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. Saint and Sinner
Romans 3:21-31
Sermon
Scott Suskovic
... the idea. It's from the Bible. It is the simple plan of salvation reduced to some easy-to-follow steps. It works for alcohol and, more importantly, it works for this bondage we call sin. Step One: Admit that you are powerless over sin. Let's take off the mask. Let's stop playing games. Let's no longer pretend we are actually nice people and God is going to grade on a curve. I may not be perfect, I may not be a Mother Teresa, but compared to the other people I know, I am pretty decent. Nonsense! Stop ...
302. Sarah
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
Sermon
Scott Suskovic
... to live with it, even learn how to ignore it. This movie depicts mental illness more like a bad back or diabetes or alcoholism. It never goes away but you learn ways to cope with it. That might work with diabetes or depression. We might have wonderful drugs to mask the problems of anxiety or support groups to deal with addiction or exercises to ease lower back trouble. But when it comes to my guilt, I don't want a drug or a coping mechanism. I don't want to have to learn how to live with unresolved guilt ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... German satirist Georg Lichtenberg called the human face “the most entertaining surface on earth.” How could we possibly resist pursuing and endlessly perusing an online site called “Facebook?” We recognize friends — and enemies — by their face. Bank robbers wear masks to hide their faces, knowing full well that, no matter how clear the pictures of their bodies might be, without a full view of their face, they cannot be accurately identified. When the Protestant Reformers came across images of ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... ointments for anointing the dead, the only thing on the minds of these women on Easter morning is death, and on the things death requires. They are focused on the tomb. They fixate on the grave clothes. They savor the scents they are bringing to mask the stench of death. These women are immersed in the culture of death. They are concerned only with “things” of death. They are preoccupied with those objects they can lay their hands on. They do not have any expectation of encountering a “someone,” of ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Be Jesus. Be Jesus to someone. There is a phrase that you hear only infrequently anymore: “scared the bejesus out of me.” The phrase originated in England in the 18th century, and was originally “by Jesus.” Because you could be arrested for blasphemy, you masked your profanity and said: “By God I did this” or “By God I promise that.” By saying “scared the byjesus out of me,” and eventually “scared the bejesus out of me,” you were admitting that this event was so frightening it was ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Of course, as the prince, he could order her to the palace and command her to be his wife. But what kind of marriage would that be? Again, he thought that he might masquerade as a peasant. Then when he had won her interest he would pull off his mask, as it were, and reveal his true identity. Such trickery, however, did not appeal to the prince. Finally he hit upon the most noble solution of all. He would lay aside his kingly robe. He would move into her neighborhood. He would take up a vocation . . . say as ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to hear an “Amen” from some of the women. One of the surprise off-Broadway hits this year was titled Old Jews Telling Jokes. It boasted an interesting story line old Jewish people who tell jokes. Here’s one of them: During a bank robbery, the robber’s mask falls off. He puts it back on, turns to a man, and says, “Did you see my face?” The customer says, “Yes, I did.” The robber shoots him. He turns to a woman, “How about you?” She says, “No. But my husband did.” (2) One woman says ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... distribute to the girls working in New Orleans strip clubs. She didn’t need help making the trip. She was only asking for a few dollars toward preparing the gift bags. Inside the gift bags would be such things as a bottle of bubble bath, a sleep mask, and other thoughtful gifts that she felt these girls would appreciate. And, inside each gift bag there would be a personal note from Susan telling her personal story of how she once was where these girls are, and how Christ had touched her and healed her of ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... for our government. He says plainly in verse 6, “This is also why you pay taxes.” (Romans 13:6, NIV) I realize for many taxes is a touchy subject. Nobody likes to pay taxes. I don’t and you don’t. Late one night a mugger wearing a ski mask jumped into the path of this well-dressed man and stuck a gun in his ribs. He said, “Give me you money!” Indignantly the affluent man responded, “You can’t do this. I am a United States Congressman!” “In that case”, the mugger replied, “Give me my ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... kill himself. And instead he spent the remainder of his years leading people around him to eternal life in Christ. Only Jesus could have done that! Pacey died of lung cancer. Near the end he had gotten to the point that he could only breathe 60 seconds without an oxygen mask. His wife said the day he died, that with his last breath and last words he led his own nurse to Jesus Christ. God took a heart as hard as a rock and made it a heart as soft as a pillow. Our job is to sow. God’s job ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... lives, transformers of hopes, transformers of dreams, transformers of the world they lived in. Today, the day after “All Saints Day,” the gospel text is once again warning us about the poison of pretense, the mistake of wearing masks of piety. Jesus concludes his series of confrontations with various establishment groups of the religiously “large and in charge” the Herodians, the Scribes, the Pharisees with an especially pointed accusation aimed at the Pharisees. The Pharisees were learned religious ...
Sermon
Craig MacCreary
... tree lit. Candles would have been safer than the wiring, plugging, and jiggling that I did. Yet, like the church, we somehow managed to survive during the years. On the other hand, there is the more dangerous problem of a flickering light that may mask something seriously wrong. Short-term solutions may even add to the problem. That seems to be the kind of crisis that the Thessalonians were facing. They were among the earliest of Paul’s church plantings and the letter we have is perhaps the earliest ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... as we would like, or some equally inane slip-up. I mean fail in a way we desperately want to hide. Fail in a way that we are embarrassed. When this happens, we too face the choice: either to try and hide and pretend nothing happened by putting on masks to cover our reality; simply to give up on trying to live Christian lives and walk away; or the initially very difficult and courageous option to face up to what we have done. In the end these are the only options. The biblical option is clear. The Bible ...
Eulogy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
... -like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o’er the world’s wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII. A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift - A Love in desolation masked; – a Power Girt round with weakness; – it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; – even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... A priest from the Soviet Eastern Orthodox Church, upon hearing Gagarin’s statement, replied, “If you have not seen Him on earth, then you will never see Him in heaven.” Someone else sarcastically opined that if he had stepped out of his space capsule without an oxygen mask, he would have seen God in just a few moments time. We understand what the priest was saying. If you are determined to shut God out, then no amount of evidence will be enough to satisfy your demands, but for most of us, to deny God ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... so easy to be thankful at Christmas, isn’t it? We have so much. Santa Claus will reward us with so many nice things. The stores are filled this year with symbols of our material affluence. But for some people material affluence only masks spiritual poverty. They grasp at things external because internally they are paupers. “Do not be anxious about anything but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Could you give thanks this Christmas if some of ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
... every day that woman has come to worship her own image.” Pride has an insidious quality. It germinates a healthy self-confidence. Then, if left to grow, unchecked and unexamined, it spreads and transforms into the worship of self. In doing so, pride masks reality. No matter how capable we might become, we remain mortals, subject to all the faults and frailties of humanity. Pride deludes us into thinking we are God's equal. In his work, Ozymandias, the great English poet, Percy Shelley,[3] writes of the ...
318. The Kings Golden Tomb
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... and found another within it. They opened up the second, which was covered with gold leaf, and found a third. Inside the third casket was a fourth made of pure gold. The pharaoh’s body was in the fourth, wrapped in gold cloth with a gold face mask. But when the body was unwrapped, it was leathery and shriveled. Whether we are trying to cloak a dead spiritual life, or something else, in caskets of gold to impress others, or maybe to impress those in the afterlife, the beauty of the exterior does not change ...
319. Boasting
2 Corinthians 11:1-15, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... . 4:7–5:15; 10:10). Yet it is difficult to imagine how the opponents may have been disguised in a literal sense. Perhaps we may think of a glorified outward appearance either through ornamentation, (priestly?) vestment (cf. M. Himmelfarb), or even masking. As we have seen, the merkabah mystic was considered to have had an experience that altered his physical appearance. Hence, the verb in our passage may carry with it the literal sense of physical transformation, even if the primary sense is metaphorical ...
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... in their preaching style. Flattery (kolakeia) implies manipulation—it is flattery designed to achieve the flatterer’s ends, a common enough feature of public speaking in both Paul’s day and our own. The second charge that Paul disavows is that they put on a mask to cover up greed. It may have been common knowledge that Paul received gifts from Philippi. This may have led some to conclude that he had come to Thessalonica hoping for some more of the same (cf. Phil. 4:15f.). Later, this same motive is ...
Understanding Series
Peter H. Davids
... what you want). Rather than reexamine the desire, the person in its grip resorts to slander and verbal abuse of those who do have (“murder” in the metaphorical sense). This is accompanied by jealousy (as in 3:14), which may appear friendly on the surface but masks a struggle for power. Personal rivalry leads to party struggles: You quarrel and fight. The words of 3:16 have come true in the community: it is full of disorder. Yet even with all the intrigue, the end result is not obtained: You do not have ...
Understanding Series
Timothy S. Laniak
The Jewish Response II: Esther’s Plan for Haman: As we have seen, banquets (feasting/drinking) occur at pivotal moments in the book of Esther and they regularly mask deeper realities. Vashti was deposed as a result of her insubordination during the public banquets of chapter 1. Esther is crowned as Vashti’s replacement during a banquet in chapter 2, but her identity is kept secret throughout (2:18–20). Haman dined with the king in a sinister, private ...
Understanding Series
Pamela J. Scalise
... and quiet. He fought for two years to overcome the forces of the usurper Gaumata and to establish his reign. The Lord, however, is angry with the conditions that his observers have found. The angel/messenger of the Lord responds to the genuine distress masked by the report of “all’s quiet” by praying on behalf of God’s needy people. Addressing God as “LORD Almighty,” the name that is especially associated with Yahweh’s presence at the temple, the angel/messenger laments, “how long will you ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
Object: A costume or mask Boys and girls, how many of you like to dress up as someone else? Of course we put on costumes for Halloween, but sometimes we may dress as a cowboy or we may put on our mother's clothes and make-up just for the fun of it. In fact ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
Object: An egg Good morning, boys and girls. If I brought with me a firecracker this morning, what holiday would you think of? That's right, the Fourth of July. How about if I wore a mask? That's right, Halloween. How about a turkey? That's right, Thanksgiving. How about brightly colored lights? Christmas. How about this egg? That's right, Easter. There are many things we can do with an egg. We can break it and eat it, can't we? Some of us like ...
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