Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
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A GAME TO REST
A father had three very active boys.
One summer evening, he was playing cops and robbers in the back yard after dinner.
One of the boys "shot" his father and yelled, "Bang! You’re dead!"
He slumped to the ground and when he didn’t get up right away, a neighbor ran over to see if
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Contributed by Curtis Rowe on Jan 2, 2008
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“Once my hands were always trying,
Trying hard to do my best;
Now my heart is sweetly trusting,
And my soul is all at rest!
Once my life was full of effort,
Now it’s full of joy and zest;
Since I
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Denomination:
Baptist
NO REST FOR THE UNFORGIVING
Somewhere in the recesses of my memory is the recollection of a movie. It’s a Western; I know that much. I can’t remember the title of the movie, but I remember the story line.
The hero is a law man, and he is transporting a convicted murderer across the treacherous
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Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
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REST IN PEACE
Six-year-old and his four-year-old sister presented their mom with a Mother’s Day present: a small, spindly house plant. While it wasn’t the finest looking specimen, they had bought it with their own money and Mom was thrilled. She hugged and kissed her children and told them
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Denomination:
Salvation Army
Contributed by James Owens on Dec 14, 2004
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Illustration
There was a widow who had “Rest In Peace” put on her husband’s tombstone.
When she found out that he left her
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Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 16, 2006
The Presidency to this day rests more on the character of the person who inhabits the office than on anything else. The Founding Fathers designed it that way. It was their idea to find a man in America with a great character and let him invest a tradition and shape a national character. They found
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that the real life is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 22, 2009
FAITH: REASON AT REST
The late Manley Beasley defined faith as a "reason at rest with God." To me, that's powerful, but it hits me even harder when I remember that he went on to say, "Faith is dependency upon God, and this God-dependency only begins when self-dependency ends." And what do we see
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Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Ian Biss on Jul 2, 2002
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FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!
A little girl had been trying for months to learn the art of tying her shoes. She finally grasped the knack and was able to do it by herself. Her parents expected the child to be delighted, but were surprised by her disappointment. Her father asked why she was crying.
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Grace Brethren
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2002
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GET SOME REST!
Our most notorious industrial accidents in recent years—Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the fatal navigational error of Korean Air Lines 007—all occurred in the middle of the night. When the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian A300 airbus killing all 290 people aboard,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
We do not rest because our work is done; we rest because God commanded it and
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 18, 2002
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CALVIN AND HOBBES—THE REST OF THE STORY
The next day at home, father is sitting at his desk doing paper work. Calvin walks in with a clipboard and pen in hand.
CALVIN: Dad, your polls took a big dive this week. Your "Overall Dad Performance Rating" was really low. See? Right about yesterday
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 16, 2006
Everything continues in a state of rest unless it is compelled to change by forces impressed upon it.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
Rest your whole weight on God
a. Ill: There once was a man, named John Paton, who was translating the Bible for a South Seas island tribe. John Paton discovered that the natives had no word for trust or faith. One day a native who had been working hard came into the missionary’s house, flopped
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