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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James Merritt
... . You have some needs I can meet, but you can’t. I’ve got some needs that you can that I can’t, but together we can meet each other’s needs. Let’s take the obvious. Did it cost the early church to do this? Absolutely. When you give up something you have and give it to someone else are you sacrificing what you have? Yes! If you do a cost-benefit analysis on the benefit of serving others and you will find the benefit far outweighs the cost. Did you notice what verse 46 says? “They received their ...
527. The Open Hand
Mark 2:23-3:6
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Ron Lavin
... lost her last coin, she would have nothing and be nothing. Nouwen says that this is also the great inhibiting factor in our worship and prayer lives today. Nouwen puts it this way: When you are asked to pray you are asked to open your tightly clenched fists and give up your last coin...You feel it safer to cling to a sorry past than to trust in a new future. So you fill your hands with small, clammy coins which you don't want to surrender.4 We cling to resentment or revenge so tightly that we make ourselves ...
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Steve Burt
... other people participate in our undoing -- sometimes without even knowing it, but at other times with malicious intent. Many forces work to set us back or keep us from our goals. It can be depressing and discouraging, and at times it can make us feel like giving up. Or we may be tempted to employ deceit or shortcuts. It's at those times we must keep our sights on the goal, acting honestly and diligently, no matter what others are doing around us. Today's scripture passage reflects conditions as they were 3 ...
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Brett Blair
... the Kingdom of God. This they wanted to hear about, especially since they misunderstood this kingdom to be a restoration of Israel to the days of King David’s glory. This would be prosperity for the nation. But increasingly Jesus began to talk about sacrifice — even giving up your life. The story is told of a pee-wee baseball game. When the young boy got up to the plate he looked over to the coach, and he saw him give the signal to sacrifice bunt. He then promptly proceeded to take three big swings ...
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Richard Hoefler
... defensively. "That’s not so," the foreman came back, "the best you can do is call on me." So in our relationship to God. Our best - the best we can do in any situation is to call on God. No human effort ever reaches its best until we give up, acknowledge our total helplessness and cry out in desperation, "Lord, help me!" This is the true litany of faith. Not, "I am the captain of my fate!" but, "Lord, help me!" Peter learned that day the meaning of faith. He stands as an example for us all. Therefore ...
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Brett Blair
... early part of his ministry Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God. This they wanted to hear about, especially since they misunderstood this kingdom to be a restoration of Israel to the days of King David’s glory. But increasingly Jesus began to talk about sacrifice—even giving up your life. The story is told of a pee-wee baseball game. When the young boy got up to the plate he looked over to the coach, and he saw him give the signal to sacrifice bunt. He then promptly proceeded to take three big swings ...
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Brett Blair
... early part of his ministry Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God. This they wanted to hear about, especially since they misunderstood this kingdom to be a restoration of Israel to the days of King David’s glory. But increasingly Jesus began to talk about sacrifice—even giving up your life. The story is told of a pee-wee baseball game. When the young boy got up to the plate he looked over to the coach, and he saw him give the signal to sacrifice bunt. He then promptly proceeded to take three big swings ...
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Michael Milton
... in considering truth. So they answer, “We don’t know.” Safe answer, right? No. Jesus’ response is that no further truth about Himself will come to them. Revelation is being cut off. One of the worst things that can happen is that God would finally say, “I give up. I give you over to what you actually want anyway.” That is dangerous. When I was growing up, Mr. Nixon lived down the road from us. He was a security guard at a chemical plant, but I remember him because bear cubs broke into his home ...
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James W. Moore
... Fulghum says: “We got a message from the world. This is your niche. Stay in it.” In Mark 10, when Jesus said: “Whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it”… this surely was part of what he had in mind. * Don’t give up on life! * Don’t quit on life! * Don’t sour on life! * Don’t stonewall your way through life! * Don’t lose the child-like ability to celebrate life! He gives us new life, new spirit, new heart, new birth. It’s so sad to see people become so ...
535. Cross-Bearing
Mark 8:31-38
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David E. Leininger
... Christ had in mind when he talked about taking up the cross. Nor did he mean the kind of thing of which people complain — difficult working conditions, aging parents who are no longer able to function, recalcitrant teenagers who refuse to obey, or even giving up chocolate for Lent — as "my cross to bear." The cross was an ugly thing, an instrument of death used for political criminals to maintain Pax Romana, an ancient equivalent of a hangman's noose, a gas chamber, an electric chair. To take up the ...
536. Running with Perseverance
Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2
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Charles L. Aaron
... calls us to seek a deeper level for our faith, to push ourselves, to test our limits. Using specifically the language and imagery of running a race, the passage calls us to perseverance. Nurturing our faith is a distance run, and Hebrews calls us to pace ourselves, not to give up, and to run with all that we have. The problem for most of us is that we are not much up for a distance run. Let's face it, we live in a world of instant gratification. We can communicate across long distances in a flash. The cable ...
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King Duncan
... Edwin Orr, a revivalist and historian, was with Billy Graham when Cohen made his alleged conversion. When confronted about his lack of apparent repentance, Cohn responded, “You didn’t tell me I would have to give up my work!” He meant his rackets. “You didn’t tell me that I would have to give up my friends!” He meant his gangster associates. Says Edwin Orr, “[Cohen] had heard that so‑and‑so was a Christian cowboy, so‑and‑so was a Christian actress, so‑and‑so was a Christian senator ...
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Ron Lavin
... my hurts are physical, like the unnamed woman with blood issues. It may be that I come with hurts that are mental -- resentments that I feel I have a right to feel because I have been so badly treated by someone. O Lamb of God, I come sincerely giving up my self-pity and resentments. From a human point of view, I may have a right to them, but self-pity and resentments keep me sick. I may have a human "right" to them, but they are "rights" which are wrong for my own health and wellness. Resentments, like ...
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King Duncan
... It’s impossible for us to be as righteous as the Pharisees and teachers of the law,” thought many of his listeners, “and now you’re saying we have to surpass them in righteousness before we can enter the kingdom of heaven? We might as well give up now.” And I think that’s exactly what Jesus wanted them to feel. Whether they were Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots or just ordinary folks like us, I believe that Jesus wanted them to rethink the role of the Law in their lives. The Law was given ...
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John Jamison
... meant, and this is where all the problems arose. To the disciples, winning meant becoming more powerful and rich, more secure and forcing your way to the top of the heap. Jesus talked about winning and success as becoming poor, taking risks, and being willing to give up all normal securities. The poor and meek would be the real winners. Those who were first would actually end up being last, and the last would be in first place. For a long time, the disciples tried very hard to educate this well-meaning, but ...
541. Gifts for God
Mark 12:41-44
Children's Sermon
... WEEK'S GOSPEL THEME IN SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL Teachers: Begin today's class with a reading of the Gospel. Ask your students to imagine what it would have been like to be the widow and to give everything they have. Do they think it would be harder to give up everything if they were rich or if they were poor like the widow? Why? Now ask your students to think about how much money they put in the offering plate every Sunday. Explain to your students that a "budget" is a written record of money received and money ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... part of some group, or win some favor, or be awarded some promotion. We don't measure greed in quantities. The thirty pieces do represent self-seeking on Judas' part and our part. He did give in to greed, and so do we. We give up our integrity, our chastity, our sincerity, our uprightness, our truthfulness, in order to get something that will give us immediate gratification, quick satisfaction. The sound of clanking coins may remind us of our greed, however hidden that greed may be. Often God does not come ...
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Eric Ritz
... swam until it would seem His struggles began to churn the cream. On the top of the butter at last he stopped And out of the bowl he happily hopped. What is the moral? It''s easily found. If you can''t get out--keep swimming around. (2) Do not give up--even when it is hard to see that one is making progress--because by your determination and witness you may be in the midst of turning cream into butter. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ declares to us that no matter how dark it is you do not ever need to ...
544. Proper 23
Job 23:1--24:25, Hebrews 4:1-13, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, Mark 10:17-31
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John R. Brokhoff
... out to him that only God is good. Though he obeys the commandments, he still does not have true life. Jesus perceives that his problem is wealth which keeps him from God, the Author of life. The man refuses to give up his wealth to follow and walks away from eternal life. But those who give up everything to follow Jesus are promised the reward of eternal life. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Gospel: Mark 10:17-31 1. Knelt (v. 17). The man ran up to Jesus and knelt before him. There is a meaning to posture. When the ...
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James Merritt
... mind. Think about it this way. Jesus came as a missionary from heaven so that He might make us missionaries for heaven. Please don't let that word "missionary" scare you. As you are going to see this morning, being a missionary does not mean that you have to give up your job. It doesn't mean you have to be seminary trained. It doesn't even mean that you have to have mission experience. A question was recently asked in a survey of 1000 church attenders that shows why what I am going to talk about today is so ...
546. Final Instructions
1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... joy is the product of God’s grace. For the adverb, “continually,” adialeiptōs, cf. 1:2 and 2:13, and for the injunction to pray continually, compare Jesus’ intention in telling the parable of the Persistent Widow: “that they (the disciples) should always pray and not give up” (Luke 18:1). See also Romans 12:12, where the thought is again of persistence in prayer. Paul’s own letters are a case in point. They are full of prayers for his readers, and their picture of Paul as a man of prayer is ...
547. God Disciplines His Sons
Hebrews 12:1-13, Hebrews 12:14-29
Understanding Series
Donald A. Hagner
... glorious history of the faithful in mind, our author turns now to his readers. The standard of faith has been set by the record of God’s faithful people in the past, who moved out into the unknown with confidence and who endured hardship without giving up their expectation of a future fulfillment of the promise. But the author now comes to the supreme example of this kind of faith in Jesus—the name that must be the climax of any list of paragons of faith. Jesus himself endured great suffering without ...
548. Warning Against Refusing God
Hebrews 12:14-29, Hebrews 12:1-13
Understanding Series
Donald A. Hagner
... glorious history of the faithful in mind, our author turns now to his readers. The standard of faith has been set by the record of God’s faithful people in the past, who moved out into the unknown with confidence and who endured hardship without giving up their expectation of a future fulfillment of the promise. But the author now comes to the supreme example of this kind of faith in Jesus—the name that must be the climax of any list of paragons of faith. Jesus himself endured great suffering without ...
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King Duncan
... me why.” (6) That’s it. That’s the hope of the world. Jesus knew not everyone was going to listen to his teaching. The kind of love, generosity and mercy that he expected from his followers---it doesn’t make sense. It’s risky. It’s asking us to give up our rights and our pride and our comfort. And yet it’s the most powerful way possible for us to show the world that we belong to Christ. To love them until they ask us why. So, I hope you will leave this room today with your GPS programmed. Not ...
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King Duncan
... and launch a successful counterattack. The Allied troops regained the village and drove out the Nazi forces. In 1997, John Robert Fox was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his “gallant and courageous actions, at the supreme sacrifice of his own life.” (4) To give up your own life to ensure that others could live—is there any greater love than this? God loved us first. God loved us enough that He gave His one and only Son. But why did He give His Son? You know the answer: “That whosoever ...
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