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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Sermon
King Duncan
... out like he thought . . . Like he had hoped . . . Like he had dreamed . . . And every night he comes into this bar, and he gulps a few to take the edge off the day. And the hushed conversation keeps the loneliness from creeping in, and the soft lights and dark walls protect him from daytime's harsh glare . . . You see, the mirror in the morning reminds him he's not the man he used to be. The man he should have been. The man his parents prayed he'd become. And when he hears the piano man, from way back ...
1752. One Giant Leap
John 1:1-18, Isaiah 51:17--52:12
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... her around. Her friend shouted for help, and tried to pull the husband away. But his two buddies grabbed her, and held her while the husband tortured his former wife. He ground her with his foot. He choked her with his hands. He slammed her against a wall and tossed her to the pavement. He even took his cigarette lighter and burned the skin on one of her breasts. Finally the men staggered away, drunk and boasting of their manhood. The former wife was in a coma. The other woman was physically unharmed, even ...
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... speaking he tells Simon to cast his net and to expect to have a catch. Now remember, Simon's just spent an entire night fishing and failing, and surely, the last thing he wanted to do was fish some more. When one is pounding one's head against a brick wall, one doesn't relish more pain! If I'd been Simon I might have responded to Jesus' invitation by turning him down with one of the catch phrases of our time: "Been there. Done that. Bought the T-shirt." But Simon has more character than most people. He says ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a picture of two things: a cross and a bridge. The guild was called "fratres pontifices," the bridge-building brothers. And that is who we who follow Jesus are called to be. An Episcopal priest, Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, once commented: "People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." (6) Human nature says, "Do it to the other guy before he can do it to you." But Christ says, "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you . . . " That kind of love is a choice. And Jesus would never ask us ...
1755. Destined For Greatness
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
Sermon
King Duncan
... non-elect might slip in and be converted. (2) Talk about a conundrum, that is one. How can we have free will and be destined at the same time? Christians are not the only religious people to struggle with this mystery. There was a report in the Wall Street Journal that read like this: "Iran must have the wildest drivers in the Middle East. It is a country of fatalists who believe that all accidents are preordained by Allah. Thus highway safety is really in higher hands and not of concern to mere motorists ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , Lt. Commander Mike Christian. Mike had collected scraps of white and red cloth, and had sewed the scraps together into an American flag. He then sewed this makeshift flag to the inside of his blue pajama top. The men would hang Mike's pajama top on a wall each night and say the pledge of allegiance to it. It was a ritual that brought them all together and reminded them of their purpose. One day, the guards happened to catch the men saying the pledge. They dragged Mike away and beat him brutally. But that ...
1757. Building a Nation
Matthew 11:25-30
Sermon
King Duncan
... . And we owe them a great debt. Part of what kept these men who were captives in Vietnam going was their faith in God. Abel tells about one of the captives, Robbie Risner, using a wood dowel to painstakingly wear a hole through an 8-inch concrete wall. He accomplished this excruciating task so that he could share his faith in Jesus Christ with the man in the next cell, a man who later died. Abel tells of the group singing, "Amazing Grace" even under the most horrid of conditions. (6) This is the stuff ...
1758. When You Feel Helpless
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... been successful in his hometown. Might there not have been a temptation to settle down there? After all, there is no place like home. Jesus could have opened his own tabernacle in Nazareth--with the crutches of those he had healed lined up around the walls. He could have opened a seminary and devoted more time to training his disciples for the ministry to which he had called them. Since it was his hometown he could have looked after his mother Mary. More significantly, he could have avoided Jerusalem and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... dwelling itself was a typical mountain shack. The house was up on poles with several wooden and broken steps leading to the porch. An old swing hung by one chain at the far end of the porch and a straight-back pole chair stood leaning against the wall." Anderson was startled by a voice from inside the house. "Come in," the woman said. "We have been waiting for you." "She wore a print dress and her brown hair hung softly about her face," Anderson writes. "She was prettier than I remembered her. The man came ...
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... snobbish Brits in a strange land. She gave him a month to settle in, and then called him. "How do you find the English students, Donald?" she asked. "Oh Mother," he said, "they are strange and noisy people. The one on this side bangs his head against the wall all night and won't stop. The one on that side screams and curses until the sun comes up at dawn." "Oh Donald," said his mother, "How do you put up with such rude, noisy, people?" "I ignore them, Mother," said Donald. "I just sit here quietly each ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... where, according to the Muslim holy book, the Koran, he will enjoy unlimited sex with 72 beautiful virgins. The Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that is behind these bombings, believes in educating young children in the glories of jihad. There are signs along the walls in Hamas-run schools extolling the heroism of suicide bombings. An eleven-year-old boy in one Hamas school announced, "I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists . . . I will tear their bodies into little pieces and ...
1762. The Gates of Hell
Matthew 16:13-20
Sermon
King Duncan
... it." "The gates of hell . . ." The imagery suggests the mighty gates of an evil empire. An army is preparing to bring down these gates. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it . . ." Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an evil empire, and soon the Berlin Wall came crumbling down. In the same way, Jesus is saying to us, there is an empire that is under attack today. It is the empire of death, and decay, and all that is destructive in this world. And it is under attack by his army, which is ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... carried an interview story with the nephew of Officer Schroeder. The attitude of forgiveness and reconciliation was evident in the words of Officer Schroeder's nephew. "I was very angry back then. If you had asked me then, I would have said, Put her up against the wall and shoot her. I would have loved to have taken her to my aunt's house to show her what she did to those nine children." But as the interview continued, Mr. Schroeder said, "I find myself forgiving Ms. Powers now. For 49 years, I was taught ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... spirit is alive and well at the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. Franzo Wayne King, a huge fan of Coltrane's music, founded the church where weekly services feature a blend of worship and jazz music. Coltrane is immortalized in a mural on the church wall that depicts him as a haloed, white robed saint playing a blazing saxophone. The church is a popular tourist site in San Francisco, and Franzo King likes to claim that, "Sometimes folks come in here, and the music's so loud it scares the devil ...
Sermon
Siegfried S. Johnson
... SUPERSIZE your giving. 1. From the sermon, "When Too Much Can Be Too Little," by Dr. Leonard Sweet, HOMILETICS, Volume 9, No. 4. 2. From the article "Pondering Life's Imponderables: End of infinity, Bill Gates's Wealth," by Lee Gomes, in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 3, 1997. 3. This description is from the article, "Three Shekels for the LORD: Ancient Inscription Records Gift to Solomon's Temple," by Hershel Shanks in BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY REVIEW, November/December 1991. 4. Cited in a sermon by Rev. Eric ...
1766. Held Hostage
John 18:28-40
Sermon
King Duncan
... war perfected ingenious methods for communicating with one another even under some of the most barbaric conditions. They created an intricate system of sounds that represented various letters of the alphabet. This alphabet could be tapped out on the walls of prison cells. Soon, the POWs learned to communicate these sounds through everyday activities, like sweeping, scrubbing the floors, coughing. One young prisoner pretended to take a nap each afternoon. While "asleep," he would alter his snoring pattern to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... stood quietly and heard, "One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me . . . " The old man whispered, "Man alive, you've been tellin' me the truth, girl. Let's see if we can get closer and see them." Shivering with fear, they got as close to the wall as they could and peered through the fence. Unfortunately, they still couldn't see a thing. The old man and the young girl clung to the fence as they heard the same words, "One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me . . . "Then, after another minute ...
1768. Insincere Religion
Matthew 22:34-40
Sermon
King Duncan
... to the village with his wife and daughters, insisting that they all visit the precious chapel. When they reached the church, Leddy was delighted and wanted to go inside right away. But the family was horrified by the homeliness of the building. Ugly was the word. The walls were beige stones, stained and covered with fungus. On the roof was something that looked more like a chimney than a bell tower. In any case, there was no bell to ring. Not a single flower or blade of grass grew in the grim clay ground ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... That's because Jesus doesn't look at them as sinners. Luke, the writer of this book of the Bible, obviously doesn't look at them as sinners either. The "sinners" and the tax collectors were outcasts in their society. They felt the sneers and the stares, the wall of disapproval that kept them out of "polite" society. The sinners and the tax collectors had wandered too far to ever be acceptable in God's sight. At least, that's what everyone said. The sinners and the tax collectors knew what it was like to be ...
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... form a mud which he places upon the man's eyes. It was thought that saliva from a holy man had curative powers. When the mud is removed, the man can see, and Jesus tells him to go to the Pool of Siloam, which is just inside the city walls of Jerusalem. John notes that Siloam means "Sent." This further emphasizes that Jesus is the Light of God sent into the world. I find it intriguing that even today certain kinds of mud are thought to have curative powers. Visitors to the Dead Sea discover that the water is ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... someone like David Koresh or Jim Jones. In the harvest only the good fruit will be gathered into the kingdom--the fruitless tree will be cut down. One of the marks of a fruitful church is its concern for mission and ministry beyond the four walls of its own structure. Does it have anything to offer to those who are the least, the last, and the lost? The African-American spiritual declares forthrightly, "Everybody talkin' about heaven ain't going there." This is basically what Jesus is saying. "Not everyone ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... and a blackboard or a piece of posterboard. Good morning, boys and girls: I once read a beautiful story about a man named Charney who was thrown into a terrible dungeon by the emperor of his country and forgotten about. He was so sad that he wrote on the walls of his cell: "Nobody cares." (Write that on your blackboard.) But one day he noticed that a little green shoot of a flower was growing between the stones of his cell. It was so tiny that he hardly noticed it. Each day when the guards would bring his ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , he also recounted that a small group of Christian soldiers gathered together to pray regularly for rain. Not long afterwards, a rain storm swept down over Andersonville. Soon, the rains turned into a flood, which washed away part of the prison camp walls. After the flood waters receded, a small underground spring of fresh, clean water bubbled up out of the nearby ground. The men named it Providence Spring, and it still runs today outside the grounds of the Andersonville Prison. (6) Do such small miracles ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , George was pulling into the garage. The future President turned to Laura and asked how she thought the speech had gone. She said, "Quite honestly, George, I don't think it was very good." Laura Bush reports that George W. promptly drove into the garage wall. (1) Like most wives, Laura Bush learned to be careful how she responded when her husband asked her opinion on something he had done. And I suspect that most husbands have learned to tread cautiously when wives ask something like, "Hon, how do I look ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... turning brittle and yellowing around the edges?" At that moment, it didn't seem like a fair trade. In fact, he felt he was getting ripped off! Then Strobel has this to say: "Some people trade their entire life for a drawer full of shopping receipts, or for a wall full of plaques, or for notches on their bedpost, or for a collection of empty bottles. Is it really," he asks, "a fair trade?"(2) Now there are many virtues to hard work--especially when you are engaged in a noble cause. But hard work can't save ...
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