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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King Duncan
... as well as the newborns. They tried separating the babies and soundproofing the walls. This helped the staff, but it did not seem to calm the infants. Then someone had the bright idea of playing a recording of a mother’s heartbeat beside each bed. It worked. The sound that the baby heard even before it was born was the sound that comforted it the most. Psychiatrists used to talk about "birth trauma." What is that except the trauma of being separated and the subsequent fear of being abandoned? Perhaps ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... him or her to this place? Is there anything that I can do to make his life or her life a little easier?" What a wonderful asset a sense of compassion is in any setting. There is a story about two men in a nursing home. The man in the bed closest to the window was warm, talkative, and altogether very sociable. The man next to the door was paralyzed and quite lonely. One day the man next to the door asked the man next to the window to describe for him the things that were going on outside. The man ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... undoubtedly noticed those big scripture signs at significant sporting events: the Super Bowl, Monday night Football and Baseball, golf tournaments, the Olympics, the Indy 500, etc. In bold letters we read "JOHN 3:16," "II COR. 5:17," "ROM. 5:8" They pop up on bed sheets hanging from the upper decks, behind home plate, over golfers' heads as they putt, and even on posters beside the runway at the Miss America Pageant. Those signs are the work of a man named Rockin' Rollen Stewart; his wife, Margaret; and a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... crude cross erected by Roman soldiers on the top of a hill outside Jerusalem 2,000 years ago could save the world from its sin. We do not understand how the God of the billions of galaxies could hear and answer the prayers of a small child kneeling beside his bed in a tiny home in the most remote part of the world. We are not here because we have the answers. We are here because we have a song. This morning we want to address the most complex and yet one of our most treasured doctrines of the Christian ...
1355. A Mystifying Question
1 Corinthians 15:35-58
Sermon
King Duncan
... the world’s record for doing nothing. On one occasion, he stood motionless for ten hours and six minutes to earn his place in the GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS. Some of you are "Garfield" fans. In one of his cartoons he is shown resting droopy-eyed in his bed thinking to himself. "One of my pet peeves," he says to himself, "is people who never finish what they start." As he cracks a knowing smile he says, "I do not happen to be one of those people." The last frame shows him under the bedcovers saying, "My ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and understands and is able to meet my every need. Sometimes we're on top. Sometimes we're on the bottom. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into the heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost part of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me..." (Psalm 139: 710) He sees, He understands, He is able. 1. Axthelm, Pete ...
1357. Forgiven!
Galatians 2:11-21
Sermon
King Duncan
... a longtime political adversary of Humphrey’s, already disgraced by Watergate. Humphrey, himself, had asked Nixon to have that place of honor. Three days before Humphrey died, Jesse Jackson visited him in the hospital. Humphrey had just called Nixon from his dying bed. The Reverend Jackson asked Humphrey why. Here is what Hubert Humphrey had to say, "Jesse, from this vantage point, with the sun setting in my life, all of the speeches, the political conventions, the crowds and the great fights are behind me ...
1358. Living Smart
Luke 10:38-42
Sermon
King Duncan
... things about former astronaut and senator John Glenn is his willingness to stick to his priorities. It was he who refused to go to the door and receive the president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Why? Glenn's wife was quite ill in bed and needed his attentiveness. John Glenn's relationship with his wife was more important than having an audience with the president. In our Scripture lesson for the morning Martha was busy with many things. She was trying to be a gracious hostess. Who could ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , as much evil as it does. If we had maintained Christ’s passion for the Kingdom, it would not. For you see, by teaching us to pray for the Kingdom Christ surely expected us to be working for the Kingdom as well. A little girl is kneeling beside her bed. She says, "Dear God, if You’re there and You hear my prayer, could You please just touch me?" Just then she feels a touch. She gets so excited! She says, "Thank You, God, for touching me!" Then she looks up, sees her older sister, and gets a little ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... gives us some sign that He is real and in control we remain immobile. "Don't just do something, sit there!" is our credo. It is amazing how many truly passive Christians there are in this world. Two-thirds won't even bother to roll out of bed on the average Sunday morning. Most are decent law-abiding folks. But no one could accuse them of being spiritual workaholics. Then there are a few blessed saints on the opposite extreme. They have a great deal of anxiety if they are not doing something constructive ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... camp, he heard that when a rookie was cut by a team, an equipment boy would knock on the door of his room and tell him to go see the coach. "You know what Jim did?" Bill Parcells, the Giants’ coach, told Madden. "Jim slept on the floor under his bed. He figured if somebody came to his room but couldn’t find him, he wouldn’t get cut." Parcell found out about Burt’s strange but determined strategy when he asked him why he looked like he wasn’t getting any sleep. Burt told the coach he had been ...
1362. The Problem with Being Idle
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
Sermon
King Duncan
... the day cleaning houses. Late each afternoon she took another bus home, arriving just in time to fix supper. Then there was laundry to do, and homework the kids needed help with, leaving no time for herself. Generally, around midnight, she would collapse into bed for a few hours of exhausted sleep only to arise the next morning to do it all over again. "She was okay-just weary in well-doing-a little disillusioned with her life, perhaps, and wondering whatever happened to her dreams, (and experiencing some ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... know God, to experience God, however he was named. Is that why you came to church this morning? Is that why you’re here? A British nurse tells about the time she was attending to Rudyard Kipling, the British poet. He was terribly sick. He tossed and turned on his bed. His nights were spent in restless agitation. Do you want anything? she asked him quietly one morning. And this is what he said. In a very weak voice, he said, I want God, I want God! We say that too, don’t we? In a variety of ways we say ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... began practicing the song their class would sing at the Christmas program, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear." As they practiced she began to think that perhaps the teacher was right. These boys could not carry a tune. That evening, after the children had gone to bed, she told her husband, "You never heard anything like it in your whole life. Never. You can’t imagine what it was like!" Her husband replied, "Oh, yes, I can, too. There are people, you know, who really can’t carry a tune." "What’s the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... it was held in Washington, D.C., in 1926, where 150,000 patented models of old inventions were declared obsolete and placed on the auction block for public auction. Prospective buyers and on-lookers chuckled as item after item was put up for bid; such as a "bed-bug buster" or an "illuminated cat" that was designed to scare away mice. Then there was a device to prevent snoring. It consisted of a trumpet that reached from the mouth to the ear; and was designed to awaken the snorer and not the neighbors. And ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... rescuers finally freed his daughter. At the hospital the doctors said she would be all right. The next day, Christmas Day, Ron and his son kicked through the rubble of their house. In Alison’s room he noticed that the bulk of the tree landed right where her bed had been before she had impulsively moved it. He noticed a scar on the tree and realized that it was from the dead branch he had felt such an urgency to remove. That branch might have killed her. Amid the rubble Ron wondered, "Had God been trying ...
1367. Set Free
Ephesians 1:1-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... still there. They were absolutely astounded!" He was not seriously injured. After he was cleaned up, he was released. He decided to get some rest, so he checked into a local motel. He bought a six pack of beer, opened a can and laid down in bed. Flipping through the channels, he encountered Billy Graham leading a crusade. "He was looking right at me, pointing a finger," the man recalled. "You have made promises to God today," Dr. Graham said, "that you haven’t kept." This hit home. "I buried my head in ...
1368. From Foolishness To Power
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
King Duncan
... child Lawrence Welk was fascinated by his father's accordion, an heirloom which had been brought from Europe. In the summer after fourth grade, Lawrence suffered a ruptured appendix and nearly died. He spent seven weeks in the hospital and three months at home in bed. During his time at home, his parents let him play his father's accordion as much as he wanted. Within that time he taught himself many tunes. In his teen years he bought a mail order accordion for $15.00. "Unequal to his enthusiasm," says one ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to many parts of his body. Billy Graham went to minister to him, to share words of comfort with him. Instead, the man witnessed to Dr. Graham. “There was a joy and radiance about him that I have rarely seen,” Dr. Graham recalled. “He got up out of his bed and walked me to the car when I left. I shall never forget my last glimpse of him. With a great smile and cheery wave, he said, ‘Keep on preaching the Gospel, Billy. The older I get, the better Christ is to me.’’ (6) That would be the testimony ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... worthless. In her lifelong quest to finish first, she had ended up dead last. Mary Jo began working as a volunteer at a local mission. She spent the next year as a volunteer, handing out diapers and bus tokens, dishing out hot meals and helping people find work or a bed for the night. It was during that year when she reached out to other people that she felt God's love as never before. She discovered God's love in the eyes of a man who cried as he thanked her for finding him a pair of size 13 boots ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . When this tube clogs up, take it out immediately and clean it. Then, come and get me." Within hours, the tube did clog up. Instead of taking it out, however, the young nurse panicked and ran for the doctor. By the time Cronin got to the girl's bed, she was dead. He was furious. The very next day he wrote a letter recommending that this young nurse's license be revoked. He called her in and read it to her. The nurse, close to tears, pleaded for a second chance. Cronin was unrelenting. However, her words ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to return it to Jeff's parents. He opened the Bible to Hebrews 9:27. It read, "It is appointed unto man once to die..." Beside the verse Jeff had written, "We must keep our appointment with God." This was too much for Tim. He knelt by his bunk bed in the dormitory room that night and gave his life to God. Jeff's Savior became Tim's Savior too. After this Tim always kept his appointments knowing that someday in God's timing he would meet his Savior face to face. (3) Jesus called. Jeff answered. But a lot ...
1373. Surprised By Love
Matthew 22:34-40
Sermon
King Duncan
... Federation, recalls standing at the bedside of dying archbishop, Janis Matulis, of Latvia. A visitor had just sung, at Matulis’ request, an old spiritual with the words, “Oh, when I am alone, when I am alone, give me Jesus.” Matulis then asked those around his bed: “Do you know why this song means so much to me? Three times war passed over Latvia, killing two-fifths of our people. They burned down my church and destroyed Bibles and hymnals. They took away my wife, and I never saw her again. When it ...
1374. Roll Call
Matthew 5:1-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... . The pain did not go away. She went to the doctor but nothing could be found. A few weeks later a CAT-scan revealed that her entire colon and liver were covered with cancer. Four months later his mother died with her entire family gathered around the bed as she breathed her last. His mother was a beautiful person, this pastor writes, because of her deep faith in God and her commitment to her family. She never complained about her pain or about her life being cut short at the age of forty-nine. Throughout ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... him a letter telling of God's love. Then she tucked it with a little cash into a New Testament. She found his backpack in the yard, and stuck the packet inside. She imagined him traveling that day looking for work and at the end of the day bedding down somewhere under the stars, weary and all alone. She was warmed by the thought of Floyd's surprise when he discovered her note, the New Testament and the cash she had planted in his backpack. This Christian couple never saw Floyd again. Four years later Floyd ...
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