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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51. Jesus and Beelzebub
Matthew 12:22-37
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... expresses what a person is really like. No amount of religious pretension can conceal that those who have aligned themselves against Jesus are basically evil. On the day of judgment people will have to account for every idle word they have spoken (v. 36). The Greek argos (“idle”) is a compound that means “produce nothing” (ergon, “a deed,” and a, an alpha privitive). A careless word is one that would have been better left unspoken. Offhand remarks serve the purpose of judgment in that they ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... fulfilling prophecy. Rumors fly that the country is running out of toilet paper and, because of the fear engendered by the rumor, people start buying it up and soon the country nearly does run out of toilet paper. Sometimes, however, the power of idle rumors can have much more tragic consequences. The late columnist and author Nell Mohney was for many years a popular religion writer for the Chattanooga, (TN) Times-Free Press. In her columns Ms. Mohney related many moving stories from her personal experience ...
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddhist Proverb
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
Socrates
Sermon
Douglas J. Deuel
... challenge for Jesus' followers, then, is "What shall we do in the meantime?" Just what is expected of Jesus' supporters as they await his return? The answer is found in verse 8: "You shall be my witnesses" (Acts 1:8). Jesus' followers were not to pass time idly waiting for his return. Their call was to spread the good news of how Jesus had transformed their lives. It would be unlikely that many people at this time would not have heard of Jesus. Yet, it is highly probable that people were not fully aware of ...
56. A Shroud Unto Life
Luke 24:1-12
Illustration
Richard A. Jensen
... wrapped in the shrouds of death to bring new life and hope to the world." Sacks of life had become shrouds of death. What if a shroud of death became a garment of life? Would anyone believe such a story? Or would the world pass it off as just an idle tale?"
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... saying and bring all its \nmeaning to light. \nTALULIAS: Which way? Lead the way to the leader who brings \ndestruction on all of Philip's brood. \nALEXANDER: Do not, O prophet, think that your venerable age \nprotects you from being prosecuted for the idle utterances of \nyour mouth. \nTALULIAS: I need no such protection. The utterances of my mouth \nare true and will be proven so. \nALEXANDER: Upon your own oath be it said. What is necessary to \nrid the city of this horrendous plague? \nTALULIAS: You ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... the church as body, life-blood and skeletal bone. The kingdom of God is materialistic. It's waiting for your material -- your body, your brain, your energetic life-blood, your strong support. It has little to do with jelly-fish day dreams, idle thought or vain imagination. The kingdom coming has to do with reality -- reality in all its dimensions, physical and spiritual. One time a leading citizen of the community was selling season symphony tickets to his business friends, soliciting their support. One ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... to say that the church has no important functions within itself. It most surely has. But it is to say that this is not the only function the church has. Outreach must be an increasingly important activity as well as inreach. Exhaust as well as intake. Nor can we sit idling our engine in neutral all the time. We have to put this huge power plant of a church in gear so as to accomplish the work we are called to do. We do believe that it is the Spirit of God working with our spirits which empowers us for the ...
60. Advent 1
Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22
Sermon Aid
William E. Keeney
... Precis of the Parable Jesus uses apocalyptic images to encourage his disciples to persist in times of uncertainty. He uses the parable of the fig tree as a lesson about reading the signs of nature. They should not waste time, however, in idle speculation or perverted curiosity about when the end will come. Jesus purifies them from such misplaced efforts by assurance that they will experience his real presence and be redeemed. The disciples should not be unduly worried or burdened about what happens in ...
61. Proper 18
Psalm 139:1-24, Philemon 1:8-25, Philemon 1:1-7, Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, Luke 14:25-35
Sermon Aid
William E. Keeney
... , Indiana, was held up for a number of months because a connecting road could not be made. It was finally opened with an interchange at the location, but the exit ramps go nowhere except into a field. No one had calculated the costs for these roads and so they sit idle and unfinished."
Sermon
Glenn E. Ludwig
... two strange men who reminded them of Jesus' words and all giddy and giggly again as hope rushed in to find a home in their sorrowful hearts. And the disciples had trouble believing this wild story. In fact, they didn't believe it, dismissing it as an idle tale told by hysterical females in the midst of grief that was obviously too much for them to handle. Well, fortunately, the story doesn't end there either, for if it did we'd have the rational guys against those always irrational girls argument all over ...
Sermon Aid
Harold H. Lentz
... from legalism. His reply would surely have been, "If you can, go to church; if you cannot, do the best you can to honor God." Our Withered Hand How many people might as well have a withered hand because they do not use the ones they have? They sit idly by when they should be using their hands in Christian service. Some time ago a young woman was attacked by a knife-wielding man. She was at her door, in the darkness of night, in the courtyard of an apartment building. It was a summer night and windows were ...
64. Miracle Nine: Healing A Deaf-Mute
Mark 7:31-37, Mark 7:24-30
Sermon Aid
Harold H. Lentz
... on the use of hands as a therapeutic action. In response to the plea for help, Jesus went aside with the man who had been stone-deaf. As has been pointed out previously, leaving the crowd behind would separate Christ from those who came out of idle curiosity just to see a miracle performed. It has also been suggested that Christ stepped out of the sight and hearing of the crowd because his time for public acclaim had not yet arrived. At any rate, he performed the miracle in private. Apparently the man ...
65. Advent 1
Isaiah 63:7--64:12, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Psalm 80:1-19, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31
Sermon Aid
William E. Keeney
... . 31) In the midst of the uncertainty of history, the teachings of Jesus remain certain. 8. "That Day or Hour No One Knows." (v. 32) If even the angels and Jesus do not know the time of the Parousia, how much more should we not engage in idle speculation about it. 9. "Evening ... Midnight ... Cockcrow ... Dawn." (v. 35) The use of the divisions of time is according to Roman customs, also known to the Greeks. The night was divided into four parts by them as opposed to the Hebrew division into three parts. 10 ...
Sermon
Gerald Whetstone
... in the study of turtles." Paul had something to say to the Athenians about what held up the earth, and who created it. But he was anxious to move them beyond study and discussion into transforming their lives. For Paul, knowledge of God is not a matter of idle speculation, as it was discussed in much Greek philosophy. To know God is to have an active, dynamic relationship with him. To know God is more than to recognize him. It is to serve him, obey him, praise him, love him. In Hebrew, for a man to "know ...
Sermon
Gerald Whetstone
... the crowds that the disciples were not drunk, but that they were filled with the exuberance of the Spirit of God, and that though Jesus died on the cross, these disciples still served a living Lord! The narrow streets were filled with busy and idle people. Everyone had a reason to drift by or hurry past. Cheesemakers were setting up shop. Peddlers were plying their wares. Women were going to market. Children were chasing puppies in the streets. But many stopped and listened. And by the power of the Holy ...
68. Time Out
John 12:1-11
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... da Vinci, Antonio Vallenten tells of a time when the great artist was at work in Milan on his famous painting of the Last Supper. Da Vinci spent many hours meditating in the chapel of the monastery where he was working. The monks resented these "idle periods" and accused the artist of wasting time. But da Vinci defended these periods of reflection by saying, "When I pause the longest, I make the most telling strokes with my brush."2 3. A Place Of Spiritual Renewal Perhaps even more important than rest ...
Sermon Aid
William E. Keeney
... confront Sisera with assurance of God's support in the endeavor. The Second Lesson. (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11) Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be faithful while waiting for the Lord's coming. They are to avoid the dangers of laxity in guarding against idle and evil activities. They are to support each other in faith, love and hope of salvation through Christ. The Gospel. (Matthew 25:14-30) The parable is given to make the disciples aware of their accountability even when Jesus would no longer be present ...
70. Christ the King
Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46
Sermon Aid
William E. Keeney
... of the Shinkawa slums. Here ten thousand people were sardined into houses six feet square, more like prison cells than homes.... Their income averaged from twenty-five to fifty cents a day when work was available, but much time was spent in enforced idleness. The district swarmed with under-nourished children, covered from head to foot with scrofula and various kinds of skin diseases.... Day and night, disease of every description did its deadly work all over this area.... When once the young Kagawa found ...
71. Holy Love and Herod's Love
Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23
Sermon
Mark Radecke
... vision necessarily includes children conceived but not yet born. For others, the focus is on the already-born. Each of us and all of us collectively need to attend to the vision and act in a manner consistent with the vision God grants us. Sitting by idly while children perish is not a godly option. The birth of the Christ child, together with his inevitable violent death and glorious resurrection, has the power to free us from the deadly deception that is Herod's love, and free us for the living truth that ...
Sermon
Elaine M. Ward
... Nazarene carpenter who preached that the kingdom of God was at hand, "He is beside himself." What a foolish man! Later, the disciples dismissed the good news of the women who ran from the tomb, saying, "He is risen!" They called their news an "idle tale" told by foolish women! Even later, Christ's most persistent preacher, Paul, preached the cross "a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles." I know people who think in their hearts, "What fools these Christians be!" Yet it is from this foolish ...
Sermon
Alex Gondola
... God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made...." John 1:1, the words of the Creed: beautiful words! But can we trust them? Are they the Truth? Or are they just "idle words?" I believe they are the truth. They have been the truth for me, because "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14, RSV). The Gospels proclaim that Jesus was God Incarnate, God in the flesh, God "with skin on," God ...
Sermon
Robert R. Kopp
... . Most of us know what we are supposed to do and the importance of why we should do it. When it comes to moral or spiritual failure, as Christians, we cannot plead ignorance ... If I didn't fail because of ignorance, inability, or idleness, what caused my downfall? I think I know. I was too busy ... The secondary so absorbed us at PTL that we neglected the primary ... At PTL we were often engaged in great, stressful, straining trivialities. While not sinister or malicious, these secondary priorities ...
75. Tell Them
Acts 10:23b-48
Sermon
Rodney Thomas Smothe
... , that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again (Luke 24:5b-7). ... and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest .... But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened (Luke 24:9, 11-12). What astonishment, what awe, what wonder. What happened ...
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