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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King Duncan
... . (4) A parable, perhaps, of what can happen to us as a church or as individuals. We can put our emphasis on the outward facade and neglect the inner reality. That brings us to the last thing to be said for the day. THE ONLY ONE WE ULTIMATELY HAVE TO IMPRESS IS GOD. St. Paul says, "You can see that I am not trying to please you by sweet talk and flattery; no, I am trying to please God. If I were still trying to please men I could not be Christ's servant." Here is a paradox. The harder you ...
2. Faith’s First Impressions
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
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Leonard Sweet
... word or speech, but in truth and actions.” We spend so much time and energy loving with our language, telling what we’re thinking and believing about love, that we have little time and energy left to love “in truth and actions.” Paul’s “first impression” is a talk walk, a witness that becomes a withness, a position that became a posture, an attitude that became an action. These actions took three forms: 1) The focused power of faith; 2) the moving presence of the Holy Spirit; 3) the passion of ...
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James Merritt
... thought the Pharisee was much closer to God, but on the inside it was the tax collector who was close to God. Because the Bible says in Ps. 34:18, "The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit." What impressed God so much was this man was willing to humble himself without waiting on God to do it for him. Did you know that God has a way of humbling you if you don't take the first step of humbling yourself? God delights in exalting the humble, and in ...
4. Lasting Impression
Luke 3:34-38, Matthew 1:5, 16
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James Merritt
... of God's mosaic. He became a part of our family so that we could become a part of His. Just as God used two ordinary women named Ruth and Mary to make an impact on the world that still lasts today God can use you to make a lasting impression on others by your living for Him and loving Him and doing His will. If you don't believe that, there are a lot of pieces in God's mosaic in Matthew and Luke that would love to show you how. [1] www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13662242
5. Last Impressions
Matthew 22:34-40
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Leonard Sweet
... on earth. She asked what they would like for their meal, where they would like to eat it, what would be the music, who would be the chef, and who would be in attendance. In other words, what would they like to leave as their “last impression” on this world if they could orchestrate that moment and all their desires would come true. A few chefs chose a menu of elaborate cuisine and exotic places. But by far the majority of these “rich and famous” folks chose something else. They chose family, they ...
6. Leave a Good Impression
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Staff
... to write a biography of Hudson Taylor with the purpose of distorting the facts and presenting him in a bad light. They wanted to discredit the name of this consecrated missionary of the gospel. As the author was doing his research, he was increasingly impressed by Taylor's saintly character and godly life, and he found it extremely difficult to carry out his assigned task with a clear conscience. Eventually, at the risk of losing his life, he laid aside his pen, renounced his atheism, and received Jesus as ...
Humor
A boy got a job in the city and left the family farm. He wrote home to his older brother, trying to impress him with his new life: "Thursday we motored out to the club, where we golfed until dark. Then we motored out to the beach and weekended." The brother, thoroughly unimpressed, wrote back: "Sunday we motored to town and baseballed all afternoon. Yesterday we muled out to the cornfield till sundown. Then we suppered. After that we staircased to our rooms and bedsteaded till the clock fived."
Sermon
Timothy J. Smith
During his first visit to the United States, Albert Schweitzer found himself at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, waiting for a train that would take him, his wife, and some friends to Colorado. It was the first time he had seen an immense American railroad station, and there was much to do and look at while they waited. Then Schweitzer saw a broom and, in the middle of the big crowded place, quietly began to sweep up the rubbish on the ground. After a little while he realized that in the meantime the ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... as well, better than we know ourselves. God knows the heart; he knows our intent. The tax collector is a sinful man. He is broken and realizes the errors of his life. This man, as Jesus says, went home justified, because he was honest and made no attempt to impress God. Hosea says in the First Reading that there are only two things that God is looking for in us, love and knowledge of God. If we fill ourselves with these ideas then we have all that we need. An attitude of haughtiness, one that tries to make ...
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Larry Powell
... dark. When asked the meaning of what he was doing, he replied, "I do this so I can know how it really feels when I come before the thousands of persons who will see me in the play as I carry Christ's cross up Golgotha's hill." That IS impressive. A man so dedicated to his pursuit that he wants to become totally absorbed in it, allow it to be a genuine part of his experience. This is what separates the genuine article from the synthetic. The Bible says that the "WORD BECAME FLESH," and that "in all ways ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... the Truth of God that he was attempting to expound, and pray that, if they agreed with me, I hope, much more important, that God agreed with me. So we have come to worship in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. You want to be impressed? Well, then, think! Allow the awesome fact to seep into your consciousness that you, my friend, stand in the presence of your Creator! That's an awesome fact before which I shrivel. I hope you do. You are not here to worship yourself, nor am I, any more than ...
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King Duncan
... these folks. They're not bad folks. They just don't have the heart of Jesus. Do you? It's more important what God thinks of you than what your friends think of you. In the long run doing the right thing will make the best impression. Showing compassion for those less fortunate than you is always the right thing to do. 1. (Colorado Springs, CO: Navpress, 1998). 2. Ed Peacher's "˜Laughter for a Saturday' - Email
13. Reconsider
Matthew 1:18-25
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J. Howard Olds
... what I was thinking. “I guess that's the last meal we will have here." New people visit our worship services every weekend of the year. Some find a good experience and return, eventually join and make this a church home. But others are not so favorably impressed. The sermon was dull, the music was not what they expected, no one bothered to speak to them and they spoke to no one. We will not likely get another chance to reach those people. I was listening to a speaker describe the people of Brentwood not ...
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King Duncan
... writes in 2 Timothy 1:7, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Wholesome faith in Christ gives us a sound mind. It is interesting how the story ends. The people of the village were impressed to see Many sitting there with a placid expression on his face and fully clothed, but they were frightened by the power of Christ, and they were infuriated by the loss of their pigs. So they drove Jesus from their midst. Many wanted to go with Jesus, but Jesus ...
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Leonard Mann
... is the Master of the raging winds, and he is Lord, and they are not. There is at least one very important difference between a painting and a photograph. The photograph is an actual reproduction of a scene; the painting is the artist’s interpretation or impression of it. The photograph is a record of what is actually there; the painting is what the artist sees as being there. Of course we have no technique by which we can photograph the future. You cannot photograph what isn’t there, and the future isn ...
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King Duncan
... a significant impact. And then one day while John is preaching and baptizing and having all kinds of success, out of the crowd steps Jesus. And John knows. He knows that here is one who is gifted in the ways of God far beyond his own gifts. John is so impressed by Jesus that he is reluctant to even baptize him. I wonder how John felt, don't you? We have turned Biblical figures into people so holy, so virtuous, so remote from our lives, that we don't think of them having real feelings. It's not easy, though ...
Sermon
Phil Thrailkill
... wear a cross; I only want to ask, “Have your darkest appetites been crucified so that the cross around your neck is an exercise in honest advertising? Are you living under the same cross you display?” Don’t impress me with the car you drive or the clothes you wear or who you know or where you’ve been; impress me with a record of tithes and offerings, with a life full of the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, passion for Christ, and willingness to sacrifice not to lose your desire for more of him. I’m ...
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Michael Rogness
... description of the car. Within a fast 30 seconds a television ad bombards you not with relevant information but with glamorous images, flashing at you with split-second speed. The goal is not to educate you, but to leave your brain with an impression that you want this product. Television advertisers use celebrities and gorgeous people, because they know such people make an impact on you even though your brain knows that the celebrity is just paid to make the ad and probably has never used the product ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... was a child who would never see Christmas," says Williams. Young cried when Hoffman called to tell her the news. "I didn't know what I was going to do," she says. "I would have been lost without those officers." (4) Maybe such stories don't impress you. But they impress me. This is what Christmas is all about. God has reached into space and time to show us the meaning of love. And today, two thousand years later, the ripples of love first born in the manger of Bethlehem, still radiate out into the world ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the talk. His name was Gottfried Osei-Mensah. He was a leader of a church in Africa. Osei- Mensah was brought to Christ by an English missionary. The missionary was the headmaster at the mission school Gottfried attended as a young man. The first thing that impressed Gottfried about this headmaster was that he called him by name. He said most of the English men and women never bothered to learn the African’s names. You have to care about somebody before you bother to learn his or her name. It made an ...
21. What Must I Do?
Mark 10:17-31
Sermon
King Duncan
... outdoors and a young man from the upper classes comes running to him and kneels before him. Quite a sight. And the young man asks Jesus a question, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Wow! Who would not be impressed? Well, Jesus, for one. Jesus was not impressed. For one thing this young man tried to flatter the wrong person. This wealthy young man asks, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" and Jesus stops him in his tracks, "Why do you call me good? No one is good ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... years, although he earned a good salary and enjoyed many of the "toys" of adulthood, he never once paid the child support for Amber that a court ordered him to pay. As Rob Smitty's gift of a kidney to a stranger did not impress his daughter, so God is not impressed with any sacrifice not born of a heart that honors him. The biggest heart problem in the church in our generation cannot be made better by any cardiologist's prescription. The heart's biggest problem is that it does not always follow what God ...
23. Trials and Temptations
James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27
Understanding Series
Peter H. Davids
... ; 2 Baruch 82:3–9; or in the New Testament, Matt. 6:19–21). Again the proper perspective is critical. Only with God’s perspective, the perspective of the coming age, can one recognize this truth and the bitter irony it contains. 1:11 The picture James uses to impress this idea on his readers is a phenomenon most dramatically observed in Palestine. The anemones and cyclamen bloom beautifully in the morning, but as the sun rises and the day becomes hotter they droop, wither, and die. By evening the once ...
24. Listening and Doing
James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18
Understanding Series
Peter H. Davids
... ; 2 Baruch 82:3–9; or in the New Testament, Matt. 6:19–21). Again the proper perspective is critical. Only with God’s perspective, the perspective of the coming age, can one recognize this truth and the bitter irony it contains. 1:11 The picture James uses to impress this idea on his readers is a phenomenon most dramatically observed in Palestine. The anemones and cyclamen bloom beautifully in the morning, but as the sun rises and the day becomes hotter they droop, wither, and die. By evening the once ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... , and its power over its own far-off trading colonies (vv. 7–9). As is often the case, the talk of pride need not imply that Tyre was inordinately proud of itself. The context, with its references to glory and renown, suggests that its pride is its objective impressiveness, not its subjective arrogance. The word is rendered “majesty” in 2:10–22. Nor does the prophet refer to Tyre’s notorious religious influence on Israel through the Tyrian queens Jezebel and Athaliah. The mere fact that it was so ...
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