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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2001. Suffering
John 19:28-37
Sermon
Burton F. Blair
... have seemed an unending period of time, the soldiers had played the game - "mock the king." All this was done to mock Christ’s royal claim. Seeking to be as rude as possible, the mocking soldiers knelt before Jesus and mockingly hailed him king. Each time Jesus moved, the crown of thorns dug deeper into his scalp. Blood drained down into his eyes and into the corner of his mouth. He could taste his own blood. Moreover, the back of the robe was saturated with blood from the lashes of the whip. All this was ...
Drama
Jerry Nordstrom
... minute shopping to do. PATIENT: I’ve got a lot of memories but not many friends any more. SPORTSMAN: I don’t know what to do about presents, ya know, for my folks. MERCHANT: We have a number of adult games for sale, too. One that’s moving especially well is the godfather game, Make Me an Offer. HOMEMAKER: This year I’m giving everyone red and green cross-stitched aprons with Christmas recipe cards in the pockets. TRADITIONALIST: I’ve been calling all around, but I can’t find a church with a 5 ...
Drama
Denny C. Wise
... the mockery of a trial, Jesus was found guilty and sentenced to die by crucifixion, at a place called "The Skull" outside the city gates. (Jesus carries Cross down the aisle.) Guard: (shouts) Hail Jesus, King of the Jews! (laughs and uses whip) Move on Jewish dog, move on. Make way for the Hebrew swine, make way. (Jesus carries Cross behind curtain. There is a loud hammering noise. Jesus screams in agony. Houselights dim as shadow of Cross is projected on wall.) Choir: "Were You There When They Crucified My ...
Children's Sermon
Susan Hedahl
... do all sorts of things in the place in which you live. You can visit your friends, go to school, go to the shopping mall, go to church. For many people, home sometimes can change. Today people often move around a lot from place to place. Maybe some of your relatives live in a different place than you do or maybe you have moved here from another place. When people we love leave this church to go to another town, we have a service and take the time to say, "We are glad you were here for a while and made this ...
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... to everything he tells you" (3:19, 22 TEV). To use a slang phrase, Peter had now "tossed the ball into their court" and seemingly said in Marc Antony’s phrase, "There let it work!" Will the outcome of the miracle - in the words of the Scottish lad - will it "move"? Or, will the church of the ages onwards be able by its faith to say: "In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk"? Peter would say, "Yes." But there was a catch in all this: they must repent and accept Christ as Savior and listen to ...
2006. Some Rules Need to be Broken
Mark 2:13-17
Illustration
Larry Powell
... from behind the sliding glass doors shouting, "You can’t park here ... this area must be kept open for emergency!" I explained to him that this was an emergency. "I can’t help that," he said, "you’ll have to move the car before you can bring her in." I had to move the car, park it at a considerable distance from the emergency room entrance and almost carry the expectant mother into the hospital. As I mentioned, there must always be individuals to remind us of the rules, but it is an additional ...
Sermon
Gordon Pratt Baker
... his sheep. Nor would the shepherd allow his flock to tarry in one place lest it exhaust its forage. To be sure, the springtime grasses of the plateaus provided them ample grazing. But when the signs warned that the dry season was at hand the shepherd moved his sheep out to search for greener pastures. To the unpracticed eye Palestine’s barren wasteland offered little hope for grazing. But the shepherd knew where to find herbage on which the flock might feed. So, too, he knew where oases lay in the desert ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... in the councils of the strategists. Behind the lawyer’s stirring plea, winning his case in public court, are his unseen decisions in his private thinking. "Court cases," says the legal proverb, "are won in private chambers." Behind a great career in politics that dares to move the world in a new direction, the strategy is planned in a private chamber where the door is shut. It is on the inner battlefield where every one of us must first fight with temptation. God will not force any person to obey him nor ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... the phone speaking Spanish to someone. The longer I waited, the more irritated I became. I was tired after the long drive, I wanted to get moved into the condo, and I didn’t like waiting on that woman to get off the phone. Then, she turned toward me and smiled. She said: ... gifts, and services." The promise to support the church with your prayers means you pray for the people. Shortly after I moved to my present pastorate, I was calling on a couple who lived across the street in an apartment complex. When I ...
Children's Sermon
Erskine White
... After all, God has so much more to worry about than just one family. He has to look after all the children and all the grown-ups all over the world. Then he also has to be concerned about all the animals, fish, bugs, plants, trees and everything else that moves and grows in the world. And let’s not forget the rest of the universe, all the other planets and stars and comets and black holes and anything else that might be out there. When we think of things in this way, we might easily feel that God is just ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... In recent years we have learned a great deal about denial. The alcoholic denies he has a problem with alcohol. The cancer patient denies the illness. In much the same way we deny our own complicity in the situations that alienate us from one another and from God. Moving past the stage of denial is necessary before coming to a healthy acceptance of one’s own part so as to get on with life. You can come home again. The wayward son in one of Jesus’ stories found that out. But one must come to the admission ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... the trail waving and smiling at the people who were coming toward him, looking rather surprised as he sloshed by them leaving a trail of water behind. It had clearly been an experience more deeply moving and unique than for most of the people who would probably look a couple of minutes and maybe snap a picture or so and then move on. From his excitement it is likely he would never forget that day. Undoubtedly he would tell of it many times to others who would listen. And one might even surmise that in years ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... seen there several times before. He was always alone. So this time I decided it might be good to get acquainted. We learned each other’s names. His was Paul. After a little conversation we found we enjoyed each other’s company, and over the next three years until I moved, we met often and sat together in one of the booths to talk. Paul was a quiet sort of man, and not given to talking much about himself, so it was several months before he told me he had been in prison. He hadn’t told me up to that ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... self - and the need to put aside past hurts and injustices, and guilt of things done or left undone, in order to move forward into creative living. To that end they had all come prepared. Earlier that afternoon they had done some writing about the ... counselor to help us. In any case the point must be that we must get to the place where we can forgive ourselves and move onto the mainland of living once again. Jesus understood the disabling effect of feeling unforgiven - by God, or by someone else, or even by ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... . There was a group of people awaiting them, and there had been some controversy. Doesn’t it seem as though that’s the way it always happens? One is brought back to reality rather abruptly. I know that for me it has happened sometimes after a particularly fine and moving worship service that I want to savor for a while, that someone has greeted me with some need that I must attend to, or a complaint that I must hear. We want to stay a bit longer in our enjoyment of a meaningful moment, but the needs of ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... the promise of God. The conclusion to the powerful story of Noah and the flood contains such a promise. This promise of hope comes at a hopeless time. In the first six chapters of Genesis we see the progress of sin, like a fast growing cancer moving into and corrupting all society. The fall of Adam and Eve set in motion a chain reaction of evil and the whole universe was infected. In this long period of time things went from bad to worse. Cain murdered his brother Abel. Lamech introduced polygamy. Unnatural ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... and the 12 tribes of Israel. The book of Genesis is our only source of information about Sarah, but she is an important part of the Abraham story. She and her husband migrate to the promised land of Canaan. But because of a severe drought they move south to Egypt. Then comes this strange incident which reveals much about Sarah and her husband Abraham, for Abraham says to his wife Sarah: "I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance; and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... of refugees whose chief goal becomes survival. We soon discover that nobody wants us. Everywhere we run into negative attitudes: "We have enough economic problems and unemployment the way it is. We don’t need you people adding to it. Move on - we don’t have room for you here." We keep on the move, getting farther and farther from home. Night after night we look into the frightened eyes of our children who ask, "Where are we going now? Why can’t we go home?" It so happens that we are among the few ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... was sick, running a high temperature and desperately needed some water. The engineer was afraid. Yet, he felt compelled by the woman’s moving plea. He went to get some water. As he was about to place the small pail of water into the outstretched hand, ... your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. (41:8-10) The preacher/poet moves into the despair and depression of his people, not with a program or blueprint of a new society, but a vivid vision of a new ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... organization there would be chaos. This was made very clear already in the book of Exodus. Moses was in charge of a congregation that was getting too large for him to handle alone. We also know it wasn’t an ideal congregation. It was a congregation on the move, looking for a building site and it was full of complainers. We are told the members were lined up outside his office door from morning until evening. It was not a good situation. Moses was wearing out and so were the people. I am reminded of one of ...
Sermon
Joseph M. Freeman
... a gathering, I suspect we would consider Jesus being the only one in an esteemed position of authority. The rest of us, regardless of our life-stations before and after the gathering, are merely attentive spectators. Is it not our desire, may we safely say, to move Jesus out of his esteemed seat as teacher/rabbi/Lord? This is not so with the scribes and Pharisees. Verse 2 notes that they "sit on Moses' seat," that is, wherever they might travel, sit, or stand, they have an authoritative air about them that ...
Drama
G. Franklin Gray
... told him all about the trial and crucifixion before they recognized him. (Spotlight on Jesus, standing on riser, stage left. Peter moves into the light and kneels before Jesus.) Jesus Peace be with you, Peter, and with all of my disciples. Peter And ... ! My whole life is yours. (Peter draws his sword and waves it in the air and exclaims.) We are all ready to serve you, Lord. To move into the world and make you a King. Jesus Peter, put away your sword. My Kingdom will be a Kingdom of love. Peter I know, Lord. ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... miles. Now the running was a bit easier. The first miles from Emmaus had been on a small path, pocked with hooves of sheep, rutted by the quick running of rain water. But now he was on the main road, the high ridge road from the north that moved directly to the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem. This was the trade route, smoothed down by soldier legions and the thousands of pilgrims that streamed to the Hebrew capital with its Temple built by King Solomon. On this road the running was easier. It gave him time to ...
Sermon
R. Blaine Detrick
... and victory. There came a time when Israel wanted to be like the people round about them. They were tired of being different; they were tired of being, we might say, a "godly" people. They wanted to be like other nations; they said, "We want a king." So we move, in this chapter, into the period of the kings. At this critical point in the life of Israel, God needed a great man. And when God needs a great man, he finds one, calls him, and uses him to accomplish his purpose. That man, in this instance, was ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... to look at them directly. "Since then," writes Buechner, "I have learned that it is also the way to see other things."4 Just so, Luke moves our gaze from the light on the horizon to the places just above, below, and off to one side. We are told of the light which ... Hall, and an impressive show it was. After entertaining presentations of seasonal chestnuts, like Dicken’s "A Christmas Carol," the review moved to its finale, a recreation of the nativity itself. In command of a stage the size of a city block ...
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