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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4276. Proper 21
Mark 9:38-41, Esther 7:1-10, Esther 9:18-32, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:42-50
Sermon Aid
Russell F. Anderson
Theme: Providing a preserving and redemptive effect on the world. COMMENTARY Old Testament: Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 The book of Esther, written about 460 B.C., makes no mention of God, worship, or prayer. It doubtless was included in the canon because it is sort of an Easter story concerning the Jewish people. The wicked Haman had laid plans for the genocide of the Jewish people. Mordecai catches wind of the plot and intercedes with his adopted daughter, Queen Esther, who intercedes with King Ahasuerus ...
4277. Proper 25
Hebrews 7:11-28, Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Mark 10:46-52
Sermon Aid
Russell F. Anderson
Theme: God in Christ is ever available to hear and heed our cries for mercy. COMMENTARY Old Testament: Job 42:1-6, 10-17 The story of Job comes to completion as the sufferer comes to acknowledge his own finitude and God's power. Job does not receive a direct answer to his questions but receives something better, the very presence of God. "I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you" (v. 6). This verse contrasts knowledge of God from tradition with a more direct relationship of God ...
4278. Thanksgiving
Joel 2:18-27, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Timothy 2:1-15
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
First Lesson: Joel 2:21-27 Theme: Thanksgiving for the Lord our great provider Call To Worship Leader: Come, let us give thanks for the wonderful blessings of God! People: For the Lord provided for our food, the sunshine, and the air. Leader: The Lord has provided for our families and for our children. People: The Lord our God is great and wonderful and worthy of our praise. Leader: Then let our hearts be joined in praise and thanksgiving to God! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You ...
4279. Love In Action
1 John 3:11-24
Sermon
Mark J. Molldrem
One of the enduring images of both the Old Testament and New Testament scriptures is that of the good shepherd. The Psalmist, the prophet Ezekiel, and Jesus himself used this human picture to convey a divine reality. The picture is that of the shepherd who cares well for his sheep, even to the point of laying down his life for the sheep; the divine reality is that the Son of God cares for us so much that he was willing to lay down his life for us. This love creates new life in us, so that we desire to be ...
Sermon
Mark J. Molldrem
Sunday was a day in Jesus' life that started the week off with palms and praises -- a week that ended with persecution and passion. Today is a strange day. I do not know if I should be happy or sad. If I were with the crowd on that first Palm Sunday, I think I would be happy, publicly shouting the praises of Jesus as he came riding into Jerusalem. If I knew at that time what the rest of the week would bring, I think I would be sad, knowing that Jesus would end up on a cross and buried in a borrowed tomb. ...
Sermon
Alexander H. Wales
"I just knew it was going to be that kind of a day! I got started late. The people I was traveling with decided to go on without me. My donkey came up lame. And the beggar at the gate of the city warned me that the road to Jericho could be a dangerous place. "But I had to go. I was already behind schedule, and you know how those things go. I was supposed to be in Tarsus by the end of the month. I hadn't seen my family in weeks. So, I did what I knew I shouldn't do and headed for Jericho. I wasn't more than ...
Drama
Dr. Raymond Bailey
Theme: The Holy Spirit has, through the years, drawn us to Christ, that He might make us saints and family. Setting: Like Abraham, I set out on a journey. After twenty years teaching in a United Methodist Church college setting, I grew restless, but still did not know what to do with the rest of my life. For one year, I took a part-time appointment, a two-church circuit, 65 miles from my home in Lakeland, Florida. I had no idea whether I was up to the task of returning to the pastorate. How does one ...
4283. A Big Fisherman · Peter
Mt 16:13-20 · Jn 1:35-42
Sermon
Gordon Pratt Baker
He came from the sea, a brawny, boisterous man, who loved nothing better than the spray in his face as he pitted his little craft against a gale, his calloused hands locked on the tiller, a defiant cry on his lips. And when the wild trick was over how he must have boasted of his feat to friends sharing his hearth! He was an impulsive man, quick to make decisions and equally quick to make mistakes. Yet he never let either stop him. Instead, he plunged straight on, rushing from one concern to another, always ...
Sermon
Donald Dotterer
Let us pray: On this day, O God, we lift up our heads and shout the good news that your son Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. In these moments, may we come to know in our hearts as well as our minds that Jesus lives now and forever. May the words of our mouths, the meditations of our hearts, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord our strength and our Redeemer. Amen. Columnist Philip Yancey, in an article titled "A Russian Resurrection," writes of his visit in October 1991 to the former Soviet Union. He says ...
Sermon
James McKarns
In the midst of a strange and beautiful world, the first man stood in awe, looking about at the new creation. Everything was most lovely but a feeling of loneliness lingered within him. He saw the heavens with their floating clouds and flying birds. He viewed the virgin earth, displaying its mountains, lakes, trees, flowers and many animals. He was fascinated and happy but still knew he was not totally complete. Then he saw a woman, for the first time and shouted in joy that he had found someone similar to ...
Sermon
Deborah D. Steed
For An Older Couple, Both Widowed Genesis 2:18-23; Psalm 100;Colossians 3:12-17; John 15:9-12 The Bible contains many themes, but two of them that pervade both the Old and New Testaments are memory and hope. The Israelites were constantly reminded by their leaders and their religious rituals to keep uppermost in their minds the fact that God had saved them, had made them a nation, had bestowed on them through Abraham and Sarah a special covenantal love. This memory was recalled time and time again as ...
4287. In Stride
Isaiah 65:17-25
Eulogy
Ruth L. Boling
Hodgkin's Disease Victim We have come today to celebrate the life of ____________; beloved son, grandson, brother, and friend. We have come to offer our thanks to God for giving him to us -- even for so short a time as ______ years -- and we have come to commend him now to God's eternal keeping as it has been promised to us in the holy scriptures. After a long and quietly courageous battle with Hodgkin's Disease, of this we can be certain, that for ____________ there is now no more pain, no more fear, no ...
Eulogy
James McKarns
Older Man The first scripture reading we heard today was written by Paul and sent, in the form of a letter, to the people who lived in Corinth, Greece. Paul says our lives on this earth are similar to living in a tent. The gospel was written later, by the apostle John. He describes life beyond this earth, as living in the Father's house -- quoting the words of Jesus. I think these two brief readings give a graphic picture of how we human beings are to view life in its entirety. Here, on this earth, we are ...
Eulogy
Charles R. Turbin
12-Year-Old ____________ and ____________, friends and loved ones of ____________, dear friends in Christ, grace to you and peace from God, our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. Amen. "And Jesus took them in his arms." What a beautiful picture that is of the love our Lord has for his children. There is a hotel or more probably a rooming house I know of called The Redeemer's Arms. Huge white letters are mounted on the side of the building announcing its name. Those many times I have ...
Eulogy
Merlin L. Conrad
When I was in seminary there was a picture hanging in our library that I will never forget. I have long since forgotten who the artist might have been, but the message was indelible. It was titled "The March of Death" and pictured death marching through the throngs of humanity calling, at will, whom he chose. He called the young and the old, the rich and the poor, the well and the infirmed. There was something else in that picture I remember and that is that there were those kneeling by the roadside, ...
Bulletin Aid
Craig M. Sweet
Reader 1: But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, Reader 2: "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he ...
Sermon
R. Sheldon MacKenzie
Have you ever been terribly alone,-- even when other people were all around you? Perhaps you were walking down a street, totally absorbed in some personal crisis, and, despite people coming and going beside you it seemed there was no one to whom you could go for encouragement and counsel. The business of decision-making is often a lonely matter. Sometimes you lie awake at night, when everyone else has gone to sleep. And you go over in your mind the worries and decisions of the day past and of the one to ...
4293. Easter Sunday
Luke 24:33-41 · Psalm 23 · Acts 4:33-36
Bulletin Aid
Jack Brownlee
ORDER OF SERVICE Opening Words L: Let us worship our Creator, the God of Love. P: God continually preserves and sustains us. L: We have been forgiven with a redeeming and eternal love. P: Through the resurrection of Christ we have become witness to the full love of God. Hymn "Come, Ye Faithful Raise The Strain" All Prayer Of Confession (Unison) We are hesitant to believe that good can emerge from the depths of tragedy and sin. Our hearts wander as we look for the proof of your love, O God. Life passes us ...
4294. The Spirit Bird
Galatians 1:23b
Illustration
John E. Sumwalt
One summer morning in a mission camp where I was serving as a teacher of Galatians to junior high youth, a bird appeared at morning devotions, and lighted on the head of one of the girls. From there the bird hopped to her arm and then onto the arm of another camper and then another. The bird seemed to be looking for someone. We learned later that it was indeed a tame bird, the pet of a camper in an adjoining camp. We were also told that some boys in our camp had thrown sticks at the bird and frightened it ...
4295. Epiphany 3
Mark 1:14-20, Psalm 62:1-12
Bulletin Aid
B. David Hostetter
CALL TO WORSHIP Let your heart wait silently before God; our hope of salvation is in the ETERNAL. PRAYER OF CONFESSION God of all times and places, God in Israel and Nazareth, God in our time and place, the meaning of time frequently escapes us. Grief and depression seem like forever. Joy and genuine communion seem so fleeting. Unpleasant duties are postponed; fancied pleasantries are prolonged. Dying takes others away, but we have difficulty facing our own mortality, and evaluating the significance of our ...
4296. Ninth Sunday After Epiphany
Psalm 80:1-19, Mark 2:23-3:6, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Deuteronomy 5:1-33
Bulletin Aid
B. David Hostetter
CALL TO WORSHIP Worship the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Gracious God, Compassionate Christ, Generous Spirit, what a treasure you have given us in the church. Save us from unwarranted pride and dogmatism that obscure our fallibility and put in the shadow the truth and grace that belong only to you. Grant us modesty and true humility in the sharing of our ...
4297. Proper 23
Mark 10:17-31
Bulletin Aid
B. David Hostetter
CALL TO WORSHIP Be satisfied with God's love when morning breaks and sing for joy and be glad all your days. PRAYER OF CONFESSION God of all possibilities, Gatekeeper of heaven, Assayer of Eternal values, you only are good. It is simpler to recite your commandments than to do them. Even if we do them, we often neglect the poor and risk eternal human values for the sake of perishable riches. Take from us all encumbrances that would prevent our entering the place of your rule. Apart from you, our salvation ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
Objects: Some blindfolds. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you think that you know the voices of other people? I wonder if you would know your mother's voice or your father's voice, or even my voice if you could not see me. Would you like to try? (Let them answer.) I have some blindfolds that I want you to put on and wear for a few minutes. While I am helping you put on your blindfolds, I want to invite some of your parents to come up front with us. We are going to let them talk to one another ...
Children's Sermon
Mark A. Hultquist
Object: A collection of old toy cars (one in good condition, the remainder with obvious problems). Other toys can be substituted if cars are not available. Have you ever lost something for a long time and then found it again, almost by accident? That still happens to me sometimes when I put something somewhere for safe keeping. Sometimes I just can't seem to remember where in the world I put it. Then I find it again when I'm looking for something else altogether! Not long ago, I came across this box in a ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
Object: A round key ring with a lot of keys and one large key. Good morning, boys and girls. Today is a wonderful day to share with one another and to thank God for being so good to us. I have been thinking about a lot of things recently and one of them is the idea that we are sharing a promise that was given to Jesus. Do you remember when Jesus died? (Let them answer.) I remember that also. You and I will also die. We hope that we will not have to die in the same way that Jesus did, but we know that we ...
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