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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Lori Wagner
... s hope is immediately quenched. Her prayers for Messiah have been answered. God has been revealed. Her life had become a “desert” of pain. She felt alone, shunned by her people. To be left out of married life is to be left out of life. She was discarded by several husbands most likely due to her barrenness. We also learn that she spent her time, waiting and hoping for Messiah to come. Then her life would change. Then her world would change. She spent her days thirsting for the love, the acceptance, the ...
27. Trust Your Intuition
1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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Lori Wagner
... however to what our minds are doing, we can become more aware of and more trusting of our intuition. Most importantly, we can excelerate our intuitive powers. Researchers use intuition continuously to sort through information, zoning in on what’s important, and discarding what isn’t. In fact, the internet is a kind of created “intuitive” medium for creative research in this regard. Ever have a really bad feeling that you just shouldn’t go in a certain direction? “Smart people listen to those ...
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J. Will Ormond
... streams and lush trees bearing delightful fruit. Whatever its literal reality, it is in radical contrast to the present scene where three crosses stand beneath a merciless sun, where a milling, hostile mob watches without sympathy and soldiers laugh and gamble for discarded clothes. Jesus promises the repentant criminal that he will be removed from such a scene and join Jesus himself in Paradise. Nor is this something that will come in the far distant future. "Today you will be with me in Paradise." What ...
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George W. Hoyer
... be first must be last of all and servant of all." Realize also that, given the kind of world we are part of, the people whom you must permit to go before you will be a mixed bag, indeed. You can't pick and choose, because that would mean the discards would be behind you. They would become last. They would really be taking the place you want, because, since you want to be first, you must be last of all and servant of all. If you put people back, behind you, it might seem that you are getting close to ...
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Richard Patt
... the earth by avoiding its misuse and abuse. Our sense of urgency in this regard needs to push us toward intentional action. For example, people who highly value God's creation will quietly go about the proper recycling of their paper and plastic discards, their used motor oil and anything else that has a potential for harming the environment. Such concerned people will increasingly become sensitive consumers, carefully weighing what to buy or whether they need to buy certain products at all. Lovers of God's ...
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Richard Patt
... . There seems to be a constant flow, the flow of life that cleanses, enriches and makes things new. The leaves of autumn will gradually flow into the soil of a future springtime. We are learning that unless our throwaway society begins to effectively recycle what it discards, we will clog the flow of our waters and atmosphere until we're literally choked to death. You and I don't have to be financially rich people to apply the force of what Jesus is saying in this story. There are many levels and dimensions ...
32. Advent 1
Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22
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William E. Keeney
... him! A short time later, the hand fell on the shoulder again. There stood John with a chagrined look on his face. He had reached into one of his trouser pockets and pulled out a crumpled-up wad of papers. He thought they were scrap to be discarded. It was the two tickets he had absentmindedly jammed into his pocket. He was relieved not to have to stay in Israel! 4. On Our Guard and Alert - for What? The Toledo Blade (24 September 1994, p. 11) reported a study by sociologist Robert Wuthnow published under ...
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Don M. Aycock
... , but for the sake of me and for you. He endured the cross as his way of saying something like this: "Even while you might hate me, I love you. Although you might seek to rid my world and your consciences of me, you cannot do it. I cannot be discarded like yesterday's newspaper. I cannot be forgotten like yesterday's heroes. There is, in fact, nothing which men and women can do to make me stop loving them, and I am willing to suffer to prove this fact." This is an amazing fact! Christ, the very son of God ...
34. Miracle Nine: Healing A Deaf-Mute
Mark 7:31-37, Mark 7:24-30
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Harold H. Lentz
... . People find a person who spits in public to be revolting. But in Christ's time a special, healing power was attached to human spittle. So-called health cures come and go. This one has disappeared. But different cures are "peddled" for a time and then discarded. This was not the only time when Christ would spit, then take the saliva and use it in the healing process. Perhaps this was done to strengthen the faith of the one being healed, since he would know of the widespread belief in the healing power ...
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William L. Self
... gathered as they approached. When the prince presented the kingdom's most beautiful diamond, nestled in the kingdom's most beautiful box, they were amazed and awed at the spectacle. The peasant girl studied the gift at length, and then startled the crowd by discarding the diamond and keeping the beautiful box. This is not unlike what we have done with the miraculous story of the creation given to us in our text. We have spent our days debating the scientific inadequacies of the story or trying to reconcile ...
36. The Fruitful Vine
John 15:1-17, 1 John 4:7-21, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:1-31
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William E. Keeney
... are not truly connected to him as living branches are connected to the vine. If we fail to bring forth the fruits because of the life of Christ flowing into us through the activity of the Holy Spirit, we are as dead wood that is to be discarded. 4. Pruning the Vine. The church has usually found discipline a difficult problem. This parable with its image of the pruning of the vine and the cutting away of dead branches suggests the need for some discipline. The issue is not whether discipline is needed, but ...
Drama
Dallas A. Brauninger
... priest, I made it no longer hereditary or with life tenure. I appointed and deposed high priests at will. They had precious little civil power either. Still, they served my purposes. So what if I was unfaithful to Judaism. I was not about to discard the good graces of the Roman emperor Augustus. As a Roman authority, I had the power to proceed independently of the Sanhedrin. I called them together to deal with any case that I considered required their attention. I say, use people then destroy them before ...
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Sandra Hefter Herrma
... and return home. The courtroom drama is a familiar one to those of us who watch television. A favorite ploy of Perry Mason-style mysteries is to have the attorney stand up in the courtroom and begin to peel away the layers of the crime, discarding theories and alibis one by one, turning false testimonies into a defense of the accused, so that the client -- who is of course falsely accused -- is vindicated in the presence of many witnesses. Unfortunately, this is not usually the case in real life. I have ...
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Richard Gribble
... its first one cent monthly paper on May 1, 1933. The Catholic Worker is a ministry of help; it reaches out to serve the poor, neglected and fringe peoples of our society. At its heart, however, the movement is a ministry of welcome for those whom society has discarded as useless or unproductive. I am sure Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin wore big smiles when they read the words of Isaiah contained in today's First Reading. We know that Lent is a time of fasting, a time to give up something so as to prepare ...
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Robert S. Crilley
... of the year, airports and highways will be flooded with a steady stream of travelers eager to return home. We will gather amidst family and friends at tables laden with food. A nation will pause to remind itself of benefits forgotten. Churches will discard the competitive spirit and join together in ecumenical services of worship. Soup kitchens will open their doors, preparing a banquet for the people of the street. And the more reflective among us, rich and poor alike, will perhaps tarry a while after the ...
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Thomas Long
... that Jericho road. Everybody had made that trip; the lawyer himself had done so, and now he was traveling the road again in his imagination. It is a dangerous journey, though, and, sure enough, the traveler -- and, vicariously, the lawyer -- got mugged and was discarded in a gutter, left for dead. In his imagination, the lawyer watches from the ditch as a priest and a Levite come along, but carefully cross the road so they can pass by without getting involved with him. Finally a Samaritan comes, and like ...
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Frank Luchsinger
... finger. Thump ... thump ... thump -- the sound of heavy rocks falling harmlessly to earth. Leaving their rocks, the Pharisees went their way, beginning with the eldest, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him on the road in the midst of the discarded rocks (John 8:3-11). In ancient Israel stoning was the most common of capital punishments. Its most formal application was for the offender to be pushed off a ten-foot scaffold, and if he or she survived the fall, a witness to the crime ...
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Michael B. Brown
... to complain about, and the more we complain the unhappier we will feel. The truth is, most of us also have an awful lot to be thankful for. The ones who understand that and focus on their blessings discover life that is beautiful. 10 -- Finally, discard the myths about beauty. It has nothing to do with looks or appearance, cosmetics or attire. Real beauty occurs when people look at your life and see Jesus. By remembering these suggestions and putting them into practice, as Hosea put it, "Our beauty shall be ...
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Michael B. Brown
... kind of netherlands of the soul. "Hades," on the other hand, was something else entirely. It is associated with the Gahenna Valley outside Jerusalem where in ancient days garbage from the city was dumped and burned. Those dual images of separation (Sheol) and discarded refuse being burned (Hades) were merged and became sources of latter-day ideas about hell. A couple of key ideas run throughout the Old and New Testament understandings of heaven and hell. Heaven is always the place where God is and where God ...
45. Easter 5
Jn 13:31-35 · Acts 11:1-18; 13:44-52; 14:21-27 · Rev 21:1-6 · Ps 148
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John R. Brokhoff
... on the second Sunday of May which is Mother's Day, the church year should take precedence over a secular observance. However, people expect the sermon to deal with Mother's Day in terms of the family. It would be as bad to ignore Mother's Day as to discard the lessons for Easter 5. Mother's Day gives the preacher an appropriate time to bring a message on the Christian home at a time when the home is fast disintegrating. The lections and theme of the day can happily be applied to Mother's Day without doing ...
46. Lent 5
John 7:45--8:11, Luke 20:9-19, John 12:1-11, Philippians 3:12-4:1, Philippians 3:1-11, Isaiah 43:14-28
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John R. Brokhoff
... . b. Laws, within and without the church, can kill both people and the spirit of life, love and creativity among us. c. Laws are made for God's people, not people for God's laws. 2. Laws can liberate us. a. Having rescued the woman, Jesus did not discard the law: he asked her to "sin no more." b. Once we have life in Christ, we need to "let die" that which rebels against God (lest the life in Christ itself die). c. Laws, when rightly used and understood, uplift and enliven human life rather than limit ...
47. Christmas Eve
Lk 2:1-20 · Tit 2:11-14 · Isa 9:2-7 · Ps 96
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John R. Brokhoff
... for business, for fun, and for government, but not for Christ. 3. Joy (v. 10). Christmas is a happy time in terms of the world's happiness: parties, drinks, banquets, gifts, and friends. This is the happiness that withers with the Christmas tree which is discarded soon after Christmas day. Joy is different from happiness. It is deeper because it is based on good news: a Savior is born to save us from our sins. It is a joy that remains long after the Christmas celebration is over. For this reason people ...
48. Proper 15
Luke 12:54-59, Hebrews 12:1-13, Luke 12:49-53, Isaiah 5:1-7, Hebrews 11:1-40
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John R. Brokhoff
... basis of a long list of people of faith in chapter 11, the author of Hebrews calls upon us to run the race of faith. The faithful of the past surround us to encourage us as we persevere in the race. Like runners who wear minimum clothing, we are to discard the clothing of sin. As athletes run toward a goal or finish line, we are to look to Jesus as our model of faith. This calls for self-discipline in order to attain holiness, for an immoral person, like Esau, has no chance to repent. Gospel: Luke 12:49-56 ...
49. Transfiguration
2 Corinthians 3:7-18, Exodus 34:29-35, Luke 9:28-36
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John R. Brokhoff
... the Spirit" when the Trinity has three persons, each distinct and separate from the other? 2. Open (v. 2). In applying the truth that there is no veil over the minds and hearts of those in Christ, Paul says that his preaching of the gospel is "open." He discarded all craftiness, underhandedness, and tampering with the Word of God. There is no hiddenness nor secretiveness. It is an open Bible for all to see and know the whole truth of God. Epistle: 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 1. Veiled (v. 3). Even in our day many ...
50. Proper 13
Luke 12:13-21, Psalm 107:1-43
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B. David Hostetter
... , you have died with Christ to sin, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life, is manifested, then you too will be manifested with him in glory. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Discard the old nature with its deeds. Put on the new nature which is constantly renewed in the image of our Maker. Prayer of the Day Save us, merciful God, from self-destruction, from the accumulation of things for our own enjoyment only and not for the ...
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