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
Peter Rudowski
... the question is, with whom do we share? Can we realistically talk to a neighbor? In this mobile society, is there a neighbor who has been there long enough to build a trust relationship so that deep feelings can be shared? Many of our relationships are just on the surface. What hurts us is that we know it. Can we go and talk to family? Parents live hundreds of miles away, and we don’t want to worry them. They can’t do anything about our hurts and needs anyway. We are also told that husbands and wives do ...
Sermon
Peter Rudowski
... make us think. When God challenges us, it is not always what we want to hear. More often than not we may wish the issue was never raised and that God would just go home. We feel comfortable that life has given us what we want. But those surface feelings are often challenged by feelings underneath that say we want to be fulfilled. The challenge stirs us up inside and makes us think. Like the E. F. Hutton ad, when God speaks, we are to stop, look, examine, and change. Our lesson today gives a perfect example ...
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George Bass
... if he wished; he knew her well - and loved and trusted her completely. Why else would he have chosen her to become the Mother of his Messiah? It is in Mary - from our perspective as well as God’s - that the perfect submission of believers in God first surfaces in conjunction with Christ and his continuing mission in the world. Mary is a model for all of the saints of God. Someone once said: "A saint is simply a person to whom God has given strength to take his basic commandment (to love God and humanity ...
404. Pardon for Sin
Romans 5:12-21
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Dennis Kastens
... he does not wish his employer’s good and resists his authority. At a deeper level he hates his employer, unconsciously wishing for his death (which, of course, is wrong). But he does not realize the full depth of his hostility. He may say on the surface, I don’t wish him any bad luck, but underneath he may unconsciously wish his employer’s demise. By defense stratagem he may manage to conceal the death wish and to obscure the full magnitude of the hatred which gives rise to it. He feels extremely ...
405. The Strength of Poverty
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
Hubert Beck
... ultimate intention of loving and restoring humankind through this self-giving act of Jesus. This is, of course, an entirely new and different way to see ourselves from that to which we are accustomed. It is, in fact, different from what seems perfectly obvious on the surface, for whether we want to own anything or not, there are some "givens" to our life that cannot be denied. Our very life itself, for example, is something that we must claim. To renounce it would be to commit suicide. We have it to have ...
406. TONGUE POWER
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John H. Krahn
... Finger-pointing and fault-finding are favorite pastimes of the gossiper. The dubious art of gossip murders good character. Our second subtlety is the sin of insidious inference. While not directly accusing, inference suggests that that which appears to be pristine on the surface may not be after all. A statement like, "Can’t imagine why Beth is so popular with the guys ... It’s certainly not her personality," is an example of this kind of destructive language. Finally we can do violence to our neighbor ...
407. GUTS TO BE CHICKEN
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John H. Krahn
Anyone who thinks Christianity is for sissies doesn’t know very much about it. The teachings of Jesus Christ are most challenging. Once he said, "If you are slapped on one cheek, turn the other." On the surface it seems as though our Lord expects us to be cowardly. Can you imagine how his words sounded to the disciples? They were rugged men of the sea, not panty-waists. Looking deeper at his teaching, we see that Jesus Christ was calling forth from us a greater strength than ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... " have unwittingly become "an indecent, Godless people." We say, "Evil be thou good," but it just doesn’t work; and we look around us and behold, "in the ‘Enemy’s’ house are many rotten hovels." The result of this "harmless" philosophical game comes to the surface in a statement by Sarah Jane Moore who tried to murder President Ford, and is reported to have said: "At the time it seemed the correct expression of my anger and, if successful, just might have triggered a kind of chaos that could have ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... ," but the question is what kind of programming is it to be mathematical, scientific, financial, sheer intellectual; or is it that God will have some opportunity to touch the programming with the mystery of his presence, so that life may move from the surface to the depths, from that which is dying to that which lives. In the book Terminal Man, Chrichton suggests that no system can explain nor create itself.1 No machine can understand its own workings. A human brain might, after years of work, decipher ...
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Richard Hoefler
... backs to the oars and paused only to bail the threatening water from the bottom of their boat. Frustrated and exhausted, but still afloat, they welcomed the first faint light of dawn. But in this eerie half-light of morning, they saw a figure floating on the surface of the water. Now they really were terrified. "It’s a ghost!" they screamed in fear. The battle with the storm had not only hardened the muscles of their backs and arms, but their hearts as well. So that when their familiar friend came to them ...
411. A Daughter of Jacob
Matthew 15:21-28
Sermon
Richard Hoefler
... of indifference - harsh and even rude. The idea that Jesus could and would act like a narrow-minded nationalistic Jew is understandably repulsive to us. Yet that is the apparent picture that is first presented to us in this story - at least so far as the surface facts are concerned. What we need to see is that this roughness was a treatment. Christ recognized not only what this woman needed but how those needs would best be met. Lincoln once saw a man attempting to split a log. "The wood is too hard," the ...
Drama
Tom Eberle
... looked up I saw the brightness of God piercing the night sky. And in that brightness he called me to lead the entire world out of their caves. Narrator: Do you really expect people to give up their hard-fought niches they have been able to carve in the iron surface of the earth, and come outside to be blown by cold winds and struck dawn by driving rains? Light: Yes, I do expect them to come out. For I am going to tell then it is God’s wind, that blows in their faces, and his rain that waters the ...
Drama
Tom Eberle
... I see is in the newspaper for you to read also. I am told that you may live to see the last drop of oil sucked from beneath the earth’s crust. By the year 2000 there may be as many as 7 billion of you scavenging the earth’s surface for food. Son: Maybe we will discover a way of making oil from water, and food from the air. Surely there has to be some way out. Mother: I don’t know. I am sure of one thing, though. Son: What’s that? Mother: The longer you refuse to be ...
414. Are You Under Arrest?
Heb 5:11-13; 10:39
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... ’s final word. In a sense people like that arrest themselves! It is this issue of arrest that Paul has in mind in this letter to the Hebrews, and J. B. Phillip’s translation of his words do an excellent job of bringing this theme of arrest to the surface: There is a great deal that we should like to say about this high priesthood, but it is not easy to explain to you since you seem too slow to grasp spiritual truth. At a time when you should be teaching others, you need teachers yourselves to repeat to ...
415. Bezaleel
Exodus 35:30--36:7
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Warren Thomas Smith
... wonder at the majesty and beauty of Gothic cathedrals. We marvel at the skill of workers who caught a bit of heaven and wove it into stone. As Will Durant says, "... the Gothic sculptor, in the joy of his art, could scarcely touch a surface without adorning it."3 Suger, the Benedictine abbot and regent of France who supervised the construction of St. Denis in Paris, remarked about the magnificent furnishings of his church, "If the ancient law ordained that cups of gold should be used for libations, and to ...
416. Herod Antipas
Luke 13:31-35
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Warren Thomas Smith
... they really are. It would be so good to know someone real, an authentic person. Do such exist? Above all, we are weary of the sham in ourselves. This is the overwhelming concern. We do not permit the deepest longings of our souls to come to the surface because we are afraid of the truth. Not only do we neatly cover our real personhood, we judge others by the external trappings they employ, even when we wish it were otherwise. THE KING What finally happened to Herod Antipas? He became jealous when Agrippa, a ...
417. Phoebe
Joel 2:28-32
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Warren Thomas Smith
... home to tend the roast in the oven. She brings to her church all her faculties: energy, business acumen, sensitivity, creativity, ability to get things done. Church life means more than just activity. Phoebe knows this. She is neither satisfied with surface dedication nor superficial relationships. She is the one who carefully studies the Church school lesson - whether she teaches or not. She takes the courses in Bible study at leadership school, assiduously working on her assignments. In light of all that ...
418. Food for Faith
Matthew 14:13-21
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... the soul. God, through the words of Amos, said, "I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread ... but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord." Once John Wesley advised, "Do justice to your soul. Do not starve yourself any longer." On the surface it may not seem as though our text deals with this kind of bread. Scholars tell us that this account of the feeding of the five thousand is closely related to the Eucharist. It seems like a re-enactment of the Last Supper: "Taking the five loaves and ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... or less of the facts. We got along for thousands of years thinking that the earth was flat. Now we say that it is round and think of it in a new mode. Most of my life has been spent looking at the earth from the viewpoint of its own surface. Today any young person sees the vision of the earth-ball from those floating space satellites as they look back at the earth. I am a great admirer of the late Charles A. Lindbergh. When his father first purchased a Model T. Ford (and this is not to be construed ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... life’s meaning. Thorton Wilder expresses it memorably in his play, "The Angel That Troubled the Waters." The scene of the play is laid at the pool of Siloam, where, at a certain hour of the day, the Gospel story tells us, an angel ruffles the surface of the water, and whoever at that moment is lowered into the pool is healed of his infirmity. In the throng of sufferers gathered expectantly around the pool one day, a physician is discovered. He suffers from an incurable disease and, like the others, he is ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... . His very sanctimoniousness isolated him from humanity and heaven. His look of superiority criticized an unfortunate, seeking a word of hope or a hand of help. His pride of bearing and being set him apart from the affairs of his day where the polished surface of his self-excellence needed to get scratched and smudged in the struggle of humanity. And so our Lord dismissed his piosity with the words of retribution: "For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled." But the other half of that sentence ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... TALK ABOUT GIVES US AWAY Humans will talk. It is our way of communication. If we have bitterness, it will come out. If we have doubts, they soon will be known. If we are frustrated, others will find out. If we are jealous, it will come to the surface. We talk, verbalize, and discuss issues, people, and all sorts of things - and it is finally our speech that gives us away. You recall that a little maid said to Peter, while he warmed himself by the enemy’s fire; "Thy speech betrayeth thee." Maybe that’s ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... right without God, don’t they? They’re happy! They’re satisfied with their lot in life. They’ve got everything they want. Don’t be misled. They are wearing a mask, and deep in their consciousness, which they won’t allow to surface, is the knowledge that they are frauds. I remember one young man with whom I debated, trying to break through the wall of counterfeit - they’re always counterfeit - intellectual difficulties that he was having with accepting Christ as Lord and Savior. "Pastor," he ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... earth, even among our allies? Because, dear friends, we have often been acting like hirelings, because men throughout the world are now convinced that we don’t care for the sheep, that anything that we do, no matter how benevolent it might look on the surface, is still motivated by our own lust for profit or prestige or world power, that our only real concern is the preservation of what we like to call our "American way of life." This means being a millionare in the world when everyone else is starving ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... church. While Paul’s Hellenistic background must be acknowledged, neither must it be over-emphasized. He was, after all, according to his own description, "a Hebrew of the Hebrews" (Philippians 3:5), a Hebrew born and bred. In the words of Archibald Hunter, "Though the surface of Paul’s thought may owe much to Hellenism, its sub-soil remained Jewish."1 With the devout Jews of his time he believed in the one holy and righteous God, in the election of Israel to be his special people, in the Law as ...
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