Dictionary: Trust
Synonyms: confidence, belief, faith, freedom from suspicion/doubt, sureness, certainty, certitude, assurance, conviction, credence, reliance, responsibility, duty, obligation, safe keeping, keeping, protection, charge, care, custody, have faith in, put/place one's trust in, have (every) confidence in, believe in, pin one's hopes/faith on, hope, expect, think likely, dare say, imagine, believe, assume, presume, suppose, take it, entrust, put in the hands of, allow to look after/use, consign, commit, give, hand over, turn over, assign, commend
Antonyms: distrust, mistrust, doubt, uncertainty, suspect, disbelief, disbelieve, fear, keep, suspicion, hold, discredit, incredulity, skepticism, misdoubt, unbelief, question, dubiety, dubiousness, distrustfulness, challenge, reject, dispute, misgiving, incertitude
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1826. Standing Ovation
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Robert P. Dugan, Jr.
... just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter... Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved! The squirrel had been smart enough to ...
1827. Saving Christianity for the Christians
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B. Clayton Bell
... in Saturday Review in which he reported a conversation he had on a trip in India. He was talking with a Hindu priest named Satis Prasad. The man said he wanted to come to our country to work as a missionary among the Americans. Cousins assumed that he meant that he wanted to convert Americans to the Hindu religion, but when asked, Satis Prasad said, "Oh no, I would like to convert them to the Christian religion. Christianity cannot survive in the abstract. It needs not membership, but believers. The people ...
1828. Don't Be Too Sure
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Source Unknown
... on an orange peeling, fell, and badly fractured his leg. He was taken to a hospital where he later died of complications from that fall. He received a greater injury walking down the street than he sustained in going over Niagara. He was not prepared for danger in what he assumed to be a safe situation.
1829. How to Spark a Feud
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Ron Kraybill
... a healthy fear of conflict, letting your own feelings build up so you are in an explosive frame of mind. If you must state your concerns, be as vague and general as possible. Then the other person cannot do anything practical to change the situation. Assume you know all the facts and you are totally right. The use of a clinching Bible verse is helpful. Speak prophetically for truth and justice; do most of the talking. With a touch of defiance, announce your willingness to talk with anyone who wishes to ...
1830. Lost in Translation
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B. and J. Leslie-Melville
Before movie companies were careful about translations assuming no one in the U.S. would understand a language like Swahili, directors would have someone write something that sounded like it fit the part of the scene. So, in one movie the director needed an African messenger who was to gasp out a sentence to the big chief. The ...
1831. Quite a Shock
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Tom Carter
... studio one day with his wife, another woman and a guitar with an electrical short in its amplifier. I could tell it was defective by the loud hum in his speaker. I walked from the control room into the studio to exchange pleasantries, and then assumed my position on my side of the glass separating the rooms. I raised the sound as they played their opening theme song and then said, "Here again is Brother So-and-So." These fundamentalist preachers, many self-proclaimed and well-meaning, were, however, loud ...
1832. A Preview of the Holocaust
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J. Dobson and G. Bauer
... to accused Nazi war criminals in the medical community. Writing from that unique perspective, Dr. Alexander argued that so-called "compassionate killing" of the terminally ill inevitably set the stage for the Holocaust. He wrote: Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed, it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitude of the physicians. It started with the acceptance of ...
1833. The Will to Move Forward
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Jim Peterson
... idea of marriage. But the final and heaviest vote remains to be cast that of the will. It stops the march toward the altar with the questions, "Am I willing to give up this lifestyle for another? What about my freedom is it worth the trade? Am I willing to assume the added responsibility?" The marriage will occur only when the will finally agrees with the emotions and the intellect. And so it is in coming to Christ.
1834. Historic: The Declaration of Independence
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Staff
The unanimous Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies in Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold ...
1835. Two Are Better Than One
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Walter Wangerin, Jr.
... lift the other." Marriage makes the job of survival possible. And the fact that a spouse is termed a "helper" declares marriage was never an end in itself, but a preparation. We've accomplished no great thing, yet, in getting married. We have completed a relationship (though many a fool assumes that the hard work's done with the wedding and turns attention to other interests). Rather, we've established the terms by which we now will go to work.
1836. Strong Enough to Be Gentle
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... ." Their motto was: "The meek shall inherit the earth if that's okay with everybody." They symbol was the yellow traffic light. Mr. Dickson sounds like he'd be a lot of fun, doesn't he? What is disturbing about all of this, though, is that many people assume that the ridiculous ideas behind DOORMATS and Cower Power represent the quality of meekness set forth in Matthew 5:5. Many, even in the church, think that to be meek is to be weak. But the opposite is true. What the Bible is talking about is a powerful ...
1837. Til You Get It Right
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Staff
... spent 26 years on his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Bryant rewrote one of his poetic masterpieces 99 times before publication, and it became a classic. It is said that Thomas Edison performed 50,000 (sic) experiments before he succeeded in producing a storage battery. We might assume the famous inventor would have had some serious doubts along the way. But when asked if he ever became discouraged working so long without results, Edison replied, "Results? Why, I know 50,000 things that won't work."
1838. Using Persuasion to Change People's Minds
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G. Collins
... to themselves. A communicator's effectiveness is increased if he or she expresses some views that are also held by the audience. An audience is more likely to be persuaded if they perceive that the communicator has high credibility. If you assume that the audience might be hostile, it is most effective to present facts first (building a case), give more than one side of the argument, and present your position at the end. Communication is most effective when information comes through different channels ...
1839. A Personal Calling
Romans 8:29
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R.C. Sproul
Some have argued from Romans 8:29 that predestination is based on God's foreknowledge in the sense that God looked down the corridors of time and saw who would freely choose to believe, and then predestinated them. This position assumes that foreknowledge here only means "knows in advance." In the Bible, however, knowledge is often used in a sense of personal intimacy, as when Adam "knew" Eve and she conceived a son (Genesis 4:1). God's foreknowledge is linked to His foreloving. We see in Romans 8:30 that ...
1840. The Not-So Miracle Bridge
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Brett Blair
... bends while working within compression chambers under the river. It affected his health the rest of his life, but he was able to continue work. He never had a traumatic head injury. He did not communicate with his wife by tapping his finger. We're assuming that's what the story is implying, but it isn't true. What actually happened is that his wife, Emily Warren Roebling, took over the chief engineer's duties including day-to-day supervision and project management. She was a self taught engineer, no doubt ...
1841. Wholesome Image
Humor Illustration
... , and put on some black shoes. The next time Pat Boone sang for Schuller's congregation, he was prepared with a rebuttal. Boone said that there are times when Schuller got tired of his image, too. "So once a year," Pat claimed, "Robert Schuller checks into a motel under an assumed name, goes to his room, pulls the drapes closed, goes into the closet, shuts the door and shouts: 'It's impossible! I can't do it!''" (Joseph Bayley)
1842. Someone Else
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... to do, a class to teach, or a meeting to attend, one name was on everyone's lips, "Let Someone Else do it." It was common knowledge that Someone Else was among the largest givers in the church. Whenever there was a financial need, everyone just assumed that Someone Else would make up the difference. Someone Else was a wonderful person, sometimes appearing super-human, but a person can only do so much. Were the truth known, everyone expected too much of Someone Else. Now Someone Else is gone. We wonder what ...
1843. The First Will Be Last
Humor Illustration
... Lucy in the PEANUTS comic strip. Lucy comes into the room where Linus is watching TV. He says to her, "I was here first, so I get to watch what I want." Without a word Lucy marches to the set and flips the channel to her program. Linus protests. "Hey!" Assuming her best know-it-all stance, Lucy intones, "In the 19th chapter of the book of Matthew it says, 'Many that are first will be last, and the last first.'' Linus's response to this paradox sounds like something you or I would say. He mutters, "I'll bet ...
1844. Creation Lawsuit
Humor Illustration
... there be light," and immediately the officials demanded to know how the light would be made. Would there be strip mining? What about thermal pollution? God explained that light would come from a huge ball of fire. God was granted provisional permission to make light, assuming that no smoke would result from the ball of fire, that He would obtain a building permit and to conserve energy would have the light out half the time. God agreed and said He would call the light day and the darkness night. Officials ...
1845. Paying For Your Sins
Humor Illustration
Here is a good story to use at a toast or at a roast (assuming the person sighted is a good sport): Last night I dreamed I died and went to heaven. St. Peter met me at the Pearly Gates. He looked over his records. "Hold on," he said. "You have some sins that you need to pay for. You see that lady over there." ...
1846. Two-Stroke Penalty
Humor Illustration
... and hit Player on the cheek. The force of the blow actually knocked him out cold. "Finally, I regained my senses," says Player, "at least a portion of them. Still groggy, I chipped onto the green and then somehow knocked the long putt into the hole. At that time, I assumed I had tied for the lead and would be in a play-off. An official then informed me that I had incurred a two-stroke penalty for impeding the flight of the ball because it had struck me. I lost the tournament."
1847. Hijacked on Candid Camera
Humor Illustration
... party. Only one man was not laughing, besides the hijacker and the pilot. He didn't get the joke. In fact he was worried that the hijacker would react violently to the laughter. When the other passengers saw that Allen Funt was on board, they assumed this was all a prank. They were waiting for someone to say, "Surprise! You're on Candid Camera." passengers. The whole experience was miserable for this one passenger. His name? Allen Funt, host of the popular Candid Camera. While mostly true, this story has ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... very deep needs. Indeed, sometimes needy people are attracted to the church. Mark tells us this man was “possessed by an impure spirit.” We don’t know what Mark meant by this. Most modern people dismiss the idea of demons and unclean spirits. We assume this is pre-scientific language for mental illness, but who knows? Whatever the origin of his problem, obviously the man was deeply distressed. He cried out, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you ...
1849. Recharging Your Batteries
Mt 6:1-4
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King Duncan
... carried a story about a young couple in Milan who seemed particularly devoted in their worship. The priest at a cathedral there reported that the pair spent an hour or more on a regular basis sitting before a statue of the Virgin Mary. Naturally, he assumed they were praying. Turns out, this young couple was recharging their cell phone. They had noticed a stray electric cable sticking out of the wall behind the statue of the Virgin Mary. Whenever their phone's power supply dwindled, the young couple came to ...
1850. John 2:13-22
John 2:12-25
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Leonard Sweet
... ” or “clearing” of the Temple. While the Synoptic gospels all place this event at the end of Jesus’ public ministry, during his final Passover trip to Jerusalem, John places this dramatic scene at the very beginning of Jesus’ work. While most commentators assume this is simply a “re-mix” by John, who for theological reasons feels it is important to put the difficult relationship between Jesus and the Temple cultus out in front at the beginning of his public ministry, a few do still argue ...
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