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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John M. Braaten
... amaze you to read that Jesus was able to overcome temptation. After all, like me, you've probably been able to do it yourself, many times. Admittedly, we have also caved in to temptation innumerable times, but for a person with Jesus' devotion and strength, eluding the tempter's entrapment must have been a piece of cake. That assumption is based on that belief that temptation is merely the urge to do something wrong. It is the desire to do something which will benefit one's self but which, if done, would ...
27. Saved By Grace
Exodus 32:1-33:6
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Walter Kimbrough
... is only realized as a gift grounded in faith. An old native American man did not have significant claim to fame. No one recorded his success in life among the listing of who’s who. He had never been featured on television or radio; popularity had systematically eluded him. Jesus Christ had no meaning in his life, but one day a missionary introduced him to the savior of the world and his life made a dramatic change -- in fact, a 180 degree change. Whereas before he lived in sin, he was now living in Christ ...
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Robert Beringer
... , and a landing party approached the beach, he was afraid, after all this time of aloneness, to meet his own kind face to face. He hid himself. The men of the landing party saw signs of his presence. They called. They searched. But he knew the island too well and eluded their every effort to find him. At day's end, they left, and as he watched the ship sail away out of his sight, he fell down on the sand of his island prison and wept. The judgment of Christmas is like that. It comes, Christ comes, to rescue ...
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Johnny Dean
... escapes me. Not so in this circumstance. This little book was a Godsend. In it, Dr. Cullmann not only acknowledges the difficulty in understanding why Jesus submitted to a baptism of repentance. He also offers a simple explanation for it, one that had for some reason eluded me. I had dived deeply into the pool of the intellect searching for an answer that was floating in plain view on the surface. Cullmann says, "It was not a baptism of repentance for HIS sin; it was a baptism of repentance for MY sin, and ...
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Larry Powell
... . The Bible says that the "WORD BECAME FLESH," and that "in all ways Christ became like us." He entered into humanity not only to fully experience it but to fully redeem it. The magnitude of such a proposition is so utterly impressive that it tends to elude us because of its inclusiveness. However, is it really impressive in 1982, or (1) have we heard it so many times that the wonder of it all falls upon insensitive ears? (2) Do we really know what it means? Or (3) are we waiting for what Weatherhead ...
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Larry Powell
... bar keeper has never served up a solitary free brew. Tomorrow, that most elusive of all days, never comes. It is always "today." We can relate to "yesterday," for we have been there. We can understand "today" because that is where we are now. But tomorrow eludes us. That is, unless we have a dental appointment tomorrow, or a note due, or a responsibility to tend - somehow, those tomorrows manage to arrive right on schedule. Why is it that the sun never rises on all the 'rest of those other tomorrows? The ...
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Carl Jech
... of other activities that are meaningful for us. We get busy interacting with other people and the world around us, and, lo and behold, suddenly we realize we are happy. It's the same way with comfort. If we seek it too deliberately as an end in itself it will elude us. But if, with Saint Francis of Assisi, we "seek not so much to be consoled as to console," then we will have it dawn on us that we too are comforted. Lo and behold, as we sing in the Christmas Carol "Silent Night," we will experience "the dawn ...
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Carl Jech
... with the "booby present" behind it. What a sinking feeling to discover that we have put our ultimate trust in something that doesn't last, in something that is not worthy of our ultimate concern! Sadly, the true spirit of what religion is about can also elude us if we are full of anger, rage, and a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness. An Islamic scholar appearing on a 1987 PBS program, stated that in many areas of the world the religion of Islam is a movement of the oppressed and dispossessed who feel ...
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... people never find the treasure that Jesus is talking about here. It seems to be elusive. It seems to escape them. And - often it escapes us too! We who know Christ, we who live under the mercy and grace of God - the fact of God's mercy and grace often eludes us! And so, like anyone else, too many of our days are spent in "quiet desperation." Too many years are spent in loneliness. We go by for months without a sign of genuine joy and zest for life. We live too many days fearing other people. We let years ...
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... and mercy. God is beyond us. Embrace the mystery, and live in the joy of knowing that God is able to do far more than we ever ask or think. Robert Raines says it beautifully: "Lo, I tell you a mystery but the mystery is larger than the telling it eludes our boundaries it escapes our taming and naming hove the mystery.2 Once you and I claim to have full knowledge of God and the ability to predict God’s actions, we have fallen victim to one of the oldest temptations. No, we have fallen victim to the oldest ...
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... , everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not continue in the house for ever; the son continues for ever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed." - John 8:31-36 (RSV) This short passage of Scripture used to elude me. Being trained in the Reformation tradition, I was used to the ideas of guilt and forgiveness, of rebellious alienation and reconciliation. But it took some time for the third major way the Bible views Christ’s work for us to sink in. This is strange in a way ...
37. You Figure It Out
Matthew 22:15-22
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... will become a simple, black-and-white sort of decision to behave in a God-pleasing way. Until we see God face to face, we still will face a broken, sin-filled, ambiguous creation, where several evils crowd in on us at every turn and pure choices elude us. Jesus faced just such a world when he moved in our midst, sparring with the Pharisees and stepping deftly out of their well-positioned snares. Should we serve God or Caesar? Which is better? Aside from the fact that the question sounds a little like, "Is ...
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Brett Blair
... just like them aren’t we? Isn’t that what we want for ourselves. Isn’t that what we ultimately want for our children: Happiness. The problem is that we really don’t grasp the true nature of happiness, and because of that it so often seems to elude us. You see, we think that happiness deals with our outer circumstances. We think that the truly happy man is one who has achieved outer success. Thus our beatitudes read: 1. Blessed is the man who makes a fortune. 2. Blessed is he who earns six figures. 3 ...
39. GOD - THE STILL POINT IN A TURNING WORLD
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John H. Krahn
I believe that most of us are experiencing the crunch - the crunch of living - of doing business on the planet called Earth. The simple life has somehow eluded our grasp - even things that we could once take for granted like enough gas for our cars, sufficient oil for our homes, uninterrupted education for our children, and the prospect for a raise that would provide us a little higher standard of living - these things are no longer commonplace. Often ...
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Bill Bouknight
... is the way I am responding: First, I am confident that God's justice can reach even where society's justice cannot. The Bible says that God's justice may be delayed but it will not be denied. The killer of Nicole and Ron will not elude God's accountability. St. Paul advised, "Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will replay,' says the Lord." Secondly, I am praying for the three families in California traumatized by this tragedy. And ...
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Gordon Pratt Baker
... shall pursue me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Psalm 23:6) The benevolence of grace, the poet has discovered, is woven into the fabric of life; and we can escape it no more than we can elude our shadow. The God who bears with his own "the burning of the noontide heat and the burden of the day" provides them a sense of security and peace, not simply because they are coming home, but because, in the course of their checkered journey, he makes them increasingly ...
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James W. Robinson
... . "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth ..." III. "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." Martin Luther was a diligent seeker after truth. Unfortunately, truth and the freedom it brings eluded him, because, at first, his search took him down the wrong path. He thought to find it through the practice of good works, like other devout Christians of his day. When a bolt of lightning felled him, he called on Saint Anne, patron saint of miners ...
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Thomas D. Peterson
... . F. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters in his novels ask each other in myriad ways what they are to do with their lives seeing that they are happy, rich, and beautiful. Having arrived at a peak of eminence and ready to pick the plum, the rewards elude them, and their lives slip away into futility. Like skiers on a slope they cannot remain in place, but slide irrevocably ever beyond the happy moment. Something quite special was supposed to happen to shift life forever from the ordinary and boring. But, nothing ...
44. Proper 21
Job 42:1-6, James 4:13-17, James 5:7-12, Mark 9:38-41, Mark 9:42-50
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Paul A. Laughlin
First Lesson: Job 42:1-6 Theme: Awe and wonder before God Exegetical Note Job’s final response to God’s self-revelation has as its main theme the awesome and wonderful majesty of God, which eludes human understanding. Job’s self-deprecation relative to God’s greatness is not meant to be an absolute statement about human worthlessness, but rather a natural reaction to any confrontation with the Holy. Call to Worship Leader: Brothers and sisters, we stand before God this day in awe and wonder. ...
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George Bass
... , smelled what was being cooked, and [if] I caught the scent of meat or fish ... I waved the Holy Epistle menacingly and shouted, ‘Woe to you, woe to you!’ "48 His efforts brought him little satisfaction and the sanctity he sought in Christ continued to elude him almost altogether. But we can remain in the risen Christ, and that happens by our faithfulness to his Word, by worship and prayer, and by receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion, which renews the gift we received in Holy Baptism. For it is in ...
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... day, like today, when this book is a part of the assigned readings. In my ten years of ministry, I have also managed to steer clear of facing Job head-on in that once a week or so existential struggle called sermon preparation. But we can never really elude Job for long. Job will at some point enter uninvited into our public and private worlds and demand a hearing. Job is the haunting cry of the victim in an unjust world. Job is a nightmare that forms the day for countless human beings. Job is that core ...
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Brett Blair
... Now the police and the even owner of the VW Bug were more interested in apprehending the thief to save his life than to recover the car. So often when we run from God, we feel it is to escape his punishment. But what we are actually doing is eluding his rescue. When we are willing to have our deeds exposed, we can be saved. Jesus said, whomever lives by the truth comes into the light. III. Finally, there is love for the world in Christ. When Nicodemus came to Jesus, he did so under cover of darkness. Jesus ...
48. Rejoice
Philippians 4:2-9
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King Duncan
... all citizens are present on Christmas Eve, and if all are praying with perfect faith, then and only then, at the stroke of midnight, the Second Coming will be at hand. And for 500 years they've come to that stone ruin and prayed. Yet the Second Coming has eluded them. One of the main characters in this novel is asked, "Do you believe that He will come again on Christmas Eve in our town?" "No," he answers, shaking his head sadly, "no, I don't." "Then why do you go each year?" he asked. "Ah," he says smiling ...
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King Duncan
... . When God first created the world, it was a place of perfect harmony and wholeness. But sin stripped away the beauty and peace that God had created. (3) There are many people who have been stripped down by life. They long for an inner beauty and peace that eludes them. And many of those people may be found in church pews. Those of us who have been more fortunate in our Christian walk have a responsibility for our hurting brothers and sisters. This is why no church can afford to be torn by conflict. When we ...
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King Duncan
... arrested and charged with shoplifting. Sticky fingers and sticky shoes ” they'll get you every time. (4) That little narrative is contained in the book AMERICA'S DUMBEST CRIMINALS. In Orlando, Florida a suspected Colombian drug kingpin who had eluded authorities for two years was caught at Universal Studios ” for shoplifting souvenirs. Amazing! A drug kingpin arrested for shoplifting! A few years ago a presidential debate with more than 100 million viewers watching was held up for twenty seven minutes ...
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