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
... is ours for the taking. All we have to do is accept it. This inheritance already has our name on it. All we have to do is claim it. In the summer of 1961 the Leningrad Ballet was returning to Russia from a triumphant tour of the West. The plane that was to take them back home was ready to board at the Paris airport when suddenly one of the group, a dancer named Rudolf Nureyev, made a break, leaping into the arms of two surprised French inspectors. The inspectors told Nureyev he would have to do two things ...
Sermon
King Duncan
It's good to have you in worship on this first Sunday of the New Year. One of the controversial issues of this past year was whether airline pilots should carry weapons on planes. It reminded me of a story about a pilot who was seated in the cockpit of a passenger jet. Much to the surprise of his navigator the pilot pulled out a .38 revolver. He placed it on top of the instrument panel, then asked the navigator, "Do you know what ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that easy to deliver people from their fears. Life can be so scary. A young man was learning to fly. It was his first flight at night. Looking into the darkness, he asked his instructor what we should do if the engine failed. "Get the plane gliding in a controlled descent," said the instructor, "then attempt to restart the engine and make a "˜Mayday' call. The only difference between day and night flying is that the terrain below will not be clearly visible, so you should point the aircraft toward whatever ...
629. It's Not About Us
Revelation 22:1-6
Sermon
King Duncan
... such love and sorrow meet or thorns compose so rich a crown." One beautiful November morning a man named Henry Coffeen launched his monoplane into the air. Things seemed perfect for the first few moments aloft. Then, while running through some aerobatic maneuvers, the plane's engine exploded into flames. Coffeen bailed out just in time. He awoke in the hospital with third degree burns over most of his body. The next few months were the most excruciating of his life. Every day, nurses had to scrub away dead ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ended in the second week of August of 1945. However, there were still soldiers in 150 POW camps in Asia. And so for a month after the war was officially over 1,066 American B-29s regularly flew over these POW camps. Flying slowly at 165 mph, these planes dropped tons of food and medicine by parachute to starving men below. Unfortunately, sometimes the food packages came apart in air and cans of food fell with full force. The last Marine killed in Asia in World War II was killed by "friendly fire," by a can ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... die? Would you want to know? Obviously you would probably avoid cars, wouldn't you? Maybe you'd even stay in bed on that particular day. Some of you will remember the story of the man who was told by a fortune-teller that he would die in a plane crash. So he avoided flying. Six months later he. . . . died in a car crash. An airplane fell on his car. According to this philosophy, even if we stayed in bed on that preordained day, a car could come crashing through our bedroom wall. So, would you want to know ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Ideally, the process went something like this: pull up both arm rests in the flight seat, squeeze the ejection triggers, let go of the flight seat and trigger the parachute. But some pilots made the mistake of holding onto the flight seat after ejecting from the plane. As long as they were still in the seat, their parachutes wouldn't open. Letting go of the seat meant letting go of anything solid and secure; it also meant survival. Holding on to the flight seat may have felt secure, but it resulted in a ...
633. A Life Without Apology
2 Timothy 1:1-2:13
Sermon
King Duncan
... . It is about doing the right thing--even if the right thing isn't the easy thing. Among the heroes of 9/11 was a young man named Todd Beamer. Beamer was on the airplane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. The hijackers intended to crash the plane into the White House, until a small band of brave passengers, led by Todd Beamer, attacked them and forced the crash landing. There were no survivors, but that small band of determined passengers had protected the White House from what surely would have been a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... be sleazy. You can be totally irresponsible. Do you hear what I'm saying? Christ has set you free. But what kind of person would you be if you didn't feel a sense of obligation, a sense of call, a sense that you should live life on a higher plane because of what has been done on your behalf? You and I have so much to be thankful for. We are free, but we are also indebted. But there's one thing more we need to see: True freedom begins at the cross of Calvary. Maybe you don't feel ...
635. Maturity In Christ
Colossians 1:27-28
Sermon
King Duncan
... car would have brought them as much joy as their investment in a happy-faced, but starving little boy from Africa? If you think any of the things Madison Avenue tries to sell us could have brought them nearly as much happiness, then you're still living on an immature plane of life. It's not about us. Only when we realize that, will we discover the true meaning of life. So, St. Paul's goal is to bring us to maturity in Christ. Paul was in prison when he wrote these words to the Colossians. This isn't some ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that it is God's will. It comes from an all-knowing, all-powerful God who has a hand in everything that hap-pens on this earth. So when a baby dies in a crib death or a teenager is killed by a drunken driver, or hundreds die in a plane crash, it is somehow God's will. We may not understand now, but "bye and bye He will make it plain." We might call this view a theological version of "Father Knows Best." Another view that was popular at the beginning of the last century is that suffering is a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... 1991 when they first began their bread- baking, Al and Barbara Davis have made and mailed over 35,000 loaves of bread to U.S. troops. I thought of Al and Barbara when I read these words of Jesus. "This is the bread that came down from heaven . . ." When planes land in the Middle East carrying Al and Barbara's banana-nut bread, it must seem like manna from Heaven to the soldiers there. Most of you know the story well from the book of Exodus. God chose an unusual way to provide food for the children of Israel ...
638. A Victory For The Angels
1 Thessalonians 2:1-16
Sermon
King Duncan
... watched the hands of the clock moving toward the decisive moment. Then he went out with the bell ringer to call the camp. The steel bar was raised, ready to strike the gong. Suddenly both men looked up. In unison they exclaimed, 'Look! Planes!' The bell ringer, his hand still in the air, watched in breathless anticipation. Nearer and nearer they came. They roared overhead. Paratroopers leaped out into the prison yards. Deliverance at last!" (1) The scriptures are adamant on this one point: history is moving ...
Sermon
King Duncan
A man at an airport was worried about missing his plane. He had no wristwatch, and he couldn't locate a clock, so he hurried up to a stranger and said, "Excuse me, could you tell me the time, please?" The stranger smiled and said, "Sure." He set down the two large suitcases he was carrying and looked at his wristwatch. " ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... social circle. When her stint in the Peace Corps was over, she notified her parents that she had married and would be bringing her new husband home with her. Her proud mother and father waited anxiously at the airport. Their daughter stepped from the plane. Holding her arm was a seven-foot tall man, lavishly adorned with feathers, beads, skulls, tigers' teeth, and assorted pouches around his neck. He had a bone through his nose and rings in his ears. Her mother promptly fainted. Her father shouted to his ...
641. Free At Last!
Matthew 11:25-30
Sermon
King Duncan
... that it is hard to believe that it is based on a true story. In 1986, an Iranian man named Merhan Karimi Nasseri flew to Paris, France, without his immigration card or other proper paperwork. He never should have been allowed to board the plane without the paperwork, but somehow it was overlooked. Without his papers, the French authorities could not let him into the country, but they could not deport him either. So they forced him to live in the airport until they figured out his situation. Nasseri ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Max was suspended from school that day, but, believe it or not, they can also be thankful that Dad had his heart attack. Why? If Hamilton Loeb had not suffered his heart attack, his family would have been on vacation at that time. They had their plane tickets secured and their bags packed. If Hamilton had not had his heart attack, they would have been catching a tan on the sunny beaches of Phuket, Thailand at the very time that same beach was being devastated by the tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands ...
643. What Would Bill Do?
1 Thessalonians 2:1-16
Sermon
King Duncan
... seized the capital city. Chet had been working in Ghana, and he was not allowed to cross the border back into Liberia because of the unrest. He had no way of knowing if his wife and sons were still alive. There was a complete ban on civilians entering Liberia by plane, train, or automobile. The only way Chet could get back to his family was by water. He chartered a canoe and set out for a four-day journey along the coast to Liberia. Chet had been warned that his life would be in danger if he were caught by ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... is? Albert Einstein confessed his inability to believe in a personal God along these same lines. If you could preach a sermon to those who have suffered in the world’s holocausts and hurricanes; who have lost family and friends to earthquakes, famines, floods, and plane crashes, what would you say? What message of comfort would you give to the starving, the homeless, those victimized by war, military coups, tyranny? There is only one thing I can think of to say: there is a God who suffers with us and is ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... IN COMFORT. Lou Holtz, the now famous coach of Notre Dame tells the story about the Kamikaze pilot in World War II who flew 54 missions. The Kamikaze pilot had been trained to fly only one mission in which they would dive bomb their own plane into some target, therefore, sacrificing their life. However, this one had flown 54 missions without ever having done what he was trained to do. He was involved--but not committed. Perhaps this is a good portrait of Christians and their faithfulness to Christ and His ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... intentions. Budgets. Meetings. Words. Promises. But while all this is going on, the door remains locked and the story stays a secret." (1) Perhaps some of you remember the United States Congressman, Mickey LeLand of California, who died on August 7, 1990, when the plane he was riding in crashed in the African countryside. He was on a mission of mercy to help alleviate world hunger in that region. His life was a testimony to someone who believes in ACTION, not conversation. For Mickey LeLand, "hunger was not ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... most of us, Thanksgiving Day will be a short-lived experience. It will almost be an interruption in the fast paced preparation being made for the Great Christmas Rush of 1992. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day for trains, planes, and our nation''s roadways. Housewives will be busy preparing for a great feast. Football games will fill the airwaves and generate much excitement in local communities such as ours. In the midst of this busyness, preparation, travel, action, will anyone ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... the real black book, The Bible, the Word of God? I think the poet Virginia Brasier captured the pulse of our age when she wrote: This is the age Of the half read page And the quick hash And the mad dash The bright night With the nerves tight The plane hop With the brief stop The lamp tan In a short span The big shot In a good spot And the brain strain And the heart pain And the cat naps Till the spring snaps And the fun''s done. It is easy to see why so many folks are ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... also discover the warmth of that bulb had melted away a sizeable portion of snow around that light. The work of the light had been going on all along, but looking out over the carpet of snow, one would never have known that. I believe that on a spiritual plane, something like that is going on all the time -- even when we can't see it happening. In the Christian community we talk about the light of Christ, but John tells us in the beginning of his Gospel that God is that light. So ironically this rich text ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a serious car accident, and the doctors didn’t give them much hope. The colleague was waiting at the airport for a flight to take him to his family, and he desperately needed comfort at that moment. Would Buechner come and be with him while he waited for the plane? Frederick Buechner’s first response was fear. His friend’s grief scared him, He didn’t know if he could be of any help. Although he knew what he should do, he told his friend that he had things he needed to do, and to call him in ten ...
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