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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301. How Was Jesus' Death Different?
John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27
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... this time on, I cannot ever again sin lightly. I must hate and detest sin with a passion. I cannot do that to the One who loved me and gave himself for me. If God is the person on the central cross of Calvary, then a man must stand in awe and adoration. To think that he loved us enough to suffer all of that for sinners such as we! We look at the figure on the cross: a cross-crowned brow, a sweaty face, bleeding hands and feet. There is no beauty in him. He is despised and rejected. We ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... lumps of clay, until they turned into objects of beauty. Jeremiah must have wondered why the artist would often start over again with a pot or jar that looked perfect to the observer. We can imagine that the sensitivity of the potter’s eye and fingers awed the prophet, and that he was deeply impressed by the potter’s control over the clay as he molded and remolded it over and over again. As Jeremiah watched, he recognized the parallel between the potter and God, the clay and the people of Judah. "Don ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... out his irritation on the family, speaking sharply to Mrs. Miller and the children. That night, as he was tucking the same five-year-old into bed, he began the prayer. "Dear God, forgive me for being so fussy at dinner tonight." There was a kind of awed silence. Then very quickly, his little girl went through the familiar "Now I lay me" and the usual God blesses. The next night it happened that Mr. Miller was again irritable when he came home and showed his irritation at dinner. As he was having his nightly ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... , calling us into oneness with him, into a relationship even more binding than marriage. Our fickle spirits too often corrupt this relationship, but even so, our God is still the God who stands ready to welcome us back, to buy us back, to renew the first commitment. It awes me to think of a God who could destroy us because we deserve it, yet who stoops down to beseech us, who waits for us to come home. If only we could remember that ... The closing words of Hosea’s prophecy sound like the closing words of ...
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... as the Iliad and the Odyssey that inner voice we all have was unknown as a conscience - they called it the voice of the gods. They were not far wrong. Think of the mind's awareness of an order to existence beyond our five senses, our ability to awe and wonder, our urge to worship so all civilization has some diety. How could this longing be just an unsatisfiable illusion? Hasn't God, instead, stamped his divine image on us? He made people, said Paul, "that they should seek God in the hope they might feel ...
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... children, no matter what they have done. One has the feeling, "We can always go home ... he’ll never turn us away." It’s an attitude of easy complacency: everything will be okay in a couple days. This is the shallowness of popular religion. There is no sense of awe, no sense of wonder, no sense of guilt. There is nothing but the carefree assumption that God is ready at any time to welcome those who return to him with open arms. God is as dependable as each day’s sunrise and as the spring rains. It is ...
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Dean Lueking
... in his early 30s, suffering from a tumor deep into the core of the brain. Step by step the preparation proceeded, until the area of the skull immediately over the diseased section was opened and laid back. Then it was visible - the brain. It is a sight to inspire awe. I mention it to you for that reason, not to make our stomach queasy at the thought. The brain is the most complex of all the things that God has created; nothing in the entire universe can match it. The brain weighs just over three pounds I am ...
308. Proper 14
Lk 12:32-48 · Gen 15:1-6 · Jer 18:1-11 · Heb 11:1-3, 8-19
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John R. Brokhoff
... :1-3, 8-19 A Possible Series of Four Sermons on Hebrews: Pentecost 12 - 11:1-3, 8-19 - Abraham and Sarah exemplify faith. Pentecost 13 - 12:1-2, 12-17 - Life is a race with Jesus as the goal. Pentecost 14 - 12:18-29 - Worship God with reverence and awe. Pentecost 15 - 13:1-8 - Jesus Christ is forever the same. 1. Now Faith Is. 11:1-11. Need: Faith is a word used daily by most people. What do they mean by faith? You can have faith in yourself, in others, in a machine. Is this the same as ...
309. Walk in Light
Isaiah 2:1-5
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... waters of New York State’s Lake George, looms Black Mountain, the highest of the mountains guarding that deep, clear lake. I spent five summers on that lake as a seminarian, traveling many times, as the Iroquois once traveled, under the shadow of that awe-inspiring peak. The winding trail from the lakeshore to its summit has felt the rough leather boots of hikers of a century ago and the soft deerskin moccasins centuries before that. Along the trail runs a brook filled with rainbow trout. Occasionally a ...
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... story of Abraham includes various references "And Abraham built an altar there" at Shechem, at Bethel, at Hebron. The commitment of obedience and trust is worship - always. How can one possibly acknowledge the God-man relationship with the expression of awe primarily in the act of worship? Perhaps this becomes the acid test of religious life today. The most recent estimates among the so-called "moderate Protestants" in America indicate that only forty-one percent of those professing church affiliation are ...
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... ." We look up to God in reverence. He stands beside us in support. We stand with him in faith. He continually sends to us, comes to us in loving grace, always giving, giving, and giving! His giving is never more evident than in and through his Word, awe inspiring, spoken, remembered. "... And the Lord (whatever his position) stood above it and said, ‘I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac’ ..." (Genesis 28:13) One could put a comma after "I am," and, "the Lord," and see the ...
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... eternal "other," who at the same time revealed himself as "person" to be addressed and to bear a relatedness to creation, including all of nature and mankind. As one is confronted by the eternal "Thou" how can there be any response except the sense of awe and reverence! It is precisely at this crucial juncture in Jesus’ ministry, dealing with the sons of Israel, that he identified himself as one with God the father with the same words God gave to Moses at Midian: "Before Abraham was ‘I am.’ " Little ...
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James G. Cobb
... this time in prayer, but with command and authority, he spoke a rebuke to the winds and the sea. To the surprise of all the disciples, Hoefler writes, "Jesus acted like God and spoke like God" and the flailing forces3 there, even of nature obeyed him. They were awed and now even shocked or fearful in a new way, exclaiming unto themselves, "Who is this that even the winds and the sea obey him?" The word from St. Mark’s Gospel leaves no doubt: this is the God who has come to live and dwell among us; this ...
Children's Sermon
... almost completely calm. What a relief, they thought. We are going to live. But then they thought about what they had just seen. Jesus had spoken to the sea and it behaved for him. Even the wind and the water listened to Jesus. All of the disciples were tilled with awe for they knew only God could make the winds and the water do what he wanted them to do. That was the day that God, in Jesus, worked on the water in the same way you and I can work on a squeaky hinge. We can’t do it to ...
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... ! The Church then replies as did Martin Luther, that no one can understand or adequately explain the natures of Christ because it is simply one of the great mysteries of our faith. It is something that Scripture affirms as true while we simply stand in awe, trying to illustrate it and symbolize it, even though we cannot explain it. But we believe that Jesus of Nazareth was, at the same time, fully human and fully divine. Now, when some people read the Gospel narratives, they try to divide the events of ...
Drama
... but somehow, I believe the Messiah holds me. (Lays the baby back in the manger, turns to the rest.) Come, we must let the Holy Family rest. I have a feeling they will need it before the world is through with them! (All leave looking at Aaron with awe and disbelief. Aaron, Cornelius, Adam and Lela are last to leave.) Cornelius: Is that your uncle? Adam: Yes. Remember Papa said we could not be in the presence of God without it making a difference. Lela: I sure hope it makes a difference to the world. I wish ...
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... way the Maker made us. That’s our role, our function, our gift: to dance on the wings of the air; to play tag with dandelion seeds; to soar; to dart; to float; to light on a single blade of grass to the delight of all who see; to inspire awe and wonder; to fascinate; to add a note of grace to this world’s dreary song." "Oh, how very poetic of you," said the second. "And also very naive. There’s death and danger all about us, every moment. It’s all we can do to remain inconspicuous and look ...
318. The Seven Stars
Revelation 1:9-20
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... them aside somewhere. It must be an extremely important activity to hold seven stars in one's hand. But to hold these is not nearly so important to the Lord Christ as it is to touch with blessing a solitary human person who is bowed before him in adoration and awe. Here is the kind of Lord we worship - one who can put aside the care of stars in order to care for one person who comes in reverence to him. Know this, dear friend: whatever else in the whole universe may be of concern to our Lord just now ...
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Donald Dotterer
... in the way an individual lives his or her life. It is the tremendous mystery of God's presence in which he makes himself present to his children. When a person has this direct encounter with God, he is overcome with a deep feeling of reverence, awe and fascination. The person also feels a great sense of energy all around. Those who work with the healing ministry of the church recognize that the contact point with God's healing power is the personal desire to tap into that omnipresent divine energy. O how ...
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Harold Warlick
... ' dis way, an awful long time. Is it somethin' serious, Lawd?" God responds: "Very serious, Gabriel. Look at my chillun down there on earth. They's killing one another. Stealin' from and lying' to each other. They's committin' adultery and runnin' after money. My heart's broken." Gabriel is awed by his tone. He knows the Lord just can't take it any more. "Lawd, is de time come for me to blow de horn? Just say the word, Lawd. Just snap you finger and I'll blow de horn. We'll wipe 'em all out dead right now ...
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Various Authors
... to Mephibosheth, because most of us are crippled in some way: maybe in spirit, maybe in morals, maybe in commitment. But we are still treated as a child of the King. Each time I take the bread and the cup in Holy Communion I am awed by the symbolism of that Sacrament. But what surprises me even more was the Master taking the towel and the basin that Thursday evening and washing the feet of those "crippled disciples." His acceptance of Judas with his greed, of Peter with his impulsiveness, of Nathanael ...
322. Repentance
Matthew 3:1-12
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... , we could see the lit skyline of Bethlehem where Mary had gone to give birth. While standing in Shepherd's Field, we sang the songs of Christmas, participated in the liturgy, and heard the proclamation of the Word. It was one of those rare moments when life was filled with awe and mystery. As I worshiped, I did not look up to God and say, "God, look at how virtuous I am." Nor did I utter, "God, pat me on the back for all the good things that I have done." I did not pretend by saying, "God, look at all ...
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Brett Blair
... that reminds us on a daily bases that we are servants in this world. It is easy in times of plenty to forget. When all is right with the world, the law of averages predicts that all will be wrong with us. When we cease to feel anything less than AWE at the wonder of creation… and when we feel that GOD the Father has human instead of divine attributes…when we think of God framed by the perspective of our puny experiences… then we forget that we are God’s creatures. What do we have as a claim upon God ...
Drama
... holy Son of God. Messiah? Is my child to be the promised Messiah? Is God choosing me as a vehicle for the Blessing of the ages? I was humbled and frightened but I said, "Let it be to me according to your word." As I struggled to take in the awe of this experience I felt the light stream in and through me ... over and above me. I was totally absorbed in the light. And, then the light was gone. It was dark ... night ... silent. I heard my family coming indoors. I lay down on my cot trying to understand what ...
Drama
... the smoky outdoor smells. It was there in the stable that my strong Joseph midwifed the child Jesus, who cried loudly when he was born. We cleaned him, and wrapped him in the soft cloths I had brought with us. As I cradled him gently in my arms, I was awed by his beauty. A sense of joy and wonder filled me. I looked up at Joseph, and I was touched to see a tear trickling down his cheek.
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