a great story about a rather unlikely speaker who came to Bob Jones University sometime back. Bob Jones is a stronghold of fundamentalism. According to the story the speaker told the young people, "You are naive. You cannot continue to take the Bible and apply literalism to it. For example," he said, "take the Old Testament. The Hebrew for `red' and `reed' is the same word. When it talks about Moses leading the children of Israel through the Red Sea with the Egyptian army in pursuit, ...
Sermon
King Duncan
Television journalist Hugh Downs and his wife once attended a function in Washington. When the time came to return to New York, they discovered that their flight had been cancelled due to bad weather. Downs immediately called the front desk and was informed that they could catch a five o'clock train, which was leaving in 45 minutes. Mrs. Downs was showering, and to save time, Hugh hurriedly packed all their belongings, called the bell captain and asked that the bags be rushed right over to the station and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
There is a time-honored story about a skeptic who was continually harassing the local pastor. His one delight in life seemed to be making the pastor appear inadequate intellectually. The pastor bore these challenges to his theology and faith with great restraint. One day the skeptic was heckling the pastor about his views on miracles. "Give me one concrete example of a miracle," the skeptic taunted. "One concrete example." Whereupon the pastor hauled off and kicked the skeptic furiously on the shin. The ...
417. It's A Miracle
John 20:19-31
Sermon
King Duncan
A first grade teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to acquire building materials for his home. She said, "And so the pig went up to the man with a wheelbarrow full of straw and said, ˜Pardon me sir, but might I have some of that straw to build my house?'" Then the teacher asked the class, "And what do you think that man said?" A little boy raised his hand and said, "I know! I know! He said ˜Holy smokes! A talking pig!'" ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
Some years ago a group of 25 Biblical scholars formed a group called, "The Jesus Seminar." About five years ago, they used a color code to vote on what words of The Lord''s Prayer they actually believed came directly from the lips of our Lord, Jesus Christ and not the editorial revisions of the Gospel writers, Matthew and Luke, and those who came after them. The color code was as follows: RED - direct words from Jesus PINK - not directly from Jesus, but close to what he might have said. GRAY - indirectly ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
A man went to his counselor about a personal problem. He said to the counselor, "I have a real struggle here. I feel like I'm violating my conscience. I'm not being completely honest with myself. I'm living a broken life." The counselor said to him, "Well, would you like to see me about strengthening your will power?" The man thought for a moment and replied, "No, what I would like to talk to you about is weakening my conscience." That reflects our age, doesn't it? We are not so much interested in ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
A man went to his counselor about a personal problem. He said to the counselor, "I have a real struggle here. I feel like I'm violating my conscience. I'm not being completely honest with myself. I'm living a broken life." The counselor said to him, "Well, would you like to see me about strengthening your will power?" The man thought for a moment and replied, "No, what I would like to talk to you about is weakening my conscience." That reflects our age, doesn't it? We are not so much interested in ...
Sermon
James McCormick
There is a poem which begins: “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform”. There was a time in history when people were quite comfortable with that idea. After all, for pre-scientific people, the mysterious, the unexplainable was a part of everyday life. There was so much that they could not understand that they put it all in the general category of “mystery”, and they accounted for that by pointing to God. If they couldn’t understand it, they simply said, “God did it!” They couldn’t begin to ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
We live in an age where incredible scientific advancements take place everyday. Take GRIN, the acronym for (G) genetic engineering, (R) robotics, (I) information technology and (N) nanotechnology. The human genome has been mapped. Nano-technology is constructing miniscule machines that can deliver inter-cellular messages or make molecular level repairs. Astro-physicists have mapped the curvature of the universe, delved into black holes, listened to the echoes of the Big Bang. Scientific inquiry and ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
Perhaps the finest golf coach America ever produced was the late Harvey Penick of Texas. He wrote the Little Red Book which is sort of the “golfer’s Bible.” Mr. Penick said that most golfers do not think on the golf course; they just worry. “Worrying is a misuse of your mind on the golf course,” said Mr. Penick. “Whatever your obstacle, worry will only make it more difficult. Worry causes your muscles to tense up, and it is impossible to make a good golf swing when your muscles are too tense.” “Rather than ...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
It seems my little jaunt into English grammar, and especially the proper placement of prepositions, produced more response than almost anything I have written in Steeple Notes. I suppose that, in itself, is amazing. Several of you sent me Winston Churchill's famous quotation: "This is a situation with which I will not put up." But the best one came from a couple of my Wednesday morning Arbon Dennis buddies. It's the story of the little girl, already in bed, who berated her father when he came to read to ...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
It seems my little jaunt into English grammar, and especially the proper placement of prepositions, produced more response than almost anything I have written in Steeple Notes. I suppose that, in itself, is amazing. Several of you sent me Winston Churchill's famous quotation: "This is a situation with which I will not put up." But the best one came from a couple of my Wednesday morning Arbon Dennis buddies. It's the story of the little girl, already in bed, who berated her father when he came to read to ...
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