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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176. Epiphany 8
Luke 6:37-42
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B. David Hostetter
... learned than ourselves, slow to learn from those with greater experience and wisdom. We can make fine distinctions in the morals of others and miss gross faults in ourselves. Forgive our vacillation and lack of proportion. Hear the pleading of our advocate, Jesus Christ. Amen. DECLARATION OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS Hear the Good News! God gives us the victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ. Friends, believe the Good News. In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. EXHORTATION Stand firm and immovable and work ...
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B. David Hostetter
... loneliness. Call to our minds all that Jesus has told us and strengthen us to follow faithfully and to speak clearly of your love for all in Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World. Amen. Prayer of Thanksgiving Universal Mind, Universal Linguist, Universal Advocate, we are thankful that you reveal yourself in many thoughts and ideas, in many languages and varieties of music, in many ministries of teaching, worship, healing and helping. We rejoice in the work of translators that have made the Old Testament and ...
178. Proper 25
Joel 2:28-32, Joel 2:18-27, Psalm 65:1-13, 2 Timothy 4:9-18, Luke 18:9-14
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B. David Hostetter
... bargaining. Forgive our stubborn narrowness. Our preference for people just like us, our suspicions about those alien to us, our double standards of caring for those of our own kind and those of our customs or races. Excuse our neglect of justice for those who need advocated because they are not in a position to speak for themselves. We have forgotten your outgoing grace, which found us when we were still strangers to you but you did not hesitate to send your only Son, Jesus to find us and include us in the ...
179. Proper 27
Luke 20:27-40, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 98:1-9
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B. David Hostetter
... loss if we choose to do nothing. Forgive our doubts, our disbelief, our unbelief, our deafness to the witness of other believers, our silence when we could give witness to the faith we have been given. Hear our prayers through our crucified but living Advocate, at your right hand, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Declaration of God's Forgiveness Hear the Good News! The Lord's love endures forever. The Lord chastens us but does not surrender us to death. God is our deliverer. Friends, believe the Good News. In ...
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Dennis Koch
Gospel Note This portion of John's farewell discourse contains Jesus' parting promise of "Paraclete" (Advocate, Counselor, Helper) whose role is described here as mainly pedagogical: It is the Spirit of truth (v. 17), which will teach the disciples and remind them of Jesus' teachings (v. 26). The fact that Jesus refers to the Spirit as "another Counselor" suggests that he regards himself as a Paraclete, ...
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Mark Radecke
... a few are suggesting that that name be replaced by the threefold title "Creator-Redeemer-Sustainer" or used interchangeably with other triadic formulas, such as "Mother-Lover-Friend" or "Parent-Child-Spirit." In part, the intent of these advocates is laudable. They seek to repudiate the unbiblical notion that the transcendent God is male. They denounce the physical, emotional, economic and spiritual degradation of women, especially when such degradation cloaks itself in a mantle of religious righteousness ...
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Thomas Long
... near to his time of departure, now that the disciples will be on their own without him, that task is to be handed over to the Holy Spirit: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth ..." (John 14:15-17). The primary task, then, of the Holy Spirit is reminding the faithful of the truth, jogging the memories of the followers of Jesus about all of his commandments so that they can keep ...
183. Proper 12
Mt 13:31-33, 44-52 · Rom 8:26-39 · 1 Ki 3:5-12 · Ps 105
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Russell F. Anderson
... . 31). Let me name a few possibilities. Other people can be against us. Our conscience can be against us. God's law can testify against us. Of course, what the apostle is getting at is that it doesn't matter who is against us, if God is our advocate. God has declared us not guilty because of Christ; our sentence of guilty has been overturned. Outline: Do you ever feel that the world is against you? You may have done things to cause others to be against you Circumstances may make it seem the world is against ...
184. Proper 7
Mt 10:16-39 · Rom 5:12 – 6:11 · Jer 20:7-13 · Gen 21:8-21 · Ps 86
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Russell F. Anderson
... because he loves us (vv. 29-31) Illustration: One of the central reasons for family breakdown in our society is that parents no longer claim, yea, demand, their rightful authority. Children no longer fear God or their parents. Don't misunderstand; I'm not advocating that parents rule with an iron hand or that fear should replace love, but if parents would inject a little dose of fear in their relationships with their children, the health of the family might get a needed boost. If parents would set limits ...
185. Standing Firm
Isaiah 50:1-11
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E. Carver McGriff
... differently. It is also important to examine our own hearts to be sure we ourselves are not holding our own positions out of mixed motives, some of them not so worthy. In Isaiah's case, he seems sincerely to have been in the lonely position of advocating faith in and loyalty to what we would agree is the one true God, against a widespread ancient belief in idols and a variety of gods. The retrospect of history enables us to see that Isaiah was right. In our own situations, however, that perspective is ...
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Dennis Koch
Gospel Notes In a sense, Jesus refuses here to play along with the Pharisee's question, which called for a singular answer. Jesus' answer, advocating a "bifocal" love, was not original in the rabbinic tradition. Others had emphasized these two Old Testament injunctions before. Jesus does, however, appear to raise the second commandment to a nearly co-equal status with the first with the word "like" in v. 39, and in his citing both as ...
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Dennis Koch
... (rather loosely related) grounds: (1) that what has been hidden (probably the Reign of God proclaimed, often obliquely, by Jesus) will be revealed; (2) that, compared with God's power and providence, nothing is fearsome; and (3) that the faithful will have an advocate in heaven before this God in the person of the Christ. Liturgical Color Green Suggested Hymns Lord Of Our Life Who Trusts In God, A Strong Abode Christ Is Made The Sure Foundation Awake, O Spirit Of The Watchmen Your Kingdom Come, O Father ...
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Brett Blair
... never believed that Bible studies and worship services in the church are as important as nurture is. Programs are not designed to be an end in themselves. These things are to equip us and energize us to go out and touch the lives of people. I am a Christian social advocate and I make no apologies about it. I believe that as the family of God we are called upon to reach out and touch the lives of the least, the last, the lost, and the lonely. Why do I feel that way? Because He touched me, oh He touched me ...
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Charles R. Leary
... a microscopic piece of dust can cause a “glitch” in your software resulting in “garbled” data and a “scrambled” text. Lightning or other power surges can burn out your transformer. Take a lesson from our hyped-up EPA consciousness. Ecological awareness advocates are provoking us to handle our “toxic wastes” in ways they term “recycling.” We humans are like the computer and we are like the natural order. Whatever is inside us eventually comes to the surface. It either blesses or curses ...
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Thomas Long
... of the table is done in anticipation of the needs and wishes of the one who is to come. When James Watt was Secretary of the Interior, he often infuriated environmentalists by his careless treatment of the nation's natural resources. He advocated the granting of oil leases in wilderness areas, and he worked to permit strip-mining in areas adjacent to national parks. Particularly troubling was the fact that Watt based his decisions on religious as well as political grounds. A fundamentalist Christian, Watt ...
191. Passion Sunday
Mk 14:1 - 15:47 · Isa 50:4-9 · Phil 2:5-11 · Ps 31:9-16
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Russell F. Anderson
... attacking them but by withstanding the fury of their misguided hatred. The best defense possible. Verses 8 and 9 imply legal language. The servant stands confident that Yahweh is his defense attorney and that he would ultimately win him an acquittal. With such an advocate, he stands ready to face his foes. "Who is my accuser? Let him confront me!" (v. 8). What better defense than the One who created the laws of the universe? Likewise, those who stand acquitted through the mediation of Christ need not fear ...
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Larry R. Kalajainen
... ). The clear implication is that while they piously fasted and mourned to commemorate the oppression and injustice which they suffered at the hands of a foreign nation, they themselves practiced oppression within their own nation against all those who were without power or an advocate. When we ask the wrong question, in this case, a self-serving question, we shouldn't be surprised if we get an answer that we neither expect nor wish to hear. Our question becomes a judgment upon us. Like the people of ancient ...
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Mark J. Molldrem
... on tightly to his little creation, he was overheard to say, "Now you are twice mine. First I made you; then I bought you." God will not let his people remain lost. He searches for them on earth and through Jesus finds them. "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous," who paid the price for sin and saved us from the fires of judgment. The cradled Messiah, the boy King, the survivor of the wilderness temptations, the derelict on the cross, the resurrected Jesus has paid the price that ...
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Donald Dotterer
... category do you and I fall into?" I am sure that you have heard of Helen Keller, that remarkable woman who was born blind and deaf. She became famous for her determination to learn to speak and read. She became a world-famous writer and lecturer as an advocate for handicapped persons. Ms. Keller once said: "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish tasks as if they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also ...
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Donald Dotterer
... of Jesus should live in this new age inaugurated by the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior. Four people, one writer and three businessmen, were sitting at a dinner table with Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner and great advocate for racial equality in South Africa. As they sat finishing their dessert, one of the men asked the bishop, who has done so much in the name of justice, what they could do to promote world peace. Bishop Tutu gazed into the distance, thought for ...
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Michael Rogness
... preachers to "keep your sermon close to the ground ... We must deal with the nitty gritty issues of the day in everyday language."16 Fred B. Craddock, professor of preaching and New Testament at the Chandler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia, advocates an "inductive movement" in preaching, beginning with the lives and situation of the people in the pews, then moving to the biblical message, rather than stating a general truth and deducing particular applications: The plain fact of the matter is that we ...
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Clement E. Lewis
... year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down." A parable is a teaching tool. The symbolism here sounds very much like God is the owner, and Jesus is the advocate, saying, "Give it another chance." God expects each of us to be accountable for the character of our lives and what they produce. Jesus was sent by God, with the purpose of providing us with a Redeemer, one who is interested in providing us a way to receive merciful ...
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Brett Blair
... a tool to win friends and influence people. He would become as just another demagogue—just another politician. The point here is this: Bread can be used as a weapon. In the past, there are those in our own government, decorate and republican, that have advocated that very thing. If nations withhold oil from us, then we withhold bread from them. On the surface feeding the world’s hungry sounds like such an ideal thing, but when this whole issue is examined it becomes much more complex. In the novel The ...
199. Pentecost
Psalm 104:1-35, Ezekiel 37:1-14, John 15:18--16:4, Acts 2:1-21, Romans 8:18-27
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B. David Hostetter
... that we may know where wrong and right and judgment lie, and in knowing what is coming, stand with you and not with the Prince of this world who already stands condemned. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Doer-of-great-things, glorified-Truth-Teller, truthful Advocate, what great things you do and promise, and fulfill. We are continually amazed at the speech you give the speechless, the power you give to the powerless, the meaning you give to those whose lives have seemed meaningless. We live in anticipation of ...
200. Proper 12
John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, Psalm 14:1-7
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B. David Hostetter
... denunciation of the sins of others and loud in our demands for their punishment. We are apologetic in the admission of our own sins and plaintive in our cries for mercy. Forgive our double standards, and grant us pardon for our offenses through Jesus our advocate. Amen. DECLARATION OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS Hear the Good News! God has laid on the crucified Christ the consequences of our sins, so that we will not die. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. EXHORTATION Grasp what is the ...
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