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. Hooked for Life
Luke 5:1-11
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Bill Bouknight
... Papa to return from prayer meeting and see my three and a half pound bass. Mama took a picture of us, Papa holding that puny little fish he caught beside my monster of the deep. I can show you the picture at home as living proof. Of course, I was hooked for life. Luke's fish story involved a lot more fish than mine.
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... name, for Jesus Christ is risen, and he lives in our hearts. Help us then in the weeks and months ahead not to forget the reason why we are here. Lord, may Christ's rising from the dead enable us to become disciples again. Amen. 1. Sidney Hook, "In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia," New York Times, 1 March 1987, sec. 4, p. 25. 2. Dom Hubert van Zeller, We Die Standing Up (Garden City, New York: Image Books, 1961), p. 30. 3. Harleigh M. Rosenberger, Thoughts Along the Road (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1966 ...
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Bill Bouknight
... sexually promiscuous, I could catch some awful disease."? I doubt it. God hates sin. According to Archbishop William Temple, sin is "the self-will which prefers my way to God's, which puts me in the center where God belongs." God hates sin, not because He is hooked on rules, not because he wants to prevent us from having fun. God hates sin because He knows it can wreck us mentally, physically, and spiritually in this world, and send us to hell forever. God's attitude toward sin is similar to the attitude of ...
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Alton F. Wedel
... us. But temptation means much more than this. It’s the constant crisis of our lives. It’s the yearning to be free of God and on our own. It’s being always on the point of going over to the enemy. And that temptation isn’t on a baited hook that someone dangles like a lure before our eyes. It’s on the inside that the prod to outlaw God is felt. Sometimes it comes disguised as piety, or in questions that concern our daily needs, or in lust for power and success, pride and self-esteem, the knowledge ...
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Harold Warlick
... problem and gave its inventor great satisfaction. But it was only when it was put to its purpose, hooking together shoes, holding computers, fastening together hospital implements, and you name it, that it made a difference in our world. How wonderful that one side of ... the gift with its stiff “hooks” could come together with the other side of the gift, its soft “loops.” That mutual joining together was an essential first ...
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Paul E. Robinson
... , compared to what I'll die believin' now ... I don't know how to put it. I'm still not religious, never will be. But since this hook pierced me the world hasn't been the same. I just didn't know anything, nothing at all, till God let me watch that line run away ... help or hope. But I was there, on the sea that day. And I was sent the help unlooked for, an' it came in the shape of a hook. An' nothin' will ever be the way it was before that day, not for me it won't ... It seems that, for reasons none of us can ...
Children's Sermon
... learner. Jesus' friends were learners. What Jesus was going to teach them was to go fishing in a new way. They would learn by watching Jesus, just like you learn to fish by watching someone else who knows how to fish. They would not catch people with worms and hooks and fishing poles, but with love and kindness. But the one thing about fishing for fish and fishing for people that is the same is the long time of waiting. Jesus was going to teach his friends how to wait and love. As we come to church we learn ...
8. FISHERMAN
Isaiah 19:8; Matt. 4:18; Luke 5:2
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Stephen Stewart
... with fishing spears?" (Job 41:7). This means that fishing is very old. The second method was angling; the common hook and line method. Peter used a hook to catch the fish in which he found a coin to pay the temple tax (Matthew 17:27). We also have our text from Isaiah ... and also Amos, who said, "They shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks" (Amos 4:2). It’s interesting to note that archaeologists, have found such fishhooks in ...
9. Going Fishing
Mark 1:14-20
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David E. Leininger
... we do? How about GOIN' FISHIN'? What makes fish want to swim our way? The bait. And how do the fish get hold of the bait? They get it when we bring it to them, when we are GOIN' FISHIN'. But suppose we are not very good at preparing our hook, or heaven forbid, our bait is bad? No problem. The witness of both scripture and history is that God can use some strange bait to get the fishing done. Not knowing how or being afraid of doing it incorrectly is no excuse to keep us from GOIN' FISHIN'. Finally, remember ...
10. Light
Isaiah 2:1-5
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King Duncan
... we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord." In Paul's letter to the Romans we read, "For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first ...
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King Duncan
... it. Just look at our world today with its terrorism and war. Where will it end? Isaiah tells us. It will end when God's Messiah is crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords: "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Here is where the revelation of Scripture conflicts with the wisdom of the world. In the world, the way to deal with your enemies is to pulverize them. When we kill all ...
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Leonard Sweet
... tied the clappers of our church bells to the "church thief" and not the "world thief?" Granted, it's a lot more pleasant to hook up our bells to the church thief. Look how much more appealing he looks. Some painters even made him take on the appearance ... because it's not in our backyard, it's not in our graveyard? The bells are going off all the time out there. Is this church hooked up to those calling for help so that it's bells are ringing? The bells are ringing: can you hear them? Can you hear the ringing ...
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King Duncan
... in a school, but they never learn. Aren’t you glad we’re smarter?” (2) Well . . . I guess it depends how we deal with temptation whether we are smarter than a fish or not. It depends how often we see the lure without noticing the hook, just like fish. We could learn from our Master about temptation--for even he was tempted. Our lesson from Luke’s Gospel tells the story. Interestingly enough, it occurs right after Jesus’ baptism. Sometimes it is when we feel closest to God that the tempter seems ...
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King Duncan
... . The story begins with tuna running only 30 miles off Cape Cod. What made that exciting was that such a run hadn’t happened in 47 years. The tuna were not only running, but they were also biting! It was a fisherman’s dream. All you needed was a sharp hook and some bait and you could haul in a bountiful catch. You could even make some money. Rumor had it that Japanese buyers would pay up to $50,000 for a nice blue fin tuna. Here’s the catch: Atlantic blue fin tuna can exceed 900 pounds in weight which ...
15. The Shepherd
John 10:11-18
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John Jamison
... sling and stone was not just used to slay giants, as David once did. They were also quite effective against things like mountain lions. And, like all other experienced shepherds, he was a crack shot with his sling. He also carried his crook, the long stick with the curved hook on the end. It wasn’t just for show, nor was it some kind of a badge to let everyone know he was a shepherd. The stick was a perfect second line of defense against any intruder, like a wild animal or a thief, determined to steal a ...
16. Walk in Light
Isaiah 2:1-5
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... Word went forth from Jerusalem like a blazing torch to give truth to our naturally dark minds. God’s Law sparked from Mount Zion to light a pillar of fire to guide us. Without that Law, we would continue only to beat our plowshares into swords and our pruning hooks into spears. Isaiah knew, as later Jesus proclaimed, that what defiles us comes out of the heart. We all need the light of God’s Word and the spark of God’s Law if we are to walk in anything but darkness. Left to ourselves, we are not prone ...
17. For Freedom!
Matthew 18:21-35
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... that he exists, or we may simply not believe it. But he’s there. In spite of all his generosity, he has his hooks in us, and we all know it. There’s something paradoxical about the fact that what is good can simultaneously be crippling, debilitating, ... made the universe and had control of it and had a stake in where it went and what resulted in it, I would probably keep strong hooks into it. I’d want the creatures placed there to feel obligation for what they did to my world. In other words, if I were ...
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Eric Ritz
... we take responsibility for the sins we commit and rely on God to help us face temptation, we will never taste the victory promised to us. Temptation itself is not sinful. Temptation is an appeal to sin. There first must be an enticement, an appeal, a hook that gets its ugly claws into us. Dr. Henry Therssin in his book, Systematic Theology, writes, "Satan''s appeal is in making man desire--what God has forbidden--to know what God had not revealed--and to be what God had not intended." Temptation forces us ...
19. Huckleberry Finn on Prayer
Matthew 6:5-15
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Mark Twain
"Miss Watson, she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing came of it. She told me to pray everyday, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn't so. I tried it. Once I got a fishline but no hooks. It wasn't any good to me without hooks. I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn't make it work. By and by, one day, I asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she said I was a fool. She never told me why, and I could never make it out ...
20. Enough Foolishness!
Ephesians 4:17--5:21
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King Duncan
... has no hands. How’s that for being dealt a bad hand in life? no pun intended. His friend has no hands. Instead, he uses hooks. He uses them so well that he is able to play tennis and ride a bicycle. This man named Mark, sometimes takes off his hooks and is still able to function using only his wrists. One day Tim accompanied Mark to the grocery store. Mark didn’t have his hooks on. Nevertheless he used both wrists to pick up items and drop them into his grocery shopping cart. As he was picking up some ...
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James Merritt
... series and all it has done is make you feel guilty (because you are not out there looking for missing persons, you don’t have any hooks in the water, you are not trying to fish for people, or if you really do want to do what you know the Lord wants you ... no one is looking for them. On the other hand, the farmer has to go with the seed and the fisherman has to go with a hook. That is why the preaching and the teaching of the Word of God must always be central in everything that we do. Don’t miss this. ...
22. Egypt
Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... the water with your feet and muddying the streams (v. 2; compare Dan. 7:7, which has likely been influenced by this text, and see the Additional Notes). The Lord intervenes, catching the monster in a net (v. 3; compare 29:4, where the creature is taken with hooks). An intriguing difference between the two allegories is that while in chapter 29 it is the Lord alone who catches the beast and hurls it ashore, here in verse 3 the Sovereign LORD says: “With a great throng of people I will cast my net over you ...
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Kristin Borsgard Wee
... , the same humility takes the shape of a slave with a debt so enormous only an act of majestic pardon can wipe it out. The problem of the servant in today's parable is that he missed the experience of forgiveness altogether. He thought he was getting off the hook and that was the end of it. It never crossed his mind that what was really happening to him was that he was being forgiven from the heart by someone who understood how huge his debt was, but who was willing to let it all go — throwing away the ...
24. How God Brings Change
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Editor James S. Hewett
... . I called Jack Eckerd up. I said, "I want to use that story. Did you do that because of your commitment to Christ?" He said, "Why else would I give away three million dollars? The Lord wouldn't let me off the hook." Isn't that marvelous? God wouldn’t let me off the hook. I don't know any theologian who's better defined the Lordship of Christ than that. And what happened after that is a wonderful sequel and a wonderful demonstration of what happens in our culture today. We are caught up with this idea ...
25. Is There Any Hope?
1 Cor 15:14
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Staff
... morning, 63 hours into the ordeal, that a reply was received: three short taps, meaning, “I understand.” It was the last communication received from S-4. The weather finally let up on Wednesday and a diver was able to take the air line down once more and hook it up to the sub. But when he tapped on the hull he received no answer. On the surface, an officer took a sample when the compressor was reversed and air was sucked back out of the sub. His analysis found a carbon-dioxide level of seven percent ...
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