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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51. No Substitutes
Galatians 3:15-25
Sermon
King Duncan
... is allowing their 14-year-old to see “R” rated movies, then we dare not go against the norm. Captain William Westy wrote an article titled “The Right to Be Different.” Here is what he said: “Psychologists attempt to help persons adjust to society. Big business and big labor try to fit the individual into the organization pattern. Advertising extols the virtues of conformity . . . This same sort of logic should have convinced Columbus that the world was flat and the Wright brothers that man could ...
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... such as the type of fish you are pursuing, the water, the time of year, even the time of day. God calls us to join him in the privilege of bringing his gospel to the world. To fish for people requires a willingness to adjust to the needs of the people with whom we are sharing the gospel. Some people require a confrontational approach. Some people require a relational approach. Some people require an intellectual approach. To be effective at “fishing for souls,” we must understand the needs, culture, and ...
Sermon Aid
John R. Brokhoff
... in every sermon, but Lent is the time to give special and extended consideration to the sufferings and death of our Lord. Lent And The New Lectionary Aware of the changes that have taken place in today's observance of Lent, the new lectionary adjusts to the situation. One change is the name of the Sixth Sunday In Lent, formerly known as "Palm Sunday," to Passion Sunday. In the old lectionary, Passion Sunday was the Fifth Sunday In Lent. The change results from a realization of the fact that most churches ...
54. Chickens with Eyeglasses
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... would cause the chickens to see a kernel of corn about one centimeter to the left of where it really was. So when the chicken pecked at the corn, it tended to miss. The point of the experiment was to find out whether chickens are smart enough to adjust to their new glasses. He found that they aren’t. Roberts goes on the say that pride and ego are like those eyeglasses. They cause us to see things askew. And we are like the dumb chickens who can’t learn to see straight by compensating for the distortion ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... . Ash Wednesday is a time for us to check ourselves on our faith. Just as at the beginning of the new year we take inventory and make new resolutions, so Ash Wednesday begins for us the Lenten period of taking stock of our direction and perhaps adjusting to a new heading. Our orientation point is Good Friday’s cross. That is the landmark which identifies whether we are off-course or not. From the heading of that tree-cross, we make corrections for our lives. We are called, in this text, to "return," to ...
56. The Burdens Of The Past
Haggai 2:1-9, Haggai 1:1-15
Sermon
Robert P. Hines
... many miles into the city to worship there, and they were having a hard time attracting new people. At the leadership meetings you would hear people talk about the great history of this church, but you wouldn't hear anyone talk about adjusting to the new realities of the neighborhood. Their glorious past kept them from moving forward in mission and service. That same thing can happen with entertainers who keep trying to recapture their past fame, with communities that cannot forget a prosperous past, and ...
57. Annie's Gift
Mark 12:41-44
Sermon
King Duncan
... I envy them," Annie thought to herself, "but it's just not my way. When I gave my heart to Frank, I didn't save a little piece for someone else in the future. He got all of it. We grew up together. I don't think I could have adjusted to anyone else. Perhaps if I had found someone else, I would have been able to get rid of more of Frank's things." None of the children knew of the boxes stored in the attic still filled with Frank's favorite clothes, neatly folded away just as she had left ...
58. Why We Give
Deuteronomy 26:1-15
Sermon
King Duncan
... on the subject 'Why We Give' made me think of a story that Dennis Hensley told on himself. Working as a chaplain's assistant at the Fort Knox Reception Station, he says that he got used to countless new recruits coming into his office with complaints on adjustments to Army life. During this initial week the recruits had to "donate" a pint of blood. One afternoon a man came storming into his office yelling, "I can't take it! They cut off all my hair, took away my civilian clothes. I mean, what do they want ...
59. Had-To
James 1:17-27
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... to every little cultural change, every lifestyle blip are the same people who yearn the most for the long-awaited peace and stability of a future heavenly existence? Hello! Talk about culture shock! You tell me why it is, when we have a terrible time adjusting to the whole notion of an automated teller giving us our cash, we are convinced that we will feel completely comfortable in a new existence where there is no such thing as a credit card! We blithely assume heaven will be so, well, "heavenly," that we ...
60. How A Christian Grieves
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... we understand. Her feelings are perfectly natural and she needs to express them. The widower says, “I will never forgive God for allowing my wife to suffer like that.” But time passes and he does forgive God, and he learns to lean on God for support as he adjusts to a new life without his partner. This is life. Death and grief are part of it. We need to express our grief through both tears and talk. AT THE SAME TIME WE NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT AS CHRISTIANS WE BELIEVE THAT BOTH LIFE AND DEATH ARE ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... crying he makes . . .” is entirely fiction. Jesus was undoubtedly a baby who cried for a two o’clock feeding just as other babies cry to be fed. He was a baby who needed to be changed, who had to learn to walk and to talk and adjust to siblings. The evidence indicates that no one in his village noticed anything particularly unusual about Jesus as a lad except that he was a good boy. Not good enough to have light circling his head, but a good boy nonetheless. Remember the surprise of both the villagers ...
62. The Next Big Thing
1 Samuel 16:1-13
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... elusive stories that never become reality, instead of letting them go, we can sometimes cling to them like the anchor of a ship, until we sink into a long despair. Why is it so hard to let go, and to move on? Why is it so hard for us to adjust to change, to embrace the new? Why is it so hard to let go of our imagined future and instead trust to go forward in faith to construct a new one based on our current situation? These are very human questions. But the answers require a “super-human” solution. Our ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... offered the possibility of sight for this young boy who had never seen the light of day. As the parents waited for the doctor to remove the patches which had covered his eyes since surgery, they were uncertain about what his response would be. Blinking his eyes, adjusting to the sights and colors around him, the boy suddenly began to take it all in. Full of excitement, he said to his parents, "Why didn't you tell me it was so beautiful?" (2) This is the work of evangelism. It is the business of helping ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... -year-old boy named Roger. Roger’s parents had died from a drug overdose. There was no one to care for Roger, so Craig Barnes’ parents decided to just raise him as if he were one of their own sons. At first it was quite difficult for Roger to adjust to his new home. For the first time he was in an environment free of heroin-addicted adults! Every day, several times a day, Barnes heard his parents saying to Roger such things as: “No, no. That’s not how we behave in this family.” “No, no. You don ...
Sermon
... will of electricity to shine continuously in my wire." Instead he tried again and again. Edison believed that "it was in the will, that is, in the nature of electricity to produce this steady light." His conclusion was that he would just have to find the proper adjustment to the laws of electricity in his method. Edison tried more than 6,000 times before he was able to make electricity shine through a wire. As Sanford says, "That is faith."2 We are told that when Jesus saw the "faith" of the paralyzed man's ...
66. Send Me!
Isaiah 6:1-13
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... were when they were younger. The child must eventually put away being a child and become the self-directed adult, thinking and acting in adult ways. That is the very thing for which good parenting prepares a child, but the parents sometimes have difficulty adjusting to that when it happens. A husband or wife takes on new interests, grows into new ideas and attitudes, while the other does not. Suddenly one or the other wakes up and says, "Is this the same person I married?" Relationships feel the strain, and ...
67. The Flight From Light
Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
Erskine White
... we ourselves raise, wounded by spouses and children even in the most loving of homes. We are wounded at work and in the world by faceless alienation, wounded almost daily by betrayals large and small. We are wounded as dreams die and cherished life goals are adjusted to fit reality. We want our wounds healed, but when we come face to face with the cause of our pain, we avert our eyes and deny what we see. When the prescription for ending our soul’s distress is placed in our hands, we dare not take ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... What they found were life forms that had descended from creatures that could be found in the shallow part of the ocean. They concluded, therefore, that life was created at the surface, and then descended into the depths, perhaps for reasons of survival, and then adjusted to a life of darkness at those depths. To do that, to live at those depths, they evolved into grotesque kind of animals with huge mouths, way out of proportion to the rest of their bodies, in order to catch any morsel that might float down ...
Sermon
Donald Dotterer
... that a man could want Ä power, prestige, public recognition, an enormous salary and a secure future. The thought of a career change requiring a move to the West Coast frightened him. He was concerned about losing pensions and deferred compensation and the adjustment to living in California, in other words, "the pragmatic stuff that preoccupies the middle-aged." He says that "I was overly concerned with what would happen next week and the week after next." John Sculley knew that he was safe and happy at ...
Sermon
Allan J. Weenink
... of Christ, which one finds and feels in his feast, then becomes celebration. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, in a sermon, tells of the time he visited Venice and entered one of the great cathedrals of the city and sat alone in quiet meditation. As his eyes adjusted to the gloaming he saw the great niches in the high walls, and in those niches statues of the saints. Thinking of the saints led to reflection on his own life and his shortcomings and sins. Then his thoughts turned again to the saints and the record ...
71. Embalmed Alive
John 14:5-14
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... you’re dead already," intending to shock him out of what he knew was a lifeless kind of existence. But such persons are legion. Such dead lives are common among all of us. What is the advice of the world? How does the world tell us to live? Adjust to society; Conform to the pattern; Live an average life; Don’t stick your neck out or go off the deep end for anything; Don’t be too fanatical about any conviction; Fit yourself into a little groove and stay there and be safe; Live a reasonably moral life ...
72. The Dynamic Word
Isaiah 55:1-13
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... is not faith in faith but faith in God, a coupling with God’s own boundless sources of power. Here is the secret of strength. It does not come from our tugging and straining. It does not depend on our hoarding what little we have but on making that adjustment to God termed faith, so that his power may flow to us and through us. Concerning the nature of this power the apostle uses a rich word, agape, love. He prays that God’s people might grasp "what is the breadth and length and height and depth of the ...
73. But God...
Genesis 50:15-21
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... that lead us to understand God's intimate involvement with our lives. From the story of creation in Genesis to the consummation in Revelation the message is clear. In fact, story after story says that, not only is God involved, God makes mid-course adjustments to bring things to a proper outcome. The brief passage we heard earlier from the book of Genesis is the climax of one of those stories. It was called to my attention many years ago by that great old Methodist preacher, Clovis Chappell. He said ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... without a nurse. As she watched Annie walk out to her car that last day, she heard an unmistakable cry of distress. “Annie!” yelled Robyn, running after her former live-in nurse. “You forgot your baby!” (2) Perhaps it’s easier for a child to adjust to an interloper in the family if she believes the new baby isn’t a permanent member of the family, but belongs to someone else. I did hear about another family, however, that had a strange twist on the reality of sibling rivalry. “I don’t want ...
Sermon
Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... . This process is central to our growth as it is to life itself. But some losses are harder to deal with, like the loss of a child, or someone dear before they've had a chance to enjoy life to the fullest. All life is a process of adjustments to unions and separations, losses and gains. Loss too often becomes a definition of our capacity and character as the people of God. Loss is not a definition of our persona but a description of our condition. But even here the experience of Jesus is significant. For he ...
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