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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Understanding Series
William Nelson
... why the NIV omits “our.”) If we opt for the reading “If it be so” in v. 17, we must look for the antecedent. If what be so? It is reasonable to look back to v. 15, where the king seeks to coerce the three friends’ worship of the image by threatening them with death by burning. While there is a connection between the two verses because the three Jews in v. 17 are answering the king’s statement in v. 15, it is unlikely that hen ʾitay should be translated “If it be so.” Some argue that the ...
Sermon
Michael Rogness
... flower is a generic word and creates no picture in your mind unless your imagination narrows the term down and creates for itself a picture in your mind. However, if I say, "Roses are beautiful," that's more specific, because we know what a rose looks like and the image comes to mind. If I say, "Red roses are beautiful," that becomes even more specific. But if I say, "See that red rose on the table? Isn't it gorgeous?" I have brought the idea of flowers down to one specific flower. You know exactly what I'm ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... Hebrew prophets of the Eternal, and like all who had come and gone before him, it was in the light of what he saw in his image of tomorrow that he saw the moral squalor of his own day. The beauty and glory of what he saw ahead of him rendered intolerable the ... And Jesus said he was the greatest of them all. Well, my dear friend, here we are today, you and I. What about tomorrow? What is your image of it? Do you have an OUT-look? What is it? As you look out from within, what is it you see? What do you see out ...
Teach the Text
Ronald W. Pierce
... ’s “seventy-year” exile in view by setting Babylon’s first king opposite its last, recalling the parameters of the prologue (1:1, 21). Taken alone, Daniel 3 reflects a concentric structure with three pairs and a center section.1 A Nebuchadnezzar’s first decree to worship the image (3:1–7) B The Jews are accused (3:8–12). C The Jews are threatened (3:13–15). D The Jews commit to honor the one true God (3:16–18). C' The Jews are punished (3:19–23). B' The Jews are vindicated (3:24–27 ...
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Lori Wagner
... the power, the power belongs to God, and our loyalty, our love, our deference, and our lives belong only and always to God. The word, “to cast” in English is an interesting one. It can refer to “throwing” in the sense of casting a ballot, casting an image, casting doubt, or reckoning one’s truth. It refers to the form a thing takes after it is “thrown” from the pottery wheel. Each piece “thrown” can either turn out beautiful or distorted, twisted in form. We have all been “cast” in the ...
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Albert G. Butzer III
... invites us to prioritize our loyalties. When Jesus asked, “Whose head is this and whose title?”, he was asking about the image stamped on the coin. That is the explicit question he asked. But there was also an implicit question hanging in the air ... our relationships with loved ones. It has to do with the way we treat neighbors as well as strangers, each of them also created in the image of God. It has to do with the care of our own bodies, as we re- member that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. ...
7. Image and Inscription
Matthew 22:15-22
Sermon
... to him. In the Fourth Gospel Jesus says to Pilate, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above." And most importantly, you my friend - your whole life and being - belongs to God. You bear God’s image, just as the coin of the realm bore Caesar’s image. And God’s inscription is upon you - the cross of Christ traced on your brow in baptism just as it will be traced on Anna Loren and Zachary Aaron in their baptism today; a permanent and indelible inscription. You render to God ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... lead us, Much we need Thy tender care." And we say with the psalmist: "Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture" (Psalm 100:3). Secondly, the image provides us with some clues regarding what it means that the church is to be a pastoral presence in the world. Day care centers, medical clinics, programs of calling and support, housing, education, financial assistance, food pantries -- all these and so much more represent expressions ...
9. Empty Images
James 1:23
Children's Sermon
... ). How many of you have ever had your picture taken by a camera? All of you have. Did you see the picture? You did? Well, then you have seen your image. It’s something that looks like you, but it isn’t you. Now where else have you seen your image? (talking to a child you have brought up). In a mirror? Have you seen your image in a mirror? Do you like what you see? How many children like to look in a mirror? Good. Now I’m going to try an experiment. I want you to look in the mirror. (Let him ...
10. What an Image
Philippians 2:1-11
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... Aim: To remind the children that Jesus was in the form of God, but became like the image of us to prove the love of God for us. Props: A picture of you as a baby ... children Now who was in the picture? (response) It was an image of you wasn’t it? When we look in the mirror, we see an image of ourselves, don’t we? Application: Well the Bible says that Jesus, although He was with God, came in the image of us and was obedient unto God. He was in the same image that we are. That tells me that Jesus came to ...
11. Your Image of Yourself
Genesis 1:27
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Maxie Dunnam
... much about him, but I was impressed by an interview some years ago during the filing of the movie “Death on the Nile.” He was talking about the images actors have to live with. “An image is an awful thing,” he said. “An actor says, ‘I’m going to do this or that.’ And someone will say, ‘What about your image?’” Ustinov said, “I don’t know what my image is. I don’t want to know.” And then he continued, “It is a sad state when the man looking at you in a mirror is more important ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them (v. 6), and the hunters are to become their own prey (vv. 7–8). In another image, the fate of the foe will be to become like chaff before the wind, scattered and without substance and life. In this cycle only one verse ... ceasing, and gnashed their teeth at me. Here the imagery of the opponents begins to shift to that of lions. (This image may also be echoed in the third cycle: “We have swallowed him up” in v. 25 and “they have widened their mouth ...
13. The Image of the Father
Matthew 28:16-20
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Amy Butler
... , no, you have never met me at all, but a long time ago I worked with your father. I was a close colleague of his and when I saw you across the aisle of the store, I said to myself, `I'd know that face anywhere.'You are the very image of your father.' "For several weeks after that, I would sometimes be going down the street, and maybe come around a corner, and catch my reflection in a store window. I started to see myself with the eyes of someone else. It is not like looking into the mirror in ...
14. Human Image-Bearers
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James Packer
... and is made has been variously explained in detail. Although scholars may differ on the nuances of the phrase, there is general agreement that it has to do with dignity, destiny, and freedom. The assertion that man is made in God's image shows each man his true dignity and worth. As God's image-bearer, he merits infinite respect. God's claims on us must be taken with total seriousness. No human being should ever be thought of as simply a cog in a machine, or mere means to an end. The assertion points also ...
15. Wholesome Image
Humor Illustration
... using an alias, would check into a motel, close the drapes, get into the closet, and put on some black shoes. The next time Pat Boone sang for Schuller's congregation, he was prepared with a rebuttal. Boone said that there are times when Schuller got tired of his image, too. "So once a year," Pat claimed, "Robert Schuller checks into a motel under an assumed name, goes to his room, pulls the drapes closed, goes into the closet, shuts the door and shouts: 'It's impossible! I can't do it!''" (Joseph Bayley)
16. More Than Just Image
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... environment—our homes and cars and sneakers and even our lunches—to look Instagram-ready. The problem with living in an image-conscious society is that we are easy to deceive. Too often, appearance wins out over substance. If something looks good ... simple techniques like that? And these ads aired in the days before social media. Today we have even more ways to craft an image, to subtly manipulate people’s perceptions. We have even more ways to deceive others and to be deceived. That’s not a serious ...
17. Mirror Image
Colossians 1:15
Children's Sermon
Tim Carpenter
... a car where it is difficult to reach. Mirrors give us a reflection of things so we will know what's there even if we can't see it. Application: The Bible says this about Jesus. Here is a sentence I want you to memorize with me: Jesus is the image of the invisible God. Have the children repeat the previous sentence a couple of times. What that means is that we cannot see God. But if we want to know what God is like, all we have to do is look at the life of Jesus. Jesus' life is like ...
18. The Image of Bread
John 6:35, 41-51 
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David E. Hall
... horse, you're probably not overeating, and you shouldn't be overweight. It's eating like two horses that gets us into so much trouble. Eating is fundamental to life. It's something all people in every age have taken seriously. And I believe that one reason Jesus used the image of bread to describe Who He was is because Jesus wants us to take Him as seriously as we do the other fundamental necessities of life.
19. Remade In His Image
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George W. Hoyer
... name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Somewhat freely paraphrased, this is what Chesterton said: Forgiven Christians "do truly, by definition, step out again into that dawn of their own beginning ... God has really remade them in his own image. They are now, each one of them, a new experiment as they were when they were really only five years old. They stand in the white light at the worthy beginning of a new life. The accumulations of time [of previous sinning] can no longer terrify ...
20. The Image of Perfection
Mark 10:17-31; Isaiah 64:6
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Michael Milton
... 's arm was cocked back ready to sail another projectile through the class, that our teacher returned. "June! What are you doing?" I forgot to tell you that the teacher was her mother. But poor old June Day met her match, and she just couldn't keep up her image of being perfect. And you know what? Neither can you. None of us can. We cannot come to God based on our righteousness. Do you know what God calls it? He says our righteousness before Him is like filthy rags. So what do we do? We divest ourselves of ...
21. A Poor Image for Pastors
Illustration
Staff
The following survey took place in 2018 and the results for clergy are not that great. There are 7 people Christians trust more than their pastors. Fewer than half of American Christians (42%) believe clergy have “high” or “very high” standards of honesty and ethics, according to breakouts provided to CT. Self-identified Christians were about as likely to rate clergy’s ethical standards as just average (43%), and about 1 in 10 (12%) considered them “low” or “very low.”
22. Double Image
Matthew 5:1-12
Sermon
William G. Carter
"You know why I want to join the church?" The speaker was a father in his thirties, holding an infant on his shoulder. A red Land's End diaper bag was slung over his other shoulder. His wife stood next to him in the church narthex, holding the hand of a cranky two-year-old with a runny nose. The father said, "We began to worry about raising our children. There are too many opinions about what's right and what's wrong, too many temptations, too many possible wrong turns. We want our kids to learn some ...
Drama
Angela Akers
SUBJECT:  Jesus CHARACTERS:  Pastor, Jackie, Dottie, Walter, Maynard, Debbie  SETTING:  Church sanctuary  PROPS:  A large picture positioned so that the actors can gaze at it, but the congregation can’t see it  Pastor:  "Well, here''s the picture of Jesus we ordered for the sanctuary.  What do you think?"  Parishioners:  "It''s beautiful." "Very pretty colors."   "It''ll go well with the drapes."  Pastor:  "We can present this to the congregation next Sunday.  I think everyone will be pleased.  What do you ...
24. Mirror Image of God
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
There is a painting in a palace in Rome by Reni. It is painted into the ceiling of the dome, over 100 feet high. To stand at floor level and look upward, the painting seems to be surrounded by a fog which leaves its content unclear. But in the center of the great dome room is a huge mirror, which in its reflection picks up the picture. By looking into the mirror you can see the picture with great clarity. Jesus Christ, born in a manger at Bethlehem, is the mirror of God. In him we see a clear reflection of ...
25. The Beginning
Genesis 1:1-2:3
Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... plural pronoun does acquire fuller meaning in light of the coming of Christ, it did not convey to ancient Israel any idea of God’s being triune. The following two proposals find the most support in Scripture: (g) God took counsel with his Spirit (so D. Clines, “The Image of God in Man,” TynBul 19 [1968], p. 68; cf. v. 2). This theory has the advantage of finding the conversation partner in the text. (h) “We” refers to the heavenly council over whom God rules (1 Kgs. 22:19–22; Job 1:6–12; 2:1 ...
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