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
Leonard Sweet
... to the neighbors and spill it out? Do you run to the therapist and lay it out? Jesus ran to the Lord and prayed it out. The headline for an article in a recent national publication contained the phrase "local church," hyphenated to fit on two lines. The resulting headline read "THE LO-CALCHURCH." The difference between a local church that is alive and an anemic lo-cal church is The Power Called Prayer. On this "Mother's Day," or "Festival of the ChristianHome" in some churches, it is fitting that we reflect ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... (it has been translated into 85 languages), cross-generational (appealing to grades from 1-8), and cross-over (both boys and girls). The voices of the characters are familiar ones (Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, James Coburn, Meg Ryan, Martin Sheen, et al.). The story line of this show contends that Mother Earth has given The Planeteers five rings, each with a special power. But the four rings of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water are subordinate to the power of the fifth ring. This fifth ring, with the power to ...
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Leonard Sweet
... fighting elite, were not allowed to trample down or destroy the vegetation of their enemies. Destroying this future food supply was considered "foul play." During the American Revolutionary War the British regiments sustained heavy casualties because they insisted on lining up in neat, orderly, easily targeted rows during their assaults. The guerilla warfare style of the colonists (who learned it from the Native Americans) was considered "foul play." In World War I a new technological weapon, mustard gas ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... % are comparatively well off. Only 13% live in poverty. The evangelical community alone worldwide boasts a personal total income totaling just under $1 trillion a year. Furthermore, what kind of value statement do we participate in when the line between environmental plunder and gains in personal wealth has become increasingly blurred? In his brilliant The Midas Touch: Money, People and Power from West to East (1989), Anthony Sampson makes explicit linkages between moneymaking and planetary destruction, the ...
3880. Be Happy!
Mark 10:46-52
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... A" personality syndromes are not predictive of early death. Only hostility, cynicism, aggression, and orneriness - these are the killers. People who cannot trust, people who can only control, are in more than spiritual jeopardy. Their health is on the line as well. The crowd that tried to quiet the boisterous blind man was evidently embarrassed by Bartimaeus' loud, direct method of expressing his needs and petitioning his desires. There were established channels by which to petition the Lord for healing ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Esther and Ruth. God's craziness got even more crazy when the time for the Messiah finally arrived. Defying "good" sense and "Common" sensibilities, Jesus came out of Nazareth ("Can anything good come out of Nazareth?"), and, while born out of the line of David, he actually arrived as the first-born in the family of a poor construction worker from a small town in a long conquered land. Throughout his unpredictable life Jesus performed Crazy Dog stunts - eating with tax collectors and publicans, associating ...
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Leonard Sweet
... sap of spring brings forth sprouts and leaves, decorating the tree with the lush greenery of new life. Jeremiah also uses this language of exterior regeneration to symbolize interior changes when he describes the new branch which will "spring up" from David's line (33:15). What kind of ornamentation can we choose this season which can decorate our inner as well as our outer "living rooms?" Four Christmas ornaments we might select to beautify our souls come to us as gifts from the first Christmas family ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... wrath to come. Merry Christmas." (In Trust, "Preaching of the Hard Gospel," 1920). Prompted by Willimon's example, Chicago's John M. Buchanan (fourth Presbyterian) has suggested yet another rendition of the "new" Christmas greeting. He envisions a "whole new line of Scripture Christmas cards featuring Mary, as always, a lovely gentle teenager, brunette, perhaps framed in a window looking out onto rolling hills with a bright star shining in the evening sky." The inscription, borrowing from Willimon, would be ...
3884. A Lovehope Faith
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... unfolding of meaning. In communion with nearly two billion fellow humans identified with his name, I find this dramatic unfolding decisively connected with Jesus Christ. I hope to learn, in his context, that love is stronger than death. Thus, three italicized words from 1 Corinthians 13 line up in this game of life: "So faith, hope, love abide, these three: but the greatest of these is love." Hence, the meaning of life. Or at least the first hint of a whisper of a clue of finding it. On the same page, by ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... even add a stripe of neon colored zinc-oxide down our noses, plus a hat for good measure. Of course, for some of us the words of warning about over-exposure came too late. The damage has been done...we have, yes, wrinkles! lines! creases! Yeech! What an image! No wonder the multi-million dollar cosmetic industry provides so many moisturizing, micro-encapsulated, mega-drenched, money-sucking methods for combating the effects sun, rain, wind, and life have on our faces. While the baby boomer generation may ...
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Leonard Sweet
... Boomers and Other Aging Americans by Jerry Gerber and others [New York: Macmillan, 1989], 4). It is time for the church to lead the way in abandoning self-fulfilling, "out of service" images of the elderly. Belly-roll abdomens, cottage-cheese thighs, crow's feet laugh lines and bodies that accumulate more and more barnacles the older you get - these can be symbols of veneration and wisdom. In the words of Landon Y. Jones, "In our time, we shall have to re-think everything about what it means to be old in ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... economize. One piece of paper could be made to hold twice as much information by practicing the art of palimpsest. After filling the page the paper was simply rotated 45 degrees and then another entire page of writing was placed on top of the existing lines. These letters could compress the maximum amount of news onto a minimum amount of paper. There was only one drawback. It made for difficult reading. Like singing a round, it took intense concentration to keep focused on just one layer of the message at a ...
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Leonard Sweet
... delineations of my darkest fears. It is a living metaphor of my own vulnerabilities." ("Is Health a Gospel Imperative?" Embracing the Chaos: Theological Responses to AIDS, edited by James Woodward [London: SPCK, 1990], 94-95) The church should be on the front lines of the AIDS battle. We must step forward to educate and inform about AIDS and its prevention while realizing that any disease that makes us look into the abyss of sex, disability, disfigurement and death is bound to make people nervous and ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , the Good Samaritan. Keeping in mind Jesus' dual emphasis on word and work, Habgood focuses on the continued gift of Christ's presence among us. Habgood first skips to the end of the parable, finding one focus of the story in its last line, "Go and do likewise" (Luke 10:37). Here word and work come together dramatically. The priest and Levite, both men of great words, supposedly representing formidable examples of faithfulness, utterly fail to incarnate that faith. The healing presence of the Lord cannot ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... family members to fill them is a Shunammite holdover. The "American dreamhouse" always has a guest room. While we wait for that dream to come true, we make do with hide-a-beds, bunk beds or at least sleeping bags. But somewhere along the line this Shunammite tradition suddenly became a strange and frightening suggestion. We would no longer dream of opening our house to a complete stranger, offering them shelter at the expense of exposing ourselves and our families to some risk. Even the known are now turned ...
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Leonard Sweet
... church architecture are not usually among the everyday topics consuming a congregation's attention. When it does come up, it is probably during some new building or renovation project where the focus is on the location of plumbing and power lines or the new seating capacity. Few people spend much time anguishing over the theological message their architectural design sends out. But 'twas was not always so. Throughout church history the design of a sanctuary often revealed as much about its congregation ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... nights. "Much of our free time," Robinson concludes, "is absorbed by the process of deciding what to do with it" (Waldman, 23). Consider how many traffic jams you have sat in on your way to the local mall's Cineplex so that you could stand in line to get into that great new movie. An even more depressing consequence of all this free choice is the revelation that our number of bad choices goes up in direct proportion. "The more choices there are," Waldman points out, "the more wrong choices there are - and ...
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Leonard Sweet
... failed to go. Second, he was using the most high-tech instruments of his day. The interplay of tradition and innovation is a crucial one in the life of the wisdomkeeping Christian. Glacier Man took with him the traditional heavy fur garments and straw-lined leather boots. But he also carried with him a bronze axe and a small fire-making kit that contained kindling and sticks. Those Christian leaders who have made the biggest advances for God and the gospel in history have been those who remained faithful ...
3894. Rags and Robes
Micah 1:1-7; 2:1-11
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... develops into intricate Germanic tapestries - has been a standard part of Jesus' ensemble. Jesus, like anyone else, has been known and judged to a certain degree on the basis of his dress. Hendricks finds Barrows' work, though new in costume, completely in line with the best in traditional religious art. Still, her work shocks. One convent had to remove a Barrows painting after a visiting superior declared she was quite sure Jesus would never wear overalls. History and Scripture would seem to disagree with ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , in our minds “free spirits” are crunchy granola, earth-muffin tree-huggers. Then there are the free spirits that are demonized by those who want to maintain the status quo. For them “free spirits” are those who refuse to toe the party line. A “free spirit” is dangerous and untrustworthy, a threat against authority, someone who goes off on their own, someone you can’t control. In both cases a “free spirit” equals someone outside the system, outside the norm, outside our safety zone. Paul ...
3896. Letting God Bless You
John 1:6-8, 19-28
Illustration
Joel D. Kline
... to God for the richness of existence. Then look around to see who you can share it with. That will make you even richer. If you will learn to live this way every day, you will always have a song in your heart and the path before you will be lined with flowers. Joy will spring up inside you like a fountain, and you will lie down to sleep at night with peace in your soul. And you will say, "Blessed be the name of our God forever and ever, who calls us to a new rule where righteousness will be ...
3897. Merry Xmas
John 1:1-18; Luke 2:1-20
Illustration
David E. Leininger
... to the other part of the complaint...the X...there is less validity. To the English-speaking world, X is simply the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet. But to the Greeks, the ones in whose language the New Testament was written, those diagonally-crossed lines are the letter "Chi," the first letter in the name "Christos," which in Greek means Messiah. Through the years it has been an acceptable abbreviation for Christ. The early Church used it as an abbreviation for Jesus. If you look at the lecture notes ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... OM, which was presented to Gap executives on the Buddha's birthday. "I wanted to do a fragrance about simplicity, sensuality and spirituality." Or look at Kentucky Fried Chicken ads, where a girl is on her bed in a yoga position doing her mantra. Aveda is doing a line of products for Deepak Chopra's wellness centers. The 1997 Infiniti Q45 ad has as its motto "Everything changes but the soul," and the challenge is to "Take one out for a guest drive and see why the soul is eternal." It's time for the church ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... OM, which was presented to Gap executives on the Buddha's birthday. "I wanted to do a fragrance about simplicity, sensuality and spirituality." Or look at Kentucky Fried Chicken ads, where a girl is on her bed in a yoga position doing her mantra. Aveda is doing a line of products for Deepak Chopra's wellness centers. The 1997 Infiniti Q45 ad has as its motto "Everything changes but the soul," and the challenge is to "Take one out for a guest drive and see why the soul is eternal." It's time for the church ...
3900. Hear the Vision?
1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... OM, which was presented to Gap executives on the Buddha's birthday. "I wanted to do a fragrance about simplicity, sensuality and spirituality." Or look at Kentucky Fried Chicken ads, where a girl is on her bed in a yoga position doing her mantra. Aveda is doing a line of products for Deepak Chopra's wellness centers. The 1997 Infiniti Q45 ad has as its motto "Everything changes but the soul," and the challenge is to "Take one out for a guest drive and see why the soul is eternal." It's time for the church ...
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