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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Maxie Dunnam
... time, he knew that the events were moving steadily and surely to a grim ending. With existing opposition that he had already experienced, he would have been naïve not to realize that the end was drawing tragically near. Yet with a head high in an audacity of glorious hope, he affirmed his capacity for self direction. Jesus was living deliberately. He was his own man. He would not allow himself to be the pawn of pressures, the victim of vengeance, the capricious cut out of circumstance. I have power to lay ...
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King Duncan
... is Christ’s world, not the emerging dictators of that day. Mussolini had been in power for three years. Adolf Hitler had been out of jail only a year, and was finding great popular support for his fledgling Nazi party. The pope had the audacity to declare, despite dictators, that Christ was King, reminding Christians where their ultimate loyalty lay! (1) I wish more of them had listened. Christ the King. Let’s begin with a radical idea. Our first allegiance is to Christ. That shouldn’t be a radical ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... proved that this was the same Jesus who had been crucified. He was now the risen Christ. His word of peace was the assurance that He would be with them forever. Then Jesus commissioned these men, “as the Father has sent me so I send you.” What audacity! These cowards are sent into the world as emissaries of the Father? But there is more. Jesus knows they cannot begin this mission of healing and peace without power and energy not their own. So, He breathes on these men. That is what it says in vs. 22 ...
54. The Heart Has Eyes
Ephesians 1:15-23
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Mark Trotter
... , as if some supernatural spider had spun that web. In Sainte Chappelle, the chapel in Paris, where there is no visible support for the fifteen windows that swallow up the walls. She described it as a period of incredible innovation and audacity. Many reasons are given for this accomplishment. Each discipline has its own reason. The political scientists say it was because the monarchies in those days provided a stable political environment. The economists say it was because of the rise of capitalism and ...
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Susan R. Andrews
... fork, this mighty Messiah will separate the chaff from the wheat. And all unrepentant sinners will be cast into the furnace of hell." Not a very comforting scene, is it? Now, fast forward two years to today's text. John is in prison because, with his usual offensive audacity, he has spoken truth to power. Yes, John has told Herod that it was wrong for him to commit adultery. It was wrong for him to steal his brother's wife and then sleep with her. Such judgment has gotten John in deep trouble, and today he ...
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Richard Gribble
... a Samaritan, yet Jesus intentionally journeys to this region. Moreover, it was against all accepted practice for a Jewish man to engage a woman in conversation. Yet, Jesus talks with a woman. First-century Jews would have been appalled at such behavior, at the audacity of one who claimed to be a rabbi to engage in such practices. The outrage people felt would have been the same as those who heard Jesus' proclaim his parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), when the upstanding of Hebrew society, the ...
57. Deep Water!
Matthew 14:22-33
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Stephen M. Crotts
... ! So it was, the text says, "He came to Jesus." Indeed! There are times Christ bids us walk on water, to throw off the comfort zone of the familiar, to venture out onto the realm of the impossible. And unless we have the impulsive audacity of Peter, we'll never be qualified for church leadership of the visionary sort. That fundraising project, that city-wide evangelism venture, that impossible family situation - those wet, windy, dark, fearful challenges keep us in the boat, keep us glued to our seats. Yet ...
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Leonard Sweet
... the church is the place where disciples receive the talents, the gifts of faith and forgiveness, grace and love, which enables them to become risk-takers and dare-devils in the eyes of the rest of the world. Who but Christ's disciples can have the audacity to offer the miracle of redemption to all who ask for it? What other community of faith can risk extending love and hope to a broken world with the knowledge that they can't fail, for Christ has already triumphed? The true definition of a sanctuary ...
59. Choose Four
Acts 2:14-41
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Leonard Sweet
... accused the Spirit-filled apostle of being drunk and out-of-control. The crowd had accused the apostles of being influenced by alcohol, not moved by the Holy Spirit. Yet in his new Pentecost power and his new Spirit-filled voice, Peter had the audacity to ask this hostile audience to make a choice. Choose to remain as you are - unhappy, unfulfilled, uncertain, unopened to the Spirit and the mission of God. Or choose a new path, choose something else entirely. Peter called upon those gathered, those who had ...
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Leonard Sweet
... other in a new, fragile light. For just a moment in time, one lost little girl became lost to each of us. And when everyone's child Baby Jessica was found at last, an entire nation rejoiced. In today's gospel text Jesus has the audacity to suggest to his audience, especially those surly, grumbling Pharisees and scribes, that this is the kind of rejoicing that goes on in heaven every time a sinner repents. Instead of painting a picture of God the righteous judge, condemning sinners with hell-fire justice ...
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Leonard Sweet
Our eight-year-old daughter recently attended a wedding with her best friend, accompanied by her parents and two-year-old brother. As soon as the ceremony began, with typical eight-year-old audacity, the girls immediately slunk sideways away from their seats to get a better aisle view. They had heard that you had to french kiss when you got married and whatever that meant, they didn't want to miss a moment of it! But the ceremony ran long. The bride and ...
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Leonard Sweet
... of ease and easygoingness, the powerful are suddenly reduced to a state of great woefulness: Those who were up are cast down. Those who are downcast will be raised up. Jesus doesn't dress up this inverted worldview. His directness was doubtless heard as audacity, even treachery, against those in positions of authority. In Jesus' new world order he called the kingdom of God being in blessedness isn't being dressed up in fine clothes, or affirmed by first-class status, or found at a fancy address. Jesus ...
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Leonard Sweet
... was nothing but a sad sack, a woebegone wet blanket? When Jesus healed the man who had been confined to his bed for years, don't you think both the healed and the healer grabbed each other, whooped and danced, and jumped for joy at the audacity of such a miracle? Do you really think Jesus would have just patted Jairus' daughter on the head and solemnly walked away from a child suddenly breathing again, suddenly filled with life again? Surely Jesus, who so loved to have children surround him, scooped her up ...
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Leonard Sweet
... it's remarkably difficult to accept that exterior trappings don't make you or break you. Atlanta's Red Baron's Auction House is renowned for the outlandish, one-of-a-kind merchandise they offer for sale on the auction block. The excesses and audacities of previous generations are strutted on stage, passed along to the next highest bidder. At one recent auction a young couple in front of me seemed to have typified the new multi-cultural, equal-access dream of the twenty-first century. She was Filipino ...
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John E. Harnish
... . And add to that, panic-driven newscasters who can't even give the weather without fear-filled, baited breath. It all leads to what Jane Spencer in the Wall Street Journal refers to as the "fear system" of our day. [2] Into that maze of fear, we have the audacity to read the word of the angel to Mary: "Do not be afraid!" The same word came to Joseph in a dream: "Don't be afraid." The same word came to Zachariah and Elizabeth: "Fear not." The same word will ultimately come to shepherds in a field keeping ...
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John E. Harnish
... threats and rejection, facing a social structure which at that time showed no signs of changing, he was able to face it all with overwhelming joy, with hope. He lived that future into the present, and now in his present struggle against cancer, he witnesses to the audacity of hope in the face of death. One of my favorite pieces of public art is at Stone Mountain in Georgia, but it is not the huge carvings of the confederate heroes on Stone Mountain which impress me. It's a small statue in a little garden ...
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John E. Harnish
... . We seemed to be bouncing back and forth between an evangelistic message with no social power and a social gospel with no heart or soul. In my first appointment to three little country churches in western Pennsylvania, we were celebrating an anniversary. I had the audacity to invite the bishop. And lo and behold, Bishop Roy Nichols came to preach. He was the bishop of my ordination, one of the first African American bishops in the church, a true saint and a great preacher. I remember him saying he saw the ...
68. Fuel for Our Faith
Matthew 20:25-28
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Shirley Gupton Lynn
... told the disciples they were on the wrong path seeking to be great in his kingdom. The mother of James and John implored Jesus to make her sons great by having them sit on the right hand and on the left of Jesus. The other ten didn't like their audacity. Jesus, like a good United Methodist would, called them all together for a meeting. He explained positions of power will not make one great in God's eyes. "Whoever wants to be great among you," he said, must be your SERVANT" (v. 26). So, how can you and I ...
69. A Match Made in Heaven
Isaiah 61:1—62:12
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Leonard Sweet
... human-kind...male and female he created them" (Genesis l:27). Not only are men and women pleased and cursed by their essential otherness (Remember the wonderfully titled bestseller Men Are From Mars: Women Are From Venus?). God also had the outrageous audacity to suggest that men and women should commit themselves to celebrating these differences by establishing a sacred marriage covenant between them. That concept of covenant so pleased God that it led to God's craziest notion yet. God established a sacred ...
70. John 6:24-35
John 6:24-35
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Leonard Sweet
... The Genius of John (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1984), 122. But the crowd is not satisfied. Despite the fact that a scant twenty-four hours has passed since Jesus miraculously fed the whole lot of them with a handful of loaves and fishes, they have the audacity to demand that he give them a sign. Eager to re-direct this conversation in the way they want it to go, the crowd turns back to the topic of tangible, especially edible, gifts that God has provided in the past. If Jesus has any connection ...
71. Luke 10:25-37
Luke 10:25-37
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Leonard Sweet
... than mere observance of and obedience to the law. Love for the neighbor should have motivated that priest and Levite and moved them to that wounded traveler's side. While Jesus' disciples and other listeners might have been secretly rejoicing at the audacity of using two members of the religious "establishment" as the "bad guys," all were surely shocked when Jesus introduced as the hero in this parable, a Samaritan. James and John had just recently asked permission to call fire down upon the Samaritan ...
72. John 6:24-35
John 6:24-35
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Leonard Sweet
... The Genius of John (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1984), 122. But the crowd is not satisfied. Despite the fact that a scant twenty-four hours has passed since Jesus miraculously fed the whole lot of them with a handful of loaves and fishes, they have the audacity to demand that he give them a sign. Eager to re-direct this conversation in the way they want it to go, the crowd turns back to the topic of tangible, especially edible, gifts that God has provided in the past. If Jesus has any connection ...
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Mike Ripski
... only one who doesn’t know about Jesus of Nazareth and what he said and did, and how he suffered and was crucified? We believed that he was the one to liberate Israel.” Was he taking out his emotions on this stranger, who not only has the audacity to invade their privacy and interrupt their conversation, but who seemed not to have a clue what they were going through? Of course, we know that the One who has joined them is precisely the One whose plight has so disturbed them, and whose response must have ...
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James Merritt
... and me was a private matter and should have been handled within the royal family. This prophet, Nathan, is simply mean-spirited, a scandal monger, and just looking to cause trouble. This man has not only said that I deserve judgment for what I've done, but has the audacity to predict that I'll have to live with the consequences of my actions the rest of my life. I come before you today to say, "Enough is enough." This matter is between me and my family and our God. It is not the business of the prophet or ...
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James Merritt
... and left. This lady could not believe this man's nerve. She thought to herself, "That is the most arrogant man I have ever met in my life." Soon the announcement came to board the plane. This lady got on the plane, still hot and bitterly angry at the audacity of this man, until she sat down, buckled her seatbelt, reached into her purse for a tissue, and there was her bag of cookies. [4] Now there is a moral to all of this. If you want to escape the condemning judgment of God, you had better judge yourself ...
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