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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Maxie Dunnam
... as we genuinely seek God. That’s a big part of what we are about here—genuinely seeking God—head and heart going hand in hand. Let me focus that a bit more sharply. Sister Marie Bonaventura, a nun in the Middle Ages, was living a relaxed life in Rome. After much encouragement, she was finally persuaded to attend a conference on the disciplines of the spiritual life. The very first meditation was on the purpose and end of man. The meditation inspired such fervor in her heart that the priest, giving the ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... when it could be ours; . . . our fear: our fear of failure, which keeps us under stress in our work; our fear for our children, which keeps us on the edge of franticness; our fear for future security, which keeps us so hyper that we can’t relax and enjoy life now. All of these empty and/or barren places of our lives can be touched – made complete – filled up by the cross – the fullness of Christ’s love. But don’t miss the other dimension of our finishing what is finished. We’re compelled ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... man was standing in the back of the church, listening intently. At the end of the evening meeting I sat down on the edge of the platform, exhausted, as others continued to pray with those who had responded to Christ. The organist was playing quietly. I wanted to relax. I was just starting to unwind when I looked up to see this man, with shabby clothing and matted hair, standing in the center aisle about four rows back and waiting for permission to approach me. I nodded and gave him a weak little wave of my ...
454. God's Say-So
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
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Maxie Dunnam
... this person to Christ. He confesses now that the confrontation of that prisoner has shaped his way of doing evangelism ever since. You see, none of us have to do it all. We plant the seed, somebody else waters, and eventually someone will do the harvesting. You can relax in your witness -- knowing all you have to do is be faithful, share what Christ has done for you, and remember the Lord has said, “I have taken you by the hand and will keep you. I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... know that. It started out to be a two-month renewal leave. It ended up being six weeks – two of those were work, but four wonderful weeks spent in renewal. I didn’t know how desperately I needed it. I had no agenda, other than to walk the beach, relax, read, reflect, and pray. I began that time of renewal with a three-day fast (Jerry and I together). I wanted to disconnect from an arduous work schedule and to connect with unscheduled days, and open myself to the “wind of the Spirit.” My prayer was a ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... man was standing in the back of the church, listening intently. At the end of the evening meeting I sat down on the edge of the platform, exhausted, as others continued to pray with those who had responded to Christ. The organist was playing quietly. I wanted to relax. I was just starting to unwind when I looked up to see this man, with shabby clothing and matted hair, standing in the center aisle about four rows back and waiting for permission to approach me. I nodded and gave him a weak little wave of my ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... the dynamic that will enable you to stay alive in your ministry and guarantee that you will finish well. I want to elaborate on four of them. First, they practiced discipline, at the heart of which was prayer. Sister Marie Bonaventura was living a relaxed life as a nun in Rome. After much encouragement, she was finally persuaded to attend a conference on the Exercises, the disciplines of the spiritual life. The very first meditation was on the purpose and end of man. The meditation inspired such fervor in ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... man was standing in the back of the church, listening intently. At the end of the evening meeting I sat down on the edge of the platform, exhausted, as others continued to pray with those who had responded to Christ. The organist was playing quietly. I wanted to relax. I was just starting to unwind when I looked up to see this man, with shabby clothing and matted hair, standing in the center aisle about four rows back and waiting for permission to approach me. I nodded and gave him a weak little wave of my ...
459. Be Ready
Luke 12:32-40
Bulletin Aid
H. Burnham Kirkland
... the needs of the world to the best of our ability. Open our lips that we may glorify you in all that we do. This we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, we get tired of waiting for you to come, and we relax our watchfulness. We know that while we are sleeping you come and we do not recognize you. You knock and we do not hear. Forgive us, we pray, and by your Holy Spirit enable us to keep alert that we may always be ready for your coming. Amen. Offertory Prayer ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Then, Beth was to start cleaning the house, helping out with the farm, and cooking her mother’s meals. Beth Martin read the list and took it to heart. That day, she began following the doctor’s prescription; in no time at all, her mother looked more relaxed and prettier than she had in years. (4) It’s a beautiful Mother’s Day story, but my guess is that the effect on Beth was greater than the effect on her mother. Lazy, spoiled children are not happy children and they will not be happy adults ...
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King Duncan
... top of one another in a billowy white pile. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned. The loss was devastating to the families who depended on the sheep as a significant source of income. The shepherds only had to relax for a few moments and the sheep plunged to their death. Dumb sheep. Do I need to say to you that people do many more dumb things than do sheep? No sheep has ever been charged with abusing its own lamb. No sheep has ever been charged with stealing ...
462. Honest Abe
Genesis 12:1-4a
Sermon
Bill Mosley
... a drowning man who fights for breath: When the lifeguard comes to save him he still fights, and as long as he does, he can't be saved. He's still trying to do it himself when help is right there. But the help is no good until he relaxes his own efforts -- until he stops trying to save himself. Secondly, if you are honest you admit that everything you have comes from God -- was his first, would not be here but for God's creation. This very admission creates an attitude of peace and trust. A hillbilly couple ...
463. Preaching to a Stone
Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25
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Charles L. Aaron
... a rock in his hand as Dr. King began to preach. The rock was intended to express his outrage at injustice as it shattered some window somewhere. As King preached, the young man's anger began to evaporate. Little by little, his grip on the rock relaxed until finally it fell from his hand. Preaching has power to change people. Joshua's proclamation in this passage certainly has power. Joshua has much to accomplish in this sermon. He is old, near the end of his life. The possibility exists that everything he ...
464. Laugh It Off
I Corinthians 1:18-20, 26-31
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... Cousins to be an adjunct professor on the medical school at UCLA. Cousins himself was modest in making claims. He said that laughter may not have cured the disease, but he knew that it had a salutary effect on his recovery. For instance, he said, laughter relaxed him. As a result he was able, for the first time since the onset of the illness, to sleep through a whole night. Secondly, he said, laughter changes attitude. He became more hopeful about the future. As a result, he said his body's recuperative ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... age." I can't imagine a football player coming off the field in the third quarter, walking up to his coach, and saying, "Coach, I've been thinking. I've played enough. Let some other guys finish the contest. I'm going over there for a box of popcorn and relax with my girlfriend." It'd never happen! Yet it does happen in the church. "For ten years I've labored for you, Jesus. Sunday school, group prayer, worship, small groups. I've done it all. So now I'm going to buy me a sailboat and head for the beach ...
466. Still in One Peace
Matthew 11:25-30
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... -race through their week. Anything out of their ordinary routine is explored, experienced, and enjoyed. These are vacationers who rest by doing new things in new places. Both types of vacationers are celebrating their time of rest in the way that suits them, relaxes them, fulfills them, and restores them. What kind of rest do you crave? What is your ideal resting place? In both cases this rest involves an emptying-out and a re-filling or re-fueling. A vacation empties-out our stuffy stockpile of routines ...
467. God's Resolutions
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
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Leonard Sweet
... Babylonians. They too tended towards the pragmatic and responsible side of resolutions, most often resolving to return borrowed farm equipment. But what if we looked at the New Year as a sea of possibilities, instead of an ocean of responsibilities? What if we resolved to relax more? What if we resolved to sleep more? What if we resolved to play more? What if we resolved only to make and eat really wonderful food? Or cuddle more? Or sing more? What if instead of insisting that we drop ten pounds we look ...
468. Deep Faith
Acts 17:16-34
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Leonard Sweet
... . But a baby who had quickened, a baby who had stirred with enough vigor to be felt by its mother, was believed to have had its body and soul brought to life. Once this unique, new soul moved within its mother, the family could relax and look forward to the arrival of its newest member. In that straightforward conceptual framework, "to live, and move, and have being" were bound inextricably together. Once outside the womb, however, things get more complicated. As long as hearts beat and brain-waves pulse ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... in the mouth until it melts, or is used as a gargle with hydromel. For toothache it is chewed...It is very beneficial for all stomach troubles...It clears the senses, and by the sneezing caused by it, the head; it relaxes the bowels, it promotes menstruation and urine. Another early theologian of the church Clement of Alexandria wrote that mustard "represses bile (anger) and checks inflammation (pride)". (see the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, II, Mark). Maybe our great-grandmothers knew what ...
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Leonard Sweet
... the hurting and needy. He doesn't voice any concern for keeping the community of which he's a part safe from unexpected droughts, famines, or plagues. Instead, the rich man's intentions for his good fortune are entirely directed toward his own self. He intends only to relax, eat, drink, be merry and assumes that because of his great surpluses he'll be able to keep up this self-serving behavior for many years (verse 19). But the rich man is exposed for who and whose he is by none other than God, who informs ...
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Leonard Sweet
... -looking Wally reiterated the fact: there was no room in the inn. ‘Please, good innkeeper, this is my wife, Mary. She is heavy with child and needs a place to rest. Surely you must have some small corner for her. She is so tired. Wally relaxed his stiff pose and, for the first time, really looked at Mary. He paused so long that the audience began to get nervous. The prompter from the wings whispered: ‘Be gone!’ Wally repeated the whisper: ‘Be gone.’ Joseph sadly put his arm around the pregnant ...
472. Be Ready!
Matthew 24:36-51
Sermon
King Duncan
... .” (Kyrie was 3 ounces bigger!) In the words of one of the nurses on duty, the results were both immediate and dramatic. Little Brielle snuggled up to her sister, and her heart rate immediately slowed to normal. Her color came back. The baby visibly relaxed, almost it seemed with a sigh of relief. She accepted nourishment. The crisis was over. She would survive. (4) Friends, what our children need this Christmas is not a bunch of things. What they need is time with people who love them, people who will ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... specially coded signals on four frequencies for those on a spiritual journey. Here are the four signals that we track with our lives in a God Positioning System a roadmap, if you will, of both reaching out to God and at the same time relaxing and letting God's presence and power reach out and refill us. The four are as follows: 1. MARINATE 2. RUMINATE 3. SUPPLICATE 4. CONTEMPLATE As a God Positioning System, Lectio Divina is both spiritual activity and spiritual receptivity. First Track: MARINATE 1. Lectio ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... of the entire planet depended on the endurance and strength of that lone laborer. It took every moment of his existence, every ounce of his muscle, every shred of his spirit. But Atlas could keep the world up as long as he never ever rested or relaxed. Sounds like a great job, huh? In New York City's Rockefeller Plaza, right at the heart of that self-absorbed, self-reliant city that calls itself the greatest city in the world, there is an enormous steel likeness of Atlas, back bent, head down, arms ...
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Leonard Sweet
... Buffet I got to eavesdrop on the casual dinner conversations of a man and a woman. The two were discussing their mutual love of playing one-armed bandits slot machines. They praised the slots for being relatively inexpensive. They spoke of how relaxing the casino was to the point of hypnotizing. They liked that they could put their minds in neutral and "play," since gambling required no great intellectual ability (or athletic agility) on the part of the "player." Both parties whole-heartedly agreed that ...
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