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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Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... the Egyptian empire, made them tremble at the prospect of his vengeful wrath. Sensing their alarm, Joseph asked his brothers to approach him. When they had drawn near, he identified himself again as the brother whom they had sold into Egypt. He enjoined them not to be distressed nor to be angry by emphasizing that what they had done was used by God to save lives. He went on to inform them that in addition to the past two years of famine, five more years were to come without any productive farming. Thus God ...
1077. Marrying a Captive Woman
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
Rectifying Public and Private Wrongs: Each of the five sections of this chapter deals with a situation of human distress or misconduct and seeks either to rectify the wrong or to mitigate its worst effects. We have seen already that this is a characteristic feature of Deuteronomy—part of its “pastoral strategy.” Another feature is that the first and fifth of the laws both require actions that involve removing pollution ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
Rectifying Public and Private Wrongs: Each of the five sections of this chapter deals with a situation of human distress or misconduct and seeks either to rectify the wrong or to mitigate its worst effects. We have seen already that this is a characteristic feature of Deuteronomy—part of its “pastoral strategy.” Another feature is that the first and fifth of the laws both require actions that involve removing pollution ...
1079. A Rebellious Son
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
Rectifying Public and Private Wrongs: Each of the five sections of this chapter deals with a situation of human distress or misconduct and seeks either to rectify the wrong or to mitigate its worst effects. We have seen already that this is a characteristic feature of Deuteronomy—part of its “pastoral strategy.” Another feature is that the first and fifth of the laws both require actions that involve removing pollution ...
1080. Curses for Obedience
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... : disease and blight (vv. 21f., 27, 35, 59–61); drought, famine and other calamities in the food chain (vv. 23f., 38–42); all the dire results of defeat in war, especially the horrors of prolonged siege (vv. 25f. 30–34, 49–57); and the distress, fear, and frustration of land loss, deportation, and exile (vv. 36–37, 63–68). In the course of its history, Israel experienced all of these things, culminating in the final exile of Judah in the sixth century. The prophets explained such disasters in ...
Understanding Series
Cheryl A. Brown
... 5, 20). Samuel warned that they would pay a very high price to be like other nations. They would lose their freedom and become slaves again, as they had been in Egypt. But the second time would be different in one way: When they cried out in their distress, the Lord would not answer them (v. 18). This poignant statement closely resembles the Lord’s response recorded in Judges 10:6–14, which stands at the center of the book of Judges. The fact that the author chose to place Samson’s story—with these ...
Understanding Series
Iain W. Provan
... various other items (vv. 13–17; cf. 1 Kgs. 7:15–45). The threats of 1 Kings 9:6–9 have become reality. Judah, like Israel, has gone into captivity, away from her land (v. 21; cf. 2 Kgs. 17:23). The book of Obadiah appears to reflect the distress of this period. 25:22–26 Gedaliah, the grandson of Josiah’s secretary Shaphan (22:12), is now appointed to govern what is left, under the watchful eye of some Babylonian officials (vv. 22, 24), and the remnants of the scattered army (v. 5) gather to him at ...
Understanding Series
Iain W. Provan
... various other items (vv. 13–17; cf. 1 Kgs. 7:15–45). The threats of 1 Kings 9:6–9 have become reality. Judah, like Israel, has gone into captivity, away from her land (v. 21; cf. 2 Kgs. 17:23). The book of Obadiah appears to reflect the distress of this period. 25:22–26 Gedaliah, the grandson of Josiah’s secretary Shaphan (22:12), is now appointed to govern what is left, under the watchful eye of some Babylonian officials (vv. 22, 24), and the remnants of the scattered army (v. 5) gather to him at ...
Understanding Series
Iain W. Provan
... various other items (vv. 13–17; cf. 1 Kgs. 7:15–45). The threats of 1 Kings 9:6–9 have become reality. Judah, like Israel, has gone into captivity, away from her land (v. 21; cf. 2 Kgs. 17:23). The book of Obadiah appears to reflect the distress of this period. 25:22–26 Gedaliah, the grandson of Josiah’s secretary Shaphan (22:12), is now appointed to govern what is left, under the watchful eye of some Babylonian officials (vv. 22, 24), and the remnants of the scattered army (v. 5) gather to him at ...
1085. The Fall of Jerusalem
2 Kings 24:20b--25:26
Understanding Series
Iain W. Provan
... various other items (vv. 13–17; cf. 1 Kgs. 7:15–45). The threats of 1 Kings 9:6–9 have become reality. Judah, like Israel, has gone into captivity, away from her land (v. 21; cf. 2 Kgs. 17:23). The book of Obadiah appears to reflect the distress of this period. 25:22–26 Gedaliah, the grandson of Josiah’s secretary Shaphan (22:12), is now appointed to govern what is left, under the watchful eye of some Babylonian officials (vv. 22, 24), and the remnants of the scattered army (v. 5) gather to him at ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... , can be illuminating in their selectivity for different audiences in different situations with different needs. 37:1–4 Again there is some ambiguity about the outward expression of Hezekiah’s grief. Initially his preoccupation is that this day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, and once more we might imagine Isaiah responding “Yes, quite rightly too, trouble is just what Assyria was supposed to bring” (e.g., 8:22). In rebuking Judah, the Assyrian politician was again taking up Isaiah’s ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to being a follower of Jesus. One of her favorite quotes comes from a former patient: “For the Christian, the Big C is not cancer; the Big C is Christ.” (4) Jesus is the big C. That’s authority. Jesus genuinely cares about people who are in distress. This authority also comes from his willingness to do whatever is necessary to accomplish that which he was sent to accomplish. Any leader who is willing to give his or her all is going to gain the respect of his or her followers, and certainly that was ...
Sermon
Don Tuttle
... roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.’ In Psalm 89, he says, God, who is mighty, “rules the raging of the sea.” And in Psalm 107 he tells of sailors that “cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.” The disciples were beginning to realize that Jesus was more than they had once thought. They were beginning to realize that he possessed the power of God. They were beginning to see that ...
1089. Faces of Failure: Judas Iscariot
Matthew 26-27 (selections)
Sermon
Don Tuttle
... had not yet come. There are times in which we grow impatient and want to spur Jesus on. Such impatience would make sense of Judas’s regret. If he thought his betrayal would launch the revolution and lead to Israel’s freedom, then he would naturally be distressed when the chief priests and elders turn Jesus over to be executed. But then again, if Judas expected Jesus to lead an armed insurrection against Rome, he probably wanted to be a part of it, a general in the Lord’s army, so to speak. If that ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . “If the condition can be corrected, then we want it corrected,” said the husband. His wife immediately nodded in agreement. “You must understand,” said the doctor, “that studies show that parents who keep these children have a high incidence of marital distress and separation. Is it fair for you to bring this sort of suffering upon your other two children?” At the mention of the word “suffering,” writes Willimon, it was as if the doctor finally began speaking the woman’s language. She ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in the road. Now life is moving in a different (and unwanted) direction.” (5) If we do not have sufficient resources within at such a time, we are lost. St. Paul knew about times like that. “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed . . .” Paul had sufficient resources to overcome an array of difficulties. He had that treasure--the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a nap, “Don’t you care? (4) All of us can look back over our lives and see a series of answered prayers, but all of that is forgotten when we encounter a truly horrible situation. “Why doesn’t God intervene?” we cry out in our distress. “Do you not care that we perish? Do my griefs and heartaches not matter? Is there anyone there who sees and understands?” “Teacher, do you not care that we perish?” asked the frightened disciples. Every believer goes through a time like that sooner or later ...
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Ron Lavin
... -- opposite poles! Those are two different ways to think! The wailers and mourners saw misery, tragedy, and suffering. Jesus saw opportunity and hope. Choose -- which side will you attach yourself to? The wailers and mourners were caught in a demonic, unrestrained distress that is often present at the time of death. Jesus approached the little girl with a calmness and peace that was in dramatic contrast to all those around him. When they laughed at what they considered the apparent illusion of Jesus ...
Sermon
April Yamasaki
... in life or death -- whatever our sadness or difficulty or loss -- Jesus is with us, and the resurrection power of God can transform us. "Who will separate us from the love of Christ?" Paul asked in his letter to the Roman church. "Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us" (Romans 8:35, 37). That's the resurrection power of God. Just before Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he ...
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King Duncan
... each one. Ironically, however, Baba died in an auto accident near Knoxville, Tennessee before he had a chance to break his silence. (4) He never spoke that one word that would solve the world’s problems. Sometimes God is like that. We know He knows about our distress. We know He cares. He just seems to dawdle. He seems to put us on hold. Picture this frantic father waiting for Jesus to minister to the woman with the issue of blood. Then his worse fears are realized. Some friends come from his house. He ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... surprised, but as she read the letter her eyes were distracted by the movement of a shabbily dressed stranger down below, leaning against a post in front of the building. She couldn’t get him off her mind. Thinking that he might be in greater financial distress than she was, she slipped the bill into an envelope in which she quickly penned the words, “Don’t despair.” She threw it out the window. The stranger below picked it up, read it, looked up, and smiled as he tipped his hat and went his ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... on a farm in Canada. Because of a serious problem with his eyes James could not distinguish objects clearly. He compared his vision to a blurry image of a boat seen from under water. Just as discouraging, his nearsightedness was so acute and so distressing that he also suffered continuously from furious headaches. But, in the providence of God there was an eye doctor vacationing in the vicinity of James’ home. Young James began taking care of the eye doctor’s horse and buggy. Noting James’ extreme ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... managed to contain his fear until it came to the point at which the invaders were allegedly marching down Madison Avenue. Rushing out to the kennel in which he kept his twenty prized St. Bernards, Barrymore flung open the gate and released the dogs. In great distress he shouted at them, “Fend for yourselves!” (1) I’m glad he was concerned about his St. Bernards, but I’m sure he felt quite foolish when the truth came out that there was no such invasion. Of course, there have been several instances in ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... was when her three-year-old son was ill with pneumonia. She brought him to the public health clinic and he died in her arms while she waited her turn. All of this could have embittered her, but it gave her a heart for helping others who were in distress, like she had been at that time in life. She said to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, “You see, doctor, the dying patients are just like old acquaintances to me, and I’m not afraid to touch them, to talk with them, or to offer them hope.” Dr. Kubler-Ross said ...
1100. Penney's Conversion
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... in the eyes of men, to accumulate money—what was the purpose of life? What had money meant for my wife? l felt mocked by life, even by God Himself." After several more fiery trials, J. C. Penney was financially ruined and, naturally, in deep distress. That is when God could deal with his self-righteous nature and his love for money. After his spiritual conversion he could testify of God's working. "I had to pass through fiery ordeals before reaching glimmerings of conviction that it is not enough for ...
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