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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Donald B. Strobe
... to be closer to Christ. Some of them got pretty weird, living out there all alone. But one of them, perhaps the most famous and wisest of them all, a man named Anthony, made a prediction for the future. He said, “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad. You are not like us.’” Well, that time appears to be here. We label Jesus’ words about loving our enemies the ravings of a madman, while we listen soberly to ...
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King Duncan
... so they needed to think about this decision carefully. The three women thought about what they had been told and then returned to the medicine man. Two of the women decided that, yes, they wanted the medicine. But the third woman said no. If it would make her go mad, she wanted no part of having a baby. So the man gave the medicine to the two women who wanted it and all three women returned to their homes. Sure enough, in due time the two women who took the medicine gave birth to beautiful babies. They ...
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Kent Moorehead
... -out" victory during the years of World War II that our attention has been focused and our interest centered upon mass behavior. We speak of the world as having gone mad. But madness is a malady of the human mind. The world outside cannot go mad; only the world inside is capable of sanity and insanity. We talk of the Government’s having full responsibility for making all the decisions. But the Government is not an abstraction. It is composed of individuals. And in a democracy every human being is supposed ...
4. Ghosts - 1951
Ephesians 6:10-20
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Kent Moorehead
... , fat to bursting on blood and tears, stupid, serene, unshakable, with many long pale arms full of suckers, winding about the throne, picking first-born morsels from the home, sucking treasuries, gobbling up peasants as a tapir swallows pismires, poisoning legislators till they go mad and vote him ships and men and money, secreting an inky stuff called patriotism that covers a nation of souls for him to eat at leisure; a merry ghost, as hell and destruction are merry, to the music of trumpet and drum; a ...
5. Body / Ambassador
2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... Paul expresses the concern that speakers of these heavenly languages would appear to outsiders to be out of their minds (14:23). According to Hekhalot Rabbati, however, hearing the voices of the angels who sing before the throne of glory causes one immediately to go mad (Schäfer, 104). In reconstructing the opponents’ attitude toward Paul’s mental state, we may also compare the use of the Hebrew mešuggaʿ (“mad, crazy”) in the critique of OT prophets by their enemies (cf. 2 Kgs. 9:11; Jer. 29:26 ...
6. Amazing Grace
Romans 3:21-31
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Robert G. Tuttle
... joy, far more intense than anything I had known before. This state of mind lasted for several minutes, and, wonderful though it was, posed an awkward problem in terms of action. My life was far from blameless. I would have to reform. My family would think I was going mad, and perhaps after all, it was a delusion for I was in every way unworthy of receiving such a flood of grace. Gradually the effect wore off and I made no effort to retain it. I was too closely embedded in the world to change course. But ...
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King Duncan
... are trying to communicate with those we love. Let me introduce you to a term that you may not be familiar with. It is called "gaslighting" ” a phrase coined from the Alfred Hitchcock thriller GASLIGHT, in which the husband convinces his wife that she's going mad. See if this dialogue sounds familiar. "She seems like a nice girl," Mother says thoughtfully. But Brian chooses to read something else into her statement. "You sound as if you don't approve," he says. Now at this point Mother neither approves not ...
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King Duncan
... Frankl gained fame for his books chronicling his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The humiliation, beatings, tortures, lack of sanitary conditions, and lack of food were all meant to break the prisoners' spirits. And many people did go mad, or give up and die in those surroundings. But Dr. Frankl noticed that those people who had some goal, no matter how small, were able to survive the brutality of their environment. Even the tiniest shred of hope kept people alive. One ...
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Leonard Sweet
... scenarios actually have come to pass. In fact, they are now accepted as an innocent part of everyday life. Thankfully the Soylent Green nightmare has come true primarily for bovines, unsuspecting cows munching on feed made out of unsuspecting cows (and only occasionally going "mad" because of it). But all of us have learned to live with the ever present eyes and ears that watch, record, and collate the moves we make in life. There are video cameras in banks, in stores, in dressing rooms, on street corners ...
10. Luke 8:26-39
Luke 8:26-39
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... only natural that Legion request relocation into one of the most familiar unclean symbols swine. The presence of a nearby herd once again reminds us that Jesus is in the midst of Gentile territory. Surprisingly, Jesus grants Legion's request. When the beasts go mad and plunge headlong into the depths of the lake, however, it seems Legion's strategy has backfired. In the Septuagint, the Hebrew "tehom," the flood, or watery deep, is also translated as "the abyss." Legion ended up in "the abyss" after all. The ...
11. They Crucified Our Lord
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
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... . Gasping for air, the victim "poured out his soul to death." Death comes from lack of breath and loss of blood. It comes from exposure to the sun and the wind. It comes from the attacks of the vultures and wild dogs that wait nearby, hungry. Sometimes, death comes from going mad. They crucified our Lord. Could you bear to be a witness?
Understanding Series
Tremper Longman III
... but also many of the surrounding nations. Specifically, God tells Jeremiah to take the cup filled with the wine of his wrath and make the nations listed in verses 17–26 drink from it. The results will be devastating because it will stagger them and make them go mad. While some people believe that the cup of God’s wrath is a kind of poison because it leads to death, it is better to see it as inducing a state of extreme drunkenness that leaves them powerless to resist the sword (military might) that is ...
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
14. Good and Mad
Luke 4:21-30
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Billy D. Strayhorn
Before we start the message this morning I need you to do something for me. I want everybody on this side (point to the right side) to move over here (point to the left side). I want everybody in the center to move there (point to the right side). And I want everybody on this side (point to the left side) to move to the center. OK, let's go. After everyone has moved, and is uncomfortable, mad and grumbling. Did that make you mad? Of course it did. It probably made you "Good and Mad" We don't like change. ...
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Maxie Dunnam
Zorba the Greek is one of my favorite stories. It was a memorable theatre experience when Anthony Quinn played Zorba. The climax of the drama is two men -- Zorba and his boss -- dancing. The story was that the boss's money is invested in an untried invention to bring timber down a mountain. The wood, badly needed by the community, is to be used to reinforce the walls of an old mine which, it is hoped, will restore economic life. Everyone turned out to watch the great occasion. Anticipation turned quickly ...
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King Duncan
It is an old story, but a good one. Former baseball manager Billy Martin told it in his autobiography titled NUMBER 1. He says he and Mickey Mantle were doing a little hunting down in Texas. Mickey had a friend who would let him hunt on his ranch. When they got there, Mickey told Billy to wait in the car while he went in and cleared things with his friend. Permission was quickly granted for them to hunt, but the owner asked Mickey to do him a favor. He had a pet mule in the barn who was going blind and he ...
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James Merritt
Mark Twain once said this about the Bible: "I have no problem with those parts of the Bible I don't understand. It's those parts of the Bible I do understand that gives me fits." The passage that we are going to study certainly fits into that category. This passage illustrates something I bet most of you have never thought about before. One of the easiest things in the world to do is to become a Christian. It is ridiculously easy. All you have to do is confess you are a sinner, repent of your sin, believe ...
Drama
Jerry Eckert
Comment: One of the great figures of Genesis, Abraham, amazed me the first time I read the story of his argument with God over His plan to destroy Sodom. With that in mind, I got to wondering how Abraham might have handled his anxiety over how his obedience to God was paying off. I chose a time early in his career when that anxiety would have been high. The first time I did this story sermon, a friend let me use a classic old black telephone that dated from the early '40s. With it, I conducted a one-sided ...
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Jerry Eckert
August 8, 1982 Comment: One of the great figures of Genesis, Abraham,amazed me the first time I read the story of his argumentwith God over His plan to destroy Sodom. With that in mind,I got to wondering how Abraham might have handled hisanxiety over how his obedience to God was paying off. Ichose a time early in his career when that anxiety wouldhave been high. The first time I did this story sermon, a friend let meuse a classic old black telephone that dated from the early'40s. With it, I conducted a one ...
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John R. Brokhoff
During a pastoral call, a three-year-old boy climbed in the lap of a pastor and whispered confidentially, "I know a secret!" The pastor asked, "Will you tell me your secret?" "Yes," the little fellow giggled delightedly, "but you mustn't tell my mamma." When the pastor promised not to tell, the boy continued, "My mamma's going to the hospital to have a baby. But don't tell her. Me and Daddy want her to be surprised!" Would you be surprised if someone told you that you were going to have a baby? The men and ...
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King Duncan
Some of Jesus' followers were beginning to leave him. His teachings were too difficult for them. So he turned to the 12 and asked, "Will you also go away?" Peter's plaintive reply lives forever, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." "Lord, to whom shall we go?" We can scarcely imagine anyone other than Peter saying this. It seems unlikely that this would have been the first response from the critical ...
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Charles R. Leary
What’s going on at your house? Words like family, house, brother, sister, mother, nation, church ring special in our ears. They are bonding words, words that signify relationship, words that serve as labels for our deepest loyalties personal, familial, national, religious. What did Jesus really say? He said: A family divided into groups that fight will fall apart. A house divided into groups that fight will fall apart. A nation divided into groups that fight will fall apart. Let’s take an overview of these ...
23. When God Says "Go"
1 Samuel 16:1-13
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Several years ago Alvar Persson was elected mayor of Grove City, Minnesota. It was an unusual election, partly because of the size of the victory - Persson garnered eighty percent of the vote - partly because Persson is a Lutheran minister and not a politician, but mostly because Persson wasn't even running for office. No one was. Next to the word Mayor on the ballot was a blank space. Only write-in votes could be cast. Of the eleven people whose names were written in, Persson was the clear choice - 202 ...
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John Smylie
Mark doesn't waste any time getting us involved in the beginning of our Lord's ministry. In these few verses, we experience Jesus baptized by John in the River Jordan, followed by the Holy Spirit descending upon him. Immediately after, a voice from heaven proclaimed pleasure in Jesus. Moments later, Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the wilderness where we learn he is to be tempted by Satan. And by verse 14 we discover that Jesus is back in the Galilee region preaching, "The kingdom of God has come near ...
Drama
Dave Marsh
Director's Notes: We know there are certain facts when it comes to how God uses his people within the church: 1) The Spirit gives unique spiritual gifts to believers. 2) The Spirit leads believers to use these gifts within (and outside of) the church. The problem is that sometimes we see a need in the church and feel compelled to fill it immediately. While this can be a good thing for short term situations (a family needs money), it can be a bad thing for long term situations, especially if we don't have ...
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