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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... ask God to take me. I'm not doing much good here anymore." The question is really being pressed, "What am I worth to God or anyone?" Today we can be sure that if God keeps us here it is because he has some things for us to do. His estimate of our usefulness may be different from ours. So we need to be speaking and sharing this message among the elderly - that they are worth much to us and even more to God. Hopefully this is also the heart of our message in the Christian education program of our parish ...
152. How Was Jesus' Death Different?
John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27
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... 's return to God. Now he can be reconciled. God will accept him, forgive him, and love him. But, the question is whether modern man wants to be forgiven, wants to be accepted by God as his child. President Ford offered an estimated 100,000 draft dodgers and deserters clemency, amnesty, and forgiveness. The response was most disappointing. He extended the time twice. By March 31, 1975, only 16,000 applied for clemency. Eighty-five percent spurned the gracious offer. Apparently they did not want forgiveness ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... with an official letter of reference from the king of Syria, and plenty of cash to pay for the services he would receive. The ten talents of silver and the six thousand shekels of gold would have translated into approximately $80,000 of our cash. We have no estimate of the retail value of the ten festal robes he took along. None of this would be reimbursed by health insurance. Naaman was willing to pay for the cure. We can understand how he felt about Elisha’s prescription. He had come a long way, and had ...
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Kendall K. McCabe
... as a sign of God's faithfulness to save us, not because of how we have been baptized but because of what Jesus Christ has done for us in his cross and resurrection. Yes, we have all been baptized right; even the worst of us, in our own estimations, can trust our baptism because the Holy Spirit was there, the Holy Spirit did it, and the Holy Spirit remembers even when we do not. On Easter, those of us who have already been baptized will renew our baptismal vows and "remember our baptism." When Christians use ...
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... to deprive ourselves so easily. All the little offering does is make a person think they have bought God's favor, plus nourishing our love for wealthy churches. Let's, also, forget this emphasis on fasting. In this age, when doctors estimate the average American is fourteen pounds overweight, going without food doesn't indicate devotion to God, but devotion to a sexy figure. Going without food is not cause for remorsing, but cause for rejoicing because it means the approach of slimness, attractiveness ...
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Brett Blair
... point. Suppose, Jesus says, one of you wants to build a tower over your vineyard so you can keep a lookout for thieves who might want to steal your harvest. Before you build, what is the first thing you will do? Will you not, he says, first sit down and estimate how much it will cost you to build the tower? It is a rhetorical question and the answer is: “Yes! Yes, I will first count the cost.” In today’s language: If it doesn’t pencil don’t do it. You do not want to appear to be a fool ...
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... evangelists. Jesus knew the kind of people he was looking for and, when he saw them, he singled them out and made an immediate decision about their fitness to be his disciples. He was a great judge of character, but he also could accurately estimate the potential of people to grow and become the kind of people needed for Christian ministry. That isn’t always easy to do. Fitness and aptitude can’t always be determined by a battery of academic and psychological tests; personal interviews and assessments ...
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... and trust is worship - always. How can one possibly acknowledge the God-man relationship with the expression of awe primarily in the act of worship? Perhaps this becomes the acid test of religious life today. The most recent estimates among the so-called "moderate Protestants" in America indicate that only forty-one percent of those professing church affiliation are regular attendants at worship. Another twenty-three percent worship "occasionally" and thirty-five percent are simply "nominal" members ...
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... , St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1967, pp. 175f.) 11. Many in this congregation are descendants. 12. In May of 1988 already a record, 30,000 are expected to have emigrated back to Germany by the end of the year. This is out of an estimated two million still living in the Soviet Union. (E. Schmidt, Deutschland-Nachrichten (Ottawa) (May 18, 1988, p. 3) 13. Other places in Alberta not far from Gnadenthal, all a part of the same general settlement pattern. 14. "Job." In German "Job" (pronounced somewhat ...
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... study the Scriptures of Daniel and Revelation. As a result of his study, he concluded that the second coming of Christ would occur on March 21, 1843. In 1831, William Miller began to warn the people of America about this cataclysmic event. It is estimated that about 100,000 people were converted to Miller's interpretation of the Scriptures. At the beginning of 1843, Miller proclaimed: "This year ... O glorious year, the trumpet of jubilee will be blown ... This year, the looked-for year of years, has come ...
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... as an independent nation. The message, which Zephaniah had received from God and had spoken to the Israelites, was that a day of reckoning was coming, the end of all life on the earth by a terrible act of God. Scientists today would agree with him, because they have estimated that in something like five million years in the future, the sun will cool down so that life will no longer be possible on the earth. It will just be too cold for any life to continue when that day comes. One of the recurring themes in ...
162. Come, Learn Your Worth
2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2
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Various Authors
... ." But if the person described is astute, he has to think to himself, "Is that all I’m worth? Suppose I lose that million, in a change in the fortunes of the market: then I’m not worth a thing." So often it seems that people estimate our worth on the basis of things which can change; and because others measure us that way, we’re inclined to make the same kind of measure. Some have the impression (and society encourages it) that it is their youthfulness which makes them desirable. So what happens ...
163. The Doubting Sum
Matthew 28:16-20
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... sum. The faithful sum was a positive number. This is not too hard to understand since Jesus gives us the power to change from doubt to faith. He gives his followers the possibility to change into someone better. He gives us an open tomorrow. It is estimated that the average American eats their own weight in sugar each year. The average is 150 pounds. This comes out to more than a teaspoon every hour, day and night. Dr. Rudolph Ballentine in his book Diet and Nutrition: A Holistic Approach says: When sugar ...
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... Exchange. 5. A member of the United States President’s Cabinet. 6. The one known as the greatest "bear" on Wall Street. 7. The president of the Bank of International Settlements. 8. The head of one of the world’s greatest monopolies. It has been estimated that all these men together had more money than was in the United States Treasury at that time. For years newspapers and magazines had been printing their success stories and urging the youth of our country to follow in their examples. Here is what ...
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Bill Bouknight
... -year period to be superior. As God promises in his word: "Those who honor me I will honor." (I Samuel 2:30) Pastor David Dykes of Tyler, Texas tells about a huge redwood tree out in California that toppled over recently. It was a towering tree, estimated to be over 400 years old. Across the centuries it had survived forest fires, earthquakes, and hurricane-force winds. But if fell. Why? The experts said that tiny beetles had gotten into the core of that tree and had eaten the heart out of it. Watch out ...
166. Hypocrisy
Luke 20:27-38; Romans 7
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... Twain, with tongue in cheek, spoke of the two-faced life we all live: "I am constructed like everybody else and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do like to have the other side presented. And there is another side. I have a wicked side. Estimable friends who know all about it would tell you and take a certain delight in telling you things that I have done and things further that I have not repented. The real life that I live, and the real life that I suppose all of you live, is a life ...
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... hard to determine from the narrative, but possibly the others were among the followers of Paul and Silas who had been jailed along with them. In any event, Paul could assure the jailer that "we are all here." The relieved jailer, his job saved and his estimate of these prisoners vastly changed, ordered lights to be brought in (maybe so he could count his prisoners and make sure they were indeed all present) and then let Paul and Silas come out of their inner room. Groveling before them, he asked, "What must ...
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... Plea by City Official Bold intervention by City Clerk Augustus Vesperus yesterday afternoon halted a four-hour strike and riot that threatened to flare into an ugly confrontation with Roman military police. Sparked by the Amalgamated Order of Silversmiths, a crowd estimated at 25,000 marched through downtown streets and assembled in the Great Theater, where for two hours they chanted, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians." The outburst was said to be a protest against inroads being made into the silversmiths ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... because of loss of power. We are like a child’s toy that refuses to run because the batteries have been exhausted. They are "dead." Our dullness may be a result of physical weakness. Americans die of heart problems in frighteningly large numbers. It is estimated that 117,000 will be killed by cancer this year. It may be a spiritual weakness that saps our strength till we are so incapacitated, we yield to temptation, lead undisciplined lives, and barely draw a healthy breath from one day to the next. Or ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... to dissolve. Diamond merchants advertise, "A diamond is forever." How long does God last? It is said of Jesus: "the same yesterday, today, and forever." Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will not pass away." Since scientists estimate the earth is twelve billion years old, Jesus’ words will last forever; at least they will outlast, the earth! Moreover, Jesus promised that the church built on the rock of Peter’s confession at Caesarea Philippi will stand forever, for "the gates ...
171. Count Me In!
Isaiah 56:1-8
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John R. Brokhoff
... By these words, we are given the challenge and task of bringing all people to God that they may have true life in him. This calls for evangelism as the orimary task of every Christian. Are we witnessing for God and his Christ? It is estimated that ninety-five percent of an average congregation makes no attempt to witness. As a result, mainline churches are declining in membership. And this is at a time when the American population is growing! Contrast this with the fact that one denomination since 1969 lost ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... a sample of 400 nurses, ninety percent failed to report all their income. Some people lie in claiming charitable gifts; some report that they give half of their incomes to the church. Tax evasion is more than a sickness; it is an epidemic. In 1983 the IRS estimates that 100 billion dollars will not be paid in taxes. In a poll taken by Time magazine, forty-three percent found tax cheating to be acceptable and twenty-five percent admitted they cheat on paying taxes. In fact, it is the "in" thing to do! This ...
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Robert Bachelder
... . He thought it was the result of knowing too much about his neighbors and thinking too much of himself. We have in Luke’s parable of the Pharisee and the publican a man who, like the early Henry Adams, combines a low opinion of his neighbors with a high estimate of his own qualities. The Pharisee’s prayer in chapter eighteen is taken from life, for a similar prayer comes to us in the Talmud in the first century A.D.: I thank thee, O Lord, my God, that thou has given me my lot with those who sit ...
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George Bass
... the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth ..." - to an even deeper level of recognition, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Such a confession must have startled Jesus at that point in his ministry, but it certainly affirms Jesus’ estimate of Bartholomew’s mind-set and character. He was open to the most exciting possibility of all for a Jew - the coming of the long-awaited Messiah! Jesus knew what he was doing when he interviewed Bartholomew for one of the coveted places among the ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... Our whole concept of meekness, in society and in business, in the home and in the church, makes us wonder what in the world Jesus had in mind when he said: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." What did he mean? Who, in his estimation, was a meek person? What is a meek person like? Perhaps I can best illustrate this with examples. Let’s look at some Old Testament characters. ABRAHAM was perhaps the greatest gentleman of the Old Testament. We salute him for his faith, but as we look at ...
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