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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J. Ellsworth Kalas
... instincts demanded. But you and I, humans as we are, can repent. If we are on the wrong track, we can turn around, or get on another train. We may not be able to change what we've already done, and we may not be able to fully escape the consequences of those past choices. But we need not continue in the same destructive path. We can repent, and start again. Every life accumulates a certain amount of rubbish. No matter how earnestly and thoughtfully we live, we make mistakes -- if not outright sins. In time ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... which way to turn. One day he was invited to give a speech in another town. His host arranged a little reception before the event in his house so that he could meet some people. During the reception the host said, “You look weary and tired. Would you like to escape from all of this chatter and be by yourself?” Redwood said yes. He was taken upstairs to a sitting room, where there was a fire in the fireplace and an easy chair pulled up to the fire. He sat down. Then he noticed at his elbow a little table ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... often only make them worse. We breathe it in; it becomes part of who we are, and we pass on the accumulated negative effects to all who come after us, including our children. This is what the church means by original sin; it is not something we can escape by trying harder or being better; it is our world. This event from fifty years ago is a picture of the spiritual world into which Jesus came. A malevolent, deadly darkness cloaked the world when the living Word of God came and pitched his tent of flesh ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... way; to abstain when the vote is called is already to decide. Narrow or wide are the gates; hard is the way for the few, and easy the path of the many. You can coast your way to destruction because the downhill grade is so slight as to escape notice, but to reach the heavenly city you must climb. It is arduous and treacherous. One path ends in life abundant and unending in the kingdom of God, the other in the perpetual destruction of the realm where God is forever absent. Comfortable Christianity is a big ...
330. Panic Room
John 20:19-23
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King Duncan
... her and her daughter. It is to be the place from which they would begin life anew. But their joy turns to terror when three thugs break into their new home. The thugs are seeking millions of dollars hidden there by the former owner. To escape, the woman and her daughter retreat to the home’s one unique feature--a self-contained concrete room--the panic room. The panic room features a steel door which cannot be penetrated, video monitors and a loudspeaker system. Their intention is simple. They will hunker ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... , never willing to admit failure. We see life as a battle and we deal with it by fighting. III. Whimpering The third way we deal with life is by whimpering. Now this is the opposite of fighting, yet we use it to either get our own way or to escape. We absorb the assaults of the world and we respond only with a whimper. Now you can really deal with a fighter easier than you can deal with a whimperer - we become victims. This is the image many people have of Christians, but it is an unfortunate distortion ...
332. Branching Out
John 15:1-17
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Michael Milton
... equal of urban, inner city America. It has similar problems and similar outcomes. That is what I am talking about. My son said, “Dad, you got out. You are the first one in our family to leave.” We talked about that. I told him the key to my escape from the cycle of poverty and pain was not just education, though that was key. It was not just roll-up-your-sleeve determinism, though hard work in America pays off. No, the greatest power that allowed me to leave poverty was the love of Aunt Eva. She prayed ...
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Mark Trotter
... bride. Then things changed. Saul accused David of trying to overthrow him. David denied it. But Saul became more and more obsessed with the conviction that David was a usurper, a traitor. So David finally had to flee. Interestingly, Jonathan and Michal helped him to escape. When David is gone, Michal is married by her father to another man. David goes into hiding. He raises a private army and lives a life of a fugitive. It is hard to describe this period in David's life, there are several interpretations ...
334. Get a Charge
Matthew 21:28-32
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Mark Trotter
... back on the dock from which he embarked, where God now confronts him, and says, "Now let's try this again. This time you go to Nineveh, as I command you. No more horsing around." It's a comic story telling us that it is not easy to escape the responsibilities that God places upon us. That message was addressed first to Israel, based on the assumption that Israel had been blessed by God. Israel had received God's grace. Now God says to Israel, "Your responsibility is to share what I have given you with the ...
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Mark Trotter
... the great myths in Greek mythology is the story of Icarus. Icarus was in prison. Which incidentally was the Greek understanding of human life. They describe a human being as a soul captured in the prison house of an earthly body, longing to escape. That is what Icarus does. He escapes by making wax wings, putting feathers on them, and then soaring up into the sky. He climbs higher and higher, and exhilarated he begins to think that maybe he is no longer human, maybe he is a god. He climbs so high he comes ...
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Mark Trotter
... is a sordid and pathetic story, the details of which I am not going to share with you. But suffice it say that these women were trapped, not only in the cycles of sexual and physical abuse, they were trapped in poverty, with no real chance of escape from it. They all had these wonderful hopes. It is almost pathetic to hear them talk about the dreams they had for their lives as young girls, because their heroic efforts to achieve those dreams were always defeated, either by circumstances outside of them that ...
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Mark Trotter
... which way to turn. One day he was invited to give a speech in another town. His host arranged a little reception before the event in his house so that he could meet some people. During the reception the host said, "You look weary and tired. Would you like to escape from all of this chatter and be by yourself?" He said, "Yes." He was taken upstairs to a sitting room, where there was a fire in the fireplace and an easy chair pulled up to the fire. He sat down. Then he noticed at his elbow a little table next ...
338. Christmas 1
Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Colossians 3:1-17, Colossians 3:18-4:1, Galatians 3:15-25, Hebrews 2:5-18, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23
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John R. Brokhoff
... there no room in the inn for his birth, but before he was two years old, he had to be carried to Egypt to escape death at the order of King Herod. Again, because Herod's successor, Archelaus, was equally as dreadful, the family had to settle in Nazareth ... today. Outline: How good of God. a. He cares about the helpless - "the child and his mother" - v. 13. b. He provides a way to escape - "Rise and flee to Egypt" - v. 13. 1. A place to go - Egypt. 2. An obedient servant - Joseph. c. He brings us back home - "go ...
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Leonard Sweet
... of black holes. Anyone heard of them? The most basic explanation of a black hole is as an area in space that is made up of extremely dense matter. So dense is this matter that it pulls everything into it and nothing – not even light itself – can escape the maw. The gravitational pull in the center of a black hole is so great that on hundred million suns could be compressed into a single globe only six million kilometers in diameter. Since our relatively puny sun is itself 1,390,000 km in diameter, the ...
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Leonard Sweet
... box forced down around us by others. Maybe we've built a cardboard fortress around ourselves. But there's only one way to break out-of-the-box. The necessary tool for escape isn't sharp-edged or sharp-tongued. At first glance it doesn't appear to have any strength at all. Our sure-footed, smart-alecky, success-oriented culture considers our escape tool a frailty not a force for change. The way out of the box? HUMILITY. Humility is definitely not a popular quality these days. But it's only through the grace ...
341. Be Ready!
Matthew 24:36-51
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King Duncan
... maid in his household. She was penniless and didn’t know a word of English, so it seemed like the perfect situation for her. Except that Helen’s cousin was an evil man who raped her repeatedly. He knew she had no resources and no way to escape. When Helen became pregnant with her cousin’s child, her cousin and his church forced her to leave town. She moved to another town in Canada. Eventually, she married and raised a family. Pastor Dawson met Helen in her later years, after her husband had died. She ...
342. A New Beginning
Matthew 3:13-17
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King Duncan
... at the rock in his cell with a tiny geologist’s pick. The pick was so small that it was never confiscated. Over those twenty years of continuous picking with this tiny instrument, Andy fashions an escape tunnel. The tunnel leads to the main sewage pipe of the prison complex. On the night of his escape, aided by a loud thunderstorm that masks his movements, Andy crawls through raw sewage. The sewage pipe is 500 yards long. Can you imagine? Approximately one-half mile of sewage. That puts pond scum to shame ...
343. Prison Break
Matthew 28:1-10
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Leonard Sweet
... is the ultimate “prison break!” Jesus breaks free from death. Jesus breaks the chain of sin and condemnation that stretched back to Adam. Jesus’ prison break offers us all a way to escape the solitary confinement of the self. Like any good prison break (anyone a fan of the Fox series “Prison Break”?), Jesus’ escape from death went undetected by his jailors. When the two Marys arrive at the tomb early in the morning, the guards still stand in front of the bulky boulder that blocks entry and ...
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James W. Moore
... jailer woke up from a deep sleep… and saw the cell doors had been opened. He thought Paul and Silas had escaped and that he would be in big trouble with the authorities because they had gotten out of prison on his watch. The jailer was so scared, so ... upset that he would be held responsible for their escape… that he drew his sword to take his own life. But, Paul saw what he was about to do and Paul shouted to him. “ ...
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Leonard Sweet
... by a relationship with Jesus himself, “knowing” and “being known” by him and his redemptive mission in our life. Or we can try to go it alone, to hold ourselves together with only the resources we have already been given. Remember: you can’t escape the cross. But you can escape being in a relationship with the Christ of the cross. You don’t have to sing “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross.” You don’t have to sing “Beneath the Cross of Jesus, I Feign Would Take My Stand.” You don’t have to ...
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James Merritt
... His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." When we are tempted to sin, God is faithful to provide a way of escape. "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with ... the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." (1 Cor. 10:13) When we get tangled in sin, God is faithful to forgive us and ...
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James Merritt
... want to say it again, as plainly as I know how, if you are a child of God, you cannot sin without experiencing the rod of his discipline. III. The Proper Responses to Discipline Now I say again, nobody is going to escape God's woodshed, because nobody is perfect. As God's children, you cannot escape discipline. V.7 tells us that as children of God we are to "endure chastening." So the question now is asked: How will you respond to God's discipline? a. You Can Resent It My son "do not despise the chastening ...
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James Merritt
... might snatch from that fire. One cold winter night in Epworth, England, the church bell began to ring. People ran into the dark night and saw that a house was on fire. A crowd gathered and began to fight the fire. Samuel and Suzanna had escaped the flames along with six of their children, but no one could find little Johnny. Realizing the worst, Samuel headed back toward that inferno. The people held him back from certain death. The crowd stood there helplessly watching the house burn. Then all of a sudden ...
349. Face the Music
Hebrews 9:27-28
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James Merritt
... m gone. Therefore, I want my tombstone to be totally blank." Well, the people who buried him respected his wishes, and over his grave they put a blank tombstone. Ever after people who would walk by that grave would look at it and say, "That's odd." You cannot escape the judgment of God. III. There Is a Practical Appeal before Death You Must Not Miss "So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation." (v.28) Now ...
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James Merritt
... point that Jesus is making is, if the father has been judged, so will his children. If you have never received Jesus Christ, as a child of the devil you're going to receive the judgment he has received. If Satan, the king of sin, has not escaped judgment, neither will his subjects. But I tell you again, only the Holy Spirit can convince you that is true. John Pascucci was former chief of International operations for the U.S. Martial Services. He became one of the most decorated U.S. martials in history. He ...
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