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. How Do You Know It's A Bad Thing?
John 1:1-42
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Brett Blair
... horses. Now his friends came to congratulate the farmer for his good fortune. But the old man said, "How do you know this is a good thing?" While his son was trying taming one of the wild horses, he is thrown and breaks his leg. Again his friends gathered to bemoan his new misfortune. But the old man asked, "How do you know this is a bad thing?" Soon a warlord came to recruit able-bodied youth for his army, and the farmer's son escaped conscription ...
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Kent Moorehead
... begun when the door of the church was swung wide open and down the main aisle strode the Veiled Figure shouting wildly, "I forbid the bans!" The poet, convulsed with anger at this outrage, turned on his tormentor, savagely seized the veil and ... most perverse suggestions assail me and from such unsuspected quarters. A sign, an ad, a smirk, a word, a bump, an insult, a threat, a wild idea, a cold shoulder - and any one of a thousand attacks or appeals and some self rises to react or respond. And as each ...
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Leonard Mann
... reached the end of the well-trodden trail, the end of the well-marked road, the place where the road abuts the wilderness, and beyond which it does not go on. And this is not a wilderness of trees and mountains and swamps and deserts and animals running wild. This is a wilderness of ideas and attitudes. This is where we are - at the edge of the unknown, on the new frontier; and here we must live, and from here, road or flo road, we must go on. Those other pioneers who wrestled with that other wilderness ...
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Leonard Mann
... sense of tone, and my colors fade." Why do musicians use pitch pipes and tuning forks? You know - lest there be deviation from true pitch. For if the maker of music doesn’t get started on the right tone level, he can easily run off somewhere into the wild blue yonder long before he reaches the end of his number. I am told that in the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., there is a golden yardstick. Why? Because it is necessary that there be somewhere a final arbiter as to what a yard really ...
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Michael J. Anton
... , I still enjoy a good debate at a party when the subject of religion comes around, as it always does. Hmm, funny thing about that. I guess a lot of people ARE on this journey with me. I like to argue about evolution and the Bible and miracles, especially that wild one about God opening and closing the Red Sea. Wow! That’s a winner. Great for a good debate anyway. Funny thing about that. People really do like to talk about that stuff. I guess I do, too, but I don’t lose any sleep over it. "May he not ...
Drama
Maxine Dudley
... the next set of photos? (Clarissa enters with another photographer. Clarissa models clothes, smiling, whirling around. The photographers are going wild.) Sarah: Don’t you need any more pictures of me? Photographer no. 1: Not right now. We’ll call you ... shoes.) Act III (While Mother sits on a chair in the corner of the stage waiting for Sarah to return, Martha dusts, sweeps, mops wildly.) Martha: There is always so much work to be done. Someone has to do it. There I am finished. Now I can study. (Martha ...
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Brett Blair
... announced it on television. The world is coming to an end.” Her panic quickly spreads as we see all the Peanuts kids go wildly screaming about. Finally in the last square we see all of the children huddled on the top of Snoopy’s doghouse waiting for the ... patterned that of Elijah before him. While the upper classes and the religious establishment rejected his message, he received wild acceptance among the masses and many were baptized under his ministry. It is interesting that Herod himself believed that ...
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Thomas Long
... show isn’t real What is real, Lord - I don’t know ...5 When life is as confusing and disorienting as a ball bouncing in a wildly spinning Roulette wheel, we are eager for it to come to rest on a number, any number, as long as it promises a framework of identity ... of God." Becket, therefore, refuses to capitulate to the King’s plan. The King is astonished and, reminding Becket of their wild days together at the hunts and in the brothels, claims that this new stance of resistance is not like Becket. " ...
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Thomas Long
... you are," howled something deep within the man. "You’re the H-o-o-o-l-y One of God." "Shut up," said Jesus. "Come out of him!" Things were getting curiouser and curiouser that Sabbath day in Capernaum. The man fell to the synagogue floor, his arms beating wildly at the air, his legs thrashing out so that people moved back to give him a wide circle, froths of foam and strange cries coming out of his mouth. Then the man became strangely calm and lay very still. Slowly he picked himself up off the floor, his ...
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James W. Robinson
... all the evidence she needed to convince her that she could entrust her very life to the medical and surgical teams. She entered the operating room calmly, and emerged cured. Was it not thus with Bartimaeus? He had never met Jesus. But the stories that circulated so wildly and widely spoke of a person with the compassion and skills of a great physician. He was not known to have turned anyone away. Rich and poor were alike to him, it was said. He had restored hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, health to ...
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Thomas D. Peterson
... what we want? Yet, having got it, how does life sustain the high expectation our wants are to fulfill. Somehow getting what we want at one grand event does not sustain the demands reality puts upon human existence to make dreams come true. * Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windemere’s Fan" Act III, quoted in John Bartlett Familiar Quotations 18th Ed. (Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1980), p. 675. Not to get what we want is equally as tragic. We all know people who longed for love, success, big money, and excellence ...
187. Lent 1
Genesis 9:1-17, 1 Peter 3:8-22, Mark 1:9-13, Mark 1:14-20
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... DAUGHTERS OF GOD AND TO MINISTER IN GOD’S NAME. Leader: Be not deceived: the way may not be all comfort and joy, sweetness and light. People: FOR EVEN JESUS WENT STRAIGHT FROM HIS BAPTISM TO A DESERT, AND FOUND THERE NOT ONLY SATAN BUT WILD BEASTS AS WELL! Collect Most wise God, who knows best what it takes to strengthen faith, prepare us for all the hardships of Christian life and ministry; that, when trials and temptations, diversions and dangers come our way, we shall become more effective ministers as ...
Drama
Charles L. Koester
... in the Temple I could not help but wonder ... I heard the sounds, the piteous sounds of the sacrifice, the cry of the beasts and the fowl. Why? Why did God want all this? Why should the Creator of life want His most perfect creatures slain? It was wild and strange for me to see the sacrifice. The hot blood spurting, the sticky feathers, the tough hide scraped, the hacking, the plucking, the carving of the red meat. Often as I grew toward manhood, I wondered why my fathers were so large. Suddenly I knew, his ...
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Roger Prescott
... (hence, from that time forward, we talk of "babbling"). At Pentecost there was a great reversal of Babel; people came together and had a strong sense of God’s presence and direction. It was a great reconciling and outreaching event - a great disciplining of the random, wild tendencies of our sinful human nature. This narrative is a message to keep us from being so parochial. As I think of my interaction with people as a minister, I know that as soon as we draw lines to keep people out of our community ...
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James W. Moore
... a blood-curdling moment… a powerful, dangerous, berserk man charging them. I think I would have run for my life… or jumped back in the boat. But not Jesus! Jesus stood His ground and faced the madman, undaunted and unafraid… Jesus stood there and dealt with this wild man. Jesus healed him. Jesus brought peace to his troubled soul. He changed him, cleansed him. Jesus turned his life around… and you know don’t you, that He can do that for you and me… and He can do that for our world. Please notice ...
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Warren Thomas Smith
... the philosophy taken from The Chinese Classics in Shu Ching, The Book of History: The people should be cherished, And not looked down upon. The people are the root of a country; The root firm, the country is tranquil ... When the palace is wild of lust, And the country is wild for hunting; When spirits are liked, and music is the delight; When there are lofty roofs and carved walls; - The existence of any one of these things Has never been but the prelude to ruin.3 Louis XIV Ascending the throne of France ...
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James W. Moore
... a sermon there somewhere, a valuable lesson we all need to learn and I think it is this: It is dangerous and destructive to judge people and events when we don’t really know the situation or circumstances or facts. It is dangerous to let our imaginations run wild. When we judge others without the whole truth we can cause a lot of confusion and heartache. Let me illustrate that further. Remember the time two men met on the street. One said to the other, "Hey, I know you. You’re the man from the state of ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... points out your sins is always an uncomfortable fellow to have around. He looked the message of repentance that he delivered. His very being was a protest to the luxury and laxity of the day. He was a wild- looking figure living in the open country, dressed in an animal's skin, and eating locusts and wild honey. In fiery, frank, and forceful language he condemned the sin of the day and called people to turn from their wickedness. He threatened them with the damnation of hell-fire. He said that the axe was ...
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William G. Carter
... done.2 On the third day, Jesus turned water into wine. On the third day, Jesus rose from the dead. And if every day is the third day, there’s no telling what the Risen Christ might do among you and me, as he comes in the wild, unpredictable grace of God. 1. William H. Willimon, “June Weddings,” On a Wild and Windy Mountain (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984), pp. 116-117. 2. Fred B. Craddock, et.al., Preaching the New Common Lectionary, Year C, Advent-Epiphany (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1987), p. 130.
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... for God. We need not waste away on our porches of despair, rocking in confusion and disillusionment because God is doing a new thing even if we do not perceive it. God says, “The wild animals honor me, even the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” If the wild animals can perceive and acknowledge what God is doing, why can’t humankind? If the animals who do not have the intelligence of humankind can see what God is doing, why can’t humankind ...
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Brett Blair
... an old cat we have at home." When Gordon offered to buy them, the lad exclaimed, "Mister, you don't want them, they're just little old wild birds and can't sing very well." Gordon replied, "I'll give you $2 for the cage and the birds." "Okay, it's a deal, but you ... to me they were singing, 'Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed!'" This is Advent. And the message of these times is the song of those wild birds. It's the song sung in every carol this season: Redeemed! It’s the meaning behind every gift given under the ...
197. Lift Up Your Heads! - Sermon Starter
Luke 21:5-38
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Brett Blair
... an old cat we have at home." When Gordon offered to buy them, the lad exclaimed, "Mister, you don't want them, they're just little old wild birds and can't sing very well." Gordon replied, "I'll give you $2 for the cage and the birds." "Okay, it's a deal, but you' ... to me they were singing, 'Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed!'" This is Advent. And the message of these times is the song of those wild birds. It's the song sung in every carol this season: Redeemed! It's the meaning behind every gift given under the ...
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James W. Moore
... a blood-curdling moment… a powerful, dangerous, berserk man charging them. I think I would have run for my life… or jumped back in the boat. But not Jesus! Jesus stood His ground and faced the madman, undaunted and unafraid… Jesus stood there and dealt with this wild man. Jesus healed him. Jesus brought peace to his troubled soul. He changed him, cleansed him. Jesus turned his life around… and you know don’t you, that He can do that for you and me… and He can do that for our world. Please notice ...
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Brett Blair
... are better than others but the object is still the same, catch enough today to make a living. Now I will be the first to say that there can be great joy in daily living. In fact if I were offered a life that was average, no wild and unpredictable swings of success and misfortune, I would be tempted to take it. Getting up each day, going to work, coming home to family, and looking forward to the weekend, has merit. And we rarely understand how fulfilling it is until something unexpected happens and threatens ...
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James W. Moore
... place, a bloodcurdling moment… a powerful, dangerous, berserk man, charging them. I think I would have run for my life... or jumped back in the boat. But not Jesus! Jesus stood His ground and faced the madman. Undaunted, unafraid... Jesus stood there and dealt with this wild man. Jesus healed him. He brought peace to his troubled soul. He changed him. He cleansed him. He turned his life around… and you know (don’t you?) that He can do that for you. Now, let me underscore this and spell it out a bit ...
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