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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C. Hassell Bullock
... my Psalm book.” When nothing happened, he fell down in the snow and started shouting, “Give me back my Psalm book!” The photographers were aghast and pointed their cameras toward the sky. After a brief consultation, he was given his Psalm book. On the plane Sharansky opened his book to fulfill a promise that he had made to himself while in prison: his first act of freedom would be to read Psalm 30.[23] The pendulum of life Personal Stories: When facing times of difficulty, many people quickly grow ...
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King Duncan
... comes out of World War II about a young Canadian soldier--a conscript of the British Royal Air Force--who bailed out of his plane over France and was picked up by the French underground. At that time the French were literally fighting for their lives as the ... around him he saw his buddies being blown out of the sky. It was too much for him. As a consequence he pointed the nose of his plane toward the ground and bailed out. He was not shot out of the sky at all. He was no hero. He was a coward. This made his ...
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King Duncan
... some time until the additional engines arrive. The good news is that you didn’t make this trip in an airplane!” Well, that would be good news under the circumstances. If you’re going to lose both your engines, better to do it on a train and not a plane. But I have some even better news for you today. God’s love for you and me is intimate and it is unimaginable. In Matthew 10:29-31 we have one of the most important Scriptural reminders of the love of our Heavenly Father for His children. It tells us ...
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Charley Reeb
... parents were curious about this so they took their twin boys to a therapist. The therapist was also curious about how different they were so he put the pessimist in a room full of toys and observed him. The boy picked up a plane and said, “This one is awful. I’ve seen other planes a lot better than this ugly one.” Then he picked up a Matchbox® car and said, “This one is terrible. My friend has a better matchbox car than this one.” He did that with every toy. Then the therapist put the optimist in ...
355. Praying for Endurance and Healing
James 5:1-6, James 4:13-17, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20
Understanding Series
Peter H. Davids
... their desires for the future, their use of money, or their way of doing business that is any different from the rest of the world. Their worship may be exemplary, their personal morality, impeccable; but when it comes to business they think entirely on a worldly plane. 4:14 In contrast to the secure rationality of their plans stands the insecurity of life: Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. In fact, life is utterly ephemeral: You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes ...
356. Praying for Endurance and Healing
James 5:7-12, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:13-20
Understanding Series
Peter H. Davids
... their desires for the future, their use of money, or their way of doing business that is any different from the rest of the world. Their worship may be exemplary, their personal morality, impeccable; but when it comes to business they think entirely on a worldly plane. 4:14 In contrast to the secure rationality of their plans stands the insecurity of life: Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. In fact, life is utterly ephemeral: You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes ...
357. Praying for Endurance and Healing
James 5:13-20, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12
Understanding Series
Peter H. Davids
... their desires for the future, their use of money, or their way of doing business that is any different from the rest of the world. Their worship may be exemplary, their personal morality, impeccable; but when it comes to business they think entirely on a worldly plane. 4:14 In contrast to the secure rationality of their plans stands the insecurity of life: Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. In fact, life is utterly ephemeral: You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... was “like a child newly born” (b. Yebam. 48b); but this referred to the convert’s legal status. See C. K. Barrett, The Gospel According to St John (London: SPCK, 1955), p. 172. Peter is referring to something of a different order: spiritual life on a new plane through direct divine action on a soul. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead was recognized as fundamental in Christian preaching from the very first (Acts 2:31; 3:15; 4:2, 33; 10:40). Hope is a main theme of the whole letter: see also ...
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King Duncan
... this one proves to us that even a prophet can be dumber than a donkey--especially if that prophet is disobeying God. I’ve done a little research on donkeys. Did you know that more people are killed by donkeys each year than are killed in plane crashes? I don’t know what you do with such information, but I thought it was interesting. The donkey has been used as a working animal for at least 5000 years. There are more than 40 million donkeys in the world, mostly in underdeveloped countries, where they ...
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King Duncan
... that three engines had quit because of fuel contamination and the fourth was expected to go at any second. The plane began to drop and turn in the night, preparing for an emergency landing. At first the situation seemed unreal to ... the incredible privilege of knowing You. Life has been wonderful.” Could you pray a prayer like that in such an emergency? As the plane approached the ground, Petersen’s last cry was, “Oh, God, my wife! My children!” Petersen survived. As he wandered about the airport in ...
361. Testing
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Editor James S. Hewett
... , he immediately began looking for her. Suddenly he saw a woman with a green scarf, green hat, and green carnation. His heart fell. She was one of the most homely women he had ever seen in his life. He was tempted to get back on the plane without approaching her. Nevertheless, he walked over to the woman, smiled, and introduced himself. Immediately the woman said, "What is this all about, anyway? I don't know who you are. That woman over there gave me five dollars to wear these things." When the man looked ...
362. Get Home Safely
1 John 1:9; John 14:15-31
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F.B. Myer
... arranged for the airline stewardess to walk the child to them when they arrive in LA. You have gotten approval for the child to just stay in his seat in Dallas. Now as you take the child to the airport you have only one message for him. “Remain in the plane. Everything is taken care of; all you have to do is just remain in your seat. And you will arrive at the desired destination.” That’s what Jesus is saying to these disciples. I have gotten you on board with me. Don’t get off the ...
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Lori Wagner
... immediately and come to the states to help out. So the family agreed to raise the money to bring him out, and see what the prospects were. By the time the Iranian doctor got off the plane, the father had contracted an infection in the hospital, and the operation became even more urgent. The family could barely understand him, because his English was not very good. They were unsure if they could trust him, as his people were on record as wanting to obliterate their people. But ...
364. Redemption
Acts 2:1-13
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Lori Wagner
... been on a run over a German city named Kassel. It took quite a bit of flak by Nazi antiaircraft guns, but miraculously it kept flying and made it back to base. Going through the plane the Air Force pilots couldn't believe their own eyes. A total of eleven shells had hit their gas tanks and yet the plane had not exploded! Taking the 11 intact shells carefully from the tanks, they were sent down to have them defused. What they found in defusing them explained their miracle. All eleven shells were completely ...
365. Against the Grain
Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29
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Lori Wagner
... , behaving differently, counter-culturally, ruffling some feathers by doing something unconventional, behaving contrary to one’s own nature. The word comes from the art of wood planning. When you take a beam of wood and want to plane it, or smooth it, you need to plane it “with” the grain, along with the direction of the wood fibres, so that it becomes smoother and eliminates splinters. To go “against” the grain would be to create spikes, rough wood, an uneven surface. While “going against ...
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.
Carl Burns
When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly.
Donald Douglas
Humor
The passengers seated in the plane in flight heard this over the intercom system: "Sit back and relax. This plane is entirely automatic. Automatic pilot, automatic food servers, and automatic landing devices. You are perfectly safe. Enjoy your ride. Nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong…."
Sermon
King Duncan
... of life. On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four American jets with passengers aboard and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The terrorists also intended to crash a plane into the U.S. Capitol, but passengers on board that flight defied the hijackers and the plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania instead. That morning, as reports of the devastating attacks came into the Federal Aviation Commission’s offices, their National Operations Manager, Ben Sliney, made a critical ...
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King Duncan
... primary witness to the world of our faith in Christ. Many years ago, Pastor W.A. Criswell told of visiting a Wycliffe missionary camp in a remote district in Peru. He watched a small amphibious plane come out of the Peruvian jungle and land on a nearby airstrip. Two young women came off the plane. They were covered in insect bites that had become infected and turned into open sores. Their condition looked miserable. But the young women didn’t complain. They were missionaries, and they had chosen to serve ...
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King Duncan
... drown?” There is a corporate training company called Survival Systems that has a Leadership & Team Development program that simulates surviving a plane crash or a ship sinking at sea. So they take a group of corporate employees out into the ocean and put ... -threatening storm reveal about your leadership skills and ability to control stress? Perhaps if we can imagine ourselves in a tiny plane being buffeted by a storm that is threatening to tear our small craft to pieces, we can appreciate the terror that ...
372. Preachers, All!
Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:42-47
Sermon
Will Willimon
... president of Emory University, telling about being on an airplane ride where he experienced Christian witness. He got on the plane and nodded to the man who sat in the seat next to him. He looked to be a businessman, perhaps returning home for the weekend after a ... long business trip. No sooner had the plane taken off than Laney noted that the man pulled out a large Bible and a pen and notebook. ''Oh no," Laney thought to himself ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... you were practically sitting on the edge of your seat waiting to find out the ending? Rev. Harry B. Parrott Jr. tells of listening to a radio broadcast of a pastor who also piloted his own small plane. The pastor had been in Detroit for some meetings, then he jumped in his plane and headed back toward his home in Escanaba, Michigan. As he flew over Lake Michigan, he experienced engine trouble. The engine was stopping and starting, stopping and starting. His instrument gauges didn’t indicate anything was ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... commitment. When the pilot of a giant airliner is speeding down the runway, there is a certain point where he cannot decide to remain on the ground. When he crosses that line, he is committed to the air, or the plane crashes disastrously. That pilot cannot change his mind when the plane is two-thirds of the way down the runway. Unfortunately, our churches are filled with members who ‘have never left the ground.’” (5) Those are hard words. What does it mean that our churches are filled with people who ...
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Mary Austin
... for the shuttle to land there. They waited as the time for the return came and went …with their anticipation changing to anxiety, and then to fear. When it became clear that something was very wrong, NASA officials rushed the family members away, and put them on a plane for Houston. At that point, the families knew that the astronauts must be gone, but nothing else. Later, they learned that the shuttle had broken apart around the Texas-Louisiana border, but no one knew that then. Still, when the NASA ...
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