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
Lori Wagner
... the potential for power that we can’t really comprehend. We really have no idea what it’s capable of, let alone what it may be capable of a few years from now. The more we study science, the more we realize that we have barely touched the surface of what the human brain can do, or what we know about space, the ocean, and what lies at the center of the earth. Every new discovery both thrills and chills us because we barely can fathom the powers that lie beyond our comprehension and abilities as human ...
1227.
Psalm 97:1-12
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... the Hebrew term ṣedeq in the Psalms, we discover its moral sense derives from its broader, basic meaning of “rightness/right order” (a state) or “putting things right” (an action). In the ancient Near East, divine kingship and superiority (an issue that surfaces in v. 9) were established when the god of the storm with his arrows of lightning overcame the chaotic and life-threatening god of the seas (see “Tradition of Divine Kingship” in the Introduction). In this sense, the thunderstorm was an ...
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Psalm 146:1-10
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... identical to 104:33, 35b. 146:3–4 The speaking “I” now addresses a group (your in v. 3 is plural), apparently to be identified with the congregation, referred to as Zion (v. 10). He issues another imperative but this time for the purpose of instruction. Here surfaces the chief issue of the psalm: whom will you trust, mortal men (vv. 3–4) or the God of Jacob (vv. 5–9)? (Cf. 33:16–17; 118:8–9.) The injunction Do not put your trust in princes may reflect the exilic disillusionment with the ...
Teach the Text
C. Hassell Bullock
... . Yet, while David’s love for his children was a mark of his character, his indulgent attitude toward them sometimes had ill results. One could say that the sorrow of Absalom’s rebellion always lurked in David’s soul and was never far below the surface. Psalm 13 does not exhibit the weaponry and brutality of warfare, but those marks of David’s world lie just beneath the epidermis of the language of this psalm. “Enemy” and “foes” (13:4) are the most obvious, but the triumphal cry of the enemy ...
Teach the Text
Ronald W. Pierce
... in a submarine from the top of the ocean, where the sunlight streaming through the water still colors everythingyou see a beautiful blue. As you descend, the water grows darker, reaching absolute darkness at the aphotic “midnight” zone—less than a mile below the surface. Several miles below that, the pit of the Mariana Trench is pitch black. The sun’s light never changes, yet the amount we perceive depends on our depth. Sometimes sin carries us so far into darkness that we lose sight of God’s ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... you feel joy in your work, you feel joy in your time with others, you feel joy in your challenges. You even can feel joy in moments of hardship. Joy comes from a sense of “deep satisfaction and calm” that runs deep below the surface of your psyche. Barbara Frederickson, who has done extensive research studies on the effects of living out of a sense of joy, tells us that joy, whether from optimism, positivity, laughter, inspiration, gratitude, or relational engagement can entirely change the way we look ...
1232. The Raising
John 11:32-44
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of igneous rocks, such as granite and basalt, consists of minerals, such as silicon, oxygen, iron, aluminum, magnesium, and others. Most land rock is granite. Most oceanic rock is thicker basalt. These rocks comprise 95% of the earth’s substance. The surface yields sedimentary rock, primarily such as shale and limestone, which make up the remaining percent.[1] From the beginning of time, humans have been fascinated with rocks –with the earth’s yields of gemstones, fossils, rock types, and magma. They ...
1233. Good News
Luke 3:7-18
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . If you peel away the husk, it’s so light and weightless that it merely floats away. It’s easily blown off by the wind. Only the grain remains. You don’t want to eat the husk. You only want the grain. Threshing floors were flat stone, round, surfaces with a lip on the edges. They were built on the top of hills or other elevated places where the wind could easily blow away the chaff of the grain, leaving the weighty wheat to lie on the threshing floor. The farmer or harvester would use a “winnowing ...
1234. In the Mirror
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... for us. Seeing Ourselves For The First Time And that is where this parable, this unfinished story, becomes for us a mirror. Because we see ourselves for the first time, like our little daughter Kristyn did that day we held her in front of the reflective surface and she caught her own eye, when we look into this tale. We catch sight of ourselves first, in the selfish, stupid, sickened, and surprised eyes of the younger brother, the one who does not merit love and yet receives it from the father in abundance ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... and shadows. As his voice reverberated against the wailing walls, one ghost began to thicken and color. A few more stanzas of amore and Eurydice stood solid before him once again. They kissed and hugged and held hands all the way to earth’s surface, gripped by smiles of incredulous ardor. A Christian Orpheus? The legend of Orpheus grew over time, so that even the most skeptical linked his name to true love. But why would early Christians reconfigure Jesus in the guise of Orpheus? How could they profane ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... on our roads. And while we may become frustrated by all of those stops and detours, road work is a necessary part of creating something new that will be sturdy and last. On that new road, the topcoat may look slick and smooth, but underneath the surface, that road has experienced a huge amount of digging out, refilling, and repurposing in order to provide support, foundation, and strength for decades to come. When we look at the choice of a smooth road or a bumpy road, we can easily become deceived. When we ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... of us. One of M. Scott Peck’s earlier books, The Different Drum, analyzed community and how it evolved. There are four stages to developing deep community, according to Peck: pseudo community, conflict, chaos, and true community. The first is our surface friendliness in group settings because we are nice people. Most churches are probably at least an expression of this. But bring any conflict, and tensions flare. At this point, according to Peck, we have the options of staying together and working things ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... the body and blood of Christ anyway.” And they were right. Watch us, here in church, and on a Thursday too, saying our prayers, eating and drinking with Jesus, if you didn't know us that well, you might think that we are good. But scratch below the surface and you will find a darkness and a depth of betrayal unfathomable. I for one am glad that Judas was there that night. If he had not been, how could I be here tonight? Last year about this time, when writer Reynolds Price read from his Gospel of Mark ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... of us couldn’t even pronounce, much less understand. Yet, when things went south, it took us by surprise. Looking back, we probably should have known that a huge oil spill was inevitable and been prepared for such an eventuality. Those wells are a mile below the surface of the ocean, where the water pressure is over a ton per square inch. We should have known and been prepared. Yet, when the BP blowout came in the Gulf of Mexico, it took us by surprise. These tragedies and others all took us by surprise ...
1240. Training Wheels For Life
Deuteronomy 30:11-20
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
Another world, another day, another time. The bright sun cast its long dark shadows along streets filled with carts and animals, never once falling on automobile, trolley or McDonald's litter in the gutter. Another world, another day, another time. Yet the sounds of people were there, even more evident without the sound of motor cars. The shouting of a young man, the call of an elderly woman, the bawling of a young child. But in the darkness of an entryway to a home on that busy street we see a door open, ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
As long as men and women and boys and girls have inhabited this planet, they have sought to control their lives in whatever ways possible. In order to have a better harvest, they have experimented with different crops, different fertilizers, and different methods of planting. In order to kill more game for food, they created more and more advanced kinds of bows, more accurate arrows, more deadly traps. In order to protect themselves from neighboring tribes they produced walls and moats and castles, and ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
I remember a news program which showed the release of a number of wild turkeys into the wilderness of southwestern United States. They were seeking to reestablish a strain of turkeys in that area. In order to track them and understand how they were doing, a little radio was affixed to the back of each of the turkeys. Can you imagine being able to sit at a screen and follow the whereabouts of all those turkeys? How would you like to have a tracking device affixed to your back, so that your family, and your ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
Everyone knows the experience of dragging out of bed on a dark morning in January, stepping around the busy humidifier spewing mucous membrane-healing moisture, finding the door to the bathroom and flipping the switch -- whoops, no, not that one, as the fan roars prematurely -- there, the light switch. "Ouch!" we say or think, and the photons from Edison's folly crash against the reluctant retinas of our eyes. We are blinded. We have a fleeting bed wish, yet know that the time is nigh, and the pain must be ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
A man by the name of Kevin Trudeau has marketed a memory course called "Mega-Memory." In the beginning of the course he quizzes the participants about their "teachability quotient." He says it consists of two parts. First, on a scale of one to ten "where would you put your motivation to learn?" Most people would put themselves pretty high, say about nine to ten, he says. Secondly, though, Kevin asks the listeners of the tape to put themselves on a scale of one to ten in terms of his or her willingness to ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
There is so much uncertainty in life that most of us look hard and long for as many "sure things" as we can find. A fisherman goes back again and again to that hole that always produces fish and leaves on his line that special lure that always does the trick. The fishing hole and the lure are sure things. A gardener finds it hard to switch from tried and true varieties of vegetables. Blue Lake or Provider green beans, Silver Queen white corn, Beefsteak tomatoes, Detroit Red beets all have a familiar, solid ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
Schindler's List is a movie one doesn't forget. One of the most horrible scenes is that of the commandant who, for his own amusement and in order to watch the prisoners scatter, uses a rifle to shoot some of the Jews in the courtyard of the prison camp. This one vignette graphically portrays the opposite of the message the prophet Isaiah was communicating in the portion of his writings we are looking at now, chapter 42, verses 1-9. "A bruised reed he will not break." All of us surely shudder and shrink ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
I remember a song of some years back that I never liked. The singer screamed as much as he sang, and he repeated the words over and over again. But the message and the title of the song I remember well, and so will you: "I can't get no satisfaction!" As we think about our lives today, is it not true that there are those days, those weeks, and those periods in our lives when we could easily intone with great feeling, "I can't get no satisfaction"? My big, red, unabridged power-dictionary I quote now and ...
1248. Divine Naivet
Isaiah 63:7--64:12
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
If you ask a child for his favorite Christmas carol, you'd better be ready! He just might say, "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town." Well, you do know it, don't you? You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry Better not pout I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is coming to town. He's making a list, checking it twice, Gonna find out who's naughty or nice Santa Claus is coming to town. He knows when you've been sleepin' He knows when you're awake He knows when you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake. ...
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
Early in January in northern Canada the sun peeks above the horizon for the first time after six weeks of hiding. An important dawn for Canada. Imagine how the lives of people in the northern latitudes would be different if they got used to the darkness and never even expected that a dawn would ever lighten their horizon again. The people to whom the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah witnessed and preached so long ago were a people whose hope for dawn had been all but extinguished. First the northern kingdom, ...
1250. From A Distance
Exodus 24:1-18
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
Heroes are a part of the human experience. They motivate, stimulate, encourage, and provide role models. There's something about looking up to the one who did something that is so far beyond most everyone's reach or ability. "Wow! I could never do that!" we say. All through the Olympics my wife and I joked about what we would look like if we tried to jump off the ski jump or leap into the air with skates on! It's remarkable what some people are able to do, and do it with grace and apparent ease. Can you do ...
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