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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1276. Mary's Complaint
Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56
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David E. Leininger
... synagogue, she had developed a special relationship with her God. She was preparing to enter a new phase of life. It had been arranged for her to marry a local carpenter, a man named Joseph. That IS the way marriages are put together in the Middle East, back then and well as now - something as important as marriage should not be left to the whims of the heart. The engagement had been agreed to and the period of betrothal had begun. Now...catastrophe. She was pregnant. An angel had appeared to her and said ...
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David E. Leininger
... five hundred denarii, and the other fifty [a denarius was about a day's wage]. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?" Simon replies, "I suppose the one who had the ... at Tony she says, "I live just down the street a couple of doors; I want to take the cake home, is that okay? I'll be right back, honest." She gets off her stool, picks up the cake, and carries it high in front of her like it was the Holy Grail. Everybody watches in ...
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David E. Leininger
... a question to Jesus as a "test" - "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" In the typical fashion of the rabbis then and now, Jesus answers the question with one of his own. "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" The answer comes back, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" Good answer. And Jesus agrees. But now the lawyer does something that all of us do from time to ...
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David E. Leininger
... police came and roped off the street, and rolled out a sign on the street, "Quiet, please." My friend and I were throwing the ball back and forth, and the ball went past me, and under the rope. I said to my friend, "Uh, go get the ball." He said, "You ... of death at the corner of her mouth, and she took hold of God's hand, and stared at death, and turned around and walked back among us, totally free. For three years she was totally free among us. But then her final sickness. She was at home, the church gathered ...
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King Duncan
... and put the cat out for the evening. The taxi arrived, and as the couple walked out the front door, the cat shot back in. They didn’t want the cat shut in the house, so the wife went out to the taxi while the husband went upstairs ... keeps it may prosper; But the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, The law runneth forward and back--And the strength of the pack is the wolf /And the strength of the wolf is the pack.” That’s an important thought. The strength of ...
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King Duncan
... to do with you and me? Pentecost says that you and I are to go from this room to make a difference in the lives of people we meet daily. That is how we will build the kind of world God desires--one person at a time. A few years back, Matthew Woodley, a pastor in Minnesota, decided to leave the ministry. Over the years, a negative attitude had taken hold in his heart. He had lost any zeal for the ministry. He was tired of difficult people. He was tired of fielding everyone’s complaints. He was tired of ...
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King Duncan
... to divert their eyes, but he looked right at them and said, "You know, a fool would have swallowed that." Well, a lot of people are swallowing foolish things today. It is amazing sometimes how gullible people can be. It was amusing, but sad, to read sometime back about an Australian businessman who was duped out of $500. He had bought shares in a non-existent Mexican ranch. He was told that at this ranch cats were to be crossed with snakes so the offspring could "shed" their fur. At least that's what police ...
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King Duncan
... it? Not a nibble. The frying pans would be empty this time. Their net was empty. Just as the day was breaking and they were ready to call it a night, they saw a stranger on the beach. "Having any luck?" he called out to them. "Afraid not," they called back. "Cast the net on the other side of the boat," the stranger replied, "and you will find some." And they did, and this time their net was teeming with fish. And the disciple John turned to Simon Peter and said, "It is the Lord." Who else could it be? Who ...
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King Duncan
... anyone in that land. Everyone admired his financial acumen. When he came home to England, though, he discovered that he was a beggar, even though he had a shipload of what had been wealth in his adopted land. The shells and beads were of no use to him back in a world that honored a different currency. So, says Spurgeon, will it be for those who have laid up for themselves the currency of this world but are not rich toward God. (7) Three foolish things you can do with money: Deny its importance. Hoard it to ...
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King Duncan
... they could. You can help them put sex into a healthier perspective. And there are young people today who have a healthy, Christian sense of their sexuality. But I fear for our society as a whole. Bill Reel wrote a column in the New York Daily News a few years back titled, "The Rape of the Minds of Young People." The theme of that article was "date-rape." Here is what he had to say: "At the risk of sounding square, it must be said that date rape is the latest demonic evidence of our decadence. It's a crying ...
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King Duncan
... vehicle. And then he realized that the man in the car was not the original driver. The newcomer climbed in the van, and 90 seconds later came back out with the van's radio in his hands. Later, MacDonald also saw two men come by and, in a matter of minutes, steal two of ... , missionaries sometimes arrived with their belongings stored in coffins. They were resigned to the fact they would never make it back to the coast. In spite of the difficulties, these men and women were called to reach Kenya, so they kept ...
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King Duncan
... a pretty rough bunch. This young man was 18 and thought of himself as an adult and a man. The field work was demanding on his back. He was husky and worked hard, thoguh. While in the fields, this young man came across a nest of hawks and took them to his bunk ... worked. One of the rough cut men he labored with was named Tex. Tex was quiet and liked to drink by himself. One night Tex came back to the bunkhouse so drunk that he passed out in the middle of floor. He was known to become violent so no one wanted to ...
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King Duncan
... in a group and the Holy Spirit landed on them like tongues of fire on their heads. Then they spoke the gospel in all the languages of the world.' Two of the girls took this information in stride, but the third looked astonished, her eyes wide. I looked back at her, and finally she said, Gosh, Reverend Long, we must have been absent that Sunday.'" (2) Well, in case you were absent that Sunday, here is how the story goes. The disciples WERE gathered in one place when the Holy Spirit came upon them and they ...
1289. Where Is Your Home?
2 Corinthians 5:6-10
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King Duncan
... studies, I come eye level with a reminder of my purpose. Stealing a peek at them several times a day has a way of keeping my work (and my life) in proper perspective. In the brief moment it takes me to scan them I receive a message in the cluttered back rooms of my brain. "The pictures say, Don't forget, Tim, THIS is where you checked in (the hospital), THIS is where you're checking out (the cemetery), and THESE FOUR PEOPLE in the middle are WHY YOU ARE HERE." (5) This world is not our home. Our time here ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... doors. The intruders were unfailingly polite and as far as we know, no one was hurt. One homeowner in Potomac, Md., was robbed after letting his dogs outside at about 5:30 a.m. and leaving a sliding glass door unlocked. Instead of the dogs coming back in, the homeowner was confronted by one of the robbers, who pointed a gun at his head. The gunman "was quite polite throughout the whole episode," the homeowner, who asked not to be identified, told THE WASHINGTON POST. "We got into a conversation as if he ...
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King Duncan
... searchers in boats were scurrying over the face of the Atlantic Ocean hunting for one small girl, while hundreds of people to whom the news had spread waited anxiously on shore. It was four hours before they found her, far from land. She was calmly swimming on her back and was not at all frightened. Cheers and tears of joy and relief greeted the rescuers with their precious burden as they came to land. The child took it calmly. She said, "Daddy said he would come for me, and that I could float all day, so I ...
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King Duncan
... IS SHORT; EAT DESSERT FIRST. Our individual lives are as fragile as the world we inhabit. Who was not shocked a few years back by the death of that wonderfully creative man, Jim Henson, mastermind behind the Muppets? A minor infection ”or so he thought. It ... hot water indeed! An old limerick comes to mind: There was a young lady from Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger. They came back from the ride With the lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger. That is the way sin comes into our lives. Our ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... of God's love and grace. We open and rummage through all those old feelings and memories so that we can recall and be called back to our faith and our relationship with Christ. And we have to rummage through, we have to dig out those trunks and sacks and ... purpose of Christ's birth in the first place. This infant whom we worship is the Savior who puts it all back into perspective. He tells us all about ourselves, our sordid pasts, our failures, our shortcomings, our brokenness, our disobedience, our sins, ...
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King Duncan
... a.m. "Jesus: Walking on the Water"; 7:00 p.m. "Searching for Jesus." More to the point is a news story from sometime back. It was about a 5-year-old Texas boy who was accidentally left behind at a Nashville, Tennessee, service station. Tyler Payne got ... . About two hours later, at a Wendy's restaurant in Jackson, his parents, five brothers and a sister noticed he was missing. Back in Nashville, a woman had heard Tyler screaming and opened the bathroom door for him. As employees at the service station tried ...
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King Duncan
... . How could it be? But for awhile, not much changed. After everybody "Oohed" and "Aahed" over the newborn child, they all sort of went back their merry way. And they didn't so much forget as they did store away the memory of that night. For the events of that ... to be one of us, he was truly one of us. There's a story from World War II about an Army chaplain who finally made it back to America on the first Christmas Eve after the war was over. He'd been overseas for nearly two years and hadn't seen his family ...
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King Duncan
... birth of each child, the Lord says, `That boy shall marry that girl.' But in my case, the Lord also added, `But alas, his wife will have a terrible hump.' "At that moment I called, `Oh Lord, that would be a tragedy for her. Please give me the humped back and let her be beautiful.'" We are told that the young woman was so moved by these words that she reached for Mendelssohn's hand and later became his loving and faithful wife. In trying to deal with the meaning of the cross on which Christ died, the early ...
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King Duncan
... their responses to their own disintegrating families. Here are a few samples: "I wish my parents wouldn't fight and I wish my father would come back." "I wish my mother didn't have a boyfriend." "I wish I could get straight A's so my father would love me." "I wish I ... months on idyllic Tahiti, the crew seized the ship and set the captain and officers afloat in a raft. The mutineers went back to Tahiti, grabbed a small group of Tahitian men and women and sailed off to live on a deserted island. When an ...
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King Duncan
... be second in line. We will settle for nothing but the best. Charles L. Allen tells about being a young pastor of a little church back in the mountains. There was an old man in the community with whom he spent a lot of time and from whom he learned a ... until the time finally arrives that you know what you are doing when you hit the ball." Some of you remember a great running back for the Pittsburg Steelers, Rocky Blier. A lot of people don't know that Rocky Briar served in Vietnam several months before he ...
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King Duncan
... order to get it out of the barn. Tarmerlane watched that ant struggle with that kernel of corn pushing it up that wall. As the ant nearly reached the top, it fell, as did the kernel of corn. But the ant did not quit. It pushed that kernel of corn back up that wall. Sixty-nine times this sequence of events was repeated. Finally, on the 70th try the ant successfully pushed the kernel over the wall. Tarmerlane, watching that ant, made a commitment. He said, "If an ant can do it, so can I," and he went out and ...
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King Duncan
... anything. Gaining her composure outside the store she realizes that, while she has her change, she's missing her icecream cone. She goes back in to claim what is rightly hers. "I didn't get my icecream cone," she says with as much dignity as she can ... is walking along the road with Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown asks her: "Lucy, are you going to make any New Year's resolutions?" Lucy hollers back at him, knocking him off his feet: "What? What for? What's wrong with me now? I like myself the way I am! Why should ...
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