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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James W. Moore
... become. So, when Paul says: “I bear on my body the marks of Jesus,” he means that Christ has claimed his heart, his mind, his soul, his strength, his attitudes, his abilities, his whole being, his total personality. He means that the Spirit of Christ pervades every aspect of his life. He means that he (in all he is and does) is the complete slave of Christ! Now, let me ask you… be honest now… How is it with you? Can people look at you today and tell (by visible evidence) that you are a Christian ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... you need to hold in your mind the fact that these distinctive marks are said in context of all the essential things we’ve been talking about during the past seven weeks. First, let’s talk about the catholic spirit. This is a celebrated aspect of the Methodist style. We suggested this in our sermon on the church two weeks ago, but I believe it deserves a specific look because this spirit is desperately needed in our day. It is desperately needed because too many Christians are plagued with “xenophobia ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... be too reserved, too self— conscious. They love with abandon, and they express their love spontaneously. III And that brings us to the next character: Judas. The entire sermon could be about Judas, but time doesn’t allow that. A hurried look at him reveals some aspects of his character that are warnings to us. Note first, that our gift may become our God. What do I mean by that? Think for a moment. Isn’t it true that temptation comes through our talents, that for which we are naturally fitted. Judas ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... live television presentation. She also read all the newspaper accounts, and she even gave our two daughters beautiful color picture albums that recaptured this wedding of the decade. Because she read all the newspaper accounts, she was constantly feeding me with different aspects of what was taking place, and I remember vividly one newspaper report she shared with me. The reporter was describing the arrival of the entourage to the Cathedral where the wedding was to take place. He described how all the royal ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... them.” Another person said, “I see it just the other way around. They are difficult for me because I think I DO understand them . . . I’m just not sure I want to DO them.” For some of us it is not easy to incarnate one or more of those aspects of the Love Triangle. Some of us are “stingy lovers,” not realizing that the more we give away the more love we will have in our own life. Young children adore being petted and patted, knowing that they are the apple of everyone’s eye. They love to be ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... guidance. There have been those times in all our lives when we’re certain that we were being guided by a power not our own. The confusion comes, however, at the point of the function of the angel to guard us. Now to be sure, there is the aspect of protection in this. God protected the Israelites against all their enemies, blessed their bread and their water. And as the scripture says, “He took sickness away from the midst of them.” Many of us can testify to the protecting hand of God in our lives and ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... that of being priests to your children. So if you can keep that in mind - that you are not trapped in this role as a parent, but you’ve been tapped by God for this, you will be energized for that task. And that brings me to the third aspect of this prescription for recovering from parent burnout. Trust God not to renew your strength. And I emphasize now, trust God now to renew your strength. It amazes me how we actually live out our relationship with God. We affirm God as an ever-present help in the time ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... and you can’t get it going; Your knees buckle and your belt won’t. You’re seventeen around the neck, 12 around the waist, and 108 around the golf course. And then someone made this observation. I find that one of the most disturbing aspects of aging is my growing inability to recall important information like the Greek alphabet, the gross national product of Lebanon, and where I left my glasses. This becomes particularly pronounced when I go upstairs to get something, halfway up I realize that I have ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... if you’re taking notes. One, freedom requires discipline; two, freedom requires love; and three, the freedom of Christ sets the stage and provides the power for our becoming all that God intends us to become.”- Let’s look at those three aspects of the nature of freedom. I FREEDOM REQUIRES DISCIPLINE First, freedom requires discipline. Actually, the freedom Christ gives us, is a freedom to be responsible. Look at verse 13. “For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as ...
910. He Leadeth Me
Psalm 23:1-6
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Maxie Dunnam
... ; yes; if we will stay with Him, He will lead us to still waters and will restore our soul. But that rest and renewal is not to wallow in. Our mid-day breaks can be extended too long. So there is another picture here of the leading shepherd, another aspect of the Shepherd’s care on which I want us to focus. “He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” David, our Psalmist, will not let us distort the picture, the purpose of repose and refreshment is to prepare us for tasks and ma ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... Church, born at Pentecost, was a reverent church. Ours must also be, and that may be the greatest contribution we can make to this civilization gone mad. Finally, the Church that come to birth at Pentecost was a sharing church. This is as pervasive as any aspect of that early-Church. Listen to verses 44 and 45. “And all who believed were to and had all things in common; and they sold their and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need.” Now, whether we like it or not, friends, this communism ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... looked me in the eye a few weeks ago and said, “Howard, I appreciate the way you keep politics out of the pulpit.” I can only hope that person is still my friend after this sermon. For when it comes to the private and public aspects of marriage, politics and religion become strange and often conflicted bedfellows. First you need to know that I am not a politician, not even a very good church politician, and it’s certainly not my intent to make a political statement today. Furthermore, it would not ...
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... , Acts, to give details about the missionary exploits of Jesus’ disciples. Nevertheless there is little doubt that these messengers met with success. They are filled with “joy” when they return to their master. They chatter excitedly about the most dramatic aspect of their activities, seeing “even the demons submit to us” (v.17). Jesus keeps moving, more interested in the future than the past. Jesus’ looks ahead, not behind to more elaborations of what his missionaries had experienced. For the ...
914. Colossians 1:1-14
Colossians 1:1-14
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... It is within that sanctified sphere of existence, being “in Christ,” that the Colosisans can experience and demonstrate their love . . . “for all the saints.” The faith and love demonstrate by the Colossians culminates in a “hope” that has a future aspect. That this “hope” is “laid up in heaven” suggests that it is nothing less than Christ who awaits the eschatological fulfillment of time at the right hand of God. While this hope will not be fully realized until Christ’s return, it ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... never apologize for feeling in our experience of the Christian faith. We need to cease boxing ourselves in, quit being so uptight, break out of our rigid, rational, reasonable approach to things, and let God reveal Himself to us. So, that’s the first aspect – there is a place and a need for ecstasy in our Christian experience. But there’s more than ecstasy here — suggesting a second dimension of truth.. ‘What happened to Jesus (on the mountain) is symbolic of what he wants to happen to us on ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... replace when it goes bad.” (6) God is calling many of us to a simpler way of living. That’s where we should begin. Many of us already have too much stuff. Two, evaluate your level of giving. Not just to the church, but to every aspect of God’s work including charity and missions. Dr. Carl Menninger, the world-renowned psychiatrist, was talking on one occasion to an unhappy but wealthy patient. He asked the patient what he was going to do with so much money. The patient replied, “Just worry about it ...
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... you don't get so hung up on yourself, when life is more about God than about yourself? We can get some helpful ideas from the giants of the faith — both with regard to how it feels for Christians and how to think about God permeating every aspect of our lives. Here is how the famous American Puritan pastor, Jonathan Edwards, put it in one of his famous sermons. There is an absolute and universal dependence of the redeemed on God. The nature and contrivance of our redemption is such, that the redeemed are ...
918. Masks
Matthew 23:1-12
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Chris Ewing
... to them. What they are teaching is correct. But it should go more than mask-deep. If it's just a mask, something's wrong. (remove mask) Boy, it's good to get that off! You know, if we just put on our religion — or any other aspect of our personality — if we are just a "mask" of piety or propriety or vitality or anything else, it soon becomes evident — to others if not to ourselves. People will eventually see that we are actors — portraying a wonderful and valuable thing, perhaps, but if at root ...
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Chris Ewing
... to deliver that! To imagine that it can is deep darkness indeed. If our eye is going to be healthy, if we're going to live as people with light to share, we need to buy into another vision — beginning with our imagination, and flowing then into every aspect of our lives. We need to stock up on oil, on dedication to the reign of God in the middle of here-and-now. If I believe, for instance, that God created the earth, whether directly or through evolution, then I will be concerned with respecting the earth ...
Sermon
Tony Everett
... Transfiguration Sunday. The text immediately follows a gathering of elders near Mount Sinai, the holy mountain of God. Here Moses and the elders celebrated God's presence and guidance. Here they pledged to obey God's instruction. Our text begins with an articulation of three crucial aspects of God's forming and guiding presence in the lives of God's people: God invites, God's people wait, God gives. The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there, and I will give you the tablets of ...
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... grew up in Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Scotland. Two men who were prominent leaders of that division were Huldreich Zwingli and John Calvin. They were contemporaries of Luther, but whereas Luther and his followers rejected only those aspects of the Catholic church they felt contradicted the Bible, the Reformed protestors retained from the Catholic church only what they believed was expressly allowed in scripture. One of the doctrines formulated by these Reformed protestors, and especially by ...
922. Forward March
Joshua 3:1-17
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Timothy J. Smith
... design for the church and each person's role in that plan. This was a break from the past where the pastor dictated whatever direction for the church she or he thought was right. This new approach would involve all the members in every aspect of ministry. This style was different and surprised some in her new church. She continued to model that each member was of equal importance in the body. Together they forged on ahead. There were roadblocks along the way involving traditional expectations of the pastor ...
Sermon
John N. Brittain
... to a church he had not only not founded but had not yet visited and so was particularly careful to lay out his beliefs. His introduction to that letter is packed with what he considered to be essentials of the Christian message, and some aspects of it are good reminders of what is really essential about the celebration of Christmas. Paul began by conspicuously calling himself a doulos of Jesus Christ, a term that is difficult for translators. The NIV translates it "servant," while the NRSV does the same ...
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John N. Brittain
... -essentials diversity, in all things charity." As one denominational (UCC) statement makes clear, "The unity that we seek requires neither an uncritical acceptance of any point of view, nor rigid formulation of doctrine. It does require mutual understanding and agreement as to which aspects of the Christian faith and life are essential." You and I may disagree on points of Christian doctrine. I obviously think that I am right or I wouldn't believe as I do. But if I am right, does that necessarily mean that ...
925. The Way Things Are
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
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John N. Brittain
... religious expectations to overwhelm the basic, straightforward message of how God had been at work in Jesus Christ. Because it was precisely these kinds of expectations that allowed or even encouraged factionalism, as the community sub-divided itself according to aspects of presentation that seemed more appealing. We can pretty well reconstruct what this simple message was from the great sermons recorded in the book of Acts. It went like this: The divinely approved nature of Jesus' ministry was established ...
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