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. The Baptism of Our Work
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
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King Duncan
... . The size is irrelevant to God. God is as impressed with the brick mason who lays the brick for a building as he is with the architect who designed it, if the job is done well. In God's eyes, the person who scrubs the floor has just as much dignity as the president of the corporation. Pianist Nadia Boulanger tells about an elderly woman, Madame Duval who cleaned the floors in her home. She was 80 years of age. One day she knocked at Ms. Boulanger's door and said, "Mademoiselle, I know you don't like to be ...
27. Freedom's Year
Galatians 3:26--4:7
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Wayne Brouwer
... we place on children. That's the reason for rules and regulations in a household, he says. They keep us safe while we're growing and developing. But then comes maturity and then freedom. The restraints are taken off. Why? So that we can find the dignity of our place in society. Without freedom we remain children. And without freedom we never fully express the best that's in us. When Simon Bolivar led the nation of Peru to independence from Spain in 1924, they pleaded with him to become their first president ...
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Eric Ritz
... wrote a book, DAYS OF SORROW AND PAIN, about the terrible humiliation inflicted upon the Jewish Community in Berlin during the long days and nights following the issuance of The Nuremberg Laws in the early 1930s. These laws stripped the Jewish community of its dignity and led to other horrible consequences that sprang from the racial and political policies of the National Socialist German Worker''s Party, better known as the Nazis. Rabbi Beck says he and many other Jews fought a constant battle to maintain ...
29. Recovering The Essence
Deuteronomy 8:1-20
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Maxie Dunnam
... and sinners and outcasts with whom he shared those meals. By accepting them as friends and equals, Jesus had taken away their shame, their humiliation, and their guilt; and by showing them that they mattered to him as people, he gave them a sense of dignity, and he released them from their captivity. The jolting awareness of the meaning of this hit me like the shock of having ice water splashed in my face. We were living in southern California, having moved from Mississippi. About 10 p.m. the phone rang ...
30. If Only -- In Spite Of
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
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Maxie Dunnam
... 't pray, 'Lord, I am in pain'; (rather) say, 'Lord, feel thethrobbin in my right knee,' or 'Lord, you know how heavy my heart is with grief since Johnny died.' "(I sometimes think) there is too much dignity in too many of our prayers -- dignity at the expense of specificity. (And) It is really a fake dignity, the kind that puts taste ahead of truth. So never mind how crude or how trivial your prayers may sound to you. There are no unimportant tears to God. "(Paul agonized), 'Three times I besought the Lord ...
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Lee Ann Dunlap
... as a ransom for all.First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions so that we may all lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity ... For there is one God, there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself as a ransom for all. — 1 Timothy 2:1-2, 5-6a In these brief verses from the epistle to Timothy two principles for practical ...
32. 1 Timothy 2:1-7
1 Timothy 2:1-7
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Leonard Sweet
... idyllic life Paul describes here, one which is quiet and peaceable, is a life characterized by inner tranquility. This tranquil existence is made definitively Christian by the additional qualities of "godliness" and "dignity." Godliness is an often repeated term in the pastorals to denote the essential faith and reverence that defines the Christian life. "Dignity" describes an attitude that demands respect, and is to be expressed by all Christians. Practicing inclusive prayer and demonstrating godliness and ...
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J. Howard Olds
... being here. Though I do not often act like it, the psalmist said I’m just a little bit lower than the angels. You’ve got dignity, value, purpose, worth. Don’t let anybody take it away from you. Let me live and walk the pathways of duty and work to the close ... no doubt about it. I know there are joys that are waiting when I have gone the last mile of the way. Let me die with dignity, too. I have got some place to go, and if you have some place to go, you can turn loose of life here. Belief in immortality ...
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J. Howard Olds
... . Love was so thick you could feel it, and hope was so real you could see it, and heaven was so close that you could touch it until at last the loved one finally closed their eyes and passed away. My friends, in my opinion that is dying with dignity. C. Life is difficult when it comes to the question of capital punishment. From a Biblical point of view it is easy to argue both sides of this issue. In the Old Testament there were 11 crimes which were punishable by death. In addition to murder, they included ...
35. Bothered and Bewildered
2 Corinthians 4:5-12
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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe
... in the world but in the church itself. Yet, he refused to let it define who he was, or how he saw the world. He held out against the affliction and persecution because he knew the grace and power and mercy and peace of Jesus Christ. Neither was his dignity stripped from him, nor was his heart filled with hate. Paul asked the Corinthians to hear about this possibility and to make it their own. We, too, are asked to step in to this journey, to carry the death of Jesus in our histories and in our witness. In ...
36. Mary's Song
Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45
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King Duncan
... Mammon and not to God. Whose birthday is it anyhow? Jesus came to turn the world right side up. Jesus came to give dignity to those whom society does not value. Jesus came to give hope to the hopeless, peace to those who hearts are in turmoil ... s son. The song was about her son and his mission in the world. Jesus came to turn the world right side up. Jesus came to give dignity to those who society does not value. Jesus came to give hope to the hopeless, peace to those who hearts are in turmoil, love to those ...
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Gary M. Burge
... is, an angel. That his superior name is inherited indicates that Jesus Christ is here being considered not in his eternal and essential dignity as the Son of God but as the mediator, the “man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5), who by his humiliation became ... (cf. John 1:1; 20:28; Rom. 9:5). In verses 10–12, the sixth citation (Ps. 102:25–27) serves to recapitulate the divine dignity of the incarnate Son of God as the Creator (1:2) and his majesty as the eternal Yahweh. (The divine name is missing in the ...
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Ron Lavin
... preach and teach in the synagogue. He also made sure that the house of God was kept clean, repaired, and ready for worship of the almighty. The house of God had to have a sense of respect and great dignity. So did the man who was in charge of that synagogue. This father had dignity, but whatever dignity he had was forgotten as he arrived where Jesus was teaching. Pride forgotten, Jairus fell to his knees like a beggar and humbly asked Jesus to come to his home and do something for his little girl. It isn ...
39. Dirt Jobs
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Brett Blair
... . "He says, ‘hey man, I just want to thank you for doing the show you’re doing because every Tuesday night I watch it with my family and my kids and when I see you doing these things on the show I can say to my kids see there’s dignity in every job and just because you’re out of sight and out of mind doesn’t mean you’re not doing important work.’ "It makes me feel great and I thank him. Another guy recognizes me. Wall Street. Brooks Brothers suit. Taking big steps. Sees me, goes, ‘Mike Rowe ...
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Robert F. Scott
... right or wrong, but that they come from inner feelings that are right. What matters is our love for Christ, our inward desire for his forgiveness, our intention to strive for his holiness, an inner holiness that comes only by the grace of God. We want to worship him with dignity and with beauty. This is right; it is very right. But let us first offer him our love and seek his righteousness; then the beauty and the ...
Bulletin Aid
Rolland R. Reece
... anguish. Most of all, help us to set our hands to tasks that will bring our sisters and brothers a full measure of dignity and respect. We gather unto ourselves all that you choose to give us in this worship setting. Tomorrow we will be needed and ... you to erase our problems but to assure us that our effort and dedication will make a difference, and that we will please you and bring dignity to ourselves and to others. You are the one who has breathed life into us. You are the one who has given us love, joy, ...
42. Room For Questions
Matthew 11:2-11
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William B. Kincaid, III
... of pious wisdom or viewing him as a "project," a man named Rueben Lance prayerfully listened to Peterson and all his hopes and fears, questions and feelings. Years later Peterson would write, "He let me be. He didn't mess with my soul. He treated me with dignity. I felt a large roominess in his company -- a spiritual roominess, room to move around, room to be free."1 Questions aren't bad, but not allowing them to be asked is. Questions are a way of loving God with our minds. Through questions we reach and ...
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Lee Griess
... in the reading today, he leaves on a cross. He humbles himself and is obedient to the Father. Just as Bamboo was stripped of his leaves, his stalk split in two, his heart cut out and laid down, so Christ lay aside his divine nature. Stripped of his dignity, forsaken of his friends, broken in body, he, too, is laid down on a cross. In a Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown and Linus are standing next to each other, staring up at a star-filled sky. "Would you like to see a falling star, Linus?" Charlie Brown asks ...
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W. Robert McClelland
... the eyes of God. During the dark days of slavery in this country, Blacks worked in the cotton fields stripped of their dignity, naked to the waist, and barefoot in the dirt. But the human spirit refuses to be broken. From deep within the Black psyche ... rose that rebellion spawned by Christian faith and expressed in the music of the soul; the Negro spirituals. In them the note of human dignity is never far from the praise of God. I got shoes, you got shoes, All of God's chillun got shoes. When I get to ...
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James Garrett
... a victim mentality. We can use it as a means of being excused. “After all look at what he has been through….” to be excused from responsibility. Such an evasion is a denial of that dignity and worth that belongs to the fact we are created in the image of God and recreated in Christ Jesus. There is a quality of dignity and worth and value we must not deny. A victim but refuse to be a victim! You can always take the initiative. You can take control of your life. Do not reciprocate; do not let those ...
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... would have to furnish that. And so they answered Jesus’ symbolic action with a symbolism of their own. On this Festival of Christ the King, my only objective is to exalt the king worth having, the one with courage enough to sacrifice himself for us, the one whose dignity doesn’t get in his way so that the lowest and the poorest among us can still feel he’s approachable, the one who deserves our allegiance but doesn’t force us to give it. My aim today is simply to move us to yield him our hearts ...
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... personal need, or by a strong desire in his heart for mercy and a healing of his personal relationship with God and with his fellow citizens in Jericho - this, it seems to me, would push the story much too far. People do strange things and sometimes lose their dignity for lesser reasons, like chasing foul balls in the stadium. I hardly think this little fellow had a psycho problem, or that he felt a spiritual dilemma, or that his life was up a tree in any other way. But before the sun had set that afternoon ...
48. Parable of Five Cities
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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... Disappointment. Her journey took her to the next city, where she again thought the ideal was at hand; but, in this city called Rebellion, she found only bitterness. Once again she set forth and found a beautiful love called respect. This was the City of Dignity. Again she set forth to find her true love and there she found some happiness in the City of Adventure and, when this love faded, she finally arrived at the city of her fulfillment, which was named Partnership. The young lady thought she found love ...
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Kendall McCabe
... we are worshiping him. But the story must be a warning to us. Whenever the church, or any one of its members, enjoys success and comfort, the kingdoms of this world, at the expense of someone else's dignity and human worth, we are worshiping the devil, who wants nothing more than to rob humankind of the dignity of the divine image. It is worth noticing that, at the end of Matthew's Gospel, Jesus declares, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me." This was what the devil had promised at ...
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... of deep darkness and despair. Then there is the heavy darkness of the pollution and rape of the environment, which our selfish greed for more and more stuff and profits has produced in our world. The reality of unemployment and loss of human worth and dignity, the decay and destitution of urban centers, the crises of farm families having to use food stamps and lose their farms, the lack of confidence and strong cynicism of a lot of people today for government and institutions in our society, and the huddled ...
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