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 Word of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... man and God is a barrier, the cross removes it. Man stands accused before the judgment throne of God, the cross acquits him. Man is an enemy of God, the cross brings peace. Man is a slave, the cross buys his freedom. Man has lost his filial status, the cross brings about adoption as a child of God. The apostle is speaking from personal experience, the experience that changed the most vehement enemy of the church into its most effective missionary. This was not just a man getting hold of a new idea. It was ...
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... spirit, doing it to glorify God, and you will be making a profound contribution to the world. We have previously talked about this. (See the sermon for Proper 21.) We Christians can also contribute to the welfare of the world in a very special way by virtue of our status of being in, but not of the world. Because we are aliens in the world, sort of like those exiles in Babylon to whom Jeremiah wrote, we may be less prone to work only for ourselves. After all, as aliens we can never make the world our own ...
303. Mary's Complaint
Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... before the due date, the problem of awful accommodations, the pains of the birth itself, and the lack of privacy after it was all over, Mary might have figured on the right to EXPECT that things would begin to start going her way. After all, how much "favored" status should one person be expected to endure? But there was more to come. Word came to Mary and Joseph that King Herod had gotten wind of the fact that there was a pretender to his throne recently born in Bethlehem, and jealous of his own power as ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and prejudice. He found that a majority of churchgoers ” of whatever religion ” were what he came to describe as extrinsically religious. The extrinsically religious person uses religion. Going to church for extrinsically religious people is useful to boost one's status, to bolster self-confidence, and to win friends, gain power, and have influence. Allport found that these people use their religious belief as a defense against reality. Most often, they use it as a super-sanctioning of their own formula ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . We are all sinners saved by grace. None of us is superior to any other in God's eyes. We cannot earn God's favor. God's grace is a call to humility. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD'S GRACE IS ALSO A CALL TO COMPASSION. Once we admit our status as sinners saved by grace then we can look with compassion on others and understand that they too are fellow strugglers. Rather than divide the world into two camps, the deserving and the undeserving as many are prone to do, we can move towards acceptance of those who have ...
306. Designer Religion
Matthew 23:1-39
Sermon
King Duncan
... ’t enjoy being called Doctor? We all play silly games like that. We are all peacocks at heart. We love to strut our stuff. Indeed, such games motivate many of us to excel. Would we work so hard if we weren’t hung up on money or status? Probably not. Our communist friends in the early days of that movement tried to motivate people to produce strictly out of loyalty to society. It didn’t work. It never does. We need rewards. We need recognition. We need the fancy cars and the big houses. Nevertheless ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , "to have fellowship with the King of Kings is far better than to have a specific request granted." (1) We are such self-centered creatures. You may be familiar with a recent publication entitled, THE STATUS BOOK. In it the author, Gary Blake, tells us how to be "one-up"on our neighbors. He suggests some surefire status moves: 1. Insure your property with Lloyd's of London; 2. become a delegate to a national convention; 3. write a song and have it copyrighted; 4. have an audience with the Pope, etc. Having ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . It was a spectacular extravaganza the whole town attended. The tent was open, the floor was sawdust. The build-up of the preacher's message came at a slow pace, but his point was unmistakable and highly personal. He wanted them to worry about their status in the next life. The preacher questioned the strength of each person's faith. One night during the revival while, he was sitting on a wooden bench with his grandparents, the preacher had worked himself up to a furious pitch about their shaky loyalty to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the purchase money or its equivalent in horses, cattle or other property, which the groom paid to the bride's father. So a wedding was literally the purchase of a woman for breeding purposes. Paul is not sounding so bad now, is he? To show you how little status women have in some parts of the world, I ran across one fascinating little bit of trivia. According to Michael Caine's ALMANAC OF AMAZING INFORMATION, Hindu men believe it is unlucky to marry for a third time. If a man does wish to take a third wife ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of Abram, Gideon, Esther, Paul, Moses, David and Jacob. In each case, God chooses the most unlikely of persons to do His work, and each time God equips them for the task. These servants were all able to accomplish far more than would seem reasonable for persons of their status, background and education. There is an old joke about a man who was asked if he could play a violin. He answered, "I don't know. I've never tried." That is a very wise answer. How do we know what we can do until we try? Dr. Abraham ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to turn a blind eye to those who were not as fortunate as they. The people at the bottom of society lived in much more wretched conditions than poor people today. But like today, the wealthy had built up a whole system of rationalizations for maintaining the status quo. This offended Jesus. And he said, "Woe to you who are rich." There were many fine wealthy people in Jesus' time. This was not directed at them. It was directed at those for whom wealth had become an obsession. Recently I read about a young ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... land, you are automatically a citizen. Think what a privilege that bestows upon you--and you did nothing to deserve it. But listen to even better news. Baptism is a symbol that you and I have been born into the Kingdom of God--having done nothing to merit that status. Baptism is our citizenship paper. Our documents are in order, for we are joined with Christ. Baptism tells us who we are, it tells us that we have God's seal of approval on us, and it tells us that we are citizens of the Kingdom of God. Nobody ...
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... . In the family of God, the human family, there are no fences, only friendly backyards where folks talk to each other and have barbecues on Sunday nights. This is the way we are supposed to live. To be compassionate persons who judge people not by their worldly status but by their human dignity is the good work we Christians are still called to do. I've read that to be a Christian who doesn't practice forgiveness and compassion would be like a person who tried to "climb Mt Everest without oxygen, or played ...
314. Family Survival
Genesis 37:1-11
Sermon
Stephen DeFur
... sheaf! When somebody else comes along who is smarter than you or more powerful or more attractive, you don't like it. You want to be the one who wears the robe. You don't feel special without it--you become insensitive to the way that your power and status affects others. "Listen to me. Listen to my dream!" you're tempted to say, and you leave a trail of wounded hearts behind you, and underneath there is fear that you might lose your favorite position, and then who would you be? If this is you, maybe you ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... we struggle with is our love for money and possessions. Things enslave us. True freedom is found in contentment, in not wanting more. And the fourth area we struggle with is the source of our significance. Many times, we find our worth in our appearance, our status, our job performance, our athletic ability, our money and possessions. But our true worth comes from being a unique creation of God. This worth cannot be diminished in any way. (7) This is what Jesus is saying to us: Do not be afraid. God cares ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... at your job to bring glory to God, or to get a paycheck? Are you using your paycheck in a wise and generous manner--taking care of your family and contributing to the Lord's work? Or are you using your money to indulge in more stuff or more status symbols to impress your neighbors? How do you use your time? Do you submit your time to God first, before you ever fill out your Day-Timer? What about your relationships? Do you work to build others up, or tear others down? Must your needs always come first? Do ...
317. Redefining Life
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... , in how we look, in what we've accumulated or what we've accomplished. And so we strut around with one intent--to convince others that we are, at least, above average. If anyone had the right to claim "above average" status, it would be the apostle Paul. He was an intelligent and ambitious man. He was persuasive, a leader in his community, a man who could communicate powerfully with his voice or his pen. Before his conversion to Christ, Paul was a passionate persecutor of Christians. After his conversion ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... in the winter of 1994, the official bus line of Israel called “Egged” has agreed to have two separate busses running in the “orthodox” sections of Jerusalem: one for the men, and one for the women, to avoid scandal or immodesty. We must face the fact that the status of women in Jesus’ day was not very high. It was actually being debated in rabbinical schools of that time whether or not a woman had a soul at all. And in the pagan world of the time the numbers of female infants exposed at birth by ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... agree that such a use of the Bible is improper, and that Christ came into the world to set people free. Some recent church conventions have even apologized to African-Americans for their condoning of slavery for so many years in times past. And think of the status of women before Christ came. They were considered as property, not as persons. They had no rights, and could be divorced literally at the snap of a finger. Plato even wondered whether women had a soul. Then the Son of God came into the world, born ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... , that is for sure. This is because most of the world doesn’t want to be changed, doesn’t want to be transformed. Most of the world simply wants to be left alone, and any Christian church or individual who takes on the task of challenging the status quo is bound to have a hard time of it. One record of the early Methodist movement goes as follows: “In 1749 William Steward was first blinded, and then killed by a Welsh mob, the first but not the last Methodist martyr. Many of the preachers were pelted ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... ball. He has no property--no way to start earning a living--no way to attain to a position of honor or status in the community. In the midst of this emotional pain Jabez cries out for the eternal purposes of God. He activates his ... The name of Jabez stands out 3,000 years later because he prayed a prayer to God for a better life. He was not satisfied with the status quo. He seeks the fullest blessings God can bestow upon his life. Jabez could have settled for less. A wise teacher once noted that the word " ...
322. Mother's Day
Proverbs 1:1-7
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Eric Ritz
... your work and witness. You see I believe that simply having children does not make one a mother--only the Holy Spirit can accomplish such an awesome task in our lives. Being a mother-- if that is God''s will for your life--is not a position of status but a place of service and surrender to the perfect will of God. I believe, and many women have told me, that motherhood grants a purpose to life far greater than anything IBM and ATT could ever grant. This is why Proverbs 31:25 says of motherhood, "strength ...
323. Grace in the Midst of Judgment
2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
Sermon
Glenn McDonald
... for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them." Paul summarizes in verse 17, "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" The newness of the Christian life includes a certainty of our status before God. We are clean. It's as if we never sinned. What is my essential identity? I am a person who is loved by God. I am a forgiven person. I am not someone who was forgiven up until two minutes ago when I nurtured that degrading ...
Sermon
Glenn McDonald
... move in all that heaviness. They wonder if those who drown during this exercise at least receive their Lifesaving status posthumously. Isaiah 61's spirit of heaviness -- the spirit of despair -- is like the entanglement of clinging clothes. Ours ... the pages of the Bible. God's Word identifies guilt feelings that are proper and necessary because they connect us with a status of guilt that is objectively real. God has planted in every human being a kind of moral seismograph that registers behavioral earthquakes ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... , and in our own fall: 1. We became estranged from God;2. His image within us was broken, distorted, defaced. Two things happen in our salvation: 1. We are reconciled to God; our estrangement is dissolved by the justifying grace of God in the cross of Jesus. Our status is changed; we become friends of God, accepted by Him as though we were without sin.2. There is the recreation of the image of God in the life of the believer. This is the reason John Wesley talked about grace impinging upon us and working in ...
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