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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76. Heaven's Wait
Joshua 24:1-27
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Robert S. Crilley
... else, I think this is the reason the question is so urgent for Joshua -- heaven is waiting for a response! And if you ask me, the question is no less urgent for us today. Choosing to love or to hate, to give or to hoard, to become involved or to withdraw. Choosing to reach out and mend a torn marriage, or to let it continue to unravel at the seams. Choosing to apologize for hurtful words we now regret and wish we could recant, or to add another brick to the wall of silence that exists between us and our ...
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Mark Radecke
... : Given the pace and direction of modern life, how are we to lead our lives as followers of the crucified and risen Lord, Jesus Christ? There are, as you might well imagine, a number of answers to that question. One group of Christians answers the question by withdrawing from what they view as the evils of modernity. They cling to an older and simpler style of life and shun the way of the world. While we may admire their discipline and their commitment, most of us do not embrace this vision as the only one ...
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John A. Stroman
... ? 4. What are the positive aspects of the charismatic renewal? 5. What particular problems do the "spiritually elite" present the pastor? 6. Describe early Methodism as an enthusiastic lay movement with emphasis on personal experience. 7. Describe the meaning of the statement, "O Lord, either enlarge the vessel or withdraw thy Spirit." Permission to photoc_esermonsopy Reflection and Study questions for local congregational use granted to original purchaser by CSS Publishing Company, Inc., Lima, Ohio.
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Robert G. McCreight
... If they let all their anger out at once they'd explode, so they let it out in constant, belligerent shots fired at everybody for just about everything. They're the "skunks" of this world who make a big stink about everything. Other people withdraw into themselves. They may become depressed. They may become apathetic. They certainly turn their backs on religion, for that has been a big part of the problem: they trusted God, and God let them down. These people express their anger like "turtles" -- quietly but ...
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Rolland R. Reece
... join together to create an eddy, a whirlpool that drives us below the water's surface. All our struggling doesn't work. Rather, we continue to mess things up and privately confirm that we are failures. We get angry at ourselves for our failures. We become silent and withdraw from others. Isn't that what failures are supposed to do? If we are not worth our own love, how can we expect the love of others? We have turned on ourselves. But we don't talk about this rebellion. We've hidden this knowledge in a ...
81. Passion Sunday
Isaiah 50:1-11, Luke 22:14--23:56, Philippians 2:1-11
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John R. Brokhoff
... suffering because of his confidence in God's presence and help. God was near and ready to help. Though God allows suffering, he sustains the sufferer who suffers for his sake. When Jesus cried, "My God, why?" we sense the trauma and tragedy of God's apparent withdrawal. Epistle: Philippians 2:5-11 1. Equality (v. 6). Paul claims that Jesus before the Incarnation was on an equality with God "very God of very God," as the Creed says. If he were equal with God, there was no need for Jesus to grasp any honor ...
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William B. Kincaid, III
... 's place (2 Samuel 18:31-19:4). When Lazarus died and Jesus was with his sisters and other mourners, Jesus was so moved and disturbed that even he cried (John 11:33-34). In scripture, mourning is characterized by a neglect of appearance, by withdrawing from those close at hand, and by deep, relentless grief. We recognize it in our own tears and stunned silence and this persistent ache which will not go away. We are talking about mourning, the kind of shaking of the foundations which C. S. Lewis described ...
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Ronald Lavin
... truth that rest and peace and quiet are essential to life. Many hospital patients have told me, "I needed this rest." Sheep need to lie down to digest their food. We need to rest to digest all that we take in. We need green pastures -- places of withdrawal and digestion. Day Two As the chaplain entered the room on the second day, the woman looked frightened. He tried to get her refocused on the twenty-third psalm by talking about fears. One of our needs is for someone to understand our fears. "The still ...
84. Leaving A Legacy
1 Kings 2:1-12
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Timothy J. Smith
... it's time for us to retreat to a quiet place to listen for the word of God in our lives. Once we remove all the distractions and interruptions from our lives we are able to communicate with God. At decisive moments in Jesus' life he would withdraw from the crowds and seek a lonely place where he would be alone so he could pray. Solomon showed his concern for the people. Given the opportunity to make one request, Solomon asked, "Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to ...
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George W. Hoyer
... left off this following. Jesus asks, "Do you also wish to go away?" Think about it as asking you, "Will you? Will you, too, go away?" It is a potentially frightening fact that while only the heavenly Father can draw us, every one of us can withdraw. Go away. After one of the twelve betrayed him, all the remaining eleven fled. It is an equally comforting fact that all eleven were drawn back and were thereafter faithful unto death. Of course, most of them were martyred. If the question is phrased, "Will you ...
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William G. Carter
... had begun to criss-cross that body of water, teaching and healing on different shores. He finished a full day of telling parables, and told his followers it was time to leave. It is typical, in Mark's Gospel, that Jesus will teach for a while and then withdraw. He will perform some kind acts of mercy and then he will disappear. If someone discovers who he is, or learns what he is up to, Jesus muzzles them and refuses to let them speak. According to Mark, Jesus Christ is a mystery. He will not be captured ...
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Charles R. Leary
... ” to teach them the cruciality of maintaining a balance of work and leisure. Jesus didn’t discuss the metabolic and neurologic details of being a workaholic, or the effects of stress on the body. But he obviously had the common wisdom to know the value of planned withdrawals from the presence of daily work in order to replenish energies. He knew, if you don’t breathe in, you have nothing to breathe out. The main difference between the Twelve and you and I is that you and I have not been on a preaching ...
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Robert Noblett
... ; I explained my problem and he not only told me where to find the address, but indicated he would lead me directly to it. That’s a very simple illustration of involved leadership. A good leader delegates, but delegation does not mean abandonment or withdrawal. Long before some of the creative Japanese managerial styles came to this country, I worked for a large corporation as a summer employee. In that company the pecking order was very clear. The folks to whom I reported were foremen and they in turn ...
89. A Sleeping Bag God
2 Samuel 7:1-17
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Robert Noblett
... ends ironically with God reminding David that God will continue to move for the establishment of David and his people: “I have gone with you wherever you have gone.... I have chosen a place for my people Israel ... I promise to keep you safe ... I will withdraw my support.” (2 Samuel 7:9-16) Those are words of establishment. Often in our work with people who have for some period been absent from the institutional church, we will hear them say, “I have to get back to church.” Often implied is, “I ...
90. Gunda
John 6:60-71
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Robert Salzgeber
... in invincibility with every death, but that is only an illusion. Their very brutality and desperation is evidence that their legitimacy is fast eroding. Their appeal to force is itself an admission that they can no longer command voluntary consent. Whenever sufficient numbers of people withdraw their consent, the (evil) powers inevitably fall."1 "What gives life is God's Spirit; man's power is of no use at all." A story: Dr. Pennell stepped out of the door of the hospital. He had seen a group of men coming ...
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Charles Curley
... we learn, and how can we find ourselves in David's grief? Last week we saw how David, faced with depression, talked and talked and talked. He talked his way out of depression, when our most frequent way of dealing with depression is silence, withdrawal, cutting ourselves off from those around us. Now David, filled with grief, sang aloud. He made his grief public; he did not bottle it up inside. In fact, from our 20th century perspective, we would probably describe David's actions as inappropriate or overly ...
92. Easter 2
Acts 4:32-37, 1 John 1:5--2:14, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31
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Russell F. Anderson
... Our Clenched Fists. Sermon Angle: You've probably heard the story of the chimp who reached through the narrow neck of a large jar to obtain the fruit inside. He clenched the luscious treat in his fist but the neck of the jar would not allow him to withdraw his fist with the fruit in it. He could have freed his hand by unclenching his fist but he refused to do that. He was imprisoned by his lust. The living Lord freed the believers in Jerusalem to release their grip on their possessions. They didn't regard ...
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Gordon Pratt Baker
Intent on avoiding even the appearance of competing with John, whose disciples the Pharisees had goaded into a quarrel with his own, Jesus decided to withdraw from Judea to pursue his mission in Galilee. To do so, however, he must either travel by way of Perea, fording the Jordan twice as many of his countrymen did, or cross the full length of Samaria, which divided the two provinces. It was a choice of no mean significance ...
94. A Mother · A Canaanite Woman
Mt 15:21-28 · Mk 7:24-30
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Gordon Pratt Baker
... familiar with the stress under which he was laboring, they urged him to send the woman away. (Matthew 15:23) The woman refused to go, however, her very persistence a public testimony to the strong faith she had in the Master. Accordingly, instead of quietly withdrawing as the disciples were urging her to do she followed the little band wherever they went, the earnestness of her petition a continuing witness to her faith in the compassion and power of Jesus. IV How long the woman pressed her appeal we have ...
95. Easter 4
John 10:1-21
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Dennis Koch
... My Redeemer Lives The Lord's My Shepherd O God Of Jacob Prayer for Easter 4 Lord God, we need a constant reminder that the Good Shepherd is looking for us ...for our world is constantly threatening to split up and break apart. Neighbors withdraw from neighbors. The cycle of poverty persists. Leadership decisions are short-sighted. Even our own behavior blocks our ability to make sense out of life. Our best intentions fail to become positive actions. We feel like sheep without a shepherd. Remind us that the ...
96. Epiphany 5
Mark 1:29-34, Mark 1:35-39
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Dennis Koch
... rescue us. We act as if everything depends upon us. It doesn't. The disciples learned this truth through observation. They saw your relentless level of activity. They saw how you received your strength. You went to lonely places to pray. Lead us to do the same, Lord. When we withdraw to lonely places and spend time alone with you, we will find the strength we need to go forward. Amen.
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Brett Blair
... has now come back to earth. The crooked old cardinal chastises Jesus for missing his golden opportunity in the desert when he did not give bread to the people. "Mankind would have run after you, grateful and obedient, though forever trembling with fear that you might withdraw your hand and they would no longer have loaves. You did not want to make men slaves but here too your judgment was too high for all men are slaves.” I have always thought that the temptation to give bread to the world was the ...
98. Proper 12
John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, Psalm 14:1-7
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B. David Hostetter
... . EXHORTATION Grasp what is the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know it, though it is beyond knowledge. So may you attain to fullness of being, the fullness of God. PRAYER OF THE DAY Modest Master, teach us to withdraw from the praise that would put us in the power of others and prevent our doing what you want us to do and when. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God of all families in heaven and earth, receive our praise and thanksgiving for the manifestation of your love ...
99. Proper 15
Mt 15:21-28 · Ex 16:2-15 · Rom 11:13-16, 29-32 · Ps 78
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John R. Brokhoff
... rest and reflect. His public ministry was drawing to a close. Soon he would be headed toward Caesarea Philippi where he would learn whether the disciples understood that he was the Christ. Then on to Jerusalem to die! Everyone, even Jesus, feels the need to withdraw from the frantic pace and the pressure of daily living. There is a need for solitude and silence to get in tune with God, to get things straight and to recharge one's batteries. Canaanite (v. 22). For an understanding of what is to come, one ...
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James Weekley
"What is God up to now?" he wondered. "Are you serious, Lord? Did I hear you correctly? You say you want me to withdraw my money from the bank, stop my newspaper, pull up stakes, leave the friends I have grown up with, and move to a somewhere land which has no name?" God did not even give Abraham an Exxon road atlas and a U-Haul trailer. All that he had to go ...
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