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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Brett Blair
... of hope. But Jesus words were not seen as hope on the occasion in question. Indeed, Mark tells us that the crowd scoffed. Mark says simply: “They laughed at him.” There are those who scoff still today. They see religion as pie in the sky, starry eyed lies. But Jesus looks at Jairus and says: Do not fear, only believe. Jesus is the only one who dares to look death straight in the face and say: Do not fear, only believe. Perhaps it was these words that proved the inspiration of Civillia Martin when she ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... today is the transformation of human nature. This has become acutely important in the nuclear age when man has achieved mastery over the basic forces of physical nature but has not learned to control the destructive power of evil within himself. The solution does not lie in developing man’s natural capacities but in implanting God’s life into man’s life. One of the most delicious and valuable of fruits, the peach, was once in its wild state used only as a source of poison in which Iranian tribesmen ...
2353. Christ and Time
Galatians 3:26--4:7
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T. A. Kantonen
... ebbs out life’s little day." And yet we have the thirst for eternity in our hearts. In the ancient world the riddle of human existence was symbolized by the monstrous figure of the Sphinx. The ancient Greeks told the story of this monster, representing fate, lying in ambush on the side of the road, pouncing upon every traveler and forcing him to answer the question, "What is the animal that walks on four feet in the morning, on two feet at noon, and on three feet in the evening?" The monster destroyed ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... , if our Lord is only an example, he is an impossible example, for we cannot come anywhere near copying him. And if our Lord is merely a teacher, we would soon become drop-outs from the school of discipleship. How can we become real Christians? The true answer lies in one word with which Luke introduces our Lord’s speech on discipleship. "He turned and said to them." The disciples did not have to look at Jesus’ back when he was speaking to them. He turned so that they could look up into his face. So it ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... of thought in Christendom is that the real presence of Christ must be affirmed even though it cannot be fully explained. According to Luther, when Christ says, "This is my body," he may be compared to a mother who points to the cradle in which her child is lying and says, "This is my child." Christ does not mean to say that the bread is his body any more than the mother implies that the cradle is her child. But "in, with, and under" the elements of bread and wine the glorified resurrection body of Christ is ...
2356. The Word of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
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T. A. Kantonen
... when pressure is applied. And it was applied: agitation, propaganda, money. In vain, Pilate argues with the mob. They shout back, and the gospel records: "their voices prevailed" (Luke 23:23). Kindly decent people become throughtless and bigoted when a flood of lies is turned loose or when the chance to make quick profit is presented. Are we free from the same spinelessness, the same ingratitude, the same treason? Even the disciples of Jesus are involved. Peter denies him, Judas betrays him, the others ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... older, the wonder goes out of life. We even take for granted the amazing story that God was born in a stable. The mysteries of life, as Wordsworth would say, "stir us not, for the world is too much with us," while "heaven lies about us in our infancy." Recognizing the spiritual potentialities in the child and the childlike attitude, Jesus is deeply concerned with actualizing, instead of thwarting and frustrating, these potentialities. Having said that we must become like children, he proceeds at once to say ...
2358. A New Perspective
Deuteronomy 7:1-26
Sermon
Gregory J. Johanson
... wildly down a treacherous mountain road. When he went careening around a curve, everybody in the theater would gasp and grab hold of the arms of their seats. It was easy to give yourself to this new frame of reference. Sometimes it can even happen with a cloud. You lie on your back on the beach or an open field where there’s nothing else in your field of vision but the sky - no trees or buildings or things. Or sometimes you can just look up into the sky when there are no large objects around to stabilize ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... like the woman - driven by our need to find a more lasting kind of acceptance in this world. Yet, if we trust the story, it may be good news that we are no longer Simon and now identify ourselves with the sinful woman. And perhaps our lying and spying and killing behavior can be taken up into the greater potential of love that that story of forgiveness illustrates. The gifts of the left hand are important to us politically; I suggest they are even more important to us religiously. The gifts of the Spirit ...
2360. The Vulnerable Christ
Philippians 2:1-11
Sermon
Gregory J. Johanson
... the real crisis which makes individual death inevitable ... According to the New Testament a man can simply die, or he can die in Christ. But if one dies in Christ, he has already conquered the second death, even though the natural culmination of his life lies ahead. Death for biblical writers is not simply the last moment of life; it is the last enemy. Because of that it is not something to be endured at the end of life but something to be conquered within life itself. Scene Three: The Resurrection. Mary ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... , we are no longer pursuing love in a relationship, no longer seeking the other person’s total good, but are seeking our own fantasy that we superimpose on the reality of what we actually could be enjoying with another. The key to the solution, I think, lies not in withdrawal, not in trying to love less in order to keep the relationship from getting confused erotically or otherwise, but in trying to love more, to love someone in a way that allows them to be open to us transparently without manufactured ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... perfection. That is a mistake we make in our churches. The Christian sign is not perfection (the one thing you are asked and must admit as you come into the church is a confession of sin), but redeemed, forgiven imperfection, seeking to witness to perfection, which lies only in God. And what about Paul’s demand and his phrase "without blemish"? That is what we seek. Not out of pride or to outshine lesser lights, not to win God’s love; that is already guaranteed - but that out of gratitude for the hope ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... bothered me. That is what happens when you get old like me. It’s just natural that way. (Silence) How old are you, young man? L-5 Thirty. D-5 Thirty, eh - oh, you have a lot to learn yet. I’m over ninety and have seen much that still lies ahead for you. I’ve seen things that you will never see ... and then you, in the years ahead will see things I’ll never see. You have much to look forward to, much to learn. L-6 What would you teach me, looking back? D-6 Oh, I guess ...
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Brett Blair
... , Rabbi, I always go dressed in spotless white like the sages of old. I never drink any alcoholic beverages; only water ever passes my lips. Also, I live a plain and simple life. I have sharp-edged nails inside my shoes to mortify me. Even in the coldest weather, I lie naked in the snow to torment my flesh. Also daily, I receive forty lashes on my bare back to complete each days penance." As the young man spoke, a white horse was led into the yard and to the water trough. It drank, and then it rolled in the ...
2365. All
Mark 12:38-44
Bulletin Aid
Dallas A. Brauninger
Call to Worship Wherein lies your poverty? There is the source of our compassion. There we identify with others who also suffer. There we most want to help. There we give of our energy, wisdom, experience, and understanding so that another might improve, so that another might know we join the journey into hope. Collect ...
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Brett Blair
... mean? He meant that since the age of 13, the point at which a Jewish boy assumes personal responsibility for keeping the commandments, he had kept the commandments. How is that possible? Don’t we as Christians assume that no one has ever kept the commandments? Herein lies the key to this passage of Scripture and the turning point of this young man’s life. This is where the negatives begin to creep into this man’s story but before we get to that let us first recognize that this young man was courageous ...
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Brett Blair
... criminals were crucified. Or, perhaps he means Moses and Elijah who stood with him on the mount of Transfiguration. Still yet he might mean the positions beside him in heaven. It is not clear. The one thing that is clear is that James and John have misunderstood what lies ahead of them. Prestige is not coming to the disciples. It is the Passion. It is not glory to which they are headed but the gallows. First and second positions are out of the question. Least of all is the only option or nothing at all. III ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... fighting in the front lines. He seemed to have hid it successfully except he did not hide it from God who sent Nathan to say to him, "Thou art the man." Don't we do the same? We cover our footprints. We wear gloves to prevent fingerprints. To cover one lie, we tell another and another. We appear to be good and we pose with a false veneer of piety when we are as guilty as hell underneath. But, it is all so foolish, for murder will out! What is whispered in the secret closet will one day be shouted from ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... deceit and hypocrisy; prophets to deflate pompous egos and to humble arrogant hearts and minds. We need prophets to tell it like it is when everyone in little sound bites tries to convince us it is as they promise it will be. When we have been lied to, deceived, defrauded, betrayed, and suckered into one scheme after another, prophets are a breath of fresh air, a clean windshield on the future. Thank God for prophets. And thank God for John the Baptist. But in Jesus we have someone greater than a prophet ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... of husbands in the Bosnian-Serb conflict. We call to mind little girls in Northern Ireland who have known the grief of fathers murdered before their very eyes, and we bring before you the anguish of little Palestinian and Israeli boys whose fathers or brothers lie silent in the tomb. And for the victims of violent crime in this country, their parents and spouses, children and loved ones, who know the long days of grief and the endless nights of tears -- for these, O God, and thousands more, we pray your ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... itself, where I ran a foot-race with my friends. But not far from the stadium are the ruins of the Rotunda, erected by Alexander the Great, in which he placed statues of his family. The statues are long gone. The majestic columns of the Rotunda lie about in pieces -- a crumbled monument of Alexander the Great, who, as legend says, wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. But travel a little farther from Olympia to Sparta or Patras or Athens, or farther to Rome or Paris or London, or farther ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... by the conditions in which some have to live. It is to avoid any book or any speaker who shatters my illusions of innocence in this evil world. It is not to ask questions at work, at home, or at church because I prefer to let sleeping dogs lie. It is to persuade myself that problems in the schools, in the neighborhood, in society at large are really none of my business.[2] We know the darkness intimately. “This is the crisis of the world,” says the Gospel of John. “Light has come into the world, and ...
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William G. Carter
... we could live by the Golden Rule? And yet, I don’t know anybody who can live by the Golden Rule. Once in a while, maybe; but not perfectly, and not all the time. If we want proof, we have no further to look than the teachings that lie around the Golden Rule. As some commentators come to this part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, they interpret the Golden Rule as a summary of teachings that come immediately before. “Love your enemies,” because you want your enemies to love you. “Do good to those who ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... women can be included in the definition. 2. John R. W. Stott, Christian Counter-Culture: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1978), p. 178. 3. Charles M. Schulz, And the Beagles and the Bunnies Shall Lie Down Together: The Theology in Peanuts (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984). 4. Thomas G. Long, Matthew (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997), pp. 77-78. 5. Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1970), pp ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... trees. Role reversal! The baby has become the priest — if we can, to use Schweitzer’s great image, see this Jesus as one who threw himself on the great wheel of history, determined to show humanity the kingdom of love and forgiveness lying crushed and lost within our social institutions. Hebrews is a wonderful Scripture to move us beyond our infatuation with Jesus’ stage of infancy and keep us from emphasizing the manger to the exclusion of the marketplace. It moves us from decorative concentration ...
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