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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Louis H. Valbracht
... enjoy and enjoy what they ought to use." Our eminent Lutheran theologian, Dr. Joseph Sittler, commenting on Aquinas' statement, said, "I adduce a small sample: wine is to be enjoyed; it is not to be used. Wine is as old as human history. It is the symbol of nature in all of its smiling beneficence. It is in all places and all times virtually used on all occasions of celebration. It indicates the gladness of heart. It is to be enjoyed. It is not to be used to evoke some illusion of magnificence or to stiffen ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... they call the Christians the idealists, when any Christian with half a brain could have predicted what would happen and what is happening and what did happen in the Soviet Union. And why? Because Christianity deals with the real facts about human nature, not the stupid idealism of the Communists. We spent 125 billion dollars, 45,000 American lives, 300,000 American wounded, perhaps a million Southeast Asian lives, and the destruction of a whole country in order, by military means, to establish the freedom ...
3628. The Ten Virgins
Matthew 25:1-13
Drama
Robert A. Lehmann
Theme: A parable of the Kingdom of heaven Characters: Narrator Jesus Four solo voices Narrator: There are always people who are unprepared; not ready for work, for meals, for events they just seem to "put things off" naturally. That may be acceptable when dealing with earthly matters but when it concerns heavenly matters, if is tragic. Jesus said: Jesus: The Kingdom of heaven can be illustrated by the story of ten bridesmaids who took their lamps to meet the bridegroom. Solo 1: Sounds like a big wedding! ...
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Robert V. Dodd
... , would like to hold us back. It would have us seeking to preserve our flesh and therefore cause us to lose Life Eternal. But our Lord said that we must deny that old self by following him on a regular daily basis. We cannot adequately deal with our old nature by focusing attention on it. The only way to deal with it is by focusing our attention on Christ. I shall never forget how the choir in a church which I often visited as a youth always began their Sunday evening Service by singing, Turn your eyes upon ...
3630. Getting The Facts
1 Corinthians 15:3
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... So remember, the law is like Clyde Crutch -- necessary, but only temporary. Jesus brings us love and it lasts forever. GUIDES FOR OUR LIVES Galatians 5:16-24, verse 16: I mean this: if you are guided by the Spirit you wil not fulfill the desires of your lower nature. Object: A ruler or a circle compass and a Bible. Good morning, boys and girls. How are you on this very last Sunday in August? It won't be very long before the summer vacation will be over and the new school year will begin again. I just happen ...
3631. No One is Exempt From Doubt
John 20:19-23
Illustration
Brett Blair
... in the stands. The comeback quickly ended. It was a devastating experience. It is bad enough to have cancer, let alone face the amputation of an arm, but then on top of that, to lose a promising career as a major league baseball player. Naturally Dave was filled with many questions. During his struggles, letters of encouragement poured in from all over the country. Most were letters of encouragement. Some were looking for answers to life's questions. They had seen him keep his faith, and they wanted to ...
3632. The Bond Between Us
Luke 24:36-49
Illustration
Lee Griess
... would happen. This gentleman would ask the young fellow to get up and leave. When the older fellow came to where Bill was sitting, he stopped, and, to everyone's surprise, slowly lowered himself to the floor, and the two of them sat there and worshiped together. Naturally, at first people were shocked -- but as they thought about it -- they were moved. For that was an example of the kind of love and acceptance they were called to offer one another in the Church. It was an example of the bond that Jesus has ...
3633. Denominational Unity
John 17:20-26
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John M. Braaten
... think they're the only ones up here." It isn't just (name a denomination here) who think they are the only ones who have got this God business right. There are other denominations who also give the impression of exclusiveness and project the feeling that it is only natural that the blessings of God should fall upon them. They are probably just as amazed as we are to see that it "rains on the just and the unjust alike (Matthew 5:45)." I suppose that is not strange, since we have been brought up on a diet of ...
3634. Trifling with the Trinity
John 16:5-16
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Brett Blair
... relationship to the Father. If you are still confused, let me ask you this: What is the conclusion of such a statement? It is this: Jesus is not fully God. This cuts at the heart of the church's historic teaching that Jesus Christ, in his very nature, was both fully God and fully man. It's a mystery which we accept through faith. Yet Shamblin tries to argue her point by saying that Christians grieve Jesus if they adhere to doctrines not found in Scripture. She says, "If God wanted us to refer to Himself ...
3635. Real Evangelism
Luke 10:1-20; Matt 9:35-10:8-23; Mark 6:1-13
Illustration
Staff
If we are going to be effective in reaching people for Christ we are going to have to start showing people that we really care. Evangelism and missions must be relational in nature. There is no record of Jesus walking up to someone out of the clear blue sky and saying: I am the Messiah and then him beginning to show his care for them. No, he showed his care for them first and then he revealed himself to them. A story is ...
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Brett Blair
The parable of the Good Samaritan arises out of a discussion between Jesus and a Pharisee. Here is a religious lawyer and he is asking a question on the nature of the law. The stage is set by Luke with these words: “Behold a lawyer stood up to put him to the test.” Well, it's not the first time and probably won’t be the last time that a lawyer phrased a trick question. It was the kind of ...
3637. Building Barns, Postponing Life - Sermon Opener
Luke 12:13-21
Illustration
... . II. Secondly, this man was a fool because he overestimated his own value in the scheme of things. III. Third, this man was a fool because he forgot what his real business in life was really all about. IV. Fourth, this man was a fool because he forgot about the nature of time.
3638. Come From Anywhere
Matthew 15:21-28
Sermon
... it brought, the fruits it produced. There were two of these. First: because of her faith, the noble object of her quest was achieved: her daughter was made well. Second: because of her faith, the disciples of Jesus that day gained a basic insight into the nature of Christ's mission in the world and of their role in that mission. Indeed, yes, the woman's faith was great in what it meant to the disciples of Jesus, what it did for them - for their understanding of human relationships and values. By her ...
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... it, he then said, "So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart." This story is usually called the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant. And indeed it has much to say to us about the nature of forgiveness and the quality of mercy. It raises this penetrating and disturbing question: How can we expect God to forgive us unless we forgive others? And we do need the forgiveness of God, you know - every one of us - sooner or later, one time or another ...
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... Whatever is right I will give you." The same thing happened about noon, about three o'clock, and even as late as five o'clock that afternoon. At the close of the day, as he paid his workers, calling the last-hired first, he gave each a denarius. Naturally, the men who had worked longer supposed they would receive more, but they didn't - the vineyard owner gave each man a denarius, no matter how long he had worked, even those who had worked from sunrise until sunset. All the men got the same. Those who had ...
Sermon
Wallace H. Kirby
... hit Gentile soil, they soon discovered the necessity to proclaim the gospel in the academic styles familiar to the Gentile audience. We may sometimes groan over the pedantry of early church councils, wrestling with the relationship of the human and the divine natures in Christ. The debates finally hung on a single letter, between using "homoousia" or "homoiousia." Yet the distinction was crucial for the church and its future. We owe a large debt to those who contended for theology in a learned style. Think ...
3642. The Two Fires
Luke 12:49-53
Sermon
Wallace H. Kirby
... of atonement and forgiveness and reconciliation between God and people. The Lukan Pentecost account tells of "tongues of fire" sent by the Holy Spirit as gifts to enable proclaiming the gospel in word and deed. And in the scriptural images of the end of nature and history in the eternal love of God, fire is central to the pointing toward this consummation. Perhaps the most significant scriptural statement concerning fire is in Hebrews. It says simply, "Our God is a consuming fire." I All of this is to run ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... , the Reformation and the Renaissance, the English parliamentary tradition, the French Revolution, the American Civil War, the demise of the colonial empires after World War II, and the many Liberation movements of our day. If we list all of the historical, cultural, natural and social forces that help to explain these events, we are still forced to conclude that the most profound reason for them is the will of God. History seems to be saying that God sets himself against anyone from palace life that ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... place. In another sense, the world sets the agenda of apologetics - of presenting the faith as a believable possibility. The worldly agenda today is governed by reason and science. Granted that science forfeits its name when it preaches the dogmas of naturalism; and granted that what is reasonable to one person is often quite unreasonable to another. Yet is is important to understand that intelligent faith-presenting must go through science and the tests of human reason, not around them, if we are going ...
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... us. How could the defendants be so obsessed with winning the election at all costs and overlook clear statements in the Constitution protecting the rights of individuals? Perhaps some of them are still wondering how they fell for it. Yet at the time they say it seemed the most natural thing in the world. Enslaved by the big lie. In our vocabulary of sin, it has to be a big lie before it’s bad enough to count. Unless it’s done under oath, no judge will put us in jail for it. This in itself is part of ...
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... than the Gospel - than if people believed that God loved them so much as to give his son for them? Surely the Gospel is the way to true womanhood. Surely the Gospel is the way to true manhood. Surely the Gospel is the way to life because it’s the natural life style of the saints. And to that may we all say, "Amen!"
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... death. The Arab children would run around them as they played in the sand, almost oblivious to the death that was soon to occur; they had seen it many times while they were young. And the old, discarded slaves would be swallowed up by the sands - almost naturally - as they ended their days of servitude and were finally released forever in death. It was not to be that way with the centurion’s slave in Capernaum. He was not going to be turned out, for this centurion was not a cruel Roman officer - nor was ...
Sermon
George Bass
... , telling the good news about Jesus the Christ to anyone who would listen. And I suppose some people laughed, as the philosophers laughed at Paul on Mars Hill when he told them about the resurrection of Jesus, but this wouldn’t have silenced them a bit, would it? Human nature prompts us to tell the whole world when something as monumental as this has happened to us, doesn’t it? Ide Ward was going on 120 years of age when he died early in 1982; a doctor said he died "just of old age," but George Will of ...
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... clearing where he found the turtle and put it down in the exact spot where he had located it. When he rejoined his young companions who were obviously wondering about his strange action, he said to them, "It suddenly dawned on me that I have interfered with nature too much for one man." It was a scientist’s way of saying, "Mea culpa," "I have sinned," by his actions before he ever said a single word to his young colleagues. And that man, if the story is accurate, turned toward new life as the headlines ...
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... playing, "Joy to the world! the Lord has come; Let earth receive her King." And then they saw the piano player - dressed in a choir robe - a black man was seated at the piano playing and singing joyfully, "Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing." And Rice and his friend knew that all is well again. God still brings about the fulfillment of his intention in Christ. There is always a third act in the lives of those who believe the good news that Jesus is Lord forevermore. Doesn’t it ...
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