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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James W. Moore
... run after Him…they would have run away from Him. - If Jesus had been cynical and sorrowful, people would not have come to Him to ask Him about the keys to real living. No, Jesus was not a “kill-joy.” He was – and I say it reverently – the “life of the party.” He was radiant… His faith was joyful and confident… so much so that His faith was “attractive”… and people flocked to Him because they wanted what He had. Just a few footnotes here to underscore this: 1. It is interesting to ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... first visit to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the magnificent mosque built over the rock where Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrifice, and where Mohammed is said to have ascended. Everyone took off their shoes on entering. It was a sign of reverence. No one ever enters a Mohammedan mosque with their shoes on. I see two practical leadings for us here. One, God is not someone you can be “chummy” with. One of the glaring limitations of many modern expressions of the Christian faith is that God is ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... have money but whether money has you. The bottom line in Jesus’ picture of the rich man was that he tried to possess his soul by the possession of things outside it. I want us to get into perspective now. We need to rise above what some have revered to as reverse greed. There are those who abhor possessions, as if they were evil in themselves. They want to be pure and they think that possessions will somehow taint them. Jesus did not teach that, he did warn of wealth – the temptations to make our money ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... ogre, who wanted to keep women in an inferior position; or, on the other extreme, we use Paul to support prejudice against women. Both those positions miss the point. Paul called women to be submissive to their husbands as an act of love, out of reverence for Christ, in order to win them for Christ. Paul was calling for something radical, He didn’t have to tell women to be submissive. They already were. That was their destined fate. The cultural system of the day made them chattel - reduced them to ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... will act as if their very life hangs on the issue. They may even get an ulcer over it (Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline p.97). That’s the reason submission is an important spiritual discipline. Paul urged us to “be subject to one another out of reverence to Christ” (Eph. 5: 21) What a burden it is the terrible burden of always needing to get our own way, to be in control. It will lead us certainly to distraction if not to destruction. III Judas’ sin of taking things into his won hands led ...
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J. Howard Olds
... people ask it. Salty people ask the question “Can the rich ignore the poor and ever be secure?” Most of the time you and I live in a world of work and commerce. It is a world that honors people for being attractive and productive. It reveres winners and scorns losers. It rewards independence and deplores dependence. Most of us have done quite well in that world. We have a very hard time believing that everybody else is not just like us. But they are not. Not everyone has your intelligence. Not everyone ...
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J. Howard Olds
... the purpose of God.” Albert Day once said, “to worship is not a hurried visit to the window of a fast food restaurant for a moral sandwich and a cup of spiritual stimulants. Worship is communion with God.” To worship is to admire and adore, to respect and revere. It has more to do with substance than style, more to do with God than gimmick, more to do with presence than preference. And so Isaiah, in the year that King Uzziah died, comes to the temple and sees the Lord high and lifted up. He is in the ...
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J. Howard Olds
We called her Miss Anna. She was my first grade teacher in a tiny, four-room Kentucky school. Miss Anna taught us to stand at attention, to speak with reverence, and placing our hands over our hearts to pledge our allegiance to “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Life seemed much simpler back then. I guess it was. I didn't know anybody who didn't believe in God. Unlike Michael Newdow out in California ...
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J. Howard Olds
... it be white, wheat, rye, rolls, biscuits, or buns. Bread—most of us have more to worry about than bread. We take that for granted, day after day. My fellow Kentuckian, Wendell Berry, says we industrial eaters have lost touch with the reverence of eating. And then he said this. “In the first place, we consume food that has been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, petrified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of creation that ever lived.” “In the ...
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J. Howard Olds
... centuries is more than I can comprehend. I like that little jingle that came from about the fourth century: We surmise that God's a community, Three persons in a single unity. But how can it be? We simply cannot see. We can only revere the mystery. The Trinity suggests that relationship is at the heart of God. God is himself a relationship, a community in which there is spiritual unity. Mutuality, intimacy, reciprocity, love are definitions of this unique unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus prays ...
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J. Howard Olds
... our faith calls us to a higher ground. May God help us! My friend Asad sent me an email a few days ago. In part he wrote, “As a Muslim, I am ingrained to believe that to love God is to love mankind so all God's creation can be revered and respected. Thanks for trying to remove misinformation that taints people's hearts with hatred." Let us pray: O God, revealed to us in the person of Jesus Christ, we come to worship you today. We confess to you that we cannot love as you love, and so we pray ...
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J. Howard Olds
... Christ are constantly fighting over sheep, the Hindu commitment ‘never to proselytize' sounds inviting. In an age when institutional religion is being criticized, the Hinduism broad confluence of ideas and attitudes gathered together under one tent of faith is appealing. As I reverently walked through the Hindu Temple, the images of God were so different. I was reminded of what the Apostle Paul said when he arrived in Athens. He was stunned by the multiple idols he discovered on Mars Hill. These ancient ...
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Leonard Sweet
... ’s room in the heart, there’s always room in the house.” Hospitality is more about room in your heart than the rooms in your house. Mary sat at Jesus’ feet. She listened to every word he spoke. She attended fully to his words and sat reverently at his feet. While Martha was busy being distracted, Mary was busy being a disciple. Martha admitted and welcomed guests into her home. Mary admitted and welcomed the word of the Lord, the Kingdom of God, into her heart. We have a lot of well-meaning, well ...
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King Duncan
... for good measure. You then proceed to decorate [the door] possibly with a cross and a candle and maybe even some sort of liturgical cloth for the appropriate time in the church year. And every time you walk past the cupboard under the stairs, you bow to it reverently and say a prayer. The net effect of this is that you’ve got Jesus, in your house, in your life but most importantly of all you’ve got him where he can’t cause any more trouble!!” (5) This may sound like a bizarre little parable, but ...
715. Appointment with Thunder
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
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David J. Kalas
... . You and I gather together here in this place. It is not Sinai, but it is a gathering of those who have been saved by him. It is a gathering at an appointed time and place to meet with God. It is a setting of worship, where we pause in reverence, praise, and awe before a holy God. And it is the place where God is able to take us aside, to get us alone with him, apart from the context of the world: the world from which we came; the world to which we will return; and a world where ...
716. A Question of Loyalty
Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25
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Timothy J. Smith
... s well in that same general vicinity. There was one thing Joshua wanted to be absolutely certain about before he died, and that was if the people would remain loyal to the Lord God. In the role of a prophet Joshua tells the people, "Now therefore revere the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord." Perhaps it was easier for the people to trust God when they were traveling out in the desert, depending ...
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John N. Brittain
... song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be revered above all gods. — Psalm 96:1-4 Or Psalm 118: O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever! ... Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me in a broad place. With the Lord on ...
718. Showing Up
Ephesians 3:1-12
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John N. Brittain
... a priest intercede for others and not just himself before God? Is not a priestly nation called to minister to other nations on behalf of God? The Hebrews had always remembered Joshua's invitation (ch. 24) made to Israelites and Canaanites alike to, "Now therefore revere the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served ... but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." You could become an Israelite by affirmation as well as by birth. And was not ...
719. No Partiality
Acts 10:34-43
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John N. Brittain
... temple, Herod the Great had included a large "court of the Gentiles." Surrounded by 37-foot-tall Corinthian pillars and paved with marble, this expanse, unlike the inner temple area, was open to non-Jews (Gentiles) who conducted themselves reverently. So the conflict, which revolved around whether ethnically Hebrew Christians were getting preferential treatment over non-Hebrew converts, in some ways foreshadowed later conflicts within the Christian community over whether one needed to become a Jew prior to ...
720. The Way Things Are
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
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John N. Brittain
... Christ came to die for all. The early church had a powerful witness and a powerful attraction because it included if not "all," a much closer approximation than any other group. They were not perfect. They broke into factions. They revered certain leaders, almost like fan clubs. Most dangerously, perhaps, they were allowing their fellowship to be invaded by "the way things are": patterns of thought and entertainment, cultural and religious expectations, even mirroring the social stratification of the larger ...
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David O. Bales
... the congregation is a bag stuffed with such worldly losers. He's excited. He's celebrating. He knows what God can do in the ordinary. These Christians in Corinth especially need to be reminded of God's work in common life, because they've been revering the more flashy gifts of the Spirit, gifts like those that enable people to speak spectacularly in public worship. Paul helps them realize that God's grace also works in ordinary ways. Paul could have chosen a different approach in his letter. He could have ...
722. Here I Am
Hebrews 12:18-29
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... more," indicates the removal of what is shaken that is, created things so that what cannot be shaken may remain. [28] Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; [29] for indeed our God is a consuming fire. Paul says Christians are "the assembly of the first born." In Biblical times the first born received the lion's share of any inheritance and had special privileges. The Son of God was the ...
723. Luke 18: 9-14
Luke 18:9-14
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Leonard Sweet
... was a Pharisee, the representative of that “tea party” within first century Judaism, intent upon returning the faith to its purest most Torah obedient legal roots. On the other hand, there was a “tax collector.” Tax collectors were about as beloved and revered in the first century as IRS agents are in the twenty-first century. Not only were they perceived as grasping hands in the pocket, but since Israel had fallen under Roman rule tax collectors were emptying the people’s pockets into the huge ...
724. Who Is That with John?
Matthew 3:1-12
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Jim Kerner
... . When they arrived in Rome they took a taxi cab to the Vatican. They came into St. Peter's Square. Upon arriving there, Stan walked away, leaving Larry to mill about in the large crowd waiting for the Pope's afternoon greeting from the balcony. Suddenly a reverent hush fell over the crowd. Larry looked up at the balcony where Stan and the Pope stood side by side. Larry almost fell over in shock. Before he could recover from his amazement, a man standing beside him poked him in the ribs and asked, "Hey, who ...
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King Duncan
... Court House, Virginia. This surrender ended the bloodiest war ever fought on American soil. State against state, brother against brother; it was a conflict that literally tore our nation apart. Five days later Good Friday, April 14, 1865 America’s most revered president, Abraham Lincoln, was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theatre. It was Lincoln who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery in the U.S. forever. It was Lincoln who wrote and gave The Gettysburg ...
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