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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King Duncan
... case of COVID-19 in the state of Tennessee was diagnosed in a man named Chris Baumgartner. Baumgartner and his family dealt with the fear of the virus, and the fear that people would find out that he had it. They expected others would shun them or harass them, like lepers in Jesus’ day. Instead, when Baumgartner posted his diagnosis on social media, he was stunned by the outpouring of love and support. People brought meals to his family. They sent cards and texts. Baumgartner received hundreds of calls ...
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Timothy W. Ayers
... new bonnet for mom came in the mail. How was he going to pay them all, and the mortgage and still buy food? Then on Tuesday, a Pharisee priest stopped by and said if they continued to follow this Jesus they would be excommunicated and shunned by their beloved fellowship. They would have no friends. They would have no center to their spiritual and social lives. They would be like outcasts. On Wednesday, as the family walked through the marketplace to get the supplies they needed for the Passover meal, they ...
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Lori Wagner
... closely. The poor woman had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. That’s a lot of time gone by! And a long time of shaming by her community. You see, when someone suffered an ailment in Jesus’ time, they were blamed. Not only blamed but shunned. Their synagogue or Temple leaders would assure them that their sin or their family’s sin was the cause of their malady. And so heap after heap of shame would be put upon the sufferer, who would be cast away from community and whispered about by others ...
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King Duncan
... music industry. He wrote best-selling songs for some of the top Christian singers in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. He could have had a comfortable life as a Christian celebrity. But instead of seeking fame and attention, Mullins gave away most of his money, shunned the spotlight, and dedicated the last years of his life to teaching music to children on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. Tragically, Rich died in a car accident in 1997 at the age of forty-two. In 1996, while performing at a Christian music ...
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Lori Wagner
... scripture for today, we have a story of Zacchaeus, a man who strived to see Jesus, because he deeply to be seen. Often, we look at Zacchaeus as perhaps a haughty man, as the scripture tells us he was very rich and a tax collector (meaning also most likely shunned by his community). But the man described in Jesus’ story as told by Luke does not come across that way. He urgently wants to see Jesus. He’s obviously heard about him. He has heard of what he can do. He’s heard that Jesus doesn’t ostracize ...
256. Secret Swerve
Matthew 1:18-25
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Lori Wagner
... . Although he was a pious man, he felt skeptical about Mary’s encounter with the Holy Spirit. Wouldn’t you? But he was also a good and kind man, who loved his betrothed and didn’t want to see her or her family submitted to scandal, disgrace, shunning, poverty, mistreatment, or death. He felt conflicted. But after a dream in which the Holy Spirit touched his heart and vouched for Mary’s story, he came to her with a plan. They would keep her pregnancy under wraps. While the custom of marriage meant a ...
257. Mind Your Manners
Luke 14:1, 7-14
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Will Willimon
... here are we, exclusive and excluding, at the university, scrambling for seats of honor at Commencement. Will we feel out of place showing up in a tux or evening gown at one of God's parties only to find the place crammed with a crowd that we've always shunned? If we stick with our own kind, where will we be at his table? Not far from here, a group of college students turned the world upside down by going in and taking their places at a Woolworth's lunch counter. Those students invented the "sit-in" -- one ...
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Ronald Love
... , embrace your weeping sister and guide them to the promised land. The journey is trying. Luke reported, “the people would not receive Jesus, because his face was set toward Jerusalem” (9:53). Even though he was ignored and shunned, the Messiah would not relinquish his commission. As futile as it may seem, we must never surrender to debauchery. Persecuted — we continue to chastise demagogues. Ridiculed — we never cease questioning the intemperate. Scorned — we still fervently announce the coming ...
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Psalm 97:1-12
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... Yahweh’s supremacy and righteousness (vv. 2–6). We hear of the responses of idol worshipers and of Zion, along with a summary statement of Yahweh’s supremacy (vv. 7–9). The closing section spells out the implications of the above: Yahweh’s people must shun evil and then they will be granted protection, light, and joy (vv. 10–12). 97:1 In response to the opening acclamation, The LORD reigns, there is to be worldwide praise. 97:2–6 Yahweh’s kingship is here exhibited, not by a static deity ...
260. Schadenfreude
Mark 2:23-3:6
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Lori Wagner
... s social identity.[3] To sum up, Schadenfreude is the opposite of empathy. Schadenfreude presents itself when empathy is absent, when our motivation to self-identify waxes greater than our motivation to identify with someone else! That doesn’t mean we should shun self-identity. It does mean that our egos can go on some pretty serious individualistic trips when we focus more on our tribal “win” (on seeing others as “other”) than seeing ourselves and others as a connective and relational part of a ...
261. Bold Faith
Mark 10:46-52
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Lori Wagner
... you or another may have committed. The ill and infirm were cast aside to fend many times for themselves –on the streets or in the marketplaces. Doesn’t sound very nice does it? So Bartimaeus not only would have been removed from his family but shunned by friends, synagogue, the Temple, and treated like an outcast. In fact his very voice is silenced by those around him when he tries to call out to Jesus! “Many sternly ordered him to be quiet!” Did you catch that? They sternly “ordered” him to ...
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Bonnie Bates
... . I don’t think God aims a mighty finger at those who turn away from righteousness and sends plagues and punishments to individuals or groups. I think God could choose to do that, but I think God is much more concerned with calling us into communion than shunning us. Think about it. We know what is good and right in our interactions with each other. We know that hate and anger expressed toward our neighbor hurts us almost as much as it hurts them. Think about indulging our sweet tooth. A little sweet is ...
263. Pressing On In Faith
Philippians 3:4b-14
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Bonnie Bates
... pressing on as Paul was pressing on to become more Christlike, more in concert with God’s will for your life? Paul, the great evangelist, began to change after his Damascus Road experience with the living Christ. His life was never the same. Although he was shunned by many of his former Jewish friends, although he was arrested, scourged, and exiled, he came to know God in new and profound ways. He came to understand the God of grace, the Christ of redemption, and the power of the Holy Spirit. He planted ...
264. Love Lives
Philippians 2:5-11
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Bonnie Bates
... , the healing, and praying, the miracles in our midst throughout the public ministry of Jesus, these were well-documented and gave us a peek at the loving character of God. The acceptance of those on the outside of the society, those who were shunned and marginalized was a key component of Jesus’ public ministry. But there was also anger ― the turning over of the money-changers’ tables, the naming as hypocrites the leaders of the church, more concerned with their status and the letter of the law ...
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Heather Sugden
... have a particular context. If we understand James to be written in the earliest days of the Christian church, then the lens of suffering through which James wrote makes sense. The listeners who are the target audience of James’ letter have been persecuted, scattered, shunned for what they believe — or, more exactly, in whom they believe. When James talks about the coming of the Lord, readers have to believe that the Lord’s arrival would be soon. Perhaps the example of the farmer guides us in our sense ...
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Jill J. Duffield
... will be first and the first will be last. Jesus told us if we are to enter the kingdom we must become like children. Jesus said he is not only with the least of these, but, in fact, is the least of these, the hungry and imprisoned, the naked and shunned. The Jesus way is an odd way, a strange way not conformed to this world but transformed through the love of our God who claims and calls us, names and sends us. It tells us to go to the ends of the earth baptizing and teaching, preaching and healing ...
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