Synonyms: captured, trapped, catch, took, arrested, grabbed, taken, seized, stuck, apprehended, picked up, entangled, nabbed, jammed, abducted, acquired, got, bagged, gotten, netted, cornered, appropriated, tangled, snared, ensnared
Antonyms: free, freed, unconfined, loose, unrestrained, set free, uncuffed, emancipated, enfranchised, released, ambiguous, flaccid, let go, discharged, unbound, uncaged, unchained, unfettered, unleashed, unshackled, untied, avoided, discounted, disregarded, missed
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1. Trapped!
Romans 6:15-23
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King Duncan
... . For a person who has become entrapped in a life of sin, it shrivels and then kills the soul. That is inevitably the fate of the person who does not seek to mend his or her sinful ways. We sometimes forget that St. Paul knew what it was to be trapped, to be enslaved, though we normally don’t think about his entrapment being to sin. St. Paul was enslaved by the Law. He was a religious fanatic who went so far with his faith as to persecute people who did not agree with him. Those people who disagreed with ...
2. Booby Trap
Luke 10:25-37
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... stone quarry - but he understands what love for God and people is all about. As another poet said, "That love for One from which there doth not spring Wide love for all is but a worthless thing." (J.R. Lowell) The reason that the lawyer got caught in his own trap was simply that he didn’t realize that love, as well as law, is a gift from God that enables us to be like God in our relationships with people in general and in our response to people in need in particular. We can’t love with any measure of ...
3. Trapped in Paradise
Matthew 25:1-13
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Leonard Sweet
... for which they had planned, these intrepid travelers found that they really did still have a vacation. In fact, some of them called it the best vacation of their lives. How many of us this morning are exactly like these Cancun tourists? We're trapped in paradise. Life is such a gift . . . the privilege and paradise of living and breathing and loving and eating. But life sometimes hits us hard with hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes. Our big plans of how we want to live in paradise have been blown ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... and of the world." But with all the bombardment from all the various forms of media, I have to remember and remind myself of that all the time. I have to "LIVE CAREFULLY" as Paul put it because when we look out at the world "It's Not Booby Trapped, But . . ." it is dangerous. LIVE CAREFULLY, put Christ first and use this passage not only as a warning label but as a guide to Living. 1. http://rinkworks.com/said/warnings.shtml 2. http://www.tln.com/uplink/ August 14, 2003 3. http://www.tln.com/uplink/ August ...
5. Scandal
Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5
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Lori Wagner
... the case of Fitz and Olivia, it’s not just that their relationship has made the President trip and lose a step in his presidency, as though stubbing a toe on a log in the road. No, their affair has tripped the stick that held the tension in a waiting trap, and the jaws are now falling shut upon both of them. That’s a whole other picture, isn’t it? By the way, you all know that Mistress Olivia Pope will never be First Lady, right? The skandalon is like a trigger. It holds a tension in place. When it ...
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John G. Lynn
... one for Judas. The bait was 30 pieces of silver, and they knew he would go for it. Once they gave that silver to Judas they began to feel the millstone around their necks. Their power and influence was over. A few years later the Roman legions wiped them out. Traps we set for other people always have a way of coming back home, like chickens to their roost. Once Judas snared Jesus in the kiss of betrayal, the millstone wrapped itself around his neck, too. He went out and hanged himself. "Temptation ...
7. Real Strength
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
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Harold Warlick
... wrong crowd or be sexually irresponsible. What we really fear is that our child could become one of the 36 percent of the people who get trapped by life. If that is true, and there is a 36 percent chance that you and I will give in to anything, then maybe we ... at 18? Wait until you're 38 or 48 or 58. How does a person find real strength in life? How do we keep from getting trapped, from leaping at the first thing we see or from feeling like an ingrate, a slob, or a rip-off artist if we say "no?" Essentially ...
8. How Rich Is Rich?
1 Timothy 6:3-10
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Charles L. Aaron
... we are interconnected. What we do affects not just ourselves but many others. With the global economy, our decisions can have far-reaching consequences. Things can start small, but then the effects ripple through the economy, ruining lives and inflicting pain. When we trap ourselves, we catch other people. When we pierce ourselves, the lance cuts not just our own flesh. How much more evidence do we need that money alone does not buy wholeness or happiness? We have seen — sometimes more than we want to see ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... we need, isn’t it? — room, some space, more light, an easing of the load, a hint of hope, a word to go on — that’s what we need — room when in distress. How do we find it? - What might we do? - Where might we turn? - when we feel trapped and abandoned? The psalmist speaks to us here because that was his situation. What is the psalmist saying to us? First, face your problem. Were we to sit down and chat with the psalmist who gave us Psalm 4, we could undoubtedly advice. We might say to him, “Sir ...
10. Captive Free!
Romans 7:15-25a
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Steven E. Albertin
... feet? You can't stay put with the ice slowly caving in under your feet, but if you start to move, the pressure from your steps pressing on the ice will only make the ice crack more quickly. There is no good choice. You are in "double jeopardy." You are "trapped between a rock and a hard place," "damned if you do and damned if you don't." That is the way Paul describes the experience of his own life in today's reading from the letter to the Romans. In an often-quoted verse, Paul laments his no-win situation ...
11. Trip Questions
Matthew 22:15-22
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Leonard Sweet
... one-third to one-half our life dead to the world, dead to life? c) Why death? No, I can come to terms with death. But why painful death, why slow death, why children's death, why the suffering of the innocent? You start down this Trap Questions, and either the trap door will spring shut on you, or you end up living a line from Herman Melville, where he said that the universe is one large practical joke, the wit thereof humans but dimly perceive. 4) The kind of questions Jesus asked, and taught us to ask ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... our life is so tied up with someone else that someone doesn’t care and suffer. Maybe that someone is a spouse from whom you’re divorced, but children and financial need, and past deep emotional ties bind you to that person, and you feet dependent and trapped. You want to believe that there’s a way out, that the sun will from the twilight zone of fear and depression. You’ve heard that Jesus could do this. You’ve even counseled with friends in former days to turn to Christ for deliverance. But the ...
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Russell F. Anderson
... On the one hand, life and blessing and, on the other, death and curses. Why would anyone think long about this one? No one intentionally chooses death, do they? Not usually. What happens is that people choose that which appears to be life enhancing but is really a death trap. Drugs seem to be a real life enhancer. They make you feel good but once you are hooked, it's hard to choose life again. To bow down to the god of mammon seems like an attractive thing to do, but once prostrate you may never be able to ...
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James Merritt
... ! I hate to miss church so much, but we’ve got our membership at the club, we’ve got our house at the lake, we just bought this boat, we don’t want to waste it – Trapped! Then Paul goes on to say, “It plunges people into ruin and destruction.” (I Timothy 6:9, ESV) Trust me, I’ve seen the marriages ruined and the lives destroyed, because people were trying to strike it rich the wrong way. There is a danger to being rich, but there ...
15. The Master's Voice
Matthew 13:53-58, Mark 6:1-6, Luke 4:14-30
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Lori Wagner
... -trigger” of their own lack of faith and trust in one of their own. “And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief” (Mt.13:58). Don’t fall for the trap. If you trip the trigger, it will lead to a life of imprisonment, isolation, and despair. When Jesus speaks to you, can you hear him? Or do you only see the limitations of your own small world? When Jesus speaks, he will spin your world, change your views, alter your ...
16. Pay Attention!
Luke 21:25-36
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Lori Wagner
... simply with anxiety or worries of life, that we stop paying attention to God and the state of our souls. And when we fall into that kind of numb-like state, we are susceptible to falling into traps! “Watch out that the day (of redemption)…..does not catch you unexpectedly, like a trap.” What a great metaphor for not paying attention –as though you are wandering through the woods, not paying attention to your path, where you are putting your feet, and consequently, you could likely and literally fall ...
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... How do we tell the differences between truth and lies? How do we keep our hands, as it were, from laying hold of subtle traps and keep them instead grasping the strong, sure hand of our Good Shepherd? By abiding. Simply abiding. Three times in John’s Gospel we ... our God (or god) is, so are we. Whatever it is, let it go. Release your grip on slavery and remove your hand from the trap. It’s worth the risk, for you will not fall: Our Good Shepherd’s hand will immediately take hold of yours to keep you in ...
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James Bjorge
... eloquent lines of wisdom: For all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -Maud Muller, Stanza 53 The five foolish maidens presumed that the bridegroom would have come earlier, before their oil ran out. But they were wrong. The third trap of waiting is tightness. People who cannot relax are said to be uptight. It is sort of a state of inner panic. We all know what it is like when pressures start building and we’re not quite ready to deliver the goods. Now God does not ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... you spend is as crucial, nothing will make a more significant difference than your role as a parent. This ministry is the most important ministry that you can have - that of being priests to your children. So if you can keep that in mind - that you are not trapped in this role as a parent, but you’ve been tapped by God for this, you will be energized for that task. And that brings me to the third aspect of this prescription for recovering from parent burnout. Trust God not to renew your strength. And I ...
20. Rich In His Poverty
2 Corinthians 8:7-15
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... a lot of things in life that make that claim. There are a lot of things in life that claim to be THE TRUE TREASURE of life. Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that money is THE TRUE TREASURE of life. Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that accolades from others and acceptance by others is THE TRUE TREASURE of life. Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that the accumulation of things is The True Treasure of life. That's what advertising wants us to believe. Sometimes we fall into the ...
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Tony Everett
... one thing and doing just the opposite. We are often guilty of speaking with sincerity and preaching with passion; yet acting as if we are more “religious” than anyone else. We behave without understanding the experience of others. It’s as if we are trapped in a tomb of our own making. Carl was a newly ordained pastor preparing for his first journey through the season of Lent with his new parishioners. As most new pastors, Carl struggled with time management. There just weren’t enough hours in the ...
22. Christ Is King
John 12:12-19
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... around all week. But the possibility of interview was open to some question, for our Lord consistently refused to be subjected to the questions of the curious who saw no more in him than a good story. Nor would he get his foot caught in the traps that questioners would ask. There were those who tried to interview him - Caiaphas, King Herod, Pontius Pilate - but none of them would get a quarter hour. There is another lens through which to view the cross. We see it through the lens of Easter’s resurrection ...
23. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?
Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12
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Robert Noblett
... to look at their own behavior, until their enlightenment to the truth that we are all simultaneously children of light and darkness has liberated them to a more responsible outlook. There are those who have sat in the closet of medical darkness, trapped by fear and misinformation, until the illumination of medical fact has brought them again to life. And there are those who have sat in the closet of religious darkness, convinced of their doom, until they have received the illumination that comes from ...
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Ron Lavin
... of faith in the Lord. You can’t have one without the other. "You can’t love God whom you do not see unless you love your neighbor whom you do see" (1 John 4:20). "The sabbath was made for man," Jesus said. The Pharisee had tried to trap him by pointing out that he was working on the sabbath - picking grain from the fields on a holy day. "You’ve missed the point," Jesus said. "you’ve still got your eyes fixed firmly on yourself, your ideas, your narrow theology, your little world." God is there to ...
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... be without the very sight that enabled him to do evil. As a man who used his keen vision and insight to anticipate and set traps for the followers, his eyes were indispensable to his crimes. But now that sight was gone. Now he couldn’t see where he was, know ... building. That he is on a street called Straight is not a bluff. It is not a rumor. It is not a trick or a trap. He is really in a place where Christ has his crooked ways straight in order to help rather than persecute the followers of the way. ...
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