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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1. A Matter of Excess
Mark 6:30-44
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Larry Powell
... did not nearly fill the jar it was in. When it was all said and done however, there was more oil than jars to put it in, enough money was available to pay the creditor, and the excess was sufficient for the widow and her boys to live on. 2. The other story is also found in 2 Kings and again deals with excess. A man brought Elisha twenty loaves of barley bread and was instructed by the prophet to feed a rather sizeable gathering. The man asked, "How can I feed 100 men with only twenty loaves of bread?" To ...
2. Excess Bolts
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One day E.H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, was walking along the tracks with an assistant. Looking at a track bolt, he turned to the other man and asked, "Why does so much of the bolt protrude beyond the nut?" "I don't really know," said the assistant. "Except that it is the size we've always used." "Why should we use a bolt of such length that a part of it is utterly useless?" asked Harriman. "Well, when you come right down to it, there is no reason." The two continued walking along the track for a ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... it all, the heart of Sunday, the center of worship, the core of church itself, maybe the whole meaning of Holy Week, so listen carefully. This will be on the exam, so pay attention: We love because we have been loved. (I John 4:19) Our excessiveness in worship is the excess of love. The church's worship on Sunday is a way of being in love. If you have never been loved by anybody, you will have difficulty (though perhaps not the impossibility) understanding what the church is up to here. But if you have been ...
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Charles R. Leary
... to avoid those parts or, at best, to be cautious in them. Does this really apply to you and me? Think about it: Avoid the excess take only the bare essentials. When you travel the last time I went on an airflight I was amazed and stunned at the heavy carry- ... precious that not a moment of it dare be wasted. That’s urgency! And that is putting quality high above quantity! Avoid excess take the bare essentials; and be a wise user of time. The third part of being mission ready: “Wherever you are welcomed, ...
5. Overcoming Fear
Mark 4:35-41
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Bill Bouknight
... stop that storm and he thought the disciples knew that. They didn't. Therefore, they panicked. Now that we know the cause of excessive fear, let's look at the cure for it. The cure is simply this: a growing confidence that God is with us and ... at tomorrow. Because nothing can come down the street that God and I can't handle together. To believe that is to have the cure for excessive fear. One time a young skater was entered in her first competition. Just before she was to go on to the ice, she turned to ...
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David E. Leininger
... annual reminders that “Jesus is the Reason for the Season,” and to “Keep Christ in Christmas,” despite the fact that we know he has never left it. We come into church on a Sunday and beat ourselves up about excessive spending, excessive partying, excessive scurrying, excessive excesses, then go out and repeat the process all over again. The reason for all the confusion is that we are celebrating two holidays at this time of year, not one. They are related — both are called Christmas — but they ...
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William L. Self
... Christmas right now. Don't show me anything else that is bad. However, there are some people who get terribly upset about the $42 billion Christmas machine that rolls through our world. They get upset about it and its excesses. But everything has excesses and America has put excess into Christmas. Push away all the excesses, push away all the tinsel, get rid of all the things that are absolutely un-Christian, come down to the core of it, and what we are trying to do the world needs to hear. We need more ...
8. Overcoming Fear
Mark 4:35-41
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... Christ was always sufficient for their needs. YOU SEE, IF I DEVELOP CONFIDENCE THAT GOD IS WITH ME AND IS SUFFICIENT FOR MY NEEDS, I CAN LAUGH AT TOMORROW, BECAUSE NOTHING CAN CONFRONT ME THAT GOD AND I CANNOT HANDLE TOGETHER. To believe that is to have the cure for excessive fear. One time a young skater was entered in her first competition. Just before she was to go on to the ice, she turned to her coach and said, "I can't do it. I'm too afraid." Her coach said, "No, you're nervous, not afraid. There's a ...
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Thomas Peterson
... to feel the power of this conviction: there is a spirit that goes on beyond the death of the body. Life is free of physical limitations. The cathedrals of the Middle Ages are huge investments of cities and nations, taking hundreds of years, and consuming all excess wealth and labor to create. I cannot grasp the magnitude of a project that requires hundreds of years of the labor of hundreds of thousands of workers. Before that fact I can only stand in awe. But it was not the building itself that caused such ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... –69; NIDNTT, vol. 3, pp. 177–221. 2:2 Many will follow: The verb is exakolouthein, to follow out to the end, used in the NT only in this letter (1:16; 2:2, 15). Shameful ways is one word in the Greek, aselgeia, licentiousness, wantonness, unbridled lust, excess; also used by Peter in 1 Pet. 4:3; 2 Pet. 2:7, 18. The way of truth, the path of truth; or as a Hebraism, the true path (cf. Ps. 119:30). The metaphor of “way” for conduct, ethical behavior, is common in the OT, in intertestamental literature ...
Understanding Series
Timothy S. Laniak
... of dat. The double feast of verses 3–8 is, at first glance, an image of the empire as “one big, happy family.” Such grand events should denote peace and prosperity. However, this scene is also, from a literary point of view, so bloated with excess as to suggest that something is awry. A brief and strictly factual notice follows the lavishly detailed description of the king’s raucous parties: Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes (v. 9). The contrast seems ...
12. Personal Accountability
Ezekiel 18:1-32, Ezekiel 19:1-14
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... to interest from the perspective of the lender, who benefits from the transaction (Block, Ezekiel 1–24, p. 573). In any case, the point of verse 8 here, as of every other biblical text dealing with interest on loans, is not that one should not take excessive interest, but that one should not take any interest at all. How are we to read this text in our modern-day economic situation? On the one hand, it would be a mistake to think that we can apply this, or any other ancient biblical law, immediately ...
13. Step One - Honesty
Luke 8:26-39 · Proverbs 23:29-35
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John A. Terry
... like life to men, If you drink it in moderation. What is life to a man which is out of wine? It has been created to make men glad. Wine drunk in season and temperately is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul. Wine drunk to excess is bitterness of soul, with provocation and stumbling. Drunkenness increases the anger of a fool to his injury, reducing his strength and adding wounds (31:25-30). Does not God understand? Unfortunately, the basic approach coming out of the religious community is to tell those ...
14. The Competitor
Genesis 25:19-34
Sermon
King Duncan
... t have time for the things of God--to read their Bible or to be in worship--you're talking to someone who has sold his birthright for a bowl of stew. So neither brother really measured up to their inheritance--one with an excess of ambition, the other with an excess of apathy. And that just may be why God chose Jacob instead of Esau to carry on the covenant relationship. Between ambition and apathy, most of the time, apathy is the more deadly spiritually. Who can forget those scorching words that the Spirit ...
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James W. Moore
... of the party systems, but it does appear that some are becoming more venomous toward those not in their group. We are forgetting now to disagree without being disagreeable. We are in danger of becoming..... Excessively judgmental, Extremely critical, Excessively closed-minded, Extremely negative and, Excessively partisan,… So much so that some want to totally reject and repudiate anybody who differs with them. Remember the Peanuts cartoon where Lucy is chasing Charlie Brown. She is shaking her fist at him ...
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Leonard Sweet
... Adrian, Michigan) or they are psychotically tragic (Brittany Spears, Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan, and on and on). Every facet of their lives become part of the public domain and the public demand. Excess is expected and extolled. In fact, there is nothing better for building a bigger celebrity image than excess, especially excessively bad behavior. A couple years ago actor Alec Baldwin got into a shouting match on the phone with his teen-aged daughter. Does anyone remember this? The celebrity catch to his ...
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Leonard Sweet
... store event or a honeyed "feel-good" sentimentalization of our own childhoods. Its scandal lies that in the dirty straw of a dingy cave - with a squalling newborn, an exhausted mother and a nervous father - the glory of God shone all around. Third, is it excessive? John Sutherland Bonnell says that "Only God could have dreamed the Christmas story." An awesome love of Joseph for Mary; an awesome love of Mary for God; an awesome love of shepherds for a child; an awesome love of God for each one of us ...
18. Living for God
1 Peter 4:1-11
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... 10:28), “which outrage common decency” (Barclay). 4:4 Plunge (lit. “run together”) paints a picture of people rushing forward from all directions in order to see something untoward (Mark 6:33; Acts 3:11). Flood of dissipation: Anachysis means a pouring out, an excess; asōtia, a life given up to profligacy (Eph. 5:18; Titus 1:6), implying a waste of time, energy, and resources. The cognate term asōtōs is used of the prodigal son’s “wild living,” which included lavishing his money on harlots ...
Understanding Series
Tremper Longman III
... son. Even though personified Zion makes just such a plea (and it appeals to our modern sensibilities), one cannot help but think that the poet would know that this consequence rose from the announced punishment for the sin of rebellion and not from God’s excessively harsh judgment. After all, we read the following in the covenant curses from the book of Deuteronomy: Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and ...
20. Being Good
Matthew 5:17-20
Sermon
Will Willimon
... disciples spoke for us all when they then asked, "God, who can be saved?" And Jesus responds with the good news: with you, it's impossible, but with Go all things, even the salvation of people like you, is possible. With God it's possible. The law, the excessive righteousness which Jesus demands of you and me, is a means of making us good, but not as though goodness were the result of our own earnest efforts. Goodness arises out of our being driven into the arms of a merciful and just God. The commands are ...
Sermon Aid
William E. Keeney
... . Jesus rejected the role of the insurrectionists or guerillas of his day. He would not take the carnal sword in his defense but submitted himself as a suffering servant, even unto death on the cross. The teachings of Jesus suggest that excess wealth or the excessive pursuit of material goods are encumbrances which keep the person from discovering the riches and treasures of life in the kingdom. It may, however, be any sin which breaks our relationship with God or the neighbors. That is why Jesus calls ...
22. Epiphany 5
Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 5:13-16
Sermon Aid
William E. Keeney
... be encouraged to put their lamps on a lampstand and let the light shine to the glory of God. Points to Ponder 1. Salt when supplied in excess is not a good seasoning. If you put too much salt in food, it is no longer tasty. Try eating a tablespoon of salt alone. Or if ... realized that the strip in the center of the highway had recently been painted. She could "see" while blind! 3. Excess saltiness. Several fellows were living together while working on a job. They had made an agreement among themselves that they ...
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John R. Bodo
... Scholastics of the Middle Ages. So are many contemporary Fundamentalist Christians who treat the Bible like a digest of laws. But the ways of God are not necessarily logical -- by our standards. It was part of Jesus' mission to reveal God's lack of logic -- and excess of love. What could be more illogical than the Beatitudes? What could be more unexpected and offensive than the Son of God suspended on two wooden posts stained by his own blood rather than seated in splendor on a throne of gold? But Jesus did ...
24. You Can Be Well Fed
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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Michael B. Brown
... to eat four chickens and a platter of vegetables for lunch. Certainly it is not my purpose to pick on him. His was truly a tragic story. And I certainly have never missed many meals. The point is simply that sometimes our personal hungers become excessive and blind us to the needs and issues of the world in which we live. Whenever that happens, we have ceased to "hunger and thirst for righteousness." Happy people, people whose lives have meaning and dignity, are always people of compassion. They focus day ...
25. Epiphany 8
Luke 6:37-42, Isaiah 55:1-13, Jeremiah 7:1-29, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Luke 6:46-49
Sermon Aid
John R. Brokhoff
... -intellectualism in the religious community. "I feel" legitimizes behavior. Such "new pietism" (the church experienced such a movement several hundred years ago) can become an insufferable tyranny, dividing head from heart and leading to emotional excess. Outline: a. Intelligence is God's good gift. 1. It rescues us from emotional excess. 2. It keeps us honest. 3. It serves as a check on behavior. b. God is about our intellect. 1. We need to keep our reason in perspective: God is wiser than we are. 2. God ...
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