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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Kent Moorehead
... But there are two kinds of popularity: the ephemeral and the permanent - and often one must be sacrificed for the other. Lafcadio Hearn tells a story of an Oriental hero who owned and worked a highly valuable rice field that covered a hill-top overlooking the sea. One day during an earthquake, from his high vantage point, he saw the ocean swiftly withdrawing from the familiar shore. It looked like some prodigious animal crouching for a deadly, destructive leap, and he knew that leap would be the tidal wave ...
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Leonard Mann
... that every good effort becomes a part of an ultimate victory. In our resting we can know there is a place to let down with confidence. Dr. George MacDonald told of a fox hunt in which the hounds pursued their prey until he climbed to a high ledge overlooking the valley below. As the hounds noisily followed his trail up the steep mountainside, there in the beaming sun, on the ledge just outside his den, sat the great red fox quietly licking a paw. Dr. MacDonald made the point: If you have a sure refuge into ...
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Leonard Mann
... you have died your hand will still be in his." Often in hospital rooms I have had occasion to say, "Every day is a good day when you are going in the right direction." And it is. As we think of our future-related fears and hopes, let us not overlook the immense importance of another and even greater future-related reality: our Faith. No, I am fully aware that even by faith we cannot yet see what will happen tomorrow; but if we live by faith, we do not have to see; because if we live by faith, we have ...
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Leonard Mann
... others, someone says, "I won’t put myself out." But when you love, you do. And at Behtlehem God is loving. Someone has said, "It’s a risk to put your love out to anyone." But God takes that risk. He has put his love out to everyone. Don’t overlook the fact that it was "his own beloved Son" whom he gave (John 3:16). And he got hurt. It may seem somehow improper to say this; but we’ll never understand the meaning of his loving act until we understand that in his putting himself out for us, God ...
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Leonard Mann
... for a few days. In the darkness I knew the road we traveled had climbed somewhat; but it was not until the morning sun drove away the darkness that I could see where I was - on an inspiring hilltop, with an orange grove for a front yard, overlooking the city of Camarillo and a wide expanse of the Pacific ocean. Yes, light makes a fantastic different. In what light do you see your life, yourself? Your doorbell rings; you open the door; and before you stands a man of disheveled appearance who is asking you ...
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Leonard Mann
... , it would appear the word was first and the flesh was added. When a word is spoken it is one’s utterance of himself; it is expression. It is therefore quite correct to say that, in giving his Son, the heavenly Father was expressing himself. But don’t overlook this fact: you cannot express what isn’t. For anything to be expressed, it must be. It cannot come forth unless it is. And Logos was, so John says; and Logos came among us, becoming flesh. He entered our world at the same gate all babies do, the ...
257. Our Inclusive Christ
Colossians 3:1-17
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... host many persons from foreign countries. Some are students. Others received much publicity lately because their language difficulties make them easy victims for criminals. While it is wonderful for us to go on mission trips to other countries, we must not overlook the foreign mission opportunities that are on our very doorstep. The great Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi, attended college in South Africa. He was well on his way to becoming a Christian, having been profoundly influenced by Jesus' Sermon on the ...
Sermon
James Bjorge
... guests and adventure, correcting wrongs and righting injustices ... all these make life tingle. The mother superior in Sound of Music tells Marie who has left the convent: "Climb every mountain, ford every stream Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream." But let us not overlook the value of the little anticipations also. If a man anticipates accomplishing a task on a given day, if a woman looks forward to an evening with her husband after the kids are put to bed, if a young boy looks forward to the ...
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James Bjorge
... that the history of America will be written in three phrases: the passing of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the passing of the buck. Soren Kierkegaard said, "A humorous rejoinder must always contain something profound." Perhaps the humor of Jesus has often been overlooked for it subtly had a teaching impact similar to Will Roger’s comment. For example, you see this profound perspective as Jesus talked about the man with a log in his eye trying to help a man get a piece of sawdust out of his ...
260. Chapter I
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... to return to the homestead where I spent some of the happiest days of my youth. It is a farm situated in the midst of the wheatgrowing country of Pennsylvania, where my grandparents once lived. Shortly after I arrived, I walked out to a little knoll that overlooks the fields and sat down beneath the huge old walnut tree that has stood there for over a hundred years. From there I looked out over the fields. The wheat at the time was about a foot or so high, a beautiful lush green, and beginning to ...
261. Growing Up
Judges 17:1-13
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Michael J. Anton
... with Victorian notions. It is based on a free, victorious, responsible relationship with Jesus, the Christ who removes us from the vicious slavery to ourselves and our own fancies, a slavery that can only lead to disaster. That’s what the prophets of permissiveness overlook. In their exuberance to proclaim their way as the true way of growing up to maturity, they are blind to the lessons of history, that spiritual and moral chaos are the only results when everyone does as he pleases. A generation or two ...
262. BEGGAR
Psalm 37:25
Illustration
Stephen Stewart
... to the markets and the fords of the rivers, and profiting too by the permission the Law gave them to eat ears of corn in the fields and grapes in the vineyards, providing they carried neither basket nor sickle, and to pick up windfalls and gather overlooked bunches. Just as today, the daily life of Israel was punctuated by the sound of their entreaties. Some of them posed as sent from God; "I am your guest! I am God’s guest! God will direct you! God will recompense you! God will preserve your children ...
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Bill Bouknight
... as the Internet is, it too is afflicted by the desperate wickedness of persons. Some adults misuse it to lure children into sexual abuse. Verse 6 of our text tells us that God was grieved that he had created human beings. Grief is a love word. Because God cannot overlook our sin, there is always agony in the heart of God. Calvary is a finished sacrifice, but as long as any of us sins, there will be agony in the heart of God. Note throughout the patience of God. It took quite a while for Noah to build that ...
264. What Is Heaven Like?
Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35
Sermon
Brett Blair
... have real influence, but we live in a society that is enamored with bigness. We have gone beyond big churches to mega-churches. We are over whelmed with and bedazzled by huge social problems such as world hunger and children in crises. As a result, we sometimes overlook the tiny seed problems that are at the root of so many of these difficult situations. As you may know the Shuttle program has been grounded for several weeks due to cracks in the fuel line. We are reminded about the tiny rubber o-ring about ...
265. The Temple
John 2:12-25
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... it the great temple built by King Solomon in Jerusalem? The temple is where Mary and Joseph brought Jesus as a baby and as a young boy for the high holy days. You can imagine the thrill that Jesus felt when he came to the top of the hill that overlooked Jerusalem and he saw the great gold dome on the temple. The rest of the city was built with grey stone but the dome was gold and the walls were covered with tiny smooth stones that shine in the sun. It was a beautiful sight. There are lots of places ...
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... company, Arthur J. Gossip wrote: Always they stood upon the threshold of happy hours, always a door was opening upon such glorious things, and every day that dawned let in new crowding opportunities of ever gladder service.2 Then, a third observation: We must not overlook the "givenness" of it all. Emerson once said, "I did not find my friends; the good God gave them to me." So, with the nature of genuine religion. And this Israel was to learn: the fruits of true religion are realized not through the number ...
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Donald Macleod
... - they have so many Victoria, Waterloo, Trafalgar, and so on. Earlier than any of those were the ancient Jews, and among their revered traditions was especially the day of liberation from Egyptian bondage. Great days for the Jews, however, had a dimension often overlooked in ours: their great days kept both past and future in focus. The past reminded them of a time of deliverance, while the future held up a vista of the realization of national and religious ideals. Past deliverances were signs of God’s ...
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Donald Macleod
... is certainly an occasion to rejoice. But over what? It is simply the prospect of our living forever? Because Jesus once said, "Because I live you will live also," (John 14:19 RSV) do we presume that this is automatically going to happen? If so, we are overlooking the fact that Christ’s aliveness was secured by the bloody sweat of Gethsemane and a ghastly and ignominious death upon Calvary. Indeed, no one of us has any right to celebrate or share in the victory of Easter Day who has not been through a Good ...
269. A Matter of Excess
Mark 6:30-44
Illustration
Larry Powell
... foretaste, or preview, of the greater feast to be held in the approaching Kingdom of God. Of course, the simplest explanation is that Jesus was addressing a specific need at a specific time, and that that is the whole of it. However, let us not overlook the emphasis that Mark places upon the miracles of Christ as signs of his authority. We would perhaps be well within the mark to accept all three possibilities as legitimate. I particularly like the quantity measure in the Elisha stories, the feeding of the ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... when my secretary told me that Oleatha was on the phone. Oleatha was 67 years old and she had been having problems. She often became confused. She had a tendency to forget. Once, she had gotten lost going from church out to her home on a bluff that overlooked the lake. At the insistence of her family, she had gone through a battery of medical tests. The reports were in and Oleatha wanted me to come by and visit her. When I drove into her driveway, I couldn’t help but notice the beauty surrounding her home ...
Children's Sermon
Erskine White
... have to start the baths on Saturday afternoon! If you are in a family that big, you might also wonder how much attention your parents could really give to you or any other child in particular. You might think your own problems and needs would get overlooked because your parents would have so many other children to worry about. I have three small children myself, and I know that every time I give time to one of them, the other two want me to do something with them also. Three children constantly competing ...
Sermon
Carl E. Zahrte
... So it was that on that morning, the first day of the week, when the gray light of dawn was first appearing in the eastern sky, we had started out for the tomb. We brought with us the spices and some additional linen if needed, but we had completely overlooked one thing. That huge stone, rolled into place before the entrance to the tomb, was far too heavy for any of us to remove. Well, you can imagine how astonished we were when we approached the tomb and saw that the stone was already rolled away. My first ...
Sermon
Joseph M. Freeman
... words. Jesus, fully divine and fully human, loved and valued not just the right deeds, but also the right motives and attitudes. We, being fully human and ever spiritually in need of completion, will often settle for the right deeds and tolerate or overlook the improper attitudes and motives behind them. We do so, in part, because we ourselves are a contradiction in motion, either desiring to do right while we do wrong or overriding contrary emotions and attitudes and doing right anyway. When one does what ...
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Leonard H. Budd
... . They knew the Bible message. "You are not a slave, God claims you for a son, a daughter." And we hear the echoes of our past anguish coming today from the roads of South Africa. The Bible message, the message of God in Christ, does not overlook the slavery of apartheid. There is a clear understanding of the Bible’s message. It is a "liberation theology" to any people in slavery. Why else would the Bible be outlawed in parts of Russia and communist states today? The Bible message is that God does ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... "awkward" was an apt description - awkward in manner, awkward in social relationships, even awkward in size, his growing frame always pushing at the limits of his clothing. His peers liked him well enough, but he was the sort of person who was easy to overlook, to exclude from the center of things. When Joseph and Mary appeared at the inn, he stood ... awkwardly ... in the doorway, slumping a bit toward the couple as they made their request for lodging. He then dutifully recited his one line, "There is no ...
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