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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... we have added to the list of terminals, and though a few diseases still remain with no known cure, the human genius has made strides of progress through research and treatment. The time and wisdom of our scientific sages still continues in our laboratories all around the world in search of treatments for the endless list of human ills - hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, carcinoma, addictions, AIDS, Alzheimer’s, disorders of the mind, multiple sclerosis, or whatever is your personal plague. We ...
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... was given a fellowship in chest medicine, and he went on from there to national board recognition in internal medicine and as a chest physician, and most recently as a specialist in sleep disorders. Though his soul from out the shadow is delivered nevermore, he continues practice in a vital clinic of the West. When it seems that the years of life are telescoped, God can often accomplish more through us in shorter years than in the normal lifetime, whatever that may be. "I tell you, God will vindicate them ...
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... imposes, and the prospect of the third millennium ahead for those who can endure that long are not as bright as prophets with rose-colored glasses might propose. The unprecedented pace of progress will quicken even more, but the brave new world continues to be threatened by an endless list of hideous possibilities. Our security has never been more insecure. Friendships have never been more tenuous. Vaunted progress has never been more tested. The highs of our drug culture have become the lows of desperation ...
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... advancers and decliners, was to be given. The Purpose of the Parable Luke tells us that the parable was spoken to disciples who anticipated that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. As they left Jericho, where Zacchaeus had received salvation, they continued upward on their journey from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem where they expected Jesus to assert himself, claim the Kingdom, usher in a new world order, take his power and reign. Indeed, Jerusalem would be the site in which his kingly rule would ...
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... the first time all the colonies observed the day together. Washington at Valley Forge and Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War proclaimed a nationwide observance of thanksgiving. Throughout our history, both in the United States and Canada, the tradition has continued in unbroken sequence. And this year again by presidential proclamation we observe this day as our Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving is a national holiday, not necessarily a holy day. The church lifts up its heart and voice to God in Jesus Christ ...
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... prayer must also have special consideration. Pray to your heavenly father, he said; pray without ceasing. Do not be discouraged if you seem not to be getting the answers you expect. To him prayer obviously was communion and fellowship with God. It was habitual and continuous, not occasional or whimsical. Prayer was what enabled him to testify that he was not alone because the Father was with him, and to speak with assurance of the fact that he was in the Father and the Father was in him. Finally, we should ...
4532. Let God Be God
Zephaniah 3:1-20
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... . Even the most ancient ancestors of whom we have any record felt this need in a compulsive way. They turned in almost every direction they could think of in the quest for a spiritual reality to help them make sense of their lives. That quest, continued through the ages, evolved great religious traditions out of which have come some of our oldest, strongest, and most stable institutions. Why have we humans had this need? We are flesh like other flesh, but this is a need that seems unique in the animal ...
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... , so appropriately describes him? Saint Francis of Assissi? Saint Augustine? The Roman Catholic Church has a long list of those who have been canonized - usually some two hundred years after their deaths, and after a careful scrutiny of their lives, work, and continuing influence. But have you ever known a saint personally? Of all the people with whom you are acquainted, are there any you consider to be saints? Most of us probably would be hesitant to say that any particular individual we know actually ...
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... be used for life. The testimony of martyrs through the ages has been that there are things more important to life than life itself. We may well ask ourselves, too, how we see this life in relationship to the life we anticipate after physical death. Is it continuous or discontinuous? Do we see this present life as a testing, prelude, or qualifying run for the real life to come? Or are we looking upon our day-to-day existence here as an integral part of eternal experience? Seeing eternity as being now, versus ...
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... Bible and church tradition and come out of a distant past in which society was organized along patriarchal and authoritarian lines. The terms seemed most appropriate in the context of the times in which they were first used, and we have continued to use them out of respect for their traditional value. To many of us, however, they are now archaic and somewhat anachronistic. Certainly they reflect attitudes and arrangements of a society structured around male dominance. The more one ponders the letter writer ...
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... thousand people. A pretty good day's work for anyone! Again, how he did it is not entirely clear, but we can't explain the whole event by simply appealing to the divinity of our Lord. We remember that all along Jesus was a man of prayer, continuously putting himself under God's will and purpose completely. A little passing sentence just before this miracle tells us that Jesus "went to a lonely place by himself." For what reason? I would suggest he went there to pray, to put himself under the Father's will ...
Children's Sermon
... what that is? (Wait until the child who lives there says, "It’s my house.") Your house! Well, isn’t that wonderful! Let’s see what else I have here. (Hold up picture of someone’s car and wait until the child exclaims, "It’s our car." This can be continued with a picture of a pet a school or church.) Why do you keep saying that it is your house, your car, your dog, your school? Did you buy them? Do they really belong to you? Who bought them or helps to keep them going? Your Father and Mother. That ...
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... not let us be tempted beyond our strength. God is good enough to make a way of escape and will give us strength to endure the temptation. How good of God! In a world of temptations, we have a God who will see us through to victory! Today's Gospel continues to show us the goodness of God. Jesus tells a parable about a three-year old fig tree which failed to yield fruit. The owner was about to cut it down, but the gardener asked him to give it another year to produce. Christ is the gardener who asks God ...
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... Christian gets this way because his goal in life is to "know him." Share the Suffering A Christian faces the future, forsaking his past, not only by making his aim to know Jesus but to share in his sufferings even to the point of death. In our text Paul continues, "... may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death." To be a Christian is to be a cross bearer. One time Jesus said, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." A cross is not one that deals ...
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... fail Jesus the King, you can be loyal to him, even to death. In A.D. 155, Caesar ordered terrible persecutions against the Christians. There was an eighty-six year old bishop of Smyrna, Polycarp, who was arrested. They ordered him to recant and curse Christ. His reply continues to inspire men to be loyal to their King: "For eighty and six years I have served him, and he hath done me no wrong; how can I blaspheme my king who saved me?" Yes, how can one? Rather than curse his King Jesus, Polycarp died in the ...
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Brett Blair
... twice his age and experience. At the age of 18 he qualified to train with the U.S. Olympic team in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His behavior nearly cost him his high school diploma but private classes were arranged which enabled him to graduate. He continued to excel in his chosen sport gaining recognition around the world and then it happened. News which brought his career to a climatic end. In 1996, in the middle of a race, excruciating pains forced him to quite. Test revealed advanced testicular cancer ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... out of the old farm house had much value. Like Mary, the other bidders were there to supplement the furnishings of their summer cottages in the mountains of western North Carolina. "I’ll start the bidding off and won’t go too high," she continued to whisper. Mary did not want the auctioneer or any potential buyer to know how interested she was in the table. The auctioneer evidently thought the table worthless. The legs had been beaten up, perhaps by someone carelessly pushing back a chair or bench ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... , he had just been appointed to serve a two-point charge. Bill and Evelyn were conscientious young people and wanted to give their best to their studies and to their church members. "I need some time to back away and get a new perspective on my life," she continued. "I still feel a call to ministry, but I need some relief from all the pressures. One of us in seminary right now is about all we can handle." Who of us has not at some time felt overwhelmed by our duties and responsibilities? A boy trudging a ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... the drains, when the other people living in the house would prefer to ignore the rather strange smells they can’t help noticing from time to time, and find it much more congenial to maintain that everything is in order. A Christian is a realist. He or she should continue to insist that everything is very far from being in order, that try as we will to live in a world of pretense, the brute fact of sin is an inescapable one which all of us must face and take into account. To ignore the existence of sin is ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... but fought back the impulse, remembering Abram’s instructions to start out to Canaan. (Genesis 12:1) My inquiries brought some conflicting answers from my visitor. "Where were you living when God gave you instructions to go to Florida?" "In Farmville, Virginia." "With whom?" I continued. First, he said, he was staying with friends and God told him the friends didn’t want him there any longer, so he left. "Is that when you were told to go to Florida?" I asked. "No," he answered. "I then went to live with ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... they exchanged are fresh in their minds. They establish a good home and have three children. They learn to like each other as friends. And perhaps they adjust reasonably well to one another’s quirks. Chances are that for a long time Hosea and Gomer continue the courtesies practiced during their engagement. This may have been one of those remarkable cases when he still opens the door for her and she thanks him, and he still stands when she enters the room and she acknowledges his presence. These two people ...
4547. Be Steadfast In God
Romans 14:1--15:13
Children's Sermon
... over again your heart beats out the same rhythm. We could call your heart "steadfast." Can you say that word with me? "Steadfast." We must be steadfast, too. Day after day, year after year, the Bible tells the same story of the wonderful things that God did and still continues to do. When we are sad, joyful, afraid, excited, or however we feel, we should read the Bible and listen to God's teaching. Even now while we are waiting for Jesus to come and be born in our world again, the place that we go to look ...
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... ) Our God, who gave your brother a loving and noble heart, is not cruel. FRANCO: I will say a prayer for his soul. In nomine - HANS: There is no need of that. At this very moment he is in the arms of Jesus. Listen. (The bells are ringing softly. Franco continues to pray silently.) PIETRO: God be praised! GIUSEPPE: I am in the twilight of my years. He was at the very dawn of his. Yet he gave his life for me. HANS: Greater love hath no man than this: that a man would give up his life for a friend ...
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... Madeleine and have enjoyed enormous success. Last year I was appointed Mayor of the town. "But I have never told anyone about our meeting in the Christmas season of 1815. Please know that the kindness you did to me has been repaid 100 times over, and I will continue repaying it as long as I live." Your servant, Jean Valjean "P.S. Please greet your niece for me, and tell her she need never cringe in fear of me again." (There is a knock on the door.) BISHOP: Ah! That must be Arlette now. (Arlette enters, she ...
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... , of course, by the fact that the prophet is convinced God's will can never be thwarted - even by his own peoples' open rebellion or the deliberate disloyalty of an essential human instrument that he had planned to use. Therefore, in these verses, God continues to call Israel his servant even as she declines the honor. The nation, Israel, is simply reminded she was created for the Lord's purpose, and God had been helping, and forming, fashioning, and training her for that position since the beginning of her ...
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