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
Michael J. Anton
PENTECOST I’m tired. I’m tired of slugging it out every day in that office or on that line where nobody really cares whether I live or die. I’m tired of being treated like a number. I’m tired of being called nosey when I’m just trying to help. I’m tired of being unappreciated and taken for granted. I’m tired of being an armchair psychologist ...
Sermon
Michael J. Anton
TRINITY (General) As you may have noticed, the theme listed in today’s bulletin after "sermon" is Snoring Through Sermons. I suspect some might read that line with some delight, wondering what we’re really going to say about the guy who’s been sitting in front of us, nodding Sunday after Sunday. And the guy who has been doing the nodding may well be sitting in fear and trepidation, wondering what we are going to say ...
Sermon
Michael J. Anton
... there are gaps. The generation gap, the communication gap. These are real and should never be ignored. But there is a division, a gap, a great divide that goes deeper than any of these. The great divide between people is not that imaginary, arbitrary line some have drawn between the establishment and the cop-outs, or between the over-30s and those under, or between the long hairs and the ex-Marines, or between Benny Goodman and the Jackson Five. The great divide is the valley between irresponsibility and ...
2804. A Reason to Hope
Lamentations 3:1-66
Sermon
Michael J. Anton
... been levelled to its very foundations. Jerusalem the golden had become Jerusalem the destroyed. The year was 586 B.C. and the enemy was Babylon, and the result was the total wipeout of the city of God. The poet needed little extra incentive to pen his lines of hopelessness. All around him rose the stench of death. The ashes of the city smoldered before his eyes. His own people were herded together for the long trek to political captivity. Darkness was all he could see. He strained his eyesight to catch the ...
2805. BRICKMAKER
Exodus 5:7, 16
Illustration
Stephen Stewart
... marked with the sign of a pharaoh or of a Babylonian or Assyrian monarch. Often, both the Egyptians and the Babylonians painted their bricks for decorative purposes. In the ruins of ancient Babylon has been found a wide street used for parades. The street was lined with walls carrying the images of sixty lions, thirty on each side. These lions were molded in clay bricks and then painted. Then they were oven-fired until they were hard and the paint was shiny. These glazed bricks are just as beautiful today ...
2806. FISHERMAN
Isaiah 19:8; Matt. 4:18; Luke 5:2
Illustration
Stephen Stewart
... was spear fishing. In this method, a harpoon or trident was thrown at the fish. Job said, "Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?" (Job 41:7). This means that fishing is very old. The second method was angling; the common hook and line method. Peter used a hook to catch the fish in which he found a coin to pay the temple tax (Matthew 17:27). We also have our text from Isaiah and also Amos, who said, "They shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks ...
2807. MASON
2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Chron. 22:14
Illustration
Stephen Stewart
... the bricks. The mason was acquainted with the proper kind of foundation and he knew how to lay the cornerstone. He knew how to select and lay the stones in the wall. His equipment consisted of the plumbline, the measuring reed, the leveling line, the hammer with the toothed edge for shaping stones, and a small basket for carrying off earth. Today we have masons who work for the building contractors who construct our homes, office buildings, churches, and all the other buildings which we find necessary ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... aboard a cruise ship who claimed to be an expert in guessing professions. "See that man over there," he said. "He is a physician." Bill checked and sure enough that was right. "How could you tell?" he asked the man. "Well," he said, "I saw the caring lines on his forehead and could tell he was a person of great compassion." Bill Henderson pointed to someone else and said, "What about him? What does he do?" "That's a lawyer," the expert said. Bill checked and sure enough, he was. The expert explained that ...
2809. That Horse Called Style
2 Corinthians 8:1-15
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... frame and make the bolts on his lathe to fit snugly. This job had to be done with precision. One day Roy asked the machinist why he took such pains with the bolts. He took his hat off and said, "These bolts hold the big drive wheel in line and keep down vibration in the engine. If these bolts don't fit properly, the engine will vibrate and shake to pieces. Each one of these bolts is small, but each one keeps the big engine on track." Many years later Roy Angell remembered that lesson and said, "Sometimes ...
2810. A Terrific Trade
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... suffered and died for it, and in exchange covered all believers with his perfect righteousness. "For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life." This is the Bible's bottom-line, the angels' anthem, the heartbeat of the Hallelujah Chorus. St. Paul talked about this terrific trade in his second letter to the Corinthians, the fifth chapter" the, 21st verse. Listen to it in the old King James version: "For God hath made Jesus to be ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... a horrible situation. God led that doctor's wife to visit the guilty mother in jail. She found out that there was no agency in Tulsa to help abusive parents change. So, she helped start "Parents Anonymous" in Tulsa. Her home phone became the crisis hot-line. Now, 19 years later, this is a permanent agency with its own office and staff. And, there was an additional bonus: that doctor and his wife had a little daughter who had been watching all these events. Today Jessica is an ordained Methodist pastor, the ...
2812. Advertised Goodness
Matthew 6:1-2, Matthew 6:5-6
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... the church budget, and you know, Lord, that some folks within the sound of my voice are stingy, penny- pinching skinflints." Call my hand, dear ones, if I start directing prayers at you rather than God. Because if I do, my motivation is out of line. Jesus calls us to search our motives, to spot unworthiness that sneaks into our motivation, to ask for the help of the Holy Spirit in cleansing and purifying our motives. Remember those words of Thomas A. Becket in the classic, "Murder in the Cathedral:" "The ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... seek out Jesus, a rustic, radical itinerant preacher. Jesus was usually surrounded by ordinary folks, but here we see him with a real aristocrat. Nicodemus very respectfully called Jesus "Rabbi" and sought to compliment him. But Jesus quickly cut to the bottom line. He said, "No one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again." "What?" asked Nicodemus, "is there a way to return to my mother's womb and experience physical birth again?" Here you have a classic miscommunication. Nicodemus was thinking ...
2814. Aiming at Perfection
Philippians 3:4b-14
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... as possible, in love, in usefulness, and in holiness, and to drive toward that goal as though we had only one more day left to accomplish it. Most of us have had enough seminars under time management experts to know the value of goals. Years ago we memorized the line: If you aim at nothing, that's exactly what you will hit. So, we develop goals in most phases of our lives. We want to have a specific amount of money put aside for retirement. We aim at a 10 percent growth per year in the business. We even ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... , Tennessee, called Amqui. In the old days of railroading, it had importance. Those days are long past. Singer Johnny Cash some years ago purchased the quaint railway station and moved it to his estate. Amqui was once a switching point on the Louisville and Nashville line. I the switchman moved the track six inches to the right, the trains from the south would thunder past on the way to Louisville and Cincinnati. If the track was moved only six inches to the left, the trains went to St. Louis or Chicago ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... Holy Spirit begins to restrain the beast within us and to unleash the angel. Have you made that discovery yet? You could today. Once you do, the beast within is restrained, and the angel is unleashed. Then we become Jesus' advance troops, working behind enemy lines, preparing for that great day when Jesus will return in all his glory and the entire earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. Some years ago a new Christmas custom began in the New England area. Some Christian families there decided ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... . He had an appointment late in the day, but in the meantime he had some time to kill. Driving around town in his rental car, he passed a little-league baseball game. He decided to stop and watch it for a while. He was standing just outside the third-base line. When there was a lull in the action, he asked the boy playing third base, "What's the score." The boy replied, "We're behind 18 to nothing." "That's strange," said the man. "You don't look discouraged." "Why should it be?" said the boy. "We haven't ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... disciples were taken aback. Was this some kind of rhetorical question? Who touched you? Why master, look around, everyone is touching you. The New English version quotes their words as being: "What is the purpose in asking?" Jesus replied with one of the most mysterious lines in the Bible. He said: "I felt power flow from me." For years I have been mesmerized with that verse. What exactly happened in that moment? Did the lady drain his battery? It sounds as though he is almost describing a power surge. "I ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... how God loves you. Let’s look at five great truths about God’s love. I First, this story tells us that God’s love has no limits. If there was a breaking point where the father was pushed too far certainly this young found it. He crossed every line in the sand that the father could have drawn. But the point is clear. From the father’s perspective at least, there is no condemnation. He doesn’t greet him with the words: Well, I never thought I would see you again; he greets him instead with open arms ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... colorfully by Bob Moorehead in his monologue entitled "The Fellowship of the Unashamed." Susan Sharpe had these words printed recently in Tidings. "I am part of the 'Fellowship of the Unashamed.' I have Holy Spirit power. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus. I won't look back, let up, or back away. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I am finished with low living, small planning, chintzy giving, and tame ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... flare up in a moment.” If a man or a woman cannot be trusted with private moral decisions how can he or she be trusted with moral decisions affecting all of society? Character is one seamless garment, covering both private and facets of one's life. There is a line that sums it up: "You can’t live crooked and think straight whether you’re a chauffeur or a Chief of State." I don’t need to tell you that the wise men of Washington don't agree with what I have just declared. That's okay. We Christians ...
2822. What Is Heaven Like?
Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35
Sermon
Brett Blair
... 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 three-tenths of an inch wide. To look at a tiny o-ring that small would not impress anyone. And yet 15 years ago two of those rings were placed in the aft field joint of the Solid Rocket ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... I brought with me to show you. What is it? That's right, a camera. Good old Candy Camera, one of my oldest and dearest friends. Candy has been taking pictures for me for a lot of years. Let me show you how. First of all, I get you all lined up and then I move a little bit this way and a little bit that way and then I check and make sure that I have enough light and then I look back and see if I can still see you and turn this so that I have you right ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... not the kind of wild dogs that roamed the streets at that time. Some say that he was not insulting her but teasing her and that he probably had a smile on his face when he spoke these words. I don’t think so. I think he is drawing the lines here. His ministry is not to the Gentiles. We certainly could understand it, then, if at this point the poor woman burst into tears and simply ran away. But she didn’t cry and she didn't walk away. She answered Jesus by saying: “It is true sir. I admit ...
2825. Who Do You Say I Am? - Sermon Starter
Matthew 16:13-20
Illustration
Brett Blair
... masses is seen in so many different ways. You can speak of Jesus as prophet, holy man, teacher, or spiritual leader, and few will object. But speak of Him as Son of God, divine, of the same nature as the Father, and people will line up to express their disapproval. A billion Muslims will say: "Prophet, yes. God, no!" Jews scattered around the world will say: "Teacher, yes. Messiah, no!" Liberal Protestants and religionists of various stripes will say: "Exemplary man, yes. Divine, no!" Who do people say he ...
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