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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Drama
Curt M. Joseph
... are some misguided leaders who have turned the Law into a burden. But I am not sure. Obed: Listen, that man is dangerous! He has to be stopped! He told all the people that our style of dress and the keeping of the Law of Moses was done purely for show. He said we were going to hell because we have misled the Gentiles by converting them to Judaism. Aaron: He said that the altar was more sacred than the gifts that we place on the altar. He accused us of nitpicking the finer details of the Law, while failing ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... fall on the parched earth, Elijah ran up the road toward the royal city of Jezreel. Ahab, had left Mount Carmel before Elijah, but with the miraculous strength from the Lord Elijah outran the king’s chariot. Elijah would be standing in front of Ahab’s house to show the king that he could not escape God. THE STORY OF ELIJAH’S CONTEST with the prophets of Baal impresses me deeply everytime I hear it. Yet I admit that I cannot readily identify with it. Calling down fire from heaven is out of my line. On ...
Sermon
R. Blaine Detrick
... was willing to obey. He did not complain: he did not argue; he did not delay. He obeyed, not even knowing where he was going. God had told him to get ready and depart, adding that he would lead Abraham into a new land, "a land that I will show thee." So when he started, Abraham had no idea of his destination, how far it would be, how long it would take, nor whether he would ever return. (He never did.) That was complete obedience. And it certainly wasn’t easy. Suppose you were convinced that it was God ...
Sermon
R. Blaine Detrick
... nature, all of the good and the evil that lie within each of us. For no matter how good you are, there lurks within your heart the seeds of some evil. And no matter how evil you may be, there lies within you the very image of God. David shows us this mixture of good and evil. Through the centuries, looking toward the coming Messiah - Jesus, the fulfillment and consummation of God’s redemptive plan - that Messiah is called the "son of David" (see Matthew 12:23; 21:9). Not the son of Abraham. Not the son of ...
Sermon
R. Blaine Detrick
... to believe them strongly - for if we don’t stand for something, we will fall for anything. But we must be careful not to allow our enthusiasm to overflow into intolerance, prejudice, and bigotry. Ambition Another time, John indicated his "Son of Thunder" tendency by showing his ambition. He and his brother came to Jesus and expressed their desire to sit, one on his right hand and the other on his left, when the kingdom became a reality. They wanted to be his partners and share his power, authority, and ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... darkness that night was nothing less than the glory of God, and human language and action simply cannot scale those heights. To try to do so risks vanity at best, idolatry at worst. I once attended the annual Christmas show at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, and an impressive show it was. After entertaining presentations of seasonal chestnuts, like Dicken’s "A Christmas Carol," the review moved to its finale, a recreation of the nativity itself. In command of a stage the size of a city block and with ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... more try, "Look at the lilies in that field ..." every head in the audience turned toward the side wall. I do not know whether old John the Evangelist was present in the theater that night, but, if not, he should have been. It was his kind of show. Indeed, he spends his entire Gospel trying to get people to look, really to look, at the life of Jesus. Light and darkness, vision and dimness, "once I was blind, but now I see," these are the materials of John’s Gospel. Chapter after chapter, John’s finger ...
Sermon
Richard A. Jensen
... the whole commercial enterprise. He cleansed the temple of its commercial practices. "... you shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade," he shouted. Needless to say, the Jewish religious authorities went into a rage of their own. "What sign have you to show us for doing this?" they demanded. That is typical. The first century Jews always wanted a sign. Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this ...
Sermon
James W. Robinson
... . Surgery was advised. The woman entered the hospital for a high-risk operation. Prior to the operation, the surgeon began to read the customary document of consent for surgery. The woman interrupted him abruptly. "Don’t bother to read it, Doctor," she said. "Just show me where to sign." The woman was a believer. She knew the meaning of faith. She applied it to her situation. She knew that the hospital where she was confined was respected nationwide for its success in treating her type of ailment. She was ...
Sermon
James W. Robinson
... for us to visualize the woman as she waits patiently in line to drop her offering into the chest with the trumpet-shaped tube. Without going into a detailed character study, he makes us feel that she is worthy of our profound admiration and respect. I. He shows us - without saying as much - a woman who is to be admired for holding fast to her faith, when death snatched her husband away. Her kind bolster our own faith. The preacher, who stands behind the pulpit, never ceases to be amazed and inspired when he ...
2861. In Control
Mark 13:1-31
Sermon
James W. Robinson
... attention to the prognosticators who have established 1988 as the most recent date for Christ’s Return. They base their prediction on several scattered Old Testament texts and recent historical developments affecting the state of Israel. If the beginning of the End-Times fails to show in 1988, however, they are prepared to fall back on 2018.5 They are trying to set God’s timetable for him, and, like others before them, they are going to be wrong. Jesus makes that clear enough in Mark 13:32 "But of that ...
Sermon
James W. Robinson
... over "turf" or territorial rights. Then he got into music. He and his band became famous. They cut a million records, or more. They made a million dollars, or more. What so often happens on the road of success happened to him. He warded off the pressures of show business by turning to drugs and alcohol. He became their slave. "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin." But the man on television was no longer a slave. Not to drugs. Not to alcohol. The Christian-rock song that he ...
2863. A Way Back In
Isaiah 40:1-31
Sermon
Thomas D. Peterson
... he would wish to be loved himself. Never let another get so far out on a limb there’s no coming back in. Looked at in another way he built into circumstances and relationships those conditions which make for healing. His process did not call for a big show of forgiveness, as heroic as it might make him appear; rather it had much to do with profound understanding and deep compassion for others. Two human skills are required for us to help others find a way back in. One has to do with love. We treat them ...
Sermon
Thomas D. Peterson
... put it aside. The noise that interrupted his reading was from within. We see a picture, either a living one or on television. What we see in the picture or the scene is many times in the value we bring to it. For instance: when we look at a show of petty criminals who make their living on the street by procuring or pushing drugs, no matter how flashy their clothes or magnificent their autos, we see in them pathetic, misguided figures. We learn from sociologists that street-wise young people who view these ...
2865. A Streak of Common Sense
Deuteronomy 18:14-22
Sermon
Thomas D. Peterson
... built of twigs and repeats his request to come in. The pig refuses, so the wolf huffs and puffs and blows the house in. The second little pig is done for. A new long-range consequence had come to pass. Now we have to ask whether the two little pigs showed genuine common sense or not? Coming to the brick house the wolf calls out, is refused entrance, blows as hard as he can, but the brick house stays safe. Furious, the wolf comes down the chimney only to land in a kettle of boiling water set there for just ...
2866. Getting Together
Isaiah 51:17--52:12
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... the people came together for an occasion like a wedding or an anniversary or maybe a birthday, they played their castanets. Maybe only one man would begin to play, then someone else would start to play with him, and then another, and another until everyone was playing. Let me show you how we can do it. I will start to play my castanet. When I point to someone he must clap his hands with the same rhythm that I am playing. Pretty soon we will all be playing and the whole church will be filled with the joy of ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... He was a boy. Today, I brought a special instrument that I know Jesus listened to, but I am quite sure that He never used it. The name of this instrument is the tambourine and it is a rhythm instrument like the bells, the cymbals, and the castanet. Let me show you how you play the tambourine. (Shake it according to a rhythm that is fairly simple.) Now let me tell you why I know that Jesus never played the tambourine. We do not know just why, but the tambourine was only played by girls and women. Do you want ...
Drama
Marge Passamaneck
... you like them. NARRATOR: Susan and Tony found sets of coloring pens, joke and magic books, and bags of chocolates which looked like coins. TONY: These are great! Now I’ll be the funniest kid in the class. SUSAN: And I will be able to put on a magic show. Thanks! NARRATOR: Then Mr. and Mrs. Stein gave David a box. He tried to open it carefully, but his excitement was too great. He ripped the box open. Inside was a baseball mitt. DAVID: Oh, boy. My very own glove. NARRATOR: David put it on, pushing his fist ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... bowls with me and I am going to ask you to help me today, and every Sunday, collect some leftovers from all the people who come to church. Each Sunday, beginning today, I want you to pick up one of these bowls at the back of the church. I will show you a certain place to stand and wait for the people to fill your bowls with their leftover change that they can give you each week. We just want them to share the change that they do not need. It could be pennies, nickles, or dimes, sometimes even quarters. This ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... , and grass? Some children get so hungry they even eat dirt and sand. That sounds awful, but it is true. I want to talk to you about what we can do to help people like this so they will not be hungry. Today I want to show you something I am sure makes God very unhappy. (Show them the wormy apple.) Do you know what I have in my hand? (Let them answer.) That’s right, it is an apple; but it is not the kind of apple that most of you would eat of purpose. This apple is filled with worms ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... solid bronze casket equipped with a posturepedic, innerspring mattress. THIS is your life! And the tragedy is that we are close to believing it, this lie, this corruption, the diametric reversal of all for which the human heart really hungers. But things happen that show us how we have been lied to, and they confuse us. The nation mourned and wept as we buried three dead astronauts - that is, everyone wept except the other astronauts. They knew what the odds were when they volunteered. They warned us - yes ...
Sermon
William McKee Aber
... about the fight with the colleges where I said "we" won, "we" being a synod commission largely composed of white clergy. Too long we’ve said, "we," when we should have been listening to "them." That, too, is a change. Five years ago to say "them" was to show prejudice. The cry was to see the Negro as a person, as an individual with wants and hopes and dreams just like you and me, not as a part of a race. Today the cry is "Black Power" which means something very different to Eldridge Cleaver or Stokeley ...
Drama
William McKee Aber
... that job they counted on and I thought I was helping, you know, sharing with her, when I said I knew how she felt because you hadn’t gotten your raise ... (she reaches toward the wall) Wormwood: DON’T TOUCH! Never touch. Touching necessitates response, breaks walls, shows love. Be insulated, don’t talk about it.... Don’t touch! Christian: The wall is big enough by now so that he won’t see Sue’s hand reaching toward him. Jack: Ooops - there’s that ride now - I hear the horn - I wish Harry would ...
Drama
Gary C. Bratz
... You see, when God made the first man and woman, they were good people and had no sin. They were to love God and each other and live with God forever. But they disobeyed God. As a result they brought sin and death into the world. But even then God showed His love for Adam and Eve and for all people by promising to send a Savior. He said to them: Child: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and betwéenyourseed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." Pastor: And during ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... ! The young man had an answer. He asked for a coin. And I, standing so close, reached into my satchel and handed him one - one of the coins that we used for our travel to Jerusalem, not the kind we use here in the City. He took the coin and showed it to those about him. "Whose inscription is on it?" He asked. Of course everyone knew - and so did he. It was the image of Caesar. "Well," he responded, "Give to Caesar the things that belong to him, and (raising the pitch of his voice) give to God the things ...
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