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
Robert Beringer
... hot. The soldier's heart went out to the nameless orphan. Hurrying inside he quickly purchased a dozen hot doughnuts and took them outside to the hungry boy. "Would you like these doughnuts?" he asked. As he turned to walk away, the soldier felt a tug on his coat. He looked back and heard the child say, "Mister, are you God?" We are never more like God than when we give. The glory of being God's servant is the opportunity to do what God did in Jesus Christ our Lord. "For God so loved the world, that he gave ...
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... in Jesus Christ. The God we believe in is not One who sits passively on some cosmic grandstand, a detached spectator who looks on the suffering of human beings unmoved and uncaring. In Jesus Christ, God came into the arena of our struggles and agonies. ... . God had just one Son, and he, too, was a missionary. I have tried to be an imitation of him, though, I fear, a poor one. Looking back, I see few results for my labors, but God called me here, and I place no value on anything I have done except in relation ...
Sermon
John Jamison
... and my rights are the ones to ensure. No, if it were me in John's wet shoes that day when Jesus walked up expecting me to humbly step aside and introduce him as the new "man from God," my lips might have hesitated. So how did John make it look so easy? John knew something that I sometimes forget. He knew why he was there. Everything that had happened to him, from the old parents, to the old Essenes, to the crowds getting their shoes wet in the Jordan, he knew why it had happened. He said, "but the reason ...
4754. On Being Salty
Matthew 5:13-16
Sermon
John Jamison
... my Uncle Peacock fell in love. As the story goes, one summer evening he met a woman at the Rod and Gun. She was a woman from the city who wasn't too impressed with some questionable looking character who lived on the river. Did I tell you Uncle Peacock lived in a houseboat? It was a homemade kind of thing, and I guess looked as homemade as it was, but it floated well enough to give him a place to sleep when he could find his way to it. Somehow Uncle Peacock had to earn this woman's affections, and he ...
4755. Ooo Boy!
Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:31-32
Sermon
John Jamison
... begun over something about the in-laws, or perhaps it was her cooking again. Who knows. But it really doesn't matter how it started, what matters is that it has suddenly gotten very quiet in the room. They sit staring at each other across the table with a look in their eyes that frightens them both. He takes a deep breath, pushes himself back from the table, stands and walks out the door. Not a word is spoken. Minutes later he comes back in the door, this time with two of his friends. He walks over, sits ...
4756. Whether We Live Or Die
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Sermon
Sims Robert
... that he was. I believe that God in his mercy received him into his kingdom. Why do I say all of this? Because there are moments like this in all our lives; moments, situations, circumstances that jerk us out of the day-to-day routine and demand that we look at the whole of life. They demand that we recognize the complexity of the human condition and face up to the fact that life is a mystery and we shall never fully understand it. At these moments we are astonished. We are astonished at the gift of life, at ...
Sermon
Sims Robert
... many thousands of times God has protected my life. He has surely moved me out of harm’s way many times when I was not aware. Workers were preparing to blast rock out of a quarry. They set the dynamite, lit the fuse and ran for cover. When they looked back they saw a little three-year-old boy wandering out into the open field. They knew that any second the dynamite would explode; the little boy’s life was in danger. They stood and frantically waved, trying to get the little boy to come to them. The boy ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... : Whenever the Church is in trouble, it does three things. It fiddles with the structure. It raises new moneys, and it changes the liturgy. It gives the impression of being very busy when in truth, it is not. The church in Germany during the 1930s did all three, looking very busy. In truth, it should have been busy opposing the rise of anti-Semitism.2 And It's A Good Thing To Know More often than not, one has just a touch of sympathy for the servant who, intimidated by the king, buries the pound. "Wicked ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... conscious act he affirms this moment as the time of the king's arrival. This was surely their day. The king has come, and with him, the kingdom. The Misunderstood King Since at least the eighth century B.C.E., the prophets had promised and the people had looked for the coming of an "ideal ruler." The name "messiah" at this stage was a generic one that meant "anointed." Every king of Israel was anointed by God and given authority to rule over God's people. The hunger was for a righteous king of the Davidic ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... hear My words, and know that I am God." "In the beginning, I created the heavens and the earth. I filled the earth with everything you need to survive and prosper, and then I created you. Male and female, I made you in My own image. Do not think you look like Me, for no one has seen the face of God. No, the image you share with Me, which you have seen but through a glass darkly, is seated in your soul." "I set before you the ways of life and death, and you chose the ways of death. From ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... and carry this cross!" A Roman soldier is pointing at him! Before Simon can move, he is grabbed by the arm and thrown back to the ground. The soldiers are tying the cross to his back. Now Simon of Cyrene is closer to this Man than anyone else, and he looks into His eyes. What powerful, penetrating eyes! The kind of eyes that see below the surface right to the soul. The Man's eyes are filled with pain and sorrow, but He seems to feel pity for the people who are putting Him to death. The Man opens his mouth ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... they had killed in this manner. But this was no ordinary execution. This was a divine drama, a moment of eternity come to earth. The sky began to darken. The birds of the air stopped singing; the flowers began to fold back into their buds. The people looked up in confusion and fear. Something was wrong! All of nature was upset! All of nature was involved in the event at Calvary. What manner of darkness was this? It was deeper than the darkness which terrifies a child waking up in the middle of the night ...
Sermon
Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... Chooses Us For Love Not only are we chosen for joy, but we are also chosen for love. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you (v. 12).” We are sent out into the world to love one another. Sometimes it doesn’t look that way! Often the way we worry about our investments, the priorities we set, the time we allot to the people we’re supposed to love, the way we use our resources for ourselves rather than for others, may indicate that we really weren’t chosen for love. But ...
Eulogy
Robert Allen
... of grief that comes with the loss - the death of one we love. Even in the midst of the pain of the loss, we can look to God with a sense of gratitude ... with a sense of thanksgiving. I do not mean to say that such a perspective makes things easier. ... onto the promise of Christ that there will be no more pain ... no more sorrow ... no more mourning ... no more crying. If we learn to look at death in this light ... if we learn to trust God even in the presence of death, then we can say as the Apostle Paul ...
4765. Our Time Will Come!
1 Samuel 16:14-23
Sermon
Donald Zelle
... into small print, are to hurry us to buy a product. Whether it increases sales may not be proven. It seems, however, that many of us look at the opportunities of life that way, as if they will get away from us if we do not grab quickly. It is for us that ... well as the good. We have some biblical information that might explain what produced this change in Saul. For it, we need to look at the two sources again that give us the story of the monarchy. In the present arrangement of material the evil spirit came ...
4766. Spirit Full Or Foul?
Deuteronomy 4:32-40
Sermon
Justin Tull
... the Bible. They asked us to pray with them. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible. The problem is they never understood the terrible swap they made.”3 The disciples had trouble seeing the new way of God’s acting. They looked only for the mighty hand, the show of power, the obvious. They wanted a God to once again free them with physical power and might. They wanted a God to deliver them as he had delivered his people from Egypt. What they received was a discipleship of danger ...
Eulogy
Joe Barone
... 94John 14:1-3 and Revelation 7:13-17 A Scriptural Sermon ForOne Who Died Through Violence Sometimes we need the refuge of familiar Scripture. There's nothing more obscene than the wanton taking of a human life, and so, in the face of that obscenity, we look to Scripture. I'm not here to defend God or to address the question, "Why do such things happen?" They happen because of human sinfulness, and they grieve God. God's own Son died a violent death, and so have other faithful people through the ages. It ...
Drama
Robert A. Morgan
... dread of all of our hopes being forfeited because we had been taken from the land which Yahweh had given us and from the places where we were to worship him. We had been taken from the places where the promises were to be fulfilled. We had no reason to look forward; all ground of hope was gone. This young man came to us, and told us that not only does God care for us, want us comforted, and pardon us, but - and this is what gave our spirits such hope - all the promises will be fulfilled. He tells us, in ...
Sermon
Robert Salzgeber
... to take the medicine and live and learn. I'm never, ever going to get involved in anything like this again." The sound of a door slamming against a door jamb snapped Billy back into the courtroom once again. Judge Green's formal black robe made him look official and authoritarian. And Billy didn't think he was going to like the medicine that was going to be dished out to him. "Okay, Billy," Judge Green spoke intentionally, "here's what we're going to do. At least a dozen counts of automobile vandalism. I ...
Children's Sermon
Tim Carpenter
... a thumbprint in the paper you have passed to them. Now I want you each to press your thumb on the pad, and then place your thumb on the paper that I gave you. On that paper is written the Bible verse that I just told you about. Whenever you look at your thumbprint, a print that only you can leave, you can remember that Jesus was the imprint that only God could leave ... on this Christmas Day! Let's Pray: Thank you, God, for sending Jesus to be your exact imprint. Help us to remember that when we want to ...
4771. Lost and Found
Luke 15:11-32, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... ? Oh, no! I've lost my watch. Where did it go? We've got to find my watch. Will you help me look for it? Get up and help me find it. As you act like you are looking for it, repeat several times "I've lost my watch. It's lost! It's lost!" If no child can find the ... watch, guide them. I think I might have lost it somewhere over here. Will you help me look over here? When it is found, go back to the usual meeting place: Thank you for helping me find my watch. I am really relieved ...
Children's Sermon
Tim Carpenter
... cannot be called anything but special. Open up the sheet all the way, and have the children sit on it. And guess what? God created you, and you are special, too. Just like this old football that doesn't look important but is because of what it means to me. We all are special to God no matter what we look like because we are his children. Turn to the congregation. And I want to show you all something that is very special that I have on my sheet today. Ask the congregation to respond by saying "Amen," then ...
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... ? You owe me $100! And on top of that, interest is accruing on this debt. How and when are you going to pay? (response) This is no laughing matter, young man. This is a lot of money. (response) What am I going to do with you dead beats? Pause and look at the debtors. Tell you what. I'm going to forgive all these debts. Take the invoices one at a time and mark on each of them "Paid In Full." You might use a red pen or purchase some stickers that say this. As you hand each of them their ...
Sermon
Steve Swanson
... this: And his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting about him, and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you." He replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" and looking around on those who sat about him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother." (Mark 3:31-35) Now this is a beautiful saying for those who try to do the will of God ...
4775. Doing Love
Revelation 21:1-27
Eulogy
Richard F. Bansemer
... of us. God has crept inside each of us, so that none of us need be alone, unless we insist upon it.For the few moments we are gathered here, this is God's church, God's body and God's people doing Godly work. Our Godly work is to look to the future together. You have a future because God has a future. ____________ has a future because God has a future. We have a future because God has told each of us how to find him. It's not in the broodings of our mind; not in the loneliness ...
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