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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King Duncan
... and chain it to a little iron stake in the ground. The elephant will never attempt to pull away because it still associates the chain with the banyan tree. It never realizes how easily it could achieve its freedom. (4) Without faith we are in bondage to our worries and anxieties. But with trust in God, we can be set free. For the Eskimo each new day is new life. Christ can give us new life as well. And today is the first day of that life. 1. http://www.gbgm umc.org/monica/worship/sermons/2003/2003_03_23 ...
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King Duncan
... fear Alzheimer’s or a host of other ailments. And so we try to eat the right things and to exercise and to get a good night’s sleep . . . but none of these may matter. We still might contract the very disease we tried hardest to avoid. Or we worry about our finances and so we work hard and try to make smart financial choices, but few of us have the financial resources to cover all the bases. We still could get laid off from our job. The market still could have a protracted downturn that could wipe out ...
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Ron Lavin
... one else had been able to do -- to bring the young girl from the brink of death back to life. We feel the tragedy in the plea. The plea touches the soul. When a child is sick or hurting, we get worried. When he/she is very sick, we get very worried. And when a child is sick unto death, we get worried to death. As one father put it, "I'd rather die myself than have my little girl die." And he meant it. The presenting problem draws us into the story. We feel the pain of the father. The father was ...
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Susan R. Andrews
... with God, and in God, and only by God, all things can be new. In Luke that good news is clear — a new reality is about to happen, and we can be part of it. But only if we change our lives, open our hearts, and worry about other people more than we worry about ourselves. We often think of the Old Testament as discomforting and the New Testament as comforting. But this morning all of that is reversed. There are no more comforting words than the vision in chapter 40 of Isaiah. The first 39 books of Isaiah ...
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King Duncan
... rest of the days they were to gather it daily. Ironically, those who were not able to gather enough for the next day discovered that they still had all they needed. In that way they learned to trust God. That’s something we need to remember. We worry and stress out about so many things. God knows our needs. God will provide. God assures us that our daily needs will be met. Let me tell you a true story of a family who discovered that quite literally. During the winter of 1940 Josephine Kuntz’s husband ...
356. Song of the Sabbath
Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12
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Lori Wagner
... be,” in which the Eternal presence of God interrupts time for a brief time, and we can leave all that interrupts us, bothers us, worries us, harms us behind us, and revel in the joy of God’s presence and power. We can take time out of time to recognize ... pleasure. We put aside our busyness of human time to enter into God-time. We put aside the work of our hands and feet, and the worries of our hearts and burdens of our souls to put ourselves into God's hands, to allow God's outreached arm to touch us, and ...
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Lori Wagner
... s visit by one of these angelic Human Whisperers sets the course for divine deliverance on a scale never seen before. “Peace on earth and good will toward all humankind.” That’s the message of the Angelic whisper. Through that divine dream, Joseph’s anxieties are soothed. His worries are salved. He is guided on a new path that will lead him into a prophetic future. We don’t know a lot about Joseph, but we do know he was a man of deep faith and honest goodness. For he didn’t just listen. But he ...
358. Lamb Parade
John 12:12-19
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Lori Wagner
... oil over Jesus’ head and feet, Judas had become angry, and had gone directly to the high priest in order to strike a deal to betray his master and friend. Now, as he listened to Jesus teach in those last days, he was beginning to feel worried. But not worried enough to change his mind. Neither the disciples nor the many people who followed Jesus, looked up to him, and put their hope in him really understood that he would allow himself to be arrested and put to death. Despite what Jesus was telling them ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... Ohio’s summer heat and humidity. He responded that it would cost too much to air condition the nursery. I said that I thought his priorities were messed up. He said that I should do my job, which was teaching and leading children and youth, and let him worry about how the building was used. That battle went on for the whole six years that I was at that church. Somewhere along the way of taking care of the church’s property that poor man lost track of the whole purpose of the church. Somewhere along the ...
360. Rise Up
Ezekiel 37:1-14
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Lori Wagner
... feel sorrowful and without hope at the present time. We all need reassurance during times of stress and strife, even Christians. This is a time when we not only celebrate our discipleship but recognize our humanness. It’s okay to feel afraid. It’s ok to feel worried. It’s ok to feel sad. It’s ok to feel down. Even people of God, people who know God, follow Jesus, feel anchored in their faith, believe in resurrection, need reassurance from God in times of dark valleys. This is one of those times. In ...
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Brett Blair
... was the boy’s name, “you listen to me. If your dad could come back to life for five minutes and be right here with us… and if he knew you were worried about that, what would he say to you?” “He would tell me to quit worrying about that,” Jim said. “Well, all right,” the minister said, “then you quit worrying about that right now. Do you understand me?” “Yes sir,” he said… and he did. That minister was saying: “You are forgiven. Accept the forgiveness… and make a new start with ...
362. Survival
Luke 21:5-19
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Will Willimon
... to agree to peace. What will happen to us, the Europeans want to know, if we negotiate away their missiles? We aren't too worried about Europeans. It's our hides that concern us. We have lived quite nicely for forty years with Eastern Europe enslaved but we have ... asked the old man, half in jest. "I don't know," replied the old man. "I don't read the papers. I don't have to worry about who wins battles because I already know who has won the war." We do not have to construct a world out of our fears. Christians ...
363. Joy on an Elephant
Philippians 4:4-7
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Mary Austin
... failure and success, we come into God’s presence as whole people. And there, joy is our gift, the gift that no one can rush us through, or wear out, or take away. In the name of the joy-giver, Amen. Prayer: God of mystery, our lives hold sorrow and worry, and yet, underneath it all is your promise of joy, ready for us to reach out and grasp it. We thank you for leading us always toward deep joy, no matter the outer appearance of our lives. Teach us to let go of perfection, and stress, and expectation, so ...
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King Duncan
... health care, etc. But what about First World problems? A blog writer nicknamed Cheeky Kid collected a list of “100 Funny First World Problems.” I’m only going to read a few of these. I won’t ask you to raise your hand if you’ve ever worried or complained about any of these. But I think most of us will recognize ourselves somewhere in this list. Have you ever made any of these complaints? My house is such a mess! There’s stuff everywhere. My walk-in closet is not big enough. Polishing the marble ...
365. Prophets and the Powerful
1 Kings 21:1-3, 17-21
Sermon
Will Willimon
... preacher might be the next occupant of the Oval Office, some of the same people who were bothered by having an actor as President. I admitted that it bothered me a little bit that Jesse or Pat might be President one day until a woman assured me, “Don't worry about having a preacher run for President because, if he gets elected, he won't act like a preacher for long.” And you know, she's probably right. Because that's what power does to people. It changes them so that they think they can do anything they ...
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John B. Jamison
... -for-all won the battle against evil, are so afraid of so many things? Or maybe our sermon could be about how difficult parenting can sometimes be. When Mary and Joseph finally found their son, Mary asked him why he had treated them like this and told them how worried they had been about him. Apparently, Jesus just looked up at them and said, “What’s the big deal? You should have known I would be here in my Father’s house.” We are told Mary and Joseph did not understand what he meant, but I have an ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... how she had managed, amidst poverty, work, and responsibility to do it all with such a great and confident spirit. "You see," she answered, "I'm in a partnership. One day, a long time ago, I said, 'Lord, I'll do the work, and you do the worrying,' and I haven't had a worry since!" God, in his love and wisdom has promised to never leave us nor forsake us, so that we can at least have enough wisdom to trust that his wisdom is working on our behalf. II. God The Son Wisdom and truth were personified in God the ...
368. Beware Of Your Piety
Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24
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Harry N. Huxhold
... to observe what our Lord has to say about sacrificial giving. What is more important is that the dear people who practice this kind of sacrificial giving enjoy the freedom of being able to do for those in need or their favorite causes without having to worry about who notices and whether even they themselves have had a sense of reward. God takes care of all the rewards. Lenten Piety Is Self-Denial Not only is Lenten piety sacrificial, but it also calls for self-denial. Jesus certainly was not opposed to the ...
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Richard A. Wing
... the way through the inevitable darkness that comes with living on this earth. I have read about a depressed songwriter who battled the successes of the past and a fear of the future. He was bankrupt. He had a cerebral hemorrhage that left him partially paralyzed. He worried that the creative spark that had made him rich was gone. He was depressed. The texts that were his friends and that his soul could hear were texts such as "Why have you forsaken me?" In the midst of his depression, a man came by who had ...
370. Advent 1
Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22
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William E. Keeney
... find his and his wife's tickets. He wondered if they had been returned. Assured that they were, he said he had looked everywhere for them ƒ through his pockets, his hand luggage, and his wife's purse. The tour director teased a bit by saying that he should not worry since John had been saying that Israel was the best place to be for the Second Coming. That did not seem to console him! A short time later, the hand fell on the shoulder again. There stood John with a chagrined look on his face. He had reached ...
371. Proper 19
Psalm 14:1-7, 1 Timothy 1:12-20, Jeremiah 4:5-31, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7
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William E. Keeney
... Nineveh are given as the sign of Jonah. In Luke 12:24-27 the figures of the ravens and the lilies are used to illustrate lack of worry about daily needs. In Luke 13:18-21 the kingdom of God is compared first to a mustard seed and then to leaven in dough. In ... sinner because he ate with tax collectors and others whom the religious leaders branded as religiously impure. Jesus did not worry about being contaminated by the association with these persons. Jesus as a friend of sinners has two points of contact ...
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Glenn E. Ludwig
... Holy City was a frenzy of activity; voices pitched a little higher than normal; children scampering about with greater abandon; people talking and greeting and gathering. The crowd had formed, larger than a normal Passover crowd; large enough to worry the Roman soldiers; large enough to worry good old Pilate. Listen to the crowd: "Can you see him?" "Look, here he comes!" "Hail, Son of David!" "Finally, someone to free us from these Roman butchers." "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." People ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... this new sense of generosity and sacrifice will affect not only the use of our money but also everything that we do with our lives. Given this new world of abundance and plenty, we now get to live our lives no longer imprisoned by the old taboo, always having to worry about what's in it for me. Rather, the focus of our lives can be on others and their needs. We can give everything that we have, our whole lives, like that widow outside the temple and like Jesus in his journey to the cross to God. And where ...
374. Judgment Day
Mark 13:1-31
Drama
Steven E. Albertin
... believe that Jesus was wrong. The world did not come to an end during Jesus' generation. The temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. and the Roman empire did eventually fall, but the world did not come to end. Even Saint Paul told early Christians not to marry, not to worry about whether they were slaves or free because this world was soon to end, but it didn't. Was Paul wrong too? No. Quite the contrary. At the heart of our Christian faith is the belief that we have already seen the end. In a sense the end of the ...
375. The Last Days
Luke 21:5-38
Drama
Pamela Urfer
... ) No! No! Help us! Don't let that happen! 1ST MAN: What must we do? Tell us, Preacher! PREACHER: Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life or that day will catch you unexpectedly like a trap. 1ST MAN: But, Preacher! I have often been distracted by the worries of this life. PREACHER: Then woe on you! For you will not endure the last days! 1ST MAN: What must I do? PREACHER: You must change your wicked ways. And quickly! We may not have ...
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