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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26. Freedom In Christ
Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26
Understanding Series
L. Ann Jervis
... the Gentiles [Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990], pp. 88–89). Justin Martyr continues Paul’s understanding that circumcision entails obeying the whole law (Dial. 8 [ANF 1.198–99]). 5:4 The words alienated (katērgēthēte) and have fallen away (exepesate) appear in ... modern symbol of the electric chair does not match what Justin Martyr calls the “despised and shameful mystery of the cross” (Dial. 131 [ANF 1.265]). 5:12 Confident that he has his readers on his side at last, Paul expresses the outrageous ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... three, etc. There are three numbers that everyone should learn. Those three numbers are 911. Why is 911 important? That's right! All over America and in many places around the world, this is the number to dial when you have an emergency. Many people's lives have been saved because someone called 911. But what if we dialed 911 and nobody answered? Suppose we lived in a world in which people did not care for one another? Wouldn't that be terrible? I am glad there are people who care. Jesus cares. And he wants ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... experiment, Stanley Milgram brought people off the street into his Yale laboratory. There they were told that they were participating in research on human behavior. He asked them to work a dial which was said to administer an electric shock to a person in another room. Actually, the person in the other room was an actor. Though the dial was phony, when it was turned the actor would grimace as if he were being shocked. To Milgram's surprise, 100% of the people administered an “intense” shock when told by ...
Sermon Aid
Harold H. Lentz
... and resumed his vicious onslaught. She failed to endure the second attack when no one answered her plea for help. Her life could have been spared if a single person had responded to her cries for help. Answering her cries for help could have been as simple as dialing 911. But they did not do so, offering the lame excuse that they did not want to get involved. Because of their refusal to help, is not the blood of the woman who died on their hands? It is common for people to offer their sympathy to people ...
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... and at the end of his rope. He felt like the frazzled young mother who greeted her husband at the end of the day with a catalogue of horror stories about her disastrous day, and finished by saying, "I even got a busy signal when I called Dial-A-Prayer!" That was Bill Smith, outwardly the very successful pastor of a thriving church, but inwardly, a person who felt so lonely, so exhausted, and so empty that he despaired of life itself. Desperate for some help, Bill found himself one afternoon knocking on the ...
Sermon
Mark Radecke
... States Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, to check on the status of a refugee family we've been trying to reunite with a family here for 2 1/2 years. The call from Roanoke to communications satellite to Bangkok was completed within five seconds of the time I dialed the last number, and no operator assistance was required. (Those with three-year-olds in the house who like to play with the phone when mommy and daddy aren't looking are in no way cheered by this last piece of information.) It's a microwave world ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... seek out those whose life styles are similar to our own, herding together in what have been called "life style enclaves."1 What this means, of course, is that a life style is different from a life. A life style can be adjusted with a twist of the television dial, a shift in reading patterns, or the purchase of a new car. A life, on the other hand, is all of us. A life, therefore, tends to be messier than a mere life style, harder to change, and it often involves untidy facts, like a problem with alcohol, a ...
Sermon
Alex Gondola
... the privatization of religion. Willimon is worried that more and more Americans are seeing religion as something we do alone, not as a corporate activity. Willimon cites as evidence the drive-in church (where you can worship without ever getting out of your car), Dial-a-Prayer, television preachers you can "worship" with within the privacy of your living room and offerings by mail. He might have added that, at some schools, you can now do your seminary study over the Internet. You no longer have to attend ...
Drama
Karren Boehr
... . Okay, guys, it's up to you. Don't let me down now ... SON: Dad, if there's no football in heaven, do you want to go there? FATHER: Ya, sure, it'll be a blast. Okay, second down ... interception! Interception! Got to call Mike. (Picks up the phone and dials) Mike, hey, man, can you believe that last play? What's with the loose fingers Steelers anyway? SON: (Stands up) Dad, I have a feeling heaven just might not be the place for you. I don't think you'd like it. I'm not even sure it's the ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... endless repetition of the question "What time is it?" our parents loaned us one of the clocks, and many times we'd sleep in only one or two rooms, waiting together. Each in turn would wake, and quietly, so quietly, attempt to turn the luminescent dial towards ourselves, believing it possible that we would not rouse the others. All around us was darkness. Silence reigned. So did fear. We did not dare to stir from our room, for fear of frightening Santa Claus and breaking the charm of Christmas. And each ...
Sermon
John G. Lynch
For many years American children sat down after supper each evening to snap on their radio dials. Sometimes they heard a sepulchre, Peter Lorre voice from a man named Raymond tell them about the "Inner Sanctum." On those nights America's children were scared. On other nights they waited with untrammeled glee until a man named McGee opened a closet door and years of clutter crashed to ...
Sermon
Jerry Eckert
... that furthersouth there is a better place, Egypt, with its great NileRiver and rich delta region where turnips and figs grow asbig as watermelons. He decides it is time to check in with God and see ifhe can keep going to get out of this awful place. He keys in(dials) God's number, 1-800-555-0001. Abram: Hello, God? This is Abram. Uh, I want to gosouth, Lord. God: WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? (What is the problem?) Abram: Do you realize how hot it is down here? It'sterrible. There's no food. All you can see is ...
Sermon
John A. Terry
... hungry and thirsting, to acts of mercy. Mercy is active. It is not a passive "Oh, gee, isn't that too bad." Mercy is active. It is reaching out to the suffering of the world. It is carrying the basket of food to the hungry family. It is dialing the telephone to check on a lonely neighbor. It is stopping at the roadside to change the tire of a woman traveling with her little children. This is the beatitude of the givers, of the charitable. This refers to those who have such an attitude of compassion toward ...
Drama
Jerry Eckert
... is a better place, Egypt, with its great Nile River and rich delta region where turnips and figs grow as big as watermelons. He decides it is time to check in with God and see if he can keep going to get out of this awful place. He keys in (dials) God's number, 1-800-555-0001. Abram: Hello, God? This is Abram. Uh, I want to go south, Lord. God: WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? (What is the problem?) Abram: Do you realize how hot it is down here? It's terrible. There's no food. All you can see ...
40. The Merciful
Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon
John A. Terry
... hungry and thirsting, to acts of mercy. Mercy is active. It is not a passive "Oh, gee, isn't that too bad." Mercy is active. It is reaching out to the suffering of the world. It is carrying the basket of food to the hungry family. It is dialing the telephone to check on a lonely neighbor. It is stopping at the roadside to change the tire of a woman traveling with her little children. This is the beatitude of the givers, of the charitable. This refers to those who have such an attitude of compassion toward ...
Sermon
Charles R. Leary
... Elizabeth type. Identify your personality type. The better you keep in touch with the “real you,” the more effective Jesus’ ministry can be through you. Make a diary of the difference it makes in your life, big and little ways: the way you answer the phone when someone dials the wrong number, the way you drive your car in busy traffic, the way you trim the lawn and tend the new plants, the way you speak to the cashier in the bank or the shopping line, the way you write a note to your best friend, the ...
Drama
Arley K. Fadness
... er -- wig? (Exits) Alma: (Sits for a while and thinks; jumps up) That's it! (Looks in mirror; adjusts wig; takes new wig out of box; looks in mirror) You know, maybe George is right. (Picks up large brochure titled "Tahiti," reads it, picks up phone, and dials travel agency. George reappears with a new bright sweater and new pipe but is not seen by Alma.) Hello, Nelson's Travel Agency? Could you give me some information on a trip for two to Tahiti? (South Sea island music plays in the background.) The End
Sermon
Clement E. Lewis
... force, rich experience with helpful interpretation of what it means to be alive. It should afford us a means of spiritual control over the inner and external forces that influence and motivate people. Phillip Brooks told a story about some savages who were given a sun dial, in order that by the casting of the sun's light and shadow on it they might know the time of day. So desirous were they to honor and keep it sacred that they built a roof over it. Sometimes people regard their religion as something ...
Sermon
Larry Powell
... to Chappell, the nature of which was not immediately clear. Finally, after considerable coaxing, the little girl told that on the day before she had received a telephone call from a lady who was visiting in the city from out of state. The lady had dialed the wrong number. Although the little girl did not know who the lady was, she began to talk to her. Reaching to make conversation, as children often do, the girl remembered that there would be preaching at her church that evening so she passed along ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... long distance to get some information. An answering machine, not a person, greeted me and gave me seven options. The first six options had to do with pushing certain buttons on my touch-tone phone for specific departments. I don't have a touch-tone phone. I have a dial phone. That was the seventh option. "An operator will come on the line if you don't have a touch-tone phone," the automatic machine said. I finally got the department I thought I needed, but the person I talked to couldn't help me. She put me ...
46. Beasts, Saints and Chaos
Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14
Sermon
Paul W. F. Harms
... around the self. The self is a shaky reed at best. Luther's words, "We pray that the devil, the world, and our flesh may not deceive us or seduce us into misbelief, despair and other ..." When the focus is on the self, the indicator on the dial vacillates between pride and despair. "I don't need anybody or anything," or "Nobody or nothing can be of any help." How we perceive temptation may determine how we weather it. If God is to help, he needs to remove the circumstances which cause the pain. Such action ...
Drama
Edward Long
... and joy all at the same time.) NARRATOR: It is now after the late brunch at the Apple home, where they are, if anything, a little overwhelmed by all the good news. Mrs. Apple and the children are drying the dishes after the meal. Henry goes to the phone and dials a number ... HENRY: It all started with our being lost and trapped in the snowstorm. I'm going to commend Mr. and Mrs. Nick to the Good Traveler's Association - as you all know I've griped to them whenever we didn't like a motel ... Hello, yes this ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... hold, he would search the theater for her ring. Well, she waited and waited and waited. She was so tired of waiting that she hung up. Fortunately, the manager found the ring and joyously picked up the phone to tell her the good news. But, all he heard was the dial tone. Not knowing her name nor phone number, he could not return the ring to her. In prayer, if we, too, get tired of waiting for God's answer to prayer, we will lose out on the answer. I Must Have It! Tears in our prayers say to God, "I ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... Paul was nine years old, he moved with his family to Boston… and as the years passed he missed “Information Please” very much. Some years later as Paul was on his way out west to go to college, his plane landed in Seattle. He dialed his hometown operator and said, “Information Please.” Miraculously, he heard that same small clear voice that he knew so well. “Information.” Paul hadn’t planned this, but suddenly he blurted out: “Could you please tell me how to spell the word “fix?” There ...
Sermon
... sake, he will save it." (Luke 9:18-24) One of my students took the Bell Telephone commercial to heart - "Reach out and touch someone." Last Thanksgiving, he decided that he should talk to his mother and father who were 6,500 miles away. He had to dial a California number, which he did, and from there his call was beamed to a satellite and would be sent down to a receiving antenna on the Marshall Islands. An operator on the island of Kwajalein then would ring his parents’ number and the connection between ...
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