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. No Shame
Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31)
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William G. Carter
... , manipulated, enticed, or bribed. * I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity. * I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I've stayed up, prayed up, and preached up for the cause for Christ. * I am his disciple. * I must go until he comes, give until I drop, preach until all know, work until he stops me. * When he comes back, I want him to recognize my ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... a book entitled "The Male Stress Syndrome: How To Recognize and Live With It." The author interviewed a diverse group of 500 men and their wives, sisters and mothers, and as a result of that, said that male stress starts during the Little League years and doesn't let up until the grave. As a result of that, the grave greets men an average of eight years before it greets women. The average age-span of a woman is now 78, while it is only 70 for the so-called "stronger sex." Men are exercising more and smoking ...
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King Duncan
... repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal ...
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King Duncan
... to tell his story: “We were just barely one whole day out to sea when Towards hooked into a great fish. Towards fought long and hard, but the fish was more than his equal. For a whole week they wrestled upon the waves without either of them letting up. Eventually the great fish started to win the battle, and Towards was pulled over the side of our ship. He was swallowed whole, and we never saw either of them again.” “Oh dear, that must have been terrible!” said his wife. “What a huge fish that ...
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James Merritt
... , turned back, diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up, let up or slow up until I have preached up, prayed up, paid up, stored up and stayed up for Christ."[2] David Livingston was one of the greatest missionaries the world has ever known. When I was in Africa I went to some of the places where Livingston journeyed ...
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James Merritt
... excited about your sermon than you are. I like what a black preacher said when asked how he prepared his sermons. He said, "First, I reads myself full; next I thinks myself clear; next I prays myself hot; and then I lets go!" I'm afraid too many preachers let up when they ought to let go. c. Preach Continuously We are told, "Be ready in season and out of season." (v.2) In other words, we are to preach the word when it is convenient and when it is inconvenient; when it is popular and when it is unpopular ...
7. All Is New in Christ
John 11:4-6, Philippians 3:4-11
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Richard Gribble
... softly to the lion, stroking his mane and back, and looking for some injury. Finally he found it — a nasty gash on the lion's left hind leg. It was clear that the wound had been bleeding for some time and showed no sign of letting up. Androclus tore some of the cloth from his tunic and cleaned the wound. The animal shuddered and groaned before falling asleep. Just then the clouds opened up and Androculus crawled into the cave and immediately fell asleep. Minutes later, however, he awoke when the lion ...
8. Stepping Out In Faith
Matthew 14:22-36
Sermon
King Duncan
... our fears get the best of us. It happened to the disciples. They were sailing across the lake when a terrible storm arose. They were fishermen by trade. They had experienced many such storms. They were strong men, but when the storm showed no signs of letting up, it got the better of them. They feared for their very lives. Then across the water they saw Jesus. In times of panic sometimes our minds run wild. The disciples failed to recognize Christ. One of them cried out, "It is a ghost!" Jesus spoke words ...
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James Merritt
... lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, back up, let up, or shut up, until I've preached up, prayed up, stored up, and stayed up for the cause of Christ. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I must go until heaven returns, give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes; and when He ...
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George Johnson
... will appear hopeless. Then comes this verse. "But the one who endures to the end will be saved." To endure means to stand one's ground in the midst of difficult times. It means not giving up hope even though the outward signs seem hopeless and the pain doesn't let up. All of us can remember times when we wondered if the pain would ever go away. We were tempted to quit, go back. Some of us may be in the middle of a difficult situation right now, and the question is, where can I find some sign of hope. I ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... of leaves. The question is not, “Where’s the beef?” as the old commercial had it, but “Where’s the fruit?” A church in Kansas City is reported to have the following slogan: “Wake up, sing up, preach up, pray up, stay up, pay up, but never give up or let up or shut up until the cause of Christ in this church and in the world is built up.”
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Maxie Dunnam
... immoral acts on the ground that everybody is doing it and on the basis that any kind of worthwhile end justifies the means. Jesus is telling us in this harsh word that there is an oughtness to life. There are demands that are placed upon us which allows no letting up in discipline. There is a sense in which we can never say, “Thank God, I’m finished with that. I can now rest. I deserve a rest.” So duty is not a dirty four-letter word. It’s a word whose meaning desperately needs to be recovered in ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... to do only what's accepted, trying to appear only in a way that will make you admired, trying to sustain a subtle publicity campaign that says you are more, do more, have more...? "Exhausting, isn't it? "It's a cruel, crushing burden, and it never lets up. It never lets you relax a minute to recoup. It wears away your strength, your morale, your life. We may call it "stress," but its real name is "ego." "Ego may be open or subtle, worldly or Christianized. It may mean smashing enough faces and brains to ...
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Thomas Peterson
... of them as I give my personal testimony. 1. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. When things were rough in our lives I have often said to my wife, “You are like a willow tree, bending in the storm. When the storm lets up you always come upright. I’m more like an oak. When the storm gets heavy I’ll stand there until I break.” Achilles is the great hero in Homer’s Iliad. When he was an infant, his mother had dipped him into the River Styx, making him invulnerable to ...
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James Weekley
... they didn't want to forget. Then he comes on with this open arms I'm-here-to-be-your-friend policy. "Life's just not that way," they were thinking. "The Romans and the Pharisees have seen to that." Still Jesus, in his warm and personable style, would not let up. Time was always too short. Jesus would continue to come across as a caring human being in spite of sister sour and brother gloom's I-told-you-it-won't-work mentality. For most of us it comes across a shade presumptuous for Jesus to say, "Let me be ...
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King Duncan
... began to tell his story: "We were just barely one whole day out to sea when Towards hooked into a great fish. Towards fought long and hard, but the fish was more than his equal. For a whole week they wrestled upon the waves without either of them letting up. Yet eventually the great fish started to win the battle, and Towards was pulled over the side of our ship. He was swallowed whole, and we never saw either of them again." "Oh dear, that must have been terrible!" said his wife. "What a huge fish that ...
17. Squeaky Wheels
Mark 10:46-52
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Leonard Sweet
... wheels demanding the world's attention and demanding the divine's attention. Abraham kept arguing with God and whittling God down about the number of righteous men needed to save a city. Jacob kept wrestling with the angel until daybreak, refusing to let go or let up (Genesis 32:24-29). Moses annoyed God for forty days and nights, pleading with him not to destroy the Israelites (Deuteronomy 9:25-27). Paul prayed the same prayer Moses did (Romans 9:3), over and over again. The psalmist cried to the Lord day ...
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Bill Bouknight
... printed recently in Tidings. "I am part of the 'Fellowship of the Unashamed.' I have Holy Spirit power. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus. I won't look back, let up, or back away. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I am finished with low living, small planning, chintzy giving, and tame visions. "I no longer need prominence, prosperity, promotions, plaudits, or popularity .I don't have to be praised ...
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King Duncan
... falters. You spend an inordinate time waiting in doctor’s offices. Dry bones. Or perhaps you’re caring for an aging parent. You tell yourself you don’t mind, not really. After all, you love your Mom, you love your Dad, but the stress never lets up. And it’s beginning to affect your health and well-being. Dry bones. Ezekiel looked around at all those dry bones and he understood that those bones represented his people, the people of Israel, scattered and without hope. He knew that only a miracle could ...
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King Duncan
... weather?" And the answer came moments later, as his father walked in the front door. "He had come to get me," Jim recalls. The wind was blowing; rain was pelting down; lightning was flashing; thunder was rumbling behind the clouds. The storm showed no signs of letting up. It was dark and scary that night. "Our house wasn't far away," Jim recounts, "but the storm was nasty and getting worse." Jim's father was wearing a big blue weather coat, and as they prepared to leave, he said, "Son, come under here." He ...
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King Duncan
... difference. Are you familiar with the expression, “work like the dickens”? “Dickens” is an archaic way of saying, “the devil.” The idea is that the devil is always at work in the world seeking to tempt people and to destroy them. The devil never lets up. What Jesus may have been saying with this colorful little parable is that he needs people who go beyond being nice. He needs people who work like the devil to bring his kingdom into being. Jesus was not commending this manager for his deceit. He ...
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King Duncan
... until he returned. That is our call to be faithful. While we wait for Christ’s return, we are his body in the world, called to do his work. The church has been serving the world in Christ’s name for two thousand years. Now is not the time to let up. We hear criticism of the church. Some of it is justified, some is not. We are not perfect. Some of what we do is very mundane. A pastor once said, “I sometimes fear going into heaven to stand before the Master with his nail-pierced hands. When he asks ...
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... can carry it too far, of course, and this isn’t always true, although we have a few exhibits we enjoy, especially individuals in whose collapse our own self-righteous indignation found delight. One senses an unholy passion that refuses to let up on Watergate or Chappaquidick or, more recently, on fallen televangelists. Each morning one turns on the news to hear what scandalous event the righteous titillate about today. The lesson can’t be understood without the parable. It is more than mere promotion ...
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CSS
... some clairvoyant spiritual insight! At this time, Paul must have been taking advantage of the opportunity offered by Lydia’s support to circulate daily through the streets of the city, stopping to talk to people and to tell them about Jesus. He never let up! And neither did the slave girl. Eventually her continual outcry became an embarrassment to Paul. Perhaps some people thought that he had paid her to advertise his preaching. When the annoyance became too great, Paul ordered the spirit in the name of ...
25. Agony
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Louis H. Evans, Jr.
... agon, from which we get our word agony. It signifies a wrestling match or race where endurance and determination must overcome the aching desire to quit. In a race, such as the quarter mile, there are moments toward the end when the body cries out to let up. Pain starts in the calf and works up through the hamstrings to the gluteus maximus. At times it is so intense it feels like a burning fire. Agony is the best way to describe it. A wrestler knows the same pain when struggling against a powerful opponent ...
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