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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Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... heat in the Southern hemisphere. The most dangerous combination, the conditions that spread flames far and wide, is when fire and wind meet. Fire and wind is Luke’s best description of the Holy Spirit when it descended upon the disciples. There is no stopping an oxygenated flame — it burns high and hot. But Christians aren’t just firebrands. We are tempered with the safe and secure fluid of water — the water of our baptism “in Jesus’ name.” And our baptismal waters give us a person, not just a ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... it is all focused on the consumer side. It's a time simply for parties and celebrations. The Japanese remind me of a young family I read about who was going home for Christmas. The car was all packed. The mail and the newspaper delivery had been stopped. A neighbor would keep an eye on the house and feed the dog. All the gifts for parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were somehow fitted into the trunk of the car. They had plenty of anti-freeze in the radiator. Their suitcases and hanging clothes were in ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... help the Habitat folks build and renovate houses in the slums of their city. When she was finished preaching, the choir sang "Joy To The World" as they led the congregation out the door, around the square, and down the two blocks to the sign. There they stopped and looked again at the child who smiled out at them from the rags and cardboard shack. From somewhere near the front of the congregation there came the soft sound of a single voice. It was the choir director, and he was singing: "What child is this ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... gives us a little encouragement, we still have a long way to go and people need to hear more than a single word of encouragement. We need to be sowers of encouragement. The animated movie Robots is family adventure about Rodney the Robot, who will stop at nothing to fulfill his dream of becoming an inventor. The central themes of this film revolve around the father/son relationship, fulfilling your dreams, and shining no matter what you are made of. There's a scene where Rodney has decided to leave home ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... on this earth ain't got a burden to he don't understand. You ain't alone in that. But you been carryin' this one long enough. Time to go on. Lay it down." Junuh says, "I don't know how." Bagger says, "You've got a choice. You can stop. Or you can start. Walkin right back to where you always been. And then stand there. Still. Real still. And remember." Junuh says, "It's too long ago." Bagger says, "Oh, no sir. It was just a moment ago. Time for you to come on out the shadows, Junuh. Time ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... of faith which allowed him to set his mind and heart upon Jerusalem and what awaited him there. Was he troubled? Of course he was. Was he afraid? If his prayer in the garden before his arrest was any indication then the answer is "Yes." But did it stop him? "No." I think one reason Peter had so much trouble is he tried to compartmentalize everything, just like most of us do. What Jesus told him didn't fit into any of those compartments. Peter was treating life like Cheesecake when a life of faith is really ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... 19 year old kid, he was critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley on November 14, 1965. Their unit was outnumbered 8 to 1. The enemy fire was so intense, from 100 to 200 years away, that his Infantry Commander ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in. His family was 12,00 miles away and he knew he'd never see them again. Over the machine gun noise, he faintly heard the sound of a helicopter. He looked up to see an unarmed Huey, but it didn't seem real, because there were no ...
4783. Flying First Class
Ephesians 1:3-13
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... because we did enough good deeds to earn it; not because we're the best and the brightest but simply because God loves us and because God can. How many of you have seen the movie Seabiscuit? In the movie, Tom Smith, an old farrier and horse trainer, stops the shooting of a lame race horse. He tells the owner he will take it. When the owner says the horse is no longer worth anything, Smith says that at least it will save him the bullet. Later that evening, he is visited by Charles Howard, a wealthy American ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... sermon, 3,000 people gave their lives to Christ and were baptized. That day 3,000 experienced God's Grace. Conclusion According to News Of The Weird, in 1996, a man visiting Stockholm on business stood to inherit about a million dollars, Eduardo Perez had stopped off to pray at a Roman Catholic church and signed the guest book of a man whose body lay there in a coffin. Perez was later notified that the deceased, real-estate developer Jens Svenson, had died without heirs and had specified that "whoever prays ...
4785. Spiderman: Saved To Serve
Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... he didn't think he should try and be a hero. A few days later the aforementioned burglar killed his Uncle Ben. That night, as Spider-Man, Peter apprehends the murderer of his beloved uncle but is plagued with guilt, thinking that if he would have stopped the burglar when he first saw him his Uncle Ben would still be alive. During his time of turmoil Peter remembers something Uncle Ben once told him, "With great power, comes great responsibilities." Peter took this to heart and decided he should use his ...
4786. Altar Your Gifts
Malachi 3:10, Luke 6:27-42
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... new gadget that we really, really want. So, where do we get that money, Oh, yeah, we've got this little bit sitting over here. Surely God wouldn't mind if I take just a little to buy this really cool toy. Once won't matter. But it doesn't stop at once. We see something else, and then something else. And pretty soon, all we have is leftovers. Some people don't think it matters which portion they give to God; the first fruits or the leftovers, but it does. You see if you give God the leftovers, that's ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... knocking over a shepherd as he took off his winter coat. Later in the afternoon the well-fed assembly of adults and children moved somewhat slowly by the manger again as they drifted from the dining room back into the living room. Almost none of them stopped to look at the manger. In fact, none of them even noticed it, except two. An older woman, walking with a cane, paused in front of the scene. Gently she put the shepherd back in the upright position. Then she looked at the child in the middle ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive." I think this is kind of a bizarre little passage. One of the greatest lessons about prayer is associated with one of the weirdest acts of Jesus' whole ministry. Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem, has a snack attack, stops at a fig tree. The tree doesn't bear any fruit and so Jesus curses it, it shrivels and it dies. Right then. The disciples are blown away. And then Jesus begins to teach about prayer. Those to don't seem to go together, do they? So, what are ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... fear. The jingle of coins in a pouch. Thirty coins to be exact. Thirty pieces of silver. That was the price of betrayal. And the instrument of betrayal. The means by which the message, "You're done for" was conveyed was a kiss. A kiss on the cheek. The guards stopped. The torches didn't really make it that much easier to see. Jesus was still busy praying. Judas knelt down and kissed him on the cheek. I wonder if Jesus felt the burning of that kiss for the remainder of His days? I wonder if He feels it now ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... damage, he sees an accident about to happen. The earthquakes have caused a five-foot section of a railroad track to be twisted out of shape and a packed passenger train is roaring toward the destroyed section of track. There is no time for the train to stop even if the driver sees the ruined track. Superman, however, has just has enough time to fly down and stretch his body out to form the missing section of rail, and thus he saves the lives of the several hundred passengers on the train. Fairchild writes ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... of Servant Evangelism. Doing for others. Loving them simply because Christ loves them. Liberty Mutual has a Commercial which I think has a great Christian Message. Plus, except for the purpose and the why, it shows exactly what Servant Evangelism is all about. Where the woman stops a pizza delivery guy from stepping in front of a bus. And he in turn does a good deed and it just continues on to others. You see it's not the big things. That's what Gideon discovered. It wasn't the massive army he assembled ...
4792. Jonah: Run!
Jonah 3:1-10
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... . When they saw that they finally had no choice, if they were going to survive, they even prayed to God asking God to save them and to forgive them for tossing Jonah overboard. Then they tossed him like a salad. As soon as he hit the water, the storm stopped. B. That's chapter 1. Then along comes this big fish or a the whale. Who knows. But rather than letting Jonah drown, which Jonah obviously thought was better than holding a revival in Nineveh. God sent the whale to act as Jonah's very own private Yellow ...
4793. A Chance To Sing
Matthew 9:32-34
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... was gone, the old man called his troupe members together. In his hand was a note, handed to him by one of the audience just before the doors closed. "Listen to this, my friends!" There was something electrifying about the way he said it that made them all stop what they were doing and listen as the old man read: "Thank you for a beautiful performance." It was signed very simply: "Your King." You and I are called to Sing The Lord's Song to the best of our ability in all circumstances because we never know ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... . Then suddenly someone spotted her. Thirty feet away, she was dancing with a man half her age. "Rhoda," shouted the director, "what are you doing?" Rhoda said, "It's the polka!" "But what about your legs?" Rhoda shouted back, "When I heard the music, I couldn't stop my toes from tapping." Wasn't that something? She was so caught up in the dance, the life-giving dance, that she forgot her troubles and like the friend who was lowered through the ceiling, she was able to stand and walk and dance the Lord's ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... happened to be a K-9 unit, so that officer was the one who responded to the call. The officer drove up to the house and proceeded to let the dog out of the car. The woman came running out of the house when she saw the police car, but stopped when she saw the dog getting out. She threw up her hands and said, "Great. This is just great. Not only have I been robbed, but now they send me a blind police officer!" (1) Being blind really isn't a laughing matter. I had a second cousin who was ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... leave you orphaned." The invitation to the party, the invitation to drink deep from the well that never runs dry is there for you, too. Don't run and hide. Don't let the confusion of life hold you back. Don't let the burden of guilt that you carry stop you from coming, God wants to help you get rid of that guilt. God even wants to help you get rid of the baggage you carry through life. So, like the woman at the well, come to the water. This is your Chance To Drink, so drink deep.
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... " to God and chosen to live for ourselves. Just like in the story of Adam and Eve in the garden. They chose to bite the apple, so to speak, and disobey God. We've all done that. We've all become what the Bible calls sinners. But that didn't stop God from loving us. When our kids misbehave, when their brains descend to their backside, we don't give up on them or quit loving them. Sure it disappoints us and hurts us and maybe even alienates us. But we don't quit loving them. They're our kids. And ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... unable to contain his passion for writing. Periodically retrieving a hidden paper tablet, John‑Boy feverishly writes down the ideas and thoughts trapped inside his head that scream to be expressed on the page. Though too embarrassed by his compulsion to tell anyone, he can’t stop. As he finally admits to his concerned mother, he feels as if he will go crazy if he doesn’t write. John‑Boy is a writer. He has to write.” Kurt Bruner goes on to say, “God is love. Therefore, he has to love. He can ...
4799. Spiderman: Saved To Serve
Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... he didn't think he should try and be a hero. A few days later the aforementioned burglar killed his Uncle Ben. That night, as Spider-Man, Peter apprehends the murderer of his beloved uncle but is plagued with guilt, thinking that if he would have stopped the burglar when he first saw him his Uncle Ben would still be alive. During his time of turmoil Peter remembers something Uncle Ben once told him, "With great power, comes great responsibilities." Peter took this to heart and decided he should use his ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... and the assailant is in prison, but I will never really be the same. When I shave I see one of the scars, and, until recently, to see that scar was to trigger a visual memory of my assailant's rage-filled face. The obvious solution was to stop shaving, but that didn't work. I began to remember the terrible event with increasing vividness, until I finally sought help. My therapist's first question to me was, "Do you have a good relationship with your father?" I said, "Yes. We have a great relationship." The ...
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