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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John G. Lynch
... Kill them," "rob them," "make war on them," or "blast them off the map." He said simply, "Leave them aside. Abandon them when they become a sinking ship for you. Let them go when they are a distraction in your battles. Only God will ever be your steady ship. Only God will lead you, like a general, free." It is so easy to be beguiled in all this. Family is so natural and the bonds are so strong. Family life, claiming energy, time, property and resources, sets the familiar and comfortable course. God's call ...
77. Proper 24
2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Luke 18:1-8
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John R. Brokhoff
... are a minister of Christ. Every member of the church is a minister to serve according to his/her ability and calling. Paul in the text challenges each to fulfill his/her ministry. Outline: How can one fulfill his/her ministry? a. Stick to it! "Always be steady." b. Tough it out! "Endure suffering." c. Speak up! "Do the work of an evangelist." WORSHIP RESOURCES Psalm Of The Day: Psalm 119:97-104 "O how I love your law!" (v. 97a) Prayer Of The Day: "Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed ...
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Steve Burt
... a snake. For what? An inheritance that might be a few bucks and two ugly lamps for his end tables? He thought about the job he had just quit. "It's not all that bad. Pays the rent, puts food on the table. It's backbreaking work, but it's steady. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought. And even if the inheritance money is enough to allow me to not work at a regular job while I create art, who says my art would be good? People might laugh at it." But instead of turning the car around ...
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Thomas Long
... nursing home whether Jimmie had lost his soul, the Sisters were outraged by the question. "Watch Jimmie in chapel," they said, "and judge for yourself." So Sacks did watch Jimmie in chapel, and there he observed an astounding transformation. He saw an intensity and steadiness in Jimmie that he had not observed before. As he received the sacrament, there was "perfect alignment of his spirit with the spirit of the Mass." There in worship, Jimmie was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible memory. "He ...
80. Epiphany 4
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12
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Russell F. Anderson
... he received a radical new concept of God? Could it not be that the Spirit of God enabled Micah to transcend the legalistic image of the Almighty with a more personal concept? Or, if not a sudden transformation, perhaps the prophet experienced a gradual but steady growth in his theology so that he came to see that loving and loyal relationships were what God required, not merely obeying the rules. With what shall I come before the Lord? (v. 6). Ever since the fall of humankind into sin, people have clung ...
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John A. Terry
... to my knees and asked the Spirit of Wisdom for guidance and direction. There were times I was tempted to flee from problems and pressures and my inability to cope with them; but somehow, even in moments of confusion and indecision, it seemed I could trace the steady hand of God's leading me on." 2 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." We all know these words. We could all probably say something about what they mean. I believe, however, there is a lot of doubt about these ...
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John A. Terry
... Blind "The meek are not those who never get angry, for such are insensible, but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry only when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitiveness, but not self-defense, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right." Theophylact "God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." Izaak Walton "Selfish men may possess the earth; it is the meek only who inherit it from the Heavenly Father, free from all ...
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John A. Terry
... to my knees and asked the Spirit of Wisdom for guidance and direction. There were times I was tempted to flee from problems and pressures and my inability to cope with them; but somehow, even in moments of confusion and indecision, it seemed I could trace the steady hand of God's leading me on." "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." We all know these words. We could all probably say something about what they mean. I believe, however, there is a lot of doubt about these words ...
84. The Meek
Psalm 37:1-40
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John A. Terry
... Blind "The meek are not those who never get angry, for such are insensible, but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry only when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitiveness, but not self-defense, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right." Theophylact "God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." Izaak Walton "Selfish men may possess the earth; it is the meek only who inherit it from the Heavenly Father, free from all ...
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Charles R. Leary
... half-a-day at a time.” My barber is a runner. He told me of a young man in a marathon race who kept falling farther and farther behind the other runners. Suddenly he looked as if he were talking to himself and his legs began to move with a steady stroke. He began to pick up speed. By the time he reached the finish line he had passed all the other runners and had won the race. Afterwards, when someone asked him why he was talking to himself, he replied, “Oh, I wasn’t talking to myself. I was talking ...
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Charles R. Leary
... you want to do, you have to imagine yourself doing it. Once you start, it isn’t all going to be peaches and cream, either. You can expect setbacks. You can expect opposition. You can expect temptation. That is life. The secret: keep your life steady around belief, belief in God, belief in yourself, and belief in others. That belief will empower you to make whatever adjustments life demands. You can never go home again. Life demands that you move on. A problem at your job, tension in your marriage, an ...
87. Uzziah is Dead!
Isaiah 6:1-13
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Donald Zelle
... Some will think that the talk of forgiveness is making too much of sin. Others will think that forgiveness is being too kind with misbehavior, making light of sin. These have not understood that thunder and lightning do not cause repentance and growth; rather, a soft steady rain does, and a quiet sun, and a slight wind through the fields and valleys. Some will not understand how a wife or husband can take back an unfaithful spouse, or how parents can receive back a child who has rebelled and left home. Some ...
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Leonard H. Budd
... allowed their Master to dip his head in sleep. Soon the glow of the sun was gone. Soon the stars filled the dark sky. Soon, too, the clouds came with the wind. Soon the gentle waves became a churning and dangerous sea. Simon's voice was not as steady, which quickened a sense of fear among the others. Soon Simon's voice was not even heard, nor hearable. The dark sky seemed to dip down and touch the waves. The wind from distant Mount Hermon rushed upon the disciples as they frantically lowered the sail and ...
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Thomas Long
... angels will soon join her, their foil-wrapped wings bouncing wildly to the beat of "Gloria in Excelsis." When the angels have fluttered to stage right, the shepherds will lumber left to Bethlehem to find a fawn-eyed Mary and a sheepish Joseph, whose steady downward gaze is fixed upon the blanket-wrapped doll in the plywood creche. These bathrobe Christmas pageants, and indeed all of our attempts to convey the range and power of whatever-in-the name-of-God happened that night to those shepherds, seem so ...
90. Easter 7
John 17:6-19, Acts 1:12-26, 1 John 5:1-12
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Russell F. Anderson
... and sure, much more reliable than that of humans. God testifies that he has given us eternal life through Jesus, his Son. Assurance (v. 13). John writes to a church immersed in a culture that put forth many different claims to eternal truth. John writes to steady the hearts of the believers with the assurance that "you many know that you have eternal life." How can a person know he has eternal life? Very simply. "Whoever has the Son has life..." (v. 12). To have indicates possession. To have the Son is more ...
91. The Transfiguration
2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 2 Kings 2:1-18, Mark 9:2-13
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Russell F. Anderson
... proclaim? (v. 5). How important it is to know who we are and whose we are! Paul had it straight. His mission was not to proclaim himself but Jesus Christ as Lord and Christians as Christ's servants. Unfortunately, in our culture we have been fed a steady diet of narcissism. Look out for number one, we are told. This philosophy has also invaded the church. Too many people seek out the church as a means promoting their own needs rather than worshipping Jesus Christ as Lord. When non-Christians look at us, do ...
92. Trinity Sunday
Jn 3:1-17 · Mt 28:16-21 · Rom 8:12-17 · Isa 6:1-8 · Ps 29
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Russell F. Anderson
... ), which frees us from fear. The witness within (v. 16). God's Spirit witnesses to our spirit that we are children of God. If a voice within us convinces us that we are no good, it comes from Satan. The Christian's internal witness, the witness within, steadies our heart with the assurance that we are God's beloved children through Christ. Who are God's children? (vv. 16-17). Paul states that we are children of God through adoption. Through faith in God's Son, we are accounted to be brothers in Christ. Our ...
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Mark J. Molldrem
... is. So it asks anything and everything it encounters if that thing is its mother; then, it will know who it is. The little duckling asks a cow, a dog, a steam shovel, and a host of other things as it searches for its identity. The entire book portrays the steady searching of the little duckling which does not stop and is not satisfied until it finds its mother. Who am I? I am someone who is made by God! God was not absent when we came into the world. God was intimately present. "Then the Lord God formed man ...
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Lee Griess
... may still make a mistake now and then, just as we may still make mistakes as we live out our lives. But when our hearts and minds are tied to the Spirit of Christ, when we have been released from sin by repentance and forgiveness, when we hold steady the example of Jesus in our lives, our hearts and minds will move the melody of God's love. The key, however, begins with repentance and confession. For there we receive the release we need, there we are filled with the power of forgiveness, there we find the ...
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Alexander H. Wales
... lifted up and bandaged, heard cloth being torn to make splints to secure my broken and battered bones. More water and more movement followed, and the blanket was wrapped gently around me. Then, I was being lifted up by strong arms, and I heard that voice again, steadying the donkey as I was placed upon it. Then, there was the slow, careful journey towards somewhere. I could not tell where. I lost consciousness again. "When I awoke, my eyes were able to open, but I was in a small room, too dark to see much ...
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Gordon Pratt Baker
... of operation in which to do so. With her sister Martha and her brother Lazarus Mary lived in a village approximately two miles from Jerusalem at the base of the Mount of Olives, which was popularly held to be the "foot-stool of God." Consequently there was a steady flow of pilgrims to it along the three roads converging at her door just a Sabbath day's journey from Jerusalem. Nor was there any let-up in the traffic the roads carried since tradition held that David had worshipped God on the Mount at a site ...
97. A Patriot · Dysmas
Mt 27:38 · Mk 15:27 · Lk 23:32
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Gordon Pratt Baker
... midnight prowler sneaking into the homes of sleeping victims, no masked bandit preying on unwary travelers. Here was an Israelite patriot bent on breaking the shackles a foreign tyrant had imposed on his people and paying for the effort with his life. A steady deterioration in Israel's internal affairs resulting from bitter rivalries for the throne had led to virtual anarchy in the land. As a consequence one after another of the nation's leaders had been forced to flee into hiding, leaving the populace to ...
98. Surprised By Joy
Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52
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Donald Dotterer
... years of fighting his conversion, God finally conquered the soul of C.S. Lewis. Lewis says this about his transformation: "You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I had greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps that night ...
99. Two Are Better Than One
Ecclesiastes 4:1-12
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Sandra Herrmann
... , father to son, daughter to mother, a link between those who have gone before us to a future we cannot imagine. You are no longer alone. Now, when one of you falls, there will indeed be someone to pick you up. There will always be someone to hold the ladder steady, to wake up in the middle of the night when you've heard a noise you can't identify. Always an eye to catch across the room, someone who remembers the same dumb joke and laughs at the same cartoons. But more than that, you have the possibility of ...
100. Easter Sunday
Luke 24:33-41 · Psalm 23 · Acts 4:33-36
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Jack Brownlee
... he have a chance to court Martha or Mary? The wind began to move as the sky was split by streaking silver and gold rays of light. The sun had not yet appeared above the crest of the mountains, but the deep shadows of the night were fleeting. The steady creaking of the dock and the waves lapping on the side of the ship were interrupted by the clanging of the ship's bell, the hands heaving to, the canvas unfurling against the breeze, and the voice of one rising from a fitful sleep crying, "Wait, let me ashore ...
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