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
Mary J. Evans
... this way, given the relationship between Saul and David, symbolizes seizing power. Jonathan has already made David a gift of garments (18:4), but David is aware that he can take over from Saul only when God makes it possible. Hence his anger with himself at succumbing to temptation in this way. Saul was the anointed of the LORD and as such, in David’s mind, could be dealt with only by the Lord. At this stage and in spite of their estrangement, Saul was still David’s master. It is not hard to understand ...
102. Abram in Egypt
Genesis 12:10-20
Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... of the covenant. Moreover, Abram’s failures, including this one, remind us that Abram was a real person, not a perfect, ideal character such as is found in heroic tales. At times he displayed great courage and acted in bold faith; at other times he succumbed to fear and acted in a weak, self-serving manner. While his failures warn us against stumbling, his journey informs us that a great feat of faith, such as Abram’s leaving Haran for an unknown destination, does not guarantee that the doer will face ...
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Leonard H. Budd
... be outlawed in parts of Russia and communist states today? The Bible message is that God does not want you enslaved. God wants you free. You are adopted, a son, a daughter. It is a resurrection message - one that we believe and share. Jesus did not succumb to the easy way of retreating back to Galilee - back to where the pressure was less, and the pain absent, back to where the comfort could enslave him. Paul did not take the easy way of doing his rituals within the increasing confines of an introspective ...
Teach the Text
Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
... them to fight even if it meant the loss of their lives, yet they entered the conflict. They knew that this was the only way for good to prevail. Even the overwhelming suffering of the war did not change their responsibility. Those who did succumb to their fears suffered the dire consequences of a court-martial or went before a firing squad. Among the first to experience this kind of military justice was Private Thomas Highgate. Revulsed by the deaths of thousands of British troops at the Battle of Mons ...
105. Moksha
Romans 8:6-11
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Dr. Ronald Love
... Jesus into disobedience, into living by the flesh, into having a worldly attitude, does not reappear again until the end of the gospel story when he tempts Judas. Luke wrote, “Then Satan entered Judas.” When Satan entered and tempt- ed Judas, Judas succumbed to the power of the flesh. Judas had an attitude that he knew better than God, so Judas betrayed Jesus to the high priest, the supreme ruler of Judaism in Jerusalem. Between these bookends of Satan’s appearance we have the theological message of ...
106. Extreme Measures
1 Kings 21:1-29
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... be shed. The prophet has thus spoken in the name of the Lord and justice and recompense will be exacted for this awful crime. The crime? Ahab was too weak a man to do the right thing in the eyes of God. He, like Shakespeare's Macbeth, succumbed to the machinations of a villainous wife. Ahab knew better, but allowed himself not to know the truth of Naboth's demise. He pretended not to know, knowing full well that his wife had malevolently planned the debacle from start to finish. We thank God for the saints ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... ’s little creatures bored me. I just knew that a movie about an ugly little creature from outer space could not hold my attention. The first few minutes of the movie confirmed my reservations. But then, after somehow staying awake, I began to succumb to the charms of that movie. It spoke a different message than is usually wrapped around such matters. Beyond a telling portrayal of the openness of children to new truth, it also hinted that the unknown is potentially friendly, and gentle, and caring. Had ...
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... ; for thou alone, O Lord, makest me dwell in safety." (Psalm 4:8) We speak of death as rest: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth ... that they may rest from their labors." (Revelation 14:13) To some, death is a surrender, something you succumb to without a fight. But in the work of Dylan Thomas, it’s different. In the case of Elisha, it’s different. What should a man think about on his death-bed? Should he dwell on regrets for the things he’s missed? Should he feel sorry for himself ...
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John N. Brittain
... know. Many of us can think of sad cases where a professor's courses have become hopelessly out of date or out of touch with practitioners in that field and research in that discipline. The same thing happens in Christian circles when a group succumbs to what psychologists call "group think." Only the opinions of the "in" group are solicited, the only ideas that are taken seriously are those that agree with what I already think. The problem is that the group think may drift further and further away from ...
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Glenn McDonald
... to the seemingly endless deluge of global change and conflict is what amounts to "hope against hope." We turn away from CNN and sigh, "I don't have a clue how to solve these crises. I hope someone will figure it out." We spend our adult years succumbing to a dependence on credit cards, then say, "I hope there's a surprise financial windfall in my future so I can retire." But real hope is not lottery-level optimism. Authentic hopefulness isn't an irrational shot in the dark that someone, somewhere, will come ...
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David O. Bales
... fan the flames that overtake firefighters. If God does such things, then Jesus, God’s Son, was only going around fixing what his heavenly Father broke. In the Bible we hear the apostle Paul write that he’s having a hard time choosing between remaining in this life or succumbing to death in order to be with his Lord. We take that as a very pious statement — dying to see the Lord. But it’s not a cute quip for Paul. Paul stated clearly that death is an enemy. In fact, it’s the last enemy yet to be ...
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King Duncan
... love. The psychologist watching her take this journey commented, “I wish my patients felt just one?tenth of the love she feels. What a difference it would make in their lives.” (5) That would be a good mantra for anyone who is about to succumb to a burden of fear. “God loves me . . . Jesus loves me . . .” Nothing can separate us from that love. Walls can’t do it . . . locked doors can’t do it . . . “neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... felt he would. That was before his buddy got malaria. The smaller fellow was much weaker and very likely to die. Their captors did not want to deal with sickness, so anyone who was unable to work was confined in a “hot house” until he succumbed to heat exhaustion, dehydration, and the collapse of his bodily systems. The sick man was locked into a hothouse and left to die. Surprisingly, he did not die, because every mealtime his strong buddy went out to him, under curses and threats from the guards, and ...
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Leonard Sweet
... are of the world but not in the world. They have been both captured and intimidated by the culture. They have been seduced by the world and have adopted the world’s ways as their own—they are ‘of’ the world. They have succumbed to social segregation—-they are not ‘in’ the world.” (28). This is the problem of too many of our churches. “Modern Christianity” is more “modern” than it is “Christian”—and by “modern” I mean sold out to a Gutenberg culture when we’re living ...
Understanding Series
Cheryl A. Brown
... ). There are also some surprising developments within the Israelite camp. Admittedly shocking is the role of the Judahites. Whereas Judges 1 presents them as zealots who alone of all the Israelites obediently drove out the Canaanites, by this point they had succumbed to their enslavement and sought to avoid any move that would upset the status quo, even if that entailed handing over to the enemy one of their own. The theme of intercommunal conflict stands out in this episode, as Israelite betrays Israelite ...
Teach the Text
Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
... this observation. The description of Bathsheba’s physical beauty echoes the description of David when he first appeared in the story (cf. 1 Sam. 16:12). David’s gaze falls on one who is every bit his physical equal; he apparently has met his match. Will he succumb to the temptation of using his power to take what he desires? 11:3  the wife of Uriah. The servant’s identification of the woman as “the wife of Uriah” should stop David in his tracks, for she belongs not only to another man, but to a ...
117. Only Sex? (New)
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
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King Duncan
... singles dread the dating scene because of the degrading sexual demands it often brings. Mature marriages come apart when one partner or the other is unable or unwilling to keep his or her wedding vows. And many good people suffer with guilt from promises broken and weaknesses succumbed to. Only sex, you say! Don’t be absurd. There is no such thing. Sex is a gift from God. From the beginning, God created us male and female. Think how important that is in our lives. Do we dress the new baby in pink or blue ...
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Erskine White
... love is the only way to overcome an enemy, and justice is the only path to peace. "You shall not kill." (7) "You shall not commit adultery." You shall respect the institution of marriage and remain faithful to your wedding vows. You shall not succumb to a hedonistic culture which preaches pleasure over principle and confuses liberty with license. Marriage is more than a merger of bodies; it is also the deeper union of souls. Sometimes there is a need for divorce in a failed or brutal marriage, but there ...
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King Duncan
... Soon the quiet night was filled with the sounds of rescuers with chain saws frantically sawing parts of the big tree in an effort to free Alison. Hours passed and still they were unable to free the girl. There was the threat of Alison succumbing to hypothermia. Ron began praying to the God whose very existence just hours earlier he had doubted. "Please, God," he prayed, "spare her life." With more equipment the rescuers finally freed his daughter. At the hospital the doctors said she would be all right. The ...
120. That All-Pervasive Snake
Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24
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Joann Hary
... get fired ... IF the tax evader had known how easy it is to get caught ... IF ONLY, IF ONLY, IF ONLY ... And yet "IF ONLY" is a poor excuse, because isn't it the truth that, in most cases, we really do know what the "IF ONLY" is? Yet we succumb to temptation anyway. We know that IF we drink too much, we will be drunk. We know that IF we punch someone else, we are liable to get punched back. We know that when we cheat, we are likely to get caught. We know that when we put ourselves in dangerous ...
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Eric Ritz
... myself under a doctor''s care, I always pray for God to guide and use this servant to bring healing to the physical needs of my body--knowing that God alone must touch the soul. No one else is capable. Someday medical knowledge will fail, and my physical body will succumb to death. Then, I will receive the ultimate healing, and receive my New, Resurrected Body. This is God''s promise--And my hope and joy. Amen and Amen.
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Leonard Sweet
... false teachers, these would-be-winners into an endless snare, "...those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction." (verse 9) Instead of succumbing to the temporary pleasures of life, the Pauline author lists those qualities possessed by true winners. "...pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness." (Verse 11) These qualities don't guarantee worldly success. They don't even make you a ...
123. You Fool!
Luke 12:13-21
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Ron Lavin
... and told the man, "Take care! Be on guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions" (Luke 12:15). Then Jesus drove his point home with a parable. The parable is about the temptation to succumb to the attractive distraction of devoting oneself to possessions and missing the call of God to have right priorities. The man who asked Jesus to judge between himself and his brother and the farmer in the parable Jesus told had the same problem. They embraced the ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... ," he said, "that Wendy’s daddy is still for real?" Could we put it any better, any better than that? How could Wendy’s daddy or anyone else be "for real" except through faith in the Risen Christ in which we meet each Lord’s Day? Let us not succumb to the present temptation to let the Communist or the secularist, who HAS NONE, sound like he has a glorious destiny. And we, who in Christ HAVE an eternal destiny, sound like we have none. "I have come from the Father; I return to the Father." It’s as ...
Teach the Text
Jeannine K. Brown
... that Peter’s behavior is particularly commendable. Peter is neither criticized nor praised for attempting to do what Jesus does. Instead, the focus of his role in the story is on his faith, which is compromised by his fear of the elements. He succumbs to fear; his faith wavers. In the end, he is portrayed as one with “little faith,” in line with the disciples generally in Matthew. The right action of the disciples is clearly their worship and confession of Jesus as “Son of God” (Messiah) at ...
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