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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King Duncan
... And so for a month after the war was officially over 1,066 American B-29s regularly flew over these POW camps. Flying slowly at 165 mph, these planes dropped tons of food and medicine by parachute to starving men below. Unfortunately, sometimes the food packages came apart in air and cans of food fell with full force. The last Marine killed in Asia in World War II was killed by "friendly fire," by a can of Spam. (3) That's ironic as well as sad. Somehow we can accept it when a soldier is killed by an enemy ...
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King Duncan
... the passengers during a flight. Peale had told him that he was amazed by how such a big and heavy object like the plane managed to stay in the air. But the pilot said that it really wasn't amazing at all, since it is an airplane's nature to stay in the air. They are designed that way. In fact, it is very hard for a plane not to stay up in the air. Dr. Peale says that God has put us together that way, too. We are meant to be healthy, energetic, creative, and dynamic people at every age, full of ...
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King Duncan
... be because God's Spirit lifts us. One writer has used the analogy of an albatross. He notes that the albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird: 12 feet. He also notes that it is too heavy to fly--it can't support itself in the air. In fact, in still air, it can't even take off. Yet the albatross is a marathon flier. Some speculate it can stay years at sea without returning to land. Scientists put a radio transmitter on one to track it. After 30 days and 9,000 miles, the battery gave out, and the ...
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Eric Ritz
... many dissipating interests, too many branches of good things that suck the vital energy from the very best. (1) In Jules Verne''s novel The Mysterious Island, he tells of five men who escape a Civil War prison camp by hijacking a hot-air balloon. As they rise into the air, they realize the wind is carrying them over the ocean. Watching their homeland disappear on the horizon, they wonder how much longer the balloon can stay aloft. As the hours pass and the surface of the ocean draws closer, the men decide ...
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Robert Noblett
... people to drift way, because not to do so can mean we are neglecting those already here, and on the way in. Then, too, pruning what is living means realizing we have too many balls in the air; and trying to keep them all in the air means in effect that we will soon be able to keep none of them in the air. So we prune in order to increase effectiveness and fruitfulness. God the vine grower; Christ the true vine; and God's people as Christ's branch managers, who manage themselves in such ways as to produce ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... the breath of life; and man became a living being." Now, from the first story, Chapter 1, verses 26 - 28: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and said to them, 'Be ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... the breath of life; and man became a living being." Now, from the first story, Chapter 1, verses 26 - 28: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and said to them, 'Be ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... others. Here's a picture of it. There were 155 people on board the plane flying home from Australia, Friday, February 24, 1989. A cargo door failed and ripped open a huge hole in the side of the aircraft. Nine persons perished when pressurized air inside blew them into the thin, rarified air of 24,000 feet altitude." Kerry Lappan, age 31, sitting by the fateful hole, said to reporters, "the whole plane was falling to pieces, and I thought, 'This is it!', but there was a man in front of me. I don't know who ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... outward expressions of those initial Christian experiences. The woman made this profound comment: "It's not how high you jump, it's how you walk when you come back to earth." So it's not some burst of power that we need to cause us to jump into the air -- it's an ongoing source of energy we need to live life no matter what it brings. Byron Janis is a world class pianist who has battled arthritis for at least the past fifteen years. He continued as long as he could, taking massive dosages of cortisone and ...
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John P. Jewell
... sparkling of the icy trees hurt the eyes to look, and it moved down the mountain like a wave as the sun backed the night shadow down and down. A crow scout sent three hard calls through the air, warning we were there. And now the mountain popped and gave breathing sighs that sent little puffs of steam into the air. She pinged and murmured as the sun released the trees from their death armor of ice. Grandpa watched, same as me, and listened as the sounds grew with the morning wind that set up a low whistle ...
136. You Are Somebody!
Galatians 3:26--4:7
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King Duncan
... everyone if he or she went ahead and died. There are many, many people in this world who don’t think their lives matter in the great order of things. It’s sad, and saddest of all, some of these people are in this room today. Leslie Weatherhead was an air raid warden during the awful days of the London blitz back in the early 1940s. When the all‑clear sounded, it was his job to go and to survey the damage. One night there had been a particularly heavy bombing. When he went back to the surface, all he ...
137. Influence!
Matthew 23:1-12
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Stephen M. Crotts
... . I was speaking at a military conference in the Norfolk area. He was at my table. "Charlie Duke," he responded. Though the name sounded vaguely familiar, I couldn't place it. That's when another man at the table leaned over and whispered, "He's a general in the Air Force, one of only twelve men to walk on the moon!" I became like a kid in the candy store. Here was history! Here was a chance to talk to Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Leif Eriksson, one of the great explorers of our time! He didn't just ...
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Leonard Sweet
... beings walk on two legs, because we're ground-dwelling creatures, we miss it entirely. All one has to do to experience this unique ecosystem is to look up. In the dense, inter-woven, life-filled zone that begins forty or fifty feet in the air there are creatures, connections, and constructions that never set foot on the ground. There are unique little primates, insects the size of your hand, birds, boats, and a tapestry of plant life that our grounded-ness keeps us from ever experiencing. 99% of humanity ...
139. I Like Brussels Sprouts, but...
Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:18-26
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Leonard Sweet
... of this dubious product, the Once-ler proclaimed that, "A Thneed's a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!" And sure enough, those thneeds caught on and started selling like hot-cakes. Despite the scoldings and warnings of the Lorax, the regional protector of trees and creatures of the air and water, the incessant demand of the thneeds spurs on the Once-ler to decimate the whole area. Once the Truffula trees are all cut down, the animals must leave for they have no food and the waters are "glumped" and the ...
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Leonard Sweet
... to "go to all to whom I send you" (verse 7)? If Jeremiah can move his feet, God promises, the Lord will move his mouth: "You shall speak whenever I command you." God does not expect Jeremiah to compose prophesies or create soliloquies out of thin air. Instead God offers a two-pronged promise to Jeremiah. First God dispels Jeremiah's fears by pledging "I am with you to deliver you." (verse 8). Second, God quiets Jeremiah's protestations of inadequacy by proclaiming "I have put my words in your mouth" (verse ...
141. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
1 Corinthians 9:1-27
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... boxing in their moralistic arguments (see Plutarch, "Moralia" 133E, 624B, 638-640A, and Seneca, "Epistles" 80.1-3). Whether or not Paul was personally familiar with boxing, he loves terms that are specific to that sport. His description of the boxer beating the air suggests a fighter simply shadow boxing, failing to make any kind of real physical contact. A boxer might shadow box for practice. But in the course of a real contest, competing for a real prize, his body would receive real physical punishment or ...
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James W. Moore
... his answer. He said: “I’m Blessed. I have lost everything, but I’m still here. I have food to eat and water to drink. I have air-conditioning and a bathroom. I have a cot and a blanket and a roof over my head. Yes,” he said with a tired smile, “I am Blessed ... storm. The wind was howling and blowing fiercely. Thunder was rumbling. Lightning was flashing. Golf-ball-size hail started falling. The air traffic controller told us that DFW Airport had just been closed and we had better take-off in a hurry ...
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James Merritt
... that pickles cause cancer, communism, airline tragedies, automobile accidents and crime waves. About 99.9% of cancer victims had eaten pickles sometime in their lives….so have 100% of all soldiers, 96.8% of communist sympathizers, and 99.7% of those involved in car and air accidents. Moreover, those born in 1839 who ate pickles have suffered 100% mortality rate, and rats force-fed 20 pounds of pickles a day for a month, ended up with bulging abdomens and loss of appetite.1 Now we laugh at that, but I want ...
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Richard Gribble
... together and act as one. Ancient philosophers understood this need for unity quite well. In their efforts to explain the world that they observed, they postulated, without the advantage of modern science, that all things were composed of four basic elements: earth, water, air, and fire. Everything that existed was a measured combination of these four elements and could exist in no other way. Earth was the "stuff" of the object observed. Water was added to the stuff to form it into various objects, be it a ...
145. Ephesians 2:1-10
Ephesians 2:1-10
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... with him" (v.6). These central verses of today's text paint such a glorious picture that they have been called "triumphal." The author is not content with assuring his readers that they have escaped the clutches of the "ruler of the power of the air." He insists that those "in Christ" are raised up into "heavenly places." In verse 5 and again in verse 8, this author declares, in an extraordinary use of the perfect tense, that we "have been saved." This grammatical tense suggests that for confessed members ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... is called the "swoon theory". It suggests that either Jesus Christ fainted on the cross or perhaps went into shock and fell unconscious, but He didn't really die, it is just that everybody thought He was dead. Then when He was taken to the tomb, the cool air revived Him and somehow He got out alive. In other words, He wasn't resurrected, He was just resuscitated. There are several problems with this line of thinking. First of all, we are told in John 19:34 that just to make sure that Jesus Christ was dead ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... , why did you do that?" Socrates looked at him and said, "When you want to learn as much as you wanted to breathe, then I will be your teacher." When you want to really grow as much as a baby craves milk or as much as a drowning person craves air, then you will be on the road that can lead to deeper spiritual maturity. II. I Must Develop My Spiritual Maturity How does this process begin? What does it involve? What are the steps that I must take? We have read a couple of times already this morning that if ...
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James Merritt
... to pull up that car. I only have one horse - Dusty. He is blind and old, but I'll bring him over to the ditch and see what he can do, but don't expect too much." Well the farmer hitched Dusty to the car, snapped a whip in the air and said, "Pull Jimmy Pull!" Dusty never moved. The farmer snapped the whip again and said, "Pull Sammy Pull!" Dusty still didn't move. The farmer snapped the whip a third time and said, "Pull Charlie Pull!" Dusty never moved. The farmer snapped the whip the fourth time and said ...
149. Itchy Ears
2 Timothy 3:14-4:5
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Donna Schaper
... mattered. Not the procrustean bed of what other people liked or didn't like. In this little truth about enthusiasm for our own garden, we can see the whole big business about evil. We are not to let other people tell us what is true or valuable. If air is valuable, then air is valuable. If we get crucified trying to save it, so what? We have gone to the underworld and emerged with truth as our belt. We don't need to make believe any more. Because of the grace and power of Jesus Christ expressed in Paul's ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... is still No Room At The Inn. This is the night of a story that is so new, so fresh that it seems to electrify the air with anticipation and expectation. And yet it is a story and message which is so old that it is hard to hear it without slipping ... choir sang from an elevated stage erected on the far edge of the lawn in front of the church's three large air conditioning units. Surrounded by clouds painted on cardboard, and raised and lowered hydraulically, it made for a wonderful dramatic moment when their ...
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