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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Sermon
Leonard Mann
... or leaned to exactly the same degree, everything appeared completely normal. And - you know the effect - as I stood in the middle of the floor, I felt that it was I who was leaning! Very quickly I was dizzy. Running water appeared to be flowing uphill. A ball would not lie at all on a surface which appeared to be perfectly level, but rolled away into a corner as though pushed by an unseen hand. When I tied my penknife to the end of a string and held it up before me, it appeared to hang there at a rakish ...
Drama
Norman D. Dow
... Savior who is the Messiah, Jehovah God himself, God with us. And this is how you shall know him: you will find a baby, lying in a manger, swaddled in cloths. And suddenly there was with the angel who spoke a host of God’s other angels, praising God ... see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. Can this be God - this simple, helpless babe, who in a manger lies so sweetly sleeping? Can God who alone has immortality be born? Can he who watches over Israel and neither slumbers nor sleeps be so dead ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... these exterior storms that pose the gravest danger. It is the terrible corruption that can exist within us which can overwhelm us. The furious storm outside may be overwhelming but what is going on inside can pose the greater threat to our lives. Our only hope lies in conquering that wild enemy. Unfortunately storms that rage within us cannot be cured by ourselves. It takes the power of God's love, as revealed in Jesus Christ. He is our only hope of stilling the tempest that can harm our souls and cripple ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... then goes ahead of us to make sure that everything is in readiness for our arrival. And we will arrive, said Jesus. “Would I lie to you about something as important as that?” It all depends upon the kind of God in whom we believe, doesn’t it? ... a place for you?” For the past twenty centuries Christian have answered the Lord’s question with a resounding: “No! You would not lie to us!” Over a hundred years ago that remarkable lady from Amherst, Emily Dickinson put her quiet faith in the form of a ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... is coming to us. He is making himself known. As Phillips puts it in verse 78 of Chapter 1: "Because the heart of our God is full of mercy towards us, the first light of Heaven shall come to visit us -- to shine on those who lie in darkness and under the shadow of death." That's mystery! How could it be otherwise. Francois Mauriac once wrote: "The Christian mystery is the darkness which makes light more plain." Mystery explains nothing, yet it explains everything. Because of Christmas we know that there is ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... rather bewildered fashion, "I've scrubbed an' scrubbed an' scrubbed, but I can't get clean." In the final frame, he says, "I think I have reached the point of no return!" It's the realization of repentance when we come to the point that we no longer believe the lie that we along with other human beings are basically good. There is something at the heart of life that we fall into sooner or later that is not good, and repentance is an awareness of that. So, we begin there in order to say the no that become a ...
Drama
Matthew Powell
... have to drink one glass and, snap (Snaps his finger) it goes right to your head. Saint Peter: Now you're adding lying to your debts. Those were two bottles of the most expensive wine. You won't get far up here by lying. Lying is something that I just can't stand. Willibald: Little white lies like that often come over the best people. (Pauses) Why, I read once about a man who lied his way out of bad situation (Pauses) three times before the cock crowed. Saint Peter: (Embarrassed) Yes, but he wept about it ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... but also compassionately, “In the world you have tribulation. But be of good courage, for I have overcome the world.” Do you remember what the psychiatrist said to Deborah in the novel I quoted at the beginning? He said, “The rose garden world of perfection is a lie.” That’s true. But it’s okay. We can deal with it. Because there is God. II. The doctor also said one more thing which I would like to note. He said, “The rose garden world of perfection is a bore, too.” Have you ever thought of ...
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James Merritt
... saw a cartoon in U.S.A. Today once. It was a picture of a young George Washington holding a hatchet in one hand, kneeling next to a felled cherry tree. He's looking up at his father and saying, "Dad, my teacher says I cannot tell a lie, I cannot tell the truth, and I cannot tell the difference." That is exactly what we are teaching this generation. Tolerance is the buzzword of the 90s. Heterosexuals are to be tolerant of homosexuality. Pro-lifers are to be tolerant of abortion. Christians are to be tolerant ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... will be deceived into thinking he is God, because he will perform mighty miracles. But his miracles will be different in purpose than the miracles of God. God's miracles were to lead people to believe the truth; the Devil's miracles will be to lead people to believe a lie. All, except the true people of God, will follow him like mice following the Pied Piper. But at the very moment when it appears as if the Devil is at the apex of his power, this world is going to be engulfed in a tidal wave of God's wrath ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... nations in the world at that time, England and America, were being shaped in tiny cradles. Two thousand years ago one baby was born who would shape the destiny of the entire world. "And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." (12) Now what is wrong with this picture? Remember this was not the birth of an ordinary son, but this was the birth of the Son of God. Yet notice what the shepherds were told to look for. The shepherds were not to look for a ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... and he looked up at me and, at that time didn't have a tooth in his head, and grinned from ear to ear. All of a sudden it hit me. He wasn't crying, he was lying. He wasn't hungry, he wasn't hurting, he wasn't wet; he just wanted somebody to pick him up and play with him. We can lie from the time we are born. That's why we need to be saved because we are born in sin. I like the way an old Indian chief described it. He was asked to explain what happened ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... are built in such a way that if they ever fall on their side and then over on their back with their legs sticking straight up in the air, they cannot aright themselves and stand on their feet. Here’s what happens. Sometimes a particularly heavy or fat sheep will lie down in some little hollow or depression in the ground. It may roll over on its side to stretch out and relax, and suddenly the center of gravity in the body shifts so that it turns on its back far enough that the feet can no longer touch the ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... he left a vacuum. He left a void that is witnessed to by the conscience of man. Even the most backward society and culture in the world realizes there are certain things that are wrong. The most primitive of societies realize that murder, rape, stealing, and lying are wrong. The reason there is that universal conscience and that universal sense of guilt over wrong is because God has put it there. Now missionaries testify to an amazing fact. Even what we would call heathen tribes know there is a God. You can ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... never get any rest. That is why you have to trust God with "all your heart." You've got to put your entire heart into trusting God, because a half-hearted trust is no better than whole-hearted doubt. You cannot half way lie down on the bed. You either lie down on the bed or you don't lie down on the bed. The same thing is true with trusting God. [Have a chair on the stage that Pastor can use to sit in.] It is just like this chair. I can trust that this chair is sufficient to hold up my ...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
... abilities or even his flaws. It wasn't about Jeremiah at all — it was about God. It always is. It is about God's passion for righteousness and God's unwillingness to let Judah (or any of us) continue to live a lie, because living the lie will ultimately bring its own destruction. It is no different today. Regardless of the denominational affiliation or theological perspective, the church, is called, as Jeremiah was called, to the thankless and often painful duty of truth-telling. Unfortunately, in far too ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; [12] and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. [13] They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have ... story, they ran as fast as they could to the tomb. They stooped down and looked in. And there they saw the burial clothes lying there and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head rolled up in a place by itself. And they believed. This morning we come ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; [12] and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. [13] They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have ... . And she found the tomb empty. What a shock that must have been. Mary encounters the two Angels and sees the burials cloths lying there but still doesn't make the connection. Eyes full of tears, she turns to leave. B. Then through her tears, Mary sees ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... affected the lives of people on this earth as powerfully as this one solitary life. Maybe it is time to realize real power lies not in a position but in a person committed to a mission. Give someone a Ph.D. and a professorship and we assume ... few pages of history. II. Contrast the Power of Force VS. the Power of Faith Here at Christmas it is time to realize where power lies, to straighten it out in our minds. A certain driver was pulled over for speeding. When the officer asked for his driver's license he ...
170. A Disconcerting Sight
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Sermon
John N. Brittain
... I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind.... (Philippians 3:12-15a) Not that I have already obtained this or have already ...
Sermon
Timothy Cargal
... the material and spiritual worlds]) whose coming is “good news of great joy for all people,” not a threat. They have to be told precisely where they will find the child because he is in fact in the last place that anyone would look for newborn royalty (“lying in a manger”). The angel is then joined by a multitude of angels who proclaim to the physical world what only the spiritual realm can yet recognize: God is to be praised because the Lord has favored the world with peace. While it is still night ...
172. The Broken
John 8:1-11
Sermon
James Merritt
... caught in the act or you have caught someone in the act I want you to listen to what we need to do when our lives are lying on the floor in broken pieces or we are dealing with a broken life. I. Come to Jesus – He Will Give You Grace This story takes place ... We are not to judge the thief, but we ought to judge his stealing. We are not to judge the liar, but we are to judge his lying. We are not to judge the adulterer, but we are to judge the adultery. We are not to judge the homosexual, but we are to judge ...
Eulogy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
... , or find a home again. X. And one with trembling hands clasps his cold head, And fans him with her moonlight wings, and cries, “Our love, our hope, our sorrow, is not dead; See, on the silken fringe of his faint eyes, Like dew upon a sleeping flower, there lies A tear some Dream has loosened from his brain.” Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise! She knew not ’twas her own; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain. XI. One from a lucid urn of starry dew Washed his light limbs as ...
174. Part A Truth
Illustration
Alfred Lord Tennyson
He said likewise That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
175. Accusations
2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... veracity, he can appeal only to God or the Holy Spirit (cf. Rom. 9:1 [“I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit”]; 2 Cor. 1:18, 23; 11:31). Paul may solicit the witness of the Corinthians’ conscience ... God as witness against him if he is not telling the truth. Although in the face of opposition Paul must frequently avow that he is not lying (e.g., Rom. 9:1), and even calls upon God as a witness of his actions and speech (Rom. 1:9; 2 Cor. 5:11; Phil. 1 ...
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