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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... to church-wide appeals for funds for world hunger, so that a united church witness can be felt. * We respond to the need for services to youth in the Oesterlen Home, so that more teenagers know that they can become responsible people. * We become active in local ecumenical affairs such as the Inter-Church Council, that the variety of our Christian witness may enrich the whole church and community. * We volunteer time to be on the boards of all the social service organizations so that folks have staples of ...
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Daniel G. Mueller
... month of pregnancy, Mary, pregnant with Jesus, came to visit Elizabeth. The two women were relatives. When Mary came close to John’s mother, John leaped within his mother’s womb. Those of you who have been pregnant can appreciate the wonder of such acrobatic activity. He jumped inside the womb, Dr. Luke explains, because when he heard the voice of the Savior’s mother he recognized her to be the mother of the Lord. Luke knew about babies moving around in the womb. He also knew that John was chosen ...
1878. Memories
Luke 2:21-40
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Daniel G. Mueller
... felt like going. He hadn’t had much else to do, so he just went by the Temple to see "what was cooking" there. But once he got there he learned the Holy Spirit had guided him to be where the Christ was going to be. The Holy Spirit is active in our lives, working through God’s marvelous coincidences, seeing to it that you and I are at the right place, at the right time, to meet the right people. The Spirit works in us most of all to bring us to meet Jesus, the Christ, our Savior. It’s ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... to be caught napping off third when all your friends are expecting you to get home." Let’s finish the game! "I do my job," writes Emmet Fox, "and pass on to another. I am going to live forever; in a thousand years from now I shall be alive and active somewhere - a 100 thousand years. Always the future will be better than the present or the past, because I am growing and progressing. I am an immortal soul." He got the point of the promise, "I have made and I will bear, I will carry and deliver you - even ...
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Warren Thomas Smith
... at Mainz. It was this new medium which permitted Luther’s 95 Theses to be given vast coverage. Soon everyone was talking about Luther. Breaking Old Forms Wyatt Aiken Smart, late professor at Emory University, told of visiting Hawaii where he climbed a semi-active volcano. For a long time the professor gazed into the crater, a hot boiling mass. He soon noticed a process continuously repeated. As hot lava came to the surface, cool Pacific winds hit it, causing a hardening effect. The entire surface would be ...
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Brett Blair
... . Here was where the people were. On the other side are only Gerasenes. They were pagans. But the disciples did as Jesus instructed. They set sail that beautiful afternoon on the Sea of Galilee. The sun was shining and Jesus, weary from the day’s activity, fell asleep. As the late afternoon faded into dusk, trouble began to loom. The white puffy clouds that dotted the sky were replaced by low hanging, bilious black clouds. The stilled waters began to churn with white caps and then large waves that slammed ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... , best protected by state and church. For the children it is the whole setting of the formative years in which the contours of personality are determined. Health, character, education, religion - all have their roots here. It is the daily starting point and background of all our activities. For the man, as well as for the woman, it is the real job in life, for the money-making job is only a means for carrying on the home. Since the home is all this and since the home today is threatened by the rise ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... - the crucified and risen Christ. This is the heart of the Reformation, and we listen to its throbs not only on Reformation Day but throughout the year. It is by this "good news" that the church lives. It is the dynamic center of all the church’s activities. A church true to the gospel is consecrated to the task of leading people to a personal whole-hearted commitment to their Lord and Savior. The Reformation has achieved its purpose when you and I can say with Luther: "Jesus Christ is my Lord who has ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... of the spirit and destroys meaning and purpose. Men become bundles of reflexes reacting to green and red lights, robots that automatically reach for the morning newapaper, the cigarette, the television dial. But the hollowness within is compensated by frenzied but meaningless activity on the surface. Kierkegaard’s description of the man who lives only by the physical senses fits many modern men: He sticks his finger into existence and it smells of nothing. Driven by a demonic pursuit of the joy of living ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... of our professional, social, and civic responsibilities, but to use Thoreau’s phrase, we also "hear the sound of Another Drummer." There is a spiritual overtone that gives true meaning and dignity to what we are doing. Even when no direct religious activity is involved, Christian men and women radiate Christ. As an undergraduate in a large state university I had a teacher in philosophy, a Christian layman, whose influence for Christ went out from his classroom into the lives of thousands of students. I ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... God is not limited to our Sunday worship. It is not confined within the four walls of the church and associated only with what we wear and what we eat on Sunday. As our Lord puts it, it is leaven which penetrates all of life, our ordinary daily activity. The hymn writer John Ellerton caught this emphasis and taught us to sing: "Work shall be prayer, if all be wrought As thou wouldst have it done; And prayer, by thee inspired and taught, Itself with work be one." The keynote of the parable before us is the ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... of loneliness is like the Grand Canyon - a deep incision in the surface of our existence, which has become an inexhaustible source of beauty and self-understanding." I was brought up to pretend I wasn’t lonely, to escape my loneliness, to deny it by much talk or activity. Only in recent years have I begun to discover that I’m a much less gregarious person than I used to think or appear. I am a much more private person. Only in recent years have I come to realize that it is not weakness to feel lonely ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... use of recreation. Beyond the euphoria of winning and the depression of losing, we need help finding out what the lasting price tags are for all of life. How are we going to handle honest questions such as, "Is this race worth winning?" "Is this activity worth the investment it demands?" "Does my performance open my eyes to some of my illusions about my own abilities - or those of the majority of my peers?" A seventeenth-century English writer wrote this telling line: "I have lost all and found myself ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... "what’s her name." Are they both like trees walking or like people whose needs are as great as your own? 3) Look at the Church, your Church. Do you see an impersonal institution in which the fixtures and books and machines direct your activity, or do you see a Christian fellowship in which a group of individuals, some more congenial, some more helpful than others, are working and worshiping together by choice in spite of differences? 4) Look at yourself. Do you find yourself charming and irresistible or ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... and is purposefully withholding. That immediately makes us a passive person, simply waiting to be stroked at the mercy of others whom we perceive have what we need. Your challenge, singles, is to move out and use your sense of loneliness as a clue to actively lead you to the resources for feeding that we all need. I’ll say more about loneliness and aloneness in a moment. I think a further problem which single people must face is not buying the great exultation of the married state which society (yes ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... and his church. In belonging to the "people of God," we have already discovered the meaning of "covenant." The Christian brings that understanding to the marriage bond. Its fulfillment within the intimacy of marriage becomes a full response to God’s creative activity. For the Christian, then, marriage is set in creation itself. This, indeed, is "good news!": Second, marriage for the Christian is marked by fidelity. Christians know how difficult it is to be faithful in all walks of life. In friendships, in ...
1892. Backsliding
John 6:60-71
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Brett Blair
... someone, and we were thumbing together, through the church’s pictorial directory. Time and time again as we went through each individual picture my host used such phrases as: “You know, I haven’t seen them for a long time.” Or, “Yes, they used to be active but..” Listen, there is not a protestant or Catholic Church in the city of Memphis that could possibly hold all of its members if they decided to show up on Sunday. But we don’t gear our building facilities for such an event because we know ...
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Brett Blair
... on here? What does “unclean” mean? The obvious explanation, as you might have guessed, is dirty hands. But the practice of washing was not done for reasons of health; in that day, it was done for religious purity. It was thought that the normal activities and circumstances of every day living made a Jew unclean before God. Pouring water over the hands washed away this defilement. It’s an interesting question: Can outside rituals make us inside saints? It’s like the young man who came to a great ...
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Brett Blair
... with one another; we must try to bring peace into the lives of others; and, we must be at peace with God. Have salt in yourselves, Jesus said. Have salt. If there are any chemist here this morning you know that sodium is an extremely active element found naturally only in combined form; it always links itself to another element. Chlorine, on the other hand, is a poisonous gas that can stand by itself. Chlorine is what gives bleach its offensive odor. When sodium and chlorine are combined, the result is ...
1895. Coming Forth
Isaiah 63:7--64:12
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Dallas A. Brauninger
... , O love divine. People: Meet us in the crevices between hope and hope. Leader: Come forth, O holy one. People: Meet us when we fade like the leaf. All: Come forth, O love divine. Collect In so many ways you come forth to us, you ever-concerned and active Parent. So variously you lead all your children, you who works for those who wait for you, even though we hide from you our shortcomings. Let us come forth to you. Amen. Prayer of Confession After all the energy you spend in creation, ever-creating God, we ...
1896. While You Wait
2 Peter 3:1-18
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Dallas A. Brauninger
... dazes chaos at Christmas. No wonder hope shows its hardy self. To this we say, Amen. Prayer of Confession How will you find us, O God, when you come into our lives? Will you find us waiting passively, waiting for you to do all the work? Will you find us active waiters, preparing the ground and making ready? Will you find us frittering away costly time? Will you find us at peace? Amen. Hymns "Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates" "All Earth Is Waiting" "In The Bleak Midwinter"
Bulletin Aid
Dallas A. Brauninger
... wandering of the human spirit. Come, all you faithful, and worship our faithful God whose presence brings permanence in transitory times. Come and await together the holy birth. Collect God, who is truly with us, we make room for you in pauses between our activities. As we make a point to remember your presence while flitting from car to home, from commuter to work, from meeting to meeting and commotion to commotion, let flickers of prayer light our day. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Prayer of Confession Amid ...
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James W. Moore
... turned around the life of that young lieutenant. As he had admitted, he had never been religious, had seldom gone to church except for weddings and funerals, but from that time on he was a new man. Christ was born in his heart. From that time forward, he took an active part in the Christian ministry of that base. Then he did an unheard thing – he extended his tour of duty in Greenland for an extra year. He was the first person in the history of that base to do that. He did it because he wanted to be able ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... in the presence of his thunderous voice. People who had been living miserly, self-centered lives looked in the mirror and saw themselves for the first time as they really were -- as Ebenezer Scrooges. Talented people burying their abilities beneath trivial activities were summoned to the stage, front and center, for performance in keeping with their gifts. In the secret reaches of bank vaults and stock portfolios, the wealthy were reminded, "Unto whom much is given, much is required." The poor were summoned ...
1900. Today
Luke 4:14-30
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William G. Carter
... , that may be the most difficult task of all. Imagine it: announcing all people are valued by God — not because of what they do, not because of where they live, not because of how much they earn, and not because of the level of their religious activity — they are valued because God is delighted with them. That may be the most difficult announcement a prophet ever makes. Who is going to believe it? The people to whom we are sent are more accustomed to measuring themselves by the world’s yardstick and ...
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