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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Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... trying to do every day what Jesus would do. III. WE ARE HERE TO SERVE THE WORLD. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. He had a dream that one day his four children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. With this faith he believed people could turn the mountain of despair into the mountain of ...
Sermon
Charles L. Aaron
... child begins to develop some skill at music. Maybe the child hears a song on the radio and learns to play that song. A turning point occurs. After years of strong-arm tactics, the child begins to practice without scolding. The day finally arrives when the child sits down to play because making music brings joy. If we are able to see Jesus' word here about judgment, prison, and the hell of fire in the context of grace, maybe we can see Jesus motivating us to a life of obedience. Impulses such as anger and ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... , that if you start cursing and swearing when Pastor Alice is here, I will put you in the freezer until she leaves," warned Jenny. "Okay, okay, I'll be quiet; I'll be good, I promise," pledged the parrot. Pastor Alice did not even sit down before the parrot began spewing forth foul language. With a loud sigh, Jenny grabbed the parrot and tossed it into the freezer beside the frozen turkey she was saving for Thanksgiving dinner. Meanwhile, Pastor Alice stayed much longer than Jenny expected. When the pastor ...
Sermon
Mary S. Lautensleger
... ?"3 Communication is a key factor in conflict resolution, and it begins with confrontation. That’s the hard part, the part we try to avoid. It is so much easier for Euodia to gather some sympathetic friends and gripe to them rather than to sit down with Syntyche and try to resolve the problem. If Syntyche does the same thing, grumbling to others about Euodia, the church at Philippi soon will have two warring factions with the potential of polarizing the congregation. Pastor Paul would advise us to go to ...
730. Heaven's Chocolate Cake
Lk 20:27-38
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Michael P. Green
There are a lot question the Bible doesn't answer about the Hereafter. But I think one reason is illustrated by the story of a boy sitting down to a bowl of spinach when there's a chocolate cake at the end of the table. He's going to have a rough time eating that spinach when his eyes are on that cake. And if the lord had explained everything to us about what's ours to come, I think we'd have a rough time with our spinach down here.
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... .” When defending the legitimacy of her election, King Peggy held up her communities own rules to her dissenters: “I’m in the State, I’m a woman, and in the rituals with the ancestors you chose me in the name of God, so shut up and sit down.” “King Peggy” was not what most of the Otuam villagers expected as their new, duly-anointed, king. She didn’t come from the established elite power circle. She was a she. She was an outsider—even though she came from their village. Some of her first ...
732. Matthew 28:1-10
Matthew 28:1-10
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... just as the women arrive at the tomb. This second earthquake signals the arrival of a divine being, “an angel of the Lord.” This muscular visitor, not the earthquake, rolls the stone away from the mouth of the tomb, then nonchalantly sits down upon it. Matthew’s description of this being as “like lightening” and “white as snow” re-enforces the clearly angelic identity of this visitor. The guards, so carefully installed by Pilate, prove to be utterly powerless before this angelic being. They ...
Sermon
Robert J. Elder
... one week to find that the other teacher had called in sick. The youngsters in his class seemed especially filled with mischief, and seeking to cast out that demon during the course of the hour, Bill found himself yelling at them repeatedly, "Shut up over there!" and "Sit down right now or I'll send you out of the room," and "I don't want to have to tell your parents how you have been behaving!" and other such casting-out-demons epithets. Toward the end of what had seemed like an endless hour, Bill decided ...
Drama
Arley K. Fadness
... Jarah: You think our God Yahweh has deserted us? Eshmore: Feels like it. Jarah: We need a leader to get us out of here — you think there’s any hope? Eshmore: Dunno. I suppose God could do something —maybe will. What are you doing, Jarah? Jarah: (sits down and plays a stringed instrument) When I am sad and discouraged, I sing. I sing a sad song. (hums) Gotta watch out for Pharaoh’s goons, though. Eshmore: Jarah, your song sounds like a lament. Jarah: It is. Eshmore: What are the words? Jarah: (strums ...
Drama
Arley K. Fadness
... good to see you! Come on in. My goodness — you’re out of breath — have you been running? Is there a problem? Mary: Oh, no problem — well, maybe. Hello, sweet Elizabeth. Yes, I’ve been running. Running, walking, catching rides, and here I am. Elizabeth: Sit down, dear. Rest. Zach, get some water. Tell me, Mary, what’s happening? Mary: Oh, a most unusual thing happened to me. I had an apparition or maybe it was a dream. Whatever it was — it was real. I, I ... Elizabeth: (interrupts) Go on, Mary ...
736. Discipline: An Unfinished Mind
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... poetic gift but one the gift of sustained and concentrated effort." In his head and in his mind he had all kinds of books, as he said, "completed save for transcription." But the books were never composed outside of Coleridge's mind, because he would not face the discipline of sitting down to write them out. No one ever reached any eminence, and no one having reached it ever maintained it, without discipline.
737. Don't Wait Too Late
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Staff
... parent fails to communicate at the very earliest of ages. We give her designer clothes and computer toys, but we do not give her what she wants the most, which is our time. Now, she is fifteen and has a glassy look in her eyes. Honey, do we need to sit down and talk? Too late. Love has passed by." The person who wrote these words was Robert Keeshan, better known to America as Captain Kangaroo.
738. Winning the Debate
Humor Illustration
The high school debater stepped confidently to the podium, spread out a raft of notes, cleared her throat and prepared to present the affirmative of the topic: "Modern Education Doesn't Meet the Needs of the Day." As she stared intently at her notes, however, bewilderment spread over her face. "I'm sorry," she finally stammered, "I've got it all written down here, but darned if I can read it." "Sit down, young lady," offered an elderly member of the audience. "You've won the debate."
739. How To Play the Game...of Life
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Staff
... of time her grandson was slammed. He was bankrupt and the game was over. Eric asked Grandma if she wanted to play again? She said, "Son, you need to learn how to play the game. When you have learned how to play the game, you come back and we will sit down and play." That really motivated this little fellow. He decided that he was going to learn to play the game. He went home and persuaded Mom to buy him a game of Monopoly. He asked Dad to read and explain the rules. He began playing the game all on his ...
740. Laws of Probability
Humor Illustration
... the performance or the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies and stay to the bitter end of the performance. The aisle people also are very surly folk. The Coffee Law - As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. Murphy's Law of Lockers - If there are only 2 people in an entire locker room, they will have adjacent lockers. Law of Physical Surfaces - The ...
741. Where's that squirrel?
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Staff
... says, "Here, squirrel, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!" Now, the old German Shepherd sees the panther coming with the squirrel on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?," but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old German Shepherd says, "Where's that squirrel? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another panther!" Moral of this story - Don ...
742. Around the Family Table
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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King Duncan
... is something about breaking bead with someone that cuts across the divides that normally separate us. This is why writer Will Willimon says that segregationists in the Old South were smart. They knew they had to keep blacks away from lunch counters because when you sit down to eat with someone, even at a lunch counter, you’ve got to admit they’re human beings. (5) Max Lucado in his book Outlive Your Life tells about his friend Buckner Fanning who was a marine in World War II. Fanning was stationed in ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to church. But how can I recover that joy?” His pastor said, “This is what you should do: go to the store and buy a big basketful of groceries and go to an address of a poor family I will give you. Then when you have given your gift, you sit down with them to find out what they need. Let them know that you are interested in them and that you are their friend. Then lead them in the Lord’s Prayer before you leave, and your joy will be restored.” And that is what he did. And it worked. Radical ...
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James Merritt
... -E-R. If he were here he would give everybody a dollar.” The third kid stood up and his name was Jimmy. He said, “ My dad is an obstetrician.” He tried several times to spell the word, but he just couldn’t do it. Finally, the teacher asked him to sit down and think about it while she called on someone else, so she called on a kid named John. He said, “My dad is a bookie. B-O-O-K-I-E. If he were here he would lay you 10-to-1 that Jimmy ain’t never going to spell ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , “Hogwash, hogwash, hogwash!” Actually that’s not the term he used. It’s a more polite paraphrase of a common expletive. This totally unhinged the young pastor. He was stricken speechless. All he could do was to put away his notes, close his Bible, say “Amen” and sit down. (1) Well clearly the deceased was not a saint--not, at least, in the way we normally think of a saint. Let’s reflect for a few moments on what it takes to be a saint as we look at our text for this All Saints’ Day from ...
746. Submission to Authority
Humor Illustration
Michael P. Green
A little boy finally sat down after first resisting his parents’ command to do so. He said to his parents, “I’m sitting down on the outside, but I’m standing up on the inside.”
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... 20), pointing to the perfect or complete work of God in the miracle. Joel Marcus calls this a “connotation of eschatological fullness, which derives from the root images of the twelve tribes of Israel and the seven days of creation.”3 8:6  sit down on the ground. In 6:39 there was a military connotation (“groups of hundreds and fifties”) of the messianic army feasting with their Messiah. Here the central motif is Greco-Roman (followed by theJews at festivals), that of reclining at a banquet. When ...
Teach the Text
Joe M. Sprinkle
... to pay respects. There is the first time we dial the person’s phone number, forgetting that he or she will not be on the other end. There is the first Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day, birthday. One of the moments many people remember is sitting down with a lawyer, and perhaps with other family members, and hearing the reading of the last will and testament. In that moment, what remains of the loved one’s possessions is distributed. In passing, this person seeks to give us a final blessing. As ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... people who habitually disobey the king’s laws (3:8). Convinced by Haman’s arguments, the king condemns the entire Jewish population of the kingdom to death. After the decree is sent out to all the provinces, the king and Haman sit down in the palace to celebrate the event. Meanwhile outside the palace, the mood grows somber, and the inhabitants of Susa become confused and mystified by the sudden news of the impending “final solution” (3:15). The Hebrew word translated “confused” (nabokah ...
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... response, undoubtedly tinged with some skepticism, was, We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish. Bread and fish were basic to the diet of the poor of that day. 14:18–21 The bread was brought to Jesus, who then told the people to sit down on the grass. It is Mark who adds the colorful note that they sat in prasiai (“garden beds”) of hundreds and fifties (Mark 6:40). He also indicates that the grass was “green,” which suggests springtime (Mark 6:39). Jesus took the loaves and fish and ...
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