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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John A. Stroman
... a burnt offering unto the Lord on the behalf of each of them. He did this because he was concerned that possibly one of his children might have cursed God and he wanted to make atonement for any sin they might have committed. In other words, Job was covering his tracks or, I should say, those of his children. Because of his concern for his children and their relationship with God, Job did this on a regular basis. One day the angels gave the Lord an update of their activity on the earth. It so happened that ...
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John A. Stroman
... , "Go, church, go!" How do you think the Methodists got here? It was the direct result of men and women who had the fervor and enthusiasm of a Francis Asbury who carried the ball against stiff odds and a rugged opponent. Asbury covered over 270,000 miles on horseback across wilderness trials. Asbury crossed and recrossed the Allegheny Mountains more than sixty times. He traveled from Maine to Virginia, through the Carolinas, wading through swamps, swimming the rivers that flowed down the eastern slopes of ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... 's idea of jewelry." Contrast that with William Jennings Bryan's hair over his ears. When asked why he wore it so since it was unfashionable, he said, "When I was courting my wife, she thought my ears stuck out funny and asked me to grow my hair long to cover them, so I did." To which his pal replied, "But that was years ago!" "Sure, " Bryan said, "but the romance is still going on!" Women want conversation on a "feeling" level, and honesty and openness. Not sullenness. "A man who won't close the door on me ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... Baptism knows no limit. There is never a scarcity of God's love. This is a promise that lasts forever. As we gather to eat and drink around this table, we eat a foretaste of the feast to come. We can look forward to eating one day at a table covered with unlimited abundance. There is no end to the love offered at this table. God will never take it away. And believe it or not, money is no longer the big taboo. We are not afraid to talk about it. We are not afraid to recognize it for what it ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... associated with a day to commemorate the saints. In that part of the world, this day seemed to be natural for this sort of thing. This was a time of the year when the late autumn frost thickly blanketed the ground with an eerie white cover and suggested to many that the spirits of the dead had made a visit. From this Christian holiday came our modern secularized holiday called "All Saints Eve" or "All Hallows Eve" or "Halloween." Last month we buried Esther Hilker, a long-time member of this congregation ...
831. The Waiting Place
Isaiah 63:7--64:12
Sermon
William L. Self
... ready. The initiative is in God's hands. The waiting place confirms that someone somewhere loves us enough to make all things new, and this can begin with us. What we wait for determines how we wait. It determines life in the meantime. Recently, Time magazine ran a cover story about Billy Graham, "A Christian in Winter, Billy Graham at 75." "While he has learned to number his days," the story says, "Billy Graham intends to make the most of them. 'I don't know why God has allowed me to have this; I'll have ...
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William L. Self
... on the tourists. One group was observing a nest of sea turtles on the beach from their assigned place. Suddenly, one newly hatched turtle came from the safety of the nest, looked around, and then made his way to the ocean. The distance he had to cover was about thirty yards. Suddenly the sky was filled with sea gulls, their natural enemy, descending on the lone baby turtle. One gull grabbed the turtle in his beak and the others tried to get it from him, causing a large commotion. The helpless tourists were ...
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William L. Self
... very democratic. It infected the rich and the poor, the wise and the unwise, the powerful as well as the weak. Lepers were ritually unclean and thus isolated from the holy things. Interestingly enough, the Hebrew word for leprosy, tsar-a'ath, is generic and covers a full range of skin diseases from a mole to psoriasis. The Bible makes it clear that Naaman was powerful and was afflicted with a terrible disease, and even the powerful man was helpless before the disease. A small microbe had rendered the great ...
834. All Dressed Up And Somewhere To Go!
Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... of salvation and righteousness. The teachings of the divine tailor are clear. From the garden of Eden to the parable of a lost son who returns in rags from a pig sty only to have a father remove the filthy clothing and dress him in fine garments, God covers God's people for the occasions of celebration. We are, indeed, all dressed up. Yet God's purpose is much larger than a lesson in haberdashery. There are few statements sadder than "all dressed up and nowhere to go." So we've been clothed. So we've been ...
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Paul W. Kummer
Here is a remarkable story from World War II. From the island of Guam one of our mighty bombers took off for Kokura, Japan, with a deadly cargo. The sleek B-29 turned and circled above the cloud that covered the target for half an hour, then three-quarters of an hour, then 55 minutes, until the gas supply reached the danger point. It seemed a shame to be right over the primary target and then have to pass it up, but there was no choice. With one more look ...
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Gerald Whetstone
... you that is so different from this impersonal pantheon of gods and goddesses that it will knock your sandals off!" No, he begins by having found a niche in their own story. They had one altar dedicated to an unknown god, just to make sure they had it all covered. Paul takes this admission of uncertainty, this possibility of another god they'd not yet discovered and announces, "I'm going to tell you about this God, whom you do not know, but I do know." In the end, the nature of this God would topple all the ...
Children's Sermon
Kenneth Mortonson
... simply, "A piece of glass." But look again and think about how you might use this piece of glass. What do you see? ... If you were a homeowner, you might see a pane of glass for a broken window. If you have fish in the house, this might be a cover for a fish bowl, to keep the goldfish in and the cat out. If you like to garden, you might see this as a protection for a table top upon which a flower pot might be placed. If you were an artist, this could be a surface upon which to ...
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Gerald Whetstone
Is it tomorrow, or is it still yesterday? In the cartoon, Dennis the Menace is tugging at his dad's covers, and Mr. Mitchell is trying to lift one eyelid. Dennis wants to know, "Is it tomorrow yet? Or is it still yesterday?" It's a profound question. Something like that -- some 2000-year-old Aramaic version of it anyway -- must have been in the minds of the women on their ...
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Paul E. Robinson
... get the roots out. And what a mass of roots I found. Virtual sod from grass that had encroached. And those long white roots from crab grass that went everywhere, and the roots of all the little maple trees that were started when the millions of winged seeds covered the land this past spring. But I also saw some strawberry roots and their runners. And I knew that come spring they would lead to a harvest of strawberries. I was certain. No doubt in my mind. Such was the faith and hope of Isaiah. You can trust ...
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Gerald Whetstone
... television which, like all the others on the hall, is tuned to her favorite soap. Never looking at the frail woman squirming in the bed, she says, "Hi, sweetie, don't you look beautiful today! Whatever it is, I'll be back in a few minutes." Under the covers Carrie is only a fraction of the person she used to be. In her mind, she begins to fear she's disappearing altogether. What a difference a gaze makes! Israel needs a new king, and Samuel will anoint the Lord's chosen. God sends Samuel to Bethlehem, for ...
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Gerald Whetstone
... where the little children are knocked across the floor. Soak with blood the doorways of the shock trauma and coronary care units, and the AIDS hospices too. Smear it on the walls by the heating grates and on the arches of the underpasses where the homeless sleep. Cover with lambs' blood the spans of the bridge in the midst of the earthquake or the path of the tornado. Drench the awnings in the marketplace before the rockets fall, and pour blood on the rooftop of the car in which a bomb is planted at the ...
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Michael B. Brown
... where Jesus addresses great crowds (e.g., the Sermon on the Mount or preaching from the boats by the Sea of Galilee), there are dozens of other occasions when he spoke to ones and twos: to Andrew who came asking questions; to Nicodemus who came under the cover of darkness; to Zacchaeus that day in the little scoundrel's house; to Mary and Martha in their home in Bethany; to a Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well; to a poor man chained to the tombstones outside The Decapolis; to a grateful leper on the highway ...
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Sandra Hefter Herrma
... no response. One of the fellows pulled out a pocket testament, and laid it on the table beside the bed. "I'm leaving this Bible for you," he said to the man, "because maybe you'll come to and read it in the morning. My number is on the inside cover. I'll come and see you whenever you call. I want you to know life doesn't have to be like this." The next day, the hotel manager called to tell them that the fellow had died in the night, and to thank them for coming, even if it didn ...
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Sandra Hefter Herrma
... we were not to be included in that category? Really, most of us share the secret understanding that if people knew what we were really like, they wouldn't like us (an understanding, by the way, that causes us to expend enormous amounts of energy covering up how we feel, what we think, and the secret sins we hope no one knows about). Paul reminds us that the deterioration of the relationship between God and us started right at the beginning of the human experience. Adam (Hebrew for "humankind") was "taken ...
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Sandra Hefter Herrma
... some cereal in her mouth, between screams and tears. Maybe your little guy is teething, and for two weeks getting to sleep has been harder than anything except staying asleep. Irritated as we may be, though, usually we clean up the mess, strip off the oatmeal-covered shirt, wash the baby, put some painkiller on those budding teeth, and try to comfort our little one until sleep sets in! Our love for our babies may wear thin at times, but love is incredibly elastic. Some of us may have been disappointed in ...
846. You Can Be Intelligent
2 Chronicles 1:1-17
Sermon
Michael B. Brown
... to individual." "Don't get mad, get even." "Safe sex." "Soft drugs." "White lies." "New age." "I can worship God just as effectively hiking as I can in church." "It's okay as long as no one gets hurt." "It's not really stealing if their insurance covers it." "Everybody does it." "I'm only human." Having been heard long enough, those phrases become palatable. Accepted. Baptized by society as the new truth even if they are essentially the old lies. What is truth, and how can we know it? We find the answer in ...
847. Don't Be Stupid
Jeremiah 4:5-31
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Richard L. Sheffield
... is: Hey stupid! A childish taunt you'd expect on a school yard; not what you'd expect from God. But there it is. Hey stupid, are you listening to me? says God. Driving to the hospital last week I was listening to WCIT Radio program's "Cover Story." Anne Nasha was interviewing Victoria Seitz, the author of Your Executive Image. Seitz said something that might help us understand what God said. She said that people who speak in public should always remember that the most important thing is not what you say but ...
848. Test Everything
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... you ever see those television commercials where some person is asked to try out three or four different kinds of pop? (Let them respond.) Does the person know what kinds of pop he is drinking? (Let them respond.) No, he doesn't because the labels are all covered up. Of course, the person always chooses the right brand of pop so that the commercial can tell everyone how wonderful it is. Well, today I am going to let you take part in a little test that is something like that one. I have here four different ...
849. Surprise!
Psalm 77:11; 118:24
Children's Sermon
Kenneth Mortonson
Purpose: Helping children to find joy in each day. Material: Prepare a little surprise package for each child. Your surprise can be anything from a picture to color, to a treat, to a sticker, to whatever is available to you in an amount to cover the number of children present. Lesson: Have you ever had a nice surprise? ... What is a nice surprise? ... (Something nice happens to you that you did not expect to happen.) We have surprises happening to us every day. When someone gives you a smile and says hello ...
Drama
Dann J. Ettner
... as if by command. They are even saying that tombsbroke open and the people in them came back to life and went intothe city. I cannot even call this a coincidence because of theevents which led up to it. As Jesus hung on the cross, anunearthly darkness covered the whole land as if Jesus Himself hadordered it. Then the darkness lifted, Jesus breathed His last andthe earthquake shook the land all in one instant. The effect was so great that I found myself saying, "Surely Hewas the Son of God." I did not plan ...
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