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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51. Stay Focused!
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Eric Ritz
We sometimes miss the great opportunities of life because we get sidetracked. I once heard the tale of a talented and gifted bloodhound in England that started a hunt by chasing a full-grown male deer. During the chase a fox crossed his path, so he began now to chase the fox. A rabbit crossed his hunting path, so he began to chase the rabbit. After chasing the rabbit for a while, a tiny field mouse crossed his path, and he chased the mouse to the corner of a farmer's barn. The bloodhound had begun the hunt ...
52. Staying Ready
Luke 12:32-40
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Maxie Dunnam
There is praise here for the servant who is ready when the Lord returns, and He is going to return. We don't know when or how, but you can't read the New Testament faithfully and miss that message. Do you remember that hilarious scene in one of Peter DeVries' novels? A character named Stan Waltz is terrified by the deafening night-time explosion of a fireworks factory in the town. Persuaded by his wife, who belongs to a fundamentalist Christian sect, that it is the second coming of Christ, Stan hastily ...
53. How to Stay at the Top
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Staff
Stephen Stumph of N.Y. Univ's graduate School of Management, has identified six major skills needed at the top once you get there. They are: Having a vision. Executives must fashion a vision of what the company can be, champion that view and get employees behind it. Managing rivalry. A CEO should not try to eliminate competition between subordinates and sub-units entirely, because it can be positive. Thoroughly knowing the products, customers, and competition. Maintaining a consistent strategy. The best ...
54. Stay With It
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Earl Nightingale
We read about people who sail around the world in a thirty-foot sailboat or overcome handicaps to win a gold medal at the Olympics, and we later find their lives are stories of persistence. I remember well the day I sat down to write the first of my radio programs. That was more than twenty years ago, more than fifty- two hundred programs ago, the equivalent of thirty-six full-length books. Certainly, no world's record, but a good example of what persistence can do. When we see the tired faces of commuters ...
Drama
... . And I am only a few months pregnant. I will manage. And Lela and Susanna are old enough to help. We will do the best we can. Lydia: What about me? I want to help. Susanna: Help do what, Momma? Will we soon be there? How long will we be staying? I'm hungry. When are we going to eat? Can I ... Lydia: I'm hungry. Adam: Good grief, Susanna. Don't you ever think of anything but your stomach? And give them time to answer one question before you spout off with more. Joshua: Adam is right, Susanna. One question ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... with our Lord… and nothing can take the place of that.” That’s what this passage in John 15 is all about. Just a few days before the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus said to His disciples, “I am the vine, you are the branches.” In other words, “Stay connected to me and you will live and thrive and bear fruit. Apart from me, you will wither and die.” The Apostle Paul spoke about that in his writings. Let me paraphrase him like this: “I gave you a good foundation, Jesus Christ. You build on ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... — but in the wider sense, He is referring to the time when God’s summons enters a person’s life. So the text speaks to the whole of life, and that’s the way I want to look at it this morning. The need to stay awake — to stay alive and alert. I. First, we need to stay awake because we never know when we are going to be surprised by new possibilities. Most of us have lived long enough to know the unexpected will happen — we can count on it. I’ve certainly found it so in my own life. A certain ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... causes a lot of anticipation and apprehension for some. As we look at the passage I think it tells us to "GET ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, STAY READY." I. Get On Your Mark A. Use the clip "Good To Go" from Lumicon to set up this point. Do you remember the beginning of the ... at all the damage and then he looked up at the sky and said, "Now that is more like it." (3) That man was ready. And he stayed ready. He didn't know WHEN the storm was going to come, he just knew it was going to come. So, he was ready. We don't ...
Sermon
Ronald Lavin
... disappointments. Old Christians have had to come back to the Way many times. They are an inspiration to all of us because we all know how easy it is to get off the Way onto side roads leading nowhere. Dr. Sam Shoemaker helped many people get on the way and stay on the way. He summarized his life as standing by the door to the Way. He said that he was very concerned not to go too far into this Way because he was afraid that then he would forget those who are outside, but he was equally concerned that he ...
60. Coming Back Down
Matthew 17:1-13
Sermon
John Jamison
... them and fly away. It is quiet. No phone. No traffic. It is the area that Moses wandered for 40 years. I could do that. I could stay there. There was a day that I sat in the little green room at Decatur Memorial Hospital. I had just become a father. I sat in ... . Then, they looked at me. Only me. I am proud of my 12-year-old, but, I could go back to that room again. I could stay there. Or at the end of the aisle at the little church in Beardstown. Someone was singing some song and I stood there looking at my ...
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Thomas D. Peterson
... risk. Neither has any guarantee it will be the one thing to pull them out of their despondency. But, they have come to know if they stay as they are the ten inch leash can only guarantee a kind of death. Without movin’ around room they will die inside, if not all over. ... futile. What is harder than to let go? But Jesus stands before us and opens a new way for us to see. We know that to stay as we are is to court a kind of death of the spirit which will lead to death of the whole person. Accept the call of ...
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R. Robert Cueni
... your faith. You never know when God is going to confront you with a new idea and a new set of circumstances. When that happens, your faith can be stretched to such new limits it can never shrink back to the same size it was before. Stay hungry for God. Staying hungry now leaves us open to future possibilities. Develop a deep hungering for life. Remember this truth: the best time in your life is wherever you are right now. After all, today is the only day of your life over which you have any say. Therefore ...
Understanding Series
Michael S. Moore
... an ‘agûnâ is always a desperate one (b. Git. 3a; b. Yeb. 122b). There is no way of knowing whether Naomi has all this in mind, yet the fact that she raises the specter of ‘agûnâ-life at all seems calculated to convince these widows to stay in Moab and rebuild their lives. No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you. The versions disagree significantly on how to read this sentence. LXX, followed by RSV, ignores the comparison, reading “it is bitter to me for your sake.” Syriac concurs ...
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Lori Wagner
... awake to the goodness of God! He preached until well past midnight! Meanwhile, Eutychus couldn’t keep his eyes open or his spirit engaged despite the well-lit room! Just as where we choose to place our value has nothing to do with actual wealth and money, so too, staying spiritually awake and aware of God’s presence in our lives has nothing to do with how many lamps we keep lit in our homes! We want to follow Jesus. We want to keep our souls prepared for all that God has in store for us. Yet, we know ...
65. Out of the Box
Acts 11:1-18
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... us insecure, and rattle our sense of purpose in life. We live and think and act and coexist in community with those we believe share our values and views. The question is: Would we have the message of love and hope of Christ if Christ had stayed within the confines of his hometown? Would we be believers if those early proponents of the gospel had played it safe and never brought the Good News to people who were different? A great tragedy today is the spiritual waste and atrophy of churches. Churches die ...
66. Living By The Spirit
Galatians 5:16-25
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... specifics but there were really only three General Rules which he challenged all Methodists to live by. Bishop Rueben Job calls these the Wesleyan Way of Living. I like to think of them as a way to Live By The Spirit. Those rules are simple. Do No Harm! Do Good! Stay In Love With God! (1) Wesley said these three were evidence of our desire for salvation and continuation of our growth in the Spirit. Let's take a look at those three rules because they help us Live By The Spirit. I. DO NO HARM: A. First: Do No ...
67. The Knot: Tied
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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James Merritt
... it. If you mean it, you should say it a lot, because people forget. I believe there is one kind of love that will help people to stay in love after they fall in love. It is the kind of love that I believe is given by God and comes from God. It is found ... of love this is the kind of love that never fails. What we are going to find from this chapter is (Key Take Away): Real love stays in love. If this were the only time in the Bible that love was ever mentioned, we would know all about the kind of love that ...
68. Easter 3
1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Acts 2:42-47, Luke 24:13-35
Sermon Aid
Russell F. Anderson
... at the various means of receiving God's grace. First, through the mind, then through the heart ("Did not our hearts burn within us") (v. 32) and finally, the senses. Spend the night with us, Jesus. As they drew near their place of lodging, they begged Jesus: "Stay with us because it is almost evening and the day is nearly over" (v. 29). I always get choked up when I view the final scene from the movie, Jesus of Nazareth. The disciples are huddled around Jesus, like a brood of chicks under their mother's ...
69. Easter 5
John 15:1-17, Acts 8:26-40, Acts 9:19b-31, 1 John 4:7-21
Sermon Aid
Russell F. Anderson
... . Sermon Angle: The word abide seems as old-fashioned to our ears as thee or thou, though it is sometimes employed in legal affairs. Not only does this word sound old but its meaning seems old-fashioned to millions of moderns. Abide means to live, to stay, remain, continue, be faithful....Well, you get the drift. We're not into abiding these days. We're into rising to the top, we're into going places. The concept of abiding seems boring to modern ears. Yet how many hearts could have remained unbroken, how ...
Drama
Robert A. Morgan
... now, not too many people had ever moved away from where they had grown up and where their families had lived. Most men just stayed on in the same places, doing whatever their fathers before them had done. In our case, since I had no brothers, your grandfather asked ... and the animals won't mind, we're going to borrow the manger, put fresh straw in it, and let that be his little bed." I stayed for a few more minutes. Then I said, "I've got to go wake up Father and Mother and tell them about the baby!" Joseph ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... try to make the church a safe haven where we might find seclusion from the storms of life. But we aren’t supposed to stay in the church. We come to worship to get our spiritual batteries recharged, but then we are called to return to the fray. The ... God who is stationed in one place. In some ways, I think God is like a Methodist preacher: an itinerant who doesn’t stay in one place forever. Moments of high religious ecstasy are important, just as moments of intense emotion are important in a marriage, but ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... not right. It then gives us correction to tell us how to get right, and then it gives us instruction so we can know how to stay right. Suppose I have to drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Denver, Colorado to speak at a conference. Now to make sure I don't get lost ... map on the seat, points to it and says, "Now follow this and you won't go wrong." That's instruction; telling me how to stay right. You could do a lot of things that will help you along the road to spiritual maturity. But if you do not take time everyday ...
73. God IS In The Ordinary
Romans 12:1-2, 9-21
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... mission is John Wesley's "3 Simple Rules." It could be argued that there are three tools but they are so intricately woven together that they really form one tool. Those rules ARE simply to say but often hard to carry out. The rules are: "Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God." Let's look at the passage for today which, in Paul's way, talks about all three. Romans 12:1-2, 9-21 [1] I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... these two tourists were so focused on the Larry Bird sign that they didn't even notice when the real Larry Bird passed by. (4) Sometimes we get focused on the unimportant stuff of life and miss out on what's real and what's important. Paul tells us to stay focused on our relationship with God by singing Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Let's face it, if the words and tunes of Christian music are running through your head and heart instead of a litany of all the problems of the world or list of ways you've ...
75. The Reject
Luke 19:1-10
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James Merritt
... He climbed up in a (Sycamore tree) For the Lord he wanted to (see). And as the (Savior) passed that way He looked up (in that tree) And He said, (“Zacchaeus you come down!”) For I’m going to your house (today). For I’m going to your house (to stay). That song comes out of a story that we find in the Gospel of Luke [Turn to the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 19] The first two verses of this chapter clues us in to just how interesting this story is going to be. “He entered Jericho and was passing through ...
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