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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J. Howard Olds
... the American way. For nearly half a century, the mass media has told us we could “have it our way.” So why bother with people in a church when we can build our own sacred spaces and have the money to escape to some paradise island ... made up his own sermon. I wish he had called me on Saturday. It would have helped my sermons a lot. One day somebody asked Charlie, “Why do you bother to come to church? You can’t see, you can’t hear, you don’t have a way to get here. Why don’t you just stay home?” ...
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J. Howard Olds
... . He didn’t own a car so he hitch hiked to church. He sat on the font row and sang about two measures behind the rest of the congregation. Somebody asked Charlie one day— “Why do you bother to come to church? You can’t, see or hear and you have to hitch hike to come to church. Why do you bother to come?” With a twinkle in his eye, Charlie replied, “Come Sunday, I want my neighbors to know whose side I’m on.” A commitment of presence creates an island in certainty, in the swirling waters of ...
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J. Howard Olds
... the wedding, the wine runs out. You know this story. You learned it in Sunday School, in Disciple Bible Study. John is the only one who bothers to tell it. It's a strange sort of miracle of Jesus; it's not a tragedy that he is taking care of. It's ... no 30-minute service with a two-hour reception. This is a full week of festivities. People are coming from near and far. Nobody bothers to make a reservation. They just all show up. Jesus and his disciples just show up at this place. Picture Tevye from Fiddler ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... religious men, but they decided that prayer was all that was left, so there in the teeth of the gale, one of them shouted the only prayer he could muster, “O God, you know that I haven’t bothered you for the past 15 years, and if you’ll just get us out of this mess, I promise you that I won’t bother you again for 15 more. Unfortunately, that says too much about our prayer life. Most of us call upon the Lord only in desperation. But that’s not what this sermon is about. It is about a storm ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... the Bible and search for answers. You say that the devil is attacking you. But Alex, you have called me in the middle of the night. You wouldn't have done that, if you didn't have faith. The devil wouldn't bother with you if God had not made these promises to you. You wouldn't be bothered by doubt, if you didn't already have faith." Sure enough, every time as we talked, I would eventually hear an audible sigh of relief. Alex would relax. He would say, "Pastor, thanks. I needed to hear that." Alex had been ...
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Leonard Sweet
... my wife and said, ‘Dr. Proctor, he passed away. We’d been looking for it; we didn’t know when it would happen, but he passed away right sudden.’ She said, ‘But don’ you bother to come back for his funeral because it’s a small family; it’ll be a small funeral and won’t be many people there. So you don’t have to bother to fly back for his funeral.’ The inference was: ‘If I die, fly back to my funeral; but don’t fly back to his funeral.’ The culture had instructed her that if the ...
157. K.I.S.S.
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
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King Duncan
... her husband. He came home after the meeting, however, with a look of disappointment on his face because the other men had a message printed on their shirts but he did not. Of course, he had no idea what the message said since he could not read, but it bothered him that his shirt bore no message. His wife, undaunted by her inability to read, decided to sew a message on his shirt as well. She chose three words which she copied from a sign in a store window across the street. Neither she nor her husband knew ...
158. Times Were Hard
Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Illustration
Trace Haythorn
... to figure out the time referenced, isn't it? While this description is meant to refer to Matthew's community, they could be referring to today in any town or city in America. The pervasive apathy of our age, the sense that nothing can improve and to bother trying to make things better is a fool's errand, the despair that makes us resign our hearts to a belief that poverty, hunger and homelessness have no real answers. Such matters are left to Sisyphus, sadly rolling that stone up the hill only to have it ...
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David E. Leininger
... Christ is the king of the entire universe - talk about someone who has everything! What do we have that he could possibly want? Well, let us think about it. We could give him our service. There is much to be done out there ... if we would only bother to look. Several years ago a Sunday school class in the church I served in Florida was studying world hunger. As they dug into the problem, they realized that, not only was hunger a "world" problem, but a local one, as well. They investigated the possibilities ...
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David E. Leininger
... up in another era have had to reluctantly learn. One of my cyber friends came across this in a church newsletter called Touch in Church. What is all this touching in church? It used to be a person could come to church and sit in the pew and not be bothered by all this friendliness and certainly not by touching. I used to come to church and leave untouched. Now I have to be nervous about what's expected of me. I have to worry about responding to the person sitting next to me. Oh, I wish it could be the ...
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King Duncan
... the wedding. In the parable Jesus made the point that both good and bad were accepted at the king’s table. This is what grace is about, God’s amazing grace. Both good and bad people are invited by God to receive the gift of God’s love. It sometimes bothers us that the riff-raff of society have as much claim on the kingdom as we do, but Jesus stated that fact several times. God loves sinners, which is good since we all qualify. It’s like a minor fad that swept our land back in the 1980s. Do you ...
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... around. First, I want to clear up something I said in my last email, about Jesus saying that he came to bring division, not peace. That bothered me for a while, too, until I realized that you and I are living this out in some way. Here I am following this man, ... our scriptures about the lame walking ... that it's a sign of the Messiah? The leader of the synagogue got all hot and bothered and he kept saying to the crowd that Jesus had broken sabbath laws; that there were six days in the week when healing ...
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Leonard Sweet
... was wrong, and so both boys got poor marks. When the first boy got home, his mother asked him, after seeing his grade, why he hadn't asked her to come and help him with it. He replied, "I didn't want to bother you." Honestly: Did the boy really not want to bother his mother? Of course, that wasn't even a consideration. He was taking the easy way out: no having to slog through each answer and slug it out with his mother. No relationality or accountability. No big time investment. No admitting he didn ...
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King Duncan
... time the ducks would remain, with a cautious eye on the pumpkin, and with each successive passing, the ducks would become more comfortable, until they finally accepted the pumpkins as a normal part of life. When the natives saw that the pumpkins no longer bothered the ducks, they hollowed out pumpkins, put them over their heads, and walked into the river. Meandering into the midst of the tolerant fowl, they pulled them down one at a time. Dinner? Roast duck. (6) That is how the tempter works. He normally ...
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James Merritt
... (John 2:4, ESV) I always get a kick out of Jesus getting away with saying that to His mom, “Woman why are you bothering Me with this? My hour has not yet come.” Men, try this at home. The next time you are watching a ball game and your wife ... asks you to take out the garbage or help her with the dishes just quote Jesus and say, “Women, why are you bothering me? My time hasn’t yet come.” See what happens! What Jesus was saying was it wasn’t yet time for Him completely to reveal ...
166. I'm Listening
1 Samuel 3:1--4:1
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King Duncan
... called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went back and lay down. Again the voice called, “Samuel!” Now if this was some of us, we would be either frightened or very upset because we really don’t like to be bothered when we are asleep. But Samuel simply got up and went to Eli again and said, “Here I am; you called me.” “My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” Then the writer explains a key component to the story. He says, “Now Samuel ...
167. Taxing Conscience
Humor Illustration
Michael P. Green
The Internal Revenue Service received the following letter from a conscience-stricken taxpayer: “Dear Sir: My conscience bothered me. Here is $175.00, which I owe in back taxes.” There was a P.S. at the bottom that read: “If my conscience still bothers me, I’ll send in the rest.” This taxpayer’s response to a red warning light is not only humorous but also illustrates an important truth: one’s conscience can become insensitive.
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Huwiler
... . To the woman (whether in her dream state or still groggy because just awakened), getting up and opening the door seems like an impossible task. She has already locked the door and washed her feet. Or perhaps she is teasing her lover, pretending that he is not worth the bother. In any case, she does finally rise, but when she opens (the door?) the man is gone. She goes out into the city looking for him, although a moment ago it had been too much work to put on a robe. The city guards find her, as they did ...
169. Family in the New Kingdom Community
Mark 10:13-16, Mark 10:1-12
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... every religious tradition to this day. Mark does not tell us why the disciples rebuked the people (cf. 9:38–40); it likely had to do with the low status of children and the feeling that Jesus was too busy (and children too disruptive) to bother himself with something less important. The disciples also enjoyed being in charge and, in a sense, “directing traffic.” 10:14–15  Let the little children come to me. With one statement Jesus gave children a critical place in the strategy of the church. In ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... last phrase in 18:5 literally means “give a black eye to” (NIV “come and attack me”). But the judge is not worried about a physical assault, nor is he worried about his reputation (he does not care what people think [18:2, 4]); he is tired of the bother. What is the meaning of the parable? Jesus asks his listeners to consider its meaning (18:6). Obviously it is not saying that God is like the unjust judge and that one has to pester him so that he will answer our requests even though he does not want ...
171. Accept His Peace
John 4:1-26, Romans 5:1-11, Exodus 17:1-7
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King Duncan
... the plight of immigrants today who are fleeing persecution and, in some cases starvation, then shame on you! If the increasing number of violent deaths from acts of violence in our own land does not bother you, then may God have mercy on you. If the disintegration of family life in our nation doesn’t bother you, then something is missing in your spiritual life. There are problems over which every Christian ought to have a deep and heavy burden. There is a time for moral indignation and strong remedial ...
172. The Wind
Mark 1:4-11
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Charley Reeb
... and fancies or it threatens to inconvenience us. The Spirit is strong but it doesn’t force itself on anyone or any church, so it will go only as far as we allow it. Thank goodness, right? Because it’s much easier running the church on our own, without being bothered by the Spirit, isn’t it? A church can survive while keeping the Spirit at bay. It just needs to be organized, be nice, be civilized, and be careful. All it has to do is find a good speaker to tell nice stories, find a good band to play ...
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King Duncan
... S DOG. Mike was the son of the hosts and the parents were keeping the dog for Mike. They admitted that the dog was somewhat of a bother, but after all, they said, “He is Mike’s dog, and we love the dog for Mike’s sake.” They saw the dog as Mike’s dog ... saying, “Where’s old Pete?” And they couldn’t see themselves saying, “Oh, we put him away because he was such a bother and he wasn’t worth saving!” “Not worth saving?” That was a label that Weatherhead could put on old Pete, but not ...
174. Of Mice and Men
Hebrews 10:11-18
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King Duncan
... for judgment. A big bowl of aromatic oil is placed at Jesus’ fingertips. Jesus dips a sponge into that bowl and begins washing this remorseful man clean of his grime and shame. Then Jesus says to him, “Don’t bother me with that stuff anymore. Go over and play.” (4) That is the grace of Jesus Christ. “Don’t bother me with that stuff anymore. Go over and play.” That is the only hope for our guilt. This can be the dawning of a new day. The past is past. We can make a new start today. If guilt ...
175. Parabola
Luke 10:25-37
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Lori Wagner
... people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay ...
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