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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Sermon
Stephen M. Crotts
... what they'd done with his venture capital, and the reward for work well done was more work. But the punishment for lack of vision, laziness, and selfishness was that even what they had was taken away. In every game there is a buzzer, a whistle, a finish line, a bell that rings signaling the end. Then winners and losers are announced. So will come a day in each of our lives. A trumpet will sound from on high. We will cease all commerce. We each shall stand before the Lord, and we shall give account of our ...
Sermon
Stephen M. Crotts
... church's unity in the truth is for the sake of its mission in the world, a world which is divided among many different truth claims and assertions that there is no truth. It is a world divided along religious and political and economic lines, a world in which conflict is continually breaking out, and threatening to break out, between people of different religions, different ethnic groups, or with different economic interests. In this world, the church is called to be a light to the nations, to be a means ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... shoot, a tiny, tender, green sprout. This shoot doesn't spring up out of a carefully prepared, plowed and furrowed field. Its source for germination is the decaying stump of an old, once-powerful name. Jesse, the father of David, was thus the father of the entire line of the Davidic monarchy. Jesse gave life to a king, who in turn gave life to the greatest age of power and influence in Israel's history. Even though Isaiah's message to Israel in the first ten chapters has declared the nation's decay and the ...
3629. The Holidaze Craze
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... ve heard the new Christmas Carol called "OH, LITTLE BANK AMERICARD," sung to the tune of "O Little Town of Bethlehem?" Oh, little Bank Americard, you bring me Christmas Cheer. Without your clout, I have no doubt no gifts I'd give this year. Your credit line allows me to run up bills quite large And when I'm through exhausting you, I'll use my Master Charge. (Same tune, sung in late February) Oh, little Bank Americard, you bring me discontent. I calculate your interest rate is over twelve percent. Each month ...
3630. Trip Questions
Matthew 22:15-22
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... ? No, I can come to terms with death. But why painful death, why slow death, why children's death, why the suffering of the innocent? You start down this Trap Questions, and either the trap door will spring shut on you, or you end up living a line from Herman Melville, where he said that the universe is one large practical joke, the wit thereof humans but dimly perceive. 4) The kind of questions Jesus asked, and taught us to ask, aren't Test Questions or Trick Questions or Trap Questions, but Trip Questions ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... in ancient near eastern cultures. And just as it was in the Sinai wilderness experience, idol worship can lead to disappointment and sometimes even destruction and death. For the Israelites wandering in the wilderness, and for anyone lost in the postmodern wilderness, the line between icon and idol continues to be fine and fragile. Biblical scholars can argue that Aaron constructed the golden calf not to serve as an actual god, a pagan idol for the Israelites, but as a symbol that would point them towards ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the earth's familiar gravitational pull once they return. That's the difference between fitting together and simply fitting in. For some reason in this year's new Martha Stewart version of The Apprentice, Martha has chosen to dismiss each week's failing contestant with the line, "You just don't fit in." Perhaps the new kinder, gentler Martha thinks "You just don't fit in" is somehow more friendly than Donald Trump's beloved "You're fired!" But "You just don't fit in" reveals that for Martha--and many others ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the surface of the moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." For some reason, I take great comfort in the fact that the first speech ever given from outside planet Earth was a first step misstep. Armstrong muffed his lines. Think about it: "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It doesn't make sense. In those pre-gender conscious days, "man" and "mankind" meant the same thing. The First Sentence Armstrong had rehearsed was the more logically progressive, "One small ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the gospel isn't like the world defines power. Here's something that's making the rounds of the Internet. (This could easily be adapted for Mother's Day, and would make a great Mother's Day ending for your sermon.) This came to me under the subject line of "What Do Teachers Make?" The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... why the bidding on this gold trimmed cup went to $252.50? Let others worship glittering dust And boast of earthly toys Christ is my rock, my hope my trust And spring of all my joys! Isn't that worth memorizing? Let's recite it again. I'll read a line, and you repeat after me. Let others worship glittering dust. And boast of earthly toys. Christ is my rock, my hope my trust. And spring of all my joys! Is Christ the spring of all your joys this morning? Do you know what it means to say the joy of ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... or action or belief, with all your strength, energy, and integrity. But the expression to make no bones about it started out very differently. "Make no bones about it" was as a description of polite acceptance, not forceful determination. At medieval suppers, as dinner guests lined up to have their bowls filled from the common pot, it was inevitable that while some would gain a nice meaty chunk in their bowl others would end up with just a bare-cooked bone. The mentality of make no bones about it cautioned ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... three-point shots; partly because of the trumping effect of last second foul shots; partly because the basketball court is still the same size its always been while players are all now seven feet tall and weigh 250 pounds and can dunk from the free-throw line - the score, the balance of power, in any game seems as though it can change in an instant. In basketball two minutes left on the clock is an eternity. Entire games are played, entire lifetimes are lived, in those last two minutes. Unless your team is ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... to be marketable in our spice-rack country. We assume a lot about a person when we first hear them speak, when their particular accent hits our ears. Our accent suggests the presence and influence of an entire culture. Those north of the Mason-Dixon line tend to hear everything from the general southeast region as a southern drawl. But a true Southerner can distinguish a Carolina accent from a Georgia accent, a Creole from a Cajun, a Virginian from a West Virginian. The slight nuances in pronunciation and ...
3639. Come Back
Luke 21:5-38
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... killed me with a knife and I'm gone," the boy told a dispatcher. "Can you please send the Army men or the ambulance?" The soft-spoken child gave a wrong address and then hung up. But a second dispatcher called back, keeping him on the line while a frantic search was under way. On Wednesday, authorities released the remarkable tape of Anthony Sukto's calm courage during the Oct.22 ordeal, and the frantic efforts to find him. "What's going on there?" asked dispatcher Kristine Woodrow. "My daddy killed me with ...
3640. Humans, Inc.
Luke 19:1-10
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... together and kick herds of gazelles to death, much less gas and shoot 6 million Jews to death. No king of the jungle was ever barbaric enough to abduct and recruit into martyrdom 10,000 Iranian children, who in the 1980s were thrown across minefields into the line of Iraqi fire, with a little key to paradise round their necks. Nature is red in tooth and claw. But its redness is related to hunger and survival, not hatred and racism. The great killers of nature - lions of the air (falcons, owls), lions of the ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... and remarks will push buttons and what responses and actions will keep us well below our loved-one's radar. The justice-seeking widow-woman in today's gospel text is as annoying and irritating and doggedly persistent as any child in the check-out line . . . or any puppy trying to get outside. She persists despite the uncaring judge's indifference to serving justice, to serving God, or to serving his fellow human beings. She has no financial resources with which to bribe this hard-hearted judge to act on her ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to sweeten the deal. And everything sold for just $19.95. When Arthur was assigned to sell an uninspired steak knife, he came up with the Japanese sounding name, “Ginsu.” Anybody remember the commercials for the Ginsu steak knife? Arthur used an amusing tag line to describe the Ginsus: “In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife,” he would say, “But this method doesn’t work with a tomato.” Arthur was parodied by a series of late night comics starting with John Belushi’s Samurai Warrior, but ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , where Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt reign supreme, disciples of Jesus are doom-slayers. EXEGESIS of the Text: Part 1: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 The 2 Thessalonians Epistle text for this week skips about in chapter two, cherry-picking verses first from the opening lines of the letter (vv.1-5), then landing on the concluding remarks of this first section (vv.13-17). This edited reading of 2:1-17, however, does succeed in focusing on the author’s primary concern throughout this letter—-namely, that wrong and ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... spice. The tiny mustard seed reveals its strength when it is bitten into – it bites back! Like us the apostles thought "bigger is better." But more of their show-me/give-me/do-for-me faith would still have left these apostles stuck at the starting line. The apostles were convinced that faith was a possession that would move them up a notch in God's eyes and in the hierarchy of heaven. Jesus' tiny mustard-seed sized faith doesn't advance the faithful one bit. But it does transform reality. It transplants ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... become the rarest of commodities. Thus the human connection is the most prized selling point. The more the proliferation of chat-rooms dedicated to chatting about any subject you might possibly dream up, the more people long for heavy, deep and real relationships. On-line buddies and instant messaging are only as fun as the number of real buddies you have out there to connect with. We really don't want relationships with our car salespersons, or our bank officers, or our department store clerks. Do we? We ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the Holy Spirit are a divine Trinity of one purpose even as they are three-personed. What Jesus' words declare to his disciples is--be ready for a surprise-for an "Aha" moment when the Holy Spirit comes into your presence. Without yet giving away the punch line Jesus, warns his disciples that a "ha-ha" is coming their way. Are you open to the surprising advent, the startling event, and the amazing news that the Holy Spirit is bringing your way? Or are your eyes so fixed on this rutted road directly in front ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... that address in your pocket, so that you may never get lost or have to spend the night alone in some strange place? [You can either end your sermon here. Or if you have more time, you can expand on this "House of Jesus" theme and continue along the lines suggested below.] In the "House of Jesus," there are certain rooms. In fact, the Scriptures tell us what these rooms are. The House of Jesus is a House of Praise The House of Jesus is a House of Prayer. In fact, Jesus himself said "My house shall be called ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the hidden fire locked within the diamond would never be ignited to its fullest flare. The old master studied the Cullinan diamond, lived with it, breathed it, loved it for more than a year. Asscher knew the stone inside and out, better than he knew the lines of his own face. As the diamond community held its collective breath, he finally took up his tools to slice the stone. The first whack broke Asscher's steel blade, but not the diamond. On his second attempt the great stone was cleanly cleaved – and ...
3649. More!!!
Isaiah 11:1-16
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... was in ruins. Generations of self-absorbed, self-serving, despotic then puppet kings had left both nations dismantled and in disrepair. But all the people could envision, as they dreamed of reestablishment, was yet another king from that divinely chosen line – yet another incarnation of their old national identity. Isaiah's prophecy refuses to think so small. Although he acknowledges the continuation of a historic lineage, he traces it back to Jesse, David's shepherd father, not the royal king himself ...
3650. Set Life Free
Matthew 13:1-23
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... ears to feed a starving family of six. Then there's the lure of more exotic fruits and veggies that promise bumper crops, perfect nutrition, healthy plants and beautiful colors – despite the fact that you know none of them will grow north of the Mason-Dixon line. No matter how splashy or no-nonsense the seed catalogs that arrive in the middle of the cold, dark winter months, all of them are exercises in faith – what Barbara Kafka calls the gardener's "green hope." And it takes a lot of faith, a lot ...
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