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
King Duncan
... of the United States. Actually the case against Robert Kennedy was a little over-stated. He had already achieved a name for himself as a government lawyer at 35. But it’s not unusual for someone to try to use family or social ties to get ahead, to cut the line, to be bumped up over someone else who may be more qualified than we are. Our goal is to get ahead. And sometimes we don’t care whose turn it is. In this world, it is survival of the fittest, dog-eat-dog. John and James wanted to get ahead ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... apocalyptic chapters in the Bible, a chapter that has been used to strike fear in many hearts. The end of time is still a subject of speculation in many Christian churches, and many pastors and teachers are still using it to keep their fearful congregations in line. I don’t mean to offend any of you by wading into this controversial topic, but I believe it is my responsibility to deal with some of the misinformation that has been spread about what is often referred to as “the end times.” Jesus said ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13). A man traveled a great distance for an interview with a distinguished scholar. He was ushered into the man’s study, where he said, “Doctor, I notice that the walls of your study are lined with books from the ceiling to the floor. No doubt you have read them all. I know you have written many yourself. You have traveled extensively, and doubtless you’ve had the privilege of conversing with some of the world’s wisest men. I’ve come a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... society that doesn’t even acknowledge the concept of sin. “What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas,” trumpets the television commercial. We’re not even sure what sin is any more. It’s a word that has lost its sting, the punch line of a tired joke. Meanwhile, domestic violence takes the lives of thousands of women each year, more than half the nation’s children live in single parent homes, addictions continue to soar, young people wander around without a moral compass, mass media spews out ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... for us to comprehend. I love the way Mark Lowry put it in his beautiful Christmas song: “Mary did you know . . . that your baby boy has come to make you new? This child that you’ve delivered, will soon deliver you . . .” I particularly love the final two lines of this wondrous song: “Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod? And when your kiss your little baby, you have kissed the face of God.” How can we possibly get our minds around something like that? And yet it is part of ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
A minister friend told of exercising outside on a particularly warm summer morning. "It was a magnificent day," he said. "I was running on the sidewalks of tree-lined streets. I chose the route because of the beauty of the neighborhood and the abundance of shade to shield me from the sun. "As often happens when exercising, I was lost in thought. When I run, my legs get more oxygen than my brain. Often that causes me to fantasize ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
It is that fateful final week of the earthly ministry of Jesus. On Sunday the people of Jerusalem welcome the Lord and his entourage with a parade. A crowd lines the main street. They cheer and spread their cloaks on the dusty road. Jesus rides a borrowed donkey. He comes down the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley, through an ancient gate, and into the city. The crowd chants as he rides passed, "Blessed is the king who comes ...
4908. King Jesus
Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:26-38
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... of the nation survived intact as exiles. Eventually they returned to their patrimony and began hoping anew for the return of the Davidic monarchy and national restoration. That's when good ancestral records became vitally important. Every family connected to the royal line would remember this promise of Yahweh and hope and pray that from their household the next great ruler would arise. So it was, that to an otherwise unimportant couple in Nazareth, about a thousand years after Yahweh made this pledge to ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
I am going to tell you a story. Keep in mind that it is just a story. In fact, because it has elements of magical impossibility, it can even be called a fairy tale. As such, it begins with that familiar line common to all good stories and fairy tales. Once upon a time, there was a village named Tranquil. It was an enormously blessed place. Tranquil had no serious problems. There was no homelessness, no food kitchens for the hungry, no street crime, and no white-collar crime. The roads were ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... in the world through the church is testimony to the fact that things do make a difference, life is going somewhere, and our lives do have meaning and sacred value. The fact that there is a judgment, an accounting, means that there is a goal line, a degree to be granted at the end of the course, a reward to be received, a meaningful culmination of all our labors. If parents exercise no judgment, their children rightly perceive they are indifferent and have no guiding values. If God exercises no judgment ...
4911. The Inspiration for Solitude
Jn 11:1-44
Illustration
King Duncan
... . Miss Wheeler sat next to her and sought to comfort her for the rest of the journey. In the days that followed, she could not shake off the experience, as she looked at the mirror, she could see the reflection of the crying woman. Ella set to write the opening lines for “Solitude” as she considered the image of the crying woman.
4912. The Wrong Gift
Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... in Jerusalem. Bouncers at the doors turned back any who might get a conscience and think he should pray. Rabbis railed against them, forbidding people ever to do business with them, let alone enter their despised trade. Because shepherds paid no attention to property lines when herding their flocks, they spoiled backyards and swiped things that were not locked down. No shepherd was allowed to testify in court, for it was widely known that they were all liars and couldn't tell a truth if it whacked them in ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... is overstated. Maybe, on the other hand, there are more Herods around than we realize--people, generally men, who love exercising their power over others, especially those who are weaker. I do know that twenty percent of all officers killed in the line of duty are killed while answering calls involving family fights. And approximately twelve to fifteen million wives are battered each year. You may think that Epiphany is not an appropriate time to spotlight this particular tragedy, but if not now, then when ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... which God’s will is pretty clear. We know it is God’s will that we are to take care of our relationships. Marriage is one of those relationships for many of us. Remember the groom in our opening story who wanted the priest to eliminate those lines “love, honor, and obey” and ‘forsaking all others, be faithful to her forever?” There are many couples today who want to altar their vows so they are less restrictive. Doesn’t God want us to be happy, we may ask? Most certainly He does. That’s the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... same name had been in her high school class some 40-odd years before. Could he be the same fellow that she had a secret crush on, way back then? Upon seeing him, however, she quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way, way too old to have been her classmate. After he examined her teeth, she got up the courage to ask him if he had by any chance attended Morgan Park High School. “Yes. Yes. I did,” he gleamed with pride. “I’m a Morgan Mustang ...
4916. What Did Jesus Do?
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Sermon
King Duncan
... gathered at the White House on that occasion: “Mike’s platoon in Iraq came under enemy attack during 75% of their missions. And in most of these engagements, Mike was out front defending his brothers. “In May 2006, Mike and another SEAL ran into the line of fire to save a wounded teammate. With bullets flying all around them, Mike returned fire with one hand while helping pull the injured man to safety with the other. In a dream about the incident months later, the wounded SEAL saw Mike coming to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ’ll trap you. If you were to look closely, fish, you would see the hook. You’d know once you were hooked that it’s just a matter of time before the enemy reels you in.” You’d think fish would wise up and notice the hook or see the line. You’d think fish would look around at all their fish friends who go for a lure and fly off into space and never return. But they don’t. It is ironic,” Ortberg continues, “We say fish swim together in a school, but they never learn. Aren’t you glad ...
4918. Your Neighbor's Logs
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... distress the pastor saw his members pulling in the logs and sawing off the end where the telltale stamp appeared. The next Sunday he prepared a forceful sermon on the text “Thou shalt not steal.” At the close of the service, his people lined up and congratulated him: “Wonderful message, mighty fine preaching.” However, as the preacher watched the river that week he saw his parishioners continuing to steal logs. This bothered him a great deal. So he went home and worked on a sermon for the following ...
4919. Reading A Love Letter
Illustration
Michael P. Green
Mortimer J. Adler, in How to Read a Book, has observed that the one time people read for all they are worth is when they are in love and are reading a love letter. They read every word three ways. They read between the lines and in the margins. They read the whole in terms of the parts, and each part in terms of the whole. They grow sensitive to context and ambiguity, to insinuation and implication. They perceive the color of words, the order of phrases, and the weight of sentences. They may even ...
4920. I Will Be Good!
Illustration
Michael P. Green
On March 11, 1830, a little English girl was doing her lessons with her tutor, and the lesson that day had to do with the royal family. As she studied the genealogical chart in the book, she became aware of the astounding fact that she was next in line for the throne! At first she wept, and then she looked at her tutor and said, “I will be good!” The fact that little Victoria would one day be queen motivated her to live on a higher level.
4921. Death Is Unnatural
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... this form of anxiety the “ego chill.” It slips up on a self-aware human being whenever he becomes conscious of his fragile position in the face of sickness, nature, fate, and, ultimately, death. There are echoes of such anxiety in any depth study of life or time. Consider this line from R. M. Maclver’s The Challenge of the Passing Years, My Encounter with Time: “The deeds of men sink into the melting pot of time, with countless ripples that quickly disappear.”
4922. Earth’s Crammed With Heaven
Illustration
Michael P. Green
The argument for Creationism from design and order is clear in the following lines, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh: Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
4923. False Grace
Illustration
Michael P. Green
An elderly woman was standing in the checkout line ready to pay for her merchandise: a quart of milk and a loaf of bread. She opened her purse. No money was there; neither was her checkbook. As she was about to ask the clerk to put her things back, suddenly a gentle voice said, “It looks like that is ...
4924. Remove the Law, Remove the Temptation
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... , was built on the water. Large plate-glass windows adorn the dining room, which is on the lowest floor. However, the windows kept getting broken by guests fishing from the balconies above. Heavy sinkers had to be used to cast to the water, but the lines were often too short and so would crash against the windows below. They needed a solution. Finally it was decided that the signs inside the rooms which stated “no fishing from balcony,” would be removed. The windows were safe at last. What happened? The ...
4925. Ant Following
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... very organized, very precise. Then ask yourself, “Why are these ants so organized in their task?” The reason is that ants are good followers, each dependent on the ant in front of him to lead him to the food supply. Because each ant follows the other, there is a straight line between the anthill and the food—no wasted energy, no unnecessary detours. There is a lesson in that for would-be disciples.
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