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
David E. Leininger
... ...people KNOW them, even if they could not relate the details of the story. Surprise! The details are important. There is more here than a simple reminder about our ethical obligation to assist people in need. The story. Immediately we are introduced to a lawyer. He poses a question to Jesus as a "test" - "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" In the typical fashion of the rabbis then and now, Jesus answers the question with one of his own. "What is written in the Law? How do you read it ...
252. Mary's Song
Micah 5:1-4
Sermon
King Duncan
... she was "with child" was to visit Elizabeth, her older kinswoman."Mary's journey into the Judean hill country (to visit her cousin Elizabeth) was no leisurely stroll along a country road. Given the difficulties and dangers that the landscape posed, her support network ” Elizabeth and family ” must have been especially valuable to her. . . the hill country was rather bleak. The eastern slopes were mostly impassable desert, stretching 10 to 15 miles from their highest point, 3000 feet near Hebron, down ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Jesus was at that age in Jewish life when a boy begins taking on some of the responsibilities of adulthood. He was not trying to hurt his parents when he stayed behind at the Temple. He was simply following his heart, and sometimes following your heart can pose some real problems for those who love you and feel responsible for you. Even good kids can drive you crazy. But notice one last thing: THE STORY HAS A HAPPY ENDING. Mary and Joseph found Jesus in the temple; he came back home with them; then, Luke ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that did not advance the kingdom. You can almost see the sad expression on Jesus' face as he concludes this parable with this commentary: "The children of this world are wiser than the children of light." There was an interesting legal question posed in The Saturday Evening Post recently. It seems that one lovely Sunday when the sermon was overlong, the congregation rushed, as usual, from its pews on the first syllable of "Amen!" Faithful Abigail, the only worshiper held entranced by the sermon, moved ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... how she reverences the Virgin Mother," Savanarola whispered to one of his fellow priests. "Don't be deceived by what you see," the priest responded. "Many years ago an artist was commissioned to create a statue for the cathedral. As he sought a young woman to pose as the model for his sculpture, he found one who seemed to be the perfect subject. She was young, serenely lovely, and had a mystical quality in her face. The image of that young woman inspired his statue of Mary. The woman who now worships the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... harden as quickly as anticipated. The upraised arms and head of the sculpture began to droop. The majestic Christ with arms lifted up and head thrown back was transformed into a Christ with head bent forward and arms stretched downward as if in a pose of gentle invitation. At first Thorvaldsen was bitterly disappointed. As he studied the transformed sculpture, however, he came to see a dimension of Christ that had not been real to him before. It was the Christ who is a gentle, merciful Savior. Thorvaldsen ...
257. Who Is He?
Matthew 16:13-20
Sermon
King Duncan
... 's house?" Of the paralyzed man he asked, "Do you want to get well?" Of people who listened to Him teach but failed to act, "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?" No question is more important, however, than the question He posed to His disciples at Caesrea Phillipi: "Who do you say that I am?" It is a fair question for us to ask today. "Who do you say that Christ is?" The answer to that question will have an effect on our ethical standards, our feelings about our responsibilities to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... happened to drive by a shattered statue. It was a statue of actress Myrna Loy that stood in front of Venice High School in Los Angeles, CA. The statue was part of Harry F. Winebrenner's 1923 "Foundation of Education." The beautiful figure had posed gracefully for decades until vandals dynamited it. Ogden repaired the work in 1979, donating his time and the materials. In 1980 vandals wrecked the statue again, and again Ogden began the rebuilding process. In 1981 the cycle repeated, and Ogden has invested the ...
259. The Secret Of Winning
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
Sermon
King Duncan
... to be a winner as a follower of Jesus Christ? Actually, the process is quite simple. FIRST OF ALL, WINNERS PAY A PRICE NO ONE ELSE WILL PAY. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome was painted by Michelangelo. This required his lying flat on his back. But that posed a problem, for Michelangelo had a "bad back," and if he lay on it long he suffered excruciating pain. Moreover, he had some kind of nasal obstruction which cut off much of his air supply when he lay on his back. So what? He lay on his back all ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... THEIR OWN MINDS WHAT THEY REALLY WANTED. Remember how he asked the lame man beside the pool of Bethesda if he wanted to be healed. The rest of the story indicates that the lame man probably preferred the comfort of his lameness to the burden posed by freedom and responsibility. Jesus wanted him to be certain this was what he really wanted. Thousands of years ago a young Chinese emperor called upon his family's most trusted advisor. "Oh, learned counselor," said the emperor, "you have advised my father and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... : "Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory?" Then he followed this question with another: "How do you see it now?" The nation of Israel had been scattered. The holy temple had been reduced to rubble. That was the past. The question Haggai posed was not about the past, but about the future. How do you see it now? That is the question that I hope you will ask about your life, about your world, and about your relationship with Christ as we begin this New Year. "How do you see it now ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in the western part of our country with an unusual mural, a painting of the scene on Golgotha. There are the politicians, the soldiers, the priests, a milling crowd, and the frightened, discouraged disciples. What makes the mural unusual is that members of the congregation posed for the faces in the picture. (3) We WERE there when they crucified our Lord. There are many theories about how the death of Jesus Christ atones for our sin, but one thing is for certain: the cross says to us that sin is serious ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... with his big ring of keys and will say to humanity, `Gentlemen, it's closing time.'" (2) I hope the Frenchman is wrong. But there is probably more reason to be hopeful on this front than any time within the past generation. There is still the threat posed by pollution of our natural resources and a rapidly growing world population. Such issues as the depletion of the ozone are enough to keep us all awake at night. This is a global problem and only a global approach will make a difference. There is that old ...
264. Ultimate Freedom
Galatians 6:11-18
Sermon
King Duncan
An American History teacher posed the following question to her class: "A distinguished foreigner was a big help to the American colonists during the Revolutionary War," she said. "Can anyone give me his name?" One young fellow felt he knew the answer. "It was God," he said. That’s a pretty good answer. "A distinguished ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... DOES HEAR AND HE DOES CARE. WE ARE NOT FORSAKEN. IF A CROTCHETY JUDGE WHO DOES NOT FEAR GOD NOR MAN WILL GIVE INTO A LITTLE WIDOW BECAUSE SHE IS PERSISTENT, WILL NOT A LOVING GOD HEAR THE PRAYERS OF HIS CHILDREN? That is the question Jesus is posing. He is not advising us about how to pray. He is simply saying something about the nature of God. God does hear and answer prayer. You may be a Charles Osgood fan. Osgood, a veteran CBS reporter and commentator, on his program, the "Osgood File," told about an ...
Sermon
King Duncan
Some Sadducees tried to trip Jesus up. They posed a question about a woman who married seven brothers one right after the other and was widowed by each. Whose wife, they asked, will she be in the resurrection? We know they were attempting to cause Jesus to say something damaging because the Sadducees did not even believe in a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... us, by the Spirit that he has given us." That Spirit is love. It's like a man named Daniel ” a big man. He used to be a weight-lifter. His scrapbook is full of colorful ribbons and photos of him in his prime, showing him in the muscle man pose and flexing his bulging arms. Today he teaches others to lift weights at a small local gym. Daniel enjoys his work, but he dreams of one day owning his own business. Sometime back Daniel had the opportunity to purchase his very own gym. The bank offered to give him ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Saul said to David, "and he has been a warrior from his youth." But David was determined. And he was confident. Confident because he believed that God was on his side. So like any good job applicant, David listed his qualifications for Saul. Whenever a lion or a bear posed a danger to his father's sheep, David would come to the rescue. "I would catch it by the jaw, strike it down, and kill it," David said. In his mind, fighting Goliath was no different than fighting a bear or a lion. And since he had done ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... years back, they found that they had a problem. It had been a snowless winter in Williamstown. However, the officials felt that snow would make their college look more inviting to prospective students. Hence, they imported 60 tons of manufactured snow and posed student models beside the "snowdrifts." A defensive director of admissions explained, "We're not faking anything. We are just hoping to get some good winter shots." It was, after all, real snow off real trucks. (1) Playwright Gore Vidal says that ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... all the answers to your questions till you cross the River Jordan, till you open the door in the wall that Jesus has unlocked. There, by the grace of God, all questions will become one question. And this is the question you will hear. It's the question Jesus posed to Peter one day. It's the question at the heart of every other question: Simon, do you love me? Child of eternity, do you love me? And when we find the answer to that question, the rest of our questions form the doxology. And there we will be ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... giving us so many goofy stories about the nature of the world beyond and angels and the demonic. People really want to know if this world is all there is. Even the Sadducees probably had a deep hunger for some reassurance about these important matters. They posed this riddle for Jesus. "Whose wife then will she be? Notice how Jesus answers. In heaven there is no need for persons to marry "because they are like angels and are children of God." In other words, NOT ONLY IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH, BUT HEAVEN ...
Sermon
King Duncan
In the summer of 1981, Will Lee, the actor who played an adult character named Mr. Hooper on the children's television show SESAME STREET, died. This posed a difficult set of issues for The Children's Television Workshop, producers of the show. Should they deal at all with the subject of death? If so, how would they explain it to their 10 million viewers, most of whom are under the age of six? A staff writer describes ...
Sermon
King Duncan
Baron De Rothschild was one of the richest men who ever lived. Legend has it that the Baron once posed before an artist as a beggar. While the artist, Ary Scheffer, was painting him, the financier sat before him in rags and tatters holding a tin cup. A friend of the artist entered, and the baron was so well disguised that he was not recognized. Thinking he was really a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... commander had received a medicine-coated sugar cube from Peter's own hand. Only moments before, Peter Godwin had been treated like an enemy by the rebels; now he was a welcome guest among them. They returned him safely to the area where he had been captured, and even posed for a picture with Peter before they left. (1) It's nice, isn't it? when good works are rewarded. Once there was a 14-year-old girl in Cleveland, Ohio who got so angry with her parents that she ran away to New York City. Cold, hungry and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . A little girl looks for Jesus in a room in her church. A village elder rejoices that God speaks his language. All of us yearn to see God. We yearn to know that God is with us, that God knows us, understands us, helps us. St. Augustine once posed the following experiment. Imagine God saying to you, "I'll make a deal with you if you wish. I'll give you anything and everything you ask: pleasure, power, honor, wealth, freedom, even peace of mind and a good conscience. Nothing will be a sin; nothing will be ...
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