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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451. It Isn't Fair!
Matthew 20:1-16
Sermon
Brett Blair
... Am I not allowed to do what I please with what belongs to me? This parable of Jesus must have fallen like a big thud upon the ears of its listeners. Here Simon Peter had asked Jesus a serious question and in reply he gets a story that on the surface sounds quite ludicrous. A landowner that pays equal wages for men who do not work equal hours. Why, that’s not the American way. That runs counter to our whole system of justice and fair play. Who would work all day if you could simply wait till the last hour ...
452. Do You Really Want to Dive?
Illustration
Leslie Bush
... position and took a deep breath. "Tuck your head more," advised mom. I tucked, and, with painful effort, forced my legs to throw my body off the wall, head-first into the cold water. I never felt the shock of it in the exhilaration of being able to dive. I surfaced to sunshine and the sound of the lifeguard’s good-natured applause.
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... s face it, living among the ruins can be pretty grim! A friend who, as a child, lived in Berlin in 1945 still remembers that she literally breathed the destruction in the dust of shattered concrete and stone that was everywhere. It was on every surface, in clothing, in the air one breathed and the food and water that one consumed. As ubiquitous as the dust was, the depressing reality of the devastation that was impossible to escape. People walked around as in a nightmare, hollow-eyed and demoralized in the ...
454. We Know Jonah
Jonah 3:1-10
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... played upon the anti-Semitism that already existed among people - the ideas and attitudes in the minds of ordinary people. From the comfortable distance of 2,300 years we may be indifferent about the matter of Ninevites - whoever they were - but scratch below the surface of any of us and almost for certain there is a bit of prejudice there. Most of us try to control it, especially in circles where expressions of prejudice are not socially acceptable, but it is there. Don’t take me wrong, though. We ...
Sermon
J. Ellsworth Kalas
... talked with the man, heard his appeal, and healed his blindness, so that the man went on his way whole and rejoicing. Jesus then entered Jericho, and as he was passing through it, he encountered a quite different situation. At least, it was different on the surface, though it seems that a common chord runs through all our human need. At any rate, in this instance Jesus met what may well have been the richest man in Jericho, the tax collector, Zacchaeus. As it happened, he was also the most despised man in ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... through the region of the Garden of Gethsemane and finally made a steep climb to the Compassion Gate of Jerusalem. That road’s history went back before David’s choice of Jerusalem for his temple-building, back to when Ornan discovered a smooth rock surface on the hilltop that became his grain threshing floor (2 Samuel 24). Since that first use, the road from the east into Jerusalem had been packed down with the feet of many travelers. This was the road that trade caravans had taken, bringing precious ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... dry gap in the sea is invaded by a violent wall of water, foam filling the nostrils of horses, their eyes white with fear. Horsemen are thrown from their mounts. Charioteers are swept away by the swirling torrent. Then a death-marked stillness settles on the surface of the sea. Immense! Or again, the vision in the Book of Revelation of the saints in heaven gathered in a multitude greater than the eye can see, an ocean of faces and white robes larger than the mind can measure, an endless throng finding the ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... story. It is true that many of our attempts at change are laughably naive and shallow, but taken as markers of the human condition, they also point to a deeper restlessness, a more urgent quest. However silly or trivial they may appear on the surface, the changes people make in their lives are often signs of a crucial, frequently desperate, sometimes courageous, search. If that is true, what is it that we are searching for? What is it that causes people to contemplate important changes in their lives? What ...
Sermon
Edward Chinn
... can’t defend himself, your father cuts open his body with a sharp knife and cuts out part of it and throws it away? What do you think of a father who would do such a thing? What would you think if your father did this to you?" On the surface, the son might admit that such a list of things like this wouldn’t work out to be the expected portrait of a loving father. But, the son could choose to say, "I can’t understand all that, but I know my father. I know that he is kind and ...
460. Christmas Gift
Isaiah 61:1-11
Sermon
Thomas D. Peterson
... was given them, a mysterious, vision-laden garment. It was a mantle of praise, garlands for the neck - a royal garment of salvation. Just as I received clothes to wear, so did Israel. Then the real nature of the garment of salvation began to surface. Here was a different sort of covering, preparing them for the days ahead. Isaiah called it "robes of righteousness." What made up a robe of righteousness? A list of wonderful verbs. As these verbs became of daily use, the practical nature of the gift appeared ...
461. A Streak of Common Sense
Deuteronomy 18:14-22
Sermon
Thomas D. Peterson
... set there for just such an emergency. This little pig achieved the long-range consequence of his common sense - safety. Along the way he paid the price of the daily requirements to make it come to pass - hard work along with planning ahead. On the surface, common sense would seem to be those qualities which enable us to get the most with the least. It calls for being sharp, clever, and able to manipulate circumstances; but, on reflection, it demands that we at least ponder what might result from different ...
Sermon
Thomas D. Peterson
... Bethzatha (John 5:2-9). This cripple had been locked in for 38 years to his excuse. "I do not have anyone to move me to the pool when the water is disturbed." The belief was that from time to time an angel flew over the pool and disturbed the surface. The first person to touch the water after the angel’s visitation would be healed. This poor man had no one, only his excuses. He was on a ten-inch leash. Jesus, looking on him and loving him, knew that he needed movin’ around room, not in the portico, but ...
463. The Forgotten Virtue
Philippians 2:1-11
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... English theologian, puts it, "Pride leads to every other vice. It is the complete anti-God state of mind. Pride is spiritual cancer; it eats up the very possibility of love or contentment or even common sense." Pride, you see, isn’t just a flaw on the surface of life that mars a man’s other virtues. It is the BASIC SIN that underlies ALL evil. The eternal words, "God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble." And here is the principle: pride is the basic sin, because it brings a resistance ...
Drama
William McKee Aber
... aren’t even here. (adds BLOCK) Is that paper more interesting than me? Jack: (partially joking) Sometimes. (adds BLOCK) Sue: (hurt, looks away, adds two BLOCKS) Wormwood: Like two fencers, they stab and parry. Each has been hit so that feelings are near the surface but the issues are confused. Nevertheless, my side is ahead, Christian. Why do you say so little, Christian? Things do not look good! Jack: (Lowering paper) Look, Sue, some people are bright and ready to go this early in the morning; I’m not ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... large, and the edge rough where the crude pottery had broken away. But the wine was sweet, and burned in the back of our mouths as we swallowed it. It warmed. Jesus took the cup in both hands - looking deeply on the design of leaves pressed into the outer surface. He looked into the cup - the red wine catching the flames of the lamps about the room. The blood-red liquid was still upon my lips as he whispered, "This is as my blood, shared that the new covenant between God and man might be known." He drank ...
466. Focused Light
Acts 10:23b-48
Sermon
William F. Dunkle
... in Cornelius. Here in God’s gospel of light all the old dark recesses of hate and suspicion and fear are illuminated, then vanquished. Wet, bloody boundaries between humans dry up and disappear. Secret lusts, closeted passions, hidden and suppressed appetites all surface as the searching brightness of Christ’s love bears in upon human lives. Nothing can long withstand the sharp surgery of God’s grace. The gospel of peace makes a difference in our lives and this difference becomes visible. Simon Peter ...
467. Clean Light
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Sermon
William F. Dunkle
... cellar until she decided, "Ye canna hear George Matheson preach and live in a cellar." Saint Paul is sure that Corinthian converts cannot live with Jesus Christ and still burrow like animals in the underground darkness of passion and appetite. They have surfaced into the light. It is a light that cauterizes and cleans. Indeed, the apostle writes, there is glory in God’s light, and he can assure us that even our bodies, our feeble, fickle, faltering bodies, can glorify God. Frances Ridley Havergal wrote ...
Sermon
O. Garfield Beckstrand, II
... is what we could say is a heavenly peace. What do we mean by these different kinds of peace? A character in a novel says of another person, "He has peace of mind after a good dinner when his pipe is drawing well." This is worldly peace. On the surface it appears to break the tension of life. It gives rest from the trials and tribulations of the day. But in reality it is no more lasting than a tranquilizer drug. When it wears off, nothing has changed. It is a kind of mental blackout which gives "peace" when ...
Sermon
George Bass
... resurrection: "Do you believe?" Jesus believed in the truth of what he replied to the Jews in the Temple, or he would never have allowed himself to get caught in their final trap, the one that claimed his life. Two radically different stories surfaced within two weeks in the daily newspapers. Locally, the headline, "His decision to end treatment carries acceptance of death," introduced the tragic story of Jim O’Grady, who had made a decision to die; his father and friends accepted it in the realization ...
Sermon
George Bass
... to a man who is dying . Winchester confirms the impending death with a glance. The soldier says, "I can’t see anything. Hold my hand." The major replies, "I am." "I’m dying," the soldier moans, and this causes the surgeon’s unarticulated questions to surface: "Can you see anything? Can you feel anything? I have to know." But the dying soldier doesn’t answer. Instead, he says, "I smell bread" - and then he dies, leaving Winchester’s questions still unanswered. But that was enough to make the major ...
471. God’s Choice
1 Samuel 16:1-13
Sermon
Roger Prescott
... a second chance to make a good first impression." And that’s too bad, because first impressions generally do not reveal inward qualities. The anointing of David demonstrates to us that we are to look deeper into each other than to see only what’s on the surface. While a doctor in England was using a small medical light to examine the mouth of a thirty-year-old woman, the bulb and battery became detached from the case and slid gently and painlessly down her throat. In a very real sense the woman suddenly ...
Sermon
Roger Prescott
... order to provision himself for the westward journey. "I grew up as a sort of leader," says Crocker. "I had always been the one to swim a river and carry a rope across." - Irving Stone* (*Men to Match My Mountains, Doubleday, 1956, p. 144.) True leadership will surface. In our narrative today, we see how David’s ability was emerging. We need to be patient about progress. If we are thinking too much about tomorrow, today may not be lived as well as it could be. As a student I need to concentrate on studies ...
473. An Unusual Legacy
2 Samuel 23:1-7
Sermon
Roger Prescott
... of documents that tell about a person’s life. Resumes, autobiographies and biographies, obituaries. Generally, they are quite flattering and they skim the cream from a person’s experiences. Failures, broken promises, crushed dreams, and major faults are not stirred to the surface for the public to see. Our real lives, on the other hand, are a blend of good and evil, strength and weakness, hope and despair. But there is another important document that makes up a part of our lives. A will. That which ...
474. King of Atlanta
Romans 8:28-39
Drama
Michael L. Sherer
... day, as Scripture says, we live in peril too. ANTAGONIST: Maybe so. But when did you last have your house bombed? ANNOUNCER: Mixed reports are coming out of Montgomery, Alabama, this week. In the last several days, a hopeful sign has surfaced. For the first time, white citizens are beginning to speak out against the ugly wave of anti-black bombings sparked by the recent defeat of the segregationist policies of the city. White pastors and lay people, including influential business leaders, are condemning ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... the Christ. The Son of the living God.” Also at this time Herod had learned about Jesus and he thought Jesus was John the Baptist back from the dead. Herod had John beheaded and now thought he was coming back to get him. So all these questions are surfacing about the identity of Jesus. There should be no question that his disciples are having their doubts. And so, Jesus takes his inner circle up a mountain for this private encounter. It is here that they learn in a definitive way who Jesus is. He is none ...
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