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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101. Proper 23
Psalm 66:1-20, Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7, Luke 17:11-19, 2 Timothy 2:8-15
Bulletin Aid
B. David Hostetter
... to others as they would have others do to them, so that our enmities may end, our work be productive, and our benefits fair. Deliver us from immorality and greed, from gluttony and addictions to harmful drugs. Save us from all the sins that so easily beset us. Gracious God, hear our entreaties for our kinfolk and neighbors who are sick or victims of accident. Grant them healing and health with a thankful spirit. Relieve the fears of those who look to you for aid. Bring relief to those who are in dire want ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... news of God, [15] and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news." So often we have a spiritually significant moment in our lives, a mountain top experience of some kind only to find ourselves beset with all kinds of temptations and calamity afterwards. It's as if we are being tested. For Jesus, that was very true. Jesus was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness so He could be alone with God. God knew the temptations were coming. God didn't ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... to get anywhere; in fact, I was already home. Have you learned to live like that? Tennessee Williams said, “Fear and evasion are the two beasts that chase each other’s tails in the revolving wire cage of our nervous world.” Our days are beset by danger, everybody seems to be cautious. Hear an angelic voice – Be not afraid. Instead of looking backward for safe lodgings, we need to march forward to greater heights where lies our fullest happiness. Give the Lord your fears and live. II. A Little Child ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... lowliness to honor. There, in a tin room with bare floors was the simple equipment of shepherd life – the crook, the wallet, the coarse dress, the water-cruse. This now wealthy powerful man remembering what he had been. It was an antidote to those temptations which beset men in the dazzling light of royal or popular favor. So David the king did not forget David the shepherd boy. There was a chamber in his heart to which he would retire to meditate and pray; and there it was that he composed this psalm ...
105. On Being Faithful and Focused
Hebrews 11:1, 32 – 12:2
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... Will those who come behind us find us faithful? That is the question. Being faithful. Being focused. Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily besets us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith." Be focused. Be focused on Jesus the Christ. Psychologists say, “Look within." An opportunist says, “Look around ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... , Harry Emerson Fosdick, who used to say, “Either our sins have been forgiven by God or they forever remain in us as sin.” We can medicate ourselves into la-la land, counsel ourselves into boredom, and still not deal with the sins that so easily beset us. In my opinion, the Church has miserably failed to help people openly and effectively confess their sins and come to know personally and cooperatively that in the name of Jesus Christ my sins are forgiven. I’ve said those words personally to people, I ...
Sermon
Lee Griess
... a nobleman, rich and secure. However, later in life whenever he ran into problems, he would retreat to his home, go down to a little dark room in the basement and make shoes. Under stress, he reverted to his old self. And so it is with us. When troubles beset us, when difficulties come our way, we revert to our old selves, forget God's promises and act as if Jesus never existed. That's why a regular habit of worship, of scripture reading, and prayer is so important. By making it a regular part of our life ...
Sermon
Chris Ewing
... , the church must always be reforming, always breaking away from its slavery to all that is less than God and apart from God. This is not freedom as the luxury to do what we please, but freedom as the often costly and difficult move away from the besetting sins of our own life, our own church, our own society, in order to realize more fully God's intention for us. And like any departure from slavery, it often brings a very intense insecurity, as we learn to live without certain familiar structures, and to ...
Sermon
David J. Kalas
... to them that they search for alternate explanations. Of course, finding an alternate explanation does not, by itself, rule out the hand of God or the purpose of God. In The Ten Commandments, the pharaoh tries to find alternate explanations for the plagues that had beset his land. "When the Nile ran red, I too was afraid," he admits to Moses. "Until word came of a mountain beyond the cataracts, which spewed red mud and poisoned the water.... Was it the wonder of your God that fish should die and frogs ...
110. Was There No Other Way?
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
Sermon
King Duncan
... not willing to make himself. There was no other way to reveal the awfulness of man’s sin and the awesomeness of God’s love. Of course, the challenge to each of us is to respond in faith to that love, to cast off the sin that so easily besets us, and to give our lives to Him as He gave His life for us. 1. Source unknown. 2. Make a Difference: Responding to God’s Call to Love the World (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2004), pp. 87-88. 3. Rev. Adrian Dieleman, http://www.trinityurcvisalia.com/sermons ...
111. No Seagulls Came
Matt 11:1-19; Rom 8:28-39
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William B. Oglesby
... assurance is that all things are working together for good, as Paul reminds us in Romans 8, and that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. But this is no guarantee of deliverance from all of the difficulties which beset us. Indeed, we are reminded in John 16 that "in the world we will have tribulation; but we can be of good cheer, for he has overcome the world." The true meaning of faith, then, is the capacity to believe even when no seagull comes, to know that ...
112. The Test of Goodness
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F.B. Meyer
... to fight for life and liberty, but our attitude when we are called to sentry-duty in the grey morning, when the watch-fire is burning low. It is impossible to be our best at the supreme moment if character is corroded and eaten into by daily inconsistency, unfaithfulness, and besetting sin.
113. So Much To Do
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The last days of British statesman and colonial leader Cecil Rhodes were marked by grave disappointment. He died from heart disease at a time when he was beset by personal scandals and discredited by unwise political decisions. Lewis Mitchel, who was at Rhodes's bedside in his cottage near Cape Town, South Africa heard the dying man murmur, "So little done, so much to do." Yet there's more than this to the story of Cecil Rhodes. He ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... seeing other people’s faults.” Linus turns indignant. “What about your own faults?” he asks. “I have a knack for overlooking them,” says Lucy. Unfortunately, those best at hurting and critiquing us are those closest to us. In today’s gospel text Jesus is beset by critics. The first in line? His own family members. It is easy to see how those who knew Jesus as brother, cousin, nephew, uncle, or brother-in-law (yes, Jesus was all of those; someone called him “Uncle Jesus”) who were used to ...
115. When You Are Wrongly Criticized
Mark 3:21
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Leonard Sweet
... , "I just think I have a knack for seeing other people's faults." Linus turns indignant. "What about your own faults?" he asks. "I have a knack for overlooking them," says Lucy. Unfortunately, those best at hurting and critiquing us are those closest to us. In the gospels Jesus is beset by critics. The first in line? His own family members. In fact they thought he was out of his mind.
116. Oh, Jerusalem
Luke 13:31-35
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... plight of inner-city schools may attract our attention for a day or a week, but sooner or later that becomes someone else's problem as our minds are fo­cused on the glut of news that leads us to choose celebrity scandals over the true ills that beset us. We know so much and we need to forget so much. There is a cross imprinted in the world around us — and a long memory. Nancey Murphy, in her book Reconciling Theology and Science, connects science and faith in one cohesive system. She reminds us that we ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... I tell you, but division" (Luke 12:51). How many family crises have come because a Baptist daughter wants to marry a Catholic boyfriend or some such other relational disaster? Or with a wider scope, think of some of the controversies that have beset our society in recent years: abortion, gay rights, embryonic stem cell research, and the like. The roots of those disputes are all religious, and the various positions that people take are based on their understanding of scripture. Indeed, it has often resulted ...
118. Formula for Eternal Life
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... ends. But in the eternal life of God we will encounter only infinity. Similarly, Paul says in this life our body is sown in dishonor; we stand and make mistakes. In the life of resurrection, however, our body will live in glory. As finite human beings we are beset by weakness. Paul knew this very well. He wrote to the Corinthians: "I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling" (1 Corinthians 2:3). Yet, in the resurrection of the just, we will gain great power. In summary, Paul says we have a ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... to life . . to live their own life we give them away for love. Martin Luther had mood swings that went from euphoria to utter despair. While he holed himself up in his castle and translated the Greek Bible into German for the first time, he was beset by all sorts of wild beasts, of doubts and discouragement, of betrayals and theological fist-fights. You probably have an image of Luther throwing ink-pots at the devil, because we all remember that image. But what Luther was famous for saying while he careened ...
120. Body
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... expectation. While this much-discussed passage is crucial for understanding Pauline eschatology, it admits of various interpretations, depending on which religious background is seen here (Jewish apocalyptic, Hellenistic dualism, or Gnosticism). The interpretation of the passage is also beset by the tensions within the text and by the question of its relation to 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 and 1 Corinthians 15. In particular, there is some question as to when Paul thinks the transformation of the body ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... . 14:1–7 and the scapegoat in Lev. 16:20–22) and are widely known in Hittite and Mesopotamian texts. Even in modern times, the practice of symbolic removal of sin and its guilt is found when, for example, Christians are invited to write down their sins or besetting failures of the past, and then burn the paper or nail it to a symbolic cross. Any benefit of such action lies, of course, not in the ritual itself or any kind of sympathetic magic, but in the objective basis of God’s atoning grace. In the ...
122. Woe to Ephraim
Isaiah 28:1-29
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... people in general, like that regarding Judah in 5:13. But it was the ruling class who had most opportunity for such self-indulgence, and the reference to leadership in verse 6 suggests that the leadership was especially in mind. In modern nations, the besetting temptation of religious leadership is sex. In Israel it was drink (vv. 7–9). The former distorts people’s insight, but the latter does so more obviously. Yet what appalls the prophet is not merely that drink makes them get their visions and their ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... it. Understanding a prophet’s words requires moral, inner illumination as well as skill in Hebrew. 29:13–14 In contrast to people who will be aware that they do not understand, there are the people who think they have the measure of God, which is our besetting temptation. They sing the right choruses but their minds are much too small to encompass God. As usual, the “heart” stands for the capacity to think and make decisions (see 6:10; 7:2, 4; 9:9; 10:12). They learn these choruses from good human ...
124. Egypt
Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... to ancient Thebes in the south (Heb. noʾ, vv. 14–16). Also slated for destruction are Zoan (v. 14; also called Tanis) and Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt on the Mediterranean coast (Heb. sin, vv. 15–16). Of Heliopolis (Heb. ʾawen) and Bubastis (Heb. pi-beset), Ezekiel writes that their young men . . . will fall by the sword, and the cities themselves will go into captivity (v. 17; see 29:12). The description of the fate of Tahpanhes (just south of Tanis, on the Nile) returns us to the imagery of the ...
125. The Coming of the King
Luke 19:45-48, Luke 19:28-44
Teach the Text
R.T. France
... planned act of “glorious defiance and superlative courage.”1 Film/Television: In many westerns, whether film or television, the cowboy hero (such as in the movies Shane or Pale Rider) or lawman (such as Wyatt Earp) often find themselves in situations beset by oppression and injustice, often at the hands of powerful ranchers or a group of villains. These heroes are bent on righteousness above all and often show tremendous courage, defying the forces arrayed against them. Shane, the main character in a ...
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