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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Eric Ritz
... reluctant deity. He is always anxious to bless and enrich the lives of his sons and daughters. In Phillip Keller's book, A Shepherd Looks at the Twenty-third Psalm, he tells this story of two missionaries who came to visit him for a couple of days, then ... go there. When her son got home the next morning, he put his tickets on the kitchen table and then went to bed. The mother looked at those tickets. What should she do? Hide them? Tear them up? What would a loving mother do? Would she tell her son that she ...
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Eric Ritz
... got to start with yourself and make that change! However, Michael Jackson is only half right. There is a danger in looking into mirrors that the creative Christian writer, Dr. Calvin Miller, shares: Beware of mirrors They lead us not to see ourselves ... I''m sorry. I don''t expect to be paid for this, and I understand that I''ve made things difficult for you.'' The other girls looked at her as if to say, `You''re just modeling. This isn't any statement about your morality.'' "Sandra said, `I''m sorry. I can''t ...
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Eric Ritz
... third grade. It was titled "The ME Book." It was about the daughter''s life up to that point. There were eight pages, one for each year of her life, and on each page there was a photograph of the daughter at that age. Slowly, the mother turned the pages, looking at her daughter''s pictures. It made her sadder than ever. Her daughter was so young, and she felt so old. Then she came to the last page. She expected it to say "The End." But it didn''t. It said, "The Beginning." The mother shook her head. It took ...
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Eric Ritz
... of all that God has done for him personally. How easily we forget what God has done for us. We murmur and complain because we do not remember what God has done for us. I strongly suggest that when this attitude begins to grip your being just look at the Cross and the Cradle. Someone has suggested that instead of Thanksgiving Day we observe "Grumbling and Gripe Day," and then use the other 364 days for thanksgiving to God. This would be more Biblical. In the first five verses of Psalm 103, the Psalmist uses ...
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Eric Ritz
... for all the persons who through the corridor of time have made the positive response and choice to offer their lives to the Christ Child who crawled out of the cradle onto the Cross for you and me. I am thankful for all the "Barrys" of the world who might look like a disaster to the world, but are a delight to the work of the Kingdom of God. I have also come to believe the Christmas story as told by St. Luke in his glorious gospel. It will take me an entire lifetime to discover all the truth and power ...
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Eric Ritz
... dirt under the new. At the end of the emotional service, Mrs. Clem asked the children of the congregation to release balloons which were addressed to friends and loved ones who were not there to celebrate the new building. Standing in front of the future church and looking into the sky, Mrs. Clem said in a shaky voice, "send them a message . . . all the way to heaven." Of all the people on the pages of sacred scriptures who knew what it was to face the harshness of life--it was the Apostle Paul. The lines ...
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Eric Ritz
... -old boy. He was one of 11 children and was spurred to keep a diary when he overheard his parents discussing how they were going to pay the bills. In fact, his mother fully expected to go to the poor house. Phillips Brooks wrote in his diary that his father looked up from the dinner table and said to his wife, "My dear, I have trusted God for 40 years. He has never forsaken me. I''m not going to distrust Him now. Now, let us give thanks for what we have to eat today." Augustine wrote in the fourth century ...
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Robert Noblett
... for pain, did not respond to the torture. His silence enraged the S.S. officer to such a degree that the Nazi hit his victim harder and harder until, exploding and hollering at this bishop, he exclaimed: "But don't you know that I can kill you?" The bishop looked in the eyes of the S.S. officer and slowly said: "Yes, I know -- do what you want -- but I have already died." At that moment, the Nazi lost any power over his victim. The grounds for violence had gone and torture was now a futile effort. Such is ...
3659. Time Out!
Mark 1:35-39
Sermon
King Duncan
... make time. The Coffeepot Experiment sounds like a great idea. Missionary evangelist and best-selling author E. Stanley Jones put it like this: “In the pure, strong hours of the morning when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of the Lord and look into His face, and get orders for the day. Then go out into the world with a sense of [God’s] Hand upon your shoulder...” If Jesus needed to spend time in prayer, how much more do you and I need to spend time in prayer? If he needed ...
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David G. Rogne
... they were burping a baby. He says that is our way of reducing the other person to a safe, infantile status. A real hug, Rooney says, is a full body hug that collapses the A-frame and doesn't include the burping. The people coming together take time really to look at each other. I recall being present once when a naval officer who had been at sea for a year, surprised his young son by stepping out of a closet. The boy flew across the room and embraced his father with arms and legs. That was the kind of hug ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... ? Why not right now, where you're sitting, turn to Jesus in faith asking him to forgive your sins and come into your life giving you new birth? Christ offers so much more! If you give him yourself, he will give you himself, and he is all that you are looking for! A few years ago I was flying to Colorado. Seated next to me on the jet was a businessman who was finishing his third martini. We got to talking and he began to brag. "I'm in big business," he volunteered. "Why, what a coincidence," I crooned, "I am ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... who ever heard of God Almighty giving a commission to a man? Yet this is exactly part of what the ascension means. From the cross Jesus said, "It is finished." His work done, Jesus packed up and ascended to heaven. He left. But before he left, he looked to his disciples as he looks to us today, and he said, "Now it is your turn. I commission you to make disciples. Go to work!" There is an old legend about our Lord's return to heaven. He walked through the gates of Paradise and a group of angels stopped him ...
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Cathy A. Ammlung
... has to do with who God is, how God loves, and what it means that we are created in his image. Jesus intends for us to look to his life as the pattern and source of our own love for God and neighbor. His own love for God is the human expression ... God? Could it be that Jesus was "teasing" the scribe into seeing that the great, twofold commandment was literally enfleshed before his eyes? Looking at Jesus, who stood an arm's length away, and hearing his words, the scribe was actually in the presence of God, whose ...
3664. What It Takes to Do the Job
2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
... had gone through, and that how they dealt with those crises was vital in their effectiveness in being a valid, powerful witness to the kind of God they serve, the kind of God they had come to know in Jesus. So, today, it might be that during Lent we might look at the way we deal with the major and minor crises in our lives. Does the way we handle them in front of our children and our spouse and our co-workers and our playmates at school and on the playground reflect a closeness with a God others might like ...
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Paul E. Robinson
... bin and crept across the field between their homes, dumping it into his brother's bin. Meanwhile, the married brother said to himself, "It's not right that we should share the produce and the profit equally. After all, I'm married, and I have my wife and children to look after me in years to come. My brother has no one, and no one to take care of his future." So each night he took a sack of grain and dumped it into his single brother's bin. Both men were puzzled for years because their supply of grain never ...
3666. The Highest Bidder
Ephesians 3:14-21
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... a hard time imagining they have very much in common, writes in verse 18, "For through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father." Paul knew that if Jesus could "have at" somebody's heart, that person or that entire people group would never look at others the same way. They would ultimately be compelled to see others as God does. For many years Dr. Paul Brand served as a physician to the multitudes in India who suffer from Hansen's disease, more commonly known as leprosy. Over the centuries most ...
3667. Humility
John 13:1-17
Sermon
King Duncan
... he folded and put into his pocket. Then, as he and Schuller were on their way to the restaurant where they where going to eat lunch, Bishop Sheen pulled out that note, read it, and asked Schuller, “Do you know where this trailer park is?” Schuller looked at the note and said, “Yes, it’s just a couple of miles from here.” The bishop said, “Do you think we could go there before we go to lunch?” “Sure,” Schuller answered. “We have plenty of time.” So they drove to this little trailer park ...
3668. Good News!
Isaiah 61:1-11
Sermon
Curtis Lewis
... that ... There Is Good News in Judah The weary exiles had finally come home. As they glanced at the piles of rubble of their once-elegant city, all they could think of was what had been lost. Babylon and exile seemed in the far distant past. As they looked at the ashes of their holy city, as they stood in the midst of devastation, they grieved and mourned for a glory that was lost. From out of nowhere, a prophet appeared on the scene in Judah with news -- good news from God. This prophet was certain that ...
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Curtis Lewis
... of kindness and goodwill. The doom and gloom prophecies of Jeremiah could not frighten Israel into being the people of God. The country was overcome by foreign armies, and the leaders were carried into exile. During Jeremiah's lifetime the story ended in death and destruction. It looked as if God had gone on leave and left no one in his place. That was not the last word, for Jeremiah believing in God's goodness wrote: He who scattered Israel will gather him and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock. I ...
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Curtis Lewis
... ... The Relinquishment of Eli God is present in human history. He is in the beginning and the ending of human affairs. When one looks closely at this story, it is evident that it is a story of endings. Judgment has fallen upon the household of Eli, the ... was a simple seafaring man who loved Olive Oyl. He was unpretentious, and yet his story belonged to him. "I yam what I yam." When you look closely at Popeye, it seems he is saying, "Don't get your hopes up; don't expect too much. I yam what I yam, and that' ...
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King Duncan
... you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” It was not magic, of course, but many of the onlookers would surely describe it as such. And it was Peter who had taken this man by the hand and raised him to his feet. No wonder the people were looking at him as if he were a god himself. Peter, though, would have none of it. He and the other disciples did have special power, but it was not their own power. It was the power of the risen Christ. It was important that people understood that. Peter had a ...
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King Duncan
... for pictures of her and their two boys. Because he was unable to move even his head, the photos had to be jammed between metal knobs so that they hung within view above him the only thing he could see. The last four months of his life were spent looking at the faces he loved. Philip Yancey writes, "I have often thought of that crumpled photo, for it is one of the few links connecting me to the stranger who was my father. Someone I have no memory of, no sensory knowledge of, spent all day, every day thinking ...
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King Duncan
... at the mercy of the kindness of strangers. If they did not put coins in his cup, he would starve to death. You will remember Peter's words to this poor man that fateful day. He had asked Peter and John for money. They both looked straight at the man. Then Peter asked the man to look at them. So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." Then, taking him by ...
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King Duncan
... deceived. God is at work. Maybe you know about the century plant. The century plant is native to the desert regions. It is so named because it is a notoriously slow grower. For decades, the century plant will show no signs of growth. It will just look like a scrubby, ugly little bush. Then one day, it will suddenly start growing. It may grow half a foot per day and reach up to forty feet. And after it has reached its full growth, the century plant suddenly produces flowers. Its bright yellow blossoms last ...
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King Duncan
... man who had no transportation. He always sat with the blind man, helping him sing the hymns by saying the words into his ear." Cal Thomas says, "That man was a ‘Christian leader' if ever there was one." (3) Cal Thomas is right. The early church wasn't looking for a superstar to help lead them, but a servant. That's who we need to lead us in the church today. People who know Christ and have a servant's heart. For you see, in today's world credibility is everything. People today are cynical and suspicious ...
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