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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Shirley Gupton Lynn
... generation. When gunpowder was invented, the horrors of war became so great, thinkers were predicting war would be obsolete as a method of settling disputes. That was scores of wars and two atomic bombs ago. Not only has war continued, at this very moment peace eludes us, and we are reeling from fresh news of terrorism. And wars are fought over the same goals for which one tribe clubbed another at the dawn of history—land and national pride. In the 1980's, Jonathan Schell wrote a book called The Fate ...
77. Say What?
Luke 9:28-36 (37-43)
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Leonard Sweet
... speak from the overshadowing clouds. After the Transfiguration, Peter does not know what response to make (Luke 9:33). So he babbles. Peter always has to say something _ even when vision is obstructed, when silence is what is called for and when experience eludes understanding until one is off the mountain. 2. There is little growth on the mountaintops. Air gets thinner, trees get shorter, foliage gets scarcer, the higher one climbs. On the top of the mountain itself, there is only the stark beauty of rock ...
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Brett Blair
... the police and the even owner of the VW Bug were more interested in apprehending the thief to save his life than to recover the car. So often when we run from God, we feel it is to escape his punishment. But what we are actually doing is eluding his rescue. When we are willing to have our deeds exposed, we can be saved. Jesus said, whomever lives by the truth comes into the light. III. Finally, God sees there are those who acknowledge their need for forgiveness. When Nicodemus came to Jesus, he did so under ...
79. Jesus Takes Command
John 6:1-21
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Phillip Yancy
... the shores of the Sea of Galilee at a time when Jesus' popularity and also his vulnerability was cresting. Wherever he went, a throng that included many deranged and afflicted trailed behind. The day before the big miracle, Jesus crossed the lake to elude the masses. Herod had just executed John the Baptist, Jesus' relative, his forerunner and friend, and Jesus needed time alone to grieve. Doubtless, John's death provoked somber thoughts of the fate awaiting him. Alas, there would be no secluded retreat. A ...
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Stan Purdum
... 's time in Saul's service, Saul's son, Jonathan, and David had become close friends, and Jonathan warned David. David fled into the hills, and some 600 men joined him. Over many months, Saul continued his pursuit of David, and not only did David manage to elude Saul's troops, he also refused to hurt Saul, even though on two occasions David could easily have killed him. Now, in the verses leading to today's reading, word reaches David that both Saul and his son Jonathan have been killed in battle with the ...
81. Call to Oneness
John 17:20-26
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Donald Charles Lacy
... to oneness one which self-destructs because many in our world see us as worshiping two gods? Our Jewish and Muslim friends have always had a problem with such mathematics. How can one plus one equal one? Perhaps we are straining to solve a problem which eludes solution. However, when we really allow our intellect to function under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, a blessed event is given birth. With God all things are possible. God chooses to come to us as Father and Son, perfectly related in love, with the ...
82. When Christ Is King
Colossians 1:11-20
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Donna Schaper
... of the rich who "have" everything. It is instead the freedom, according to Douglas John Hall, "of those who are conscious enough of their emptiness and lack to realize that they must ‘ever ask anew' for intimations of a truth that, in its fullness, forever eludes and transcends them; a truth, however, that is willing and more than willing to impart itself in its sufficiency for the here and now, and to those who ask for it humbly and in solidarity with all who hunger and thirst." The king Christ starts ...
83. Having a Life Purpose
Mark 10:35-45
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... beyond one's immediate interests and gratifications, though that purpose frequently goes undiscovered. Many people devote their entire lives to the pursuit of greater ease and pleasure. Those who had not found the "why" that gives meaning to existence may achieve material success, yet the real goodness of life will elude them. The true meaning of life lies in sharing our particular qualities of greatness with others.
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Maxie Dunnam
... re there and we garner whatever meaning is available to us then. So Christmas comes and Christmas goes. Easter comes and Easter goes. Pentecost comes and Pentecost goes. And, and the meaning that these great events of Christian history should have for us eludes us because we’ve not made the preparation that is possible. There’s also another problem in these great Christian faith festivals, and that problem is that we celebrate too soon. We’re not celebrating Christmas today. This is the advent season ...
85. To Live in Joy
Revelation 1:1-3
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Maxie Dunnam
... .” Many of us not only fail to get off at the right station, we miss the train. This is the Kingdom most of us miss. Looking for some great deliverance tomorrow, we miss deliverance now. Focusing our eyes on the future, the glory of the present eludes us. Anticipating some pie in the sky by and by, we ignore the invitation to attend the banquet of joy on this now day of resurrection. Listen Friends - There is no living but now-living. The eminent editor, Norman Cousins, said, “The editorial page is an ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... is my arena for growth. We have a tendency to want to run away for growth. I believe in retreats and profit greatly from them. But if I can’t grow where I am, if I can’t be renewed in my daily involvements, my maturity will forever elude me. It is so popular that is has become trite, yet it is still true: Bloom where you are planted. Performance not profession is a key to maturity. Perspective not proficiency is required for maturity. Now there is one simple way to keep perspective and to keep testing ...
87. The Darkness Before the Dawn
John 13:18-30, John 13:31-38
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J. Howard Olds
... Bloomquist, in an article in Weavings, describes her most recent dark night. “The darkness engulfed me personally, professionally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was depressed, deeply depressed... I felt like I had lost everything. I had no sense of direction or meaning; faith eluded me. It became increasingly difficult to talk about God, or even listen to others talk about God." Ella Wilcox expressed it this way: All those who journey soon or late, Must pass within the garden's gate, Must kneel alone in ...
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David J. Kalas
... The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me, ‘What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" God had called Moses by name. And God had introduced himself to Moses. Still Moses did not know God's name. This detail may elude us in our reading, for we may have lost, in our own practice and prayer, the distinction between names and titles. We use his titles freely — God, Lord, Savior, Redeemer, Father, and such — and we may use them as though they were his name. But Moses perceived the ...
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John N. Brittain
... . The old saying is true, "Life is what happens while you are making other plans." In Christian circles there have always been those who have been so preoccupied with the second coming of Christ that the true meaning of the first coming seems to elude them. This was the crisis Paul confronted in his very first canonical letter to the Thessalonians. In my day, it was preoccupation with the works of Hal Lindsay that seemed to provide a Christian distraction from real life for many people, but it is always ...
90. With Our Own Eyes
2 Peter 1:16-21
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John N. Brittain
... caution us that ignoring the eyewitness accounts of scripture may well leave us in that dark place without the light. Ron Starenko has summed up the problem well: "Our spirituality, which derives from our own strivings, is a failure. World peace eludes us, world hunger widens, universal greed and lust for power remains our nemesis. Our personal biographies reveal our dark side. What else is that than our godlessness — ‘godlostness'? The human experience is God's judgment on our narcissistic dreams. God ...
91. BAPTIZED IN SOLIDARITY WITH US
Matthew 3:13-17
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Johnny Dean
... escapes me. Not so in this circumstance. This little book was a God send. In it, Dr. Cullmann not only acknowledges the difficulty in understanding why Jesus submitted to a baptism of repentance. He also offers a simple explanation for it, one that had for some reason eluded me. I had dived deeply into the pool of the intellect searching for an answer that was floating in plain view on the surface. Cullmann says, "It was not a baptism of repentance for HIS sin; it was a baptism of repentance for MY sin, and ...
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Brett Blair
... just like them aren’t we? Isn’t that what we want for ourselves. Isn’t that what we ultimately want for our children: Happiness. The problem is that we really don’t grasp the true nature of happiness, and because of that it so often seems to elude us. You see, we think that happiness deals with our outer circumstances. We think that the truly happy man is one who has achieved outer success. Thus our beatitudes read: 1. Blessed is the man who makes a fortune. 2. Blessed is he who earns six figures. 3 ...
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King Duncan
... of the tunnel and head for it, only to discover at the last minute when it was too late that the light he faced belonged to an oncoming locomotive. So the coyote got plowed down and flattened, again, and the object of his chase, yet again, eluded him. Perhaps the Roadrunner cartoons gave us the humorous expression about realizing that the light at the end of the tunnel is an approaching locomotive. Normally we might think of the coyote’s dilemma as an example of our lives when adversity strikes. I know ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... a woman). Given that evidence and what can be gleaned from the present Epistles, teaching most likely had to do with instruction in Scripture, that is, Scripture as pointing to salvation in Christ (cf. 2 Tim. 3:15–17). If that is what is being forbidden (and certainty eludes us here), then it is probably because some of them have been so terribly deceived by the false teachers, who are specifically abusing the OT (cf. 1:7; Titus 3:9). At least that is the point Paul will pick up in verses 14 and 15. Such ...
95. Proverbs of Solomon
Proverbs 12:1-28
Understanding Series
Roland E. Murphy
... . Rather, one goes astray in the wrong way. But the NIV translates what the MT has. The NJPS silently emends to “leads astray,” omitting them. 12:27 The text is quite uncertain. There is a contrast between the lazy and the diligent, but the point eludes us. The NIV notes that roast is a doubtful translation; the meaning would seem to be that the lazy one fails to profit from hunting. In verse 27b, the NIV seems to transpose two words; the MT has, literally: “the possessions of a man (are) precious ...
96. Adam and Eve
Genesis 2:4-25
Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... God the Creator was also intimately involved with humans as Lord or Yahweh, especially in the events in the garden. This is the only place in Genesis where these two names occur together, and reasons for the repeated use of this double name here elude us. 2:7 Like a potter, God formed (yatsar) man (’adam) from the dust of the ground (’adamah). There is a wordplay between “man” and “ground.” “Ground” represents red soil (from the root ’-d-m, “red”). Whether it indicates that the man’s ...
97. Miscellaneous Oracles of Judgment
Ezekiel 21:1-32, Ezekiel 22:1-31
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... tribes for their idolatry, Judah and Benjamin are now themselves rejected for worshipping wooden images (!). Among modern commentators, Zimmerli provides no translation at all and writes that this phrase, “in spite of all the effort expended on it, so far eludes any satisfactory explanation” (Ezekiel 1, p. 427). Leslie Allen (following a line of thought like that the NIV pursued) suggests that we find here an account of the rejection of kingship, originally written as a marginal note on 20:3, and ...
98. Sermon on the Mount: Allegiance and Trust
Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:25-34
Teach the Text
Jeannine K. Brown
... powerful words for those in our congregations who are poor and struggle to make ends meet. And we should not be afraid to preach both messages, even if we risk offending sensibilities on this touchy subject. And we would be wrong to think that worry about daily life eludes the rich and those with enough to live on. Rather, worry about daily life plagues the rich as well as the poor, even if the worries may not be about putting food on the table or clothing on one’s back. Worry can consume the wealthy, who ...
Teach the Text
Daniel J. Estes
... with four rhetorical knife stabs expressing his pain and frustration: “I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.” Only when Yahweh reappears with his own set of questions in Job 38–41 will Job find the peace that now eludes him. Historical and Cultural Background In his opening lament, Job several times makes use of concepts familiar to his setting in the ancient Near East. His reference to Leviathan in 3:8 calls to mind the Babylonian Canaanite myths about a seven-headed sea ...
Teach the Text
Daniel J. Estes
... television series by the same name. In this story, a prominent physician has been wrongfully accused and convicted of murdering his wife. Escaping his captors, he is pursued relentlessly. He maintains a sense of hope and endurance that helps him to stay alive, elude his accusers, and finally bring about justice. This hope is based on the solid foundations of his innocence and on the profound belief that he will be able to prove that innocence to his pursuers, a feat he does accomplish. This hope keeps ...
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