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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1. Comfort in Our Distress
Luke 7:11-17
Illustration
King Duncan
... time. He became so tense that he could no longer bear the ticking of the alarm clock in his own bedroom. He smothered it with a blanket but still he heard it as if it were ticking in his own head. He tried to sleep, but he could not. His distress and loneliness were too great. It was then that help came. His grandmother saw the light burning in his room in the wee hours and came to sit with him. Later when it came time for her to begin her own long journey from which there is no return he ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... God for help? (David Allan Hubbard, More Psalms For All Seasons Win. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Ml, 1975, pp. 12—13), So that’s a good starting place when we feel trapped and abandoned. If we’re going to find “room when in distress”, we must face honestly our problem. Nail down these specific truths about facing our problem honestly: 1. Problems do not go away by avoiding them. 2. Rather the opposite it true - when we try to avoid problems, they grow inside us; they are magnified. 3 ...
3. Distress and Help
Isaiah 33:1-24
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... word). “Morning after morning” they were to experience Yahweh’s scourge (28:19). Now they ask that every morning they should experience Yahweh’s deliverance. In a place of distress they had been told that they would be saved if they relied on Yahweh (30:6, 15; also 25:9). Now they call Yahweh their salvation in a time of distress. The tumult of the nations has terrified Judah (29:5–8, NIV “many/hordes”). Now they acknowledge that this thunder (the same word, hamon) of Yahweh’s voice will ...
4. Distress and Help
Isaiah 33:1-24
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
God’s judgment (“woe”) rests on those who have enjoyed absolute power in this world (33:1–6). Because they have caused great devastation on this earth, they must answer to the Lord. When he comes he will sound a loud battle cry (33:3) to avenge himself on the nations. This judgment on the ungodly is in response to the prayer of the godly. The godly have been asking for Yahweh’s grace to appear to them because they have been suffering while ruthless hordes were controlling the world. Their hope has been ...
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Erskine White
... so in Advent than at any other time of the year, the sensitive Christian conscience is troubled by the contrast between the joy of the season and the pain of the world. What are we to do? What are we to think about the perplexities of the world and the distress of nations during this time of Advent? As earlier we found an answer for our own personal situations in a story about a bounding puppy and a baby girl, so now may we find an answer to this larger question in a story about a former big city major ...
Understanding Series
Larry W. Hurtado
... told that the events of verses 5–23 signal that the time is near, right at the door. The Greek reads literally “it [or he] is near, at the doors,” and what is referred to is probably the consummation described in verses 24–27. That is, the distresses of verses 5–23 are to be taken as evidence that the consummation is surely coming. But this does not mean that the troubles are to be taken as indications that the end will happen immediately, for the whole point of verses 5–23 has been to debunk ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... : he . . . pours contempt on nobles, but he lifted the needy out of their affliction. In this psalm that calls for celebration of Yahweh’s goodness (v. 1) and love (vv. 1, 8, 15, 21, 31, 43), special attention is given to his act of delivering from distress. Yahweh’s action is that of reversal. In verses 4–32, he does so when called upon for help; in verses 33–41, he does so largely at his own initiative. This psalm is profoundly realistic. It presents Yahweh as sovereign deliverer, not as one who ...
8. Praise and Prayer
Isaiah 63:7--64:12
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... or at least self-permitted. The prophet indulges in unrestrained mulling over the question of why the recent past has been so unlike the distant past, or rather, where now is the one who once saved and redeemed and carried. If verses 8–9 recall especially the distress of Israel’s time in Egypt, verses 11–13a focus rather on Israel’s danger at the Red Sea. Then, like the act of praise after the deliverance at the Red Sea (Exod. 15), the prophet goes directly to their entrance into Yahweh’s rest in ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... : THE HOPE OF CHRISTMAS IS THE CHANGE THAT CHRISTMAS MAKES IN US. God has placed within us all the resources we need to deal with life in a victorious way. All we lack is the faith to trust God and trust those resources to find healing in our distress. Pastor Stephen Brown taught swimming and diving for a number of years. He tells about a young boy named Billy. Billy had watched so many professional divers and wanted so much to dive like them that he refused to take time to learn the basics. Time after time ...
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King Duncan
... response team was surprised to discover that the signal was being emitted by Chris’s year‑old flat screen television. There was some freakish problem with the flat screen that was causing it to emit this weird signal that was very much like a distress call. This distress call had been picked up by a very sensitive satellite and routed to the Air Force Rescue Center at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. “They’d never seen a signal come that strong from a home appliance,” the 20‑year‑old told ...
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Psalm 77:1-20
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... is. Verses 3–6 recount the speaker’s attempts at finding comfort through private meditation. But the memory of God in the former days presents a marked contrast to the God who is silent “in the day of my distress” (lit.; NIV has only “distress”). These lonely musings yield pain and longing, leaving the speaker sleepless, speechless, and lost in nostalgia. Verses 7–9 express questions that would otherwise be unthinkable. They are similar to those found in other laments, but there they are ...
12. Super Christian I
Matthew 9:18-26, Matthew 9:9-13
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... but not really follow God's leading. Summary: Super Christian, the righter of wrongs, makes a fatal error. He hears a call of distress but makes a quick judgment as to who is the wrong-doer. When asked to do some good himself he has a good ... than I could. SUPER CHRISTIAN: No, I'm afraid I couldn't do that. I have to be ready at a minute's notice to answer any distress call. JESUS PERSON: Super Christian, we've gathered a warehouse full of food to give to the poor. It's stored in a warehouse not far from ...
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Carroll Gunkel
... the Master. In the noble tradition of Hippocrates, and in loving emulation of the Master he was daily meeting, Tom Dooley began to treat the five hundred thousand afflicted refugees, whom he observed could be seen either as "a stinking mass of humanity," or "a great people distressed."2 As one of only two physicians in the port city of Haiphong, Dooley was, in the spirit of the Gospel, ministering to those who were most in need of a physician.3 Thomas Dooley saw those whom he was treating as "a great people ...
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King Duncan
... he touched the bier and the pallbearers came to a halt. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." And the dead man stood up and began to speak. The widow of Nain had been heartbroken. But Jesus saw and Jesus cared. JESUS ALWAYS SEES US IN OUR DISTRESS. That is the good news for the day. We think in our despair, "No one knows what I am going through right now." But someone does know. In one of his books writer and philosopher Loren Eiseley tells about the time when he was only a young lad and his ...
Teach the Text
Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
... to him, “Let it not be so,” Saul prevailed upon them, and they cast lots between him and Jonathan his son. And Jonathan was taken. (v. 42)3 Interpretive Insights 14:24  the Israelites were in distress that day, because Saul had bound the people under an oath. As translated by the NIV, “distress” refers to the army’s fatigue due to the fact that Saul’s oath deprives them of the nourishment and strength they need. However, the subject-fronted disjunctive clause at the beginning of verse 24 may ...
16. Future Glory
Romans 8:18-27
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... , when we see them in the light of the glory of God’s new world, which he will usher in before long. Paul explains in 8:19–23 that the sufferings of believers should be understood in the context of a fallen creation in which distress, pain, and death are part and parcel of human existence (Gen. 3:14–19). Since Adam’s fall, creation is no longer “very good” and waits for restoration and perfection. The promised consummation of God’s salvation is not a restoration of paradise, however, but ...
17. Elihu
Job 32:1--37:24
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... of his resistance. 36:16–17 He is wooing you. The Hebrew of verse 16 is notoriously difficult, and many have attempted to emend and reinterpret it. The general sense seems to be that God employs suffering in Job’s life to persuade him to flee from distress to the unrestricted spacious place and the well-laden table set by divine hospitality. Job is laden with suffering which, again, is understood to be just punishment for his sin. Job is one of the wicked who has been taken hold of by God’s judgment ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... VT 41 [1991], pp. 164–75.) Each of these theories is possible, but they cannot be proven. It would be best to seek any comparable psalms to see if they can shed any additional light. Psalm 69 is another lengthy prayer that also laments near-death distress, and social alienation and mockery. To this prayer are attached praises and promises that contain some striking parallels to those in Ps. 22. In both there are vows (22:22; 69:30), the claim that Yahweh does not “despise” (Hb. bzh) the afflicted but ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... points to a request that Yahweh make manifest what he has just promised (Ps. 21:13). In 46:10, Yahweh similarly announces, “I will be exalted in the earth.” Like Psalm 57, this psalm earlier confesses the security Yahweh provides in the midst of distress (note, e.g., “God is within her”) but also anticipates a worldwide manifestation of his exaltation. According to the theology of the temple, Yahweh’s “glory” was revealed primarily at the temple (26:8; 63:2; cf. 24:7–10). Thus, this petition ...
Sermon
Mark Radecke
... were, or strive to be. God does not join us or help us in our efforts to be comfortable. That's the bad news this Advent morning. Here's the good news: God does comfort us. And we are comforted. To comfort means to soothe in distress or sorrow; to ease misery or grief; to bring consolation or hope. That is exactly what God did for Israel, speaking through the prophet Isaiah, when Israel was carried off from her beloved and comfortable homeland into exile in Babylon. Isaiah announces that Israel's oppression ...
Sermon
Dr. Ronald Love
... of the offered hand." With all due respect to the President, my observation is that there are not enough hands being offered. Am I wrong? It appears to me we are still in the age of "looking out for No. 1." We need to see in our neighbor's distress our own desperate need. But there is a final thing to be said: THE SAMARITAN WAS "GOOD" BECAUSE HE SAW IN THE TRAVELER CHRIST HIMSELF. Oh, the Samaritan wouldn't have expressed it that way, but Christ did. "When you do it unto the least of these...." Walt Whitman ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... no matter how practiced as oars we may be sometimes in the winds and the waves are too much, and we’re going to know distress in our rowing. Admit that. Let it be a part of the way you approach life. We’re human, thus limited. Now a third suggestion ... Prison. One of those notes read, “I believe that God will give us all the strength that we need to help resist in times of distress, but he never gives it in advance, lest we should rely on ourselves and not Him alone. We need to remember that. God is in ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... , so one prompted mention of the other here. The Torah and prophetic warnings are similarly paired in v. 34. Here, unlike v. 18, blasphemies refer to acts of contempt for God’s prophetic word. 9:27 When they were oppressed is lit. “in their time of distress.” The NIV translation tried to catch the Heb. wordplay with the preceding word, but in so doing lost the link with v. 37, where the same Heb. noun is deliberately used. 9:28 They cried out to you again is possible, but a preferable rendering is ...
24. Timothy and Epaphroditus
Philippians 2:19-30
Understanding Series
F. F. Bruce
... recover in time to complete the journey. Epaphroditus did recover and was able to complete the journey to Rome, but he knew that his friends in Philippi would be anxious about him and may well have blamed himself for causing them anxiety. In spite of being distressed over this, he was eager to stay with Paul and be of service to him, as he had been instructed to do. But Paul knew that the sooner Epaphroditus returned to Philippi, the happier Epaphroditus himself and his friends there would be, so he sent ...
Teach the Text
Jeannine K. Brown
... predictions of the fall of Jerusalem and the temple in the context of the current ruling power, Rome, which will be the instrument of the temple’s desecration and Jerusalem’s destruction in AD 70. 24:21  For then there will be great distress. The distress described in 24:15–20 fits the time of the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by Rome. As David Garland notes, The breakout to the mountains whose caves provided traditional hideouts . . . makes sense only to escape the temporal dangers of a ...
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