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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251. Where Is Your Home?
2 Corinthians 5:6-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... , "the hours, the days, the years of our lives." (3) It could get depressing if we lingered on it. BUT DOESN'T IT IMPRESS ON US THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING EVERY MOMENT COUNT? Since life is passing by so quickly hadn't we better focus on the ... what is really important. We need to make every moment count. But there is a second thing that this idea that the world is not our home should impress on us: LIFE IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS. You can't tell it by the way most of us spend our time, but life isn't about cars and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , who asked not to be identified, told THE WASHINGTON POST. "We got into a conversation as if he was a buddy," the homeowner said. "By the time he left, I put my arm on his shoulder and said, 'I'm sorry I didn't have more money."' We are impressed, aren't we, when people show good manners? And we are turned off by the person who is rude or inconsiderate. Walking into an office, a know-it-all salesman demanded to see the manager without delay. The secretary informed him, "I'm sorry, he is not here. Can ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... -Cybernetics are concerned with helping persons find a sense of healthy self-identity. I heard about a student at a university who signed up for a course in introductory ornithology. He didn't know what it was. He just liked the sound of the course and he figured it would impress his parents. He heard it was a very easy course, taught by an old professor who gave everyone at least a C and gave a lot of A's and B's. After he had registered he learned it was a course about birds and that the old professor had ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... tiresome story it would have been. Yet after 2,000 years of telling, we never tire of hearing about the shepherds, and the wise men and the star that shone over the stable. God must get a great chuckle over his joke on humankind ” we who are always impressed by outward appearances. The king of Kings born in a stable! I was amused to read the story of Dr. Clement Moore. Dr. Moore was a member of a very somber profession. He was a professor of theology. In his writings he was especially fascinated with the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... creation became a tiny babe in a manger. The inaccessible Deity of all that "lives and moves has its being" emptied himself and become one of us. Walter Trobisch tells about an African chief he once ministered to named Rey Bouba. Chief Rey Bouba was an impressive man standing six feet, six inches tall. However, this noble chieftain rarely left his palace. Most of his subjects had never seen him. It was difficult to get past all the guards and have an audience with him. Those who did get in to see him could ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Never did I receive an order with more delight...I swept the recitation room three times. Then I got a dusting cloth and I dusted it four times." He cleaned the walls and closets. "I had the feeling," he continued, "that in a large measure my future depended upon the impression I made upon the teacher in the cleaning of that room. When I was through, I reported to her. She was a `Yankee' woman who knew just where to look for dirt. She went into the room and inspected the floor and closets: then she took her ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... us to be and to do. Having that clear, mental picture or vision is the first step in seeing God's plan realized. Any great work begins with a vision. As you go up the Hudson River in New York, you can see the imposing George Washington Bridge. This impressive structure towers 600 feet high. It has a main span of 3,500 feet. Each of the four supporting cables is a yard thick and consists of nearly 27,000 wires. This is enough wire to circle the earth four times at the Equator. This bridge, used by nearly ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... 'd be the Chief Executive Officer and you'd be the gas station attendant." I know there are many wives out there breathing a hearty, "Amen." Jesus warned us time and time again not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. The overall impression we get from the Gospels is of a man who disliked "stuffiness." How else do you explain prostitutes going into the Kingdom before Pharisees the best people in the community? How else do you explain, "I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a senior minister at a large metropolitan church who entered the sanctuary one day, knelt at the altar, and prayed, "Oh, God, I am the worst of sinners. I am nothing. I am a worm." Over and over he repeated these degrading words. His associate walked by and was very impressed by the senior minister's humility. He knelt down beside him and also prayed, "Oh, Lord, I am the worst of sinners. I am nothing. I am a worm." While the two ministers were praying, the custodian happened to walk by and overhear them ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... . It’s a powerful story, isn’t it? But there’s more to it. There’s another chapter that comes later, one so striking that it actually makes John’s vision come alive. Some years later, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte saw Dannecker’s work. He was very impressed. He sent for the sculptor, and he had a commission for him, Make me a statue of the goddess Venus for the Louvre! he said. Quite an honor! to be chosen as the creator of a work of art like that! Who could refuse? But you know what ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... injustices to affect our relationship with God. We would have found ample justification to stray from God's plan for our lives. But not Joseph. His character and his commitment to his God kept shining through even in prison. The warden of the prison was so impressed by him he placed him in charge of the entire prison. Like cream, no matter how hard you shook Joseph, he kept rising to the top. He was committed to doing right. He was committed to serving God. A recent article in Smithsonian magazine describes ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... serves two vital functions in the world, and the first is to put us in touch with one another. We need one another, particularly when life caves in on us. Harold S. Kushner tells of an incident from his youth that made a distinct impression on him. A business associate of his father's died under particularly tragic circumstances. Kushner accompanied his father to the funeral. The man's widow and children were surrounded by clergy and psychiatrists trying to ease their grief and make them feel better. They ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... if perhaps it was just a figment of the imagination of a dying soldier. So for 5 years he kept the story to himself. In spring 1935 Webb was speaking at North Highlands Assembly of God in Columbus, Georgia, on "The Water of Life." He suddenly felt impressed to tell the story. After the service people swarmed around him. "We know about that spring," they said. "The site of Andersonville is just a few miles from here. The story is true." The next day Webb went with friends to the site. There in the center ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... with him on a speaking engagement. When they drove into the parking lot adjoining the auditorium where, in just a few minutes, Tony was to speak, there were only three cars parked there. "Dad!" exclaimed his son Bart, who at that point of his life was somewhat impressed with Tony's role as a public speaker, "Nobody's come to hear you! And you're so famous!" "Come on, Bart," responded his sister Lisa, who, Tony says, has always been the realist in the family, "if Dad is so famous, where are all the people ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... start to make sores and soon even the strongest man would be begging me to quit. One drop of water would be nothing, but drop after drop starts making a difference. Drop after drop of water will carve an impression into solid rock. It ought to remind us that though we may not be able to make much of an impression in the world, if we persist, if we keep trying and trying and trying, we can do miraculous things. That's how Jesus wants his followers to be trying and trying and trying to do the right thing. And ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... OUR ATTITUDES AND OUR ACTIONS. If a child is raised with a negative self-image, if he's told he's no good, then quite often that child will conform his actions and attitudes accordingly. Psychologists tell us that we invariably, inevitably, move toward the strongest impression in our mind. For example, a law enforcement officer stops a lawbreaker on the side of the road. Now the officer has a decision: should he turn off the blue light flashing on the top of his car? Yes, he should. Research shows that he ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... never hurt a pastor. So, with great fear, Bruce went to their house and calmed Ernestine down. A week later, Bruce got a call that scared him even more than the first. Alfred and Ernestine wanted to join his church. Bruce visited them and tried to impress upon them the importance of this step, but they still felt ready to join. A few weeks after joining, Alfred and Ernestine came forward for baptism. Ernestine was dressed in a white gown, and she radiated joy and serenity as Bruce dipped her in the water ...
268. Children Of The Light
1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11
Sermon
King Duncan
... !'" President Kennedy was stating our nation's firm resolve that we would not forsake the peoples of Eastern Europe. Our scripture, however, calls for us to go the former President one better: The most impressive thing that can be said about a human being is not, “I am a citizen of Rome" or “I am a Berliner." The most impressive thing that can be said about a human being is this: “I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I am a child of the light." St. Paul writes to the church at Thessalonica and says ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... you can pay. You don't need a system, you need a Savior. You don't need a resume, you need a Redeemer . . . God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders. And only a great God does for his children what they can't do for themselves."(4) This man's wealth could not buy him a place ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to the cemetery he began to turn in his Bible to the passage he was to read at the grave side. While he was turning to I Corinthians 15, the funeral director interrupted him and asked him a question. Pastor Hartwig could tell the funeral director was impressed with the message he had brought at the funeral. The funeral director asked several questions, and he answered each one. Hartwig was proud of himself and the job he had done. Here was a man who had listened to hundreds of funeral services, and his was ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... job at a local school, if she would pay a bribe to the school board. Although Ollie desperately needed that job, she refused to pay the bribe. After all, what would Anne's children think if they knew she had been so underhanded? The school board, impressed by her integrity, hired Ollie anyway. For many years afterwards, Ollie used one standard by which to judge all her attitudes and actions: what would Anne's children think? When she was tempted to give up, or to go against her principles, or to do anything ...
272. Passions
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... was a Jew. He was so devout that as a young man he ventured from Tarsus and went to Jerusalem where he studied under the noted Rabbi Gamaliel. But, like many other young seminarians eager to impress their professors, Paul went overboard in his zeal to demonstrate his piety. Unfortunately, his efforts to impress his peers involved the persecution of Christians. It got so bad that Paul willingly consented to the death of Stephen by holding the coats of those who stoned Stephen to death. How ironic it is that ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... good catch at one crucial time. (3) Hey, life's not fair. Confess it now. How many times have you driven unsafely and nothing has come of it? Think about those times when you were young and you were driving too fast because you wanted to impress your friends. Ninety-nine per cent of the time, nothing happened. But every day in this land there is someone who loses his or her life because someone was driving foolishly. We can read smugly about celebrities and politicians who are reckless with their sex lives ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... from their masters' table." If this woman felt rebuffed by Jesus' words to her, she does not let it show. To me that is the best evidence possible that she did not sense that Jesus was rejecting her on the basis of her ethnicity. But Jesus was impressed by her answer. "Woman," he said, "you have great faith! Your request is granted." And immediately her daughter was healed. You and I can learn some important lessons from this lady who was concerned about her daughter. There may come a time when we need help ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... are headed and they have made a significant commitment to finishing the journey. When comedian Jim Carrey was a struggling young actor, he wrote himself a check for ten million dollars and postdated it seven years in the future. That check kept him focused. Even more impressive is the fact that, when it came due, he was able to cover it. (4) By staying focused on his goal, he achieved great fame and success. A picture appeared in a news magazine several years ago. In the picture a woman was grinning from ...
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