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
Richard Gribble
... ourselves. We often hear, and probably have stated more than once, “If you want to get the job done, do it yourself.” Trusting another is difficult for it necessitates that we relinquish control of some action. We are always “hedging our bets,” worried that if we cede control to another, the chances that we will be disappointed grow exponentially. Thus, because too often people fail to meet our expectations, we have difficulty with trust. Yet, part of the challenge of being a Christian is to place ...
2877. Proclaiming Death
1 Corinthians 11:26
Sermon
Will Willimon
... student whom I had taught eight years ago. I hardly remembered him. In the letter he said, "Did you really mean it, that day in class when you told me, that I was too insensitive toward other people to be a good pastor? In seven years of ministry, I've worried about that." A casual remark! A comment! Eight years ago. Me, telling this kid he was insensitive! My Lord! If I can do that to another person when I'm not trying, a student whom I would like to help, God only knows what I can do when I'm ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... to my prayers and then you waited until I fell asleep. “You probably know why I am re-telling these events to you now. Very soon, God is going to send for you and take you to a new home. I am trying to tell you that you need not worry nor be afraid of the summons or of the strange journey or the dark messenger of death. God is love and can be trusted. God can be trusted to do more for you then you did for me so many years ago. So you can wait and not fear for ...
2879. Walking with God
Acts 2:1-21 · John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... and emotionally sound. Jesus knew that we walk crippled through this world, that most of the time, we are blinded by a thousand distractions that keep us from staying on the right path that leads us to the kingdom of heaven. Just as Jesus’ disciples worried when he was leaving them, because they felt lost without him, without guidance, without their sense of mission, without their compass for right and wrong, without a strategy or goal for the future and what they were called to do, and Jesus assured them ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... have become so cynical and fearful. We don’t really trust God’s goodness. We don’t trust that God knows our needs. And so we are stingy toward God, stingy toward others. We live with a constant sense of anxiety and weariness. Most of the worries that beset us would disappear in a moment if we could lean back and rest ourselves on the extravagance of God’s provisions for His children’s needs. A group of children was asked to describe what abundance means to them. Alison, age 7, said, “Abundance ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . We say, for example, that God is love—pure love, everlasting love, agape love—Who always has our best good at heart. But, in truth, most of us don’t really trust God with our future, our family, or our finances, do we? We lie in our beds at night worrying about what the next day will bring forgetting that he has taught us in Romans 8:28 that “all things work to the good for those who love Him.” We say that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, but we don’t believe it enough to actually ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... not saved by our success rate. We are not saved by our ability to meet our goals. We are not saved by our accomplishments or our achievements. We are saved by God’s grace, God’s unconditional love for us, and that is all. If we fail, we need not worry that our value as a human being is somehow going to be lessened, that God is going to love us less, that Jesus is going to reject us at the pearly gates. Our failures do not count against us. They are, as soon as we let loose of them, part ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... is sleeping through all of this! That in itself is incredible, isn’t it? He must have been exhausted! Or he knows all will be well. But he isn’t moving. So, the disciples wake him up. Why do they wake him up? They are terrified. They feel worried, insecure, unprotected, and their Lord and Savior it appears is out of touch. He is asleep! Out of sight and out of mind. Not paying attention to their needs, not focused on their fears. In the story of course, Jesus wakes, immediately calms the storm, and then ...
2884. The Oath
Mark 6:14-29
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... frightening, the ghosts that live in our hearts –the ghosts of deeds past. Our guilt, our shame, our fear, our self-loathing, our insecurities, our pain. Within our hearts, these negative thoughts and emotions take on lives of their own, causing us anxiety, worry, fear, and distress. In today’s scripture, we read about one of the most notorious and heinous crimes in the Bible: the beheading of John the Baptizer by the tetrarch Herod Antipater, 1st century ruler of Galilee and Perea at the goading of ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... t come from heaven. Please! Don’t make me laugh.” So, in verses 43-47 Jesus gets literal. He says what he means and he makes four important points: 1) Stop whining and complaining about the things I’m saying when you obviously don’t get it; 2) Stop worrying that I’m drawing people away from the one true religion. Anyone who follows me has been selected by God to follow me and they will be raised up on the last day; and 3) This is all according to scripture. Check out Isaiah 54:13 and Jeremiah 31 ...
2886. The Heart's Deceit
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Sermon
Lori Wagner
Rules. We need them. They are like guardrails for our safety, our well-being, and our peace of mind. What feels like a risky journey is made secure and free of worry by the guidelines, laws, and rules of our societies. When rules function as our boundaries, our structure to our otherwise aimless endeavors, they comfort us. But when our rules become our journey, our primary focus, the purpose for the trip itself, we have become prisoners of our own safety nets. ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... day in Hades because the man had great wealth and he ignored the needs of a beggar who lay at his gates. Jesus told his disciples not to be anxious about what they should eat, or what they should drink, or what they should put on. You are not to worry about these. You are to trust in God, not in your bank account. Jesus warned time and time again about reliance on money. He did not say that it is impossible for a rich man to get into heaven. There are many wealthy figures in the Old and New Testaments ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... me?” Which choice will lead to personal growth or wisdom? Which choice will make a greater positive impact on society? When you look back at the end of your life, which choice will leave a godly legacy? As Burkeman wrote, “. . . don’t worry about burning bridges: irreversible decisions tend to be more satisfying, because now there’s only one direction to travel– forward into whatever choice you made.” (4) Jesus is asking his followers to make an irreversible decision. To burn our bridges so that ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... the village.’” Then we get to what matters, when The Secret Man was finally ready to let the cat out of the bag. Jesus asked the disciples what people were saying about him. How were they identifying him? At first they hemmed and hawed, perhaps worried that they would get the wrong answer — Jesus was John the Baptist, or Elijah, or one of the prophets come back from the dead. But Peter gave the correct answer — Jesus was the Messiah. What does that mean? In that day there were many different brands ...
2890. Mary's Witness
Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)
Sermon
King Duncan
... and you will see that God never chooses the easiest path to accomplish His will. Jesus was born to a young couple who hadn’t even consummated their marriage yet. Don’t you think Mary and Joseph’s family and friends and neighbors wondered and worried and gossiped about Mary’s premature pregnancy? And Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod, a ruthlessly ambitious ruler who was willing to kill all the infant boys in the region to prevent any competition for his throne. What was God’s logic ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... to behave and stay out of the way of the important grownups. Suddenly he found himself at the center of attention. This child, at the bottom of the food chain, was raised to the status of the Son of Man, who sits in glory on a cloud. The disciples were worried about their place in the kingdom and they were asking the wrong question. In order to stand with the Son of Man, the suffering servant who would bear the sins of all for the glory of God’s kingdom, it was necessary to lose status, not gain it. In ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... old boy came bounding into the house one afternoon and found his mother upstairs in bed. He asked if she was sick or something. He was truly concerned. Mom replied that as a matter of fact, she didn't feel well at all. The boy replied, "Well, don't worry about dinner. I'll be happy to carry you down to the stove." See what I mean. Mothers are indispensable. Sure, kids brighten the home, but that's because they never turn off the lights. The truth is, we couldn't live without Mothers. And most of the time ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... for the slightest reason were opening themselves up to the charge of adultery. He therefore created a whole new case law for those who thought they could dispose of women on a whim. They couldn’t. Later, when his disciples in private seemed to worriedly ask about this, Jesus repeated what he had said. Whoever divorced their spouse and remarried is an adulterer. More insight can be gained by looking at the next four verses of today’s passage. People brought little children to Jesus, hoping for even a ...
2894. Down by the Riverside
Mark 1:4-11 · Genesis 1:1-5
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
In one of my favorite commentaries, the comic strip "Peanuts", Linus says to Charlie Brown: "I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today." To that, Charlie Brown responded: "No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better." Haven't you ever fellt like that? The Good News is that Jesus says "YES" even to our yesterdays. He accepts us ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... , pride, dignity and social standing. And what was it?ü The only thing that mattered to Jairus at that moment was the fact that his daughter was desperately ill, sick unto death. Jairus was no longer concerned about the social amenities. Jairus was only a desperately worried father seeking help and healing for his little girl. As the scripture says, he fell at Jesus' feet and begged him repeatedly, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well ...
2896. Are Ye Able?
Mark 10:35-45
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... , or white martyrdom, or whether we live a quiet peaceful life all our days, we are to follow the example of Jesus, serving others, living for others, and praising God. Are you able to do this? I think so. We can all do this. That’s because we’re not worried about whether we’re seated on the right hand or the left hand of Jesus when he returns in glory. If we follow Jesus we do it, not for the reward, but for the regard we bear toward Jesus, and the joy we find in serving him. We can all ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... his disciples. Notorious for saying and doing unexpected and unconventional things, Jesus was about as subtle as an earthquake. So, as they sat with him that day when he predicted that the monumental Jerusalem Temple would dissolve into rubble, they were worried but intrigued. Jesus had just finished an entire tirade of complaints against the Jewish institutional system, run as he saw it by power-hungry legalists, who were taking advantage of entire communities of faithful and obedient folk. Like Bond’s ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... old boy came bounding into the house one afternoon and found his mother upstairs in bed. He asked if she was sick or something. He was truly concerned. Mom replied that as a matter of fact, she didn't feel well at all. The boy replied, "Well, don't worry about dinner. I'll be happy to carry you down to the stove." See what I mean. Mothers are indispensable. Sure, kids brighten the home, but that's because they never turn off the lights. The truth is, we couldn't live without Mothers. And most of the time ...
2899. New Creations
2 Corinthians 5:6-10; 14-17
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... let out a sigh. Then he turned to the missionary and said, "It feels good to rest my whole weight on this chair." That's when the missionary realized how to describe faith. Faith is resting our whole weight on God. It is resting the weight of our cares and worries; the burdens of grief and sorrow, anguish and heartache and even our anger upon God. It is letting God bear the whole weight of our lives. That's what it means to walk by faith and not by sight. B. And we've seen how that is translated into ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... come forward for Holy Communion today, think about what you’d like to have changed in your life. Do you want to remove chains that bind you to an uncomfortable past? Do you want to remove guilt or shame that weighs upon your life? Do you want to remove worries or s tress that impedes your wellness and your growth? Do you want to remove doubt which inhibits you from your relationship with God? Do you simply want to remove mistakes that plague you and refuse to let you go? God can remove all of it in your ...
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