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. In God We Trust
Proverbs 3:5-6
Sermon
James Merritt
... literally means "to lie down on" or "to stretch out on." Every night when you go to bed you lie down on your mattress, stretch out, put your full weight down on your bed and you never give a second thought to what you just did. You don't just put one foot on the floor or hold on to the frame; you just lie down. The same way you trust your bed is the same way you ought to trust God. It is not just enough to trust God, you are to trust God with "all your heart." You've got ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... was not a matter of legal but personal family relationships. “...we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.” (Luke 15:32) In Matthew 20 Jesus tells of a landowner who came along and put one man to work at 9:00, another at noon, another at 3:00 P.M. and another at 5:00 P.M. When it came time to settle up with them, all received the same wage! That doesn’t seem fair. The union would never stand for that! But, of ...
3. Put Up and Shut Up
Proverbs 18:21
Sermon
James Merritt
... playing mailman." The mother said, "Mailman? How could you do that when you had no letters?" He said, "Oh, I had a whole bunch of letters." She said, "What letters?" He said, "I found them in the old trunk up in the attic all tied up with ribbon, and I put one in every mailbox on the street." I want to remind you dad, and you need to remind your kids, every word that comes out of your mouth is put into God's mailbox. We will be judged by every idle word we say. So teach your kids early, and teach ...
4. Dangerous
John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17
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Lori Wagner
... Water that is Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit to wash over you, to fill you, to change you, and reform you. Yes, it feels like a total “wild card.” Faith is letting go of control. Faith is surrendering to the power that is Jesus. Faith is putting one’s very life in the hands of a God you cannot see, touch, hear, but know in your heart is present and powerful. Faith in God means Jesus is in control of your life. That the Holy Spirit is what will guide your ministry and your mission, your faith ...
Drama
Marge Passamaneck
... pancakes. Meanwhile the rest of the dinner was cooking, and cookies shaped like six-pointed stars and menorahs were taken out of the oven. The house smelled wonderful. Soon David’s father came home. The children watched as he put three menorahs on the table by the window and put one candle on the far right of each and one in a special place in the middle. Mr. Stein said that these candles are holy and are only to be looked at, not used. The middle one is called the Shamus, and it is used to light all the ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... . I put it this way: Cease living life as something you owe. I repeat, cease living life as something you owe. I like the story about the man who went down a serving table and got to the chicken. "Two pieces," he said to the lady who was serving. She put one piece on the plate. The man said, "Two pieces." The lady replied, "One piece." The man continued, "Evidently, you don't know who I am. I'm the Governor of this state." The lady responded, "Evidently, you don't know who I am. I'm the lady in charge of ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... boys were characterized by democracy and openness. They had freedom within the set boundaries for individual growth and expression without the fear of ridicule. There was an atmosphere marked by acceptance and emotional safety. In other words, they didn't play the put one another down game. (1) Naaman regained his self-esteem once he was healed but something else probably changed too. His heart. The pride and arrogance that marked him before were probably gone. He was truly a changed man both inside and out ...
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James Merritt
... a picture of the fact that I am a married man. If I were to take my wedding ring off and put it in my pocket, I would still be married. In fact, I would still be married if I never wore a wedding ring or if I had never put one on. If you don’t have to be baptized to be a follower of Christ and if you don’t have to be baptized to have a relationship with God, then why should a person be baptized? Three reasons: (1) Jesus commanded it. The marching orders of both the church ...
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... But their thoughts and actions were of human rather than divine origin. Thus they remain under the control of the flesh (sarx). Paul does not mean to imply that the flesh, in itself, is evil; verses 18 and 19 together show that the problem is in putting one’s trust or self-confidence in the flesh rather than in Christ. 2:19 The false teachers have fallen into error because they have stopped holding on to the Head, from whom the whole body … grows. Paul already has discussed the headship of Christ as it ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... lie down on" or, "to stretch out on." Every night when you go to bed you lie down on your mattress; you stretch out on your mattress; you put your full weight down on your bed and never give a second thought to what you just did. You don't put one foot on the floor, you don't hold on to the frame, you just lie down. Now the same way you trust your bed is the same way you ought to trust God. But notice you are to trust the Lord "with all your heart." You've got to put ...
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James Merritt
... This lady, wanting to make sure that the neighbor felt like her daughter had been well taken care of, went to the store and bought flour, milk, Crisco, and slaved over a hot stove and put out the best home-made biscuits she could possibly fix. When she put one in front of the little girl the little girl looked at her and said, "No thank you." The lady said, "I thought you said your mother always fixes biscuits for breakfast." The little girl said, "She does, but I don't eat them." Don't get discouraged when ...
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Lori Wagner
... to follow and to trust. The military (represented in Jesus’ time by the Centurion) is an organization in which followership, not leadership, is most important. Following directions, orders, suggestions, is of utmost importance, not only for success, but for survival. One must put one’s trust in the person in charge over your troop, knowing that that person has your best interest and survival in mind at all times. The most medals for valor were won when one is in service to another. To become a respected ...
13. Building A Life
1 Peter 2:4-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... Linda's gutsy, if not very informed, response. “Then I guess we're just going to have to hug you," the trucker suggested. Linda drew back. “There's no way I'm going to let you touch me!" she said angrily. “Not like THAT!" the truckers chuckled. “We'll put one truck in front of you and one in the rear. In that way, we'll get you through the mountains." All that foggy morning Linda followed the two red dots in front and had the reassurance of a big escort behind as they made their way safely through ...
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James Merritt
... the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.’” (Acts 9:17, ESV) Do you see the phrase “filled with the Holy Spirit?” You could put three words there, “Set on Fire”. You could put one word there, “Ignited.” What happened? Paul saw the light. Paul gained his sight. Paul received God’s might. Once again, we have to ask the question, “How do we know that Paul was really filled with the Spirit? How do we know he was really set on ...
15. The Last Laugh
Luke 24:1-35
Sermon
Will Willimon
... joke was on them. They have a son, whom they call Isaac which means, "laughter." Sarai laughed all the way from the geriatric ward into the maternity ward! God wasn't going to be stumped by Sarai's age. God, it would seem, likes nothing better than to put one over on us. Humor, divine, biblical humor, happens when we get everything tied down, neat, in its place, all figured out, just so. Then, bang! The whole thing is flipped on its head. And we laugh! We think we know how the world works, we think we have ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... riches” metaphorically in verse 18, Paul now extends the metaphor eschatologically. In so doing, he makes what appear to be some very un-Pauline comments (as in 2:15). But the awkwardness is the result of the metaphor(s), not of a theological shift. Salvation is to put one’s hope in God; it is not achieved by “buying shares in heaven”! Nonetheless, very much as Jesus said (Luke 12:33; 18:22; cf. Matt. 6:19–21), Paul reminds them that in this way (by generous giving to the needy) they will lay up ...
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Carveth Mitchell
... trust in God and material things." It had of necessity to be one or the other. Complete trust in either naturally excludes the other. Jesus does not teach that it is necessarily wrong to have material things, but it is wrong (and futile, one might add) to put one’s trust in material things. All of us, of necessity, deal with the material things of life. The question is not how much or how little of this world’s goods we have, but what our attitude is toward them, what we believe about them and what ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... what he had done, he covered them up and began to make even riskier deals while trying to recoup the losses. In essence, he began betting double-or-nothing in a gambling game he was going to lose. Ultimately, his actions cost Barings, $1.3 billion and he single-handedly put one of the oldest banks in the world out of business.[1] Why is it so hard for us to tell the truth? To fess up to our mess-ups? Why is it you have to pull it out of people sometimes? Kent Crockett tells a classic story about his early ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... of the possible relationship of Paul’s language to the four cardinal virtues, see especially S. C. Mott (“Greek Ethics and Christian Conversion”). 2:13 There is a considerable literature on this verse. The most recent and up-to-date discussion, which will also put one in touch with this literature, is by M. J. Harris, The position espoused in the present commentary was first suggested by F. J. A. Hort, The Epistle of St. James (London: Macmillan, 1909), pp. 47, 103–4. 2:14 It should be noted that ...
20. Focus on the Finish
Galatians 6:7-10
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James Merritt
... comes the harvest. That is a principle that many people forget when it comes to the law of the harvest. Some people think that if the harvest does not come immediately, then somehow they've gotten away with the evil they've sown. They think, in effect, they've put one over on God and they've gotten away with mocking the Lord. Someone has well said, "The wheels of God may grind slowly, but they do grind surely. I heard about a farmer in a country town who was an infidel, an unbeliever. He wrote a letter to a ...
21. Gunda
John 6:60-71
Sermon
Robert Salzgeber
... meetings, the speeches, the time and the money. "Was it all worth it?" he continued to consider. "At every turn I've had to defend my reputation, respond to smear tactics," his thoughts rambled on. "To become a leader one somehow has to put one's self in compromising power positions," Paul's thoughts continued, "Money, power, prestige, a good old boy in the community ... is that what it really takes to get elected? What about integrity and decency and ethical values and compassion and common courtesy?" Paul ...
22. No Partiality
Acts 10:34-43
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Will Willimon
... you'll spend most of your life between walls. Intramural. There's one between East and West Berlin, and between the Arabs and the Israels. The way to live with the Soviets? Keep a good high wall. Keep stacking up the bombs, bomb for bomb. They put one on and we match with another of our own. National defense is a fancy way of saying "Good fences make good neighbors. Partiality, partition, apartheid--I'm sure they all have the same derivation. In our distant past, somebody looked across the field at his ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Some years ago a friend wrote to the Russian author, Turgenev, telling him that he felt that the most important thing in life was to put one's self in second place. Turgenev replied to his friend: "I suspect that the most difficult and important decision in life is to decide what to put in first place." With the beginning of the ministry of our Lord, there was no question. Immediately after his ...
24. Apostles of Christ
1 Corinthians 4:1-21
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... . Paul states his real goal: to warn [the Corinthians], as [his] dear children. The word translated as “to warn” by the NIV may be better rendered “to instruct” or “to teach,” since it most often functions in Greek in reference to admonishing that puts one in mind of a lesson in a didactic fashion. “Warning” in English connotes a more negative sense than Paul may mean to suggest. Indeed, the positive tone of his purpose comes through in his reference to the Corinthians as “my dear [lit ...
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... all their rupees on food. The American pastor commented to a church leader that they must be frustrated by their inability to give. He said, "Oh no, they do give. Twice a day they boil rice for the family meal. Each time they scoop out what they need, then put one scoop in a bag. By the end of the week they have fourteen scoops of rice, which they put in the offering to be distributed to the needy." Wow! They do not consider themselves needy. Some of us feel life has cheated us if our neighbor drives a ...
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