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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3101. The Journey
Mark 8:27-36
Sermon
Will Willimon
... BMW campus and I can believe it looking at you. Just looking at you, I can tell that all of you are a success. Why would you all be on this campus if you were not successful, if you were not going on to successful careers on Madison Avenue or Wall Street? ''And yet here I stand, hoping to talk one of you into giving away your life in the toughest job you will ever have. I am looking for;·people to go into the hollows of West Virginia, into the ghettos of South Los Angeles and teach in some of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , he understands a little bit of the hope that Andy feels. He says, “I tell you, those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. For the briefest of moments,” says Red, “every last man at Shawshank was free.” (4) The prayers of Paul and Silas didn’t just give the prisoners a brief moment of freedom. They set all the prisoners free. Which led to the jailer and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and random strangers and everyone. Share it with your words. Share it with your actions. Share it with your life. God didn’t pour out the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus Christ, so we could keep God’s glory and power and love and truth inside these four walls. A Franciscan friar from the 14th century once said, “There is little good in filling churches with people who go out exactly the same as they came in; the call of the Church is not to fill churches but to fill heaven.” (7) I like that. “The ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... sitting there thinking, ''What's a person like me doing among people like these on a Sunday like this?'' I'm a preacher not a probation office. Finally, the meeting ended. I'm heading for the door and pass this unshaven, beefy sort of person propping up a wall who says to me, ''That was a killer sermon today." I was stunned. ''You, go to church?'' ''Sure. I'm there most every Sunday. Sit on the back row. George (he gestures toward this other unshaven sort of person in an inappropriate tee shirt next to him ...
Sermon
Schuyler Rhodes
... home last night and this guy cut me off at a stop light. The hand gesture I offered him definitely did not give witness to the love of Jesus. One of the profound things that happens in owning this is that we have, in effect, taken down the walls of our local church. Everything we do bears witness. Everything we do at the supermarket, at work, or on the road — everything. We can no longer come to our sanctuaries and act religiously for an hour or so before going back to business as usual. In this moment ...
3106. Secret Sauce
John 13:31-35
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . Love is the mortar that binds every stone that lies upon the cornerstone that is Jesus. As soon as love becomes peripheral and something else works its way into our foundation, our edifices begin to crumble and separate. Communities start building walls instead of bridges, barriers instead of entryways. Love seals. Mistrust divides. Love is Jesus’ secret ingredient. His “secret sauce.” No matter how hard loving is, it’s the goal that all Christians pursue in order to build the kind of community ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... I read that every one of those preachers (except for two) had been relieved of his pastoral duties. As a budding young preacher, I got the point! Jesus noted: Prophets who speak up, who stick out, get put out. So I've got my office wall filled with papers to demonstrate that I am accredited , approved by the academy, the bishop, my peers, Rotary, Educational T.V. Covered on all sides! Can't happen here? Academic Freedom? Ask some non-tenured, junior faculty member, here or anywhere else, if the academic ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and has been instrumental in starting similar ministries around the world. Dr. Schuller asked Mother Teresa for some words of wisdom for his ministry. He was so moved by what she said that he had her words engraved into a plaque which he hung on his office wall. Mother Teresa told Dr. Schuller, “Be all and only for Jesus. Let Him use you without consulting you first.” (6) “Be all and only for Jesus. Let Him use you without consulting you first.” That’s what it means to be dressed ready for service ...
3109. A VIP Seat
Luke 14:1-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... .’” What would change in our lives and in this church and in this community and in this world if all those who follow Jesus viewed life as a celebration? As an opportunity to love others as generously and joyfully as possible. An opportunity to tear down walls of prejudice and status and just celebrate each other. This isn’t a challenge to be nicer or more neighborly; this is a challenge to do what God does. God is love. And where love is present, joy is present. And that’s how celebrations begin ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... him back for good—no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother.” (vs. 15) Only God’s abundant grace can turn a sinner into a saint and a slave into a brother. Only grace can set us free from our past and dissolve the walls that divide us. And now here’s a little peek at the rest of the story. There is no known record of what happened to Philemon. How did he respond to this letter? Did Philemon forgive Onesimus and receive him as a brother? Did grace triumph? What do you think ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Jesus wants to get an important point across, he usually tells one, maybe two stories. Our chapter for this morning, Luke 15, is unique in that Jesus tells three stories on the same theme: God loves us unconditionally. Full stop. And not just us inside these church walls. God loves those of us who will never walk in the doors of a church. God loves us who have wandered away from Him. God loves us who aren’t even looking for Him. God loves us unconditionally. And if God loves us unconditionally, can’t we ...
3112. Brush It Off
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ? These are all experiences that challenge our ability to open up and be vulnerable with others. The more experiences of betrayal we encounter, the harder it becomes for us to reveal our tenderest and most injurable parts to others. Instead, we put up walls, blocks, and defenses that are designed to protect our vulnerable self from outside people and things that we believe could harm us. In our scripture for today, Jesus is challenging his disciples on their ability to be vulnerable in the face of rejection ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... in any dig of an ancient site are pottery sherds. Although they may turn up as broken pieces, still they last through centuries. So a “potter” was an important trade. Every town had a “potter.” The potter’s house lay outside of the city walls, usually down the valley, where the potter not only had his clay and wheels, but several kilns –outdoor fire pits that released large quantities of fire and black smoke into the air –not something you wanted inside the city center. Creating a piece of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to work and raise her family. She wrote a few years ago about a road trip she and her family took to the Grand Canyon when she was in between cancer treatments. Off Route 66, they stopped at a roadside chapel. The altar and the walls of the tiny, run-down chapel were covered with graffiti. As Bowler drew closer, she realized the graffiti was actually prayers scribbled by visitors to the chapel. Prayers like, “I miss you every day . . .” and . . . “Please let my daughter be the way she was before ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... You come to church searching for something, but you’re afraid to commit to anything. You’re afraid to let anyone get to know you. You’re afraid someone will discover that you’re “not a REAL Christian.” And there are plenty of people outside these church walls who feel that way. They think they have gone too far from God. The real tragedy is, someone in their life may have told them that. One of the most destructive lies we can believe about ourselves is, “I am not worthy of God’s love.” In ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to do, not what we feel. It’s what we do that reveals our true character and values and priorities. And we are also defined by what we choose NOT to do. In 1966, a young British woman named Jackie Pullinger became a missionary in the Walled City of Kowloon, a place in Hong Kong that was notorious for high rates of poverty, drug addiction and crime. The city was practically run by criminal gangs. Jackie, without any supplies or support of a mission agency, began walking the streets of Kowloon and sharing ...
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... . Having progressed a bit in his recuperation at the hospital, he wanted to see himself in the mirror. He recorded the sight he beheld: “One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength, I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eye, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”[4] Now let us look at World War II from a different perspective, namely from the point of view of a German officer ...
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... walker. One day, she walked over to see her dear friend, Nan. She and her husband had just become the proud parents of thirteen-month-old Evan. Lynne commented upon what she saw in her visit, “Evan is just learning to walk without the support of furniture or walls; he is beginning to walk completely on his own.” But because the young toddler learned to walk by holding the hand of his mom or his dad, he now walks with one arm held high while he uses the other to touch or grasp whatever interests him. It ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... been unwilling to be seen. Human nature can often cause us to “hide” ourselves from others. Sometimes, it may be because we feel we won’t be accepted for who we are. Sometimes, it’s as a result of past trauma or pain that we put up walls and barriers to protect ourselves. But whatever the reason, a great number of people in our world live solitary lives behind masks of their own making. “Hiding” is as old as humanity itself. Right at the beginning of the Bible in Genesis, we see Adam and Eve ...
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... violent persecutor of Christians to being the greatest evangelist of the Christian faith. In his letter to the church at Ephesus, he wanted to address some of the issues that were dividing the believers there. He needed them to understand that Jesus knocked down the dividing walls between us and made us all one with each other. In fact, he referred to believers as “one body.” In Ephesians 4: 3-6, he writes, “Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body ...
3121. The Succession
Matthew 11:2-11
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... his unique method of leading humanity toward redemption. To John and to everyone else Jesus will meet, Jesus will be a surprise, an odd conundrum of a man, who seems to go against the grain and every expectation anyone has of him. John, now trapped within prison walls, can no longer lead his disciples. His message has been delivered. His part of the mission has been completed. The Messiah in the person of Jesus has appeared and has begun to carry on the mission, John’s and his own.To whom exactly has John ...
Sermon
John Jamison
... on had drifted away to other things, and the animals had begun to settle back down in the straw. Mary was resting and the baby was sleeping soundly. Joseph looked around the room and let out a long, deep breath. “It was over.” He leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes, looking forward to a much-needed long night’s sleep. Then the angel showed up. We come together here after our week of celebrating one of the central holidays of our faith. And, as we gather, many of us have one key thought ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... Life, Group Publishing, 2016, Kindle version). Yet, do we really know who Jesus was? Do we really know? I remember the first time I saw a picture of Jesus. I was just a little boy in Sunday school drinking grape Kool Aid® and eating graham crackers. On the wall of the classroom was a sweet picture of Jesus with children all around him. He was smiling and looked like the nicest man in the universe. He looked like a divine Mister Rogers. He taught us to be kind to one another and to love everyone. I was ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... reading. Read 1 Peter 3:10-11. The writer of 1 Peter was quoting a psalm there. It seems like a tall task to always seek peace, especially when you are faced with a difficult person. When you are faced with that difficult person who is driving you up the wall, seeking peace is the last thing on your mind! How can you do it? Well, look at 1 Peter says next. 1 Peter 3:12a says: For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer (NIV). How do we repay evil ...
3125. Mandatum
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Sermon
Dr. Ronald Love
... to the altar without first seeking reconciliation with that individual? Remember, Paul was directing his letter to the Christians within the Corinthian congregation and not to those outside the church. Look to the individuals in the pews that surround you, not to anyone beyond the walls of this sanctuary. Who in this sanctuary must you make amends to? And if you answer no one, then beware of the awful ugly sin of self-righteousness. If you say no one, then perhaps you need to once again put on sackcloth and ...
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