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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Drama
Marcia Miller
... Scripture. The director of the speech choir should combine the best of these inspirational features. A good speech choir should be aware of rhythm, tone, timing, phrasing, pausing, pitch, and the blending of voices. It is important to remember if a phrase is a solo or a group phrase, and work accordingly. For the speech choir member, a work of this kind provides an opportunity to develop the voice. Experimentation to discover what can be done vocally is not only advised, but is almost a demanded necessity ...
4452. The Gift Of The Breeze
John 3:1-17
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Johnny Dean
I remember growing up in the South, in "cotton country," in the summer, before air conditioning became something almost every home had. Several of those summers I spent working on my uncle's cotton farm, down in the Mississippi delta, just outside of my birthplace, Cleveland, Mississippi. It was hot work, hard work, bringing in a cotton crop. It still is, but technology has made it a lot easier than it was back then. When the crop had been tended for another day, the weeds chopped from between the cotton ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... God or desire him to come to us. In the person of the Spirit, God is truly with us and in us. It is God in Spirit who works in us to help us, to guide us into truth, to motivate us to do good, and to give us gifts by which we serve God. In ... a mystery to all hearers. It is important for us to know and realize that the good we do and the virtues we possess are the work of the Spirit. Only God can make man good, and he does it by the Spirit. This has practical consequences for a society that is saturated ...
4454. Jesus ... Who?
Matthew 16:13-20
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John R. Brokhoff
... though it was reported that Herod was out to kill him. He replied, "Tell that fox": I am going to stay here and do my work, and when my work is done I will move on! You have to be proud of courage like that. We can be proud of Jesus for the way he ... church member? Do you deny him among your social circle or among your business associates? One summer a young Christian went to work in the northwest with lumber jacks. When he came back he told how tough they were: obscene language, filthy stories, constant ...
Drama
Jon Joyce
... with ANTONIUS standing stage right, is alone on the balcony; PILATE paces and looks out at the city, musing over his work and Jerusalem. ANTONIUS stands at attention behind PILATE’S chair. There is a GONG. ANTONIUS: Someone must be here to see ... thought of that, Antonius, but Caiaphas is too cunning and money-minded to fall into that kind of trap. He’s better off working with me. It fills his coffers. The carpenter’s the only present threat of rebellion, if, indeed, there is a real threat. [CAIAPHAS ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... , rolled, or carried to the building site; for they had no animals or machines. These seven dwellings had been built with the bare hands of forty-four adult men and women who lived on the Mayflower, a mile and a half off shore, and who rowed to and from work each day. For twenty days they had labored to build the first building, a "common house," as they called it, twenty feet square. About 6 a.m. on the morning of January 14, they stood on the deck of the Mayflower and watched their efforts go up in smoke ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... because it is the only way that they can live. They may be hurt or sick or have something else wrong with them so they cannot work, so they must beg. Have you ever thought of how the beggar must hold his cup or bag? Watch how I hold a begging cup. [ ... healed of his blindness and believed that only God could do it, he healed him and made his eyesight brand new. That is the way God works with people. There are a lot of things you cannot do for yourself and need God’s help. Ask God and ask him again and again ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... says that by choosing the right purpose in life individuals can avoid insecurity in ways that will not do violence to their personhood or their institutions. Rich is the man who before he dies finds the high purpose in life for which he was born. To live and work in peace in the Kingdom of God is the noblest of all purposes. That is a unique contribution that a person can make to life. We need to make much of the word "commitment." There is so little real commitment in this world. People who are committed ...
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Harold Warlick
... he healed to remain silent about his activities. If there is a need in our world today, it is for human beings to roll up their sleeves and, seeking no personal aggrandizement, minister to their neighbors. Henry Ward Beecher put it this way: "Religion means work; religion means work in a dirty world; religion means peril; blows given, blows taken as well ... The world is to be cleaned by somebody; and you are not a child of God if you are ashamed to scour and scrub." As Jesus told the lawyer that day, one ...
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Harold Warlick
... What a contrast is presented to us: Jesus refusing to turn stones into bread to build up his own image, yet later in his ministry he fed a multitude of people with some bread and a few fishes. In short, Jesus used discretion in calling attention to his good works. He defined miracle not as a selfish exercise of power, but as a sign of God’s gift to mankind. Today, I am afraid that there are many people in our world who are firmly convinced that Jesus should have jumped from the mountain to prove how great ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... you antidepressants for a while," the doctor responded, "but don’t you think it might be more constructive to change your life?" The story of this man may well be the story of many people. The man gets up at the same hour every weekday morning, drives to work via the same route, and performs the same task in the office. He has two children and goes to church every now and then, for the sake of those children, and especially on Christmas and Easter. When he does go to church, he hears the minister rant and ...
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Harold Warlick
... hold center stage when we speak of the concepts of human and divine love. Why? Jesus came to earth and clarified the true nature of love. He articulated a higher form of love than merely feeling sorry for someone. He taught us that true love is not working out our guilt through other people, nor is it the "Robin Hood Syndrome" of robbing from the rich to give to the poor. True love, in the eyes of the Christ, is affirming other people, restoring their sense of worth both as individuals and as human beings ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... has led the victory over the enemy, honor has come to him, peace has come to the whole land for the 40 years he lives and it was not by chance, nor by luck, nor by coincidence There were some vital essentials that were needed to make it work that way. You don’t turn from being a loser into a winner without any effort. You don’t turn from being a coward into a brave person without meeting some requirements. What Gideon needed - had to have, in fact - we must have also. GIDEON NEEDED ASSURANCE Gideon ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... make such a difference. We need to ask ourselves about the "good" things we do - do we do them to be seen of others, or to perform a real service of devotion to God? Are we faithful and good and conscientious and hard-working so that people will say: "How loyal he is," or "You work harder than anyone else," or "What would we ever do without you," or "Nobody else would do what you are doing, you are so good!" Mary was not seeking the limelight - she had no idea she was going to be remembered down through ...
Sermon
Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... hundreds into this congregation’s membership each couple of months. Everyone would be tithing - we’d have so much in the offering that we would have to put on extra counters to tabulate it, and find new ways to share it. All decisions and projects and work and activities of each organization of this church would measure and motivate what it did by asking if this is the best way to love God. Four thousand would be in church each Sunday. We wouldn’t have room enough for all the Church school classes ...
Sermon Aid
T. A. Kantonen
... . In Acts 9:22 we read that Paul "silenced the Jews of Damascus with his cogent proofs that Jesus was the Messiah." And in Romans 9:5 he writes, "from them (the Jews) in natural descent sprang the Messiah." Nils Dahl has shown that Paul’s whole work as an apostle was conditioned by the Messiahship of Jesus. But since Paul was primarily the apostle to the Gentiles, to whom the Messianic hope of the Jews was less meaningful, he made little effort to prove to them that Jesus was the promised Messiah; Christ ...
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Kent Moorehead
... to save his life, he loses it - and God must seek elsewhere for a co-worker. Finally, the most heartening fact of all is that God is here, now, succeeding, not failing as some might surmise. To be sure, when men do evil, the law of retribution works, sin brings suffering and sorrow, not only to mortals, but to God as well. But even though he is wounded and in a large way hindered, he is never altogether defeated. He ultimately does make "the wrath of men to praise him." In utterly unanticipated, mysterious ...
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Kent Moorehead
... , he was born in a barn: he "took upon himself the form of a servant and learned obedience;" he was a Peasant, a Carpenter, a Healer, a Teacher, a Servant of all. He said, "I and the Father are One" (John 10:30). "My father worketh hitherto, and I work" (John 5:17). "I come not to be ministered unto, but to minister" (Matthew 20:28). "He that would be greatest among you shall be your servant" (Matthew 20:26). If we are to be orthodox enough to believe that Jesus was "the image of the godhead bodily," and ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... in the same way we may overhear a casual remark made in the office elevator. Someone has said that fellowship is more than a coffee break. It is; and communication is more than the production and hearing of sounds. I heard about a fellow who, on his way home from work one evening, realized that he hadn’t for a long time told his wife how he felt about her. He made up his mind that he would do so that very night. So after the dinner dishes were cleared away, and the two of them were seated in their living ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... cherished signal of hope and sign of spiritual and moral power. The Apostle Paul always rose to his highest summits of eloquence when speaking of Christ. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul writes of "the immeasurable greatness" of the divine power which is at work within us, which was "accomplished in Christ" who has been exalted to a place "far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow" (2:9-10). Name that is above every ...
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Bill Bouknight
... of the Messiah. I could hardly believe it at first; but now, I have felt changes in my body that tell me I am expecting a child." Joseph felt like he had been hit by lightning. His reaction must have brought tears to Mary's eyes. Joseph was a plain working man with a practical, matter-of-fact kind of mind. He was a realist not given to visions and angels. He did not believe Mary. She tried to hide her tears as she turned and fled to her family circle. Joseph was crushed. He could not conceive of Mary being ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... God has been wringing his hands, wondering why we did not seek his help earlier. Another thing prayer is not is a way to evade work. God does not subsidize laziness. He will not do for us things we ought to do for ourselves. Because I like golf, one of my ... . Eight, pray for Christ Church. Finally, number nine, conclude by listening silently for three minutes. I am convinced that God still works miracles in our personal lives and through our church. I dare you to try this prayer experiment and thereby lay hold ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... , my situation was different in some respects from our current graduates. Memphis is a city whereas Bishopville was and is a small town. You could get into trouble in Bishopville, but you had to work at it. The devil was in Bishopville, but he was not happy to be there and was bored beyond belief. He probably sought hardship pay for working there. In the late 50ls we had never heard of drugs. We knew less about sex than do today’s graduates, though we were every bit as interested. We loved music just as ...
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Bill Bouknight
... we could reply, "I know that the Lord is mighty patient and kind." The Lord can take a line like that and wing it straight to a person's heart. Today I relay this call of Christ: "Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." Let me close with this bit of wartime history. One of the boldest and most dramatic decisions of World War II was made by Admiral Marc Mitscher in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Late in the afternoon of June 20 ...
4475. Derailed Dreams
Genesis 37:12-36, 50:15-21
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... to Miami Beach. There he met an attractive lady who was willing to go out with him. That very afternoon a routine summer storm came through the Miami area. Lightning struck and killed Jake. Jake reported to the pearly gates in a surly mood. He asked, "Why Lord? I worked hard all my life, helped every person I could; then, when I finally get to the place where I can relax and have a little fun, Zap! Lightning strikes. Why Lord?" The Lord replied, "Oh, is that you, Jake? I'm so sorry. I didn't recognize you ...
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