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
Dean Feldmeyer
... from any of us. He ain’t nothin’.” Tex says that was a lesson that always stuck with him. If you wanted to get along with these guys you had to keep your mouth shut and admit that you were, just like them, nothing. That’s what Jesus was confronting. He was nothing special to these people. He had nothing to say that they want to hear. They’ve known him too long and too well. To them, he ain’t nothin’. And because they aren’t receptive, he was unable to help them. Do you hear that? He ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... with prophets. The Lives of the Prophets, an apocryphal book written at some time during the life of Jesus, said that many of the ancient prophets died this kind of death. Isaiah of Jerusalem was, according to legend, sawed in half for confronting King Manasseh. Jeremiah was allegedly stoned to death for speaking an unpopular truth to the ancient Egyptians. Ezekiel was supposedly “killed by the Chaldeans.” Micah was ordered executed by King Jehoram. Amos was said to have been tortured by Amaziah the ...
2853. Missional Discontinuity
Mark 6:30-44, Mark 6:45-56
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... story of Jesus walking on water and calming the sea. That will come another week. Instead, we jump to the end of that story and an event that was nearly identical to the one we have just seen. The disciples and Jesus escaped the crowd only to be confronted by them and even more when they reached their destination across the lake. This time Jesus responded by healing people. Let’s be clear that the needs of the vast crowds of anonymous people are very real and very urgent. And there are lots of them. Quite ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... take a miracle. Sound familiar? You’d think that, after 2,000 years, we would know the answer to this question was simply, “With you, Jesus, anything is possible.” But we still haven’t learned it, have we? We still find ourselves, whenever we are confronted with a big problem, counting our resources and declaring the situation hopeless. Oh, we can’t possible put a new roof on the building. It’s way too expensive. We can’t open our Vacation Bible School to the community. We don’t have enough ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... and emotional and spiritual health. Covid not only reminded us about what happens economically and culturally when we function in the extreme as individual units instead of as communities but what happens to us mentally, spiritually, and emotionally when we are confronted by isolation, when our relationships are cut off and socialization shuts down. In 1943, a psychologist by the name of Abraham Maslow in his paper on human motivation, laid out a chart called the human hierarchy of needs. Maslow’s theory ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... this text will not be one of our favorites. We don’t think it applies to us. We may dream of being rich someday, but most of us do not think of ourselves as being there now. Many of us are having a difficult time financially. Still, we need to confront the fact that Jesus did warn time and time again against the danger of materialism. He says in this passage that a rich man will have a hard time getting into heaven. On another occasion he talked about a rich man who built barns to hold his surplus crops ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... for God. But, friend, there is a better way to deal with your life. That brings us to Thanksgiving. The best preventive to worry is to focus your mind on giving thanks to God. Believe that you can trust God to handle any situation that you may confront and then relax. God’s resources are greater than your resources. Live your life in perpetual praise to God for God’s goodness, and fear and worry will melt away. As R.G. Letourneau once said, “Worry and trust cannot live in the same house. When worry ...
2858. The Days Are Coming
Jeremiah 33:14-16
Sermon
King Duncan
... is a preacher of righteousness. By the time we encounter him in this last chapter of his book, he speaks words of comfort. Some would say that he had mellowed. Perhaps so, but the situation had also changed. Before, his people needed to be confronted, now they need to be comforted. Before, they needed words of judgment, now they needed words of grace. Before, they deserved condemnation, now they needed hope. So instead of offering a word of punishment, Jeremiah offers a word of promise: “Behold, the days ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it (7:36). Should we be surprised? Some have wondered — are we really seeing a bit of reverse psychology? Tell someone to keep something secret, and they’ll blab it everywhere. The Pharisees confronted Jesus in the eighth chapter and demanded a sign. Here we see that if you are known as a wonder worker, people will want you to work wonders, and nothing more. Perhaps something about the reason for the Messianic Secret is revealed when Jesus ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... being sorry for a mistake and of making a promise not to make the same mistake again. They do not understand repentance as a complete change of direction. The year 2020 will be remembered by many as a time when our nation once again confronted and worked to correct systems of inequality and racism in many different forms. One sign of this change was the number of cities and institutions that decided to remove Confederate statues and symbols from their buildings and public spaces. And during this same time ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... this.” (3) We all know it doesn’t take ten years to build a door. But we all understand the temptation to put things off for a later date. It’s aggravating when we put off necessary tasks, like finishing a project. But it’s soul-killing to put off confronting the most important questions in life, like “Is there a God? If there is a God, then what is that God like and what does that God require of me?” And the questions I want all of us to wrestle with today: “What would it take for me to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of the Great I AM, the Almighty God. However, just because you are made in God’s image doesn’t mean you know God. A person can be made in the image of God and still spend their whole life far away from a relationship with God. We need to confront the fact that only those who believe in Jesus and receive him as their Lord and Savior find the joy that is promised to those who have their identity in him. Those of you who are students may relate to that horrible feeling when you start a new school, and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , surely knew that a man as ruthless and power-hungry as Herod would never bow down to another king. This left them with a dangerous choice: which king would they honor? They had come to Bethlehem to worship the king of peace, Jesus. But then they were confronted by the king of power, Herod. Go along with Herod and betray Jesus? Or worship Jesus and earn yourself a ruthless enemy? If you were in their shoes, what would you do? The message of Epiphany is that every person must eventually choose which king to ...
2864. Big Boys Do Cry
Joel 2:1-2,12-17
Sermon
King Duncan
... in Hawthorne’s original story. So, they gave the movie a happier ending. After all, who could weep over breaking one of God’s commandments? Not in our modern world. There are times we need to weep over our sins. There are times when we need to confront the worst within us and rend our hearts if not our garments. That is what Ash Wednesday is all about. A Baptist pastor, John W. Keith tells about taking his father to Israel. When they got to Jerusalem and viewed the wailing wall there was a great ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... completely unprepared for the job. (2) It’s sad to say, but I doubt this man gets much repeat business. It’s hard to put your confidence in a person who doesn’t take the time to prepare. Our Scripture lesson for this morning is about Jesus confronting temptation in the wilderness. On a deeper level, it’s about how our wilderness times are the training ground for experiencing God’s power in our lives. In Luke 3, Jesus is publicly baptized by John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit comes down on him in ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to waste our life in selfish, apathetic, unfruitful behavior because we don’t realize how short life is. Here is the second insight for the day: Fruitfulness is the measure of how much our life reflects God’s character and love. Here’s a question we all confront at some point: do you measure your life by the length of your years, or by the positive impact you’ve made? I think we would all agree that it’s the second condition, the positive impact, that is the true measure of a life. Throughout his ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the season the team gelled. Practice helped. Coaching made them better at their positions. But it was what happened around a table, according to Rick Brown, that forged a winning team. (1) You and I are not members of a professional football team, but we confront many challenges of our own. And I believe that time spent before the Lord’s table can help prepare us spiritually and emotionally for those challenges as we eat the sacred bread and drink from the sacred cup. St. Paul gives us the earliest ...
2868. Ordinary Tragedy
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Sermon
Will Willimon
Eric Auerbach (Mimesis) notes that, in the whole of Greek literature there is nothing to compare with this scene--Simon Peter's confrontation with the maid in the courtyard tonight. In Greek literature, ordinary people--like fisherfolk and servants--are always low­ life, comic, buffoons. Tragedy is for kings, queens, for who cares deeply for the souls of common people? The power of great tragedy occurs when a great king, like Lear, falls ...
2869. Playing Outside the Rules
Luke 6:27-38 · Genesis 45:3-11, 15
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... what you “should” have done instead. Right? But here’s the kicker. God, and Jesus more than anyone, are notorious rule-breakers. So, what on earth do we do with that? Why, it drives us simply crazy! Because God, and Jesus, are always, always confronting us with our “shoulds.” And challenging us about our “rules.” Questioning our sense of equity. Jarring us from our certainties. Like any challenge, it often takes us awhile to climb out of our boxes and get with the program of what God is trying ...
2870. Get Up
Mark 5:21-43
Sermon
Will Willimon
... to demonstrate that Jesus is stronger than the one who binds us (a frequent theme throughout these first five chapters of Mark). These mighty acts confound those who witness them, evoking ''fear and trembling'' (verse 33), ''amazement'' (verse 42). What if, in Jesus, we are confronted with a power which heals the sick and raises the dead? What does this mean for the future of all of our sick, settled arrangements with death? As Jesus calls a little girl to ''get up'' we somehow feel that he is calling to ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... revelation. In what we call the transfiguration, God makes a bold statement about who Jesus is, about his mission, his identity, and the power that he could wield. It’s no mistake that immediately upon descending the mountain, Jesus begins to heal, cast out spirits, confront the very powers of shadow and darkness with his overpowering light, the light that now would surround and fill him no matter where he went. We live in a strange world that we mostly don’t understand. We tend to trust only in what we ...
2872. The Lonely Prophet
1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a
Sermon
King Duncan
... now they are trying to kill me too.” Loneliness has turned into fear which, in turn, has turned into bitterness against God. Can you relate to Elijah’s struggle? Many of us are trapped in the same place as Elijah and we’ve never really confronted it. How did this happen? And what can we learn from Elijah’s story to protect us from discouragement and giving up? The first thing we learn from this story is God doesn’t have to respond to our “shoulds.” Have you ever struggled with disillusionment ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of courage. Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher, once said, “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” (7) “. . . loving someone deeply gives you courage.” When you love someone deeply, you are willing to confront your fears and face down challenges unflinchingly for their sake. That was the source of Jesus’ courage too. Jesus knew he was deeply loved by God; that was the source of his strength. And Jesus loved God and us deeply; that was ...
2874. Ordinary Sin
Luke 22:28-34, 54-60
Sermon
Will Willimon
... common people. All this applies not only to Peter's denial but also to every other occurrence which is related in the New Testament. Every one of them is concerned with the same question, the same conflict with which every human being is basically confronted and which therefore remains infinite and eternally pending... What we see is a world which on the one hand is entirely real, average, identifiable as to place, time, and circumstances, but which on the other hand is shaken in its very foundations, is ...
2875. The Gift
Luke 2:1-20
Sermon
Will Willimon
... to us which may seem like blessings. This night is born to us a child, a Savior, whose name is Jesus, God's greatest gift. Though we did not know how to desire him, he is sign of God's great desire for us. And that's why we say, confronted with this gift, Merry Christmas!
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