Dictionary: Face
Synonyms: countenance, physiognomy, profile, features, expression, facial expression, look, appearance, air, manner, bearing, guise, cast, aspect, impression, grimace, scowl, wry face, wince, frown, glower, smirk, pout, moue, side, flank, vertical, surface, plane, facet, wall, elevation, dial, display, (outward) appearance, nature, image, front, show, act, false front, facade, exterior, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage, respect, honour, esteem, regard, admiration, approbation, acclaim, approval, favour, appreciation, popularity, estimation, veneration, awe, reverence, deference, recognition, prestige, standing, status, dignity, glory, kudos, cachet, effrontery, audacity, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, look out on, front on to, look towards, be facing, have/afford/command a view of, look over/across, open out over, look on to, overlook, give on to, give over, be opposite (to), accept, come to accept, become reconciled to, reconcile oneself to, reach an acceptance (of), get used to, become accustomed to, adjust to, accommodate oneself to, acclimatize oneself to, be confronted by, be faced with, encounter, experience, come into contact with, run into, come across, meet, come up against, be forced to contend with, beset, worry, distress, cause trouble to, trouble, bother, confront, burden, brave, face up to, meet head-on, dare, defy, oppose, resist, withstand, cover, clad, skin, overlay, dress, pave, put a facing on, laminate, inlay, plate, coat, line
Antonyms: dodge, fear, back, give way, back down, dodge, avoid, throw in the towel, withdraw, cave in, retreat, succumb to, lay down one's arms, throw in the sponge, defer, submit, escape, bashfulness, shun, evade, elude
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Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
... be sure that our country, our society, your business, your schoolmates, your children and family all get exposed to the great light, the message of Jesus Christ, the message that we are loved by God. Then we graciously give time and opportunity to allow our society to adjust to the light, for the darkness in which we live is so deep, that the pain of the light can be too great to bear. I believe an awareness of that one fact will help to give us patience and gentleness in our Christian witness. Some of that ...
2. A Man for All Seasons
1 Corinthians 9:16-23
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Donald Charles Lacy
... pastor generally means, at least, two others are moving as well. This involves negotiation with large amounts of patience by all concerned. My experience is that district superintendents really do attempt to make good appointments. Anyone, lay or clergy, unable to adjust to new pastors and people are in serious trouble. This is true, regardless of the polity. Our needs sometimes simply have to go unmet for awhile. But this should never discourage us. Why? Because from every situation into which we are put ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... any marriage relationship work. What are some of the characteristics of people determined to be Mr. or Miss Right? FIRST OF ALL, THEY ARE PERSONS ABLE TO COPE WITH CHANGE. Change is part of life. Even that first couple, Adam and Eve, had to adjust to change. There was the loss of paradise. Then there was parenthood. Then there was the tragedy of the death of one of their sons at the hand of the other. Their lives were constantly changing. And so are ours. Changes are particularly challenging to marriages ...
4. Acres of Diamonds
1 Timothy 6:10
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Russell Conwell
... research, and then presented the lecture just once -- never delivered it again. I put too much work on it. But this had no work on it -- thrown together perfectly at random, spoken offhand without any special preparation, and it succeeds when the thing we study, work over, adjust to a plan, is an entire failure. The "Acres of Diamonds" which I have mentioned through so many years are to be found in this city, and you are to find them. Many have found them. And what man has done, man can do. I could not find ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon all [people] of good will to be maladjusted. If you will allow the preacher in me to come out now, let me say to you that I never did intend to adjust to the evils of segregation and discrimination. I never did intend to adjust myself to religious bigotry. I never did intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never did intend to adjust myself to the ...
6. More
Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
Sermon
Will Willimon
... 's poetic protest against religion reduced to slogan, morals, five fundamentals, bumper sticker proverbs, thoughts for the day, religion relegated to the conventional, the boring rehash of the obvious and the already known. Here is protest against Sunday as adjustment to what is seen rather than probing of the more. We came to church for certitude, to touch base with the known, but apocalyptic speech does not give certitude. In the poetic, apocalyptic, Spirit-anointed space, possibility overwhelms necessity ...
7. Vetted
Luke 3:21-38, Luke 4:1-13
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... almost all of which were brand new tennis balls, his dishes, and a sealed letter from his previous owner. See, Reggie and I didn't really hit it off when we got home. We struggled for two weeks (which is how long the shelter told me to give him to adjust to his new home). Maybe it was the fact that I was trying to adjust, too. Maybe we were too much alike. For some reason, his stuff (except for the tennis balls – he wouldn't go anywhere without two stuffed in his mouth) got tossed in with all of my other ...
Sermon
Gregory J. Johanson
... women have freely chosen singleness, even when there was the opportunity to marry. Others, though earlier preferring marriage, have adjusted very well and found that singleness is quite fulfilling. And of course many, divorced or widowed, have made good adjustments to singlehood and are making significant contributions to life. The point is, that singles are individuals with weaknesses and strengths just like anybody else, just like married people. And they are single for a variety of reasons. They have the ...
9. Amazing Grace
Romans 5:1-11
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... ’s been said that you can go to school and get an education, but do you know what you’ll be? You’ll be an educated sinner. You can go to a psychiatrist for your messed up mind and you can get that straightened up somewhat, and you can get adjusted to the evil and wrong that you do, but you’ll just be an adjusted sinner. You can go to a medical doctor and he or she can give you some medicine to help you feel better, maybe to make you a bit more healthy, but you’ll still just be ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... open mind to hear what God might have to say. One writer has compared the need to wait for God to the experience of entering a darkened room. When you first enter the room, you must wait for your eyes to get adjusted to the dark before you can see. In the same way, our minds must get adjusted to God when we seek His guidance or come to Him in prayer. We ought not just rush in, demanding instant gratification from God and expecting God to adjust Himself to us.1 A second and related point is that waiting for ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... us until they burden down. It amazes me really in my counseling and in my relationship with people, how well we can cope with the tragic edges of life, but here is the rub. How do we get on in the everyday routine. How do we adjust to those experiences which, like sandpaper, rub our nerves raw. How do we live with those neighbors or fellow employees that drive us to exasperation. How do we come to grips with the irritating characteristics of our most intimate companions, our wives or husbands, our children ...
12. Inside Out
James 5:7-10
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... a great attitude! Most of us would become grouches if we lost our legs. Tynan certainly had every excuse to become one. Instead, he chose to be adjustable. He knew he had a choice about the kind of person he became and the attitude he embraces. Are you adjustable to life? When something bad happens, do you play the victim or do you stay faithful, knowing God will redeem your suffering? When someone is mean to you, do you get even, or do you choose to be kind instead? When the world is full of hate, do you ...
13. Dance of Love
John 14:5-14, John 14:1-4
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Lori Wagner
... felt shattered. No longer would he be with them. They had just been in the midst of grief, in the midst of adjusting to a new kind of normal, when Jesus returned. Jesus’ post resurrection appearances to his disciples required them to think of him in ... know and trust that God is busy constructing a new reality for us. And that when the time is right, we will emerge into it, and adjust to it. Jesus, in the form of the Holy Spirit, is like extra insurance. He fills our space when it gets to be too much. He ...
14. Marriage's Daily Adjustments
Illustration
Michael Grant
You must continue to adjust to each other, adjustments will never stop because each of you will continue to grow and change. Both of you will always be different. You think of anniversaries as a time for roses and dinner; she prefers Mexican food and a movie. For Halloween she thinks apples are a good treat; ...
15. Sing A New Song
Acts 10:23b-48
Sermon
Erskine White
... as the oldest tradition. Peter learned in his vision that from now on, "There is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all" (Romans 10:12). Certainly, the new Gentiles who flocked to the early church (Acts 2:14) had to adjust to some changes. They had to get used to new beliefs, new kinds of worship, new patterns of authority and so on. But the church who received these newcomers had to adjust as well! They had to get used to new people - the Gentiles - with their different customs ...
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... for trouble. The boss sets goals and limits. We had better abide by them or, sooner or later, get fired. It really isn't going to help much to plead our case by maintaining, "But, God doesn't see it that way!" To live in a real world demands we adjust to the ways and means of the workaday world. Some people have to be kept happy, just for us to support our families. God may be God, but tell that to General Motors! Questing of the sort the writer is speaking can be placed in a corner of the mind and ...
17. Family in the New Kingdom Community
Mark 10:13-16, Mark 10:1-12
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... freely to Jesus are the very ones whom the disciples try to hinder. Illustrating the Text The place of marriage in society Object Lesson: Show the congregation a thermometer and a thermostat and note the significant difference between the two. A thermometer adjusts to the temperature of its environment in order to measure it, but a thermostat actually sets the temperature. Sadly, Christians are often more like thermometers than like thermostats. Rather than working to impact culture, many Christians simply ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... struggle. I have discovered that not everyone applauds our growth. I remember seeing a cartoon depicting a prince and a princess talking. The princess says to the prince: “I liked you better as a frog!” A classic pattern of marriage has two neurotic people adjusting to one another and functioning fairly well in a sick sort of way. Then one partner begins to grow in the direction of health and the relationship begins to be in trouble. The two don’t fit as well any more. Sometimes that prompts the other ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... woman, (a) She is not to be raped or to be enslaved as a concubine, but is to be accorded the full status of a wife (vv. 11, 13). The instruction in Hebrew is quite clear that only marriage is intended, (b) She is to be given time to adjust to the traumatic new situation and to ritually mourn for the parents who are now dead as far as she is concerned. This is to take place within the security of her new home, not in some prisoner or refugee camp, (c) The law compassionately restricts even the soldier’s ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... , "I don't" instead of "I do." What about work schedules at home and in the workplace? What about tensions related to how to spend or save money? What about budgets, car payments, or when and how often to visit relatives? What about adjusting to differing expectations about sex from your marriage partner? The joys and fulfillment of love expressed for a new marriage partner abound, but stress waits at every corner of marriage relationships. The birth of a baby is not without its problems, adjustments, and ...
21. Prophets and the Powerful
1 Kings 21:1-3, 17-21
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Will Willimon
... difference, people like Ahab. When asked about the personal escapades of a liberal senator, I thought, “Who cares what a senator does in his bedroom if he votes right on the floor of the senate?” You see, I too know what it means to adjust to present arrangements in order to make religion suitably supportive of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Unlike the prophet Elijah, I have learned the polite, civil speech of the powerful. Today we send preachers like Elijah to divinity school to teach them to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... both have careers and in which it is sometimes necessary for each to make sacrifices in behalf of the other. It is absurd that it should always be the wife who compromises. Love requires that both partners adjust to the needs of the other. But many people have discovered that they can adjust to almost any change if they are surrounded with love. Listen, husbands, listen wives, the best security for your family is not found in your career, your bank account or your stocks and bonds. The best security for ...
Understanding Series
James K. Bruckner
... after the meeting (vv. 15–20). Thirdly, the plan could be effectively resisted. God gave humanity that power. Sin, doubt, and rebellion caused God to alter his strategy. At Sinai, the good that God set out to do almost ended in disaster. God adjusted to this freedom to rebel, using a combination of force and forgiveness. These interactive changes in strategy account for most of what may seem to be inconsistencies in the narrative. (For a fuller discussion of this theme, see Fretheim, Exodus, pp. 66–68 ...
24. A Woman's Place
Genesis 2:4-25
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King Duncan
... the house. Bob Dole said, "I wrote back.`Buddy you don't know the half of it. The only reason that she was helping me is that the photographer was there.'" It is a new world, and anybody who doesn't think that there has to be some adjustments to the division of labor in a modern home is not looking realistically at the situation. When Paul says to men, "Men love your wives." he is establishing a principle that cannot be ignored in this new society in which we live. There needs to be some adjustments. There ...
Sermon
Alexander H. Wales
... the way it is with workers in God's vineyards. The church financial committee had purchased a campaign package that promised great returns if the process was followed carefully. And for three years, it did well. Of course, those who ran the campaign made adjustments to the process. "People won't like that kind of approach." "Those letters are offensive and we can modify them here and there." "There are too many people required for this part of the program. We can probably get along with less." Then, one ...
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