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. Looking Out for Others
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... comprehend the diversity found in our faith. Think what great problems we have solved and yet left unsolved! We are to look out for others, especially if we are more mature in the faith. However, this can be an open door to tragedy, unless we remember to keep ... our lives that is not always welcome. We learn things we would just as soon not learn! Of course, we can all say we care for others but do we do so as the Holy Spirit has guided us? There is what I call a grumbling syndrome among God's people. That can ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... passage of scripture for today is about a young man who didn't have much. But what he did have, he offered to Christ. And as a result thousands of hungry people were fed. You know the story. John 6:1-15 (NRSV) [1] After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. [2] A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. [3] Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. [4] Now the Passover, the festival ...
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Eric Ritz
... The lion will defend itself." Today, I want to share testimony from many voices across the theological spectrum on why the Bible is the book no other book or collections of books can match in its importance for our search for God and God’s search for us. Can any of you remember ... the Word of God The B-I-B-L-E." Today, I want to share why the B-I-B-L-E is the book no other can match. THE BIBLE CONNECTS US TO GOD AND SUPPLIES THE POWER NEEDED TO LIVE LIFE TO ITS FULLEST. Last January I experienced a wonderful ...
4. Worshipping Other Gods
Deuteronomy 13:1-18
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... local and global. And having for all practical purposes accepted the box into which the surrounding culture has confined God, it is not surprising that we have difficulty with the concept of idolatry. For if the living God is little more than an idol, where do other idols fit? We lack the categories to define them and the tools to discern them. And thus, in reality, their power over us is infinitely enhanced because we don’t even recognize them. We can’t begin to work on the relevance of a chapter like ...
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James W. Moore
... Nicodemus (and to us): “You don’t have to stay the way you are. You don’t have to be a prisoner to legalism. There are other worlds to sing in. You can be re-born from above. You can come alive to the Bible and you can come alive to Love. Give ... stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!’ Gone where? Gone from my sight… that is all. She is just as large in mast ...
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King Duncan
... says Pastor Simmons, and said that there are many in the church, just like his car, with their lights stuck on bright. They are loud and glaring, and obnoxious, and say hurtful things and bother people, but at that point in time, they really can't help it. Others in the church, says Simmons, need to understand and minister to them, rather than trying to run them off the road, or out of the church, or trying to out-bright them. Some people simply have their lights stuck on high beam for awhile and can't help ...
7. No Other Name
Acts 4:1-22
Sermon
King Duncan
... is the importance of today's text: Jesus Is God's attempt to reach out to humanity. Here is why we say that "there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Jesus is not humanity's attempt to reach God. Jesus is God's ... How can we know that he gives us an accurate picture of God? Well, let me turn the question around to you. Can you imagine any other god worth worshiping than the God that Jesus revealed to us? If Jesus does not represent God, is God worth our time? If God is not ...
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James Merritt
... with God, and the Word was God." Here in 1 John 1:1 he refers to Jesus as "that which was from the beginning." Now put those two things together. In John 1:1 He said Jesus was in the beginning; here he says Jesus was from the beginning. In other words, Jesus was present before the creation, and Jesus was present during the creation, and Jesus is present after the creation, therefore Jesus is eternal. There never was a time when Jesus was not, nor is there a time when He will not be. He was and is co-equal ...
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Richard Gribble
... for the sins of humankind. As Jesus carries the cross, he shoulders the world's burden. We do not have the strength of Jesus and the Father does not expect us to perform such feats or endure such suffering, but we are called to humble ourselves and help others. We must lighten the load of the poor, ignorant, and marginalized of society. We should recall Jesus' famous exhortation: "Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me" (Matthew 25 ...
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Richard Gribble
... God made man, God chose to become human like us in all things but sin. We, as Christians, bear a significant responsibility. The Pauline author of the letter to Titus tells us that we must do our part by leading upstanding lives, to be an example, and thereby lead others to Christ. It is a responsibility we must not fail to engage, to be the best person our abilities will allow us to be. The letter to Titus, along with 1 and 2 Timothy comprising the so-called Pastoral Epistles, form a unique part of the New ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... us that you had one of the leading roles but we noticed that you carried the star. We thought you might be Mary or possibly one of the shepherds or magi." Caitlin responded, "I had the most important role. It was my task as the star to lead others to Jesus. There could not be any more important task and privilege in the entire world." In many ways the average person might see Caitlin's role in the play as secondary, even of little importance. Yet, she insisted her role was not only essential, but the most ...
Teach the Text
Preben Vang
... marketplace (10:25) and served at domestic dinner parties (10:27). Since not all the meat of an animal offered as sacrifice was burned, “leftovers” were sold at the market. Often idol meat (eid?lothyt?n [8:4]) would be the only meat available. At other times, city temples supplied idol meat to citywide festivals, thereby making meat available to those who never had it otherwise.2 At times when meat that had not been used in idol worship was available alongside the idol meat, the different kinds may not ...
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... in the world and let evil have its way? Are we simply to say to thieves and robbers, terrorists and murderers, as well as all those other people who prove to be our enemies by what they do to us, "we forgive you, no matter what you may have done - or will do ... they had done all they could do at that time, and also to protect their four children from recriminations by the authorities and other people, they sold their home; Dr. Been gave up his practice, and they moved to Edinburgh. There they had to start all ...
14. Judging Others
Matthew 7:1-6
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... . It would be unthinkable to take sacred food and give it to dogs or valuable pearls and feed them to pigs. Finding pearls unpalatable, pigs will trample them underfoot, and dogs will turn and attack those who fed them. In other words, use discretion as you share the truth of God with others. Additional Notes 7:6 What is sacred: The picture is that of a priest taking meat offered on the altar and throwing it to one of the many dogs that wandered the streets of ancient cities. Dogs were “unclean” in ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... story is who is going to stop and help? Who is it that will not fall prey to the temptation to pass by on the other side? I The first passerby, it just so happens, was a priest from the local temple who saw this beaten man. It may seem curious ... that tiny town, and how the loss of the church must have touched those people. But then came the temptation to pass by on the other side. He thought to himself, "Come on, Ray, after all, the Nazis bombed innocent children in London and Warsaw; it was wartime; it was ...
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... for us to attempt to do so. What is necessary is for us to plead with our God this glorious episode be imprinted in us forever. We can appreciate it only with spiritual eyes and ears. But we can do that, so let us not feel slighted CNN or some other news media didn't take us there! All the disciples present on that day must have become incurable optimists. They were sons and daughters of the Father. His Son had been among them. An even more powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit was at hand. It was a day ...
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Richard Gribble
... have strayed off the path that leads to life. All that is necessary to achieve this reconciliation is for us to ask. The final step in the process of reconciliation might not seem obvious. God has pursued us and we have found reconciliation within ourselves, with others, and with God. One thing more is required, however; we need to look to the future. The positive message of the prophets is to look to the future. After predictions of doom the prophets say that the people need to forget the past and look to ...
Sermon
Keith Hammer
... carried into exile, that in no way removes from them the responsibility to repent of their sins and return to living the way God wants them to live. In this case God makes one person, the prophet, responsible for the moral actions of the many, the people of Jerusalem. At other times it falls to everyone as it began in the Cain and Abel story. Imagine if each of you were tied by a rope to the person next to you. Imagine further, if I had you tie yourself together to the persons on both sides of you, so that ...
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Dr. Robert E. Lair
... Joseph and she tried to seduce him. When Joseph refused to be her lover, she accused him of attempting to rape her. He was imprisoned. As a prisoner, he won the favor of the governor of the Round Tower. He became a Trustee in charge of other prisoners. Joseph then interpreted the dreams of two of his fellow prisoners, the chief butler and chief baker. The butler and baker were finally released from prison. Two years later, the Pharoah had a dream, and upon the recommendation of the butler and baker, Joseph ...
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James Merritt
... says: "Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Then there is external peace—peace with others. Paul said in Rom. 12:18, "If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live at peace with all men." But the ... take a cue from a man I heard about who was a tremendous worrier. He was not only a worrier, he was worrisome; he worried other people with his worry. He couldn't sleep at night because he worried so much, and all he would do is pace the floor. Well ...
21. Christians Help Others
2 Corinthians 8:1-15
Children's Sermon
... to attend church, enjoyed teaching Sunday school when asked, and tried to do whatever she could to share her faith. The second person was not interested in visiting sick people. This person was too busy to teach Sunday school. This person didn't want to invite others to church. Which of the two shared her faith in the best way? (Let them answer.) The first woman shared her faith best, didn't she? This week I want you to remember that the real way to show that you are a Christian is not in the words you ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... happening around him and to him. Job lost sight of God when his own questions became doubts and his doubts began to harden into cynicism. Job lost sight of God when he listened to his friends and his wife and his own questions. Job crossed over to the other side when God said to him in the storm, "Brace yourself and answer the questions I ask you." The questions did not bury Job. They raised him from the dead. The questions of God brought Job from the wrong side of the sea to the right side. The questions ...
23. Was There No Other Way?
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
Sermon
King Duncan
... God’s Spirit. Sin brings physical damage . . . Sin causes an ache in the soul. Sin breaks God’s heart. Sin opens the door to other sins. Sin produces fear. Sin makes me its slave. Ask yourself, ‘Is this a price I really want to pay? Is this a price I ... is why it had to be. Jesus could not ask his disciples to make a sacrifice he was not willing to make himself. There was no other way to reveal the awfulness of man’s sin and the awesomeness of God’s love. Of course, the challenge to each of us is to ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... of something as “honorable” as honor can become so completely obliterated by human pride and evil, it is time to “turn the other cheek.” It is time we really listened to Jesus. When Jesus confronted the rule of law, he always did two things. First ... of Jesus’ message of a new “honor system.” Will we show the world that all “honor” is God’s? Will we show each other that the greatest honor we have been accorded is “For God So Loved the World?” [If you have time, tell the Sarah Corson ...
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Leonard Sweet
... of something as “honorable” as honor can become so completely obliterated by human pride and evil, it is time to “turn the other cheek.” It is time we really listened to Jesus. When Jesus confronted the rule of law, he always did two things. First ... of Jesus’ message of a new “honor system.” Will we show the world that all “honor” is God’s? Will we show each other that the greatest honor we have been accorded is “For God So Loved the World?” [If you have time, tell the Sarah Corson ...
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