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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Sermon
King Duncan
... have an advance team or security detail to prepare for his arrival. He didn’t even have a public relations firm send out a press release. Instead, he had John, a traveling preacher, who was chosen by God to announce the Good News. Dressed in wild animal skins, eating locusts and wild honey, John the Baptist would stand out in any congregation. Yet this was the man God chose to announce the coming of the Messiah. “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, `Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths ...
1152. One Life-Changing Word
Isaiah 9:2-7 · Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)
Sermon
King Duncan
... John D. Rockefeller the richest man (in financial terms) that has ever lived. All of this happened before he was 53 years old. Then he developed a disease (alopecia) that caused all his hair to fall out, his eyelashes and his eyebrows disappeared and he became skin and bones. He could digest only milk and crackers because of a stomach ailment and couldn’t sleep at night. He had the best doctors in the world. They told him that he would not live one more year. Then one sleepless night John D. Rockefeller ...
1153. Briny Faith
Mark 9:38-50
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... returns to normal. The body also needs a fluid regulator. Our human adult bodies are made of 60% water. 60%! The bulk of who we are sounds something like a sea creature. The brain and heart alone are composed of 73% water, the lungs about 83%, the skin 64%, and the muscles and kidneys about 79%. Even our bones are made of 31% water. Imagine that! What regulates all of this water, its retention, its temperature, its release? A vital mineral called salt. Listen to this: the human body holds about .4% of its ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... learning and entertainment but they will never be good baby-sitters or teachers. They will never replace the loving touch of a mother or a father. Because that human touch gives strength, courage and faith. At times it offers healing and comfort. It soothes the skinned knee and the bruised ego. At other times it might offer the well placed hand of discipline on the backside of a problem. But the human touch that is always given in love is a beautiful form of communication needing no words. It's fantastic ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... learning and entertainment but they will never be good baby-sitters or teachers. They will never replace the loving touch of a mother or a father. Because that human touch gives strength, courage and faith. At times it offers healing and comfort. It soothes the skinned knee and the bruised ego. At other times it might offer the well placed hand of discipline on the backside of a problem. But the human touch that is always given in love is a beautiful form of communication needing no words. It's fantastic ...
1156. New Creations
2 Corinthians 5:6-10; 14-17
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... live for Christ and not for ourselves; AND to regard no one from a human point of view. When we regard people from a human point of view, then those old human prejudices get in the way. When we regard people from a human point of view things like skin color, sex, language and nationality get in our way of accepting each other as Christ has accepted us. The Scripture tells us that none of those things, none of the outward things make any difference to God and they shouldn't make any difference to us. There's ...
Sermon
Schuyler Rhodes
... temptations. There are temptations that push us on how honest we are; temptations that test us to see how faithful we are to our spouses and partners; temptations that expose our willingness to throw a friend under the bus in order to save our own skin or worse, to make ourselves look good. And of course there are temptations around taxes and tithing, stealing and more. The list is virtually endless, and it is stunning in its variety and complexity. We live in a torrent of temptation, and our world doesn ...
1158. True Worship
Ephesians 3:14-21
Sermon
Will Willimon
... first created, there were no walls, no divisions between us. Then we grew up and as we grew, so did our differences, so did the walls between us. Watch a group of preschoolers at play on the playground, watch the way they don't seem to notice differences of skin color, or class, or accent. It gives you a glimpse of what it was like in our beginning, at creation, the way we were but are not now. And for these early Christians, the peacefulness and· unity in the church is like a return to the first, fresh ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... journey with the memory of that intimate, loving moment forever locked in his heart and mind, evoked by the sweet smell of lingering spikenard. No matter how long that journey takes or how many clothes the guards strip away, the smell of that oil on Jesus’ skin will remain with him to the moment of his death. The feet that trudge through dirt and stone, carrying that wooden cross with every step, send wafts of perfume through the air, reminding him of her care. Even when he’s hoisted onto the cross, the ...
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... is the hope of the world. Let’s look back at Genesis 3 for a moment. After Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, they experienced shame and fear and separation from God. To cover their shame, God made clothes for them out of an animal’s skin. From the very beginning, God made it clear that sin--separation from God--equals death. Instead of killing Adam and Eve for their sin, God let an animal die in their place. In Genesis 22, God called on Abraham and told him to sacrifice his beloved son, Isaac ...
1161. Why the Cross?
Hebrews 2:17-18
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... to be in the presence of sinners is ridiculous. When Jesus walked the earth, he preferred being with the worst in society. If God cannot bear the presence of sin without the blood of Jesus, then the ministry of Jesus Christ has no meaning. God put skin on and walked with sinners, cared about them, and lovingly invited them to repent. More than that, if you read the gospels, you see Jesus forgiving people left and right. If God can’t forgive us without Jesus’ blood, then it makes no sense that Jesus ...
1162. Don't Be Afraid
Matthew 17:1-9
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... you feel assertive yet protected –protected from the harshness of full light. Protected and reassured by the dark. Anyone who has stood in front of a mirror in the bright noon of day knows the shock of seeing every line and imperfection in your face, every flaw on your skin, every grey hair that glints in the sun. We would rather see ourselves in that golden light, half-dark/half-light, one in which we can pretend for a while that we are the vision we wish to be, instead of the truth we are not. The truth ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... with a slide rule, a test tube, or an enormous computer. There is only one way to find God and that is to take a step of faith, and entrust your life to him… Could I prove to you that love exists? A scientist could attach electrodes to the skin of a person in love and measure the pulse, the respiration, and the blood pressure of a person in the presence of their beloved. But that would not prove love. Too much caffeine that morning at breakfast might cause the same bodily reactions. The only way you and I ...
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... plenty of chairs. He even offered to sit on the floor, or to go home and bring back an extra chair. She still refused. And that’s when the boys realized what she was really saying: Archie wasn’t allowed to come to the party because of his skin color. Archie and Daniel turned to leave. Daniel recalls the ride down the elevator and the walk home in this way: “We cried. The both of us. A lot.” The boys stayed friends through elementary school, but lost touch when they went to separate schools in their ...
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... us to become the person we are today. In our Maundy Thursday sermon last month, I told of two sisters who had tattoos honoring their father. There is another story of sisters, named Anna Harp and Abrielle Clausing, who have matching messages tattooed on their skin. The message is: “It has been such a good life.” Those were the last words of their father Rudolph Clausing, who died of COVID-19 in January, 2021. Due to quarantine restrictions, the sisters could not visit him in the hospital in his last ...
1166. Invincible
John 14:15-21
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... you can trust to be entirely honest with you? Someone who accepts you as you are, sees your faults, and will not judge you for them, but who will guide you and encourage you to go the right paths, admit your mistakes, and live authentically in your own skin? Someone who you know cares about you so much that he or she calls you out on your “bads” and celebrates your “goods?” Who is the person who doesn’t make you feel defensive? The person to whom you can admit your faults and mistakes because you ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... be burned to the ground in Charlotte, North Carolina? It was such a pretty building, full of warm and joyful people. The congregation was steeped in history. It was created as a Christian fellowship for freed African American slaves. One night, a teenager with white skin crept through the shadows to set the building on fire. She could not tolerate the possibility of fellow Christians singing and rejoicing if they didn’t look like her.15 How did Jesus know? How did he know that the people who follow him ...
1168. Let's Get Together
Acts 2:1-21 · Genesis 11:1-11
Sermon
Will Willimon
... community, the frat community, the religious community, and the pre-professional community. I suspect that, behind all of this talk about community is the stark fact that we have very little community. If owning a motorcycle or being born with a certain color of skin is, in itself, enough to qualify you as part of a ''community,'' then we are more lonely than we dare admit. And modern life can be lonely. We Americans have achieved much mobility but alas, much loneliness. Separated as we are in subdivisions ...
1169. You've Got Spirit
Luke 3:15-22 · Acts 8:14-17 · Psalm 29 · Isaiah 61:1-4
Sermon
Will Willimon
... prejudices, past the folkways, and he said, "Jack, you know, and we all know that's not right. She has done the work. She deserves the promotion. This company ought to set the standard for fair dealings with our people -- regardless of the color of their skin." Power. Power not of his own creation. She wanted, wanted more than anything, love. She was so lonely, going every evening, at the end of every single evening, home to a place which didn't feel like home, a forlorn, empty, cold apartment. Out of her ...
1170. The Inverting Promise
1 Corinthians 1:27-29 · Genesis 25:21-34
Sermon
Will Willimon
... in the kitchen, and older brother David is thoughtful and stable while little brother Ricky is unpredictable but that's 0.1(. since David is going to inherit it all in the end anyway. Fixed at birth.·Fate determined in utero by the color of your skin, or your gender, or your parent's economic level, the order of birth. It's a story about getting mixed up in our conventions--and destabilizing us in the process. In Rebekah's womb, early, in the primal darkness, cosmic, international purposes are being worked ...
1171. The Gracious Dream
Genesis 28:10-17
Sermon
Will Willimon
... named Grabber for nothing. Since he duped poor Esau out of his birthright (25:29-34), Jacob has been busy with his schemes. With his poor old father Isaac blind and on his deathbed, Jacob dressed up in sheep's clothing and duped his father into blessing slick-skinned him rather than his hairy brother, thus grabbing every cent of the inheritance that should have gone to Esau. That's the way Jacob had made his way in the world, by hook or by crook, liking nothing better than to put one over on poor, dumb Esau ...
1172. The Fearful Meeting
Genesis 32:1-20; 33:1-4, 12-14
Sermon
Will Willimon
... think it's a path we like to walk, so much risk. Most couples I know who separate, divorce. Most brothers and sisters who split up in a squabble over the inheritance, stay that way. Twenty years ago her parents said, ''H you marry him with the color of his skin, don't ever set foot in this house again." When she heard her father was dying of cancer, she called and asked, "Dad, do you want me to come back?" He said, "No." It is a risky, perilous path to such a meeting. Jacob would not have taken it, I ...
1173. Vengeance: Human and Divine
Matthew 13:1-9 · Isaiah 44:6-8 · Psalm 1-12, 17-18, 23-24
Sermon
Will Willimon
... another woman, your mother-in­-law refuses to accept you as a daughter. your boss gives your job to someone else, the professor gives you a C when you know you should have made an A, the landlord refuses to rent to you because of the color of your skin. Perhaps you felt genuine sympathy for t e poor demented soul who killed the little ones at the restaurant last week, but.... Before you're too hard on these Jews who wanted to bash in the heads of the Babylonian babies, think how you would feel about the ...
1174. Praying the Lectionary: Good Friday
John 18:1-19:42 · Hebrews 10:16-25 or Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 · Isaiah 52:13-53:12 · Psalm 22
Bulletin Aid
Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson
... out on the cross and embraces every corner of the earth. You are the Savior of the poor and oppressed, the handicapped and disabled, the innocent who are victimized by diabolical acts of cruelty and torture, the countless millions who suffer because of their skin color, or their gender, or the country of their birth. We confess that all too often we are the beneficiaries of unjust and discriminatory systems: forgive us and help us to live a lifestyle of justice and peace. God of mercy: C: Hear our prayer ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... could do almost anything with them, and he was proud of his masculine achievement. When he returned to school, however, he discovered that he had lost his touch. He was afraid he would not be able to do his delicate work again. After a while, though, the tough skin wore away and the sensation returned to his hands. What he learned was that you can toughen yourself to the point where you don't feel pain, but you lose the sensitivity that makes it possible to help. (1) You and I need sensitivity to the needs ...
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