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Synonyms: take action, take steps, take measures, take the initiative, move, make a move, react, do something, proceed, go ahead, behave, function, perform, operate, work, take effect, serve, be efficacious, play, play a part, take part, be an actor, be an actress, be one of the cast, appear, pretend, play-act, sham, fake, feign, put it on, bluff, pose, posture, masquerade, dissemble, dissimulate, deed, action, gesture, feat, exploit, performance, undertaking, maneuver, stunt, operation, venture, effort, enterprise, achievement, accomplishment, law, decree, statute, bill, Act of Parliament, edict, fiat, dictum, dictate, enactment, resolution, ruling, rule, judgement, canon, ordinance, proclamation, command, commandment, mandate, measure, stipulation, direction, requirement, division, section, subsection, portion, part, segment, component, bit, turn, routine, number, item, piece, sketch, skit, playlet, dance, song, pretense, false display, show, front, facade, charade, guise, affectation, appearance

Antonyms: do nothing

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1. See Something, Say Something, Do Something, Be Something

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . See something — see what Christ is doing in the world, and in the lives of those you meet. Say something — speak the good news of the gospel, the saving power of Christ, and tell others what you see Jesus up to in their lives. Do something — join Jesus in what he’s already doing, and make the actions of your life reflect the humility and compassion of Christ. Jesus washed his disciple’s feet, then he offered himself as a living sacrifice on the cross. What “services” are you offering ...

2. Sometimes You Have to Do Something

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... him to lead the early church. There are times when you need someone to act, even if, from time to time, they blunder. As it has been said, “When all is said and done, more is said than done.” That is particularly true of the church. Sometimes you have to do something. It is only when Peter takes his eyes off Jesus that he begins to sink rather than to soar. That’s how being a follower of Jesus works. As long as we are focused on our faith, we’re all right. When we focus on our fears, we are in ...

3. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... of national and international news. Parents face it every day with their children — young or old. Do we step in? Do we say something? Or should we keep our mouths shut and our opinions to ourselves? Let them learn as they go? To do something or not to do something. What’s a person — especially a Christian — to do; if anything? It’s Peter’s Dilemma, isn’t it? He goes with James and John up on that mountain with Jesus and he witnesses something about as amazing, as awesome, as powerful as ...

4. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the combos that played the club wished that they could bring in their own piano ” just like they could a saxophone or a trumpet. Finally, after years of listening to these jazz musicians complain about his piano, the owner of the club decided to do something about it. He had the piano painted. A young couple attended church regularly to listen to a very wise pastor preach. Late one afternoon they happened to find the pastor alone. The couple had a question for him. There were times in their lives when ...

5. Remember Toward the Future John M. Cobb

Exodus 12:1-30

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... this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.’ ... And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. Do you want to do something? If so, then you must go back, must return to origins, to the foundation, to God and, indeed, to God as he has revealed himself in the past. That’s the way it was for the ancient Jews and that’s the way it must be for us Christians ...

6. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... moral beauty in all we touch. Let me repeat it: The interim we occupy is not just a waiting period; it is a working time. Verse 46 of Matthew chapter 24, loosely translated, reads "Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find doing something!" Jesus goes on to suggest that the interim-occupying servant may fail because he grows weary of waiting. And it’s no great wonder that he grows weary if he is doing nothing but wait. Jesus even says the faltering servant may say to himself, "My ...

7. When God Does Something New

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Argile Smith

... :33, he identified it as the heart. Of course, mentioning the heart in those days meant talking about the center of a person’s being, the core of his or her life, the wellspring of life itself. Down in the core of a person’s life, God intended to do something new. He intended to plant his law there. Instead of writing it on stone, like he did on Mount Sinai, he would script it in the hearts of the people who followed him. There it would have a definite effect. It would be the beginning of something new ...

8. When Fisherman do Strange Things

Mark 1:14-20

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Mark Trotter

... the time. That was the preaching of the early Church. Now is the time. It is still the preaching of the Church. It is still the Gospel. Now is the time. "The time is fulfilled." The Kingdom is there for the taking, so do something about your life. And, do something about this world. But first, do something about your life. Get your life in order, then keep going and follow Jesus into the world. If you follow Jesus, that is where you are going to end up. You are going to end up in the world, trying to make ...

9. Body Language

Mark 7:1-23

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Mark Trotter

... . You are saved by what God has already done for you in Jesus Christ. With that preaching, Paul brought about a tremendous revolution in religious thinking. "We are saved by God's grace alone." Up to that time, and even today, many people think that we have to do something in order to earn God's love. Paul was overwhelmed with the thought that God was in Christ. Which meant, God came to us. We could not bridge the gap between us and God, but God took the initiative out of love for us, and came to us ...

10. The Gathering at Cana

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... be humiliated not to have wine available for his guests for the duration of the feast! At first, Jesus does not want to do get involved. He doesn’t want to draw attention to himself. It’s not time for people to see who he is! But Mary insists he do something. So Jesus comes up with a plan to provide a very fine wine anonymously. And if Jesus is going to make wine, it’s going to be the best in the house, the best ever made! But there’s a reason for that! Jesus takes the opportunity to draw on ...

11. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... is and confess it as a stronghold, and confess it as a true sin against God you will never get on the road to redemption or the freeway of forgiveness. II. We Must Sincerely Regret Our Sin Anybody with any conscience at all will regret when they do something wrong, especially when they hurt someone else. Paul wisely points out there are two different kinds of sorrow over sin. There are two different types of guilt-trips. One puts you on the freeway of forgiveness and the other one is a dead-end to death ...

12. They Grow Up Fast

Luke 2:41-52

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Mark Trotter

... I suspect, have tried it on, considering the burdens that you carry around, but that job has already been taken. You don't need to be the Messiah, nor the Savior of the World. That position has been filled as well. The call that I am talking about is to do something significant with your life, to realize that I am placed here for a short while, and placed here to make a difference, to give and not just to consume, to have my soul fed as well as my body, to be here for something significant, not just to have ...

13. Appetites and Desires

Romans 7:7-25

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Leonard Sweet

... in with the first century dress code. He too, was “wrong.” Both life-styles of fasting and feasting were refused and rebuked by the mainstream. In the Pauline text, his letter to the Roman Christians, the apostle’s lament was about how much he wanted to do something better than what he did every day. Paul, the Pharisee who had lived his whole life according the letter of the Law, wrote with regret that, “I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” This is almost a direct quote ...

14. The Wedding Guest

John 2:1-11

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Mark Trotter

... who are not supposed to be together, Romans and foreigners, Jews and Greeks, slaves and free people, and men and women who are not married to each other, you know what’s going to happen. They must be doing something immoral in there. They were not doing anything immoral. They were doing something new, something that had never been done before, something that wasn't supposed to happen until the Kingdom of God came, until "on that mountain the Lord of Hosts will make a feast for all people." Then it ...

15. Internal Medicine

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... at the same time! The left front fender is wrapped around the doorjamb on the garage! And what does she do? She jumps out of the car, crying and shouting: I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I'll stay home! I won't go on vacation! If you do something wrong, you want to make amends. And part of making amends might have to do with giving up something significant to you. And so it is with fasting. Great King David fasted after he did his thing with Bathsheba. Remember? David's up on his palace roof one summer's ...

16. I Love You — If You Know What I Mean

1 John 3:16-24

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John B. Jamison

... ’s suffering as an opportunity to try to teach a lesson or prove something we believe in, whatever it is we are doing is not an act of God’s love. Okay, I am to love everyone, everywhere. When I see someone in need and suffering I am to do something that eases that suffering. But, tell me this, what does it actually mean to be in need? What if that person could probably ease their suffering all on their own if they just tried to work a little harder, or straightened out their behavior? Is that really a ...

17. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

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King Duncan

... ! Slide!" He did, but his pants became caught in the barbed wire. Her last bit of advice was, "Pray, Johnny! Pray!" The only prayer Johnny had ever heard was his father repeating grace at mealtime, but the old cow was closing in fast and he needed to do something so he used his dad’s prayer, "Lord, we thank thee for that which we are about to receive." I don't know if I could offer a prayer of thanksgiving under those circumstances. I believe that I would be praying that somehow God would change that ...

18. Holy Waste

Mark 14:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... been so with Mary. She knew their kind of celebration might not happen again. She slips away, and in a minute return with something in her hand. Use your imagination. See the deep emotion written on her face. She is trembling a bit. She’s about to do something or say something which comes from the very, depths of her being. In her hand she is holding a cruse. She seems to cradle it in her hands with tender care, and you get the feeling that what she has is precious. She walks directly to Jesus, kneels ...

19. Planting Your Feet

Psalm 32:1-11

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James Merritt

... Psalm 32: 3-4, ESV) At first, David tried to hide what he did and we all have this tendency to cover up when we have messed up. We all carry a broom with us that just wants to “sweep things under the rug.” How many times do we do something wrong and then we try to analyze it and rationalize it when we say, “Everybody is doing it” or “This is not going to hurt anybody.” Then oftentimes, we blame the problem on something else or somebody else, because we are living in a “no fault” society. It ...

20. What If What They Say Is True?

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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John W. Wurster

... healed disease, can you heal me? What if what they say is true? What if you rose on Easter? What if you conquered death, can you conquer me?1 Can God conquer you? Can God break through your comfort zone with a word of promise that might enable you to do something, to say something, to believe something that you could never do or say or believe on your own? How is God calling you? Listen. Closely. 1. “What If What They Say Is True?” by Eli Morris, Hope Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee.

21. The Cathedral Within

II Corinthians 9:6-15

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Mark Trotter

... his own project, called "Share Our Strength," to attack the problem of hunger. The shame of a nation with such enormous wealth is that there are children who live in conditions that bring about malnourishment in their lives. He set out to do something about that. But he is better known for his speaking, and for a wonderful book that he has written, entitled The Cathedral Within, in which he tells the story of innovative non-profits that operate profitably, because people who are trained and experienced ...

22. Captive Free!

Romans 7:15-25a

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Steven E. Albertin

... says, "But I say to you that if your are angry with someone ... or insult someone ... or call someone a name, you are headed for hell." Oops! Who of us has not done this? We all are guilty. No one has clean hands. Then why does God command us to do something that he knows we cannot do? To expose us to the nature of our captivity? We are captive to the power of sin and there is nothing we can do about it. Our sin starts with the fact that all of us, by nature (as the Augsburg Confession reminds us ...

23. Complete Joy

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... in Christ, if there is any consolation from love, if there is any sharing in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy. If, in other words, those who receive this letter, if those who hear these words have any of these things, then Paul wants them to do something for him. If people feel any encouragement in Christ, any strengthening from the body of Christ in the church, any appeal to that part of us which is good and true, any calling of us by Christ to be a part of his work here, then Paul has a ...

24. How about Something Different?

Luke 17:11-19

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Mark Trotter

... cardiac arrest from an injection of heroin. A few days later he was released. Then it happened. He said it wasn't that the skies opened, or anything like that, but that voice kept haunting him. "If you want something different, you have to do something different...you have to do something different." That morning he walked out of the house, on his way to the corner liquor store, which was his habit in the morning, to get a bottle. Only this time he walked right by the liquor store on the corner, praying all ...

25. Our Christian I.D.

Luke 4:1-13

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John M. Braaten

... he didn't know who he was. Knowing your identity, who you are and whose you are, is essential to your wholeness as God's child and to your awareness of what God wants you to do with your life. So Satan's primary objective is not getting you to do something wrong, something bad, but to cause you to lose track of who you are - to lose your identity - to lose your sense of belonging to the family of God. The ways Satan tries to convince us that we do not deserve to be God's beloved are most often subtle ...

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