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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King Duncan
... hand, he was willing to live up to his new commitment by no longer being dishonest in his work, by making restitution for the wrongs he had done in the past, and by sharing what he had with the needy. Was his conversion real? Would that all of us could experience that kind of a conversion. How can we tell it is real? You know a tree by its fruit. What kind of fruit are you bearing? Have you experienced the touch of the Master’s hand? Have you experienced new life in Christ? If you really want it want it ...
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King Duncan
... not see she spoke to him and eventually became his friend. She discovered that he'd never had a birthday party. "So I baked him a cake and organized a party," she said. "He blew out the candles he couldn't see." He was delirious with joy. She describes her experience in most interesting terms. She says, "I felt so happy. I had come from that blind person on the corner to someone who had seen a need and done something about it." You see what she was saying? It was she who was blind ” blind to the needs of ...
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King Duncan
... began to come to me and say, `What does this mean? What are you doing this for?' Then I had my chance and I preached the Gospel." "Did you succeed?" Adams asked. "When I left," said his friend, "I left a church." (5) That's the test of every mountaintop experience, is it not? Does it motivate us to reach out to our neighbor? Does it motivate us to reach down to the least and the lowliest? There is no staying on the mountaintop for those who love Jesus. He always calls us to go down to the valley. How about ...
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King Duncan
... , but she had no idea. No one had ever explained to her how life insurance works. Perhaps no one has ever explained to you that as a disciple of Jesus Christ, you too are rich. He is available to you ” his love, his power, his joy. You can experience his presence in you life beginning this moment. Why? Because he is who he says he is. He is our Savior, Redeemer, and Lord. 1. Rep. David Obey (D., Wis.) READER'S DIGEST 2. Billy Crystal with Dick Schaap, ABSOLUTELY MAHVELOUS (New York, New York: G. P. Putnam ...
605. Found Of God
John 20:24-31
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King Duncan
... out with Thomas, "Unless I shall see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe." But sooner or later we are confronted with the fact that we will never experience such direct confirmation. And we are left with a choice ” is this faith real or is it not? And that is the most important choice we will ever make. Let me tell you a story about a young man who grew up in Alabama. About fifteen years ago, a seventh ...
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King Duncan
... And again Eli sent him back. At this point the writer of the book of Samuel adds that "Samuel did not yet know the Lord . . ." You can almost feel the anticipation here: A remarkable thing is getting ready to happen in Samuel's life! It's the same remarkable experience to which you and I are invited this morning. Then for a third time Samuel heard the voice and, for a third time, he ran to Eli. But this time Eli understands what is happening: it is the voice of the Lord speaking to Samuel. "Go lie down," he ...
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Eric Ritz
... --to get our priorities in order. 2. To seek God's will in a very important decision in our lives. Fasting allows us to minimize distractions--to silence all other voices except God's. 3. Our doctor may order us to fast before a test or exam. 4. To experience the hunger and starvation of needy people and to commit ourselves and our resources to be part of the solution--not the problem. Please note: This doesn't mean that, after the fast is over, we need to feel guilty if we enjoy a delicious meal at a nice ...
608. Christ The King
Revelation 1:1-3
Sermon
King Duncan
... unusual for an artist to go to great lengths to gain the perspective of something or someone he or she is portraying. But it is the unique contention of Christians that the Lord of all the universe emptied himself to walk where we walk, to experience what we experience. When we take our concerns to Christ, we know he understands because he has been here. He has experienced the pain of rejection, disappointment, grief and all the other emotions that make it so hard to be a human. That's one thing Christ is ...
609. Above All--god
Revelation 21:1-27
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King Duncan
... been such a hunger to touch God. And so we come to our reading from the book of Revelation, chapter 21. [In order to help us experience the majesty of these words, I would like for you to stand as I read.] Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for ... truth, no one can answer that question, because no one alive today has ever escaped the boundaries of space and time to experience the reality of spirit. This is God, beyond the bounds of human comprehension, and touching Him requires that we acknowledge who He ...
610. Running For Joy
Hebrews 12:1-13
Sermon
King Duncan
... seat at the right hand of the throne of God." The writer of Hebrews calls Jesus "the pioneer and perfecter of our faith . . ." In other words, like Roger Bannister, Jesus ran the race before us. Jesus showed us what is possible. And Jesus paved the way for us to experience a glorious victory. Let's consider for a moment what is required to be a great runner--as well as a champion of our faith. First comes the training. If you're going to be a champion at any endeavor, you've got to be willing to give your ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... news I have to share with you: You do not have to measure up. You do not have to be at the top of your class. You are accepted. You are loved. Salvation, wholeness, healing of the inner person by God is not performance-based. In fact, in order to experience God's grace, you and I have got to somehow forget everything we've ever learned about being good. That sounds radical, doesn't it? But that is what Luther saw half a millennium ago. We are saved not by our performance, but by our faith in an omnipotent ...
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King Duncan
... not being loved." My friends, there are lots of people in this world with that great fear. If they only knew that the church is not only people loving God but also people loving one another. In his book REBUILD YOUR LIFE, Dale E. Galloway tells about an experience when he was custodian of a large church while he was a student at Olivet College In illinois. He writes: "One Saturday as I was cleaning the sanctuary, I had the windows open and a little bird flew in. Once inside, the bird flew around, having a ...
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Edward Inabinet
... we leave this world all that love and joy and bliss will be magnified immeasurably. But if we reject him in this world, we''ll experience hell here and when we leave this world. Our choice makes the difference. Jesus asks for a yes or no, an up or down, ... offer you abundant life, I come that you might have life and have it more abundantly, I come that you might have heaven and not experience hell." Jesus is able to pour his love into your heart, he''s able to remove from you that sense of regret you may have ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... skill at capturing it). You may capture the wind in your sails for a time, but it can disappear suddenly, leaving you stranded in the middle of the lake, and, if you do not have a motor, too embarrassed to ask for a tow. Sailing is a humbling experience. You may use the wind to take you where you want to go for a time, but it can shift directions without warning. Sailing makes you aware of your dependency. That’s Jesus’ message in John, Chapter Three. You cannot capture the grace of God, you can only ...
615. Thanks for the Memories
Deuteronomy 26:1-15
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Eric Ritz
... , the first thing to be sacrificed for the new world order and system is the history of the past? Only when you can convince a people they are strangers in an alien land can you then re-educate them, because they have been stripped of the richness of past experiences. Without our past, we can never really live or die, we simply exist. Elie Wiesel wrote, "Memory is an exalted way of seeing one''s life in its totality, it is not a morbid thing." There is a great power in memory. THE MEMORY OF THE PAST PROPELS ...
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Robert Noblett
... are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased" (Mark 1:9-11). If you juxtapose his baptism to yours, yours probably pales in comparison. It's unlikely that it packed the kind of drama his does. But don't be so quick to underplay your experience, nor assume that nothing like this has ever happened to you. What is initially happening here has to do with a sense of being called. When you were growing up, you played all kinds of imaginary games and in those games there were roles you gleefully fulfilled ...
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Glenn McDonald
... do -- and never to feel rushed. The call of God is to slow down, to be present at each moment as it arrives. Time is a gift to be opened one minute at a time -- and no faster. Psalm 90 informs us that God is uniquely able to experience a "telescoping" of time -- that for God a thousand years are like a day, but even more intriguing, that a day is as rich and meaningful as a thousand years. Quite literally every moment matters eternally -- which means that this present moment counts forever. One of the great ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... comes from a circuit of toys and a deficiency of thought. Isn’t that, isn’t that characteristic, and isn’t it descriptive. That odd stunned look that comes from a circuit of toys and a deficiency of thought. Because this is true, that we see and experience life in pieces and not as a whole, the nitty gritty gets us down and drives us to seek more toys, more play things, more highs, without bracing up our minds, keeping cool, and hoping in the grace that is coming to us in Jesus Christ. II. Meaning ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... as an ever flowing stream. The God whose name is mercy and love. The need for reconciliation screams from the events of our current history and are brought into our living rooms by televisions. But we don’t even have to see it at that level, we experience it in our homes - estrangement between husband and wife, parents and children - we see it in our work, between management and labor - we see it in our city between the haves and have nots, the rich and the poor, the black and the white. And we Christians ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... meaning as you begin to use it in the context of what we talked about last Sunday. That is, the dynamics of prayer. So let’s review those dynamics before we go on. Prayer is naming and being named. It is (1) naming God as God is in our experience, (2) naming ourselves are we are before God, and (3) allowing God to name us as we are and as he is calling us to be. Conversation is the key. Communion, being with God. Speaking and listening, giving and receiving. The acts of prayer consist of basic ingredients ...
621. What Really Matters
Philippians 3:1-11
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Maxie Dunnam
... alertness. I had the feeling that my mother wanted to talk. And she wanted to talk about real things, not just to make time passing conversation. How did she feel? What was she thinking? There was a lot of deep sharing. I hope I will never forget that experience, and what my mother said. When you give your life to the Lord, son, everything else has to be alright, no matter what happens. It was her way of expressing confidence that she was OK in God’s hands. She had already died the death that matters, and ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... . Another passage than our text from Isaiah expresses it graphically. "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined" (Isaiah 9:2 RSV). That's the Biblical experience, and the experience of Christian tradition. We have to wait patiently. God has his own ways, his own reasons that are not ours to know. That means, God keeps his own calendar and appointment book. We have to wait patiently. Last Sunday I talked about this ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... were fully awake they saw his glory..." The suggestion is there. It's easy to miss the glory of God, even with the promise of a theophany, even when God is acting all around us, we may be dull to God's presence. We have to be fully awake to experience God's glory. Peter and the others almost missed it. But thank God they didn't. Let me read you Peter's testimony, which came much later. He recorded it in his Second Epistle. Listen to II Peter 1: verses 16, 17: "For we did not follow cleverly devised myths ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... "martyr complex" stage. Doing for others when what she did was unhealthy for herself -- and many times unhealthy for those for whom she was doing it. She was never aware that what she was doing for others, however, was unhealthy for them. One of my most painful experiences is to spend time with my 86-year-old mother who can no longer care for anyone -- in fact, can hardly care for herself. Do you know what hurts her most? She can't stoop over and lift the iron-skillet out of the lower kitchen cabinet and ...
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King Duncan
... not found Christ. Then one day he met a minister who was sensitive, caring, and clear-headed. This minister told Gladden that if he would do his best to walk in the ways of loving service, he could trust God’s love whether he had any ecstatic experiences about it or not. That was the word he needed. Washington Gladden began to walk where Jesus walked. He was led into a life of notable ministry. He brought incisive application of the gospel to the social issues of the day, and helped shape the history of ...
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