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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Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... named Ebrahim ibn Adam. Ebrahim was wealthy according to every earthly measure. At the same time, however, he sincerely and restlessly strove to be wealthy spiritually as well. "One night the king was roused from sleep by a fearful stumping on the roof above his bed. Alarmed, he shouted: 'Who's there?' 'A friend,' came the reply from the roof. 'I've lost my camel.' Perturbed by such stupidity, Ebrahim screamed: 'You fool! Are you looking for a camel on the roof?' 'You fool!' the voice from the roof answered ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... church's teaching ministry is largely carried on. Congregations need to reconceive themselves as "seminaries" - literally, "seed-beds" for faith. This is how church members become disciples, participants in the tradition and "guardians of the ... congregations have of keeping young. The older the church is, the more youthful, even childlike it can become if its "seed-bed" of faith is being planted and harvested. Spanish novelist Carlos Fuentes makes this profound connection between aging and youth: "I really ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . In fact the whole notion of having more bedrooms than family members to fill them is a Shunammite holdover. The "American dreamhouse" always has a guest room. While we wait for that dream to come true, we make do with hide-a-beds, bunk beds or at least sleeping bags. But somewhere along the line this Shunammite tradition suddenly became a strange and frightening suggestion. We would no longer dream of opening our house to a complete stranger, offering them shelter at the expense of exposing ourselves ...
529. Rags and Robes
Micah 1:1-7; 2:1-11
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... ' told of how he found very quickly that he had not just put on the clothing of the homeless, but he had begun to put on a homeless spirit as well. What Rivers' found himself craving, more than a hamburger, a bath, a blanket or a bed, was the experience of being recognized and greeted as a worthwhile human being. Rivers described how, when encountering others on the sidewalks, a few people (all too few) felt moved to dig in their pockets for some change. Yet that gesture was usually carried out hurriedly ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... disciples to be persistent in prayer to the point of peskiness. Four-year-old Thane likes to get up at 5 a.m. every day weekends, holidays, winter, summer. He immediately climbs into bed with his parents and parlays a series of specific requests: a pop tart, orange juice and a video. Every morning, we groan sleepily and tell him to go back to bed because it is just too early. Every morning, he prevails not because we love him, not because he is a joyful child, not because we want him to be happy. We give in ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... and say all day. The bank calls complaining that you are overdrawn again. You're so late getting home that dinner comes out of a pizza box - and it's cold. At home, everyone is fighting with everyone else, and the cat is missing. You go to bed after these days convinced that you are a truly cursed, wretched, worthless human being - fit only for the dung heap. Of course, nearly all the days of our lives fall somewhere in between these two extremes - thankfully. A steady diet of either one or the other would ...
532. Hebrews 13:1-8
Hebrews 13:1-8
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... serious covenantal union was unique in this world. But it is not just the "ideal" of marriage that this writer wants honored. He uses the colloquialism of koite (bed) together with gamos (marriage) to explicitly identify the sexual life of the marriage couple as the testing ground for this fidelity. By keeping their marriage bed "undefiled," the partners are refusing the temptation towards adultery. Verse 4 even goes so far as to include fornication, sexual relations between two unmarried people, among the ...
533. Hebrews 13:1-8
Hebrews 13:1-8
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... serious covenantal union was unique in this world. But it is not just the "ideal" of marriage that this writer wants honored. He uses the colloquialism of koite (bed) together with gamos (marriage) to explicitly identify the sexual life of the marriage couple as the testing ground for this fidelity. By keeping their marriage bed "undefiled," the partners are refusing the temptation towards adultery. Verse 4 even goes so far as to include fornication, sexual relations between two unmarried people, among the ...
534. 1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)
1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... answer, "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening" (v.9). It would be unwise to take the Lord's fourth call and appearance to Samuel in verse 10 as a literal apparition of God. The fact that Samuel's vision occurs only when he returns to his bed and lies down suggests that God is speaking to Samuel, as God has with many other seers and sages, through dreams. That God appears to Samuel while he is asleep makes the vision no less tangible, no less authentic. Yahweh was not in the habit of making personal ...
535. Born Again
John 3:1-21
Illustration
Brett Blair
... contradictory but ok. Let's give him that. Evolution and early social influences creates a person. The die is cast. A personality is formed. Irrevocable. You might find this surprising but I agree with Mark Leyner. You and I cannot change. Even if I had a death bed experience or someone came back from the grave to warn me of the judgment to come, it would not fundamentally change my behavior. I would continue to live as I always have. (Luke 16:30-31). I think this is Nicodemus' confusion. If you're a Jew ...
536. Proper 22
Job 2:1-10, Psalm 26:1-12, Mark 10:2-16, Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12
Bulletin Aid
B. David Hostetter
... news, whether in illness or health, weakness or strength, in the service of God. PRAYER OF THE DAY Synagogue-preacher, sick-bed-visitor, exorcist-of-evil, so teach us, so heal us, so clear us of evil, that we may be ready learners ... and for us. May we live together in your love. Hear our prayers today for those awaiting diagnosis of their illness, those who watch by the beds of the dying, those who are recovering from surgery, and all others. May the gospel of Christ bring hope to all who seek pardon for ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... are a friend of God you are an enemy of the world. God expects you, from the moment you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night, to "go out and whip the world." For the next four weeks I want to share with you exactly how to do that in a ... not whined, complained, cursed or eaten any chocolate. I have charged nothing on my credit card. But in a minute I will be getting out of bed and I think then I'll really need your help. Well, we all need help against temptation and we find it in the text we' ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... lives. They don't come just once and leave; they meet you in the morning when you get up and they go to bed with you every night. If you don't confront them and conquer them they will make your life miserable. Every time Goliath would ... toward me on her hands and knees." The little boy piped up and said, "Daddy, is that when Mommy told you to get out from underneath the bed and fight like a man? For forty days, not a man could be found. The king wouldn't fight. The generals wouldn't fight. The commanders ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... ask you "Where did you lose it?" Now I know we sometimes think that is a dumb question, but you know it really is the right question. Because you always find something exactly where you lost it. I heard about a little five-year-old boy who fell out of bed, and when he hit the floor he cried out in a loud voice and woke up the whole family. His mother came rushing into the room and found out what had happened; picked him up off the floor, and tucked him back under the covers, and asked the obvious question ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... to go to lunch with this person or just watching fifteen minutes on the internet won't hurt. Staying in this solaces chat room for awhile is just a little titillating fun. Then comes the transaction where before you know it, you have either wound up in someone else's bed or your mind has been caught in a spider's web of pornography that you can't get out of. I know what some of you are thinking right now, so listen to this verse. "So be careful! If you are thinking 'I would never behave like that - let this ...
541. Here Today Gone Tomorrow
Genesis 5:21-24, Hebrews 11:5
Sermon
James Merritt
... , we should. I heard about a robber who broke into a house thinking no one was home only to find the frightened owners in bed watching television. He pointed the gun at the woman and said, "What's your name?" She said, "Elizabeth." He said, "This is your lucky ... finished the journey and as it grew dark, I became lonely and afraid. I said to this man, "Do you think my aunt will go to bed before I get there?" He said, "Oh no, she will stay up for you. When we get out of these woods, you will see her candle ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... can forgive sins." So, they throw down the gantlet and Jesus takes it up. "Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise, take up your bed and walk?' But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins - He said to the paralytic, ‘I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.'" (Mark 2: 9-11, NKJV) Notice what Jesus does, He uses the physical to get to the spiritual. Jesus healed the man's legs to prove He could save ...
543. Smooth Out Your Day
Matthew 11:25-30
Sermon
James Merritt
... see the reason why so many people are restless, tired, burned out, on edge, frustrated and stressed is because they are looking for rest in all of the wrong places. There are some people who try to find peace and rest in pleasure. Pleasure Drink Party Hop from Bed to Bed Woman to Woman Marriage to Marriage Trying to find the rest that is just not there. Others try to find it in performance. They work. They scramble. They burn the mid-night oil. They do all that they know to do, the best way they know how to ...
544. The Most Effective Communication
Mark 7:31-37
Illustration
Michael B. Brown
... If trouble were to be found, he was usually the one to find it. But every night his mother would come into his room, kneel beside his bed and talk to Jesus about her son. He would listen in as she said: "Jesus, he's a good boy. He just doesn't know it ... somehow I think the most important witness I make is every night when I'm home I kneel and pray beside my little boy's bed like Mama did next to mine." We never know the incredible influence we can have on the world simply by sharing our faith, articulating ...
545. Finish the Drill
Nehemiah 4:1-23
Sermon
James Merritt
... to protect ourselves." (Nehemiah 4:9, NLT) Nehemiah did several things practically to prepare the people for the worst. This is so important. It is perfectly fitting when you lie down in bed at night to pray, "God protect my house from burglars", but you had better make sure the doors are locked before you go to bed. There is truth to the saying, "God helps those who help themselves." Look at the practical steps that Nehemiah took to get his people ready to face this opposition. Verse 13 says, "Therefore ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... devoted spouse? God has a well He has especially dug and prepared for you. Don't drink any water until you find that well and then you drink all that you want. God created the gift of sex for a specific period – during marriage. A specific place – the marriage bed with a specific person – the marriage mate. This past week, I was in the home of a brother and a sister. She is allowing me to share this with you today. By her own admission, she had lived the life of the woman at the well. Beginning at the ...
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... immense suffering for us, you and I kneel before his sacrifice. Then, we praise God the Father for the love shown us in his Son, Jesus Christ, forever and ever. When we go to bed at night, we say, "Thank you" several times. We do that more for ourselves than for him. To be sure, he desires our full compliance. On our pillows and in our beds there is this fragrance. After a time we are not shocked. We come to expect it. If we are truly in tune with the Holy Spirit, every night is memorable because we ask him ...
Sermon
John Jamison
... and the way that most of the goods were distributed around the country. After dinner, people sat in the drawing room and listened to the radio programs, fading in and out from some faraway location, over the magical broadcasting signal. Later at night, as they lay in bed, they listened to the roar and squeal of the old steam whistles, telling them that the Old 97 was heading out of town for the run to the city, and wishing each and everyone a good night. Charlie was an engineer on the old steam locomotives ...
549. Weary in Well Doing
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13
Sermon
Donna Schaper
... free of worry and fear. We would have no time for despair. We would avoid the gossipy games of putting others down so that we could feel momentarily lifted up. We would not need such crutches. We would get out of bed in the morning eager to love someone and touch something of purpose and value. We would not go to bed at night until we had participated in God's plan to lift up the poor and troubled, blind and lame. We would not say, "I don't know how to help" so much as "How can I help?" We may ...
550. A Higher Standard of Living
Luke 3:1-20
Illustration
Billy D. Strayhorn
... had been a closet slob his entire life. He just couldn't comprehend the logic of neatness. Why make up a bed if you're going to sleep in it again tonight? Why put the lid on the toothpaste tube if you're ... dirty dishes in the sink or towels flung around the bathroom or clothes on the floor or sheets piled up like a mountain on the bed. What happened? Simple. He had been exposed to neatness, order, cleanliness. In a word, he had been introduced to a higher standard of living. That's what confession and repentance do ...
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