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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726. Proper 12
Luke 11:1-13
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Dennis Koch
... ) From God Can Nothing Move Me O God, O Lord Of Heaven And Earth Proper 12 -- Pentecost 10 -- OT 17 Lord, teach us to pray. We want to fill every moment of silence with radio or television or noise of some type, because noise helps us to avoid confronting silence. We are afraid of silence. Your Spirit continually prompts us, seeking to bring our thoughts and actions into focus, and we repeatedly hold back. Perhaps we are afraid of what we will see. Lord, release us from our fears of silence and walk with us ...
727. Proper 21
Luke 16:19-31
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Dennis Koch
... "twist" on a familiar theme (though the allusion to resurrection in v. 31 is probably a still later embellishment). In any case, that addition changes the point of the story from the dangers of wealth to the futility of miracles for those who have avoided the clear and sufficient teachings of Scripture. Liturgical Color Green Suggested Hymns Lord, Keep Us Steadfast In Your Word O Master, Let Me Walk With You Oh Jesus, I Have Promised Praise The Almighty Proper 21 -- Pentecost 19 -- OT 26 The story about ...
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Steve Burt
... at times. And then there's repentance which has to be considered. Forgiveness is a device, a mechanism, we need in order to restore a broken relationship to health; it's not giving in or saying, "Forget it," just to make peace, to avoid conflict. But forgiveness isn't complete, and the relationship isn't restored to health, without true and sincere repentance that accompanies the acceptance of forgiveness. Joseph's brothers repent. They repent and accept the forgiveness offered them. That's why this reunion ...
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Steve Burt
... our sandals, wouldn't they? Consider instead that this may be an invitation to make contact. God, who in later years would come among us as Jesus, isn't worried about remaining antiseptically perfect. God wants to come and be with us, to make contact, not to avoid it. Now think about this. Holiness doesn't depend on the condition of the place nor the condition of the person. Holiness, to be hallowed, depends on the presence of God. That's why this church -- and it doesn't matter whether you use the word ...
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Steve Burt
... to see if it's a dime or a penny. People whose self-image is so tarnished they have no way of knowing the soul inside them: they need the help of us "coin-scratchers." But even there we find a trap. We can be seduced into helping others while avoiding our own souls' callings. I'm so busy helping you become your true self I can't take time to work on my self. It may be a convenient excuse. But freeing the angels, the true selves within, that's the primary task. We'll be pursued by self-doubts ...
731. Followership
Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17
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Mark Radecke
... one thing: The marvelous peace of God, the marvelous peace of God.1 Martin Bell, author of The Way of the Wolf, has written: "Human beings do not intentionally seek out upside down crosses. Upside down crosses happen. Suddenly. Often without warning. If we can avoid being there, we do. If we can't, we don't. It's really almost as simple as that." Just so, according to the poem, Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John were "simple fisherfolk before the Lord came down; contented, peaceful fishermen before they ...
732. Jesus' Countercultural Sermon
Matthew 5:38-42, Matthew 5:43-48
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Mark Radecke
... Christian faith run counter to the prevailing beliefs and values of the society in which we live. A few examples: Ours is a culture that values material abundance and prosperity; Jesus says, "Blessed are the poor." Our culture denies death and avoids suffering; the Christian faith unromantically confronts death, teaches that suffering holds redemptive power, and sees the suffering and death of one man as the gate to life for all people. Our culture makes heroes of rugged individualists; baptism gathers God ...
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Thomas Long
... ears, he turned toward the reporter and replied, "I would obey the commandments of God." Alert aides, alarmed by this candor, unnerved by their candidate's near-treasonous remark, hurriedly whisked him away from the press and into a waiting car. Carter the politician should have avoided the question, or hewed closely to the law of the land, but Carter the Christian had the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ whispering in his ear, "Do you love me? The world cannot see or know me, but do you love me? Do you keep my ...
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Marc Kolden
... numbers of verses. It is usually known by its first words, "Spread, O Spread, Thou Mighty Word" (original German texts by Jonathan Friedrich Bahnmaier, 1774-1841). It is almost automatic, I think, that when we hear those first words, especially in more recent translations that avoid "Thou," and render it "Spread, Oh, Spread, Almighty Word,"3 that we hear these words as a command to us to spread God's word. But the hymn itself portrays the word as spreading of its own power. The subject of the hymn (the ...
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Marc Kolden
... God says, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Sacrifice in the Bible is what's offered to God -- prayer, fasting, burnt offerings, doing the proper rituals, keeping separate from sinful people and situations. Mercy is love offered to other people. Despite many of the Old Testament laws about avoiding impurity, Jesus here claims that it is more important to God that we do works of love for others than that we offer sacrifice to him. Not only is this God's will for us, but it is the way God is with us, as that ...
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R. Curtis Fussell
... about toys; they're predominantly about food: cereals and fast foods. "Here children, eat this, and you'll be happy." Gluttony is ranked as a deadly sin because food can be seen as a way to make us feel happy. Eating can become a way for us to avoid or solve our problems. You can use food to divert your attention away from problems, instead of trusting in God and taking up a life of responsibility for your problems. Again, as in so many things, the problem is not the food itself; the problem is in the ...
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William B. Kincaid, III
... essential personnel in the work of spreading good news, we are essential personnel for and with one another. We need each other, and there may be no greater grace-filled moment than when we find ourselves sitting at the round table with people we have tried to avoid all these years and learning from them, even as they learn from us. To you and me, to people of every race and class, to folks of every land and language, indeed, to all of creation, Jesus says, "Follow me." That is not a call to trail along ...
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Roger G. Talbott
... them solve their own problems. There's a lot to be said for that. We hear a lot about "co-dependency" these days and I alluded to it a few minutes ago when I mentioned those people who immerse themselves in other people's problems partly as a means of avoiding the pain of their own lives. Often the "good feeling" that we get when we help other people comes from the superiority we feel when we encounter people who seem to have problems that we don't have. "You are poor and I am not. You are sick and I ...
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Roger G. Talbott
... enough to say, "No, I'm not really happy, not like the joy I have been led to believe is a gift from God and I'm not really free either. There are some people I can't stand to be around and some people whose eyes I have to avoid. There are some places I cannot go because they contain painful memories." Furthermore, some of you are wise enough to know that this is somehow connected to forgiveness. That wisdom has come out of pain. Sometimes people will sit down with a friend or a counselor or a pastor and ...
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... became troubled at living a disguise. His turmoil became public when he saw an Egyptian beating one of his people, and Moses reacted violently. He killed the Egyptian, which meant he had to go into another kind of hiding, hiding as a fugitive, to avoid his own death. His adopted Egyptian grandfather had no mercy for Hebrews, not even one who had been raised as his grandson. As a fugitive, Moses' masquerade took on another layer. The Hebrew, raised as an Egyptian, now married a Midianite. He hid among ...
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... Dietrich Bonhoeffer, came to America to teach and write. He toured and worked in the States until an older theologian, Karl Barth, wrote to him and asked him why he was in America when the German people were suffering. In response Bonhoeffer knew he couldn't avoid the dilemma he thought he had escaped. He went home and joined a plot to assassinate Hitler. Shortly after a failed attempt on Hitler's life, Bonhoeffer was arrested. Only a few days before the conclusion of the war, he was executed. Perhaps it is ...
742. Do You Not Care If We Parish
Mark 4:35-41, Psalm 50:1-23
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Harold H. Lentz
... Christ's hands and trusting in him could eradicate many of them. And often it is the lack of any spiritual influence in the home that disrupts harmony and causes marital problems in the home and the breakup of the family. Young people who go wrong could have avoided many lures and pitfalls if they had been introduced to Christ. The Psalmist wisely pointed to the need to turn to God, especially in times of trouble. He emphasized God's interest in each one of us when he wrote his message from God: "Call on me ...
743. Lent 3
John 4:1-26, Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42, Isaiah 42:18-25
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Russell F. Anderson
... we really hear the Word of God through a faith encounter with Christ, we are going to witness. Take the woman at the well: her encounter with the Word-Made-Flesh transformed her relationship with her neighbors. She went to the well at noon so as to avoid her neighbors and their judgments. After she encountered Jesus, she left her water jug and went to witness to her neighbors about Jesus. She wasn't taught by Jesus how to witness; she just did it. A spring of living water was already beginning to gush forth ...
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CSS
... . The Spirit, given at Pentecost, is like a magnet that draws together disparate humanity. The Spirit comes as a unifying presence, whose aim is to enable humans and God to speak the same language. Relationship Between The Jewish And Christian Pentecost To avoid confusion, we need to differentiate between the Jewish Pentecost and the Christian Pentecost. The Jews observed the Feast of Weeks (Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10) seven weeks after the Passover. It celebrated the giving of the law and the birth of ...
745. Proper 11
Romans 8:18-27, Isaiah 44:6-23, Genesis 28:10-22, Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43
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Russell F. Anderson
... God (v. 8). Lesson 2: Romans 8:12-25 (See Lesson 2 (RC, L), Pentecost 8) Sermon Title: The Gain Of Glory. Sermon Angle: Paul tells persecuted believers that the suffering and loss of the present are not worth comparing to the gain of glory (v. 18). They could avoid the pain but would not receive the gain. Like the champion athlete, we need to subject ourselves to a harsh training regimen now, to gain the crown of glory. Lesson 2: Romans 8:26-27 Sermon Title: I Need A Little Help From My Friend. Sermon Angle ...
746. Proper 14
Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Jonah 2:1-10, Matthew 14:22-36, Romans 9:1-5; 10:5-15
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Russell F. Anderson
... contains many people who are interested in their own salvation and spiritual growth but have no sorrow in their hearts for those who are lost. They have not learned that salvation is for sharing. Gospel: Matthew 14:22-33 Alone in good company. Many people avoid aloneness. If they are by themselves, they turn on the radio or television. To be alone, for them, is to be in doubtful company. The person who has made peace with God and herself, when alone, is in good company. After ministering to the crowds ...
747. Proper 17
Exodus 3:1-22, Jeremiah 15:15-21; 20:7-18, Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8
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Russell F. Anderson
... . 2. Sermon Title: Whose Side Are You On? Sermon Angle: In our Lord's stinging rebuke of Peter, he told him that he was not on the side of God but of the Adversary, Satan. None of us intend to serve Satan but if our lives are dedicated to avoiding pain and maximizing pleasure, we are really on his side. A good look at the way we live will reveal whose side we are on. 3. Sermon Title: A Scandalous Faith. Sermon Angle: The word in verse 23 that is translated hindrance is the Greek word skandalon, from which ...
748. Proper 7
Mt 10:16-39 · Rom 5:12 – 6:11 · Jer 20:7-13 · Gen 21:8-21 · Ps 86
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Russell F. Anderson
... Wrestling with the Lord. Recall the story of Jacob wrestling with God until the break of day. We see the same kind of struggle taking place in Jeremiah. Only this time, it's God who won't let go. The Lord won't permit him to remain silent to avoid the opposition of his friends and neighbors. Jeremiah's complaint was that the match was unfair because God was stronger than he (v. 7). Real faith does not come without a struggle, because our human will often comes into conflict with the Lord's will. It is the ...
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Ronald Lavin
... at the University of Illinois in 1954. I was a good, moral person, but not a Christian before I was 18. While studying to be an engineer at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, I picked up three books on topics which I thought would help me avoid the label of "a narrow-minded engineer": How To Know And Tell The Weather; The Universe And Dr. Einstein; and The Greatest Story Ever Told. I did not think that I wanted to become a Christian. I just wanted to know more about the teachings of Jesus. I ...
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John A. Terry
... ideas sounded rather extreme. The leader's advice was simple. He said, "If you find yourself in a tug-of-war with someone, the easiest way to end the tug-of-war is to let go of the rope." Meek people are those who, in surrendering to God, avoid foolish power struggles and are given back great strength. Moses, who stood alone before all the power of Pharaoh and led an entire people to freedom, was described as being meek (Numbers 12:3). To his contemporaries, Jesus was never accused of being a wimp. He was ...
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