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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1126. Cross Purposes
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... not ashamed of the gospel of the cross. We sing about it. We trust in it. We spread the good news about it. Just why do we Christians do that? It is because the cross is the power of God. This should not cause much of a flurry, because Americans are accustomed to power. ... the cross is not the power of man, but rather the power of God. This power of the cross is the power to cleanse. Most people do not like dirt. If a restaurant hands us a dirty glass, we send it back for a clean one. If the rest rooms of a ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... never know when you'll have to draw a little out to pay a bill some day. There's no worse feeling than not having enough spiritual currency inside your soul to pull out in a tempting situation. You can't spend what you don't have. All you can do is bend the knees and fall down like everyone else. I wasn't around as many notable, socially-oriented people early in life as my wife was in her adolescence. Consequently I never carry enough clothes on a trip. Worse than that, I never carry enough money for things ...
Children's Sermon
... that it is he who is making the robbery. Some robbers even wear masks to hide their faces so that no one will recognize them. (Put on the mask.) But most of all, they like to do their robbing at night. (Take out the flashlight.) They want the least amount of light that they can have. The light of day is no good for people who do wrong and evil things. If they robbed in the daytime, then people would see them and remember a lot more about them than if they rob at night. Evil people like the night where they ...
Sermon
... why he said, "You are not all clean." When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your ... way Jesus is lifted up that all may be drawn to him. We, as Jesus’ 20th century disciples, are called to "follow in his steps," to do as he did. John summed it all up in the words of a hymn he included in his first letter: Beloved, let us love one another, ...
Drama
... in a pew.) Liberal Lady As I was saying, I knew you right off, the minute I saw you. The thing that has me puzzled is, why you think she is your bride. Surely you can’t be serious. You are not married to her. Jesus I thought I was. Do you know something I don’t? Liberal Lady Only what you yourself said there in the New Testament. I’ll admit, not everything in that book can be believed by a thinking person, but that part about your Bride being like you - clothing the naked, feeding the poor - why she ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... when he said that if we have any ill feeling about a person and come to the altar with a gift to God, we should leave the gift at the altar, get reconciled with our brother, and then come and offer the gift which would be acceptable. Why, you ask, do we have to forgive before God will forgive us? It is not a condition that God lays down. It is not a kind of payment God requires for forgiveness. The reason we must forgive first is because if we have an unforgiving heart, God cannot forgive us. When we hold ...
Sermon
Robert G. Tuttle
... it can be done. But never in our lifetime!" Madam Curie reacted: "If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I dare not do less than work for it so long as I have life." She won! And because of her, we have the gift of healing radiation. Hers was a ... this vision: "Even so, we also should walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4b). I close with a brief dialogue with God: O God, what do you think of the world? "My heart is in it - for I am in Christ." O God, what will become of the world? "I seek to ...
1133. Chapter VIII
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... state of being in order at the start of things. The fact that we are here to breathe, that we have an earth to live with, and the inbuilt capacities to learn and make our way, all are God-given blessings. Nothing good that we have, or are, or do, do we have simply because of ourselves, or for our private possessions. At best we have these things, whatever they are, because God placed us in his world with them, or to develop them, or to become them. Because they, and we, are still God’s, we are responsible ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... used. Or they would swear by everything on earth or their own head, by anything to keep from using God's name...all because they wanted to be free to keep or break the promise as they saw fit. Jesus said No - do not swear that you are going to do something or not do something; if you say you will, do it; if you say you won't, don't. 'Nuff said. And, at its heart, that was the reason for this third commandment in the first place, because basic honesty is one of the building blocks of a just society. We would ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... man's experience. Of course, most of us have never been Marines. We don't possess that kind of trained experience. But we can do better than we are doing! We can take one small step at a time with our eye firmly fixed on the man or woman God has created us to ... these years." That's how it works. There is a battle going on within each of us. Nobody can fight the battle for us. We must do it ourselves. It is a battle we can win, though. We are children of the King. He will be with us. St. Paul asks, "Who will ...
1136. The Baptism of Our Work
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
Sermon
King Duncan
... Physicist Robert Slocum was fortunate enough to see an instrument he had designed be used on a Mariner space rocket. His comment on that occasion was this, "I've been able to contribute to building God's world." That must have been a satisfying event in his life. However, you do not have to have a creation of yours in the heavens to feel that you are a participant in God's plan for the world. A visitor in a coal mine stopped to talk to one of the miners. He told the miner how sorry he was for him, spending ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... like to go for dinner? Or how about this: Dangerous: Are you wearing that? Safer: Gee, you look good in brown. Safest: Wow! Look at you! Dangerous: What are you so worked up about? Safer: Could we be overreacting? Safest: Here's fifty dollars. Dangerous: What did you do all day? Safer: I hope you didn't overdo it today. Safest: I've always loved you in that robe. (2) Love is not easy--particularly married love. And yet St. Paul tells us that the person who loves his fellow human being has fulfilled the law ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... is worth a try.” But the boy suddenly takes a turn for the worse in the middle of the night, and this official gets up out of bed and starts his journey to Cana before daybreak to see what he might be able to get Jesus to do for his terribly sick son. How do we know that he left before daybreak? Because it says that he spoke to Jesus about his son at “one in the afternoon.” Considering the length of the journey up and around and down steep hills for some twenty miles, he would have had to have begun ...
Sermon
Glenn McDonald
... other, "How awesome it is that God is at work in your life," when in fact what we're really thinking is, "Why isn't God doing things like that in me?" Over the years it's hard for a growing disciple not to wonder, "Where is the proof that my life is ... every four years showcases the world's fastest aquatic athletes -- even though you don't know how to swim. All you would have to do to claim the status of "fastest swimmer on planet earth" is show up at the medal ceremony, cry a little bit during the National ...
1140. Being Christ
Ephesians 1:15-23
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... the Lord. “For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may ... made aware that it is not we who live, but Christ who lives in us. Indeed, to live a spiritual life means to become living Christ. Do you get that? You, each one of you, is to become a living Christ. It’s not enough, it’s not enough to try to ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... say that I’m not satisfied with my own prayer life. I hope you’re not bothered too much by my confession of weakness and limitation in sharing a Peanuts cartoon with you. Some of you who have known me a while would know that I might do that. Lucy is the meanest character of all the Peanuts characters. She’s the one that is always taunting Charlie Brown and Linus—in fact, she’s the one that is always pulling tricks on everybody. In one cartoon, the artist, Charles Schultz, has Lucy kneeling beside ...
Sermon
Phil Thrailkill
... You will feel sick for months. Are you willing to pay the price?” And if you say Yes, then you go to war with your own flesh to save your life. Happens every day in the operating rooms and cancer center here in Georgetown, and the reason we do it is that life if precious. Think of Jesus as a spiritual oncologist, and look for his radical program of therapy in verses 29 and 30. Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration to make a point; Jesus used it as an attention getter. Gouging out eyes and cutting off hands ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... is to walk the dog?" "Yes ma'am." "But the dog has been dead for eighteen years?" "Is there anything else you would like me to do, ma'am?" I decided not to tell that story at an event that celebrated my twenty years here at this church. But I would like to ... freedom. God continues to act in peoples lives in the same way. Let me ask you, what if God uses your conscience to speak to you? Do you ever think of that? The conscience has been on bad times lately. Not only because it is so hard to find one now a days ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... as far as it goes. But most of chapter 7 is in the present tense. He speaks about a war continuing within himself. He tries to do the right thing, but it doesn't always work out that way. He knows he has been claimed by Jesus Christ, called to live as ... There he was, out in the courtyard, taking a long drag from the Marlboro that he put in the hole in his throat. Why does he do that? Doesn't he know better? There's a woman who likes being a good friend. She has a pleasant personality, a gentle demeanor, a ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... beings get depressed, or feel guilty, is because they are created for greatness and for joy and for dignity, and they know that they do not have that kind of life now. They may not know what it is that is missing, they just know something is missing. They ... cook, and the greeter. He came around to Fred Craddock's table and introduced himself. He asked, "What is your name? What do you do?" Fred Craddock admitted that he was a preacher. So the man pulled up a chair, turned it around backwards, straddled it, and ...
1146. Missing the Mark
1 Samuel 8:1-22
Sermon
Charles Allo
... are rejecting, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer. 8 Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually forsaken me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment. Examine 1 Samuel 7-9 Notice God's response. "do what they say." They are rejecting me, not you. Don't take it personal. I am their king. And they don't want me as their king any longer. They have had this rebellion in them from the beginning even when I showed them that I was their king. And ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... blows through a field of wheat. We will allow God to tell us who He is, who we are, and what we are called to be and do for Him and for one another. It is true that we can find God and worship God in nature, in music, in art, and in other people ... spirits, then a great deal can happen in prayer. The key is to keep at it. Make prayer an important part of your everyday routine. By doing that, you may reach the place where it is such a smooth transition between that time set apart for prayer and the rest of the ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... , and bring back the good old days of peace, pride, and prosperity. Would Jesus listen to the voice of the people and attempt to do all those things? It occurs to me that sometimes the voice of the majority is the same as the voice of the devil. I’m ... it has a familiar ring to it. His passion to be a good preacher - a good thing - had tempted him that night to be a bad father. Do you hear it? The tempter even turns our strengths against us if we are not careful. Well, if temptation is real and if we will be ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... by the way we die, singing joyfully all the while. There is a benediction that says it, and I’ll let this be the final word. “He came singing love. He lived singing love. He died singing love. He rose in silence. If the song is to continue, we must do the singing.” Prayer: God, our Father, enable us this day to meet the risen Christ in the deep places of our lives. As we meet him there, take away our fear and replace it with faith. Complete the gospel story in our lives by the faithful way we live and ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... to give to others for the right reason, in the right spirit, and of the right substance. It’s just as Jesus said to Peter, “If I do not wash your feet, then you will have no part of me.” It’s true: unless we receive, we miss out on life as God intends ... them. But if the one you love thinks that he or she is self-sufficient and has no need of what we have to give, how do we express our love? Don’t you see how that gets in the way of relationship? The channel through which love can flow has been cut ...
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