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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151. Destined For Greatness
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
Sermon
King Duncan
... education? Did you have proper nutrition growing up? Did your parents have high expectations for you? Were they models of success themselves? Were your parents Christian? Did they bring you up with constructive values? Did they teach you to work hard and be honest? Shall I keep going? Are you getting the idea? Not many of us, if any, are self-made men and women. But we don't even have to have the right parents. Studies show that such things as our height can affect our destiny. Tall men earn more money than ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... , up to Jerusalem foraging around in the Bible trying to find his own name. He has been up to Jerusalem but they won't let him in. The Bible says clearly, "Don't let him in." Why would anybody go to church and be made to stand outside, keep going to worship where you are not welcome, stand all during the service, peering in, trying to get a hint of the music, hoping to hear just a snippet of the prayers? Standing on the outside, excluded, asking people in the crowds as they depart, "Was the sermon good ...
Children's Sermon
Teresa L. Major
... helps us get it done. When we have to deal with sad things that happen in our lives, he is there to give us strength. When people make fun of us and treat us badly, he gives us the power to deal with them. When we are too tired to keep going, the Holy Spirit is our energy. When something terrific happens to us, he is there to celebrate with us. He gives us the ability to tell other people about Jesus. No matter what we need, he is there for us. Through the Holy Spirit working in our lives we receive ...
154. Thanks for the Memories!
Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14
Sermon
Ken Lentz
... suggestion. "Don't be so stiff and formal!" he urged them. "When we do it, we say a prayer, then talk or laugh a bit, then we have a glass of wine, and after more conversation we say another prayer. It's a bit of a family thing. If you keep going the way you're going, you'll be done in twenty minutes."1 Those who have joined hands around the Seder meal have felt the power of the family circle. The Passover was moved later in Jewish history to the temple, but today it is back where it belongs: in ...
155. Let 'Er Rip
Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... precautions, like buckling up and wearing your life preservers. But then when you’re ready, you suit up, and you put that raft out there, and you let ‘er rip. It’s an “out of control” adventure from there. Once you start, you need to keep going. You can’t stop and get out. You can’t change your mind. Once that raft is sailing down water, you have reached the “tipping point.” We are now living in the greatest missional opportunity since the great awakening. Don’t believe me? Look at ...
Children's Sermon
... , do you like to take walks? Do you like to go hiking? Have you ever found a walking stick to take with you? I have one here. It helps to make your walking easier, doesn't it. Suppose I told you we were going to go on a walk and keep going for two or three days. What do you think we would need to take along, besides a walking stick? (Let them offer some suggestions.) I'm afraid, with all the things some of you are suggesting we should take, we'd need to take a van or a pick-up ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... safety - two points - which proved to be the ultimate margin of victory.(3) Roy Riggles, forever after, came to be known as WRONG-WAY Riggles. Ever feel like Wrong-Way Riggles? If you do, I have a word from the Lord for us, a word that will help us keep going when we feel we have let God and everyone else down. The word is found right at the beginning of our Old Testament lesson found halfway through the book of Jonah. Listen: "Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time ..." We know what led up ...
158. Connected
John 15:1-8
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... it or something. And about that time, the thing shut off again. Now she was mad. She hunted down her husband in the garage and vented her frustration on him. "You just bought me a brand new vacuum cleaner, and it's already on the fritz! The crazy thing keeps going off and on, off and on. There has to be something wrong with the switch. There has to be something wrong someplace." It was obvious to the husband that his wife was about to implode in frustration so he went in to see what was wrong, listening to ...
Sermon
Charles L. Aaron
... and find ourselves too weak to do what we believe we should, we can rejoice, because God is writing the law on our hearts, and someday we will triumph over our weakness and sinfulness. If we are battered by the grief and pain of life and wonder if we can keep going, we can rejoice because God is writing the law on our hearts, and someday we can put away our grief. The days are surely coming when God will draw us close and we will feel God's love. The days are surely coming when we will experience God's ...
160. Death to Glory
Revelation 5:11-14
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... with his friend trailing behind him, he began the ascent of the mountain. The task was very difficult. The higher the prince climbed, the heavier the burden became. The prince slipped and stumbled several times, but he always managed to right himself and keep going. When the two friends first saw the summit, their goal, the prince collapsed from sheer exhaustion. He said to his friend, "In order for justice to be served, the price must be paid." The young man understood the prince and, thus, he shouldered ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... us what that victory looks like every day. Mitzi was suffering from a severe and crippling arthritis in her spine. It had become so bad that she was in constant pain, able to get around only in a wheelchair. One day her pastor asked her how she could keep going and stay so courageous in the midst of constant pain. “Well, Pastor,” Mitzi began, “Every time I hurt I think of Jesus on the cross. You know, it seems like he and I are a lot closer since the pain started.” Right on, Mitzi! Marilyn was a ...
162. Sick Of A Sick Society
Jeremiah 14:1--15:21
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... wizardry were popular in Judah. By word and example, he encouraged people to sin. So many people were persecuted and killed that blood flowed from one end of Jerusalem to the other. Through Jeremiah, God says about the society, "You have rejected me ... you keep going backward." Yes, our society, like Jeremiah’s, is sick. What is the medicine that will cure the illness? Note that in the letter to the editor, there was no prescription suggested; it was only a diagnosis. Surely, we know our society is sick ...
163. So You Want To Go To Bethlehem, Do You?
Luke 3:1-6
Illustration
Johnny Dean
... ask any of the writers of the gospels how to get to Bethlehem, I think we might be surprised by their answer. "So you want to go to Bethlehem, do you? Tell you what to do: go on out to the desert, outside of the relatively safe confines of Jerusalem. Keep going till you get to the Jordan River. You'll know it when you see it. It's the only river around these parts. You'll find a man there – strange looking old coot – standing knee-deepin the water, just baptizing folks left and right, as fast as he can ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... percent of Americans are comfortable with coming up short, but here is the disturbing news. Forty-three percent are content to try only once rather than try, try, again. Ninety-five percent admit that after falling down they now prefer to stay down. Few want to keep going, especially when the going is tough. Regrets, I’ve had a few, how about you? I am grateful to family, friends, and churches who encouraged me to get up and try again. I have learned more from my faults and failures than I have from my ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... We’ve all spent time wandering in that wilderness. For some of us it was a childhood of neglect. For some of us it was an adolescence of abuse. For some of us it was just a long, hard slog — a trek that has taken stamina and steadfastness, to keep going on a hard path that we know is the right path. In the last few weeks it has been the “sloggers” who have been able to celebrate a “shot-in-the arm.” Jeremy Lin — a first generation Asian-American kid, a “brainiac” who aced the Math SATs, a ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
Nowadays the cost of a dinner and a movie keeps going up, and a vacation can be especially expensive, but if I really want to go somewhere I just take the change out of my pocket and lay it on the desk. It's like a time machine. Each coin has a year stamped on it, and just thinking about the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Why do you worry” and the other one says “Tomorrow will worry about itself.” Norman Vincent Peale once put it this way: “Sailing to the Near East last summer, I often talked with the ship’s 1st officer. He told me a ship riding out a storm keeps going ahead by relaxing in the waves . . .” “The ocean is a tremendous force,” the ship’s officer said, “and a ship is only a very small force, but we know how to make our powerful engines adapt themselves to the timing of the sea. We don’t ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Center bombings, have reported experiencing what is today being called the “Third Man” syndrome. This is the sense that in your time of greatest danger and distress, an unseen presence or voice comes alongside you and guides you to safety or motivates you to keep going when you’re ready to give up. (3) It happens so often that it is being taken seriously by some in the scientific community. Of course, we have an explanation for that. Sometimes that “third man” is real. “Just when I need him ...
169. Temptation
Luke 4:1-13
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... care of them and it just gets to me sometimes. GUY: I can understand that. Do you have any brothers or sisters who could help you out once in a while? ANGELA: No. I'm an only child. GUY: That is difficult. What are you going to do? ANGELA: Just keep going as I have, I guess. There's not much else I can do. But, that's enough about me. What about you? It must be something pretty weighty on your mind to bring you out here and for you to give up food, for how long? GUY: I don't ...
Children's Sermon
... do. We wonder how much time God will give us. Nobody knows except God. We need to remember that time is a special gift to us from God. When we look at a clock, like the one in this picture, we could say, "Well, the hands on the clock just keep going round and round so time never really runs out." But we need to be careful not to think like that, because time does run out. And sometimes the clock will even stop. Then there is no more time. God has a lot of time, but we don't. The Bible ...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
... day, a small, family church. Unfortunately, that's typical of all too many congregations. Just last week Bishop Michael Coyner was addressing a meeting of the General Board of Discipleship in Nashville. Bishop Coyner said: There is one number in our denomination which keeps going up. It's the number of churches which have not received even one person as a new member by profession of faith. That number is up to 43 percent. Describing too many of our churches and too many of our members, another participant ...
172. Getting to Bethlehem
Mark 1:1-8
Illustration
Mickey Anders
... to Tel Aviv, ride on an air conditioned coach up through the hills, probably pass through Jerusalem, and then into the tourist trap called Bethlehem. Ask anyone in the New Testament how you get to the little town of Bethlehem and they'll say, "Go out to the desert, keep going till you get to the River Jordan. You can't miss it. You'll find a man out there, standing knee deep in the water, baptizing people. That's John the Baptizer. You ask him. If you want to go to Bethlehem, you've got to start there ...
173. Proper 14
Ephesians 4:17--5:21, 2 Samuel 18:1-18, 2 Samuel 18:19--19:8, John 6:25-59
Sermon Aid
John R. Brokhoff
... Father in heaven. We, too, are rebels, but for Jesus' sake, God is merciful and deals with us. 2. Hanging (vv. 9, 10). In Absalom's haste to flee in a jungle from David's forces, his head gets caught in a fork of an oak tree. His mule keeps going and Absalom is left hanging between heaven and earth. It is, in a sense, a humorous end to a wayward son and illustrates the final end of disobedience and faithlessness. But there is another hanging a Savior's hanging between heaven and earth on Calvary. It was a ...
174. Avoiding Our Pain
Mark 6:30-44, 53-56
Illustration
J. Dudley Weaver
... revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an all-pervasive sense of loneliness that we will do anything to get busy again and continue the game which makes us believe that everything is fine after all" (Reaching Out, pp. 16,17). And so, we just keep going and going and going, but we can't go on forever. Sooner or later it has to stop, you and I have to stop.
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... week long. Teammates stopped him and told him to run, but Jake started going in the wrong direction. The back judge rerouted him toward the line of scrimmage. Suddenly, the entire Waverly defense parted like the Red Sea and cheered him on, urging him to keep going on. And he did. He ran a grinning sprint to the end zone. Can you imagine having 21 teammates on the field. In the stands mothers cried and fathers roared. Players on both sidelines held their helmets to the sky and whooped. Apparently when the ...
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