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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William G. Carter
... changed with the first coming of Jesus? If nothing has changed, then the future is an endless string of oppression, misery, and defeat. But if the reign of God has intruded upon the status quo, then we can act like Jesus. We can do the will of God. We can confront the powers of hell as if God rules over heaven and earth. We can act in the face of death as if death has already been defeated. We can gather in a place like this, singing praises to a Savior who has already assured us of the world's redemption ...
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John A. Stroman
... experience in the wilderness before the burning bush. It was here that he heard the voice of God. It was only a temporary sojourn. God ordered him back to Egypt to confront an unrelenting dictator to free the slaves. But the wilderness made the Exodus possible. Moses had first to confront God in the wilderness before he could confront Pharaoh in Egypt. In the withdrawal to the wilderness, Moses had his life validated, his task was made clear, and he could then set his face toward Egypt with confidence. What ...
Bulletin Aid
Wayne B. Keller
... is not what Jesus did, or invited us to do. At the beginning of the human potential movement, everyone was running around "letting it all hang out," which, in most instances, was nothing more than rebellion, sarcasm, and people-bashing. When Pilate confronted Jesus, Jesus remained in charge of the conversation with his honesty and graciousness. Charge to the Congregation Suggestion: Build the charge around Wesley's remark that tolerance is a non-Christian word. "It means," he said, "that I do not take my ...
129. Step Seven - Humiltiy
Mt 23:25-36 · 2 Ti 2:20-26 · Ps 51:1-14
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John A. Terry
... back so he would be killed. David was guilty of lust, intrigue, adultery, treachery and arranging the murder of Uriah. He broke half the ten commandments in one affair. To such serious guilt, this Psalm is addressed. Nathan then went to David and confronted him with his guilt. There came the awful burst of awareness when David realized what he had done. David, or whoever actually wrote this about David, was aware that his sin was not simply something involving Bathsheba or her husband or the child conceived ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... of eternal life by argument. He rose from the dead. He didn't just talk about the need for humility. That's an ideal. He got down and washed his disciples' dirty feet. He didn't try to argue that you could serve God in sorrow or suffering. He confronted suffering in his passion, and he took unto himself the cross. He didn't talk about the equality and worth of all people in the sight of God. He sought out the outcast, the sinner, the poor and the downtrodden, and associated with them and ate with them. He ...
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... face when Jesus spoke the word of restoration, or experienced the pathos of his heart when lost Zacchaeus knew he had been found. There is a way we can be there. We can understand how small we have become, and come down from our tree now to be confronted by the living Word. Forget Zacchaeus for the moment. The lost whom Jesus seeks and saves have even more familiar names. Our Story The Gospel of the Little Man is one that tells our story. It refuses to be left behind in Jericho. It attaches to a desperate ...
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Kendall McCabe
... learning about life. Children who have never played at being grown-up tend to be handicapped in some way when they have to confront the actual experience. Boys who have never been allowed to play with dolls can hardly be expected to hold their own infants with ease ... told, "Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return." That's what I mean by being deadly serious. We are called to confront the fact of our own mortality and, in one sense, to get used to it by what we say and do. As children learn to ...
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Donald Dotterer
... . His power is so great that he can heal us of our afflictions as well. But in those instances where the healing we want is not the healing we receive, we need to remember that through our prayers, in our times on the mountaintop, we will receive the strength to confront the power of evil in this world. God is always victorious and God always suffers with us when we are in pain and despair. God may not be able to defeat all evil on earth, but in the end, in the life to come, God will heal us of every ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... III It is a time of decision for us foday. It is still a moment of truth - but now, the moment faces us. Palm Sunday always confronts us with a decision. It is not just on the back of Jesus, and the back of Jerusalem. It is on our backs also. We are ... to watch the parade, who wave palm branches, and lift our voices in song, "Hosanna, loud hosanna!" The Master has come to face us, to confront us with a choice. A game warden went fishing with one of his friends. They made their way out to the middle of the lake ...
135. You Figure It Out
Matthew 22:15-22
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... D has me completely baffled because I don’t know what the final outcome would be if I tried it." B. Sometimes There Are No Clear Answers If that’s not bad enough, sometimes we can’t seem to find any clear and acceptable answers to questions that confront us. Without laying blame on anyone for our current energy mess in the world today, we find ourselves in a situation out of which we may not be able to move without making bad choices. Consider the quest for a usuable fuel source for the future. At one ...
136. We Are Driven!
Jeremiah 20:7-18
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John R. Brokhoff
... fire of faith that God is with you? It means that we have God’s presence to protect us from those who violently oppose what we say and do for God. He will not allow anything or anybody to hurt us. Do you remember how a young lad, David, once confronted a giant who was armed to the teeth while David had no armor and only a slingshot? David was unafraid because he had faith that God would protect him and give him victory. See that lad climbing up the hill where Goliath was standing in all of his might and ...
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Raymond Gibson
... to see of God was his backside. To look at the glory of God was to have one’s eyes burned out and blinded. Isaiah was confronted by God in the temple and cried out, "Woe is me! I am a sinner, a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst ... lips" (Isaiah 6:5). Even in the New Testament with Jesus as God-in-the-flesh, utter reverence was necessary. When the risen Christ confronted Saul on the Damascus road, his presence was so overwhelming that Saul was blinded for three days. To recapture a sense of wonder ...
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Raymond Gibson
... of that mighty band. I say "the communion of the saints," and I think of Peter and James and John and Matthew and Philip and Thomas and the rest of the apostles, and I remember that they were mostly illiterate and sometimes cowardly men until they were confronted by the fact of the risen Jesus - and then they became the nucleus of the mightiest force for good the world has ever seen. I say "the communion of the saints," and I think of Polycarp and Athanasius and Augustine and Benedict. I say "the communion ...
Drama
Tom Eberle
... becomes a matter of life and death, he will realize there is nothing to be gained from the latter choice. It is a more serious issue than the verbal exchange with the religious leaders, and I am certain that Jesus will stop short of any all-out confrontation. Toga: Wouldn’t it be fair to say that his possible crucifixion would end all speculation that he was your Messiah? Judas: Well, of course, his death would end any belief that he was the one, but I am confident it will not come to that. Scroll: What ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... your life. But, you are still on the way to oneness in Christ. The end of your journey is not Confirmation. The process of conversion must continue. Each time you come to church for worship, you will be going a notch higher toward Christ. In worship you are confronted with the Word as it is read and preached. You hear of God’s love and you are moved to respond to his love. The service near the end gives you an opportunity to rededicate yourself and to give yourself again more fully then ever. It is called ...
141. Paul Today
Acts 17:16-34
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T. A. Kantonen
... " when psychological studies have failed to find any trace of "sin" in the original equipment with which a human being starts life? And how can an enlightened ethics hold us responsible for an act committed by one man in the down of history? In confronting these questions we must admit that they represent what Paul would call the "scandal" of the Christian message and that Brunner is right in saying that the doctrine of original sin is a primary form of that scandal for modern man. The objections, however ...
142. Fear
Matthew 14:22-36
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Brett Blair
... Lord. When the angel of the Lord came to Mary and said that she would bear a child, she trembled with fear. What would become of her? Said the angel: Fear not Mary, for you have found favor with God. I First, I would say to you that we must confront our fears. We pay a price when we don’t deal with our fears. I was raised in a generation (the baby boomers) that had to live for years with the ultimate fear: Thermonuclear war. People lived in fear that there would be a war with Russia. As a child ...
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Brett Blair
... as a way of dealing with disasters: I First we must mourn the loss. In this week’s Time magazine there are two pictures of the Manhattan skyline. On the first page is a large photo of the two towers on fire. As you turn the page you are confronted by another photo taken this summer from the same location. The towers of course are missing. Flipping the pages back and forth you experience all over again just how incomprehensible the loss is. As I see it, we are still morning as a nation. It’s too soon and ...
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Thomas D. Peterson
... Yes, I’m sure we try all these things; but what we desperately need is to be there with someone who recognizes the state of our souls and gives us permission to feel it intently. Jesus asks a marvelous question of a sick person. In John 5:2-9 he confronts a paralyzed man who had been lying beside the Pool of Bethzatha for 38 years. Jesus knew that after such a long time, his frightening condition must be something that the man himself knew a lot about. So his first response was to ask, "Do you want to be ...
145. The Call of the Trumpet
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
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George Bass
... from doing what we can to alleviate actual poverty from the world) and once we remember our desperate plight and need before God, we are also brought face to face with God’s loving action to make things right between him and us through Jesus Christ. The Cross confronts us with the One who made himself poor to the point of suffering and death so that all people might be rich toward God. In his passion and agony, Jesus lavishly poured out his love and life so that we all might live. The Cross is no grudging ...
146. Light from the Word
Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18
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Harry N. Huxhold
... Prophet Isaiah, Jesus said to them, “Today the Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” For the people in the synagogue in Nazareth this was a dramatic modeling of what is always going on in the word. God is always present in the word to confront us. The Reaction The reaction of the people is that there was mourning and weeping. Before we ask ourselves what this public lamenting meant, we should take note of the fact that this assemblage was constituted of both men and women. What is noteworthy of ...
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Brett Blair
... journey begins this year with a review of the temptation of Christ. At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus spent forty days and forty nights in the Wilderness, to be in communion with God and to reflect upon his upcoming ministry. While there, Satan confronts Jesus. It is reminder to us that goodness is not synonymous with innocence. True goodness comes only after a struggle with evil. Let's look at the three temptations: I The first temptation we shall call: Stone into Bread - The temptation to use power ...
148. The Apostles' Creed: "God...Almighty"
Mark 15:33-41, Mark 15:21-32
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David E. Leininger
... or even theological integrity? This is not a new question. In fact, there is even a three-dollar word attached to it - THEODICY. It refers to our attempts to show that it is possible to affirm both the "almightiness" of God and the love of God when we are confronted with so much that is awful in the world. There are lots of answers. Some want to say that what appears to be evil may not be evil at all; for example, an aborigine from the wilds of the Australian bush who is suddenly transported into a modern ...
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Brett Blair
... journey begins this year with a review of the temptation of Christ. At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus spent forty days and forty nights in the Wilderness, to be in communion with God and to reflect upon his upcoming ministry. While there, Satan confronts Jesus. It is reminder to us that goodness is not synonymous with innocence. True goodness comes only after a struggle with evil. Let's look at the three temptations: I The first temptation we shall call: Stone into Bread - The temptation to use power ...
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King Duncan
... 's politics were always a little too far to the left for most mainline Christians. Dr. King was a not a perfect man. Yet when he stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and proclaimed, "I have a dream..." it was God's dream with which he confronted America, and America has never been the same since. How does God let things like this happen? What kind of job profile does he use for selecting the appropriate candidates? There seem to be three characteristics of the kind of people God chooses. FIRST OF ALL, YOU ...
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