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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1051. Some Greeks
John 12:20-33
Sermon
John Jamison
... control because people did not really understand him yet, and even his disciples were not ready for what was about to happen. In my imagination, when he was told about the Greeks, Jesus took a deep breath and said, “The hour has come” (v. 23). I hear kind of a surrender, a recognition on his part that he had done everything he could do to prepare but it was now time for the big test. He said, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” His ministry had come to its end and the final step ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... . People hold on to it for dear life. "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall have eternal life." That's what the kingdom of God is all about -- coming under the banner of God's love by surrendering to Christ as Lord and Savior by the power of the Holy Spirit, experiencing forgiveness and new life, though we in no way deserve what we receive. You have been in the shadows, listening to these words and hearing the responses of Nicodemus. Now it is time for ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... are the rewards of replacing pride with humility? Jesus says, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all" (v. 35). The reward is simply that just as God "exalted (Jesus) to the highest place," so also God will exalt all who surrender their pride at the foot of Jesus' cross. The more we can remove pride from our hearts, the more we will be used and exalted. The end of pride is the beginning of a new life in Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God that we can resolve to defeat pride ...
1054. Sacrificial Love and Hedonism
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... achieved. Hugh Hefner tells us to get all we can. Jesus tells us to give all we can. Because the clash is total, there is no way to gloss over it. The popular philosophy teaches that to gee life you must grab it; Jesus taught that to win we must surrender. The conflict is absolute and irrevocable.
1055. Dolley's Courageous Rescue
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... that the British had left Washington. Dolley's dramatic rescue of George Washington's portrait silenced her husband's critics and infused the once-divided nation with a new spirit. When news of the British burning of the White House spread, people who had been denouncing the war and talking surrender abruptly changed their minds. Confronted by a united, determined people, the British were more than willing to sign a peace treaty six months later.
Sermon
King Duncan
... so often nowadays, we’re likely to forget the details of any particular episode. This episode, however, is different. This man was acting erratically and shooting at police officers. Members of the local SWAT team surrounded him and tried to talk him into surrendering, but he wouldn’t listen. This standoff lasted for ten hours, and it could have ended tragically. But it didn’t. A police negotiator with the SWAT team gave up talking with the suspect. Instead, he began singing. The song he sang was ...
1057. It Could Be Worse
Humor Illustration
King Duncan
... a vulture. The bride’s family throws rocks instead of rice. There are enough candles on your cake to set off your smoke alarm. The health inspector condemns your office coffee maker. You put both contacts into the same eye. Your children’s school calls to surrender. Your plants do better when you don’t talk to them. You have to hitch hike to the bank to make your car payment. Your suggestion box starts ticking. You see the captain running toward the railing wearing a life jacket. The plumber floats by ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ’t wish to go.” It was time for Peter to accept his call. He may not be entirely ready. But God doesn’t call us when we’re ready. God makes us ready in the midst of our calling. A resurrected life is a missional life---to serve, surrender, and sacrifice. Jesus’ mission of salvation was to all people, Gentiles and Jews alike. As in Jonah’s day, that mission would make a lot of people angry, and enrage the Pharisees of the Temple. No wonder the disciples now felt alone. But Peter is called to be ...
1059. Jacob's Well
John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... me, my Savior, Make me a channel today;Empty me, fill me and use me, Teach me to trust and obey. Then, and then only, Lord Jesus, Through me the rivers can flow;Thus and thus only will others Learn Thy great fulness to know. Now I surrender to Jesus, Here I lay all at His feet;Anything, anywhere only, Just for His service made meet! *Notes: When Jesus traveled from the Judean wilderness and John the Baptist back to Galilee, he had to travel through Samaria. (Map taken from online article “7 Differences ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... all beliefs and disbeliefs. Those practicing such times of prayer aim for an empty mind and an open heart and seek to cross over into union with the perichoretic community of the Trinity. This involves crossing into the state of complete surrender - which is called the apophatic way - the emptying/opening of spiritual being. The aim of Kataphatic Contemplation is to engage the Holy Spirit with the most intense intimacy, in pursuit of a moment of "mystical" union through the use of images, thoughts ...
1061. She Waits
Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of relationship, one that will improve us, sustain us, cause us to grow, cause us to live in relationship with God in a new and unique way. For this, we don’t just have to abide by a set of rules. We need to abide in Him. We need to surrender our needs and wants to a kind of marriage relationship, in which everything about our lives will in some way change. We leave our old life behind, and we engage in something vitally and totally new. And we enter into a new place, a new home, a new way of ...
1062. Dry Bones
Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... wish it were we who could figure out the right strategy, the proper things to do, the leaders to put into place, or the trick of the trade to draw in the people we desire. And yet, it is so simple. It comes down to faith. It comes down to surrendering our own plans, and strategies, and hopes, and putting them in Jesus. “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh,” said God (Ezekiel 36:26) Only God can ...
1063. Rain of Grace
Hosea 6:1--7:16
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... the same word is used to indicate a physical joining, as in, “Adam ‘knew’ Eve, and they conceived…..Abel.” When you truly “know” someone or something, you “conceive.” It’s the kind of “knowing” that means you recognize God in your midst, and surrender your heart to God. You allow God to “know” you inside and out, as you stand before God “naked” (vulnerable) in all of your sin and your fault. You “know” Jesus as your Lord and Savior, the Jesus who lives within your heart ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Evil Envy is perhaps the deepest root of all evils. Envy is the desire to have what someone else has, to be like someone else, to be given what someone else has received, to obtain what one perceives one deserves. Envy is the opposite of satisfaction in and surrender to God. And it’s at the core of human nature. It’s stimulated by the eye, and desires of the gaze. The gaze here is not the feminist concept of the “male gaze” which stares hungrily at the female figure, although there is an appetite of ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . And yet when faced with the choice however slim to save your child, you give up, and you let go. Love is a risk. Love can be painful. Love can be heartbreakingly and excruciatingly soul shattering. And yet, love risks all for the sake of the beloved. Love surrenders ownership for the sake of life. This is the story today of Moses, or I should say, the mother of Moses. How heart-breaking it must have been for her to release her three-month old son into the water in a floating bassinette in hope he might ...
1066. Emergency!
Genesis 11:1-9
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ’ dinner conversation, in which the last will be first, and the first last. That we are seated at God’s table by invitation. We don’t attain a place. But God “saves” us a place. Invitation into a relationship in which we are freed by our willingness to surrender. We must as the Church not make our church or our buildings an “ivory tower” of our own righteousness, or a place in which to hide from the world. Jesus calls us, like God called Jacob, out of the place where we are and into new places ...
1067. Sweet Vine
John 15:1-17
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... us close our eyes for a moment….feel the arms of God around us. Let’s invite the identity of Jesus, His sacrificial, selfless, serving identity to change us, mold us, graft us, and create us into the image God desires us to be. All we have to do is surrender ourselves to Him. For on our own we can do nothing. But God can do anything with us and through us. The Divine Nature of the Almighty God has the power to reshape our hearts and redirect our thoughts, to create in our lives and in our churches the ...
1068. Dangerous
John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... the Living Waters of faith…..means allowing the Living Water that is Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit to wash over you, to fill you, to change you, and reform you. Yes, it feels like a total “wild card.” Faith is letting go of control. Faith is surrendering to the power that is Jesus. Faith is putting one’s very life in the hands of a God you cannot see, touch, hear, but know in your heart is present and powerful. Faith in God means Jesus is in control of your life. That the Holy Spirit is what ...
1069. Deliverance
Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... is like the wind in the sails of a ship that sweeps us up into the waves on the adventure of our lives. When your life or your church is anointed by the Holy Spirit, reborn in the Spirit of Jesus, your life will never be the same. When you surrender your will to the amazing and exciting will of God, you are allowing yourself to embark on the most dynamic and exciting adventure of your entire life! When you step forward to ride the waves of the Spirit, you walk forward in faith, taking a risk, that God is ...
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.
Anonymous
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.
Caspar David Friedrich
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold
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