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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876. His name is Michael. I’m Tommy!
Luke 8:26-39
Illustration
James W. Moore
... 't be much longer Tommy. It'll be O.K., Tommy. Be calm, Tommy. Hang in there, Tommy." Finally, a distinguished looking woman came up to the man and she said: "I just want to compliment you. I've been watching you and I want you to know that I admire you and the remarkable patience you have with little Tommy." "O, but Lady," the man said. "You don't understand." His name is Michael. I'm Tommy!!!" Well, that's a smart man! He was right to start with himself. If we are going to set a problem right, we ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... resurrection. No grief will last forever. No sorrow enjoys eternal life. Someday wars will end and we will beat our tanks into farming machinery and our guns into gardening tools. Rolled away, rolled away, rolled away, let the heartaches of your life roll away. Admiral Jim Stockdale was the highest ranking U.S. official held as a prisoner of war in the Hanoi Hilton. Tortured over 20 times during his eight-year imprisonment, Stockdale, who walks now with a limp says, “I never doubted that I would not only ...
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J. Howard Olds
... something of ourselves. There is an urgency inside us to climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow until we find our dream. Aggressive, self-starting people, who rise to new challenges like a bird dog to a scent are the kind of people I admire and enjoy being around. They never say never. They never wonder why. They never expect anybody else to do it for them. They roll up their sleeves and go to work. The farmer in this story is clearly successful. “The ground of a certain rich man ...
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J. Howard Olds
... hoping that we could get a fix. Very few people who came to Jesus were looking for truth, they were wanting relief. Renowned author Scott Peck opens his famous book The Road Less Traveled with these words. “Life is difficult.” Indeed it is. I admire parents who wrestle infants and toddlers and tug with teenagers to get them to church on Sunday. That’s why I don’t ask baptismal parents if they renounce the spiritual forces of wickedness and reject the evil powers of this world. They’ve already ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... we can experience it; we can open our hearts and lives to it. We can reject God’s grace. A certain man had two sons. The elder brother stayed home and did all the right things. He was obedient, dutiful, law abiding and hardworking. People respected him, admired him, praised him, and considered him a model son. When confronted by his father’s joy at the return of the younger brother, a dark power erupts in him and boils to the surface. Suddenly we have a resentful, proud, unkind, selfish person who wants ...
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J. Howard Olds
Did you hear the story about an inattentive, workaholic husband who suddenly decided to surprise his wife with a night to remember? He went down to the department store and bought her the expensive dress she had been admiring. He bought her a large bottle of perfume to go with it. He ordered tickets to the Broadway play she had been wanting to see and made reservations at their favorite restaurant. On his way home he stopped by the florist and bought two dozen red roses which he carried ...
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J. Howard Olds
... will lead them to springs of living water and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Never again will they be hungry. The sun will not smite them by day nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep them from all harm. Keep hope alive. Admiral Jim Stockdale was the highest ranking U.S. military officer in the Hanoi Hilton POW camp. Tortured over twenty times during his eight year imprisonment, Stockdale said the key to survival was hope. “I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not ...
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J. Howard Olds
... FOLD PATH 1. Right Understanding 2. Right Aspiration 3. Right Action 4. Right Speech 5. Right Livelihood 6. Right Effort 7. Right Concentration 8. Right Mindfulness St. Paul says in Philippians 4:8, “Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things." II. CHRISTIAN RESPONSES TO SUFFERING We gather to receive Holy Communion. Have you ever thought how weird a service of Holy Communion must seem to someone who knows not the fundamentals ...
884. Conversion or Credentialing?
Acts 9:1-5, 10-12, 17-19
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J. Howard Olds
... didn't ask to be born." Of course, Dennis is right. None of us had anything to do with the circumstances of our birth. Heritage was not ours to choose. When it comes to family, we're stuck with what we've got. I greatly admire those who have overcome difficult circumstances to make something of themselves. Some of us have come a long way from humble beginnings. Others of us have been blessed with parents who cared, communities that provided great opportunities, and churches that took seriously their task of ...
885. Greed or the Gospel?
Acts 8:9-13, 18-24
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... , to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, and to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is success." Simon the Magician thought success was to get people’s attention, win their admiration, and accumulate wealth along the way. How do you spell success? I want to conclude this series of sermons on “What Makes a Church" by talking about Greed and the Gospel. Every story in the Bible is not a reason to rejoice. Even the early ...
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J. Howard Olds
Do you remember the old story about an atheist walking through the woods admiring all the accidents of nature? As he absorbed the majestic trees, the powerful rivers, the beautiful animals, he suddenly heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. Turning to see what was the matter, the atheist found himself face-to-face with a seven-foot grizzly bear. The atheist did ...
887. I Certainly Don't Recommend Christianity
Matt 16:21-28
Illustration
C. S. Lewis
I have an elderly acquaintance of about eighty, who has lived a life of unbroken selfishness and self-admiration from the earliest years, and is, more or less, I regret to say, one of the happiest men I know. From the moral point of view it is very difficult! As you perhaps know, I haven't always been a Christian. I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.
888. Neighborly Prayer
Luke 10:25-37
Illustration
King Duncan
... . Would he pray for Mr. Rogers? He had always been the object of someone else's prayers. But from that day forward, the boy began praying for Fred Rogers, and he experienced a new sense of hope and self-esteem through this act of praying for a man he so admired. When Tom Junod complimented Fred Rogers on this idea, Rogers reacted with surprise. He had been sincere in his request for the boy's prayers. As he said, "I didn't ask him for his prayers for HIM, I asked for me. I asked him because I think that ...
889. Sisters
Luke 10:38-42
Sermon
King Duncan
... much with cooking or cleaning. It was no different back then. Can you imagine the burden that Martha must have been under? She took pride in filling her role well. She wanted to excel as a host and as a housekeeper. Many of us really admire Martha. We can relate to her. Well, Martha’s sister Mary was evidently of a different temperament than Martha. In fact, she may have been a bit rebellious. I say that, not because of the common stereotype of the younger sibling, but of something quite extraordinary ...
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Charles L. Aaron
... 't feel like doing anything. The pain seems to clutch at our souls, unwilling to let go of us. No matter how much we cry, it is never enough. When we grieve, we surely are poor in spirit. Many of us might decline Jesus' next blessing. We do not much admire the meek in North American society. We want others to respect us. We want leaders who are tough, who stand up to our enemies. We do not want to be victims. Yet, here is Jesus, offering a blessing to the meek. Sometimes the meek are those who choose not to ...
Sermon
Lee Griess
... find ourselves asking (as did the disciples): How could God have let this happen? Who sinned? What did I do wrong? Today's scriptural question of the disciples is our question as well. You see, from the time we are children onward, we learn to admire power. We stand in awe of things that are big and loud and mighty looking. We honor the victor. We congratulate the one who outsmarts the system. And with our gift of imagination, we project these images out beyond ourselves, magnify them to eternal dimensions ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... asked her what she meant. "Our Lord has promised to reward our good deeds," she replied. "If my tally is correct, I now have 1,374 jewels in my crown in heaven." Suddenly, wrote Thielicke, he saw her through new eyes. The person he had admired for her inner beauty, tender care, and sacrificial service became in an instant a greedy religious ogre, choosing to locate herself in spots where more heavenly goods could be looted from her unsuspecting prey. It made him sick. So it should. We only have to remember ...
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Chris Ewing
... a life-giver. It was a gift to have her around.5 It's people like her whom we remember, and people like her whom we need to give us the courage to face our lives. We all have such saints in our lives — perhaps a much-loved grandparent, or admired mentor, or the friend who wouldn't let us be less than God called us to be. Such everyday saints help us to remember that it matters that we are faithful today; and they show us how to be faithful. We need them. We need to know that we are ...
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John N. Brittain
... that some aspects are more wanted than others. The positive aspect is that we are enabled — if we stay with the training regimen — to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, characteristics that even the greatest reprobate would admire. But arriving at these characteristics (like arriving at my ideal weight) takes some effort, and this could be considered the negative part of this message: "training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions...." Impiety, a disregard for God and God ...
895. Oddballs for God
1 Peter 1:17-23
Sermon
David O. Bales
... one more thing (or these twenty more things), whether it's a new car or the newest deodorant. The advertising industry will eventually convince us that every part of our bodies smell bad and some chemical application will solve that and bring us acceptance, admiration, and riches, as well. The world we live in teaches us to stretch our indebtedness so we spend more and more of our income for the products marketed to us. Peter would certainly include such things in verse 18 where he refers to the impotence ...
896. Righteous!
Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-31
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
... so much about their morality as it was about the quality of their music. In the '60s (and I suspect that in some ways it is not much different today), "righteous" was also a kind of exclamation that people used to express their approval and admiration of someone else. You were, "righteous, brother!" if you were cool. Someone once heard the music of this group and exclaimed, "That was righteous, brother!" That referred not to their moral character but to the quality of their music. It was good music. It was ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... how God helped them beat all their problems and make their lives a success. We want God to fix everything. Paul didn't talk that way. Paul's life wasn't like that. If there was a time in his life when he was successful, when he was admired by his peers, when he was in control of his life, when he was effectively leading a religious crusade, it was before his conversion. After his conversion to Christ, after that fateful day on the road to Damascus, his life began to fall apart. That was when his suffering ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... you anyway? Perhaps you have heard this same point of view in the words of the streetwise corner newsboy who upon hearing the good news of Jesus Christ exclaims, "God loves to forgive sins. I love to commit them. Isn't the world admirably arranged?" In other words, the gospel of the forgiveness of sins simply becomes permission for sinners to remain the same old sinners. Seldom in congregations do we see "cheap grace" expressed this blatantly and defiantly. Usually it shows up in some form of lackadaisical ...
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Larry Lange
... family life was torn apart with strife and divorce, Jack did not regret what he had tried to do. He was very proud to have been the interim pastor's right-hand man. Not only did Jack enjoy the interim pastor's attention, Jack enjoyed how the congregation had admired him for all the things he had been doing. Jack told me that this tragic story was a story about the good guys versus the bad guys. Jack believed he was the good guy, the hero, the champion, and he felt the members of the congregation were the ...
Sermon
Larry Lange
... a mere 5%. Suddenly the name of the creator of XC was known all over the world — Billius Gaitius — no longer could his computer-geek golfing buddies call him Chip for short. He became the richest man in all the world and commanded as much respect, admiration, and honor as the emperor himself. Unlike the emperor, however, Billius was a Christian. He was a member of the church of Rome at the time when the apostle Paul wrote the letter that is today's second lesson, much of which addressed the controversy ...
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