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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976. Above All--god
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
King Duncan
... ." Doesn't that make you want to shout for joy? That's who God is. That is what God is doing. In his book Reality and Prayer, John Magee writes that we can only know God if we realize that He is both intimate and ultimate. His very nature is ultimate, awesome, majestic, omnipotent, and without limits--"holy, holy, holy." Yet at the same time, God's spirit lives within us and guides us through each day of our lives. God allows Himself to be known, to be in relationship with His creatures, to come before His ...
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King Duncan
... sins which we commit are a symptom of the condition of the inner man or the inner woman. We are left, then, with a decision that only we can make. What is it that you want out of life? Do you want a satisfying, health-filled life of harmony with nature, with your fellow man, and with God? There is only one path that leads to that kind of abundant life. Jesus described it as a straight and narrow path. Does that offend you? It is simply a recognition of the way life is. If you want a healthy body, you ...
978. He Came To Us
Luke 1:26-38
Sermon
King Duncan
... be catchable, but in the vernacular of the mountains, they are not fetchable. Suppose you are I had never heard about Jesus Christ, but we wanted to know about God. How would we go about it? It's a problem. We could look at nature to draw our conclusions, but nature presents a mixed bag. Certainly there is the abundance of the soil, and the faithfulness of the seasons, not to mention the breath-taking beauty and amazing complexity of all that lives and moves and has its being. But there is also cruelty in ...
979. Sarah Laughed
Genesis 18:1-15
Sermon
King Duncan
... book And There Was Light tells us that for the child, what happens is from God, and is good. A child will never feel self-pity unless some adult is stupid enough to suggest it. And courage, which we grownups make so much of, is for the child the most natural thing in the world. (3) No wonder Jesus used a little child as an example of the Kingdom of God. Children are perfectly at home with the impossible. That is a pretty good place to reside. A famous writer was passing a hospital that bore at its main gate ...
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King Duncan
... near the jungle lies to the settlements of man, how thin is the veneer of civilization and how deep the savage in man. Our great upset at home and abroad today is but further evidence that Kipling was right. Today the beast, the jungle, the savage nature of man have suddenly begun to emerge again and it looks as if the jungle is about to take over again." (1) These penetrating words point to the stormy relationship that has always existed between God and humanity. The jungle strangles the garden. Since 9-11 ...
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King Duncan
... been is forever gone. (4) We are aware that something like that could happen to us. We are aware of our own worm nature. But is it yet possible for us to be butterflies? That is the important question. In Philippians 3:19 Paul speaks of ... wrongdoing. We are creatures of clay. Therefore we must discipline ourselves, we must deny ourselves, we must face and fashion that side of our nature which would convince us that we are no more than animals, whose purpose is to satisfy our bodily cravings. Isn't that the ...
982. Living with the End in Mind
1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11
Sermon
King Duncan
... in Christ live with him forever. Paul is not writing these words to the Thessalonians to give them a definitive description of the nature of eternity, but to encourage them. Paul writes, “Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or ... it was empty. None of the young men had the courage to stay all night. (7) It’s very human to fear death. Our natural inclination is to cling to life. And that’s good. God means for us to treasure life. All of us have seen people whose ...
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Edward Inabinet
... . We follow the prince of the power of the air--Satan. He is managing director. He is really the God in our lives. Paul goes on to say that we live in the passions of the flesh, following the desires ofmind and of body, and so we are by nature children of wrath, like the rest of creation. According to Paul, we are in a hopeless state, we''re under the condemnation, the absolute condemnation of God. We are doomed and we are damned, and we have no hope, until we enter into that state of forgiveness in Jesus ...
984. The Living Hope
1 Peter 1:1-12
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... climbs to a high tree or a cliff, calls out the name of the deceased, and then cries out pathetically, "Come back! Come back!" But there is no answer. Nothing robs us of our hope as does death. We grieve the loss of a loved one. Nothing is more natural than that. However, if our faith lies in the God of hope, our sorrow will not steal hope from us. Hope for Christians comes from Jesus Christ who died for our sins and won the victory over sin and death when the Father raised him from the grave. He ...
Sermon
Darrick Acre
... Him or not, God comes to us. The presence of God bombards our lives, sweeping over us like waves in the ocean. “Amen?” The Scriptures give us image upon image of the Lord as the One who comes. Coming to humanity is a reflection of the very nature of God. His nature is love, and love comes, love gives, love can’t do anything else. God is constantly coming to us. Our hope, that makes all the shadows in our lives and the world lose their bite, is that He comes; has come, is coming, and will come again ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... . I have a hunch that many people never really understood the movie or the message of the book on which the movie was based. Having read a number of the writings of the author, Nikos Kazantzakis, I found him to have an intensely poetic and religious nature. One story he told illustrates his own personal religious quest. He told of visiting a saintly monk on a secluded island. He asked the monk, Father Makarios, “Do you still wrestle with the devil? Not any longer, my child, replied the godly man, I have ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... we see in Jesus of Nazareth, which first drove me to faith in God. If there is no God, then evil seems to be the natural state of things. But if such a One could exist on our planet as Jesus of Nazareth, then how do you explain that? When Jesus’ ... sign of the cross as a reminder that at the center of our faith is the Sign of the Cross: the cross which reminds us that the true nature of God has been revealed to us most clearly in the One who suffers with us and for us and who can bring good even out of our ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... ’s Gospel than I will ever remember, but I am not quite as sure as he is that without the miracle the story would be pointless. John’s Gospel seems always to have a deeper meaning in mind than merely the fact that Jesus was Lord over nature and could walk over water if He really wanted to. Perhaps if we had paid closer attention to John’s version, the story might have been understood better. In the Gospels, Jesus never seems to have performed “signs and wonders” merely to amaze the public. I don ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... and say, "God loves like this." Do you know there is nothing in us, or in this universe, that says God must be gracious and merciful or that His love must be everlasting. "Why does God love?" you ask then. There is only one right answer. Because it is His nature to love. I John 4:10 declares: "In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us." There is for humankind no way to God except the way made known by God''s self-giving of love in Jesus Christ. Martin Luther opened up a new ...
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Paul E. Flesner
... going on around us. For those who are baptized at a later age, it is God's own Spirit who touches hearts and souls and calls repentant sinners who are tired of destructive living into a new way of living. Much has been made in our generation of our renewable natural resources. The wonder of our baptism is that it is a daily renewable resource. Every day is a new day for us. Every day God wipes the slate of our sins blank and gives us a brand new opportunity to live for God. Every day is a new beginning to ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... met with God's best. We remember this gruesome, ugly event and it so dramatizes God's deadly determination to get our attention and win our hearts that we can do naught else than stand and sing, in the words of Isaac Watts: Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all. Such is the transforming power of love. You may remember Edwin Markham's memorable lines: He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to ...
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David G. Rogne
... we pray for God's miraculous intervention to get us out of it. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way children respond to difficulty, and we are children of the heavenly father. But I do not see God regularly interfering in the course of nature to set things right for his favorites or for those who have prayed for deliverance. If that were the case, deeply religious people would never have to face the consequences of their acts or suffer the risks that everyone else must deal with. To think that ...
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Cathy A. Ammlung
... defeat of everything that would oppose it. Do you get it yet? The only power we wield is the power to forgive sins, in Jesus' name and by his cross-shaped authority. Forgiving others isn't the prelude to glory or power; it's the nature of it for us. We'll never "get" the nature of the Kingdom except that divine forgiveness has defined it and shaped it for us. The only sort of power Jesus' followers have to rule or judge others is the power to serve them, in his name and according to his model. We have the ...
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Curtis Lewis
... vows, he knows that he can expect nothing from the bride. As they stand together at the altar, the bride is asked to promise nothing. Only the groom makes promises. The promises of the groom are fantastic, unconditional, and anchored firmly in God's unchanging nature. The vows of renewal contain some of the greatest themes of scripture. Righteousness is that aspect of the wedding vow which is the foundation on which the "House of Hope" is built. God fulfills the vows he has made. Justice is the next aspect ...
995. The Secret: Christ In You
Colossians 1:24--2:5
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Maxie Dunnam
... secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come. "So, naturally, we proclaim Christ! We warn everyone we meet, and we teach everyone we can, all that we know about him, so that, if possible ... , opened his eyes, and said, "Preaching always did take something out of me." Well, it does, and it should. That's the nature of it -- no clear distinction between messenger and message. As Paul put it, "for what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... out of the innkeeper's life. Much later, he came across some of the followers of Jesus, now called Christians, and they invited him to one of their gatherings. They didn't know who he was. They sang a hymn in their meeting: "Who being in the very nature of God did not count equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very form of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death, even death on ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God." Any one of these points could be a sermon, certainly this one -- "through faith." The issue here is how from the human point of view is God's grace effective in our life. "What is the nature of the response that makes mind's life this fear of God's action. For God never violates human personality. He never intrudes himself where he is not wanted. He took risks with man in his original creation by giving him freedom of choice; he continues to respect the ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... wrong, and it really isn't our responsibility. It all seems the capricious hand of uncontrolled circumstance. An engagement breaks up; a spouse dies; a child rebels; it's difficult to see that this is a result of our doing -- and many times it isn't. Naturally, questions about God's will are difficult to grapple with. But nothing is more therapeutic and comforting than to hear with ears of faith, "God has a plan for me." And nothing gives more direction and strength for life than believing that. You see, if ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... are to do. They are to find the donkey and untie it and bring it to him. And He tells them if anyone asks you, "Why are you untying it, you will say to them, the Lord has need of it." Sure enough, it happened just that way. The owner, naturally, asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?" And they said, "The Lord has need of it." It's a fascinating drama that teaches us about the art of borrowing and lending a donkey. Let's look at the drama by looking at the participants. I. First, the disciples, they ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... to claim or confess, examine your thinking. When you are tempted to believe folks who claim God's will has been done in events and circumstances that if you participated in them you would feel guilty, then please examine how you and others are thinking about the nature of God. Since we are created in the image of God, could God ever be less than we would be at our best? But on with the story. Abraham pled with God not to destroy Sodom reducing his negotiating point--fifty righteous men, forty-five, forty ...
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