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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601. Uncle Abraham
Romans 4:13-25
Sermon
William G. Carter
... the eyes, in all of its honesty. "All have sinned. All have fallen short." Suddenly a strange sense of relief came over me. All of us have sinned, and no one is any better than anybody else. All of us have fallen short - that's the truth! So we can stop punishing ourselves for not measuring up. The truth is, no matter how good we are, we will never be good enough. In an ultimate sense, that's okay, because life is not about us ever being able to measure up. Life is about God, who moves toward us in Jesus ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... Garry Wills writes about Harriet Tubman, the remarkable slave woman who led African slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. That invisible railroad came through these parts, and some of the whistle stops were in eastern Pennsylvania. Here is a remarkable detail about her. When Harriet Tubman was a teenager, she tried to stop the beating of a fellow worker. Her master hit her on the head, and the blow broke her skull. Harriet lingered near death for weeks. For the rest of her life she suffered ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... , except for the day we received fried goat and fresh Spam. The experience opened my eyes to see just something of what it must be like. Then we hopped on a plane and flew back to New York. As soon as we hit the ground, I begged our group to stop at a Burger King so I could gobble down two double Whoppers with cheese. What was I thinking? When it dawned on me what I had done, it made me sick. Of course, the Whoppers didn't help. Sometimes, we like to rebel against some standard. Some authority says this ...
604. Imagine a World
Matthew 18:10-14
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... they shunned him, they would have nothing to do with him. They thought that was what God would want them to do. It was not a formal excommunication. The Church had not started doing that yet. They just stopped communicating. No communication. That is a form of banishment. We know that. We practice that all the time. That's the family form of punishment. We stop communicating. If you really want to punish someone for messing up, for not living up to your expectations, or for insulting you in some way, then ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... person was doing something that violated his sense of right and wrong. He wanted the therapist to get rid of the guilt so that he could continue to live the life that he was living. The therapist said to him, if you want to get rid of the guilt, to stop doing what is causing it. So there are some, an increasing number I suspect in our time, in this secular age, who know nothing about guilt, and who ought to feel guilty. It would do them some good. And it would do society good as well. We would raise the ...
606. This Is the Day
Matthew 6:25-34
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... , or some phenomenon of nature, they just pass right by it. They won't even notice it. But others will come up to it, be stopped in their tracks, and moved to tears at the beauty of what they have seen. I have been on guided tours in museums and have ... time when you forgot about the time, and you were surprised, and you said, "Look what time it is! Where did the time go?" Time stops, and you wish it would never end. That's what the New Testament means by eternal life. It is time suspended. It is when there ...
Drama
Matthew Powell
... States and Canada, as far out as Alaska, was one blaze of bonfires, where the children were burning up their presents of all kinds. They had the greatest time! Storyteller 1: The little girl went to thank the old fairy Little Girl: because she had stopped it being Christmas, Storyteller 1: and she said she hoped Little Girl: she would keep her promise and see that Christmas never, never came again. Storyteller 2: Then the fairy frowned and asked her, Everybody: Are you sure you know what you mean? Little ...
608. Proper 19
Exodus 13:17--14:31, Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 18:21-35
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John R. Brokhoff
... the unforgiving at the last day. God is not only a God of mercy, but also of justice. Old Testament: Exodus 14:19-31 1. Clogging (v. 25). The chariot wheels of the Egyptians were clogged in the muddy bottom of the Red Sea. The Egyptian army was stopped in its tracks and could not pursue God's people. To save his people, God uses both the extraordinary and the ordinary. The extraordinary means was the miraculous parting of the waters; what a terrific wind it must have been to have separated the waters. It is ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... walk. Thus, Maum Jean said, 'I want you to walk toward me.' My instant reaction was fear. I knew I could not walk unaided. I had tried. I leaned back on the solid support of the tree, but Maum Jean continued to urge me forward. I begged her to stop and I burst into tears. Her voice rose suddenly, no longer gentle and coaxing, but full of power and command. 'You can walk, boy! The Lord has spoken! Now walk over here!' She knelt down and held out her arms. Somehow, impelled by something greater than fear, I ...
Sermon
Stephen M. Crotts
... some time with Gary in Bible study trying to help get his life straightened out. So he called me in for a talk. What was I sharing with Gary? Who hired me to do it? What gave me the right to say what was truth? He even suggested that I stop visiting the campus and mind my own business. When I told him that was impossible, he threatened me with a lawsuit. Sad, but he never really understood it all. You see, he worked for a college president, but I worked for God under the correction and accountability of a ...
611. Trip Questions
Matthew 22:15-22
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . . . Jesus ended up saying this was the good man, because he had the capacity to project the 'I' into the 'thou' and be concerned about his brother. . . He did not ask the question, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' He reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'" If you don't stop to help, who will? And what will happen to those who need your help? If not you, who? If not now, when? If not here, where? Jesus never said "Don't ask," and better we ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... going to get misread, just because your good deeds are going to boomerang and hit you on the head . . . that doesn't mean you stop doing them. The reason why you do them in the first place isn't to get rewarded, but because God wants you to do them ... heaven. As he is looking at the landscape from the train he suddenly sees something off to the right and he tells the train to stop. When the train stops, Niggle runs over and at the very top of the hill is his tree. He looks up and realized that this is the tree ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... example of Satan. And we need to see man so broken that God had to come himself to heal us. We need to stand at the foot of the cross and look up to Jesus and remember at what a high price our salvation is bought. But we must not stop here. We must see Good Friday, but we must also see Easter. We must view the cross, but also see the crown! The tomb goes with the resurrection. As the rainbow follows the storm, so the ascension follows the crucifixion. Get the big picture! Listen to the whole story! There ...
614. Be Ready!
Matthew 24:36-51
Sermon
King Duncan
... in at about two pounds each, and had been placed in separate bassinets. One started to do just fine--the other began slowly to fade. Her heart‑beat was rapid, she was visibly anxious, and nothing the nurses could do seemed to be able to stop what they saw as her inevitable death. Then one nurse remembered something she had read about treatment of premature infants elsewhere in the world. As a last resort the nurses put little Brielle, the weaker twin, right into the bassinet with Kyrie, her “big sister ...
615. Squeaky Wheels
Mark 10:46-52
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... off. The sound of the blind man's voice carried over the protestations of the crowd and reached Jesus' ears. That single voice, repeatedly crying out for Jesus' mercy, brought the entire journey to Jerusalem the status symbol of being on the way to a dead stop. Jesus took the entire entourage off-line and came to a stand-still in order to respond to that repeated plea for his mercy, for his attention. Once given this opening, Bartimaeus doesn't hesitate to take the steps necessary to get him where he needs ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Tampa, Florida pastor James A. Harnish remembers his first lesson in riding his bike. "We lived 'on the other side of the tracks,'" Harnish says, "and they showed me a railroad sign that said: Stop, Look, Listen, Go." Harnish suggests that these four instructions are a good way to think about living life. Stop. Now and then . . . we need to stop the frantic rush and fury of our lives and be still to know the presence of God. Look. If we want to experience God's presence in the unexpected places of our lives ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... and signs letting people like me know how close I had come to that roadside Mecca. These signs don't tell you why you should stop. You're supposed to stop and see the place just to say you have. You don't need anything at Wall Drug. You don't even know what Wall Drug ... relationship with this heaven-sent Son of Man, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God? God's greatest gift to us was to stop sending signs and instead send us God's Son. Maybe you're peering into a microscope to decipher the secret workings of ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... highway, however, the elevation rose rapidly and good ol' Oregon drizzle transformed into swirling snowflakes. Tom was in his big pickup, so he kept going. But the snow kept coming. Soon Tom found himself in the middle of a blizzard whiteout. Forced to pull over, Tom stopped for the rest of the day. By nightfall his pickup was a slightly discernible lump of white in a vast landscape of snow. Still Tom wasn't terribly worried. He was in his big pickup Soon the road-clearing crews would be along and would ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... practices they endured. They focused on the hope of going home. But then Christmas came and went with no rescue. A few prisoners committed suicide. Then a few more. And still more. Some people didn’t take their own lives. They just stopped getting out of bed. They stopped eating. And one morning, they simply didn’t wake up. It was as if they had willed themselves to die. Six months later, when Allied soldiers took over Frankl’s camp and liberated the prisoners, they found that almost half of the ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... the good news! I can’t tell you how reassuring it is to me to know that there is nothing I can do to make God stop loving me. And there is nothing I can do to make God love me more than He already does. God’s love is constant, unwavering, and ... His yoke upon you and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly of heat, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” The music stopped and the two students got up to leave. The young man again turned to the woman and said: “I really don’t believe it, but every time ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... spirits and weak and ineffective human beings! Of course, difficulties in and of themselves do not produce positive results. We all know people who have allowed the painful experiences of life to make them bitter or so discouraged that they give up and stop trying. Everything depends upon what we do with the difficulties which are a normal part of life. The “Why me?” question isn’t helpful. Resentment doesn’t do us any good. Mere stoic acceptance is no better. The best answer is the Christian ...
622. It's My Life, Isn't It?
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Sermon
James McCormick
... them. Or we can make of them something useful and noble. We can do with our lives whatever we please. And no one has any power to stop us. We are free! Do you know what a gift that is? And what a responsibility? God has created you to be a special, unique individual. In ... on the radio when I want to adjust the temperature? Why can’t I do it like that?” Well, you can. No-one’s stopping you. You can do with your car whatever you please. But if you choose to use it like that, don’t be surprised when ...
623. Choose Life
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Sermon
James W. Moore
... a day at hard labor. He was existing on a starvation diet. He had become gravely ill. The doctors were predicting his death… and frankly, he didn’t care whether he lived or died. One afternoon, while shoveling sand under a blazing sun, he simply stopped working. He did so knowing that the guards would beat him severely – perhaps to death. But, he didn’t care anymore. He felt that he just could not go on. But, then he saw another prisoner, a fellow Christian, moving toward him cautiously. With his ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... . So, that night, Christopher became Jay. That was his new name and that was the beginning of the turnaround in this young man’s life. At last, he felt like he belonged… because of the Christ-like grace and love and compassion of his new family. He stopped looking back over his shoulders and moved forward to become a new person in Christ… and today Jay is all grown up and he is as fine a Christian gentleman as you would ever want to meet. The point is clear: Focus forward, lean forward, move forward ...
625. A Renewal of Faith
Matthew 28:16-20
Illustration
Mark Trotter
Christopher Parkening is a concert guitarist. At age 30, he was at the top of his profession. His concert schedule booked years in advance. His CD's were best sellers. And then it all stopped. For three years he just disappeared. He stopped recording. He stopped performing. He said he was burned out. He did what all of us, I think, have been tempted to do from time to time in our life. He just chucked it all and went away. He had resources sufficient enough to buy a little ranch up in Montana, with a ...
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