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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576. Holy Diet
John 6:24-35
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... , "Give us this day our daily bread." II "He who comes to me" is a somewhat general invitation, but the matter becomes specific when Jesus added in effect, "He who comes believing ..." There's the rub. Jesus indicates, in the second place, the manner of being which nourishes and feeds the true life. There are actually two kinds of bread: material - helps us from without inwards; and spiritual - helps us from within outwards. Jesus' concern was for the latter, because the inward life was, to him, the true ...
577. Soul Food
John 6:25-59
Sermon
Larry Goodpaster
... , food for the soul. On another occasion and to a different audience, it was spoken like this: we do not live by bread alone, but by the Word of God, that is Bread for our hungry spirits. Ours is a hungry world. We fill our craving stomachs with all manner of would-be relief agents. We overeat to mask our hurts. We eat junk food and we try to snack our way through life, only to discover our health and vitality lost in the process. We consume drugs (both prescription and illegal) to cover our pains. “Pop a ...
578. Where Does That Leave Us?
Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37
Sermon
Thomas Peterson
... about their days and their tasks in the cause of Christ. We enable them to do their best by doing ours, relieving them of unnecessary stress and provocation. As we go about our days doing our tasks reliably and efficiently, others can also go about their days in the same manner. Thus, we who are called apart to be in Christ make ready for God’s great Day.
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... functioning was not what God wanted. In a sense they were God's enemy - out of control - had been co-opted by the darkness of evil and chaos. In order to overcome these enemies it was necessary for Jesus to suffer and die. (In this sense, this manner of talking about Christ's death also embraces the biblical images which reinforce the second viewpoint's idea that Christ's death was to overcome an enemy of God - in this case to overcome evil, chaos and a created order that had gotten out of control.) What ...
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
Decisions, decisions. Life is full of decisions. In fact, a number of philosophers and psychologists tell us that the decisions we make (or our behavior) largely make us who we are. Life is nothing but decisions. How do we make them in a Christian manner? We Christians believe that by his resurrection on Easter, Christ has given us new life (1 Peter 1:3). You have been given a new life! Now that we have that new life, how does it affect the way in which we make decisions? At least two of our Bible ...
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... , whom Jesus promised to his disciples before ascending to heaven (Luke 24:49), is all about. God is the Holy Spirit among us, because he just cannot keep his "nose" out of our lives. People, I do not know about you, but once I think about the ascension in that manner, there is no way that I would ever be sorry that Jesus ascended to heaven. I am glad he did. In fact, if Jesus were physically standing here right in front of me, I would ask him to get going - to get back to the Father. Why? Because by being ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... our lives by discovering our spiritual gifts. Spiritual gifts are God's signature on our souls. God says, "Do not say, 'I am too young, but go to the people. . .' (Jeremiah 1:7, TEV)." In other words, Jeremiah was gifted to go for God. In the same manner, God gives gifts to all his people. Paul puts it this way: Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed.... There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there ...
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... of submission has continuing implications for all aspects of our life together. In our confession of faith we must be careful that our own special formulation of words and thoughts do not become sacrosanct to the extent that we cannot confess our faith in any other manner. If this happens, our creed is treasured more than the Lord we profess to serve. In our worship service we bear witness to the victory and power of God in Christ by means of a liturgy which may be simple or complex. The crucial point is ...
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... to use the cane to drive the young intruder away. Instead, the old man paused along side the dirty and ragged young man. He sat down with him and put his arm around his shoulder. They appeared to be a strange couple as they sat together in this manner throughout the remainder of the service.6 The people heard a real sermon that day. The sermon was dramatically portrayed for them by the two men sitting together on the floor near the pulpit. There could be no mistaking what they were expected to do; it had ...
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... to their downfall. Listen to the prophet’s cry on behalf of his beloved city: “She listens to no voice, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord, she does not draw near to her God (3:2).” That his people could act in this manner was beyond the comprehension of the prophet. After all God had done for them, how could they be so indifferent? God had given them the law of the covenant grounded in divine mercy to lead them in their personal and social conduct. But this holy law had been ...
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... she said: “Because Jefferson Davis is a praying man.” The other replied: “Abraham Lincoln is a praying man, too.” “Yes,” retorted the first woman, “but the Lord will think Abraham is joking.” There was something about Lincoln’s carefree, almost irreverent, manner that made many people question his sincerity. Lincoln, however, was a compassionate man who not only could laugh at others but could laugh at himself, too. If we are to know something of the joy of the kingdom we must find out how ...
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... what caught my attention was the fact that I managed to tell the professor everything anyone had ever said about Pope Leo, but never once in 16 pages did I say a thing about what the study of that great Christian saint's life had meant to me. In like manner, you and I can have a term paper relationship with Jesus Christ. We can know about Jesus, we can sing about Jesus, we can even use the name of Jesus when we pray, but our faith journey is not a personal one until like the magi of old, we involve ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... Interviews and national news stories alike toyed with the obvious question: "How did you stop their passing attack?" Several strategies had been employed, such as mixing up defensive formations, intimidating receivers by hard tackling, and of special significance, watching the mannerisms of the quarterback. Careful study of earlier films had discovered that he "telegraphed" the direction of a pass. "How did you stop him?" "We watched his eyes!"1 These words may hold the key to our discovery of the "central ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... Shortly thereafter, Stephen, the first martyr after Christ, would raise the same prayer of intercession as he was stoned to death. Virtually all of the apostles would die as martyrs, and Peter, pleading that he was not worthy to die in the same manner as his Lord, was crucified upside down. From the persecution of Nero onward, Christians would become foils for gladiators, food for lions and even human torches, being burned alive for the amusement of the people. Some emperors were harsher than others, and so ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... salvation." "Maybe, in your false piety and empty worship, you thought you would honor My arrival with fanfare and trumpets. I came quietly, in a manger. Maybe you expected a king on a throne. I came as a servant. I showed you by My birth and in the whole manner of My living that My ways are not your ways. I walked your streets and visited your homes, teaching and admonishing and healing you in body and spirit, showing you at every moment what I look like in your own flesh and blood." "I came to you knowing ...
Eulogy
Harold Warlick
... his children, do well. He was always more interested in how other people were doing than in how he was doing. Consequently, Eck always possessed the kind of smile that you couldn't knock off his face with a baseball bat. In a succinct and forthright manner, I don't know anything better that one can articulate about any person's life. But our celebration today needs to evoke some lasting lessons for ourselves, as our relationship with Eck moves into the realm of blessed memory. Memory is vital to the life of ...
592. Thanksgiving
Ephesians 1:1
Sermon
Brett Blair
... appreciate Thanksgiving we are going to have to recapture our forefathers vision of gratitude. How do we do that? I First, from the Biblical perspective, gratitude is expressed in thankful lives and not just thankful voices. Too often we look upon gratitude as simply good manners. One of the first things we teach our children is how to say thank you, When some one gives them something we immediately speak up: Now what do we say? We say thank you. Gratitude at its deepest level, however, is more than simply ...
Sermon
John P. Rossing
... acid. Job didn't have such scruples about giving God a piece of his mind. He was angry, and he believed that it was best to get his complaint out in the open. It didn't seem to matter to Job whether he was acting in a proper, God-fearing manner or not. He was simply being honest about the way he felt. One student in a college Bible survey class was offended that Job would challenge and argue with God. "What did Job think gave him the right to talk to God that way?" she asked. Another student spoke up ...
594. Honor by Serving
Revelation 14:6-13
Eulogy
Richard F. Bansemer
... phone calls made on her behalf, and about the visits. You people here today became for her a great joy, and that's the same as saying "Blessed." "Blessed" is,who has died in the Lord."With someone as verbal about kindness as ____________ has been about you, passing all manner of compliments, there's no telling what she'll tell the Lord about you! I wouldn't worry. She's the kind of person we need to send "on ahead." Evenas she's blessed, because she's died in the Lord, she's been a blessing to us, and we ...
Drama
Edward Long
... to come with me in the space scooter and glance into the immediate future here and the past there ... LEE: To be sure ... let's go ... (Lights down.) NARRATOR: Mysteriously Lee and the Space Visitor, Zora, are soon cruising silently over the sleeping town in a manner which Lee can only compare to the flight of Superman he recently saw or the flight of Walt Disney's Tinker Bell - several times he pinches himself to see if it is real. As in a routine travelogue, Zora talks ... (Lights only on them, rest of ...
596. Step Eight - Love
Mt 7:7-14 · 2 Cor 5:16-21 · Ps 19:7-13
Sermon
John A. Terry
... is a television newscaster in Cleveland. When he was chosen the regular lead anchor on the weekday news, it was a promotion of note, since he was the first black to be a weekday news anchor in Cleveland. I always liked him. There was some quality about him, his manner, the way he treated others that I admired, but I didn't know what it was. Then one day, reading an interview with him, I discovered it. When he talked about the advice that shaped his life, he said that his mother had told him no matter what ...
Children's Sermon
Tim Carpenter
... will come out of that person? (response) You are correct; badness will come out of that person, just like the grounds inside of that coffee are left behind in the filter. But if a person is good and puts good things inside of oneself, like prayer, and good manners, and love, and respect, then what will come out of that person? (response) Goodness will come out, just as the water that was clean and didn't leave any other particles in the filter. The Apostle Paul told us to store up good things in our lives ...
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... here, we talk to one another about different things, but this morning I'd really like to pray, but I need you to help me. Would you help me pray? (response) Good, let's pray: As you pray fold your hands, look up to heaven, and pray in a prideful manner. "God, I thank you that I'm not like other boys and girls. They're all a bunch of brats, they are mean and nasty, and they lie all the time. God, I thank you I'm better than those other boys and girls; I am so good because I ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... ? I am convinced that had two people been there that night in Bethlehem it is quite possible that they could have heard and seen two entirely different scenes. I believe this because all of life is this way. God never presents himself in revelation in a manner in which we are forced to believe. We are always left with an option, for that is God's way. Thus, one person can say “Its a miracle, while another says “It’s coincidence." Certainly very few people in Palestine saw and heard and understood what ...
Sermon
Johnny Dean
... to say to hurting and hopeful people, who preach every Sunday "in weakness and in fear and in great trembling." Paul had learned, as most preachers eventually do, that it’s not the eloquence of the person in the pulpit that counts, nor is it a confident manner, a flair for the dramatic or innovative insights into human nature. It’s not any of these, but rather it is the power and promise of God to whom the preacher must bear witness "in weakness and in fear and in trembling." John the Baptist, another ...
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