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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576. Proper 22
Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9
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William E. Keeney
... 1:1-14) The writer of the letter addresses Timothy as a father to a son. He recalls the heritage of faith Timothy received from his mother and grandmother. The writer expresses a longing to visit him personally. In the meantime he encourages Timothy to remain strong in his faith despite suffering. He assures Timothy that his faith will provide him with a spirit of power and discipline. He assures Timothy that Christ Jesus is worthy of the trust and urges him to continue preaching the gospel with the help of ...
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Charles H. Bayer
... the profundity of the pondering Mary must have experienced. But even you cannot know it all, for every birth is unique, and no one can see into the depths of anyone's heart, or know its deepest secrets or its intimate conversations. Mary's inner thoughts will remain hers alone. Neither the scriptures nor tradition has read her mind. Might it have been that not all the angel said to her nine months before in Nazareth is recorded for us? Might not there have been some indication that a cross and a crown of ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... a business. How much money he made was nobody's business but his. He wasn't about to reveal such an intimate and personal thing to a financial aid officer, someone he didn't even know. Such a thing was unthinkable, forbidden -- taboo! The church does not remain unaffected by such taboos. The subject of money is also a big taboo in the church. I have often heard people brag about their church to a friend by saying, "At our church we don't talk about money." Many times I have heard people complain when the ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... . Like those first century Jews, we are proud of our heritage. We are Americans. This is the cradle of democracy. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are free. We are enslaved to no one. We are citizens of the world's one remaining superpower. But the truth of the matter is that we, like those first century Jews, are slaves. We are enslaved and cannot free ourselves. When you think about it, it really takes a lot of nerve for the church to talk this way in America at the close of the ...
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William L. Self
... slaughtered his yoke of twelve oxen and offered them up as a feast for the people to show that he was forsaking his past and literally "burning his bridges behind him." Elisha had the opportunity to leave Elijah many times, but he steadfastly remained with him. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington had an abundance of soldiers volunteer to fight during the summer months, but as winter came, with rations in short supply and blankets being scarce, they began to slip silently from camp and return to ...
581. All Dressed Up And Somewhere To Go!
Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11
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Harold Warlick
... from God's love are to become the human agents of God's transformation of God's world. God's people are not only all dressed up. They have somewhere to go. God's people are not to stand quietly on the church's walls, dressed in royal garments, and remain silent while friends die of cancer and AIDS and the world tears apart through war and hunger. We are called to break our silence so all may come through the great tragedies in life with a spirit of hope. We are to break the silence and indifference of our ...
582. No Apology
Acts 4:1-22
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Paul W. Kummer
... people and to you and me: stop rejecting Jesus as the only way. This healed man you see is the result of an undeniable miracle. Jesus did it! Must be saved: As if the source of salvation wouldn't have been enough of a stumbling block for proud Jews, Peter remains bold until the end, not by saying, "You can be saved," or "You may be saved," but you must be saved. To surrender to the Son is a divine necessity. All people must respond. Why? We all must respond because we are all like the lame man Peter healed ...
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Gerald Whetstone
... . He's in charge of Sunday mornings, weddings and funerals, babies being born and life after death. But that's not enough for our God. He demands it all. Our God will not for one millisecond remain content in a pantheon. I understand, and the scriptures certainly indicate that God does too, how difficult it is to remain completely loyal, entirely obedient. It's not an easy thing for a teen to diverge from the consensus of his friends. It's easiest to talk about peer pressures among youth, but at any age we ...
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Richard Gribble
... one arm came through. As I watched I could not believe what I saw. And the Ragman continued on. The Ragman, now with only one arm, bleeding, crying and stumbling, continued to push his basketful of rags. At the end of town he found the local dump. With the remaining strength he possessed he pushed his basket through the gate and up the hill. There in the middle of the garbage dump he lay down to sleep and as he slept he died. From a distance I found safe haven in the front seat of an old abandoned vehicle ...
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Richard Gribble
... of love, that a human knows without being taught; they are innate to the human psyche. Another paradox comes from the world of numbers. If you want to get from point A to point B, and each time you move you travel exactly one-half of the remaining distance between where you are and the intended goal, how long will it take you to arrive? One might initially answer, "This cannot be that hard; I must be able to calculate the answer!" Actually, however, the answer is that you will never arrive at the desired ...
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Richard Gribble
... reading of the Hebrew Scriptures, this covenant was broken many times. In the Gospel Jesus offers another covenant, another contract. "I solemnly assure you, if a man is true to my word he shall never see death." Jesus promises eternal life to the one who can remain true and loyal to the Lord's message. Jesus has always been loyal and faithful to the word of his Father. He has been faithful, even before Abraham and God made their covenant together. With such a record of loyalty it is no wonder that Jesus ...
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Mark Radecke
... Christians take the exact opposite approach. They uncritically embrace the values and ways of the world. To them, it is God and the church who must adapt to this brave new world humankind has created, if God and the church have any intention of remaining relevant. This group sees religion as something like insurance or Social Security: a good thing to have, but nothing to go overboard about. While we may admire the openness, tolerance and adaptability of this group, few of us are ready to be so uncritically ...
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William E. Keeney
... the Christian church because of its stance during the war and its readiness to serve the needs of the people regardless of religious persuasion or political affiliation. In China during the so-called Cultural Revolution, Christian leaders were arrested or forced into hard labor. They remained steadfast, nevertheless. When the Cultural Revolution was past and more toleration of diversity was permitted, the church emerged again and some of the leaders led a revival in the churches. Recently contacts which had ...
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John A. Stroman
... said, "My Lord, I have done so." The pope then gave his blessing and told him to go and preach repentance. At this time there occurred one of the most remarkable episodes of Francis' career. He entered into marriage with poverty. He called poverty his bride and remained devoted to her with the devotion of a knight. With only a simple robe tied with a cord, barefoot, he set out on a lifelong ministry devoted to the poor. The Spirit of the Lord was upon him. The Spirit drove Luther out of the monastery in ...
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Mark Radecke
... word, a resounding word in support of lifelong trust, commitment and faithfulness on the part of those who choose to marry. He is called to announce God's will that marriages be permanent, riding out the storms of pride and passion. Brides and grooms promise to remain faithfully committed to each other so long as they both shall live, not so long as they both shall love. They do well to remember Dietrich Bonhoeffer's words to his friends on their Wedding day: "It is not your love that sustains your marriage ...
591. Light In Darkness, Speech From Silence
Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23
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Mark Radecke
... extinguish it. For this season, that is enough. A birth. A beginning. A ray of hope -- but more than that, an assurance that while we still know dark corners and fearsome shadows in our lives, God is with us. Our rescuer has found us and will remain with us until our deliverance is complete. He dwells not in unapproachable light, but couches his radiant glory in the thoroughly approachable flesh and blood of the Virgin's child. That same flesh and blood he gives graciously to us under the forms of bread and ...
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Mark Radecke
... extinguish it. For this season, that is enough. A birth. A beginning. A ray of hope -- but more than that, an assurance that while we still know dark corners and fearsome shadows in our lives, God is with us. Our rescuer has found us and will remain with us until our deliverance is complete. He dwells not in unapproachable light, but couches his radiant glory in the thoroughly approachable flesh and blood of the Virgin's child. That same flesh and blood he gives graciously to us under the forms of bread and ...
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Thomas Long
... , others joined in until the whole group was singing at the top of their voices and the puzzled jailers felt the entire cellblock vibrating with the sounds of a joyful gospel song. When they went to see what was happening, the prisoners triumphantly pushed the remaining mattresses through the cell bars, saying, "You can take our mattresses, but you can't take our souls." It was the hymn singers who were in jail, but it was the jailers who were guilty. It was the prisoners who were suffering, but the jailers ...
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Lee Griess
... . What we forget, however, is that no matter how proudly we parade our own goodness, God sees within. And when God looks upon us, the mark remains, as surely as if a big "X" were stamped on our foreheads. It's unpleasant to think of these things. And I'm sure we'd ... joined with Cain in taking his brother's life. We are marked by death. And even though we cannot see it, a big "X" remains on our foreheads. Today we begin our journey of Lent, these forty days of preparation. It is a path that leads to the cross ...
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Dallas A. Brauninger
... sin. Jesus says if they were blind, they would not have sin. But now that they say, "We see," their sin remains. CONNECTING POINTS--CONVERSATIONS Interviewing The Man Blind From Birth Asker: You used to sit by the roadside and beg. Man: If ... 40 See Matthew 15:14 above. Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains."41 "Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them" (Proverbs 26:12). "If I had not come ...
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John R. Bodo
... never take a stand against anything they might be doing. Are not too many congregations deprived of any moral guidance on significant public issues, because they do not want their pastor to "mix religion and politics," and because the pastor himself prefers to remain "safely on the payroll"? 4. Andrew Being the brother of Simon Peter, the natural leader of the Twelve, could not have been easy for Andrew. Nor are his deeds half as well documented as those of his volcanic, mercurial brother. But this very ...
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Robert R. Kopp
... Her will dictated that anyone from Forty Fort U-P in seminary was to receive 1,000 dollars from her estate. Appropriately, I used the money to buy books about the Bible. They're in my study. She's in my heart. And the greatest lesson from her remains life in the Lord is perpetually fresh and exhilarating. I was going to say the Reverend Harold F. Mante was my pastor for over two decades. But, in fact, he'll be my pastor forever. He was my pastor during confirmation class, God and Country Award, high school ...
598. Holing Out
2 Timothy 4:9-18
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Robert R. Kopp
... drops the squirrel on the green, and then the ball pops out of the squirrel's mouth and into the hole. Moses turns to Jesus and asks, "Did you come here to play golf or God?" Anyway, my dad was a great athlete (football, baseball, swimming, etc., etc., etc.!) and remains a top amateur for his age in northeastern Pennsylvania. So I was really happy but not surprised at all when I got the news from my mom about the older man. I haven't had a hole-in-one yet. I'm not that jealous or anything. It doesn't ...
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Robert R. Kopp
... the kids still get into trouble. You do your best at work and still get laid off or fired or remain under-compensated. Sometimes the practice-performance equation doesn't work. Sometimes the best practice yields the worst performance. Or as Bruce ... s bad bounces. But one way or the other, no one is immune to life's bad bounces. And the only way to rise above them is to remain faithful to God's will for our lives. Or as Habakkuk explained (2:4; 3:17-19): The righteous live by their faith. Though the fig tree ...
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Karren Boehr
... will be unable to see the light of the sun." It happened just as the Holy Spirit proclaimed. Elymas became blind and was led off by friends. The proconsul, totally amazed at the power of God, believed in our message. And there you have it. Barnabas and I have remained faithful to the call of Christ. Do we have doubts? Yes! But the realization of what God has done within our lives, the conviction that the message we carry is God's very own heartbeat, keeps us going. We can do nothing else. For me to live is ...
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