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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John R. Brokhoff
... we have mercy on others if we have not received mercy from God in Christ? A recent poll was taken in one of our mainline denominations. The poll indicated that forty-nine percent, almost half, said they were not sure of God’s forgiveness. Half had no experience of mercy! If you have not received God’s mercy through the forgiveness of sins, be assured that God for Jesus’ sake is willing to forgive and to accept you as his child. Knowing what mercy can mean to a sinner, go to your sinful neighbor and ...
2527. Heart To Heart
Ezekiel 18:1-32
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John R. Brokhoff
... clock; it is just the pendulum that won’t swing." It simply bears out Jesus’ claim that a person is what his/her heart is. If you and I are to change our lives from sin to holiness, it will depend upon a change of heart. This was the experience of King Saul. The prophet, Samuel, said to him, "Then the spirit of the Lord will come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with them and be turned into another man." When the Spirit came to Saul, he was a different person. The peoples said to one another ...
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Richard F. Bansemer
... start with shallow answers, like "sin." Sin makes God angry: idolatry, adultery, killing, stealing, lying, et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum. And when we have listed every conceivable kind of sin - exhausted our imaginations (and our experience!) all we’ve done is catalogued a lot of human experience. We have to ask the question again, because we really haven’t answered it: What makes God angry? What is there about sin - idolatry, adultery, killing, stealing, lying, et cetera, that makes God angry? The ...
2529. Anne Sullivan
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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Carroll Gunkel
... for all of humanity. It is as though the ashes of these two women, who so powerfully lived out the agape of Jesus Christ, solidify that cathedral church. That church - indeed the Church of Christ - will never fall so long as love lives in the human experience. Anne Sullivan kept that love alive. The cathedral may serve as an inert monument to the Christian Gospel; the life of Anne Sullivan was a living witness to that same Gospel whose central theme is love. Anne Sullivan met the Master in her charge, HeLen ...
Sermon
George Bass
... and with her he began to make some progress - until she gave him Pinnochio to read. He would begin to read the story to her, but he would not get very far before she would interrupt, take over, and tell the story herself. It was a totally frustrating experience for him. And the author explains that the reason she did this was that she loved that story so much that her enthusiasm for it simply took over, and she couldn’t prevent herself from breaking in and doing the familiar story herself. It seems to me ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... , but when she asked if there had been any sorrow in the home, the answer was always "yes." She went back to the philosopher empty-handed, because she could find no home without heartache or grief. Sorrow is a universal emotion. Grief is something all of us experience. There is a nursery rhyme that most of us have been repeating since childhood: Hark, hark ... the dogs do bark! The beggars are coming to town: Some in rags, and Some in tags, and Some in velvet gowns. Some of the truth of that nursery rhyme ...
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Dennis Kastens
... in him, and all your sins are as if they had never been." Forgiveness of sins by faith in the crucified Christ! This is the acme of Christianity, this is Christianity! Yet we have not exhausted this breathtaking doctrine of forgiveness until we experience what it brings. For where there is forgiveness of sins, there is peace. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God," says St. Paul. Where there is forgiveness of sins, there is also healing. Leslie D. Weatherhead, a distinguished psychiatrist has ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... achieved. But, by the touch of the Spirit we are enabled. We can cope! Imagine my home, my office, my neighborhood, my nation, my world all shot through with God! You can have a nervous breakdown trying to be a Christian without Christ. A true experience of the Holy Spirit touches these essential relationships: husband and wife, parent and child, management and labor, black and white, rich and poor, east and west. We could wish and pray that it’s happening now - that the winds of God are beginning to blow ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... bet you bring a lot of love into this world with your smiling face and words.” “Father,” she replied, “I decided long ago that there are no strangers in my world. Only brothers and sisters. Some of them I haven’t met yet.” Reflecting on that experience, John Powell wrote this remarkable paragraph. Listen closely. He said: “That lady drew out of me a deep and warm reaction of love. And gradually I came to realize that people are not one thing, good or bad, but many things. In every human being ...
2535. The Call to Obedience
Luke 22:42 · Romans 1:17 · John 15:10
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Robert G. Tuttle
... . In this chapter we want to look at the obedience to God in our inner nature and lifestyle that comes from and grows out of the experience of faith. The problem of disobedience began with the dawn of time and has been repeated in every generation. It is known to me in my own acts of rebellion against God. The original sin is probably my own natural bent to put myself at the center of the universe ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... it doesn’t. But a vision maintains us in process. A married couple ought to have a vision for their marriage; a teacher ought to have a vision for her classroom; a minister ought to have a vision for his parish, and I can say from my own experience that if I did not have a vision for the churches I serve, then I would grow cynical because of the rank selfishness and debilitating pettiness I often find in those places. In late 1960 Lerner and Loewe brought "Camelot" to the Majestic Theatre in New York. In ...
2537. Are You Exercising Your Faith?
Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... was firm in his direction: no more religious fatty foods! For a few days she bowed to his directive, but then it was back to old habits once more. A short while later, the soul physician’s prophecy came true. Her faith began to experience excruciating chest pains. The woman was rushed to Religious General and was promptly admitted to the Religious Coronary Care Unit. The diagnosis was clear - her faith had suffered a coronary thrombosis. The care in the unit was good and in time her faith was admitted ...
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Robert Noblett
... and gleam on the floor of that auditorium, my mind began to make associations between what my eyes beheld and what my faith avers. I offer some of these associations by way of encouraging you to become pensive about your faith in those places and experiences that represent the stuff of your life’s everydayness. Surely nothing - a moment in the post office, an incident in the foodstore, an event in the hospital, an encounter with a stranger - is exempt from the potential of being God’s midwife in the ...
2539. Bezaleel
Exodus 35:30--36:7
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... star, and on the porch stood a pot of red geraniums. God gave us beauty that life might be possible in the midst of misery. THE CHRIST No one ever lived closer to daily routine than the Savior. He knew the course of ordinary living - from personal experience. He did not enjoy wealth nor did he spend a lifetime amid grand shrines. Yet, Jesus of Nazareth knew more of real beauty than most earthlings. He saw common lilies and spoke of their lasting loveliness. He took a simple supper of bread and wine and made ...
2540. Habakkuk
Habakkuk 3:1-19
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... just ironed and wonderful hot baths; the joy of going to sleep and waking up. Oh, what a wonderful earth it is, too glorious for people to comprehend. Emily then turns to the stage manager and asks if people ever fully realize life; if they experience the precious minutes, while they live them? The stage manager pauses for a time, then slowly answers, "saints and poets," perhaps they do.7 Yes, Habakkuk understands. 1. Published in part in Pulpit Digest, Vol. 1, No. 369, November 1969. 2. King Lear, Act I ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... flood washes him to death. Sacrifices like these are unusual and exceptional. In our text Jesus is talking about every follower of his making a sacrifice by losing his life for Christ’s sake. This kind of sacrifice is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience but a daily experience. It is not a sacrifice of death but a living sacrifice that goes on from day to day. It means a daily outpouring of one’s self in the cause of Christ. It calls for giving, investing, expending, and throwing away one’s life for ...
Sermon
Allan J. Weenink
... , and insecurity. Contrary to the pictures on our Christmas cards, Bethlehem was a crowded, dirty, on-the-other-side-of-the-tracks kind of a city, filled with the worst that surrounds all that is wretched. God Incarnate chose to stoop to the uttermost, through a humble experience common to all, that of being born into the world as a baby, in the least of all circumstances. That is how far his great love went in order to show the world his never-ending quest for the souls of men. By such action he has ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... guard rails at the precipitous hairpin turns. I was soaked, uncomfortable, and frightenend, as I groped on by flickering and feeble light. In my mind, I said, "What am I doing here ... why should I have agreed to this evening service ... what an awful experience this has turned out to be." I wanted desperately to turn back, but something within forced me on. Finally, after what seemed an eternity, I reached the church expecting to find only a handful of people in that awful downpour. Certainly, no one would ...
2544. Go Away, Devil!
Matthew 4:1-11
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... give me was some awful looking medicine. I used to get well in a hurry! All of us are tempted. Did you know that Jesus was tempted? He was. A long time ago Jesus met the Devil out in the wilderness and the Devil tempted him. It was an awful experience for Jesus. He was tired and hungry from not eating anything and the Devil kept coming after Jesus and promising him all sorts of things if he would just forget about God and follow him. Jesus refused to be tricked by the Devil and did not give up. Over and ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... they were unwilling to relax and rest in the assurance that God can take care of things. All men and women need to grasp the significant elements of the Sermon on the Mount because all of us are goal-oriented people. And goal-oriented people experience a considerable amount of insecurity. Jesus says that by choosing the right purpose in life individuals can avoid insecurity in ways that will not do violence to their personhood or their institutions. Rich is the man who before he dies finds the high purpose ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... to enter into the presence of God. This spiritual courtesy is not a mere mannerism, but goes back to the experience of man and his beginnings. The Jews do not enter the synagogue for services until they have prepared themselves the ... are going out. They were not prepared. Often God visits his people. Those who are ready, feast with him. Others let the mind go elsewhere and never experience the joy at all. I can remember a lesson about a simple prayer that we all know. The prayer goes: Now I lay me down to ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... related his life-style to individuals in need of a change. We can learn much about helping people change the direction of their lives through examining Jesus’ method of "relating" himself to others. The fifth chapter of Mark contains an account of an unusual experience. Jesus encountered an extremely hostile person one day. This man was so hostile in behavior that his neighbors claimed he was possessed by demons. When Jesus asked the man for his name, the reply was "legion, for we are many." Now in the ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... be or do differently. Most Christians don’t worry a lot about committing large, glaring, external sins such as robbing banks, committing adultery, killing someone, or stealing another’s property. But you might have trouble reacting as you should inwardly when everyday experiences of life pile up on you. You might unconsciously, and without thinking, react in bad temper, with envy, jealousy, self-pity, anger, spite, hatefulness, or swearing. I came upon a scene in a church I served as pastor. Just as I ...
Sermon
Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... this: ‘When you have done all this, when you have given the sinner every chance, and when he remains stubborn, you may think he is no better than a tax collector and Gentile. Well, you may be right. But I have not found tax collectors and Gentiles hopeless. My experience of them is that they, too, have a heart that can be touched, and there are many of them like Matthew and Zacchaeus, who have become my best friends. Even if the person is like a tax collector and Gentile you can still win him, as I have ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... figure of Satan holding the missing paper high above the head of the desperate searcher. This is the search for some new and enticing sensation in life. One philosopher has said that ours is the "Age of Sensation." How frantically we search for some new experience. The world beckons with them, everything from a new thrill ride on the midway of the State Fair to some new perversion of our sexual nature. Men are searching for something that will make life better as it goes along, and the search is fruitless ...
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