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
Leonard Sweet
... ’s sermon by having you listen to this song (or sing the song with the band/video, etc). [The lyrics are here along with the song in the background, so your people can sing the song along with Matthew West: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVazfjJPLo ] Matthew West, “Motions” This might hurt It’s not safe But I know that I’ve gotta make a change I don’t care If I break At least I’ll be feeling something ‘Cause just ok Is not enough Help me fight through the nothingness of life I don’t wanna ...
2. Advent 1
Psalm 25:1-10, Jeremiah 33;14-16, Luke 21:25-36, 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
Bulletin Aid
Julia Ross Strope
... downs allows us to move through the stages of life with some sense of purpose and reach out with a cup of tasty soup and a glass of good water, a listening ear and a compassionate heart. Gestation, birthing, maturing, eldering, and dying are all motions of the body and soul throughout life. This season gives us opportunity to notice how we allow the Holy to work and play with us. Contemporary Affirmation We experience God among us as the creative Spirit working through our thoughts, our hands, and our feet ...
Eulogy
Alfred Lord Tennyson
... . CXXII Oh, wast thou with me, dearest, then, While I rose up against my doom, And yearn’d to burst the folded gloom, To bare the eternal Heavens again, To feel once more, in placid awe, The strong imagination roll A sphere of stars about my soul, In all her motion one with law; If thou wert with me, and the grave Divide us not, be with me now, And enter in at breast and brow, Till all my blood, a fuller wave, Be quicken’d with a livelier breath, And like an inconsiderate boy, As in the former flash of ...
Sermon
Steve Molin
... threaten to tear the fabric of the body of Christ, and if the conflict is not addressed wisely, honestly, and biblically, even the most benign disagreement can escalate to irreparable harm. During the year I served as a seminary intern four decades ago, a motion was made to pave the gravel parking lot of the church. The lot was small because the church was small, but some believed that the update was unnecessary. The conversation was not small. For about thirty minutes, members stood in opposition to one ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... I was right." (2) What a wise decision for someone so young. Dolores Hart had everything we think is worth striving for. She was young and beautiful, famous and wealthy. But she found it was all as worthwhile as a pot of beans. In the midst of her motion, she finally found direction. She exchanged life's perks for its purpose. We all reach a point in life when we must evaluate what it is we're living for. Most of us reach that place gradually. Some of us, on the other hand, reach that point of evaluating ...
6. Advent 2
Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 1:68-79, Luke 3:1-20, Philippians 1:3-11
Bulletin Aid
Julia Ross Strope
... artist, recolor our pains and griefs until light shines through. Dreamer of a New Reign — let your peace and your heaven come to earth. Set in motion human mercy and hospitality that reach into our own towns and around the world; set in motion economic possibilities for all peoples; set in motion a transparent honesty that erases corruption; set in motion a contentment so that we are not caught in voracious buying. Thank you for Jesus who moved through birth, childhood to adulthood, and shared your wisdom ...
7. Advent 3
Isaiah 12:2-6, Zephaniah 3:14-20, Luke 3:1-20, Philippians 4:4-7
Bulletin Aid
Julia Ross Strope
... fresh water delights the thirsty and moon rises inspire good dreams. Dreamer of a New Reign — let your peace and your heaven come to earth. Set in motion human mercy and hospitality that reach into our own towns and around the world; set in motion economic possibilities for all peoples; set in motion a transparent honesty that erases corruption; set in motion a contentment so that we are not caught in voracious buying. Thank you for Jesus who moved through birth and childhood to adulthood, and shared your ...
8. Fishin'
John 21:1-14
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... : Yep, looks it, fer sure. (THEY WAVE BACK) JOHN-BUBBA: Think we oughta go see who it is? PETEY: Might as well. We can't do no good here. JOHN-BUBBA: What's he doin'? PETEY: I dunno. Seems to be havin' a fit of some kind. JOHN-BUBBA: (MAKING MOTIONS LIKE MAN ON SHORE) He shakin' his head somethin' awful. PETEY: Maybe he don't want us to come ashore. JOHN-BUBBA: He's pushin' with his hands. PETEY: He does want us to stay out here. What fer? There ain't no good fishin' out here! JOHN-BUBBA: He ...
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... a party. His maids and his servants had no idea when he would return home, so they waited into the night for him to come home. Toss the ball from the waist to one of the children. Don't telecast your toss; make it immediate so it is a surprise. Motion for the ball to be returned to you -- do not ask for it. It was getting late and the man had not returned home. The maids and the servants kept looking out the windows and wondering when their master would return. Toss the ball from the waist to another child ...
10. Rest
Matthew 11:25-30
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... . 4:00 Time to do your homework. (response) 5:00 Time to play. Ride you bike. (response) 6:00 time for dinner. Wash your hands. (response) Let’s eat. (response) Try now to string together several things too quickly so that they can’t keep up with the motions. Pick up your dirty dishes, pick up your room, finish your homework, take a bath, wash behind your ears, you missed a spot, dry your hair, brush your teeth, put on your pajamas, say your prayers, kiss your mom, kiss your dad, kiss your dog. lay your ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... . I had looked back over my shoulder twice… and he was right… the glance back had thrown me off stride… and he was right… the look backwards almost cost us the race. He had me sit there and watch that over and over in slow motion and then in super slow motion and finally, he said: “Jim, the good news is that you were ahead. The bad news is you looked back and it cost you, so the lesson is obvious: “Don’t you look back over your shoulder ever again. You keep your eyes focused straight ahead ...
12. Baptism of Our Lord
Psalm 29:1-11, Isaiah 43:1-7, Luke 3:1-20, Acts 8:14-17
Bulletin Aid
Julia Ross Strope
... nations whose place in the world market is dependent upon every other nation. Let wisdom come to leaders and followers in dreams and in lucid conversations. Let the wishes of Christmas be realized in our homes and in the world. God of Stillness and Motion — we do our dervishes and feel the dizziness of your divinity completing our humanity. When our pace seems to be a dawdle, you greet us in good food, in beautiful pictures, in stimulating conversations, in bright babies, and in our own mirrors. In the ...
Teach the Text
Joe M. Sprinkle
... and consecration. When Aaron here presents the Levites before Yahweh as a tenupah (Num. 8:11, 13, 15, 21), this cannot mean that they are literally “waved” or “lifted up.” Here the idea is metaphorical, with no specific literal motion implied. It means that they are consecrated before Yahweh as his special gift. 8:12  sin offering . . . burnt offering. The second degree of cleansing from more serious defilements comes from sacrificing two bulls (v. 12). The sin (or “purification”) offering ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... basins, one with steps for people to enter into, and the other served as a fresh feed into the ritual bath. At certain times, fresh water from basin one would pour into basin two, stirring up the water. When the water poured in, it put the waters in motion kind of like a “hot tub” or “jacuzzi.” And when that happened, people believed that the first one into the bath to be immersed would be healed of their ailments. So you had to keep watch for the waters to be stirred up. Because of this belief, the ...
15. Rich Toward God
Luke 12:13-21
Sermon
John G. Lynn
... how the man in the story never does gather anything in. He just plans to. Jesus says don't let your life be simply a storehouse of aggravations or a barn filled with self-destructive actions. Let your life be an overflow toward God and abundance in motion toward him. Martin Luther, when he was about 48 years old, spent some time with a friend, Hans Loser, to get some physical exercise. During that time Hans took Luther on a hunting trip on his lands. The prize that Luther "bagged" on that excursion was his ...
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... would often rather exercise authority over others and be served, rather than to serve. How about you? Perhaps our failure on these points relates to why so often our faith and our reception of the sacraments is ot a lively experience, but a mere "going through the motions." If it were up to us to prepare ourselves to receive the Lord's supper we would be in big trouble. We would all fail the test. This was Jesus' point in responding to Peter when he objected to having Jesus wash his feet. Jesus answered him ...
17. Friends
Mark 2:1-12
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... ? (response) I know what I can do. I can play some jump rope. Let one end of the rope fall to the floor and with the other end make a big circular motion as if you were playing. Keep up the motion as the children respond. What's going on? This isn't very much fun? (response) Why can't I do this by my self? (response) Stop the circular motion but hold onto the rope. So that's what I have been doing wrong. I need some friends to play baseball with me and I need some friends to play football with ...
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... Hopefully there will be some flubs that are close to the phrase. Looks like I need to help you out. Here is another clue. Make the motion of the rain coming down. Now do you know what I said? (no) Here is another hint. I will say it one more time and I ... am sure you will get it this time. As soon as you know shout it out, ok? As you say the phrase once more make the motion of the spider going up the spout with your fingers. (Itsy Bitsy Spider!) Application: One day a deaf man was brought to Jesus. He couldn't ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... way her mouth was fixed, the manner in which her hair fell across her cheeks, and the play of sunlight through the curtains on her face created an unusual effect. For one instant she looked not five years old, but twenty-five. There was a single fixed-frame in her motion when I saw her, not as a child, but as the grownup woman she would become. Then she turned, the light changed, her face broke into a grin, and she was a child again. But I had seen what I had seen, and there was no escaping it. It was ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in the REQUIEM, but immediately following it comes the somber AGNUS DEI, in which the men sing with rumbling tone: "In the midst of life we are in death, we are in death, we are in death." It's chilling. It's real, but is there anything more? The motion picture The Mission tells of a 19th century slave trader who murdered his blood brother in a rage and then becomes a Jesuit serving in South America. In penance for his previous life he slogs through the mountains with a rope tied around his neck. It is his ...
Sermon
Phil Thrailkill
... it? “All the things I’m missin’, the vittles, love and kissin’, are waiting at end of my ride, Rawhide!” There is an important hand gesture I remember from that boyhood drama. On horseback, the trail boss would lift his hand, index finger up, make a rapid circling motion in the air, then point ahead with these words, “O.K. boys, head ‘em up, and move ‘em out.” It was a call to a long, tough, trail ride and along the way the promise of adventure and a pay out at the end. That is the gesture ...
22. Panic Room
John 20:19-23
Sermon
King Duncan
... Even the disciples of Jesus gave into fear. Donald M. Tuttle, pastor of the First Christian Church, Corpus Christi, Texas has a sermon on today’s text that begins in a novel way. He draws a parallel between today’s lesson from the Gospel of John and a motion picture that came out a couple of years ago starring Jodie Foster. The movie was titled “Panic Room.” Foster plays a recently divorced woman who is pleased to find a brownstone apartment in New York City for her and her daughter. It is to be the ...
23. The Only Way to Fly
2 Timothy 3:15-17
Sermon
James Merritt
... is detected when fluid moves within the canal of the inner ear, and if the body turns sideways the fluid moves and sends a signal to the brain that a turn has been made. Now the inner ear only sends motion signals to the brain when the fluid inside the organ moves. But if that fluid moves and then is held in the same spot because of unusual gravitational pressures during the flight of an airplane, the sensation is that the movement has stopped, and it can feel as though a ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... , and the idea of being itself occupies both the philosopher and the scientist. Yet, Paul in one statement lets us know that it is in God we live and move and have our being. In Him we live. The power supply for life is Almighty God. In Him we move. Motion finds its ultimate impetus in God. Without Him everything would be stagnant, immobile, and lifeless, and in Him we have our being. It is because of His eternal being that we can exist at all.3 That's why Paul said in verse 27, "He is not far from each ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... still roars in his ears; the waves still climb up to meet the winds; all is still turmoil. Panicked, Peter starts to sink. He is in motion all right. He is going down! Jesus hauls Peter back up and they both get back into the boat. Only then does the wind finally cease. ... windblown life, waterborn life. Our God is not a status-quo God. Our God is a God of movement, of change, of motion. Remember: our God first created with the Spirit blowing over the face of the primeval, chaotic waters (Genesis 1:2). If we ...
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