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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Sermon
King Duncan
... their Roman coins into coins that were acceptable. Those of you who have traveled abroad have probably traded currency at a little shop set up for that purpose. It can be a very profitable enterprise for the moneychanger. The moneychangers Jesus confronted, however, had brought their little shops right into the Temple itself. Even worse, they were also selling sacrificial animals right there in the temple precincts. They were clearly running the risk that an animal might get loose and violate the sanctuary ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... could turn their heads away and ignore Hitler’s crimes. (4) After all, Germany was thought to be a Christian country! The same thing happens all the time in this land. It was a rude awakening for many Americans when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. confronted us with the legacy of racial injustice so rampant in our land, some of which still continues today. How could it be so? We are a Christian people! Ironically, some of the most blatant injustices were occurring in the so-called Bible Belt section of ...
Sermon
Don Tuttle
... . Mark says Jesus “rebukes” the wind and the sea. “Rebuke” is the term he usually uses to describe what Jesus does to demons or illnesses caused by evil spirits. For example, when, in the first chapter of Mark, a man with an unclean spirit confronts Jesus, he “rebukes” it, “saying, “Be still, and come out of him.” That is very similar to what he says to the wind and sea: “Peace. Be still”—or literally, “Be muzzled, and stay muzzled.” Those are words which one would say not to ...
2704. Faces of Failure: Peter
Matthew 26 (selections)
Sermon
Don Tuttle
... scribe or Pharisee to recognize Peter. They had watched Jesus and his disciples carefully over the years. Nor would it be hard to imagine a guard sent to arrest Jesus spying Peter and saying, “Hey, weren’t you with Jesus?” But instead the person who confronts him is a servant girl. She is a nobody even among nobodies. “You were with Jesus the Galilean,” she says. If those words had come from someone in authority, one could understand why Peter might be frightened. But they came from a servant girl ...
Sermon
John Jamison
... to make the decision to move forward. He also knew that he was not ready for what was really going to happen. He understood the power of the wilderness and the strength he would find by taking some time to trust only in his faith and confront what it meant to be totally on his own with that faith, so he went to “wilderness school.” Something quite amazing happens when we begin to look at our own wilderness times as something other than punishments, or tests, or empty suffering. No, they still never ...
2706. Zeal!
John 2:13-22
Sermon
John Jamison
... to hold squads of soldiers. Their sole purpose was to make sure that nothing ever happened in Jerusalem that might become a problem. King Herod was the current overseer of the land, and the way he kept his job was to make sure that Rome never confronted a problem in Jerusalem. Herod was crazy, but he was also cautious, so during the Passover holiday we’re told he had a Roman centurion standing at every pillar in the temple area, and another squad standing at the top of the Antonia Fortress, watching, just ...
Sermon
John Jamison
... happened? Was Jesus wrong? Was he just another persuasive rebel who was able to brainwash them into following and believing? Were they all really that gullible? What had happened? And why did Judas do what he did? Did he somehow believe that if he forced a confrontation, Jesus would call down the angels from heaven right then and there? Or was he just a con artist? Why had it ended like this? What had happened to the kingdom? What happened to the dream? What had happened? But it was the second question in ...
2708. Does Easter Really Matter?
Mark 16:1-8, John 20:1-9
Sermon
King Duncan
... this one, but we were created out of the dust of this world. It has been our home, and we love it as God created us to love it. Only a deeply troubled person wants to die. We all want to live. Still death is one reality in life that confronts us all. Does it matter that Christ has risen from the dead? It is if you have ever loved or been loved. It is if you value life and want to cling to it forever. It also matters whether Christ is risen from the grave if you want to make ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... complaints came in before the city even began to fluoridate. Fear distorts reality. While it may serve a useful function in isolated circumstances, when it becomes a pervasive influence in our lives, it is destructive. Consider, for example, St. Paul. He was confronted with shipwrecks, imprisonment, beatings, and all manner of physical and social persecution. Now he simply could not have been the ambassador for Christ that he was if he had given in to his fears. And neither can we. We don’t often talk ...
2710. His Name Is John
Luke 1:57-66, 80
Sermon
King Duncan
... ’s boy baptized the Messiah! He clearly did “prepare the way of the Lord.” Elizabeth and Zechariah would have been so proud. Still, John’s life was taken from him when he was still young, probably at 30 or 31. He was executed by decapitation for confronting a corrupt ruler. Let’s hope that his loving and devoted parents did not live to see him die so cruelly. As an old Yiddish proverb says, “Little children disturb your sleep; big ones, your life.” To have a little baby implies a big risk. It ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... ." Jesus says, "You may be inquisitive about who I am, but I want you to think about who you are and what you need from God. You are a sinner. You need forgiveness, salvation, and spiritual rebirth." That's what I call a staggering confrontation with the truth for the well-intentioned religious leader and for us. Talk about shocking reversals! These opening volleys in the Nicodemus story would knock your socks off if you were standing there in the shadows listening to the exchange. So would the concluding ...
2712. The Pointer
Mark 6:14-29
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... to rid ourselves of the illusions of our self-righteousness," the Pointer was saying: "It's time to get real. It's time to turn from your pretense and hypocrisy and turn back to God." You can imagine that the people didn't like this confrontation with reality. That was especially true of the religious leaders. Jesus called the Pharisees and scribes "white-washed graves," which look beautiful on the outside, but inside they are full of bones and decay (Matthew 23:27). A white-washed grave with a thin coat ...
2713. Chaos and Solitude
Mark 6:30-44, 53-56
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... leaders fell into this unhappy category. They told the people what to do, but didn't do what they told others to do. They majored in minors, emphasizing man-made rules while neglecting God's laws and God's kingdom values. Jesus confronted them and faced them down on many occasions. People marveled that Jesus stood up to the political and religious establishment. People were attracted to Jesus' authority. "No one speaks like this man," people reported. "He speaks with authority." Jesus held no office ...
Sermon
Rick McCracken-Bennett
... beloved teacher to suffer and die. But in saying this he told Jesus in no uncertain terms that he didn't understand the mission and wasn't yet ready to lead. Jesus broke up his one-on-one with Peter and called the crowd together. Had they heard the confrontation? Had they sensed the anger in Jesus' voice even if they couldn't quite make out the words? We don't know. But regardless he had something to tell the twelve and the others in the crowd. The verbs used here in his speech to the crowd are important ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... have less control while still having the responsibility. (3) In such situations where we have responsibility but not control we have learned to depend on prayer. But anyone who has long had an active prayer life knows that there are times when we confront a profound silence on the other end of our prayer line. North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina houses the center of an international cult called “The Lovers of Meher Baba.” Meher Baba means “loving father” in Hindustani. Baba was a real person, born ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Churchill achieved what others only dream of. He courageously led his country, the United Kingdom, to fight against the tyranny of Adolph Hitler. As renowned and successful as he was, however, Winston Churchill had his struggles. Churchill as a young man was confronted with two big challenges. First, he suffered a speech impediment--a lisp caused by a dental condition. But this did not stop him from becoming a celebrated public speaker. We’re told that he often wore an artificial tooth, designed to ease ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that more money will not solve all our problems, but it also can be uncomfortable to run out of money at an inconvenient time. Some of us may be having a difficult time financially. We don’t want to minimize the difficulty with that. Still, we need to confront the fact that Jesus warned time and time again against the danger of materialism--of loving money more than God. He says in this passage that a rich man will have a hard time getting into heaven. On another occasion he talked about a rich man who ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... his own attitude was transformed, and, with a new-found confidence, he said to those guys, “You better not let us catch you coming around here again!” He was a different person, he says, because he had great, big Bubba backing him up. He was ready to confront the bullies with resolve and firmness. He was released from anxiety and fear, he was possessed by boldness and confidence. Why? Because he had a great, big Bubba behind him. He was convinced that he was not alone. (1) It sounds trite to say, but it ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... crave the comfort of a cradle in Bethlehem, our gospel text captures the gloomy predictions of an adult Jesus, spoken on his way to Jerusalem, on his way to the cross. You might well ask, “Why is the church so out of sync with the world? Why is the church confronting us with honest reality, when a bit of soft fantasy is what we long for?” Well, my friends, the answer is quite simple. It is the world that is out of sync with the church. It is the world that is out of sync with God. The scripture readings ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... participate by preparing ourselves through repentance. All four gospels force us to deal with bristly John the Baptist and always in early December, when the rest of the world is wrapped in soft, sweet celebration. John comes to us in the glare of biblical truth to confront us, to afflict us, to discomfort us, and to remind us that most of our preparations for Christmas don’t prepare us for Christ at all. Luke’s version of the John story begins in the immediacy of history. It begins right where we are ...
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
... society's ideas about divorce, they also raise some very troubling questions about our relationship to God. They remind us that none of our human relationships are trivial. They all ultimately reflect our relationship to God. Today's Gospel begins with another confrontation between Jesus and those guardians of public morality, the Pharisees. We need to remind ourselves again and again that in the eyes of the common people the Pharisees were the good guys. They were the ones who took their religion seriously ...
2722. Light Living
John 1:(1-9) 10-18
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... come from behind the trash can. Tom stood up, trembling, covered with garbage. When asked what he was doing, Tom said that he was frightened by the searchlight — afraid that the police would think he had done something wrong. So he panicked and hid. As the police confronted him, Tom was sure he would be arrested for disturbing the peace and his parents would be told. But then the police officer set his heart at ease: “”Son, I am not here to arrest you. I am here to protect you.” Carter wrote: As he ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... not have been aboriginally produced by other laws, and that all these laws may have been expressly designed by an omniscient Creator... But the more I think, the more bewildered I become.[1] Bewildered; that is how I feel much of the time when confronted with the complexity of creation and the complexity of a loving God who does somehow allow pain and suffering to exist. Bewilderment but also wonderment. Wonderment, whenever I find myself teetering on the edge of elegance, teetering on the edge of mystery ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... 99% causes his rage. Yes, Jesus sees it as it is and tells it like it is and he uses neither euphemisms nor apologies to blanket his displeasure. Jesus discovers what many psychotherapists have suggested — that healthy anger, honestly expressed, provides needed energy to confront evil and pain and injustice. It seems clear to me that when we talk about the passion of Jesus we need to include more than his suffering, more than his pain, and more than his death. We need to include, recognize, and affirm his ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... and emotional brokenness that these decisions have brought about has torn asunder the Christian community. But, my friends, disruption, conflict, and confusion are nothing new within the Christian church — starting with those early followers of Jesus. Jesus’ words this morning confront us in the midst of our divisions, suspicions, and brokenness. In his most famous sermon, Jesus beseeches us to: “love our enemies, do good to those who hate us... pray for those who abuse us... be merciful as our Father ...
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