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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Children's Sermon
B. Kathleen Fannin
... think about this question a moment, then a few of them nod affirmatively. "Well, I have too, several times just recently. The Friday after Thanksgiving I was visiting the Churchill Memorial in Fulton. Walking outside to see the newly acquired section of the Berlin Wall, I noticed something shiny in the grass. When I went to investigate, guess what I found?" "A dime?" one child asks. I shake my head negatively. "A quarter?" another suggests. "Yes," I answer, "in fact, not one, but TWO quarters!" I hold up ...
1127. Attitudes
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
Children's Sermon
B. Kathleen Fannin
... shining through in here or in your homes. Daylight brings up the issue of days. How do we measure days, weeks, months ..." "With calendars!" several children simultaneously respond before I ever get to "years." Now I begin pulling calendars out of my bag -- wall calendars, desk calendars, pocket calendars. "These come in many different shapes and sizes and can be found with subjects from sports to angels, cartoons to quotations," I tell the children. "We seem to be very conscious of time in our lives, don't ...
1128. Turned On
1 Corinthians 1:17
Children's Sermon
B. Kathleen Fannin
... ?" I've chosen Matt both because he is one of the older children and because he is on the side of the group closest to the outlet. As Matt is carrying out his task, I ask the other children, "Why is Matt plugging the cord into the wall?" "To get electricity," is offered simultaneously with, "To get power." "So, you're telling me this lamp needs a power source in order to provide light?" I question. The children nod affirmatively. Once Matt has the cord plugged into the outlet, I connect the cord to the ...
1129. The Meek
Psalm 37:1-40
Sermon
John A. Terry
... of anyone claiming "I am the greatest." In fact, like all the other beatitudes, we have to wonder how practical these words are. What business could survive being meek? This is not a slogan you are likely to find above the door to the Stock Exchange on Wall Street. Meekness will not win the play-off series between the New York Knicks and the Chicago Bulls. We tend to think of the meek as the casualties, not as the winners. "Miserable are the meek, because they get trampled upon." We live in a world of ...
1130. Zacchaeus
Luke 19:1-10
Drama
Jerry Eckert
... never stop until you die. That always gets them," he told me. Well, I decided to try it on my dad. I don't even remember what I was asked for, but when he said "no," I started stomping my feet and waving my arms. He went over to the wall and took down his flute and began playing to the rhythm of my stomping. When I slowed down, he slowed down. When I speeded up, so did he. So I tried crying and screaming like I was never going to stop. He picked me up, carried me to my room ...
Bulletin Aid
RobertT D. Ingram
... in the congregation to prepare two life-size silhouettes from cardboard cut-outs. The silhouettes should be of Peter and Jesus, where Jesus is washing Peter's feet. An alternative to cardboard cut-outs would be to project the silhouettes onto a sanctuary wall. This visual should remain throughout the worship service. Ask someone who does calligraphy to prepare a worship bulletin cover with a cross and the words, "Having loved his own ... he loved them to the end." Anthems and Special Music We Come to the ...
1132. Feeding The 5000
John 6:1-15, John 6:16-24
Bulletin Aid
RobertT D. Ingram
... five of the next Sundays are built on lessons from the sixth chapter of John. Perhaps one new visual could be added each week. Ask the youth group to paint and cut out several ships from flattened pieces of cardboard. Hang these ships at angles on the sanctuary walls so that they look as if they are being tossed by some wild waves. Search out a wood carver to carve five loaves of bread and two fish to be displayed in the church's sanctuary. If there are no woodcarvers, try someone who works in ceramics or ...
Bulletin Aid
RobertT D. Ingram
... live pigeons (or turtle doves if they can be found and legally caged temporarily) in bird cages sitting near the altar table. Have a photographer in the congregation take a slide photograph of an old man holding a baby. Project this slide onto the front wall of the sanctuary as a silent testimony to the truth proclaimed by Simeon. Anthems and Special Music (Luke 2:22-40) Child of Bethlehem Lord, Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant In Peace and Joy I Now Depart Nunc Dimittis -- K. Nystedt Nunc Dimittis -- F. Thorne ...
1134. The Power Source
2 Corinthians 4:6a
Children's Sermon
... cleaner, night light, desk lamp, Christmas tree lights or gas light in yard. What do you think makes these lights shine? (Let them respond.) That's right, they either have to be turned on or hooked to a battery or plugged into the electrical box in the wall. They have to have what we call a power source. Their power to shine comes from electricity or a battery. Our lesson today from Corinthians talks about a light shining in the darkness. Paul said that people are like lights. Do I look like I'm shining ...
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... an understanding of what our life ought to be. William Barclay wrote, "God gave us life to spend and not to keep." There are life hoarders whose eyes are always on personal comfort, worldly status, and financial security. They build around themselves walls of protection to keep every challenge and trouble out. Theirs is a prescription for stagnation. They are unaware that, in spite of their caution, they are actually losing the life they have. But if they were to turn away from their protective security ...
Sermon
Charles R. Leary
... of food so all could eat. Another view says, enough food was in the crowd that once it was uncovered it fed the people all they could eat and still had leftovers. This second view is illustrated by the mosaic an early artist made on the walls of a third century church in Israel, the Church of Multiplication. The logic is something like this: you wouldn’t expect all these people to come out unprepared! There must have been other loaves of bread and pickled fish wrapped up and tucked away under their ...
Sermon
Charles R. Leary
... started something today which I’ll never finish.” How right she was! None of us know, at any given time, where life will take us, but isn’t it a remarkable thing that even a child can look over the desk, over the books and papers, over the walls of the classroom, anticipating a life journey that will never be finished! Jesus has something like that in mind when he says, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven, and anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.” I will make three points ...
Sermon
Charles R. Leary
... cruelty encourages cruelty, violence encourages violence, and war encourages war. He’s illustrating human nature. Distrust breeds more distrust. Even in the church, we tend to define our Christian loyalties by doctrines and practices which, by nature, create barriers and walls of separation. Why, if truth could be established by one ecclesiastical viewpoint, we would already be in heaven! The second move Jesus makes is to declare his own personal loyalty. Where does Jesus stand, anyway? And how do we know ...
1139. Come Out!
John 11:38-44
Sermon
Thomas Peterson
... to what people can do, where they can go, and what they can see when they work hand-in-hand, go feet-with-feet, and see eye-to-eye with the Creator. Creating thus along with God, we work as co-creators. I have a piece of calligraphy on my wall, done by a friend, Raymond Andrews. Lines from it are, “Remove the shroud of the world’s false gospel; teach death inside me how to walk again.” (Anonymous) In line with our sermon text: teach me not only to walk again, but to do again, and to see again. Life ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... dark chapter in David’s life. So the dark turn meant big trouble for David and even greater trouble for others. Which is what happens when people take advantage of their positions, whether it is a minister in his parish, a teacher in her classroom, or a Wall Street stockbroker who becomes an inside trader. When we become the Devil’s person, others get hurt, too. The Lesson The lessons in all this? First, the Devil is close at hand. For all of us. That’s true whether it is a young child who grows ...
1141. From Mourning to Morning
2 Samuel 18:19--19:8
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... choose. People in need will read our feelings, not analyze our choice of vocabulary. Then, too, our Christian understanding helps heal us. For Christian people, death is neither a bogeyman nor a robber. It’s influence is both limited and passing. Death is not a wall, but a door; not alone an ending, but also a beginning; not an enemy, but a friend; not a squelcher, but a liberator. Hence, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting.” (1 Corinthians 15 ...
1142. Forever and Ever
1 Kings 17:7-24
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... and decay is all around I see.” For many, death brings life on earth to an end far too soon. We never thought we would see the day when Communist nations shed their autocratic governments for democracies. But it took only forty years for the Berlin wall to fall down. Our natural resources are being depleted. About half of our oil must now be imported. When we have trouble, we find comfort in the saying, “This too shall pass.” Is there anything that is stable and permanent? Is there anything that goes ...
Sermon
Robert Salzgeber
... church, the banquet, of course, would have no meaning or effect for you." Micah was horrified by this talk that completely misrepresented the Lord God's generous nature. Meanwhile, Conrad stood back in a corner of the great sanctuary, leaning his shoulder against the wall, with a big smirk on his face. And the closer it came to the time of the great thanksgiving and wedding banquet the more Micah could see the gathered assembly pondering what they should do. Finally, some didn't go forward to partake of ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... far from his home. Now two consequences lay ahead of him. One was the beating he would probably receive in arriving home so late. The other was the problem of getting there! Ely turned onto cobbled streets that he thought were familiar, sometimes feeling his way along walls that he expected to end in doorways. The darkness was so complete that he imagined he was blindfolded, or that he was like the old blind Joseph that begged near the city gate. At one turn he saw a flicker of light coming toward him. It ...
Sermon
Charles Curley
... something was wrong, and so, the scripture says, "Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, but he had departed from Saul." - 1 Samuel 18:26 Saul tried to kill David. First he tried to kill David by pinning him to the wall with his spear. When that did not work, he declared him an outlaw and ordered his execution. David, however, proved elusive. After many failed attempts at reconciliation negotiated by Jonathan, acting as a go-between, David finally took his followers and went off, far away ...
1146. Giants In Your Way
1 Samuel 17:1-58
Sermon
Charles Curley
... his challenge. A minister of my acquaintance was so overwhelmed and depressed by contentious and demanding people, a dying church and a failing ministry, that one morning he simply stayed in bed. He stayed in bed for several days, hardly moving, not talking, his face turned to the wall. And there are days when that doesn't sound like such a bad idea to many of us. I have heard it said that one in four of the people we meet at any given time is experiencing some level of depression. So Saul and his people ...
Sermon
Larry R. Kalajainen
... there each Sunday, they sing the praises of a king whose name is Jesus. Through the long years of repression in the Soviet Union and its satellites, and in China where for so many years public worship was forbidden, we now discover in this era when the walls of repression are falling that the church was not only alive but growing, and is now stronger than it ever was in those lands. Many people in those lands refused to confess Mao Tse-Tung or Stalin or Brezhnev as king, preferring to confess Jesus as king ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... into the fabric of his gospel, is that every moment of the passing day is already alive with the promise of God's future. As the Church strains its sight toward the horizon of the coming kingdom, it also hears the ticking of the clock on the wall, and knows that each passing minute is filled with the potential for faith or denial, decision or tragedy, hope or despair. Those who trust in the promise of God's coming kingdom are also able to see advance signs of its coming all around them. Those who believe ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... New. Some people, for instance, think of repentance as something which just naturally happens to people as they move along through the journey of life. We travel along the track, accelerating smoothly, our goals established, our values set, when ... wham ... we crash into the wall of some experience we cannot handle, for which our resources are inadequate. Our loved one dies, or we get rejected by the school of our choice, or we have a heart attack, or we are laid off from our work. It happens in one form ...
1150. Where's The Treasure?
Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:26-38
Sermon
Thomas Long
... selfishness long enough to glimpse the needs of others and to feel those needs deeply enough to hunger and thirst for God to set it right. As the old hymn puts it: When other helpers fail,and comforts flee,Help of the helpless,O abide with me.4 On the wall of the museum of the concentration camp at Dachau is a moving photograph of a mother and her little girl being taken to a gas chamber at Auschwitz. The girl, who is walking in front of her mother, does not know where she is going. The mother, who walks ...
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