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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101. Your Gifts To Each Other
Ephesians 4:17--5:21
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Ronald K. Brooks
... . Ephesians 5:33 says, "Husbands love your wives as yourself, and wives respect your husbands." Give to one another the gift of respect. Respect one another's opinions. Honor one another's emotional highs and lows. Support one another. Encourage each other. Cherish one another's company and above all love one another as you love yourself. Give these gifts to one another daily and your marriage will be blessed. Amen. Ronald K. Brooks is pastor of the Lawrence United Methodist Church, Lawrence, Michigan.
Eulogy
James W. Addy
... would die someday. She faced death by warding off a form of cancer. More recently she confronted the dangers of a stroke. Had any one of a number of health concerns caused her death, we would be gathered as we are to mourn her loss, to cherish fond memories of her, to share our grief, to lament her death. The violent nature of her death has heightened our emotions, and given us new ones. Bewilderment, anger, shame, regret, all add to the jumble of our emotions. And at times, disbelief, numbness, and shock ...
Eulogy
Mary Venema Swierenga
... care unit of the hospital, overcoming many of the tremendous odds against a baby born prematurely. "A tough little guy" is the way his dad describes him. ____________ lived long enough to evoke a lot of love, long enough to acquire those silly, endearing, cherished nicknames we parents and grandparents give to our babies as we hold them, loving them so much that we resort to baby talk because adult language cannot fully contain or express the emotions that infants arouse in us. "Little man." "You old goat ...
104. Epiphany 7
Mark 2:1-12
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B. David Hostetter
... Hear the Good News! To us as to others, Jesus says, "Your sins are forgiven." Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Do not bear hatred for your brothers and sisters in your heart. Do not take revenge or cherish grudges. The Lord says to love your neighbor as yourself. Prayer of the Day Your goodness, O God, knows no bounds. Increase our goodness beyond its present limits to higher stages of maturity, that our love and forgiveness may become more nearly like that ...
105. Proper 14
2 Samuel 18:1-18, 2 Samuel 18:19--19:8, Psalm 130:1-8, Ephesians 4:17--5:21, John 6:25-59
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B. David Hostetter
... after a dark night. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Loving and forgiving Parent, Loving and forgiving Christ, Loving and forgiving Spirit, we confess that we are not always generous, tender-hearted and forgiving. We can be spiteful in our behavior because of the bad feeling that we cherish in our hearts. That anger can come out in angry shouting and cursing which is not only offensive to others but grieves your Spirit within us. Forgive us for resisting the Spirit who is at work in us to make us more like Jesus Christ ...
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W. Robert McClelland
... . Never mind that the question is simplistic. The problem with the attempt to be like Jesus is that it does away with our individuality. The fact of the matter is, Jesus never required his disciples to become like him. He loved and honored their uniqueness. He cherished their diversity. He did not try to iron out their idiosyncrasies; he saw them as gifts. Peter, for example, had a spitfire temper and the impetuosity of a school boy. A psychiatrist would have said, "That's going to be a problem for a church ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... cop-out, a nice way to avoid "holy fasting." There is something in us humans that we don't like or want to deny the self anything it desires. Andrew Murray reminded us: "We have within us a self that has its poison from Satan - from hell - and yet we cherish and nourish it. What do we not do to please self and nourish self? We make the devil within us strong. Look at your own life. What are the works of hell? They are chiefly these three: self-will, self-trust, and self-exaltation." Strange, isn't it, that ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... you put on your shoe, if it hurts, you've got it on the wrong foot!" Now that's an easy enough promise to keep, but have you heard any of these and had them broken? "I promise I won't tell a soul." "I promise to love, honor, and cherish." "I promise to be faithful." "I promise to pay the bill." "I promise to never do it again." "I promise to not forget." "I promise to be there on time." "I promise you this is the truth." Promises! Promises! What good are they if all you have is someone's ...
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Erskine White
... I pray we Christians will someday stop picking and choosing which parts of life we will respect. I pray we will someday work to protect God's gift of life at every stage of life. It will mean bearing a cross, because we would be contradicting cherished orthodoxies and sacred cows of liberals and conservatives alike. But we would also be granted a moral power in this debate which thus far, neither side has managed to achieve. Like many of you, I have seen my children being born. I have witnessed how precious ...
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John M. Braaten
... What a great day of celebration! Most importantly, our Lord is here to accept you both and to bless you, through his presence, and through you to each other. The opportunities of sharing the love of Christ are greater in marriage than in any other relationship. Thus we cherish for you, ______, that God has chosen you to be an instrument of his mercy; through you he will show His love to ________ in a very special way. And we are glad for you, ________ that the radiance of God's love will be demonstrated in ...
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John M. Braaten
... claimed you called on the phone this afternoon, that you used coarse and abusive language, and you insulted her womanhood." "Oh no," the man responded, "that's too bad. I thought I was talking to you." It happens. It happens if we stop courting each other and cherishing each other once the wedding ceremony is over. That is why I want you to listen closely as I share some profound and helpful words from St. Paul: "[I pray] that according to the riches of his glory, may grant you to be strengthened with might ...
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James Wilson
... the rich, or the polished as lovely as the rough? Leader: To the Lord, we are every one God's people, whom Christ died to save. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You are so magnificent and mighty, yet You have chosen to love and cherish even those who are the least in the eyes of the world. Help us to love and accept others as You do, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, even though we have heard of Your accepting love, we have been tempted to believe, in our most ...
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Thomas Slavens
... over whose death he wept, Mary and Martha who opened their home to him, the men on the way to Emmaus who enjoyed his company so much that they pressed him to have supper with them. Throughout his ministry Jesus was surrounded by people whose friendships he cherished. The Master took human responsibility. Tradition indicates that the father of Jesus died when he was a boy and that, in the custom of the day, he had to work in the father’s shop to feed and clothe his mother and her large brood of youngsters ...
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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II
... ask about our problems; not to pry but in loving concern. When difficulties arose, regardless of what they were, you could always count on ___________. He would never let you down or betray you. We are all thankful today for a loyal and true friend whom we cherish in tender memory. His sense of humor was always evident even in his dying days. One noon during lunch he wanted to talk about this service which we now share. He said, "_______, don't make it sad. In fact, why don't you get some dancing girls ...
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Robert Allen
... it -- if we are going to live in this world, we are going to experience frustration. It is simply a fact of life. Frustration comes to us in a variety of ways. Frustration comes when our hopes or plans are blocked. Frustration comes when some cherished project is hindered. Frustration comes when you set out toward some goal or dream and life cruelly slams that door shut in your face. The biography of any one of our lives would have to include certain instances where we hoped, and dreamed, and planned for ...
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... 7:11-17 finds the widow who is unhappy because she has lost both her husband and son. The death of her loved ones has cast a specter of unhappiness over her life. Death can do this. When someone close to you dies, someone you love and cherish, you feel you have been robbed of a most precious gift. This death is the one death that shapes your perspective on the rest of your days and you live forever unhappy. Death causes unhappiness because of our relationships, our loves, our attachments, and our memories ...
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Donald Macleod
... no hangover of guilt from things said and done in regretful yesterdays. Likely these disciples became aware of what Canon Elliott meant when he said, "There is always something lost in growing up." Jesus (to quote Elliott further) "was calling upon these disciples to cherish and to keep if they could the childlike spirit and the childlike heart, the childlike way of looking at life, the childlike way of believing in life, the childlike way of wating confidently for what life has to bring." To live with a ...
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Keith Hammer
... is one of the thousands of men, and women too because there is Annie, soon to be Terry’s ex-wife, who every day fight the battle of knots in the stomach and keep a knife handy to scrape themselves off the floor now and again. A relationship cherished and celebrated has died. Where is God when a marriage dies? Could it be he turned his back on these two on whom once he lavished such wonder, amazement, laughter, radiant faces, and, most of all, the ecstasy of true oneness? Terry and Annie had a large church ...
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Keith Hammer
... there any problem in the world which could not become your problem? AIDS, homelessness, drugs, cancer -- these are some of the most feared situations of life today. While we may not personally be involved in any of them right now, we may know of persons we love and cherish who are. And who knows what tomorrow will bring? It could happen to us even as we think, “No, never, not me!” It’s that way too with all of the smaller problems we face in life. When you are having a difficult time in a relationship ...
120. Redrawing The Landscape
Multiple Scriptures
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Harold Warlick
... . The demands of the next century will call for genuine Christian ladies and gentlemen who can affirm the assets in other people. Timeless truths about human relationships will need to be revivified. Men will need to realize that men were made to protect, love, and cherish women, not to undervalue, neglect, or abuse them. A gentlemen realizes that to degrade a woman is to degrade himself as a man. He realizes that her character is as sacred as his. Not to be like this is to fail in your relationships and ...
121. When God’s “No” Means “Yes”
Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20
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Richard Hasler
... the Scriptures that relate directly to the subject of waiting. If we would like to strengthen our capacity for waiting there is not a more effective practice than meditating regularly upon God’s marvelous promises in the Scriptures. Surely, one of the most cherished promises concerning waiting is the following: “… they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint (Isaiah 40:31).” God’s ...
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Richard Hasler
... with rigid thinking. Probably for many of us the practice goes back to childhood. Once we had made up our mind on something we did not like to change it. In fact, we might have feared changing it. New evidence that threatened to undermine our cherished ideas was unsettling. Far better for us to remain in our original thought patterns than to venture forth into the uncertain and often painful task of revising our ideas. We often reason that at least we can manage our small and restricted world. On the ...
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Jeffrey K. Kimpel
... , God brought you together.In his grace, God will make you one. In the mysterious future, in the days ahead, you have each other and Christ; to have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do you part. Out of all the people in the world, you will now have each other. Marriage is a mystery, so profound that you will never exhaust its meaning; so deep and complex, that each day will be a new adventure. In the future ____ , ____ ...
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Robert Beringer
... every age, not even death can take away God's incredible gift of joy. That is clearly the same joy that the prophet Isaiah found in God at a time when there was little apparent joy among his people. Isaiah, in words that we have come to cherish, gives us three significant things about God in which we can rejoice. 1. Rejoice That God Lives For one thing, we can rejoice that God lives. People in Isaiah's time felt that they had been living in total darkness. Suffering and oppression had dominated their lives ...
Eulogy
Louis M. Pratt
... erase any anger we might have in our hearts because of the manner of his death and be thankful for the manner of his life. While we must grieve over our loss - for L. T.'s death leaves a grievous wound in the hearts of his loved ones - let us cherish what we have gained for having known him. John Henry Newman once wrote: "Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning." L. T.'s life did indeed have a beginning, and while his life did not completely run its ...
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