Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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King Duncan
... went out.” Harry Pritchett thought to himself later, that’s a nice image-‑the light in the manger never goes out regardless of any mess we may make of things. (2) That light never goes out. If you are experiencing a time of darkness in your life, there is hope, and that hope has to do with a small babe lying in a manger. That babe has brought light into the world. He has changed our world. Those of you who are parents know how a baby can do that. The year was 1953, and the Korean War was drawing to a ...
4477. Life Is Yours
Matthew 25:1-13
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Leonard Sweet
... text were “wise” because they were looking ahead for a party, a party they did not want to miss out on. They were looking forward to being the lamps that lit the way to a joyous banquet, an outpouring of blessings, a fulfillment of hopes and dreams. They were not looking to spotlight some deep, dark black hole of despair. They wisely stockpiled some extra fuel so that they could be energized to be on the lookout for something wonderful, something good, something longed for and anxiously anticipated. We ...
4478. Membership Rules
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... and excitement, like the couples I heard about who wanted to join the community Catholic church. An elderly couple, a middle-aged couple, and a young couple approached the local Catholic Church with their hopes of joining. The priest there was very helpful, but he was firm about one thing. "We have new rules now," he said, "and one of those new rules is that if you want to join our church, then you must go without marital relations for one month. At the end ...
4479. It's Anybody's Ballgame
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... Series. I'm proud of all of you. I'm proud of the way we've fought to get this far. I will simply quote from the Holy Bible, from Romans: 'From tribulation comes strength, and from the depths of strength comes character...and from the depths of character comes hope.''" Then Lasorda raised his voice to a shout: "And I hope all of you jackasses realize that if we don't win this game, we go home!" The Dodgers won. (From Joe Garagiola, IT''S ANYBODY''S BALLGAME, Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1988)
4480. Scientific Jargon
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... . IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN. . . I didn't look up the original reference. A DEFINITE TREND IS EVIDENT . . . These data are practically meaningless. WHILE IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE DEFINITE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS. . . An unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to get it published. THREE OF THE SAMPLES WERE CHOSEN FOR DETAILED STUDY . . . The other results didn't make any sense. TYPICAL RESULTS ARE SHOWN. . . This is the prettiest graph. THESE RESULTS WILL BE IN A SUBSEQUENT REPORT. . . I might get ...
4481. Alabama Humor for Tennesseans
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... a Tennessee/Alabama game. It's all in fun. You could substitute the name of your favorite rival. I hope Alabama readers will forgive me for including it those that can read, anyway. You know the best thing to come ... dare tell these jokes because there is virtually no chance that they will be offensive to the occasional Alabamian who has one read to him or her. I just hope none of them do read this because I don't want to hurt their feelings. But, between you and me, people from Alabama just aren't very swift ...
4482. Setting a Bad Example
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Staff
... to keep it as a pet. Then the lady and the lad thought it would be a good idea to try to teach the sparrow to sing like the canary. So they placed the cages side by side, hoping that the glorious songs of the canary would be a "good example" to the sparrow whose musical repertoire was more limited. Well, it just didn't work out that way. After three weeks, not only did the sparrow fail to sing like the canary, but our yellow-feathered friend was ...
4483. Observations on Growing Older
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... "? Now you bring clean underwear in case you 'HAVE' an accident! When you needed the discount, you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything...movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them. You used to say, "I hope my kids 'GET' married... Now, "I hope they 'STAY' married!" You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF" Switch.. When GOOGLE, Iphone, e-mail, etc., were unheard of, and a mouse was something that made you climb on a table. You tend to use more ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... aging. Now it’s your turn to make sacrifices. Again, it’s not easy. Christ never promised that it would be easy. But love is sacrificial. Love is what life is about. In I Corinthians 13 St. Paul summed it up like this: “These three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” Author J. Allan Petersen tells about a flight he once took on a 747 out of Brazil. He was awakened from sleep by a voice announcing, “We have a very serious emergency.” Three engines had quit because of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... don’t have to go to Vegas to lose money gambling. I’m not going to ask if any of you have ever bought a lottery ticket. Someone has called the lottery a tax on the poor because so many people look at the lottery as their only hope of coming out of life ahead. What it does, of course, is put them deeper in a hole. In an article in Time magazine writer Ginia Bellafonte told about a man, about 60, waiting in line outside a stationery shop in Greenwich, Connecticut to buy lottery tickets. The temperature ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... for fathers. It is designed, rather, for followers, followers of Jesus Christ. The Master is talking about the kingdom of God and he speaks hopeful words about the days ahead. He says, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to ... A baby is born into a household. Can you imagine the significance of that event? Every baby born into this world represents hope for a new beginning. It is said that Queen Victoria was fascinated by the brilliance of the scholars who made up ...
4487. PUNography
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Johnny Dean
... . I can't put it down. I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words. They told me I had type A blood, but it was a Type-O. Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations. Class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there's no pop quiz. Energizer bunny arrested. Charged with battery. I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me. How do you make holy water? Boil the hell out of it! Did you hear about the cross eyed teacher who lost her job because she ...
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Leonard Sweet
... the living God of Israel. In other words, those outside of the covenant, outside the community established by Mosaic Law, were “zombies,” stumbling around without access to any real life, cut off from any genuine spiritual connection to real life, cut off from any hope of a connection to God. The aliens and strangers who existed in the midst of Israel consumed a diet of false gods and earth-bound idols to fill the spiritual emptiness in their own souls. In pagan culture there were gods to appease and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in ... , if you believe that we are called to be the light unto the nations of the world, that will break your heart. If we are the hope that God has for this world, then the rest of the world is in trouble if we cannot love one another. Our unity is critical. We must ...
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Cynthia Cowen
... years be­fore Jesus' birth. Malachi's words form a bridge between the Old Testament and the New Testament. He warned the Jews that they had broken their relationship with God and that judgment and pun­ishment would come. After chastising them, however, he offers hope and forgiveness if they repented. John's baptism of water was done for the forgiveness of sin. Jesus’ baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire would give the truly repentant, not only forgiveness, but the power to do God's will. But those who ...
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Cynthia Cowen
... . After opening cousin Jenna's gift, a CD of her favorite singer, a gift certificate to her favorite clothing store from her older sister, and a card with $3 in change from her youngest brother, Billy(prob­ably his paper route tip money, bless him), she hoped she had saved the best for last. With eagerness she unwrapped her parents' present, praying it was that new top she wanted. She laughed with glee as she found a box that contained a box that contained another box. "Oh, you guys are jokesters. This is ...
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Cynthia Cowen
... ." The name of this song is "How Firm A Foundation." How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can he say than to you he has said, who unto the Savior for refuge has fled?1 Finally, "My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less." The refrain says it all. On Christ the solid rock, I stand; all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand.2 Only those who have built their lives on Jesus and his teach­ings will stand the test. Though storms may ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... 's a statement that's important. Only if you are willing to be as faithful as the women, who go to the tomb with no hope, to do their duty, will you be able to meet and greet the resurrected Lord. Sometimes as we imagine the scene, we think to ourselves, ... obedience and service in the worst imaginable conditions. Only if you are willing to stay faithful to your faith when there is no hope, when it makes no sense, when you see no sense in it, when the world is against you, and you stay faithful anyway, that ...
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... our place by the overly rigid use of the law rejoiced in what he said and what he did. We could hardly contain ourselves. I hope this will help you better understand why I'm going to continue to follow Jesus and why I believe he is the Messiah, the one ... he is and even though you have your reservations about all this, I choose to follow him wher­ever he goes and whatever happens. I hope you understand. In so many ways I feel like that woman who can now stand up straight because of Jesus or the man who can ...
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... Not the nice sedate prayers of my child­hood or seminary days, and certainly not the kind of prayers that were expected of me on Sunday mornings, but I was praying none­theless. I was praying as best I could with faith the size of a mus­tard seed hoping it was enough faith to move mountains. I didn't know how I would tell the congregation that we were delayed yet again, that this building was really going to be built, honest it was. I knew your patience was stretched, so was mine, so was that of everyone ...
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Scott Bryte
... want is a truly good thing. So how can we say that God always hears us? How can we still have faith that God says, "Yes" to us when we see "No" all around? Jesus is the answer. Jesus himself is God's, "Yes." Jesus is the answer to every hope and every prayer. Jesus fell victim to crime and cruelty and evil. In Jesus, God is with us when we are victimized. Jesus was rejected and beaten and crucified. In Jesus, God is with us even when things go horribly wrong. Jesus died and was buried. In Jesus, God is ...
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David E. Leininger
... career, a bright and talented husband, a beautiful home, handsome children, and all the rest. But time marches on. She has become an independent young lady with ideas of her own. She meets a fellow who is somewhat less than her mom and dad might have hoped for — no job, no education, no money, no future, and apparently no razor — just a motorcycle, one earring, and a ponytail. She dropsout of school, runs off with him, gets pregnant, and dies in child birth. Mom and Dad sit there under the tent during ...
4498. God's Plans
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
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David E. Leininger
... has been replayed. Scripture is full of such stories. Abraham was an aging Bedouin destined to ancient obscurity without a son and heir, but God had other plans. Joseph was the bratty little kid who was such a handful that his brothers sold him into slavery hoping to never see or hear from him again, but God had other plans. David was just a shepherd boy from a backwater little village destined for no particular notice, but the prophet Samuel came to his father Jesse, met the lad, and informed everyone that ...
4499. Choosing a God
1 Kings 18:20-21 (22-29) 30-39
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David E. Leininger
... and he will get back to you. Could be he's asleep — you had better yell louder if you're going to wake him up. I sure hope he's not the kind of god who's in a bad mood when he gets up. Heh, heh, heh. Then Elijah just sat back and roared ... not give up. Elijah's jibes just made their dancing and chanting all the more furious. They began slashing themselves with knives and spears, hoping that the sight of their blood would spur Baal into action. But nothing. Now it was Elijah's turn. First, he repaired the old ...
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David E. Leininger
... realized the parallels between his own home life and the relationship between God and God's people - it would not be complete without that same step: the step of redeeming love. Hosea must have realized it because the closing verses of his prophecy are full of hope. "I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them" (Hosea 14:4). That became the prophet's message. No doubt the tongues did wag again when Hosea brought Gomer back home. That had to be big news over ...
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