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
Harold Warlick
... past week I attempted to uncover my own childhood experiences and lay bare the initial and most reaching elements of that period in church. Without a doubt, my memory returned to one awareness: the tremendous sadness of the adults or "big people." I would look around and see people with frowns on their faces, frozen postures, and rigid muscles. "Surely," I thought, "God is a very wicked, frightening fellow, or he is extremely boring." Since then, I have been conscious of the frame of mind in which worship ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... dentist friend tells of a small boy who came into his office for treatment for a baby tooth. The lad was about six years of age. The tooth had been hurting the child every time he ate candy, or cake, or ice cream, or anything sweet. The dentist took a look at the tooth and decided to end the boy’s problem once-for-all, so he just quickly pulled it - threw it into the waste basket, and told the boy to go home and feel good again. But the lad, before leaving the office, walked over to the waste basket ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... to love ourselves. In a day when self-worth is low, in a time when so much introspection is encouraged, and when human nature is looked at with suspicion, we need to say boldly - we are God-made! And let’s remember, God makes us well. It would be blasphemy ... we celebrate his coming in the person of Jesus at Bethlehem, how we observe his growing up in Nazareth, how during Lent we look towards his going to Jerusalem and Calvary and the cross, how at Easter we celebrate his coming out of the tomb, and how ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... and selfishness, and they master us. But Jesus can set us free! The story is told of Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who was captured by pirates and later put up for sale on the slave block. Looking around, Diogenes saw a vacant looking young man, very richly dressed, who stood by. "Sell me to that man," he said. "He looks as if he needs a master." We will indeed all have a master of one kind or another, and the scripture today encourages us to accept Christ for that master. It was Jesus’ point here, that ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... He reveled in it. His joy was contagious. Men leaped out of darkness into light and lived the Christian life from that hour." "I might have been a minister myself," Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "for ought I know, if a certain clergyman had not looked and talked like an undertaker." Certainly Jesus gives good advice here - if our practice of Christianity is merely the "thou shalt nots," we just don’t have the full gospel, the entire faith at all. The positive content is what gets us through, equips us ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... the whole thing sobs off into silence. And so it was on the evening of the first Easter Day. We met the wet blanket. This has customarily been the Sunday upon which we chastised Thomas, the doubter, as you heard the Gospel read. But let’s look at him this morning sympathetically, with understanding, as a miserable, unhappy, and lonely figure. Surely we can identify with him. You will notice that, in our liturgical year, this is not as it has been for years, the First Sunday after Easter. It is the Second ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... blind. And through her, we found out a great deal about the lives, the habits, and a greater understanding about the blind. For instance, they know that the sky is blue and that trees are green, but they still don’t know what the sky or the trees really look like, because they haven’t experienced them. And yet, one young blind man who visited our home said when he left: "It was good to see you, and I hope I shall see you again." He was not resorting to wishful thinking. He was stating a vital truth. The ...
Sermon
Kent Moorehead
... and began to proclaim this great discovery. The Churchmen came to him and said, "That is not so! There is nothing in our theology that makes place for moons around Jupiter!" "Come here and look," said Galileo. "See for yourselves. Look through this telescope." The answer they gave was, "We will not look. It can’t be so." Therefore they refused to admit the testimony of their own senses. The sixth characteristic is the importance of principle. The Christian Liberal always deals in terms of principles. He ...
Drama
Robert Clausen
... I ran away. [He shakes the hand of JESUS.] JESUS: You do it with a handshake, Judas? [The CAPTAIN and the SOLDIER come forward. JUDAS backs away. The SOLDIER has his rifle pointed at the group.] JOHN: Soldiers! CAPTAIN: Stand where you are! JESUS: Who are you looking for? CAPTAIN: A man named Jesus. JESUS: I am he. [The SOLDIER falls to a kneeling position.] CAPTAIN: On your feet! [To JESUS.] What kind of a trick is this? JESUS: Who do you want? CAPTAIN: I said it once. A man named Jesus. JESUS: I’ve ...
4960. We are Not Simply "Now" People
Deuteronomy 26:1-15
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Jon L. Joyce
... part of a history that is founded in and rooted in a vertical relationship to God who chose us. Hence, that entire history from Creation on down through the Old and New Testaments and the history of the Church is a part of our "now" story. That whole history looks down upon us, as it were, and we are called to remember it and to be alert to the past from which we were hewn. An illustration that points to this idea involves Napoleon. He is reputed to have been one of the world’s champion leaders of men ...
4961. God is Laughing at Us
Zechariah 9:9-13
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Jon L. Joyce
... for some cataclysmic sign from Heaven. And what happened? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! In fact, even the Gospel writers couldn’t quite get the flat taste of it out of their mouths. Mark ends his account by saying: "He went into the Temple, and when He'd looked around at everything, the hour already being late, He went out again." Period! That’s it! Don’t you see, beloved, God is making fun of us? He’s satirizing all of our triumphal entries. He’s paradying all of our parades. He’s laughing at ...
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Jon L. Joyce
... jam-packed with men. There wasn’t a square inch of space that wasn’t taken. There were many who didn’t get in, and we couldn’t go topside on deck, because we were riding out a typhoon, which made it even a little less like an Easter. I looked out on men with red-rimmed eyes, with beards, with bandages. All right, my wise skeptic. Why did they come? It was best put by a Marine after the Service, when he said: "Well, Padre, I guess after all that back there, we just had to come this morning, didn ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... dishes anyway." With a twinkle in his eye, he responded, “Since Blanche broke the old ones, maybe she should help us pick out the new ones." Those parents took Blanche that very afternoon to the general store and allowed her to select the new dishes. That's what restoration looks like in the family. If the church is indeed a family, we must learn to do it too. Though it is our nature to sin, we have a wonderful Lord whose nature is to forgive and to save. His forgiveness can be ours only if we are willing ...
4964. Thorns and Roses
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
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Bill Bouknight
... that I visited Tony had been watching his beloved Clemson Tigers on TV just before I arrived. He was able to see the TV by looking through a mirror. We had a friendly chat. His morale was amazing. Then I suggested that we have a prayer. And just before I ... completely off-guard. Something in me wanted to cry out, "Are you kidding me, Tony? God been good to you? I can't see how. Look at what you have had to endure!" But Someone greater and wiser whispered to me this message: "Bill, don't be surprised at Tony' ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... followers around him whose discipleship is more than a quart low on commitment. So, he tries to teach them some hard facts of life. Jesus tells them and us three things about Christian discipleship: the costs are high; the time is now; and the way is forward. Let's look at each point. First, The Cost Are High. In verse 58 of Luke, chapter 9, Jesus says, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head." Jesus and his disciples could not even stay at a Motel ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... figured he is a doctor." John pointed to another man and asked, "What does he do?" The guesser studied him a moment and said, "He is an attorney or a judge." John checked and sure enough, he was. "How did you guess that?" he asked. "Well, he has a scholarly look and there is a certain formality about him; I figured he is an attorney." John pointed to another man and asked, "What does he do?" The guesser just glanced at him and said, "Oh, That's a preacher." John went over to the man and asked, "Are you a ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... army to free Israel from Roman domination. Then perhaps the twelve disciples would be his Cabinet or regional governors. These thoughts set their ambitions to soaring. Even the disciples' relatives got into the act. The mother of James and John asked Jesus to look out for her boys in the coming glory days. Finally, when competing ambitions were creating tension, Jesus called time-out and gathered the disciples around him. Jesus, always the master of the object lesson, called a little child to him. Can't you ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... about and happened to see on an adjacent rooftop a beautiful woman taking a bath. The steps toward sexual sin were the same then as now. It began with an innocent attraction. David should have turned away, but a little voice said to him, "Take a good, long look; that is an extraordinarily beautiful woman." Step II was curiosity. He wanted to see her up close. So he sent for her. Step III was temptation. Bathsheba's husband was off with the army fighting a war. David was king and she was one of his subjects ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... through a small town. They came to an overpass with a sign which read: "Clearance. 11'3". They got out and measured their rig. It was 12'4" tall. As they climbed back into the cab, one of them asked, "What do you think we should do?" The driver looked around, then shifted into gear, saying, "Not a cop in sight. Let's take a chance." Some people have the same attitude toward God and his Ten Commandments. They visualize God as the great cop in the sky whose laws are designed to cramp out style and cheat us ...
4970. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross
Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20
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Bill Bouknight
... of Billy Graham and the Pope. The ground is level beneath the Cross. Let me lift up two fundamental truths from our scripture lesson of the morning. First, All of Us Are Equally Sinners. I didn't say that we sin equally but that we are equally sinners. Look at verse 9 of our text: "...all persons, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin." The Greek word translated here "under the power of" is the same word used to describe the authority that a Centurion or Roman company commander had over his 100 ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... God's holy name in a movie, is it not also a sin for you to pay to see him do it? When you buy a ticket to a film that you have every reason to believe contains profanity, don't you become a sponsor of that profanity? When I look back over past generations of Christians, including some who were thrown to lions and crucified because they stood up for Christ, I hardly think that missing out on some movies is too big a sacrifice to ask of us. We often criticize Hollywood, and that industry deserves it. But ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... in, desire, and anticipate Christ's return. Jesus said, "...you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour." I recall a sign I saw somewhere in the Smokey Mountains which read: "Jesus will return this week. Be ready!" But a close look at the sign revealed that it had been set in concrete. Obviously, the maker of the sign was not as sure as his sign suggested. Jesus warned against guessing dates for his return. But in chapter 24 of Matthew, he also urged us to be watchful and to ...
4973. Adultery, Cure and Prevention
Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... they don't take care of each other's ego needs. There is much talk about the mid-life crisis and escapades of middle-aged men. Often such men wonder if they are still attractive. Perhaps the wife has forgotten how to say, "Hey, your grey hair makes you look distinguished." Some woman outside the home will say that. A wife watches a movie in which a man says the most romantic things to a woman. Then the wife wonders how long it has been since her husband told her that she is pretty. Or brought her a flower ...
4974. "Hands Off!"
Exodus 20:1-21, Luke 19:11-27
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... turkey. The turkey is lying on the scales and the butcher is standing back of the counter, apron pulled tight over his fat stomach, a pencil tucked behind his ear. The customer, a lovely lady of about sixty, is watching the weighing-in. Each of them has a pleased look as if each knows a secret joke. Norman Rockwell lets us in on the joke by showing us their hands. The butcher is pushing down on the scales with a big fat thumb. The woman is pushing up on them with a dainty forefinger. Neither is aware of ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... enthusiasm. "Dr. Spurgeon," he said, "I want to do something for my church." Spurgeon studied him for a moment and then asked, "What do you do for a living?" He replied, "I'm a railroad engineer." Spurgeon got out of his chair, walked over to the window and without looking at the man asked, "Is the fireman on your train a Christian?" There was an awkward silence and the man replied, "Why, I don't know." Then with enthusiasm Spurgeon turned to him and said, "Well I want you to find out. And if he is not, I ...
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