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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Leonard Sweet
... is a rich tradition in Christianity of prayers of gratitude and thanksgiving? Ever wonder why it’s so important to say “thank you” to people? There are certain things you can do to show you weren’t raised by wolves. “Thank you” is one of them. The third rack in Paul’s Praise Magazine is to trust in God’s providence and in the power of God’s promises. His words to those who follow Christ are, “Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me and the God ...
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King Duncan
... , know that she is a devoted mother. You see, one son is a Christian counselor, and so this mother reads all his old text books in order to learn more about his work. He is represented by the first rack in the bookcase. This mother also reads the books and medical journals on the second rack so that she can understand the work that her second son does. He is a doctor, and is active in cancer research. And what about the subscription to HEAVY EQUIPMENT DIGEST? Well, that represents a third son who spent ...
3. "Hands Off!"
Exodus 20:1-21, Luke 19:11-27
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Bill Bouknight
... Lee Iococca was working for former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara at Ford Motor company, he discovered some strange things about his boss. McNamara's high standards of personal integrity almost drove his subordinates crazy. Once, for a skiing vacation, he needed a car with a ski rack. "No problem" said Iococca, "I'll put a rack on one of our company cars out in Denver, and you can just pick it up." But McNamara would not hear of that. He insisted that they rent him a car from Hertz, pay extra for the ski ...
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Paul W. Kummer
... . If you didn't get that first coin straight in the bottom of the wrap, the subsequent 49 pennies didn't fit. When you've helped stack chairs at church on a movable rack, have you ever had the misfortune of lining up several chairs but then finding out they are sliding backwards because some dummy didn't place the inaugural one in correctly? Now the rack is all messed up. That's how God feels about the Ten Commandments. The first one is the pinnacle of all and must be obeyed if the other nine are to be in ...
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E. Carver McGriff
... to leave, they had trouble getting everything in their car. So Bruce offered to give them a car luggage rack he had in his garage. The friends were expressing their gratitude and Bruce admits he was magnanimously accepting their appreciation when his wife walked ... in and said, "Bruce, you're not giving them that old rack, are you? You know it never worked right." He was, of course, quite embarassed and apologetic. He's to be admired for ...
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King Duncan
... to play the game, the Dad asked the local coach if there was anything that he could recommend to make the boy taller. “You might take him down to the museum and put him on that old torture stretch rack,” the coach said. Several weeks later the coach asked the father if putting the boy on the stretch rack had helped. “Well, it didn’t make him any taller,” said the Dad, “but he confessed to several things that I never knew he did.” We all have our dreams, don’t we? To play starting guard on ...
7. Others
Romans 9:30--10:21
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Leonard Sweet
... , your child suddenly disappears completely from sight. With no straight aisles to look up and down, no neat rows of racks or counters to investigate one-by-one, you are immediately reduced to frantically flying this way and that, calling out your child's ... name, and digging into the dark centers of those big round racks of coats and pants. Your child, of course, never answers back. Your daughter or son is simply enjoying a wonderful game of ...
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Leonard Sweet
... “touchdowns” in the last couple of decades. *The Devil started a flurry of touchdowns on 08 April 1994, the day genocide began in Rwanda and almost a million Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu brothers and sisters. *The Devil scored big on 9-11. *The Devil racked up more points in Dafur and the Sudan and Afghanistan. *The Devil is dancing in the end zone not only in Bagdad and Jerusalem, but in the shanties of Soweto, the dump-site slums of Malaysia, and in the hate-filled, gang-patrolled streets of ...
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James Merritt
... …the man I hate hounds me wherever I go. I can't escape his tyrannical grasp on my mind… The man I hate may be many miles from my bedroom; but more cruel than slave driver, he whips my thoughts into such a frenzy that my innerspring mattress becomes a rack of torture. The lowliest of the serfs can sleep, but not I. I really must acknowledge the fact that I am a slave to every man on whom I pour the vials of my wrath.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous poet, once quoted these lines from a seventh century ...
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Leonard Sweet
... the old favorites greets you just as you turn your cart into the first aisle. At the opposite end of the store is half a wall of bulk candy big packages for big families or big sweet tooths. There are racks of typical "movie candies" at the video rental desk. Finally, there is one whole display rack located up by the comic books that holds all the really sweet, gooey, glow-in-the-dark, pop-in-your-mouth candy that little kids adore. Actually, about 75 percent of that display is devoted to all the various ...
11. A Vision Vanished
Philippians 3:4-14
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Larry Lange
... disbelief, but he let the accelerator up. He was shocked fully awake now and just kept looking at Jesus even as he passed him. When Arnold returned his attention to the curving road ahead, he saw a moose right in the middle of it — a bull moose, with a rack of antlers as wide as his car. Arnold slammed on the brakes and stopped a foot in front of that lumbering Paleolithic mountain of moose flesh which did not move, and which, if he had hit it, still would not have moved. Arnold had seen what was left of ...
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King Duncan
... cost just under a thousand dollars. The two women looked over the dresses as they talked about which color would be best, given the homeless woman’s coloring. After a discussion that went on for more than ten minutes, they picked two dresses off the rack. Then the saleswoman said, “Follow me, Madam. I want you to try on these dresses to see how you look in each of them.” Campolo’s friend was flabbergasted. She knew the saleswoman must have realized that this homeless woman didn’t have the means ...
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King Duncan
... up the greatest number of kills in history. Could we agree that Adam Lanza was possessed by an impure spirit? It was a spirit that told him his life didn’t matter that he was unnoticed and unloved. The only way to rectify his situation was to rack up a world record. Then people would notice. It is a terrible thing when you are young to feel unnoticed and unwanted. Of course, Lanza’s feelings and his way of acting them out were extreme. Most people with such feelings are no harm to anyone but still they ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... worn down by being exposed day in, day out, to the vile manner of life of those who scorned the moral code and the law of God. Lot was repeatedly tormented in his righteous soul. The verb is active, not passive, and implies that Lot put himself on the rack. That he is feeling pain, so to speak, is heightened by the fact that the verb is put last in the Greek sentence and so in a position of strong emphasis. Tormented is not too strong a term, therefore, to describe his spiritual suffering at what was going ...
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King Duncan
... . To make matters worse they are top-heavy and their legs are spindly. This makes them slow. Plus they have no camouflage, so when they are being chased by a wolf they are out of luck . . . unless there happens to be a store that sells racks and racks of wool sweaters nearby. Sheep are also susceptible to all kinds of diseases . . . they will eat too much if you let them and get sick. They are definitely not your king-of-the-forest types. “And finally, sheep are easily frightened and confused. It doesn ...
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King Duncan
... of each home game Greene would seek out Tara at her usual seat at the 30 yard line for her to give him a quick beating—fists only—and her usual fight talk: “Rack ’em, sack ’em, crack ’em, frack ’em!” (1) Only in professional sports would a wife show her support by beating her husband with her fists. Or maybe it was the “rack ’em, sack ’em, crack ’em, frack ’em” that did it. By a show of hands, how many of you would call yourself a fan of some kind? Could be a sports fan. Could ...
17. The Lost Is Found
Luke 15:11-32
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Richard A. Jensen
... been a problem child. There were medical problems. There were behavioral problems. Life was not easy with this daughter. And then one day -- when she was 23 years old -- Kathy simply disappeared. She was gone and no one could find her. Weeks went by. Pastor Dave was racked with worry. Months went by. Pastor Dave was sure that she must be dead by now. What chance did she have in the world all alone? She needed her medicine. She needed care. Years went by. Pastor Dave felt like he had been through a wringer ...
18. Unforgiveness
Luke 7:36-50
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... them? RENA: If I knew where I put them I'd go get them and leave your father so he can READ HIS PRECIOUS PAPER! SAM: If you'd get organized you'd be able to find your keys when you need them. You should put them on the key rack in the back hall when you get home. That's what I always do. RENA: I know you do, on the way to getting the paper and leaving your tie in the hallway and your jacket in the dining room and your shoes under the chair. You never pick up ...
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Don M. Aycock
... him!" It is that uncertainty which makes this day necessary for us. You see, you and I must decide what to do with Jesus even now. You hold two toothpicks in your hands. They can represent several things. They can symbolize the nails which glued that pain-racked body to the cross. They might be the spear that was thrust into Jesus' side as he hung on the cross. Or they can be placed together to form a cross, symbolizing your acceptance of your part of the sin which put Jesus there. The toothpicks can ...
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Thomas Long
... the atmosphere in that living room changed the moment we saw him step out of his car. It was anticipation, but more than that. His arrival was, in its own way, a call to worship. This frail human being, striding across the lawn in his off-the-rack preacher suit, desperately trying to find some words of meaning to speak, brought with him, by the grace of God, the presence of Christ. In his presence and in his words -- words, words, words -- was the living Word. And because the Word became flesh and dwells ...
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Robert G. McCreight
... an explanation doesn't seem to matter much any more. BULLETIN MATERIAL Notes of the Psalms of Disorientation Although happiness is what we so much want, suffering and pain seem to be so much more common to many people. Deserved or not, their lives are racked with physical and emotional trauma which skews their ability to rejoice and be glad. Taunted by enemies to the point of death (42:10), like sheep blindly being led to the slaughter (44:11), the psalmist questions God's interest in his people. All too ...
Drama
Donald Neidigk
... to scan the crowd looking for someone. With evident relief, he found them, his mother and a friend called John. "Woman, behold your son," he called out to her. And then, looking straight at John, he spoke again, "Behold, your mother." A dying man, racked with pain, concerned about his mother? Who was this man? He said other things, including something in Aramaic, the language of the people. I didn't speak it. It sounded as though he were calling for one of their prophets, Elijah. Then he said something ...
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Timothy J. Smith
... s what David must have been experiencing. By outward appearances everything seemed fine, but on the inside his life was out of control. During the first years of David's reign everything had gone so well; it seemed that everything David touched turned to gold. He racked up victory after victory against a whole host of opponents. Then David let his popularity and power go to his head; he sinned and to make matters worse he tried to cover it up with murder. A prophet came early one morning to speak with David ...
24. Proper 17
Exodus 3:1-22, Jeremiah 15:15-21; 20:7-18, Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8
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Russell F. Anderson
... of his children. Old Testament: Jeremiah 15:15-21 1. Sermon Title: One Is The Loneliest Number. Sermon Angle: Jeremiah chafes under the burden of having to proclaim God's judgment. He complains that he is denied the company of merrymakers and must sit alone, racked by pain (v. 17). The prophet has a bad case of loneliness even though he is not really alone. Though he felt quite abandoned, God was with him. Outline: 1. Describe the conditions that led to Jeremiah's loneliness 2. Explain that loneliness stems ...
25. Proper 21
Matthew 21:23-27, Matthew 21:28-32, Exodus 17:1-7, Ezekiel 18:1-32, Philippians 2:1-11
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Russell F. Anderson
... were told, but that she ran a brothel in a nearby town. Cal brought his brother to the brothel and confronted him with the mother. Aaron's image of who he was shattered like falling ice. Aaron cracked, went off to war and got killed. Cal was racked with guilt, and the father got a stroke from the shock of it all and became mute. In the end, the rebel son and the stricken father are reconciled by Lee, their Chinese housekeeper, who pleaded with Adam. "Your son is marked with guilt out of himself .... Don ...
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