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. The Church
Galatians 6:1-10
Bulletin Aid
... a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself or you may also be tempted. Women: Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Men: We do not press towards the mark alone. We must help one ... wise if he compares himself with others. All: Father, keep us from being too good to bear one another’s burdens, too good to be part of the group. While we are not saved by going to church, we are saved in your church. Draw us closer to one another by drawing ...
Children's Sermon
... on ourselves as we try to help them. When we do that, we discover that this person, and this person’s problem, is not heavy - because this person has become our brother or sister. Jesus said one time, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." When we help someone carry their load, we are letting Jesus love them through us. Prayer: Let’s pray together. O God, help us to understand that many times people we know need your help, and that often it comes through us. In Jesus’ name. Amen Thank you ...
303. Palm · Passion Sunday
Isaiah 50:1-11, Psalm 31:1-24, Matthew 27:11-26, Matthew 27:32-44, Matthew 27:45-56, Matthew 21:1-11
Sermon Aid
... the Easter celebration. Simply tell the passion week story. Tell it simply! Matthew 21:1-11 - "The Triumph and the Terrible Tree." 1. Jesus entered the Holy City in triumph, seated on a lowly beast of burden - a strange sort of entry for royalty; five days later he left the city, became a beast of burden himself who carried his own cross - and the sins of the world - to Calvary. 2. He deserved every accolade he received - the shouts of Hosanna, the palm branches, the clothing strewn in his path, because he ...
304. For Freedom!
Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon
... use the gifts we’re given to accomplish what God wants accomplished, only as long as we use all things for their intended purpose. Additionally, we could have been placed here on the condition that we will have to repay God for his goodness. Such a burden would destroy the strongest of us. In his wisdom, God lets us call him Father (even "Uncle Max" is not a title intimate enough to suit our good Creator). God releases us from such a bondage. Rather than maintain a universe driven by fear and guilt, Our ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... understanding how heavy this staggering weight was to Jesus. We sin, often easily and casually, but we don’t always feel it. As an Indian evangelist was preaching, a flippant youth interrupted him. "You talk about the burden of sin," he sneered. "I feel none. How heavy is the burden? Eighty pounds? Ten pounds?" The preacher answered, "Tell me, if you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?" "No, because it’s dead," replied the youth. The preacher replied, "That spirit ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... is about to kill him. It is a dark and dreary picture of total defeat. God helped Elijah overcome the blahs by letting him tell of his problems. It does us good, too, to share our burdens with God and with a friend. By doing so, we get it out of our systems, and the listener helps to carry the burden of concern. This is one way we can help the discouraged. Just lend an interested and sympathetic ear to troubled people. Ann Landers reports that she receives daily thousands of letters from people who need to ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... after creating the world, God withdrew to his heaven and let the world run on its own steam? The Bible claims, as in our text, that God does care about us even to the point of delivering us from our woes: "I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm ..." Peter affirms this when he writes, "Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you." Living in a world that does not give a damn whether we ...
308. Pardon for Sin
Romans 5:12-21
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Dennis Kastens
... sins, according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded toward us." (Ephesians 1:6, 7) That is, of course, the most profound message in all of history, namely, that God left heaven to come here to this earth in the person of Christ to take the full burden of our sins and to bear it as our substitute upon the cross, that we might not have to bear it through eternity in condemnation. And yet how easy it is for us to overlook this truth, probably for two reasons: (1) We think our being saved has to ...
Sermon
Robert G. Tuttle
... asks when you are coming back ... I want you to know we pray for you each night at fellowship. We still see you sitting here with us, shorts, t-shirt, and pipe ... we are close these days ... just like you wanted it to be. We carry each other’s burdens ... we love and miss you more than you realize. God bless you ... (signed) Paul." This all grew out of Christ’s caring, Paul’s caring, God’s caring, and it is spreading throughout the world. We are called to be the agents of God’s caring. This is ...
310. THE ART OF EXPRESSING LOVE
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John H. Krahn
... to give yourself to another person, not for your sake but for his sake. Love regulated by another person’s response is not love at all. Love, in its purest form, is outwardly-directed rather than inwardly-directed. When another person’s burden becomes more important than your burden, that is the beginning of love. Love is from God. Paul recognizes this as he writes in 1 Thessalonians 3:12, "And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men ..." The Lord gives ...
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Raymond Gibson
... he could "do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13 KJV). Yes, Paul knew, but how often do we Christians forget that joy today? For many folks today, religion is a burden, a chore, a have-to sort of discipline. Many people today look upon their Christian responsibilities as burdens rather than as opportunities. During a recent Sunday in my own church, I overheard snatches of three conversations in the hallway outside my study. One layman said to another, "Well, I wanted to play ...
312. Issachar
Genesis 49:1-28
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Warren Thomas Smith
... thousands of indifferent nobodies. God’s causes are never destroyed by being blown up, but by being sat upon.2 Issachar cried for ease, not opportunity. Better to have slavery with bed and board than freedom with responsibility. Better a dull burden on the back than a painful decision on the mind. When individuals refuse to think, there are always outsiders who gladly assume the thinking for them. "Intellectual garbage cans," is what a college professor called her students. "No independent thought; just ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... direct your path. The Bible promises, “In all things acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” When life breaks your heart, Jesus will be there, saying, “Come unto me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11: 28) “Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.” (Psalm 55:22) On November 19th of last year, a great lady of faith in Christ Church, Mrs. Julia Atkinson, transferred from earth to heaven. I remember visiting her in October ...
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Leonard Mann
... , he would; and that since he had to make this kind of world he must share it. That’s why I tried to show my Harvard student that God has no need to forgive himself. He is not afar off watching. He lives on Main Street. He bears our burdens, and other burdens which we only dimly guess. We may not know, we cannot guess What pains He had to bear. We only know it was for us He hung and suffered there. That word "dwell" refers to the Ark of the Covenant, leading the journey of Israel by day, keeping watch ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... far countries of our own making. But we have come home. And in coming home, we want to be able to say, "I’m sorry." With that humility, God’s love goes to work. Yes, we do need to say we are truly sorry in order to release the burden of our guilt, to acknowledge outwardly what we know inwardly, to present him with our worst, in order not to presume on his love. And having made our confession, we are able to accept his forgiveness which is freely given to all who come in penitence. Repentance is saying ...
316. Cross-Bearing
Matthew 16:21-28
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... enemy, submitting our lives to God, standing up for social justice, suffering hurt and embarrassment, being the salt and the leaven and the comfort of life. He is sitting on a powder keg whose fuse has been lighted. He is draining the blood of the men who bear the burdens for him. It is inescapably hard to follow Jesus, but sooner or later we shall find that, in a world like our own, it is even harder not to follow him. Those are the ways that Jesus says we are to live in our Christian life - by following ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... to be. We live in a world of dangerous complexities. Near Baltimore, Maryland, a few years ago, one of our fast military planes fired its guns at a make-believe target straight ahead, overtook its own bullets in flight, and shot itself down. Often we are laden with burdens that wear our lives away. During a lull in a World War II battle, a 35 year old American soldier wearily said to his buddy, "This is a young man’s war." His nineteen year old buddy sighed and said, "Yes, I suppose it is; but as soon ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... , you will see it whole, you will see all of it. For here in the gospel is a piece of good news which makes a mighty difference, powerful, dynamic. Let me tell you a story, a very personal one, if I may. One year just before Easter I was burdened with work, weighed down with responsibility, beset with difficulty - or so I thought. I was bone weary and mentally tired. In this condition I went one day alone into a room to preview a motion picture film on the resurrecton of Jesus. Sitting there in the dark, I ...
319. Reverence For Life
Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... assistance with adoption. We must help young women see that there is a better option than abortion for unacceptable pregnancies. Let me offer a word to those women or couples who have had abortions. God still loves you. If you are burdened by guilt about an abortion, God is so very eager to lift your burden. All you have to do is to say sincerely, "I'm sorry; please forgive me." Not only will God forgive; he will teach you to forgive yourself. Then he will commission you as a kind helper of all other women ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... and your wisdom don't agree, your way, Lord, is What I Want. In the final analysis, Jesus prayed in Gethsemane because the cross was too heavy to bear alone. Life delivers to all of us some burdens and problems and decisions that we cannot manage alone. We are driven to God, to that one who declared, "Cast your burdens upon me and I will sustain you." A few months ago one of you shared with me a wonderful declaration of faith written by a friend. This person was diagnosed with cancer several Years ago and ...
321. Chapter IV
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... . In it you will not do any work, you or your son, your daghter, your male servant or your female servant, or your beast of burden, or the resident alien who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all ... in such a pattern, on me, at least, its value was lost. When the Commandment was given its intent was not to lay another burden on the backs of already overburdened people. The "setting aside" of the sabbath day was done by God to give his people a chance ...
Sermon
Michael J. Anton
... cheat, I am a liar, I am a scandal-monger, I am jealous, I do covet what my neighbor has." Confession is more than something that’s good for the soul. More than what the psychologist calls catharsis, a freeing of the mind of those things that burden us. Confession is the door by which we enter the real world. Confession is not muttering, "Well, I’m really not so bad." Confession is knowing and saying and believing how bad I really am. A lady told me the other day of her experience immediately following ...
323. It Isn't Fair!
Matthew 20:1-16
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Brett Blair
... s field, it is simply the inner satisfaction that we receive from being in God’s employ. But we are so much like those all day laborers. Notice how they worded it: we carried the burden in the heat of the day. Isn’t that precisely so often how we look upon service in the church: Not a joy, not a privilege but a burden to carry in the heat of the day? Clearly when Simon Peter asked Jesus what they were to receive from the Kingdom, he had in mind something a little more substantial than inner satisfaction ...
324. Comfort
Isaiah 40:1-31
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Frederick C. Edwards
... one of the most important. Think of how wonderful it is to make persons strong enough to bear whatever are the burdens of their lives. That kind of miracle happens all the time. Some of you know about that from personal experience because it has happened to ... you. To be strong to bear one’s burdens doesn’t sound like much of a miracle. Comfort doesn’t mean the situation will become easy. The alcoholic will still have to ...
Sermon
Carl E. Zahrte
... have people laugh at you or mock you. And he often waits to hear from you, to have you come to him with your fears and burdens and talk to him. Some of you may do that every day. Some of you may have tried a few times, and then maybe thought it ... it in linen cloths. We women watched at the entrance to the tomb, and as the men rolled that heavy stone into place, we felt another burden of grief roll over us. Jesus, our dear friend and master was dead. All the hopes that he had aroused in our hearts seemed to ...
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