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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476. Museum or Mission?
Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10
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Wallace H. Kirby
... budget. I The tendency of the church to choose museum over mission has often been noted by those inside and outside the church. George MacLeod, in his Only One Way Left, imagines Karl Marx reading the address given by Thomas Chalmers at the cornerstone laying at the Divinity Hall, New College, Edinburgh: "Nothing will ever be taught, I trust, in any of our Halls, which will have the remotest tendency to disturb the existing order of things ..." MacLeod suggests that at this point Marx says to himself, "We ...
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... spot they want it to go. But no accomplished musician just sat down and began to play. No expert swimmer just fell out of a boat and began to paddle and breathe with ease. No skilled fisherman just bought the best reel on the market and then went out to lay his bait "on the money." First there was discipline. The master musician had to start by learning to count and run through the scales and then to drill and to drill and to drill. Only by working at the piano is the artist free to play the piano. When we ...
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... hands and knees and cry your eyes out all day long, but no burden’s lifted. How can they prove to me there’s a God?" Jim Jones became his god, converted him so that he even begged for the Temple. Beckman was struck by a cable, seriously injured and lay close to death, but someone placed a picture of Jones on his chest. When he looked at it, the picture faded, and he felt better. "The more I looked at it," he declared, "the better I would feel" (and the more the picture faded). James Jones was the only ...
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George Bass
... and care to the sick, the suffering, and the elderly. There can be no better way to follow and serve Christ, or to celebrate the commitment and death of St. Bartholomew and all those others who have paid the ultimate cost of commitment to Christ by laying down their lives to witness to Christ. Jesus really was a revolutionary kind of leader - but not in the manner of political revolutionaries who torture and murder those who get in their way. His revolution had to do with a necessary kind of judgment, that ...
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... workmanship of Christ and of his Spirit. The soil of their hearts is tilled and cultivated, and the seed that falls there bears fruit an hundredfold. But I have only known one person who could wear this garment - the Son of man who had no place to lay his head, who hungered in the wilderness and at the well of Jacob but forgot his hunger in the mission, and whose tears flowed freely when his good friend Lazarus fell victim to the terror of death, and when Jerusalem chose death instead of life. He promises ...
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... child of God, unless it be the humble inner assurance that it is so? What greater wealth can enrich a life than that which is found in possessing the Kingdom of God? Let us, then, resolve to take the high road with our lives, the saintly road. Let us dare lay claim to our heritage as God’s children. Let us not be afraid or ashamed to join Abraham and all the saints of all the ages in launching out toward the land God has promised we can possess. The way will not be a lonely one. Our Lord has promised ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... number of books on commitment. In The Second Touch, he tells how sharing himself with his family through prayer led to a kind of openness. For a long time he and his wife had a standard prayer ritual with their children at bedtime. It consisted of "Now I lay me down to sleep," followed by the God blesses. One night Mr. Miller was going through this ritual with his five-year old daughter when he realized he wasn’t praying at all with his child. They had never heard any confession or petition from him about ...
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... the home at any time without any warning. On the other hand, a son was a permanent family member, and nothing could change that. A father could not unmake a son. Once a son, always a son, but a slave could be told to leave at any time. Herein lay the secret of their freedom. They could be enslaved by sin, but the son of God had come to claim them as the sons and daughters of God, and as sons and daughters they belonged to God from everlasting to everlasting. Their relationship was permanent, and they could ...
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... Paul and Luther later restate is laypeople are as important to God's church as ministers. Paul says a body filled with eyes but with no ears, nose, or mouth would be as strange as it is useless. There's only one problem with this emphasis on the importance of lay ministry. Most people don't believe it. A while ago I attended a three-day seminar at a nearby seminary. While there I stayed with a friend of a friend, a young man my age named Bob. Bob is in his first year of preparing for ordination. For eight ...
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Dean Lueking
... you from above." At every critical point, when it seems that all the wrong forces were prevailing, Jesus speaks as the one who is in control. And he is. Before Good Friday ever dawned, Jesus had said, "I am the Good Shepherd. I lay down my life for the sheep ... no one takes my life from me. I lay it down of my own accord ... and I take it again. This charge I have received from my Father." (John 10:11 ff) The Cost of His Kingship When Pilate shoved Jesus in front of the mob with the taunting slur, "Here is ...
486. L’Chaim!
John 10:1-21
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Dean Lueking
... have life and have it abundantly. (John 10:10) The Gospel Is Power for Life Jesus speaks of his messianic mission as the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep. The Pharisees threw the blind man out of the temple when he kept on insisting that his sight was ... into filthy conditions that prevail in that overcrowded place of misery. This is what the mayor of Chicago ought to lay upon our consciences as citizens, the shame of our twentieth-century plight of prisoners. What does it matter if the ...
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Dean Lueking
... ask you another question, "... and would you be willing to die for the cause of unity among Christians?" I would anticipate a very different response. It is one thing to agree to the desirability of Christian unity. It is quite another to lay down one’s life for that cause. You and I are not called upon to lay down our lives so that believers in Christ Jesus could be one. That has already been done for us. Our task is to hear this great word of our Lord and receive the gift he brings with it, to us and to ...
488. Proper 22
Lk 17:5-10 · 2 Tim 1:1-14 · Am 5:6-7, 10-15
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John R. Brokhoff
... of Christians following the Apostles. The letters reflect the new situation. Now the Spirit is received at Ordination with the laying on of hands. It is important for the new generation of pastors to preserve the tradition and witness to ... asks Timothy to "rekindle" the gift he received at his ordination into the ministry. The gift received was the Holy Spirit. It was received by Paul's laying on of his hands. The fact is that the Holy Spirit like a fire can cool off and die out. As the Spirit can come, it ...
489. Epiphany 3
Lk 4:14-21 · 1 Cor 12:12-30 · Neh 8:1-10 · Isa 61:1-6
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John R. Brokhoff
... :1-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1. He (v. 3). Who read the Word to the people? The reader was none other than the priest and scribe, Ezra. In recent years some churches have introduced lay readers of the first two Lessons to symbolize the laity's part in the leadership of the worship service. As a result, often a lay reader cannot be heard, mispronounces words, adds or leaves out a word, and misinterprets the reading by placing emphasis on the wrong words or phrases. As a result the Word thereby is distorted, mangled, and ...
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Brett Blair
... it will cost you to build the tower? It is a rhetorical question and the answer is: “Yes! Yes, I will first count the cost.” In today’s language: If it doesn’t pencil don’t do it. You do not want to appear to be a fool by laying the foundation, running out of money, abandoning the project, and becoming the laughing stock of the community. When Jesus told this story he was on his way to Jerusalem. All around him the crowds followed; they thinking they were on their way to an empire; he knowing the ...
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... hated Jacob because of the blessing with which the father had blessed him and Esau said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are approaching, then I will kill my brother.' But the words of Esau ... were told to Rebekah." (Genesis 27:41 ff) As he lay, head on the rock in the "certain place," in the limestone hill country, he finally slept. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on ...
492. Communion Is Relief
Matthew 11:25-30
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... the heavy load of wood on her back. He stopped the truck, walked around to the back and said t her, "Maam, why don't you lay down that load. You no longer have to carry it! When I offered you a ride I was willing to carry both you and your burden ... the Salvation Truck - he not only promised to carry us to Heaven, but he also promised to carry our burdens through life! Christ wants you to lay your burdens at his feet. He said, "Come to me all you that are weak and heavy ladened and I will give you rest." So ...
493. The Holy Trinity
Psalm 150:1-6, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 29:1-11, Matthew 28:16-20, John 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Exodus 34:1-28
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... the power to defeat all those who stood in their way as they moved toward the Promised Land. He declares: "Know therefore this day, and lay it on your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other." 1. The God of ... begotten son to die for them. That's what selfless love is all about. God loves his creatures so much that, in his Son, he lays down his life that they might live. 3. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, God constantly comes to people and restores them to ...
494. Proper 17 & Pentecost 15
Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Exodus 19:1-25, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 114:1-8, Psalm 63:1-11
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... , in what he had to endure, and what God had promised him in the face of persecution, suffering, and death - resurrection on the third day: "I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless." This reading, therefore, lays a biblical foundation for the Gospel for the Day and Jesus' prediction of what will happen to him. It also points to Jesus' words on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Exodus 19:1-9 (C) Once more, the Israelites were on the ...
495. Pentecost 23
Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Ruth 2:1-23, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46, Psalm 1:1-6
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... similarly died for the faith, proving therein their love for God; they comprise part of the army - one great company - in the noble army of martyrs, beginning with Stephen, most of the Apostles, and a growing legion of people who loved the Lord enough that they were ready to lay down their lives in the name of the Son of God. That kind of love may be enough, in the case of the martyrs and confessors of the church, but it may not suffice for the rest of us who have never been threatened with torture or death ...
496. Bound for Glory
1 Samuel 25:1-44
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... angry; the next time you help to prevent a donnybrook of hate; or an argument sparked by the flames of gossip, remember that you are in the Lamb’s book of life. Remember that because of Christ we can all live as peacemakers. Martin Luther says it well: Christ Jesus lay in death’s strong bands But now at God’s right hand he stands And brings us life from heaven Wherefore let us joyful be And sing to God right thankfully Loud songs of Alleluia, Alleluia! Amen ("Christ ...
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... God. So they humbled themselves, offered their great treasures, knelt and gave homage to Jesus. And when this same Jesus grew up, he taught people about riches and how they are to be used. "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Here our Lord is ...
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... the truth will keep you free."1 - John 8:31f In one of his great hymns, Charles Wesley writes: Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature’s night. Thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray - I woke; the dungeon blazed with light. My ... do we stay free? How do we tell the differences between truth and lies? How do we keep our hands, as it were, from laying hold of subtle traps and keep them instead grasping the strong, sure hand of our Good Shepherd? By abiding. Simply abiding. Three times in ...
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... who, today and in the next few days, will be gathering at Augsburg to confirm, in the face of the fears and pessimism of a troubled humanity, that Jesus Christ is the salvation of the world ..." Where does the so-called average pastor and lay person fit into all of this? At the point of jubilation and thanksgiving! It is in the local setting, where parishioner relates to parishioner, pastor to pastor, pastor to parishioner, and parishioner to pastor, that Christian unity comes to fulfillment. We must do our ...
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... sky by and by and a means to hold down our development into prosperous and successful persons. Let us not dismiss such criticism as totally unfounded. We can answer it with Christ’s own words: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal." (Matthew 6:19-20) John Wesley, in his "An Order of Worship for Such as ...
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