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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1226. The Glow
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... seen someone glow from a romantic encounter or an engagement to their beloved? That’s only a fraction of the glow in someone’s face who has had a true encounter with God. Never underestimate the power of God in your life or in the lives of others. Want to experience God face to face? Look for that glow on the face of someone you meet. You can be sure that it comes from a very special kind of joy. You can have that glow too. For whenever one of us follows Jesus, dares the true path that Jesus wants us ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... s ministry and mission resulted from his certainty that he had been saved by God from a fiery death and later reborn of the Spirit’s fire. From the beginning of time, humans have been fascinated, influenced, and moved to great change and innovation from their experiences with light. Whether in the field of optics, physics, botany, or in the science of laser therapy, we have only begun to tap the edges of our knowledge about the amazing power of light. The more we learn about light, the more we are awed by ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... the world around us, but they can also limit us and impede us when we believe that what we see defines everything that’s real and true or that what we see defines the entirety of the universe. Can we truly know based on only our sensory experience? Or is there something more, another kind of knowing, that lies outside of our empirical knowledge? Christians believe there is. In fact, most people believe there is, but yet, we insist that what we see and know is the naked truth. What is this beautiful image ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... is our dilemma. Time and again, research has shown that you and I will surrender much to institutions or personalities that give us security. We yield to authority if we believe that by doing so, we will be protected and accepted. In a classic experiment, Stanley Milgram brought people off the street into his Yale laboratory. There they were told that they were participating in research on human behavior. He asked them to work a dial which was said to administer an electric shock to a person in another ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of kindness. And when we perform an act of kindness, the reward system in our brain lights up, which gives us pleasure, which causes us to look for more opportunities to be kind. A neuroscientist working on the Kindness Project said, “Kindness can cost us, yet we experience a sense of reward in parts of our brain when we are kind to others, just as we do when we eat yummy food or have a pleasant surprise. These parts of the brain become active and motivate us to do them again and again.” (1) “Kindness ...
1231. A VIP Seat
Luke 14:1-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... . He saw life as a party, and he wanted to invite everyone in. We are the only thing standing in the way of knowing the unquenchable joy of the kingdom of God. Life is not a competition; it is a celebration. And the best way we can experience this truth is by living with the humility, joy and love that Jesus showed to the world. 1. “The Strange Rituals Of Super-Rich Partying Exposed” by Ollie A. Williams, Forbes.com, August 16, 2020, https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2020/08/16/the-strange ...
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King Duncan
... they sang, Father Arrupe writes that he experienced the presence of Jesus in the prison cell with him. He said, “I felt that he also descended into my heart, and that night I made the best spiritual communion of all my life.” (7) I hope that this Christmas you will experience the glory and the peace of God. I hope that you will see in Jesus’ birth the love of God for humanity, the joy that God has in sharing His life with us. In giving His life for us. It is that hope and joy and love and peace that ...
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... Jesus called to these first men, “Come, follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people,” he is offering to them--and to us today--a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, a story that makes sense of the world, and an experience of transcendence. He is challenging us to choose a more abundant life. In her book Leaving Church, priest and author Barbara Brown Taylor tells of an insight she received from a friend of hers named Matilda. “When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... cheered me as nothing has for years. Willie, you have made my day.[2] Remember the special people in your life. Take time to write them a note or to give them a call. This will help you feel the power of gratitude. Most of all, the best way to experience the power of gratitude is to remember who has you. Remember Who Has You A popular Thanksgiving tradition for many people is to go around the table and name a few things they are thankful for. I think it is a great tradition, but I like the one Brett Blair ...
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William G. Carter
... . There’s a snack, and a few minutes of fun. As you would expect, the core of the program is a group of concerned volunteers. She said they come in two kinds. The first group of volunteers has great concern for the kids. They exude expertise and years of experience. “Sit down, kids, and let me show you how it’s done. Let’s straighten out your nouns and verbs. Let’s make sure all your numbers add up. I will be the expert and tell you what to do.” But the second group of volunteers, a much smaller ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... have our “heads in the clouds.”[1] Clouds for us feel like “out of reach” places for us. Unless you are a pilot, we satisfy ourselves with staring at them from the earth below. In a sense, God is like that for most of us. Some who experience “soaring on the wings of the Spirit” have had close encounters with God within that illuminous cloud of light. Others may struggle with our own practicality or simply settle for planting our feet firmly on the ground. But even if we do, we can know that they ...
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King Duncan
... of a page I’ve been studying for hours when I am reading Torah, and all I ever hear is, ‘Burt, turn the page.’” (3) That’s the way it is for most of us. God most often speaks to us without words. He speaks through our life experiences. He speaks to us in the silence of our own thoughts after a time of laying out our needs and concerns before Him. That’s the importance of prayer. We come before God with our needs and concerns. God already knows those concerns before we enunciate them, but it ...
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Huwiler
... Qohelet both acknowledges taking delight in the work (2:10) and proclaims it meaningless, chasing after wind, and without gain (2:11). Thus the initial reaction of receiving pleasure is overshadowed, but not eliminated, by the verdict meaningless bracketing the description of the experiment (2:1, 11). The addition of the final phrase (nothing was gained under the sun) has the effect of making this project seem even more meaningless than was the pursuit of wisdom. Additional Note 2:1 To find out what is good ...
1239. Redefining “Blessed”
Luke 1:39-45 (46-55)
Sermon
John B. Jamison
... ran off and they found him talking with people in the temple. When someone asked him about his father, the boy said that he was standing in his father’s house. I imagine that hit daddy Joseph pretty hard, and I’m guessing there may have been similar experiences for Mary. I’m thinking it wasn’t all that easy raising the Son of God. I imagine you are understanding my point about the meaning of “blessing”, but we can’t stop yet. We need to remember the day Jesus left Mary and Joseph in Nazareth ...
1240. Love Lives
Philippians 2:5-11
Sermon
Bonnie Bates
... In this time of the creation of Marvel Comics movies with Thor, Odin, and Loki, we can imagine the power of a God ― but can we imagine the humility of God to say: I will wholly become one of you, subject to all the pain and trial you experience? It is beyond my imagining. Is it beyond yours? That is perhaps why there were so many theological debates about the divinity and humanity of Jesus. Perhaps he was wholly human but given divinity as a response to his selflessness and faith. I have heard that, haven ...
1241. We Live in Hope
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
Sermon
Bonnie Bates
... the energy, the soul of the person leaves them, leaves us, and moves on to God. This is a resurrection moment, a moment when death is defeated, not by the body, but by the soul, by the spirit which has gone home. It is a profound moment and a profound experience for a pastor to feel and know the soul lives on with God, not with the body. I am not sure anyone who has not experienced this, and even those of us who have, can describe it well. Yet, I know it to be so. Death had been defeated. Resurrection ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ways in which we have been looking at ourselves or in which we have allowed others to view us, and instead to allow him to heal the eyes of our hearts –so that no matter our background, our mistakes, our economic situation, our burdens, hurts, and difficult experiences –that we can remember who we are. Each one of us is a beautiful, unique, reflection of God’s glory, love, and affection. And God is wanting to bless us in our lives right here and now! Jesus is the Emmanuel, Son of God, “God with us ...
1243. Spirit Struck
Acts 2:1-21 · John 14:8-17, 25-27
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of reveling in God’s presence. It also meant that suddenly, they could see both God and each other …differently. Whether those who were there at day in Jerusalem or those who repented and turned to God in any time afterward, the experience of people’s “Spirit infusion” changed them. Human barriers were suddenly overcome, and Christians felt a unique bond between them, no matter their origin, country, language, culture, race, or politics, as though their hearts had been set on fire – or perhaps ...
Sermon
Heather Sugden
... arrival. She was born the first week in December, not as planned, but just as she was meant to be. I wish I could say that I patiently waited for childbirth to happen. I wish I could say that my patience reduced my anxiety and made the whole birthing experience easy. I wish I could say I had any patience at all those weeks before and immediately after the due date! Instead, I found that not being able to control the timing of her arrival, not being able to control what turned out to be the beautiful arrival ...
1245. No Excuse
Luke 13:10-17
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord” (Jeremiah 1:6-7). You see, the promise of scripture is that we do not need excuses because we have God. God will go with us. God will give us the knowledge, the ability, the wisdom, the experience we need if only we will answer God’s call and bow to God’s will. God will go with us and deliver us from every insecurity and distress ― whether God sends us to a children’s Sunday school class, a church choir, the chairmanship of a committee, a ...
Sermon
Douglas J. Deuel
... church, directions that will challenge us and stimulate us to rely more on God? Do we ask God to show us new constituents that need to experience God's grace and the healing power of God's love? Don't you think it is ironic that the Church limits God by its ... in spite of the difficulties he faced, he was still surrounded by love and warmth. In so many ways, that can be the experience of the Church, if we will trust in God and God's providential care of us. Whatever pain we carry, whatever disappointment we ...
Sermon
Douglas J. Deuel
... rebellious, I turned not backward" (Isaiah 50:4-5). The repetition of the theme in these two verses adds emphasis. Isaiah stressed the need to hear the message of God. It is the first step in carrying that message to a larger audience. A man once told me of an experience he had as a child. His father was a minister, so he grew up going to church. He was a good boy. He generally was eager to please his parents. At the age of eleven this boy was sitting in church one summer Sunday morning. It was rather warm ...
Sermon
Douglas J. Deuel
... God. We too will receive unexpected blessings if we can develop God's vision for the church, if we will respond to God's leadership, and if we will have a high level of expectation regarding what God can do in and through us. With these objectives, our experience in the church will be meaningful and fulfilling. And we can work together to build a Church that fulfills Peter's vision of unifying all people in the body of Christ. What if the ones we would exclude from the fellowship of the Church are the very ...
Sermon
Douglas J. Deuel
... I miss him. And please tell him that I will always love him. Amen." And then they all cried and they held each other for the longest time. And the dad wondered to himself, "Couldn't there be a way to teach a child about love without him having to experience the hurt?" No, I guess not, because to love means to be vulnerable to being hurt. There is no other way. Jesus knew what it meant to be hurt by love. He was hurt by a member of the inner circle, his most trusted group. Judas betrayed the community of ...
1250. The Holy Spirit Doesn't Have A Copy Machine
1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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Richard A. Jensen
... t she speak in tongues? In the company of her "spirit-filled" friends she could only see herself as a spiritual failure. One day Maria's aunt came to visit her. Maria knew her Aunt Carmen to be a woman of great faith. Maria told her aunt of her experiences with her spiritual friends and of her own despair over God's lack of presence in her life. Aunt Carmen heard Maria's story of pain and replied in great wisdom. "The Holy Spirit has been at work in your life ever since you were baptized," Aunt Carmen began ...
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