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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Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... to sleep. When the sailors searched for someone responsible for the storm at sea, the lot fell on Jonah, the Hebrew on board who was running from the Lord. Dumped in the deep waters, then swallowed by a great fish, Jonah cries to the Lord. “In my great distress I called to the Lord and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I cried for help and you heard my cry." With currents swirling about him, seaweed wrapping around him, out of the depths of the sea, Jonah remembers the Lord. If your rebellion ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... is simple and ordinary. About once a year, usually somewhere near December 25, I go shopping. Not being a regular mall looker, I enter a woman’s clothing store rather awkwardly and begin thumbing through the first rack of clothes I find. A clerk sensing my distress comes over and asks, “What are you looking for? How may I help you?” This is no salesperson posing the question today. As John says, “This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” This is the second Person of the ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... , will we discover God's strength. Faith helps me trust God's strength. When through the deep waters he calls us to go, The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow, For God will be with us, our troubles to bless, And sanctify to us our deepest distress. IV. IF WE WANT PEACE, WE MUST MOVE FROM THE HOUSE OF POWER TO THE HOUSE OF PRAYER. It is human nature to want to be in control. So we spend our lives trying to make a better impression, get a better job, receive additional attention, accumulate additional ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... on your face." The telephone repairman spoke up and said, “I believe the most powerful prayer I ever made was while I was dangling upside down by my heels from a telephone pole suspended some 40 feet above the ground." Jonah prays, I called to the Lord out of my distress, and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice. As my life was ebbing away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to You in your holy temple. Not even a whale can stomach a runaway preacher, so you can ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... it shine? III. OUR LIGHTS MUST GIVE THEMSELVES FOR THE CAUSE Candles melt. Bulbs burn out. The sun sets. To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. Burnout is one of the buzz words of our day. Distressed people burnout. Self-centered people burnout. Self-sufficient people burnout. Unprepared people burnout. Jesus said there were five wise and five foolish virgins at a wedding. The five wise virgins had sufficient oil. The five foolish virgins ran out of oil. In their frantic ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, (get this image now) or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. They ...
757. Building a Barn
Luke 12:13-21
Illustration
Dave Barry
... would become a bitter and drawn-out dispute, be taken to court, and the people involved would start complaining of depression and anxiety, and psychologists would announce that these people were victims of a new disease called Barn Committee Logo Dispute Distress Syndrome, or BCLDDS, which would become the subject of one-hour shows by Oprah and Sally Jessy Raphael, after which millions of Americans would realize that they, too, were suffering from BCLDDS, and they'd form support groups with hotline numbers ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... he has not experienced. Ours is not a Pollyanna faith that says that all we have to do is believe and life will be smooth sailing. Rather our faith says this world holds many sorrows, but there is Someone who holds us in His loving arms when we are in distress. The heroes of the Bible were not perfect, but God did not give up on them, just as God does not give up on us. And they were people who were often disappointed and sometimes suffered grievously, but they did not give up on God. And neither should we ...
759. Hard Sayings
Luke 12:49-53
Illustration
Hubert Beck
Surely the reader of this text must be completely distressed! It seems to fly in the face of everything the pious follower of Jesus generally fabricates about this man. We do, you know, manufacture many inventions about Jesus. He is a gentle, mild-mannered, generous, kindly, even-tempered, loving and lovable, intense (but in a nice way, of course), courteous, ...
Sermon
Lee Griess
... knight would be invited to the banquet feast set for the Knights of the Round Table. He would be wined and dined. But he would not receive his golden spurs of knighthood until he went forth on a quest to serve his king and to help someone in distress. In much the same way, we are gathered in Christian community, and Jesus prays that his Father would protect us, for we, too, are sent forth one in faith and one in service. There is a delightful old story about a certain Mexican bank robber by the name of ...
761. Ecological Politics
Matthew 14:22-33
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... and his younger wife are separated, each believing the other has grabbed their little boy to safety. But the child was left behind. He faces the wolf and the lion and the bear and the snake and the other wilderness creatures alone. Only there is no distress in his voice, no panic in his cry. Instead, he coos and clucks with delight at these mighty furry and scaly toys that have come to play. He claps his hands and bounces his feet and giggles with animation. As the caravansary is suddenly pulled from ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... , and has promised to continue to do in our midst. In these verses of our Old Testament lesson, God reminds the discouraged of God's continuing and loving presence. "Surely they are my people," says the Lord, "and he became their savior in all their distress" (Isaiah 63:8). Surely we are God's people, named and claimed by God at baptism. In Jesus Christ, whose birth and resurrection we celebrate on this first Sunday after Christmas, God became our Savior in the midst of our own restoration frustration. In ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... ? How do you define yourself? Your family? Your community? Your congregation? How does this shape your future? In our text, God promised a new and glorious identity to the downtrodden and discouraged people in Judah. God promised to reverse their identity from dark, distressed, and oppressed to light, ransomed, and redeemed. This complete reversal was God's action; not theirs. This new identity as children of the light was given by God; not achieved by them. This new identity is also God's free gift to us ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... had begun to worship pagan deities. Often, they were tempted to "consult the hosts and the familiar spirits that chirp and mutter" instead of the Lord (Isaiah 8:19). "Surely," said the Lord, "those who speak like this will have no dawn ... but will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness" (Isaiah 8:20, 22). In today's text, Isaiah states: "In the former times he brought into contempt the Land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali" (Isaiah 9:1). On the ...
765. Hidden in Plain Sight
1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)
Sermon
John N. Brittain
... and prayer, but all flowed from the centrality of the work of Christ. Some people from the Wesleyan family of denominations defend a kind of narrow biblicism with John Wesley's famous self-description as a "man of one book." They are sometimes distressed or puzzled to learn that Wesley suggested his preachers read a passage from the Bible and Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ daily, let alone that Wesley himself wrote on a wide range of topics including what we would call "folk medicine." Obviously, the ...
Sermon
Larry Lange
... instituted by God!" (Romans 13:1). Billius knew there were Christians who held far less flattering views about the emperor. Finally, right from the very first verses of the chapter, it appeared as if chapter 14 specifically addressed the dispute in Billius' church that distressed him so. Billius was glad the church was still as full as it had been the first Sunday the presbyter began reading the apostle Paul's letter. Billius wanted a chance to air and settle this quarrel with as many members as possible ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a royal fashion? As his ability to communicate increased, he learned that they had a tribal custom to choose a king for a year. But when the year was over, this king would be transported to a certain island and abandoned. The man’s delight instantaneously turned into distress. Things were great now, but soon he would be alone on the deserted isle. But then he hit on a shrewd plan. He was the king! He could order people to do whatever he wanted. So, over the next several months he sent members of the tribe ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... their doing. [26] If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. [27] Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. James calls us to "be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves." For the Doo-Wop novices amongst us, the Encyclopedia Britannica reports: "The term doo-wop is derived from the sounds ...
769. Made Perfect In Weakness
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... anywhere. One day the diamond sustained a deep scratch. The king called in the most skilled diamond cutters and offered them a great reward if they could remove the imperfection from his treasured jewel. No one could repair the blemish. The king was sorely distressed. After some time, a gifted lapidary came to the king and promised to make the rare diamond even more beautiful than it had been before the mishap. The king was impressed by his confidence and so entrusted his precious stone to man's is care ...
770. Connected
John 15:1-8
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... is a commandment - NOT a suggestion! When the light turned to red, and she had still not moved, this guy began (with my windows up) screaming epithets and beating on his steering wheel and generally going nuts because the woman hadn't moved. His expression of distress was interrupted by a policeman, gun drawn, tapping on his window. Against his protests of, "You can't arrest me for hollering in my own car," the officer ordered the man into the back seat of his patrol car. After about two hours in a holding ...
771. Until You Beat the Path
Luke 18:1-8
Illustration
Robert Dunham
... if Jesus offered this parable not only as a call to prayerful persistence but also as a reminder to the church of the importance of securing justice for the poor and the oppressed in their midst? Alan Culpepper says, "To those who have it in their power to relieve the distress of the widow, the orphan and the stranger but do not [do so], the call to pray day and night is a command to let the priorities of God's compassion reorder the priorities of their lives."
772. Worth a Thousand Points
Luke 18:9-14
Illustration
John P. Jewell
... could think of. He listed them as the angel scratched furiously on his angelic clip board and nodded his head in admiration. Peter looks at the clip board and says, "This is quite exceptional! You now have a total of 402 points. Can you think of anything else?" The distressed guy strives to recall good deeds like the time he helped a little old lady across the street. He finally arrives at a grand total of 431 points and cries out... "I am sunk! There is no hope for me! What more could I have done? O Lord ...
773. When the Mood Shifts
Luke 23:33-43
Illustration
Alton F. Wedel
When Jesus came to Galilee, he began his preaching with the message, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." And the expectations of the people soared to heights not known since Solomon. They had been oppressed, depressed, distressed, and had been waiting for the day when from their midst a hero would arise to lay a left hook on the jaw of the hated Roman Empire, restore the glory of the dim and distant yesteryear, and make those good things happen that the prophets had foretold. The land ...
774. Proper 5, Pentecost 3, Ordinary Time 10
Psalm 50:7-15, Hosea 5:15--6:6, Matthew 9:9-13, Romans 4:13-25
Bulletin Aid
Amy C. Schifrin
... your will is done, through Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. All: Amen. Intercessory Prayer/Liturgical Dance As the prayers begin, have the dancers strike various poses of distress. As each intercession is prayed have their bodies move closer to postures of healing. The hymn “Healer Of Our Every Ill” can be sounded quietly on wind or string instruments during the intercessions. At the close of the prayer the congregation can join ...
775. K.I.S.S.
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
King Duncan
... right side of the court room and explained, “I was thinking maybe someone from maintenance!” Communication is difficult. However, effective communication is critical. How many marriages fail because couples lose the ability to communicate? How many families are in distress because parents and offspring fail to communicate? How many hurting people could be helped if someone would simply take the time to communicate with them? Dr. Steve Stephens tells about a man named Paul who owned a little deli next ...
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