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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King Duncan
... up and head out for a weekend, just to clear their heads. And some people spend hours, even weeks, obsessing over the perfect trip. But we all share one thing in common: we come home from vacation worn out and needing a few days to recover from our time off. Of course, a few of us can’t plan a normal vacation. Recently I read about a fascinating travel company called Black Tomato that offers a very special kind of vacation package. It’s called a “Get Lost” tour. For a very large amount of money, you ...
52. Leaping For Joy
Malachi 4:1-6
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Richard Hasler
... to someone that all we do is have a good time. I am not convinced that partying is a bad thing. After all, we have labored, struggled and sacrificed in order to see our new church take shape. It has been good for all of us to take time off periodically to laugh, to feast and to enjoy each other’s company. Such thoughts bring us to our scriptural passage for the day in the book of Malachi. The prophet is speaking to his people who have become discouraged. They have begun to question the wisdom that other ...
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John N. Brittain
... really produce results. But to those who worked with him closely, he was also known as an individual with little patience who could fly into a rage over seemingly trivial matters. It got to the point that some subordinates who really cared about him suggested he take time off or move into a position with less self-created tension. He refused, feeling he had important work to do, and within six months was dead of a stroke, suffered when he had gone into one of his fits. None of us is in a position to judge ...
54. Give Me A Break!
Matthew 11:25-30
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Larry Goodpaster
... her limited moving ability, she replied: “my feet are tired; but my soul is rested.” That’s the rest of the cause of righteousness and justice being lived out. Are you tired? Exhausted? Burned out? Do you need a break? What we really need is not time off nor time away. Rather what we need is time that is filled with meaning and purpose, that is saturated with the grace of God. What we need, according to this wonderful gospel paradox, is a different burden: the yoke of Christ. To be yoked with him, to ...
Sermon
George Bass
... before, but I have to do this." And so she was arrested a second time in the fall of 1983, sentenced to ten days in the county workhouse, but the sentence was not suspended this time; she went to jail and was imprisoned for seven of the ten days, with time off for good behavior. She still intends to witness for peace and nuclear disarmament, but insists, "I do not want to go to jail again." She has been enough of a martyr, as it is, and that is more than most of us, in the name of Christ and our fellow ...
56. Ash Wednesday
Psalm 51:1-17, Joel 2:1-2, 12-17, Matthew 6:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Bulletin Aid
Julia Ross Strope
Note: This service is an abbreviated order so that people who are taking time from work can stay within their allotted time off. Also, the whole service is somber, including the music, so it ought not be too long. Call To Worship (During Lent, count the Sundays with a candelabrum holding six purple candles and one white candle. For Ash Wednesday, light these candles during the Call To Worship.) Leader: Today is Ash ...
57. God Cries with Us
John 9:1-12
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Ken Griffin
... man place the girl onto the table so they could saw it off before she died from her bleeding wound. Lewis told of the excruciating pain in the father's eyes as he laid his daughter onto that bloody table and pried her little hands off, one finger at a time off of his coat sleeve, about how that father with all love and tears flowing held her down to this table, this torture while she screamed in pain and agony as the doctor cut away at muscles and bones and flesh, so that she might have life. God loves us ...
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Brett Blair
... you it is a reminder that hard work is required. II Secondly, when everyone is searching for you, you should remember not to let others define your goal. How do we work hard and keep it from killing us? I think the obvious answer is to take some time off and some time away from the work. This is obvious and I hope you do take vacations. There is, however, other ways of combating fatigue. Look at this very short and subtle exchange between Simon Peter and Jesus. Simon has just come from his mother-in-law’s ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... called “City Lights.” The rest is country music history. His name was Bill Anderson. An Episcopalian minister in Boston worked himself to near exhaustion. He was on the verge of a complete breakdown. He was greatly depressed and almost gave up in despair. But, he took some time off and went away on a trip. He traveled to a place where he had never been before. He saw the lights of a small town, walked along its streets, and in those lights he found hope again. He wrote a song which has in it these words ...
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... So that you could make more money and buy more boats." "But why do I need more boats?" "So that you can have other people do your fishing for you." "And why would I want to have other people do my fishing for me?" "So that you could take time off, go to some exotic place for vacation, spend time with your wife and children ... oh!" and the businessman walked away reevaluating his own life while the fish­erman took his catch to market and spent the rest of his day with his family. Jesus said that where our ...
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Richard Hasler
... book. It is John 24: “Verily, verily I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (KJV) Eugene Peterson, pastor, scholar, and translator, took time off from his pastoral schedule as a young mission pastor in Maryland to study the writings of Dostoevsky in depth, and he wrote of this experience with perception. Dostoevsky had a troubled personal life. His marriage was in shambles. He gambled compulsively. His epilepsy ...
Children's Sermon
... it? (Let them respond.) It's summer! Do you go to school every day in the summer? (Let them respond.) No, it's summer vacation. What are we taking a vacation from? (Let them respond.) That's right, we take a vacation from school and work because we need some time off to rest and relax. It's nice not to have to get up quite so early. You can do fun things that you don't have time to do during the rest of the year. I brought an apple today. Apples remind me of school because in the olden days ...
63. Give Yourself Some Slack
Genesis 2:3
Illustration
... . Aesop explained, "If you keep a bow always bent, it will break eventually; but if you let it go slack, it will be more fit for use when you want it." People are also like that. That's why we all need to take time to rest. Jesus prescribed time off for His wearied disciples after they had returned from a prolonged period of ministry. And in the Old Testament, God set a pattern for us when He "rested from all His work" (Gen.2:3). Shouldn't we take His example seriously? Start by setting aside a special time ...
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Rick McCracken-Bennett
... a six-day break from the narrative. Again, we don't know why but let me propose a possible reason. After such harsh words to Peter, and describing the sacrifices that would have to be made by anyone wanting to follow him, Jesus gave them a little time off to process what he had taught them to this point. Peter probably needed to lick his wounds and put himself back together to begin to save face with the others. Members of the crowd had some decisions to make. They had probably heard what Jesus had taught ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... to be ever vigilant in our fight against this wide and complex conspiracy, this year, Christmas is winning the war, or at least some important battles, by a very small but significant margin. This margin does not consist of the fact that people are given time off from work and schools are dismissed so we Christians can celebrate our favorite holiday. Neither is it evidenced in the stretching of the Christmas season all the way back to mid-October. It is not to be found in the silly red hats that retail ...
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Will Willimon
... such pastimes as marriage and parenting, Jesus scandalized folk in his day in speaking of God as ''Father.'' John's familial metaphors calling God parent, naming us as God's children, are full of irony in our context. A Houston Oilers player took time off to be present for the birth of his first child. Coach Bob Young severely fined the player. And that story reminded us of our culture's ambivalence toward parenting. Last April, in The Atlantic, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published a bombshell of an article ...
67. Step Ten - Perseverance
Lk 12:35-48 · 1 Cor 10:1-13 · Ps 15:1-5
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John A. Terry
... have something about which to feel good. It has been a long, difficult journey, so we are going to coast. If I knew the judgment were coming today, I would get ready. But it has been so long delayed, I am going to rest a bit. I will take some time off from what I know is right. But God does not let us get away with that so easily. We have a wonderful, awful burden. We have heard the warning of Paul. We know what is required. We have heard the gospel read. We know what is required. We have heard ...
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King Duncan
... as a wind is born to movement. After all, if tenderness were rare instead of normal, wouldn’t the newspapers give it headlines? MOTHER CHERISHES FAMILYBLIND PERSON HELPED ACROSS STREETPRISONERS VISITEDDESTITUTE PEOPLE CARED FORBOY SHARES HIS LUNCH WITH PUPPYBUSY SCHOOLGIRL TAKES TIME OFF TO TEACH FATHER HOPSCOTCHand on and on. But such events are not news; they are as common and as beautiful as dandelions." You don’t have to be a believer to be kind. When Henry James, the great American novelist, was ...
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Timothy J. Smith
... is feeling. The last thing Reverend Emmett tells Ian is, "It's the religion of atonement and complete forgiveness. It's the religion of the Second Chance." Ian goes home and tells his parents of his conversation with Reverend Emmett and his decision to take some time off from college to help with the family. "I don't understand," his mother says. "No one in his right mind would approve," his father tells him. "What in the name of God...?" his mother exclaims. "Well, that's just it," Ian says, "I mean, I don ...
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Thomas Slavens
... and pray that You will help us to love them as ourselves. Free us from over-conscientiousness that mars our own enjoyment of our work and also that of those with whom we work. May we work in a relaxed atmosphere. Give us wisdom to take time off for rest and relaxation. May we build an equitable society in which all may receive the due rewards of their labor. Help us to apply the principles of the prophets in an industrial society. Bless both employers and employees that all may have an adequate standard ...
Children's Sermon
Erskine White
... your older brother got a new bike and you got the one he used to have. Now let me ask you: have you ever told your parents when you are happy about something? Did you tell them you liked the dinner they cooked, or you appreciated the way they took time off from work to see your school play? When you have a wonderful day at school, or when everything just seems to be going right for you, do you come home and tell your parents all about it? I’ll bet you are much quicker to tell your parents when you ...
72. The Coffee Break
Matthew 20:1-16
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Brett Blair
... and 4:00 in the afternoon and give us some coffee and tea". So, he started these work breaks and overnight their productivity and efficiency goes up, quality control went up, so he institutes the Coffee Break. Think about it. Your employer gives you a drug and then gives you time off in which to ingest it. Why would they do that? Because it contributes mightily to productivity. The coffee break may seem like it’s something your boss is giving you but it’s a way to extract more value from you.
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Maxie Dunnam
... blood of the Passover lamb identifying them as those who had heard God’s call and were faithful. Somewhere along the way I heard about the building of a lighthouse on a remote stretch of the coast up in Alaska. A couple of Eskimos took time off from seal hunting to serve as “sidewalk superintendents”. They were there when the project started, watched every step of its construction, and were present the day it was put into full operation. That night a heavy fog blew in. One Eskimo turned to the other ...
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale
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