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. Dancing in the Wind
Matthew 14:22-36
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . Faith allows us to ride the winds of the Spirit, even when life gets rough. When we trust in Jesus’ presence, and know that God is near, our fight is irrelevant and our tension only a bane to hold us back. To navigate life with Jesus, we just need to relax and ride the waves. For our Master is Lord of the Dance. And we are His dance partners. In our scripture for today, Matthew 14:22-33, we see Jesus sending the disciples in their boat out to the open sea, where a storm comes up. Fighting a strong ...
2. Time Out
John 12:1-11
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... alone and to rest. Everyone needs a place to escape from the noise of the traffic, the blaring of the radio, and the insistent ring of the telephone. Even military personnel in the midst of wartime manage to make time for "R & R," an opportunity for rest and relaxation. There is a prayer that I keep in a prominent place in my study which helps me remember the importance of making time for rest: Slow me down, Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision ...
3. Jesus? Where?
Luke 4:14-30
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... enjoy the service. FRANK: I'll take care of Ollie. JILL: I hope so. FRANK: Don't worry about it. Just relax and enjoy the worship. JILL: I could relax better if he weren't here. OLLIE: (POINTING) Over there? JILL: Oh, boy. Here we go. FRANK: What is it, Ollie ... ! Let's just leave. That would be best. I can't worship with all this going on. C'mon, let's just leave. FRANK: Will you relax? OLLIE: I'm ready to go, now. FRANK: Ollie, we're not leaving yet. JILL: I'm leaving. (SHE BEGINS TO EXIT) FRANK: I guess we ...
Sermon
Charles R. Leary
... walk down the hall and back! You find yourself often pushing, striving, worrying, deciding, promoting, struggling, and only sometimes enjoying. You struggle to keep yourself going, keep others going, and just keep up with whatever is going. When ... how ... do you ever relax? Really relax, so that the muscles in your neck, your shoulders, your back, your abdomen are calm and have no need to produce a posture? When does your brain ever get the message that it doesn’t have to produce anything within a given ...
5. The Remote
John 14:5-14
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... HAS A BIGGER REMOTE THAN SUSAN AND SHUTS OFF SUSAN'S REMOTE) Straighten up, there. I'm your entertainment for tonight. SUSAN: What the...? Where did you come from? FLY: (FLITTING AROUND) You don't need to know. Just enjoy me. SUSAN: Enjoy you? I was trying to relax with the T.V. after a hard day. FLY: Of course, I forgot. Your brain ... SUSAN: My brain! FLY: (SINGING) You left your brain in Sam Clam's Disco. SUSAN: What happened to my quiet evening at home? FLY: Aren't you blessed. You have me instead. Ta ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... may sound like a strange point to be made from the pulpit, but it is true. We have a responsibility to take time to rest, to relax, to take off our shoes, loosen our tie, take down our hair and let it all hang out, as they used to say. God did not ... need to rest both our bodies and our brains. And over a life-time we will be more productive if we allow ourselves time for relaxation. Nobody was ever more committed to his work than Jesus of Nazareth. So much was at stake and there was so little time. Yet Jesus ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... , God will put someone else there to do the ministry that we have not been able to do. III In light of what I’ve said – that we need to recognize there is a limit to what we can offer – and there comes the occasion when we need to relax in the fact that there is a time to leave to God and others what we cannot do ourselves – then as an ongoing practice which will be a great prescription for our dealing with compassion fatigue – we need to regularly renew our strength by waiting on the Lord. Isaiah ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... to fix things. We feel a compulsion to be there and provide something for every situation. It’s difficult to remember that ours are not the only hands and feet Christ has, there are others who share His life and ministry – so there comes a time for us to relax a bit and believe that we can leave to God and others what we cannot do ourselves – convinced that as the God of mercy has met us at every corner, so God will meet those to whom we seek to minister at every corner in their life – and sometimes ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... will put someone else there to do the ministry that we have not been able to do. III In light of what I’ve said – that we need to recognize that there is a limit to what we can offer -- and there comes the occasion when we need to relax in the fact that there is a time to leave to God and others what we cannot do ourselves – then as an ongoing practice which will be a great prescription for our dealing with compassion fatigue – we need to regularly renew our strength by waiting on the Lord. Isaiah ...
10. Worry Not
Matthew 6:25-34
Sermon
King Duncan
... as well . . .” From reading this I’m tempted to declare that it is a sin to worry. However, if I did that, I would just give some of you one more thing to worry about. I will say this: you put a terrible burden upon yourself when you cannot relax and trust in God. A word that is often used in our society is not worry, but its sister emotion, stress. A lecturer was explaining stress management to an audience. He raised a glass of water and asked, “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ...
11. Worship is Your Rest Stop
Genesis 1:1-2:3, Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Galatians 3:1-14
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of you know what I mean. Imagine you’re married or you have a partner and you work hard all week and barely see each other. And then you get to the weekend, and all you want to do is enjoy each other’s company, revel in relaxation together. It’s all about the relationship. Shabbat is a “rest of the heart.” The word is used hundreds of times in the scriptures to signify the “peace” of God. You observe sabbath “to” or “with” God. And during that time, God “releases” us from our heavy ...
Drama
Karren Boehr
... Christ. This year, we're going to do the meaningful things. I'll be a wise man, but I'm not building a manger on the front lawn. All in favor of putting Christ back into Christmas? (There is a chorus of agreement as the family sits back, contentedly relaxes, then freezes. Spotlight off) Scene IV Setting: Same as Act I, Scene IV (Spotlight on) GENTLEMAN: So what are people like you and me going to do, Edna? These are lonely times for us. The Christ child came to earth to be light to the world ... to set the ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... that my back will break or my legs will bend like a noodle, I drag myself over to my favorite summer chair and just collapse. (Relax in your chaise lounge.) Isn't this wonderful. Give me a glass of lemonade and I am ready for the world's best rest. How ... will take care of both of us and make us close friends again. Christians should not worry. They should give their troubles to Jesus and relax. That is why we call Jesus a big chaise lounge. He is always there to give us rest for our work, our worry, and any ...
14. The Bridge
John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24
Drama
H. J. Hizer
... ! Five: I've been going back and forth upon the earth -- One: That's no way to spend your weekends, Lord -- you ought to relax more. Two: Right, Chief -- Why not take up golf? Five: You don't understand. My people are far from me -- and I want them ... you -- after all -- you did what you could. One: No -- I'm really scared -- you know the Boss is used to having things his way. Three: Relax -- bluff your way through. One: What if he fires me? I don't know how td do anything else -- I've been a devil all my ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... of the Law is so tight on all of us that something often has to happen to us in order for us to let go, get us to relax, so that God can get a hold of us. Paul was that way, too. He had to get knocked down on the Damascus Road. He got hit by ... like this." Then he bent over at the waist, his arms hanging down in front of him. Then he stood up again to his full height, and he said, "Relax ma'am. That's the only way God is going to get a hold of you." That is what Paul learned. He had to go through a physical ...
16. Sleep Loose
2 Corinthians 13:11-13
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the cloud of witnesses Paul invoked the presence of "all the saints" in his farewell to the Corinthians. Likewise, we must feel a part of all the saints, the entire community of faith. It is in feeling the strength of all that support that we can relax and "sleep loose." Nancy Wilson is one of my favorite singers. There is a T-shirt that says "Aged to Perfection." Nancy Wilson's singing of the blues, jazz and Big Band tunes is just that "aged to perfection." At a fundraiser for United Theological Seminary ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Don’t carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you’re carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. Relax; pick them up later after you’ve rested. Life is short. Enjoy it!” (4) That may be the great thing about worship. It’s a ... WILL BE. But if you live in the present, It is not hard, For my name is I AM. (6) The great I AM is with us. Relax. God has a plan. Here’s the third step: make a beginning. Andrew came forward to say there was a boy present with five small barley ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... than one, wishing there were 40 hours rather than 24 in the day, wishing that I had bushels, rather than pints, of spiritual guidance and support to pass around. I confess I don’t handle it well, but I know the answer, and I keep reminding myself - that I can relax a bit if I can believe that the time comes to leave to God and others what I can not do myself. I can say forcefully what I’m about to say, because I’m speaking to myself as well as to you. Brothers and Sisters, we cannot be God ...
19. The Place beyond Revenge
Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22
Sermon
Donna Schaper
... weeks, and I hadn't finished the one I had been reading on the train the morning of September 11, and wasn't remotely curious about how it ended. That I had no desire to read another one. I had always found them relaxing, those page turners, relaxing in direct and strange proportion to their goriness and perversity, as if fictional evil were somehow talismanic against the encroachment of real evil into the world. But no more — I don't want to read about people deliberately hurting and killing other people ...
Sermon
William B. Kincaid, III
... under control." In other words, don't presume your past has taken care of your present. Don't presume either way. Don't presume that your life is over if you have something bad in your past. Don't presume, either, that a good past is permission to relax. The call to repent, to turn toward God, is for all of us to hear, and for us to hear over and over again. Wasn't it John's concern that people were taking their faith for granted, experiencing it secondhand through Abraham, and coasting in automatic pilot ...
21. Quantum Leap
Acts 13:13-52
Sermon
Carl Jech
... , but of responding to God's unmerited favor. We are not discouraged by God's high moral demands because we know that God does not intend them to discourage us! We know that God wants us to learn the "trick" of combining great effort with an ability to relax, the "trick" of combining a sense of urgency with a sense of humor. It wasn't only the people in Jesus' day who resisted climbing out of their ruts. How open are we to new insights? Jesus never asked or expected his fellow Jews totally to give up their ...
Sermon
Carl Jech
... we also know that God will not punish us for our failures because God is more interested in having us keep on trying than in having us reach some abstract goal of perfection. The "genius" of Christianity, if you will, is that it teaches us how to struggle and relax at the same time, how to continue hoping for the best even when it doesn't seem to be happening. (2) One especially good way of describing the New Testament attitude toward our efforts to be and to do good, is to say that we learn from the Gospel ...
Drama
... ’re here. 2: I’ve heard that before. 1: We’ve made it to the end. 2: [Sits down] 1: Now we can relax - rest - take it easy. 2: So, sit down, relax, rest! 1: [Remains standing] It’s been a long way. 2: It sure has. 1: I wasn’t sure we were going to ... to me every time. 1: What do you mean? 2: You just told me this was the end. 1: That’s right. 2: That we could stop - rest - relax. 1: Right. And we just did. 2: But now you say we have to go again. 1: Of course. 2: What do you mean "of course!" When ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... that tiredness is more than a weariness of bone, muscle or mind. It goes deeper than that. It’s a kind of lethargy of spirit, an exhaustion of emotions, a dullness of response. We yearn, we cry out for rest; and yet, we are restLESS. We want to relax. We work so hard at relaxing; and yet, we are taut as bow strings. We’re tense. We’re all on edge - on edge toward each other. We seek peace; and yet, there are conflicts raging within us and around us. In this moment and in this mood, we turn to the Word ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... to chronic fatigue. It’s a simple, psychological and physical fact. Try an experiment. Some time spend the first week of your vacation doing nothing. That’s an awfully hard job, isn’t it? Wear your old clothes, let your beard grow, slop around the house, relax. See how tired you get, how agonizingly BORED you are with the whole thing. Then, on Sunday morning, get up early, get yourself a good shave and shower, and get dressed in your Sunday best and go to Church and Worship. I suspect that you will ...
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