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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Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God." (NRSV) Jesus didn't hold back, did he? He didn't pussyfoot around. Do you think that it was this and other honest expressions that made the people hang on to what Jesus said. So, again, mark it down. Words don't mean anything unless they come from someone who is honest. For what had happened to Jerusalem, Jesus had tears. But for the cause that it had happened, He had divine indignation and He pronounced ...
2. Something To Hang On To
2 Corinthians 12:9
Children's Sermon
Teresa L. Major
Object: A pair of ski poles, if possible. If not, help the children understand what ski poles are and what they are used for. Lesson: When we start to fall, Jesus is there for us to hang on to. Have you ever seen any of these? (Display poles.) Do you know what they are used for? (Children respond.) These are ski poles and people use them when they go skiing down the mountain. They go swoosh! swoosh! and use these poles to help them keep their balance and ...
3. Hanging On To Today
Illustration
Maxie Dunnam
You may not know the name Sarah Winchester, but you may know about her home in San Jose, California. For 38years, 24 hours a day, workmen remodeled that house. There are 40 bedrooms in the Winchester house -- 161 rooms altogether. There are 13 bathrooms, 9 kitchens, 10,000 windows, and 40 staircases. For 38 years, one resident, Sarah Winchester, kept adding to her house. Her son had died in infancy and, fifteen years after their marriage, her husband died. Sarah, now made painfully aware of the ...
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of his highest willingness.
Archbishop Trench
Sermon
Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... , pain of rejection and persecution, and developing a willingness to suffer to bring about redemption. Being Christian means you have come to terms with the suffering of Christ and the suffering of your own life. But Christians can't understand redemptive suffering until we fathom Jesus' hanging on the cross; how and why he hung will give us a clue to how we are able to hang through the tough times of our lives. Our theme this morning is "Hang Time": How long can you hang for the things that are of and for ...
Drama
Dory Younger
... loops at one end for hanging. Star-shaped cookies. Decorated cookies must be baked with holes for making yarn or ribbon loops. Bundles of straw. Straw may be cut with scissors into four-inch lengths and tied in middle with yarn or ribbon looped to hang on tree. Bundles should be about one-half to one inch in diameter. Small wrapped gifts. Cubes of styrofoam about two by two by two inches. About two for each of the seven children. Manger with straw. Shallow basket or wooden crate will do. Doll to represent ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... scary, but, one thing I’m sure of He’ll never pour shampoo in my face!” (6) That’s a simple analogy, but a powerful truth. The greatest problem that most of us have is either an insufficient faith or an inadequate God. Trust God and hang on. Trust God and keep going. Trust God and keep coming back demanding justice until God gives you a victory. Many people experience defeat in life because they simply give up too soon. Years ago an old man approached the famous 19th-century poet and artist Dante ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... going into a garage makes you a Mercedes. I went to college down in Florida and all over the campus you would see Spanish moss hanging on oak trees. You could walk up to a low hanging branch and reach up and pluck that Spanish moss right off of that tree. Spanish moss is hanging on the tree, but it is not organically connected to the tree. Jesus had Spanish moss hanging on Him. His name was Judas. Of the twelve disciples Jesus had eleven were genuine branches that were connected to Him, but Judas was just ...
Sermon
... on knocking, and it will be opened to you. In Matthew and Mark there’s a vignette, a sketch of how to do it: how to hang on, how to keep on asking, how to keep on seeking, how to keep on knocking. It’s about a woman. That in itself was against ... might also have grown weary. We thought we’d been holding up our arms in prayer for a good long time. We thought we’d been hanging on like pet bulldogs and not letting go. But we had so many reasons to give up. "That job I want: surely others are praying for ...
10. The Face Of God
Isaiah 55:1-13
Sermon
Steve Burt
... 't be enough. Maybe he did it to show Jacob what true defeat was. Whatever the case, Jacob refuses to let go, his grip now like that of a person who has fallen over the edge of a cliff and is holding fast to a scraggly root. He's hanging on for dear life. At last, as the dawn begins to break, Jacob can begin to see the wrestler's face. I like the way Fred Buechner describes what Jacob sees. "... something more terrible than the face of death -- the face of love ... half ruined with suffering and fierce with ...
Sermon
Gregory J. Johanson
... misapprehension; she had understood it all right; but it had also given her the idea of adopting a European child to share the home to which her own son would never return. She was on the right track. When you reach wit’s end - tie a knot of service and hang on! Look up and not down. Forward and not back, Out and not in, And lend a hand! III Finally, let me suggest that when you reach wit’s end that you tie a knot of religious devotion. The passage that we read from the Psalm is actually part of a ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... the former (as NIV). Cf. Bernstein, “Early Jewish Exegesis.” It is important to note that the hanging was an expression of the cursed status of the criminal, not the reason for it. “The body was not accursed of God . . . because it was hanging on a tree; it was hanging on a tree because it was accursed of God” (Craigie, Deuteronomy, p. 285). Deuteronomy 21:23 entered early into Christian interpretation of the death of Christ on a “tree” (cf. Acts 5:30; 10:39f.; 1 Pet. 2:24), though only Paul ...
Sermon
John M. Braaten
... the sign of suffering love. That is the power we wield, we Christians who are Christ's body in this world, the power of suffering love! There are easier routes to travel in our world. The easiest way is just to hang on, to hang on to what is ours, to hang on to privilege, to hang on to life, and to protect ourselves: from involvement, from caring, from suffering, from crosses. It's not hard to understand why so many are tempted to buy in to the theology of glory these days because it's the same old success ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... call to us today. One believer used this analogy. He said that in his basement some potatoes had begun to sprout, even though they were in the darkest corner of the room. How had they obtained enough light? he wondered. Then he noticed a copper kettle hanging on a wall opposite a small window. Soon he deduced that sunshine coming in the window reflected just enough light over into the dark corner where the potatoes lay, to allow them to sprout. That's my job as a Christian, thought this believer. I may not ...
15. Marrying a Captive Woman
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... the former (as NIV). Cf. Bernstein, “Early Jewish Exegesis.” It is important to note that the hanging was an expression of the cursed status of the criminal, not the reason for it. “The body was not accursed of God . . . because it was hanging on a tree; it was hanging on a tree because it was accursed of God” (Craigie, Deuteronomy, p. 285). Deuteronomy 21:23 entered early into Christian interpretation of the death of Christ on a “tree” (cf. Acts 5:30; 10:39f.; 1 Pet. 2:24), though only Paul ...
Sermon
Alton F. Wedel
... saved people? Do we march with confidence and courage and conviction to our mission? Do we radiate the gladness of salvation? Or has our faith become the dull routine and grind of following the rule book, with carefully designed allowances for failures? Can You Hang On? Pointedly I want to ask, "Can you hang onto that?" Regardless of the circumstance of life, no matter what, can you hang onto that, "The Lord has saved his people"? When everything your life has known or hoped for threatens to collapse, when ...
17. The Right of the Firstborn
Deuteronomy 21:15-17
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... the former (as NIV). Cf. Bernstein, “Early Jewish Exegesis.” It is important to note that the hanging was an expression of the cursed status of the criminal, not the reason for it. “The body was not accursed of God . . . because it was hanging on a tree; it was hanging on a tree because it was accursed of God” (Craigie, Deuteronomy, p. 285). Deuteronomy 21:23 entered early into Christian interpretation of the death of Christ on a “tree” (cf. Acts 5:30; 10:39f.; 1 Pet. 2:24), though only Paul ...
18. Various Laws
Deuteronomy 21:22--22:12
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... the former (as NIV). Cf. Bernstein, “Early Jewish Exegesis.” It is important to note that the hanging was an expression of the cursed status of the criminal, not the reason for it. “The body was not accursed of God . . . because it was hanging on a tree; it was hanging on a tree because it was accursed of God” (Craigie, Deuteronomy, p. 285). Deuteronomy 21:23 entered early into Christian interpretation of the death of Christ on a “tree” (cf. Acts 5:30; 10:39f.; 1 Pet. 2:24), though only Paul ...
Sermon
Johnny Dean
... great light, and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." And there’s something inside us that wants to believe that if anything in this life is true, THIS is! Something inside us wants to believe that this is the only hope worth hanging on to, that here is a way out of the fearful mess we’ve made of our lives. Somewhere, sometime, we believe that WE have seen that light. We remember seeing it, once upon a time, a long time ago. If only we could find it again – or if IT ...
20. A Rebellious Son
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... the former (as NIV). Cf. Bernstein, “Early Jewish Exegesis.” It is important to note that the hanging was an expression of the cursed status of the criminal, not the reason for it. “The body was not accursed of God . . . because it was hanging on a tree; it was hanging on a tree because it was accursed of God” (Craigie, Deuteronomy, p. 285). Deuteronomy 21:23 entered early into Christian interpretation of the death of Christ on a “tree” (cf. Acts 5:30; 10:39f.; 1 Pet. 2:24), though only Paul ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb." (Acts 13:29, NASB) "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"." (Galatians 3:13, NASB) The cross of Jesus Christ is referred to over and over as a tree. The greatest description of that tree and what happened on that tree and why it is God's Christmas tree is found in one of the greatest single verses ...
Sermon
J. Will Ormond
... and those who take part in this execution think they are crucifying a person to whom the title "king" can be applied only in derision and jest. But there is one character in the drama who has insight beyond the others. He is a most unlikely prophet. He too hangs on a cross. He is facing death because of serious crimes he has committed. He admits he is a sinner. He does not protest that he is being treated unfairly. But he sees in the man who is dying beside him one who is indeed a king. This condemned man ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... afraid to die. Through the grace of Jesus Christ, I plan on making heaven my home. But I'm not anxious to catch the next bus. I don't know about you. If it's all right with the Lord, I'd like to spend a little extra time and hang on a little longer. This life is something to be treasured and valued and lived. Eternal life is a quality of life here as well as a quantity of life there. I've still got some living to do. That's why every day is a gift; every sunrise is sacred ...
24. Jesus, Messiah and Lord, Is True Interpreter of the Torah
Matthew 22:15-22, Matthew 22:23-33, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46
Teach the Text
Jeannine K. Brown
... to love God and love neighbor. Jesus as the true interpreter of the Torah identifies the love commandments of the Torah as the lens through which to understand all of the Torah. By this teaching, Jesus does not make the rest of the Torah obsolete, since all the rest “hangs” on the commands to love God and neighbor. Understanding love as the center of the Torah is a teaching that is thematic across the New Testament (e.g., John 15:17; Rom. 13:8–10; 1 Cor. 13:13; 1 Pet. 4:8; 1 John 4:7–12). And for ...
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
... , "Do you see what I see?" "Do you see something in that picture? I sure don't." Adam looked at me with glee in his eye, "Pastor, can't you see him? It's Jesus hanging on the cross." I stared as hard as I could, until my eyes actually hurt from staring. I wanted to believe Adam and that there actually was the image of Jesus hanging on the cross hidden somewhere in that mass of color and shapes, but I couldn't see Jesus anywhere. "Adam, I'm sorry but I must be blind. You will have to help me see." Directing ...
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