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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451. True Excellence
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
King Duncan
... to the Home of the Living." (5) Love is the only excellence that matters. Love is more than emotion. But there is one thing more St. Paul says to us: Love is eternal. "Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge it will pass away." Love is the only thing in this world that is eternal. Think about it. Everything else that you accomplish will one day be left behind. So you have your body in great condition. Super, but one day you will leave it ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... drawn to trouble than to anything else. He accused her frequently of not loving him and taunted her with "I won't obey you or anyone." Carolyn never stopped barbecuing those juicy hamburgers he craved, never quit hugging him after his acid words, never ceased rescuing him from fights. Carolyn had almost despaired of Tony ever bonding to her. But then Carolyn got a big surprise; Tony made an unexpected speech at his junior high graduation. In almost a stutter he said, "I want to thank my mom for adopting ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... he would pass out drunk and exhausted. He died broke at age 47 of cirrhosis of the liver. His readers would one day understand some of his drinking and unhappiness. His mother had died when he was three. His father, a doctor, seemed broken by her death and ceased his medical practice. Bill's first child, a son, died right after birth. Not too many years later, his wife died as well. But these things explain only part of Bill's sadness; they don't touch upon his one great dark secret. You see, Bill had once ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... souls to the movement of God's Holy Spirit so that we can once again experience the entrance of God into the world through the birth of His Son in a stable in Bethlehem. Another way we prepare is through prayer. The apostle Paul says, "Pray without ceasing." That means our spirits should never be very far from God's Spirit. Prayer should be such a natural part of our spiritual lives that we are always prepared for the coming of Christ, whether during Advent or for the second coming, because Christ is never ...
455. God's Time
Mark 1:1-8
Sermon
King Duncan
... of a clock. It is calendar time. It is time as measured by the earth rotating on its axis, time as measured by the earth's journey around the sun. But what if the earth were destroyed. What if the sun was no more. Would time cease to exist? Philosophers also talk about subjective time. To a child waiting for Christmas, time moves so slowly. To his parents, Christmas may come all too quickly. To his grandparents, Christmas, 1949, may seem like just yesterday. Subjective time is relative. As one scientist put ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... were also dirty, so they scrubbed them. Then they noticed that the walls and ceiling were unsightly. So they proceeded to whitewash them. Afterward they mended the windows and draped them. Because the baby needed to be quiet at times, the men remained still and ceased some of their rough language and rowdy ways. When the weather permitted they took the cradle out to the mines and discovered that the mining area had to be cleaned and flowers planted to make the surroundings as lovely and as attractive as the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ." (5) The world desperately needs to see our love in action. Of what value is our faith if our love isn't stronger: our love for one another and our love for the world? Our love needs to be big enough to take in the whole world. I never cease thrilling at the heart of Abraham Lincoln. There is a story of two women relatives of General Lou Wallace who came to the White House when Lincoln was president asking about General Wallace. He had been involved in a vicious battle and they wanted to make sure he had ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... who had known him in the flesh in this mysterious new form in order to help prepare them for that day when he would no longer be available to them through their physical senses, but through the power of Spirit. That did not mean, however, that he would cease to be with them. He would always be with them. He promised them that. And they believed that promise. Indeed, they staked their lives on that promise. And so can we. That is the promise that allows us to experience victory in our lives here and now ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , one might pass that small rural church and find the lights on and someone at the altar praying. Finally late Wednesday evening some dark clouds began to roll in. Soon rain began falling in torrents. For four straight days it rained without ceasing. The creeks began overflowing their banks. It became necessary to evacuate people from their homes. Still the water kept rising. The entire community was now under water. As rescue workers made their way in a boat through the perilous floodwater evacuating the ...
460. Forgiven!
Galatians 2:11-21
Sermon
King Duncan
... Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss (of greeting), but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil (as is customary), but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much, but he who is forgiven little, loves little." Many of us cannot ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... no place in the universe and human society will never be saved until sorrow is discredited. The people eagerly accept this teaching, and tears and sorrow are banished. Years pass. All suffering is repressed with the result that the race gradually becomes selfish. Sympathy ceases to exist; the very word is deleted from the dictionary. No poets are born, for poets are the children of pain, who learn by suffering what they teach in song. Music and painting are no longer practiced, and the loss of these arts ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... across the Flying Valentis practicing in their long tights and tank tops." The Flying Valentis were a troupe of circus acrobats who traveled and performed throughout the United States. "Although we were used to their art," Rather recalls, "the Flying Valentis never ceased being the wonder of the neighborhood. Every morning it was like getting invited to a great show without having to buy a ticket. They did triple somersaults above their practice nets and caught each other by the forearms while swinging from ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to have become experts at holding grudges, cradling fragile egos and unforgiving natures." (4) There is something beautiful about the mending of a relationship once broken. It happens from time to time. Brothers who had vowed eternal enmity. Sisters who had long ago ceased to converse. Then something happens and that which was broken is restored. Perhaps it is beautiful because it reminds us of our relationship with God. Once that was broken, but because of God's great love for us, He took the initiative ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... angry with him and he was the cause of the storm. The sailors pleaded with Jonah to help them. Jonah told them to throw him overboard and the storm would stop. The sailors were in no mood to argue. They did as he suggested. And yes, the storm did indeed cease. We might think that this would be the end of Jonah. Not so. Jonah finds himself inside the belly of a large fish. For three days and three nights he has time to do a lot of soul searching. He decides that if God gives him another chance he will ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to temptation. All of us, though, have our weaknesses. And I do mean all of us. THE FACT THAT YOU AND I ARE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS DOES NOT EXEMPT US FROM SINS OF THE FLESH. The fact that we have been baptized does not mean that our earthly desires have ceased to exist. Florence Littauer is quoted as saying recently that no good Christian man or woman gets up in the morning, looks out the window, and says, "My, this is a lovely day! I guess I'll go out and commit adultery." Yet many do it anyway. Notice what ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ways in which we degrade people's dignity in our land. God will not tolerate such indignities forever. As long as people live in poverty, in hunger, in fear, God's agenda is not completed. As long as people live in sin, squalor, and despair He will not cease to labor. "My Father is working still," said Jesus, "And I am working." God is doing a new thing in our world. HE IS ALSO DOING A NEW THING IN OUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES. It was 1884. The New Orleans Cotton Exposition wanted to make an even bigger splash ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... them. That's sound advice for us. Even when things go wrong, even when we don't seem to get the results we want, even when it seems our world is crumbling, continue to pray. We receive strength in the face of difficulty when we are able to pray without ceasing. The great missionary to India, Dr. E. Stanley Jones, once put it like this: "Prayer tones up the total life. I find by actual experiences I am better or worse as I pray more or less. If my prayer life sags, my whole life sags with it; if my prayer ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... Birmingham, pastors and teachers and doctors, wrote him a letter. They said, in their letter, that he was wrong! He was unkind! He was unchristian! Why? Because he was disrupting the "peace" in their nice community! They told him, in the name of Christ, to cease his demonstrations, and to allow peace to return to their polite world. And Martin Luther King thought long and hard about that letter. Here were all these Christian colleagues, begging him, in the name of Christ, to change his ways, to shut up, to ...
469. Good Intentions
Matthew 21:28-32
Sermon
King Duncan
... . In that regard, he recalled the first child he had to "transfuse" - a nine-year-old girl who had more than an inkling that she'd never celebrate another birthday. When he had gotten her latest pint of blood suitably going into her right leg (her arms had ceased being useful in that respect: over-used veins), she gave him a smile and asked, "How many more bottles will you be giving me?" Quickly, Coles said he didn't know - thinking she was trying to pin him down as to the details of a therapeutic regimen ...
470. The Forgiven
Hebrews 10:1-18
Sermon
King Duncan
... . I can't enjoy my work any more because he even controls my thoughts. My resentments produce too many stress hormones in my body and I become fatigued after only a few hours of work. The work I formerly enjoyed is now drudgery. Even vacations cease to give me pleasure . . . The man I hate hounds me wherever I go. I can't escape his tyrannical grasp on my mind. When the waiter serves me porterhouse steak with French fries, asparagus, crisp salad, and strawberry shortcake smothered with ice cream, it might ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... saved the children of Israel, then to the Jordan where Jesus was baptized, and on to the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus called his first disciples, and then into our lives as we drink its lifegiving waters. How sad it is that so many of us have ceased going to the Word to drink and be refreshed. Colleen Townsend Evans tells about a moving dream a friend recounted to her. The dream began in a great, open room, filled with distraught and sorrowful people. As the people milled about, the door to the room opened ...
472. Sister Act
Luke 10:38-42
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... great hymn, 'A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,' "The body they may kill, His truth abideth still." Notice he did not say, A mighty fortress is our work, or our church but our God. Tongues will be silenced, pens and printing presses will stop, meetings will cease, but our fellowship and communion with Jesus will last and last and last. From this flows the richness of faith and the strength of character, and the who, what, when, where, why and how of life. Let me close with this story: In the city of Philadelphia ...
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... tree which cannot be identified. No one remembers wrapping it. No one recalls receiving it, and worst of all, there's no identifying gift tag attached to the present. If this has happened at your house (as it has at ours), you know that all activity ceases until the missing tag is discovered. No one opens the gift, nor speculates on what's inside until the gift giver can be identified. Someone crawls under the tree to search amongst fallen, scratchy needles To Find That Tag! And when that tag is found there ...
474. Spin-masters Need Not Apply
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
King Duncan
... as if God needed it. The esteemed space scientist Dr. Werner von Braun received many cards and letters over the years from people who believe that space exploration is against the Creator's wishes. "Scripture mail," NASA calls it. These correspondents warned the scientist to cease this dangerous godless folly. "One lady wrote that God doesn't want man to leave Earth and she was willing to bet me $10 that we wouldn't make it," said Episcopalian von Braun. "I answered that, as far as I knew, the Bible said ...
475. Trees
Jeremiah 16:1--17:18
Sermon
King Duncan
... for the day from Jeremiah: "Blessed is the person who trusts in the Lord . . . For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes . . . but its leaf shall be green . . . neither shall it cease from yielding fruit." Blessed is the person who trusts in God. Blessed is the person who does not have to ask "who am I" but knows he or she is a child of God. Blessed is the person who does not worry about the future, but knows the future is ...
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