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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John Jamison
... it than that. The familiar story seems to suggest that when Jesus came out of the river after being baptized by John, John stepped back and let Jesus take over the work he had been doing. As the “preparer,” now that Jesus was there, John’s work was ... so much time and energy that we’re not going to relax again until it’s all over, presents are unwrapped and everyone has gone back home. Just keep in mind, messes are a part of this journey. Messes are a part of our faith. Messes don’t have to ruin ...
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Lori Wagner
... even though Abraham tells him, he can’t do anything for him because a “great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.” This is interesting, and we will come back to this. To this, the “rich man” asks if Abraham might at least send Lazarus to his father’s house –for he has five brothers (whom we assume are just as unconcerned with the poor as he was)—that they might be warned! So, they will not come to the ...
1728. The Foreigner
Luke 17:11-19
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Lori Wagner
... or discomfort gone, you feel like a new person, like you can do anything! That must have been the feeling that the lepers had that day when Jesus called them over and then sent them on their way. Then why does only one of them come back? Why does the “foreigner” return, double back, and return to Jesus to express his heartfelt thanks to God? And the others do not? I like to think of this as a “distance” problem. We see in this story 10 men, all lepers. Apparently 9 of them are local Jews. One (1) is ...
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Richard Hasler
... love Zacchaeus. At least they love to act out his story and sing about him. The little man who climbs up a tree to see Jesus provides one of the most vivid short stories in the Bible. Children can identify with Zacchaeus; they often find themselves at the back of a crowd and can’t see what’s going on. Many adults too, can identify with, they like to get closer to Jesus, but find it embarrassing to do so, and potentially costly.”[1] Zacchaeus lived in Jericho, “the city of palms, situated at the base ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... you know is your plans for the evening just got put on hold. You may remember a story that made international news back in 1982. Very early in the morning of July 9, 1982, a young man named Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered ... the Spirit of God. A few days later, David McAllister died peacefully in his sleep. As Christopher Carrier said, “I saw the Lord give that man back his life, and so much more. I can’t wait to see him again someday—in heaven.” (7) So many of us go through life ...
1731. How Does Prayer Work?
1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)
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Charley Reeb
... devotional or scripture passage. When you find that you are quiet on the inside, pray, “Lord, I want to get to know you better. I want to know your love. I want a relationship with you…” Then share with God what is on your mind and heart. Don’t hold back. Just share it. He is listening and wants to hear from you. Prayer is simply a conversation with God. Be sure to include not only your own needs but also the needs of others. Then take a moment to listen in your heart to God, and write down what you ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... he wanted to be the stone in front of the tomb. The director was a little curious and asked, "Wouldn't you rather have a speaking part?" But the boy said, "No." He just wanted to play the stone. The production went well and when the children were all gathered back stage, the director finally asked the boy why he wanted to play the stone. The boy grinned from ear to ear and said, "Oh, it felt so good to let Jesus out of the tomb." (2) What a great tribute to that young man's faith and to the resurrection ...
1733. Invincible
John 14:15-21
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Lori Wagner
... the person who doesn’t make you feel defensive? The person to whom you can admit your faults and mistakes because you know it won’t change his or her love for you? Who looks out for your well-being, your future, your best interests? Who has your back? Whom can you trust with your soul when you feel most fragile? Or who will celebrate with you when you feel victorious? Who is your truth teller? That person is the most valuable person in your life. For some that may be your husband, wife, or life partner ...
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William G. Carter
... can cancel somebody’s sins and let go of them. Or you can clutch them, hold onto them, keep a list of them, and imagine punishment for all of them. In the immortal line that Fred Craddock once ascribed to the resentful soul, “Every morning you can go out back and lift the rock just to make sure the snake is still there.”5 The Pentecost power that Christ gives to the church is the power to forgive. In Christ, God forgives. In the church, Christ sends the church to forgive as the Father has sent him. He ...
1735. A Woman Dancing
Exodus 15:20, 21
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Will Willimon
... soul magnifies the Lord, my Spirit rejoices at God by salvation.") And it was two women who, came out to His tomb with spices to dress his decaying body, that the angel said, "Fear not. He is not here. He is risen. Go, tell." And they danced all the way back to the despairing disciples. As Paul says, "We do not grieve as those who have no hope." In the depth of the Depression in the 1920's, the brilliant and cynical H. L. Menken was visiting in a black church on the south side of Chicago. He was, like many ...
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Will Willimon
... once. It doesn't seem right for her to be married only to one. What's the answer? Jesus again throws the whole thing back in the face of his examiners. The resurrection isn't dumb, you're what's dumb. Dummy, we're talking resurrection of the dead ... don't, at least we don't act like it with our cool questions, as if we could permanently postpone life/death issues until we're back for our Fortieth Reunion. Which may be why Luke ends Jesus' final exam with the story of the widow's mite. Jesus looked at people ...
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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 as well as now it is believed that 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 ...
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William G. Carter
... some money for a scholarship to the college. My friend traveled out there, he knocked on the door and was shown inside. As they began to chat, he realized he and the rancher were not alone. A woman in a gray shawl shuffled quietly through the back of the room. The rancher said, “Bring our guest something to eat!” She shuffled in and set some food before them without saying a word. The men continued to talk. The rancher said, “Come and get his dishes.” The woman in gray shuffled in, collected the ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’” And that brings me to the first insight I get from this passage: Sin is always the result of choosing a shallow substitute for God or God’s will. The problem started back in Exodus 20, the passage we studied last week. The people saw the thunder and lightning on the mountain where Moses spoke to God, and they were afraid and “stood at a distance.” They told Moses to tell them what God had said, “But do not let God ...
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Steve Molin
... your stories of frustration and pain. I have heard wives describe marriages that have never been what they had hoped it would be. I have heard mothers and daughters who just can’t seem to get along. I once had a man tell me that he hadn’t been back to church because of something someone said to him in the narthex twelve years ago. Twelve years ago! There is lots of hurt and lots of pain. And the last thing these people need is some pastor telling them that, “You know, a little forgiveness goes a long ...
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David E. Leininger
... ?), Greta addressed the Climate Action Summit at the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City. She was exceedingly blunt. She said, “My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are ...
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David E. Leininger
... It affirmed for those disciples (if they had any lingering doubts) that this Jesus whom they had come to love and trust was more than a man — he was divine. A mountaintop experience if there ever was one! True, there would be a time to come back from the mountain. Life is lived in the valley and that is where we find that heartbreaking scene of the father of an epileptic boy desperately looking for help; fortunately, he finds the help in Jesus. For Peter, James, and John, life in the valley would never ...
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Will Willimon
... about Fort Bragg. “I served a year in Viet Nam during heavy fighting,” he said. “And if someone gave me the choice of going back to Viet Nam for a year or spending nine weeks at Fort Bragg -- I'd have to think about it.” Friends, can you see ... be so tough, so disciplined, so hardened and so quick to respond, that you will be able to bring most of them back alive.” Suddenly, I understood that everything—the uniforms, the shaved heads, the hardships—all served the purpose of preparing us for ...
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Mary Austin
... we understand something about our God. God insists on being in the middle of us, mixed into our lives, right in the midst of our stupid choices, our confusion, our tendency to wander off where we shouldn’t be and our constant need to be called back. I once preached on this text with a high-school-aged friend, and I loved what she said so much that she gave me permission to quote her. Now a graduate student, Megan said: “This passage exemplifies Jesus’ relationship with God and his relationship with us ...
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Lori Wagner
... good ground and eat the grass. They will eat in rich grassland on the mountains of Israel. Yes, I will feed my flock, and I will lead them to a place of rest.” This is what the Lord GOD said. “I will search for the lost sheep. I will bring back the sheep that were scattered and put bandages on the sheep that were hurt. I will make the weak sheep strong, but I will destroy the fat and powerful shepherds. I will feed them the punishment they deserve.” This is what the Lord GOD says: “And you, my flock ...
Teach the Text
Ronald W. Pierce
... . Around 250 BC, Ptolemy II agreed to a marriage alliance with Antiochus II of Syria (Antiochus I plays no role in this passage). Ptolemy’s daughter Berenice was given to Antiochus, who left his wife, Laodice. Four years later, Antiochus took Laodice back and mysteriously died shortly thereafter. With her husband out of the way, she arranged the murder of Berenice, Berenice’s child, and “her royal escort.” Berenice’s father Ptolemy (“the one who supported her”) died in Egypt the same year.6 11 ...
1747. Redefining “Blessed”
Luke 1:39-45 (46-55)
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John B. Jamison
... town in the dark of night and travel hundreds of miles through the desert to find temporary safety in Egypt. Are you feeling blessed yet? A few months or years later, sometime after Herod was dead, the small family returned through the desert and made their way back to small town Nazareth, where it had all begun. I wonder how that went? Small towns tend to have long memories about some things. We don’t know much about Mary’s experience raising her boy, other than the time he ran off and they found him ...
1748. A Portion of Thyself
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
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Wayne Brouwer
... wallet. He pulled out a ten-dollar bill, handed it to the bailiff and said: “Here’s the money for your fine.” Then he took back the ten dollar bill, put it into his hat, handed the hat to the bailiff and said, “I’m going to suspend the sentence, and ... bitter. Nobody had ever really thanked him! None of the younger people in the church realized how much he had given! So he pulled back and wrapped himself in a security blanket of self-pity. One woman’s face was wet with tears when she came to see me ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... suddenly died. This was how he ended the sermon: “Our hearts are very frail and there are places where the road is very steep and very lonely. …standing in the roaring Jordan, cold with its dreadful chill and very conscious of its terror, of its rushing, I… call back to you who one day will have your turn to cross it, ‘Be of good cheer, my brothers, for I feel the bottom and it is sound.’” Somehow, by the grace of God, when we stop pointing fingers of blame and start grasping heavenly hands, the ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... , and tragedy. Orpheus was the master musician of his time, and well could have had 39 out of the top forty tunes on the charts at once. When Orpheus sang, the birds swooped in just to flit on his lilting melodies. When Orpheus sang, the clouds rolled back from the skies, the sun shone more brightly, and the beasts crept out of the shadows to dance their fancy footwork. When Orpheus came to town, people floated out of homes and shops to jig in the streets and fall in love. Of course, when Orpheus himself ...
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