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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King Duncan
... were born; they suffered; they died.' (2) They were born; they suffered; and they died. Is that the whole story? I doubt it. Remember how Peter Marshall put it many years ago in Mr. Jones, Meet the Master? He said: "I think the Christian treatment of trouble is splendidly illustrated by the oyster, into whose shell one day there comes a tiny grain of sand. By some strange circumstance, this tiny piece of quartz has entered into the shell of the oyster and there, like an alien thing, an intruder, a cruel ...
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King Duncan
... more sleep.' Just as I turned over to go back to sleep, there came a rapping on the door, and as I opened it rather reluctantly, there stood the upperclassman. He had on a raincoat, and on his arm were two umbrellas. "˜I thought,' he said, "˜you might have trouble finding the church so I have come to walk along and show you the way.' As I dressed, I said to myself, "˜What sort of fellow is this anyway?' As we walked along under the two umbrellas I said to myself, "˜If this man is so interested in my ...
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King Duncan
... going to have the joy and the energy and the enthusiasm of the early church, we are going to have to pray for God's Spirit to fall afresh on us. Anytime we try to substitute any other kind of power for God's power, we are in trouble. It makes no difference what that power may be. It may be political power. The church has often in the past sought to exercise its political power. Sometimes this has had beneficial results--sometimes not. Our laws regarding the separation of church and state are very fortunate ...
1079. Receiving Christ
Matthew 10:1-42
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King Duncan
... same age (swell guy). We get along O.K. no drinking, no gambling, no skirt chasing. He has a good job and our home is paid for. Our children are healthy and normal. They do well in school and the three older ones (teenagers) have never caused us any trouble. So, why am I writing? Because my life is blah. Something is missing. It’s like stew without salt. I feel a certain emptiness.” (3) Are you willing to admit to a certain emptiness? I want to suggest to you that receiving Jesus is the key to true ...
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Edward Inabinet
... feels cheated and wants his $600.00 back. The suit also seeks the return of $125, a gift to the pastor, and $275 in punitive damages, bringing the total to $1,000. Cash said he became disenchanted with the church after his family had a string of troubles beginning in 1989. Church members "totally turned their backs on me and my family," he charges in his suit. "We were in need of emotional support, we were in need of financial support, but nobody would help us," he said. What a tragic story. Suing a church ...
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Edward Inabinet
... he deems it worthy of eternal punishment, of eternal separation from him in that place of misery, of sorrow, of abject trouble that we call hell. God takes it seriously, and we need to take it seriously. Jesus takes our punishment so we might ... opportunity I will summon you." And so he did what many people do to God. They say, "Go away, God." When their consciences begin to trouble them and the Spirit of God begins to work in their hearts, they become irritated. They want to get away, so they run every way ...
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Edward Inabinet
... a tunnel and it gets dark, you don''t throw away your ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer." Our lives have an engineer. We can trust Him who said, "Peace I leave with you. My peace give I unto you; let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid." You and I can find that the same faith which led ____________ home brings comfort to us. A great preacher and revivalist tells about a camp meeting back in the old days. One night it looked like a storm was coming up. They had no ...
1083. The Living Hope
1 Peter 1:1-12
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... we can be victorious over all the disappointments and tragedies we face. Paul said, "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." He meant that fellowship with Jesus made life worthwhile. Christians are not shielded from the troubles of the world. Paul testified to his troubles with these words, "We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed." And again he testified to his hope, "So we do not lose heart ...
Sermon
Darrick Acre
... we find hope. It is the reality of Christ coming to us and making all things new, the Christ who has come, is coming, and will come again. When we are traveling over life’s troubled seas, we have hope because there is one who has come, is coming even now, and will come again, one who can speak over the troubled waters and bring peace and calmness. When we are struggling and feel captive to things we can’t escape, we have hope because we understand there is one who has come, is coming, and will come ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... . That is the way in which I came to faith. But that is not the way people thought in the time when the first Creeds were written. Once in a while folks say to me, I have no trouble believing in God. It is Christ I cannot believe in. My usual not-entirely-facetious reply is: “I have no trouble believing in Jesus Christ; it’s God that gives me problems.” I plan to say more about that paradoxical statement later in the summer. But those first Christians knew what we often times forget: the cross was not ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... His teaching had to do with the kind of God on whose behalf He claimed to speak. Death one day came into the home of Thomas Carlyle. A friend opened the New Testament for him and started to read the magnificent words of John 14: “Let not your heart be troubled. . . in my Father’s house are many rooms.” “Aye,” Carlyle said despondently, “If you were God, you had a right to say that; but if you were only a man. . . what do you know about it any more than the rest of us?” III. AND SO, IT SEEMS TO ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... s love while He lived on earth. It sounds just like something Jesus would do, doesn’t it! The great Swiss theologian Emil Brunner, in one of his writings, used this homely illustration. He said: “Jesus Christ went into hell to get us out of there. Just as a troubled wife goes into a bar late one Saturday night knowing she will meet her husband in there who is spending the whole pay check in drinking, so he has come to rescue us. The wife does not go to drink herself, but to get him out of there before ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... to have been married, and the name of His wife never mentioned. Some have even suggested that His wife was Mary Magdalene, but there is absolutely no evidence for this. Was Jesus married? I don't really care which way you vote on the question, but what troubles me is the fact that some people seem shocked to even consider the idea. They believe that somehow the unmarried state is more holy than the married one. That idea began to permeate the life of the Church long about the fourth century, due in no small ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... something like this: “Stress the positive, the upbeat; tell people what religion can do for them. Messages about sacrifice, suffering, and cross-bearing are out of place in our pavilion.” If Jesus had listened to those words, He would have saved Himself a heap of trouble! He would never have had to go to Calvary. God’s grace is free, of course, but Christian discipleship is costly. It requires a response, putting our faith into practice in every realm of life. There is an old story of a man who was ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... hand in the daily frustrations of life and the tragic persistence of evil. It seems that way to us, as well. One cannot turn on the television without hearing of a new and horrible example of our inhumanity toward one another. One trouble spot on the earth seems to quiet down, only to be replaced by another, more troubled spot. It is easy to see the devil’s hand in all of this, and when we do, it gives us an excuse to justify using any means at our disposal to fight against it. In Jesus’ day there was a ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... screams to God in the all-wrongness of his life, “Why have you abandoned me?” God answers by joining him in life’s most horrible wrongness. Jesus hangs on a cross and somehow, God hangs with him. God joins us and gets himself hung for his trouble. (“How Can Everything be All Right When Everything is All Wrong?” San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982, p. 68) So: all of our thinking about human suffering must ultimately be conformed to the Christ who was born in a cave and died on a cross; but who ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... went. There was a slight delay in the proceedings as He attended to the needs of another suffering human being (more about that in a future sermon), but while He was on His way, Jairus’ neighbors came with the tragic news: “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Rabbi further?” That’s a terrible point to reach, terrible words for anyone to hear, but especially a parent. Death is tragic at almost any age, but at a young age it has special poignancy. These folks came with the tragic news that Jairus ...
1093. Losers Keepers
Mark 8:31--9:1
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Donald B. Strobe
... glorious.. To pour myself out for others...to pay the ultimate price for martyrdom - I’ll do it. I’m ready, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory.” Commenting on these words, Presbyterian preacher Tom Hilton says, “What a glorious ‘up’ that would be. The only trouble is that for most of us the blaze of glory never comes. We are ready to give everything once and for all and get it over with, but rather than a blaze we usually are confronted with many small camp fires.” He says this in a sermon ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... CHRIST WANTS TO DO SO MUCH FOR US, AND WE ALLOW HIM TO DO SO LITTLE. He wants to cure our spiritual blindness, that’s for sure. He wants to bring light into our sin-darkened lives. He wants to bring peace into our and hearts and into our troubled world. He wants to bring us into right relationship with God. Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. He was a genius of the first rank, at eleven writing a treatise on sound, at sixteen one on conic sections that astounded the ...
1095. Sine Qua Non
Mark 12:28-34
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... many of us miss. But the truth of the matter is, if we don’t love ourselves, then our neighbors are in big trouble. And a lot of us don’t. At least we don’t love ourselves properly. There are right and wrong kinds of self-love. Most of ... us have had it up to here with the self-centered person who always seems to suffer from “I” trouble. The whole universe revolves around that person and his needs. That is not what Jesus is talking about. He is talking about a healthy ...
1096. Holy Monday
Matthew 21:1-11
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... every plea for decency and justice because we who are Christians do not speak.” (Ibid., p. 121) The opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. The child who is punished for doing something wrong is not the child who is in trouble; the child who is in trouble is the one who has nobody who cares enough to punish! Jesus cared, and cared infinitely. Therefore, He became angry when religious leaders tried to throw roadblocks between the common people and God. It would be interesting to trace all of the ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... drinking twenty cups of coffee?'' "I began to get the image of this mailman on the job. He was no ordinary mailman. I could picture him going from door to door and at each home giving more than the mail. I could see him visiting solitary widows, counseling troubled teenagers, joking with lonely old men. I could see him delivering the mail in a way that was extra-ordinary for the people on his route. He’s the only mailman I know that on his birthday the people on his route get together, hire out a gym ...
1098. Nightline
Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... rich diamonds and other jewels in her dazzling crown. The little girl gazed for a while, and then turned to her mother and said, "She''s so beautiful! I bet she never had any troubles like we do, did she mother?" The good Bishop shared this statement, "Let nobody in your church ever think that Jesus Christ was ever divorced from the world of trouble and pain." The Gospel truth is that he came among us to share every experience of our common life. As a matter of fact, when the baby grew up and became a man ...
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Eric Ritz
... LIFE IS DIFFICULT." I believe the Apostle Paul would affirm that perspective. The secret, I believe, to the story he tells on the pages of sacred scripture is that he would BEGIN with it--but he would write another chapter to the ongoing story. He refused to allow troubles and difficulties to have the last word. It is generally agreed upon by Biblical scholars that this Epistle to the church of Philippi was written in 62 or 63 AD while Paul was a prisoner in Rome. This was not the first time for Paul to be ...
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Eric Ritz
... and build only half a church and live out only half a faith. We are not building and being a church for the applause and admiration of people. We are building it to be faithful to the awesome God we serve and love. Remember how James already noted that trouble and temptation come unexpectedly like storms into every life. This is why we need to seek wisdom from above. We need to try and trust the truth from God, rather than from the Tempter. We can track the truth laid out in The Holy Bible! You know how the ...
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