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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851. Missed Opportunities
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... project myself. But it will take all my money. But the land bordering it, where we're standing now, will in just a couple of years be jammed with hotels and restaurants and convention halls to accommodate the people who will come to spend their entire vacation here at my park." He continued, "I want you to have the first chance at this surrounding acreage, because in the next five years it will increase in value several hundred times." "What could I say? I knew he was wrong," Arthur tells the story today ...
852. Write Back!
Humor Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
As the mother said good-bye to her son who was returning to school after spring vacation, she reminded him to write often. Another woman standing nearby heard the plea and gave this advice: "The surest way to get your son to write home is to send him a letter saying, 'Here's fifty dollars, spend it any way you like."' "And that will make my son write home?" "Yes indeed. You forget to enclose the money."
Sermon
King Duncan
... with your head, it’s another for that belief to take residence in your heart. That only happens when you are actively practicing what you preach. Pastor Fred Craddock tells of ministering at a church where the young people were accustomed to going on nice vacations over their summer break from school. Their families gave them everything; they didn’t have to work. So imagine their surprise when their new pastor suggested that they go on a work trip for their spring break. He sent them to a poor, rural ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... cloth in the trunk of his car, wondering what he was going to do with it. A couple of weeks later, this same coach was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama—the home of the Crimson Tide—arch enemies of the Tennessee Vols. He was on his way to the coast for a vacation. Driving down the main street in Tuscaloosa, he noticed a tailor shop, which reminded him that he had that bolt of cloth in the trunk. He stopped, thinking he would give it a try. He told the tailor he had bought this bolt of cloth and wondered if he ...
855. Preparing the Way
Matthew 11:2-11
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... on television where a man was working late one night in his office and the cleaning lady came in. She was one of those whiny, complaining people you try to be nice to and who make you immediately sorry you tried. He asked her how her recent vacation went and was immediately sorry as she launched into a long story about how she went on a safari in Africa and how everything went wrong. The food, the accommodations, the guide, the weather — it was all terrible — right up to the point where she was taking ...
856. Campground Commode
Illustration
King Duncan
There was a rather old-fashioned lady who was planning a couple of weeks vacation in Florida. She also was quite delicate and elegant with her language. She wrote a letter to a particular campground and asked for reservations. She wanted to make sure the campground was fully equipped but didn’t know quite how to ask about the “toilet” facilities. She just couldn’t ...
857. The Accidental Letter
Illustration
King Duncan
Pastor Brad Bailey tells about an Illinois man who left Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him the next day. When he reached his hotel he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’” That’s the task of every follower of Christ. There is a delightful story about a young Asian girl named Yi (pronounced “Yee”). Yi first heard this verse at a Vacation Bible School, but she heard it in the King James Version, which begins like this, “Go YE therefore, and teach all nations.” Yi didn’t understand that in King James English, the word “ye” just means “you.” This young Asian girl thought her name was ...
Sermon
Arley K. Fadness
... you may love one another." Friends in Christ, Recently, we heard the news of a Chicago couple who left their two little girls home alone for nine days -- unsupervised and uncared for. And the Chicago couple seemed surprised to be arrested upon their return from a vacation in Mexico. This story was a disturbing version of the hit movie Home Alone. We laughed at the box office hit, but the movie failed to portray the frightening side of it. It's not very fun to be left home alone, or isolated, ignored, or ...
Sermon
David & Marian Plant
... or tickets in hand, refugees were sometimes simply loaded onto the boats, put out to sea, and told to sail “that way” and they’d reach Greece. One NPR segment included a conversation between NPR host Melissa Block and her husband’s cousin who was vacationing on a tiny Greek island. The cousin, Maria, explained that one of the first questions the refugees asked upon landing was “Where are we?” They were quickly assured they were safe, they were free; this was part of Greece, and no one was going ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... , William Booth, greeted everyone with something other than “How are you?” He asked this, and taught his followers to greet each other on the street with this question: “Are you still burning?” [You might want to lead your congregation in the Vacation Bible School song, “Give me oil, in my lamp, keep me burning . . . “] Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Temptations in the Wilderness Minor Text Genesis 32: 22-32 (Jacob [Israel] wrestles with God) Deuteronomy 4 ...
862. Stop Talking and Start Walking
Luke 24:13-35, Luke 24:36-49
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... take direction from us and cater to our every need. We have lost our ability to trust in the authority of someone else’s direction. Perhaps we could say, we’ve always had a bit of a problem asking for direction. How many of us have been on that vacation trip, have taken a wrong turn, and have avoided stopping to ask directions at any cost?! We’d rather pore over our maps and trust in our own ability to get ourselves from point A to point B than to come into relationship with someone else and ask for ...
863. Raison d’Etre
Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... Israel from Gaza, Israel shells Gaza and four Palestinian teens playing soccer on the beach are killed. Escalation after escalation occurs until the death toll from both sides reached beyond 500. In Ukraine, an airliner was carrying 300 passengers and crew to vacations, sporting events, and conferences was shot down by a Russian made anti-aircraft rocket and all aboard were killed. We could go on, could we not? Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, there are no shortage of stages upon which human ...
864. Look At Your Fixations!
Deuteronomy 26:1-15
Sermon
Carl Jech
... because there is no doubt about what to do with one's life - the overriding talent is all-controlling and what the person must do is also what the person most wants to do. We have good habits - such as getting regular exercise, worshiping, taking vacations, brushing our teeth, getting a good night's sleep - habits that somebody at some point might call an addiction or a fixation, but that we know are good for us. There isn't even anything necessarily wrong with being an "exercise nut." Certainly a fixation ...
865. You're Watching What?
Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30
Sermon
King Duncan
... breathe in the “positive-ionization-filtered air.” The owners of the store advertise it as “an enjoyable escape from the fast-paced lifestyle.” (4) Some people probably find that helpful. However, rest for our souls is not the same thing as a nap, or a vacation, or breathing in positive-ionization-filtered air while gazing at a fake waterfall. It’s not a temporary respite from our stress. Rest for our souls is a re-orientation of our values and perceptions of life to match up with the values and ...
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Anonymous
If we could only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.
Eileen Stukane
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
Rodney Dangerfield
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin
When we can't get away for a vacation, we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.
Susie Spanos
872. Genius, On The Spot
Matthew 16:13-20
Illustration
Brett Blair
... band of all time. I won't argue that. But Band On The Run was arguably the greatest album made by either John, Paul, George and Ringo, after their breakup. One of the non-hits on the album has a great story behind it. McCartney was vacationing in Montego Bay, Jamaica where he "snuck" onto the set of the film Papillon where he met Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. That evening Hoffman and McCartney went out to dinner. While McCartney was playing around on guitar, Hoffman wondered whether it was true, the ...
873. Caesar or God?
Matthew 22:15-22
Sermon
King Duncan
... a concrete way. Pastor W.A. Criswell told the story of a man who was asked, “What did you do yesterday?” The man said that yesterday he taught a class in a church college. On Tuesday, he was down in the Rio Grande Valley working in a Vacation Bible School. On Wednesday, he was operating in a church hospital in Nigeria. On Thursday, he was teaching the Word of God in the Amazon jungle. On Friday, he was building a church house in the Philippines. On Saturday, he was preaching in Tokyo, Japan. The friend ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... driven by challenge, not by gifts. And we measure our worth largely not by who we are and our relationships, but by what we have and what we’ve gained. This isn’t limited to our jobs. It’s the same paradigm we follow in our education, in our vacations, in our community politics, yes even in our churches and our faith. Think about it. How many of you have been loyal, long-term church members for over 30 or 40 years? I know some of you have. Not perhaps all in this church. But you’ve been raised ...
Humor
Our congregation offered to send their beloved pastor on a six-month vacation. He declined saying: "On the one hand, I am afraid that such a long absence might affect attendance in worship. On the other hand, I am afraid that my absence might not affect attendance in worship."
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