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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226. Step Seven - Humiltiy
Mt 23:25-36 · 2 Ti 2:20-26 · Ps 51:1-14
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John A. Terry
... in this mission work, there has to be honesty in asking God to give us strength to do what we ought to do, both in our personal life and in our church life. We are bound for failure if we try to depend on our own power. Avoid being filled with evil by filling yourself with good. Your life will be filled with some spirit, with some activity. Your mind will be filled with some thoughts. We need God's strength to shun youthful passions and instead seek to fill our thoughts and actions with righteousness ...
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Johnny Dean
... to infighting and controversy, both on the national and local fronts. What is going on with the church that we are not able to avoid the kind of dissension that the rest of society has to face? Are we not supposed to present a different way of living, ... political games, please call me and tell me where it is. That’s where I want to be. But you see, if "playing political games" means avoiding conflict, it may be too much to ask of the church. It’s the desire of our hearts that in the community of faith we ...
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Ron Lavin
... . He didn't. Especially as the sores got worse. Feeling in his hands and feet began to disappear. Lepers put their hands in fire and feel nothing. When he could no longer hide his sores, when he had someone look at them, the decision which he had avoided like the plague was made for him. He must go off and live in a cave alone. No one would ever touch him again. Then one day, Jesus touched him. That was an unpredictable thing. That was an unbelievable thing. The lepers had bells. Law required that lepers ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... knew instinctively that they loved each other and were meant for each other. But, the problem was that she was on her way to the home of a wealthy widower whom she was scheduled to marry. He was a failure in life's two best things. Some people try to avoid the tears of failure by refusing to admit they can fail. This was the case with Peter. When Jesus told him that he would deny him, Peter boastfully declared, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." We, like Peter, can be so very proud and ...
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Larry Powell
... be built upon a certain foundation for sure - the little children, who somehow never outgrow the urge to ask "why?" AS A MAN THINKETH Chief Joseph is most remembered for leading the Nez Perce on a great, meandering journey for survival. Primarily to avoid armed conflict with the United States Army, and in search of food, space, and peace, the entire tribe pressed onward. Circumstances were staggering, until at last, there was nowhere left to run, and the spirit for the fight breathed its last heavy sigh ...
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Carl Jech
... plus time." Having a truly profound sense of humor means that I can face all the tragic ironies of life, all the confusing paradoxes of life, the absurdities of life, all the reasons to be cynical - and still not lose faith! Our challenge is not to avoid cynical laughter, but to be able to transform cynical laughter into insight that overcomes our cynicism as we laugh! This is true conversion. This is truly turning things and the world upside down in the wonderful way that God wants us to turn it upside ...
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Carl Jech
... of anything beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition that when they do run into another faith-system they are immediately swept off their feet and become infatuated. In the name of understanding and unity based on the grace of God, we surely need to avoid the attitude expressed by a group of parents who wanted The Diary of Anne Frank banned from the classroom because it seemed to approve of all religions without recognizing the superiority of Christianity. Ghandi's sentiment is a great antidote to such, no ...
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Carl Hoefler
... the unprecedented presence of the Kingdom of God on earth. First, it points out that suffering is a weapon - a sword by which God conquers. Most of us think in negative terms when we hear the word "suffering." It is an end-result that we would rather avoid. We live lives of careless dissipation, lack of self-discipline, and long-term abuse of our bodies. We come to one end - suffering. We do something morally wrong. We sin. We are disobedient to God's will, and he punishes us by making us suffer. Sometimes ...
234. Christian Self-Discipline
2 Thessalonians 2:13-17
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James Wilson
... us ever forward into being more and more Christ-like. Help us resist the sin around us, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, far too often we have stumbled and fallen into the very sins we are trying to avoid. Sometimes we even seem to program ourselves to fail by not avoiding the temptations that lead us to sin. Forgive us, Lord, and help us remember Your promise to be with us if only we will seek Your guidance in prayer and battle our sins with all of our being. In Christ we pray ...
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Robert V. Dodd
... and try to make themselves and others think that they are better, wiser, stronger, and more perfect than they really are. And then sometimes they play the role of the "poor miserable sinner" who tries so hard but never seems to make it. By condemning themselves they hope to avoid condemnation from God and others. We have wonderfully good news to share. It's good news about a good God who loves us so very much that he gave his only Son in order to lead us back to him. It's almost too good to believe! In fact ...
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Robert V. Dodd
... believe the way we do. There are people who don't see things the way we do. There are all kinds of foreigners, people whose customs are strange to us, in Samaria. That is the land of our enemies. Can't we go the long way around and avoid all of the trouble?" Now, of course, this is a highly exaggerated account of the beginning of the fourth chapter of John's Gospel. And, admittedly, a lot of imagination was used to create the dialogue. But the Bible gives us our Lord's response to their probable objections ...
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... out after dabbling with Christian social action has been exceeded only by the number of those who have closed their eyes to social evil and sought salvation without personal involvement. Jesus was greatly concerned both that evil be resisted and debilitating discouragement avoided. He challenged his disciples to take up their crosses and follow him. He instructed them to make concern for the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth the prayerful passion of their lives. He commissioned them to go into all the ...
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... nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry." The Devil said to him, "If you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread." The weak point at this time was Jesus' great desire for food. It was surely a serious temptation - who could avoid it? - to use God's power to turn a stone into a loaf of bread. The Devil approaches us at our weak point. Of course, we do the same to others, don't we? A very successful pitcher was once asked the secret of his success in striking out batters ...
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... our lives, as he came into the lives of the people of his time, to help all of God’s children identify sins. If we know our enemies, then perhaps we can avoid being enslaved by them. Freedom Having Jesus help us identify sin is an asset, but it is only a beginning. What happens when we are enslaved in spite of his efforts to help us avoid enslavement? Jesus said, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:31-32) This ...
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... no longer be able to command the army. He might have to live separately from his family. The dreaded disease presented him with a hopeless future. What does a wife say to a husband who has no hope of getting better? What do friends say? Do they try to avoid him because they don’t know what to say? You can be sure that Naaman consulted the best of the Syrian physicians. They said, "We’re sorry, but there’s nothing we can do." In Naaman’s house, there was a little slave girl. She had been carried off ...
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... of rationalizing. It is a way of trying to give the appearance at least of having hit the bull’s eye when we know we have missed the mark, which is the literal meaning of the word "sin." Another very useful and helpful tool we use to avoid the necessity of repentance is projection. It is when we move the focus of attention away from ourselves and our shortcomings by pointing a finger at someone else. We say, "Look at what they are doing! Ain’t it awful?" I have observed that religious people especially ...
242. Easter 2
Acts 5:17-42, Revelation 1:4-8, Revelation 1:9-20, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31
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... with extinction by nuclear weapons and a materialistic society, Revelation is a book for our day. The Lessons from Revelation avoid passages that lend to speculation and give us visions of the glory and power of the ascended Christ to assure ... Friday when he died on a cross. The world is accustomed to leaders being here today and gone tomorrow. Here is One no one can avoid. He is the eternal Christ who has a past, present, and a future. Every person will some day confront him either for judgment or salvation ...
243. Proper 9
Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 · Gal 6:7-18 · 1 Ki 21:1-3, 17-21 · Isa 66:1-14
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John R. Brokhoff
... today because people will not come to the church. The church must go to the people. Outline: The urgency of winning people for Christ. a. The condition of the world - v. 3: "lambs in the midst of wolves" b. The time is ripe - v. 2: "the harvest is plentiful." c. Avoid delays - v. 4: "salute no one on the road." d. The imminence of the Kingdom - v. 9: "The Kingdom of God has come to you." 4. What To Do On a Visit (10:4-9). Need: People are reluctant to make calls on the unchurched because they do not know ...
244. Proper 19
Lk 15:1-10 · Hos 4:1-3, 5:15--6:6 · 1 Tim 1:12-17 · Ex 32:7-14
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John R. Brokhoff
... means a wayward child has come back to God. This makes God happy, for his will is done. God's portion is his people. B. God is happy for the sinner's sake. Prior to repentance, the sinner was going down the road leading to death. Now he has avoided destruction and is coming to life, love, and light. This is God's wish for every person, because he loves each. 3. Forgiven Before You Ask for It. 15:1-10. Need: We usually think of repentance as the condition of forgiveness. We say that God will forgive only ...
245. Prayer in a Pinch
Matthew 14:22-36
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... a pinch" is to smother the faith which is gasping for life-giving breath. To acknowledge "prayer in a pinch" as genuine prayer, as basic human need, is to supply oxygen to our panting gasps of faith. Well, you might say, "Some of the jams we get into are avoidable." I grant that, and recognize that as important. The eighth grader who didn't study for a test and then depends on God to pull her through with an intense twenty-second plea bargaining as the test copies are handed out, has a lot to learn. But the ...
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... cut ourselves off from the activity before it cuts us off from God. We should do everything within our power to avoid those persons, places, situations, and activities which we permit to lead us into sinful acts. We are to be cautious and ... there are two things we can do about the manifestations of sin in our daily lives: First, we can know our weaknesses and avoid those situations, relationships and activities which lead us into sinful actions. Second, we can confess our sins to God with repentant hearts in ...
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... the body, but it also became an affliction of the mind because of his social rejection. One authority claimed that when the wind was blowing from a leper toward a healthy person, the leper was to stand at least 50 yards away. The leper was not avoided because he was thought to be contagious, but rather because he was considered to be defiled in a religious sense (Leviticus 13-14). This then was the condition of the man who presented himself to Jesus for healing. We need to consider very carefully what this ...
248. Real Strength
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
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Harold Warlick
... issue because we do wear the chains we forge in life. Jesus is right: "He who is unfaithful with little will be unfaithful with much." If there is sexual freedom before marriage, and people violate their principles before marriage, it's hard to avoid trouble after marriage. The person who cheats before he or she attains a responsible position in the company will face many more temptations to cheat after a responsible position has been reached. The farther you travel in life the more opportunities, not fewer ...
249. Christmas 1
Psalm 111:1-10, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Galatians 3:26--4:7, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23
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... born to the Hebrews into the river, but let the girls live." Herod's command to kill all the boy babies under two years of age is a continuation of the Epiphany story when the Wise Men from the East were warned in a dream to avoid Herod on their return journey because he wanted to kill Jesus. Since Matthew was telling this story to a largely-Jewish congregation, it had to stand on historical facts, which attested to the fulfillment of scripture in the early life of Jesus Christ. Theologically, the dreams ...
250. Epiphany 4
Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 1:1-6
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... for us. Our business is to know this and believe it. 2. Like the Corinthians, when given time we become impressed with our own importance to Christ and his church. This is one of the hazards in being members of Christian congregations which has to be avoided at any cost, or we lose all that has been given to us. Boasting is a manifestation of pride, our fiercest spiritual enemy. Repentance is a sign of faith received through grace. 3. Jesus is the source of true humility. All that is good and permanent ...
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