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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Children's Sermon
Susan Hedahl
... . Today when we light the Home Candle, we think of the little town of Nazareth and we also say, "Thank You God, for the place where I live." And we ask Jesus to be with us everyday in our homes as our special guest. Suggestions: Bring a telephone directory and show the children all the possible places where people might reside. Use a map of the area to note where children live, particularly if the area is urban and made up of several major suburbs ...
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... bring a word or message that is bigger than ourselves. Those who fail in this are simply not listeners. A pastoral call that consists of idle talk about little items does not move beyond the limits of our brain; it reaches no depth in the human soul. Isaiah showed his people a better way; those exiles for whom life had been a steady drag needed the face and touch of someone with a plus side to the business of living. You see: a prophet is not just a "foreteller," i.e., someone who predicts the future. The ...
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Robert Allen
... that had taken place during his lifetime and he said he was against all of them. He spoke of the garden that he planted every spring. He introduced his 75-year-old girlfriend who drove him to the NBC studio for his appearance on the Tonight Show. He was an interesting guest and it was obvious that his remarks were unrehearsed. They simply bubbled up out of his personality that was radiant and happy. It was obvious that the audience loved this old man and they roared with laughter at some of the things ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... forgotten something very important, it seems that something like this has happened to those of us in the church. A casual glance at the inside pages of our church paper reveals that these are uncertain times for the church. Churches everywhere continue to show a dramatic loss in membership. Recently the United Methodist Church lost another 67,000 members in one year. We have closed several hundred churches, while starting only a handful of new churches. Attendance at Sunday school and worship continues to ...
2830. The More Excellent Way
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
Robert Allen
... if we are ever to achieve any excellence in living. Recently, I went to see the Rogers and Hammerstein play, South Pacific. The starring role was played by Robert Goulet. But, because of sickness, the female lead was played by the understudy - and I thought she stole the show. She was vivacious. She was alive. She was enjoying her chance to be a star. At one point in the play, she begins to sing: I’m stuck like a dope, with a thing called hope. While that is a lovely attitude, it’s not exactly what I ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... significant about Jesus dying on the Cross. Yet, everything about the crucifixion of Jesus was sad and heartbreaking. And now, his crucifixion at Calvary has become a central part of the history of our world. Calvary has become the richest hill on earth because it has showed us something new about God. As we look at the Cross of Calvary once again, let us examine how Calvary enables us to see some realities about God. I. Calvary is the richest hill on earth because it revealed the nature of God. Recently at ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... who are good; that’s not what the Christmas spirit is really about! The true Christmas spirit is a feeling of joy and gratitude that Jesus Christ was born to bring us love and peace and forgiveness of sins, to show us how to live in God’s ways in service to one another, to show us how to live for God and the things that really matter in life." "Haven’t you wondered why your Kurtzman season is so exhausting and joyless for so many people? It’s because you have allowed material gifts which delight ...
2833. The Flight From Light
Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
Erskine White
... has humanity yearned for more feverently than peace? What has humanity been more tragically confused about than the methods and means of achieving peace? Now, at long last, a light has come into the world to end our confusion, to be our peace (Ephesians 2:14) and to show us in the flesh "the things that make for peace" (Luke 19:42). Here is a light which can answer the deepest longings of the human heart, and Herod is alarmed. Here is a light of new hope in a world whose long, dark history has been written ...
Children's Sermon
Erskine White
... can see, like the night is dark; instead, it is a darkness inside which tries to take you away from God. But now we have Jesus Christ to be our light. Whenever we wonder what is the right or wrong thing to do, we have the example of Jesus to show us the right. Learn the stories of His life. Learn the stories He told and the lessons He taught; talk to your parents about Him. The thick darkness which has covered the peoples no longer is quite so thick or scary, because now that Jesus Christ is in the world ...
2835. Call Waiting
1 Samuel 3:1--4:1
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... who Eydie Gorme is, you’ll know she is a wonderful singer - what we might call a torch singer. On a television talk show a few years ago, Eydie Gorme told some things about how her career got started. Her inspiration and idol was Judy Garland. So ... we read or see, in the beauty and wonder of creation. It comes in the simple words and lives of people who point beyond themselves to show us the way to God as John did for his disciples. What a wonderful and awesome concept it is that if we listen God can call ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... us to do. Our more probable reaction is to just claim to be too busy, or allow inertia to be the pocket veto against our doing anything. Still as we try to escape it the call of God pursues us, and offers us another chance to go and show forth the very God of forgiveness and reconciliation and compassion that we talk about. And the epiphany of God comes afresh in us whenever the light of God in us pushes back a bit farther the curtain of darkness that forever threatens, and whenever we include another human ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... with such a place. There is no stigma attached to seeking help. In fact, rather than a sign of weakness, it shows strength and courage. This is a message that we must communicate to the downhearted and discouraged and despondent, to look up and see the evidences ... of the loving and redeeming God. Of course one of the best ways is to show them that loving, caring and accepting presence in ourselves. At the counter of a coffee shop where I used to go rather frequently, ...
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Frederick C. Edwards
... flower in Jesus. Hosea risked the ridicule and embarrassment of public scrutiny of his personal life to reveal the aspect of love that was to become the foundation of the new covenant. Jesus risked the criticism of the Pharisees, and eventually gave up his life in showing the extent to which the love of God reaches, even to people who despise and reject him. That we are invited to accept that love and live as people of the new covenant is cause for joy. Hosea promised that the Valley of Achor would become ...
Children's Sermon
Carl E. Zahrte
... girls! I certainly am pleased to see so many of you here. I hope you will all try to come back next week, and every week during this season of Lent, because each week I am going to give you a piece like this (show print of serpent), to fasten to your own banner like this one (show mini banner). During the season of Lent, we think and talk about Jesus, and how he suffered and died for us on the Cross. Each week this year, our sermon will involve one of the people who were there, someone who saw him suffer ...
Sermon
Carl E. Zahrte
... and loved being out on the Sea of Galilee, there were times when my partners and I toiled all night long and then had nothing to show for it. That was the case one morning, when Jesus approached us on the shore, where we had drawn up our boats to wash out ... men with our fellow disciple, Judas, coming to seize Jesus. I gripped my short sword and lashed out at one of those fellows. I wanted to show Jesus I was on his side. But he told me to put my sword back into the sheath, and with a touch, healed the wound ...
Sermon
Carl E. Zahrte
... have you forsaken me?" I had seen men suffer, but never like that. Again I wondered, "How could this be God’s Son?" Suddenly, he did show one human feeling when he said, "I thirst." One of my men took a sponge, dipped it into some sour wine, and held it up to ... of his kingship, just like the soldiers who crowned his head with thorns. And please don’t say that you envy me for the courage I showed when I did speak up for Christ. It was not I, but the Spirit of God working in me. And that Spirit of God will ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... loudly so all people can see what great "repenters" we are. It is repentance growing out of pride. Both our Old and New Testament lessons for today speak against a repentance for show. Of course, it is also easy to "rend one’s garments." We can pray and fast and give up things for Lent. We can for a period of six weeks even show compassion for the poor and maybe increase our contributions. But frequently these efforts are only skin deep and once again the result is a kind of cosmetic piety whereby we fool ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... carried through to the end of her life in the carefully selected and personally owned cemetery. This beautiful story of Sarah shows God’s concern for all people. It demonstrates God’s promises in action. Sarah and Abraham lived lives based on these ... recognize this by establishing inclusive language policies. One fears that the attempts to trivialize the importance of these changes only show the depth of the problem. But it is important and necessary to create a language that recognizes the dignity and ...
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Durwood L. Buchheim
... human apprehensions of death in these moving words, "... crazed we come and coarsened we go our wobbling way; there’s a white silence of antiseptics and instruments at both ends, but a babble between and a shame surely. O show us the route of hope ..." (Auden). That is why Easter is the festival of joy. It shows us the way of hope. In our Old Testament text we already have a hint of the great hope in the promise that "God will swallow up death." This is an amazing insight because for the greater part of ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... to anyone with whom they are not willing to eat. In simple terms this means that Christians who come together at the communion rail also relate to one another at the auction sale! There is equality among all the people of God based on our common humanity. God shows no partiality. What God has created, "what God has made clean, you must not call profane (unclean)." Yes, the baptisms of a Gentile named Cornelius and a black man of African heritage are tremendous turning points in the history of our church. It ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... this way: “When there are eyes to be avoided, then the blood has gone out of life.” There is a vocal minority or persons, some well educated, who scoff at the fact that there are consequences for violating this commandment. They are frequently paraded in and out of the talk shows with disease and the break down of the family as the consequences. Writes Bishop Ruben Job: “One of the tragedies of our society is the notion that happiness can be found in infidelity and promiscuity. To watch any television ...
Sermon
Joseph M. Freeman
... I see someone in error and that error has personally hurt me, I go for that person's jugular, to deliver the truth, but little or no love accompanies it. Hence, the person becomes defensive and flatly refuses the truth that could correct the error. In this parable, Jesus shows himself to care both about the truth he wants to communicate and the manner in which it is cradled, via an earthly story. It serves to reiterate a precious principle to us: You and I will never be able to separate God's love and God's ...
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Joseph M. Freeman
... to this overgrown pride and pandering for public recognition through public acts of piety, Jesus reminds the crowds and disciples that there is only one true teacher, Christ, and one true Father, God (v. 10). In contrast to the Pharisees' predilection toward public show, Jesus teaches humility and privacy, so that the one glorified is not a person, but God. Our Lord concludes in verses 11 and 12 that servanthood is not the same as ostentation, and humility is not the same as self-exaltation. Majoring in ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... of it the story sounds rather harsh, and it is. But if we peer a little closer we will understand that in God’s Kingdom: I First, at the King’s reception everyone is invited. The ending of this story pronounces tough judgment on the young man who shows up without the proper wedding attire. If that troubles you let me point out the beginning of the story. In the beginning everyone is invited to the king’s reception. Let’s look at this. This is a parable about a king who sends out invitations to his ...
Drama
Curt M. Joseph
... change governments, not destroy them. Joseph: I think I am beginning to see. Philip: Jesus came not to destroy what Yahweh has instituted. But he came to change the hearts of people, so they would be what Yahweh intended them to be - his people. He came to show us that we must work for justice, peace, harmony, and mercy. That we can achieve those things through any form of government, whether it’s Roman or Jewish, as long as we are faithful to the Creator. Joseph: What you say makes sense. But I am not ...
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